Just Marius Roleplay Stuff

Marius de Romanus, The Vampire Armand

One thing to understand about Marius is that he began his immortality very cynical and angry.  During this early period, he came to terms with his separation from mortality.  And it hurt him immensely what he had to do for the Great Parents, a duty that was even more burdensome because he got nothing back for that grand work.  His sacrifices and pleas were for nothing.

The Mind Gift The Mind Gift is a very intricate power, one that not many immortals have or realize their true potential in doing. Within the category of the Mind Gift, Marius has the ability to read thoughts as they happen, probe the mind for things within the subconscious, select images, send thoughts of his own into minds, make people forget things, move objects, and cloak his mind from being probed entirely (B&G pg. 165-167).

The Fire Gift Marius first discovered this power when he was 'battling' Eudoxia (B&G pg. 163). In his anger, he wished one of her boys burnt, who promptly burst into flames. Marius practiced and discovered that his power had no limit to space, meaning it doesn't matter how far something is from him (B&G pg. 165). Marius does this again to Eudoxia, burning multiple vampires at the same time (B&G pg. 180), so he is clearly capable of sending out that force in multiple directions with accuracy. However, it must be noted that stronger vampires can resist such a thing. Sending the power does not ensure will be effective. Eudoxia sent the fire at Marius multiple times, but he said it felt like scaling water poured on his skin and nothing more. Marius also killed Arjun this way, after Arjun sent an ineffective blast of fire at Marius.

The Cloud Gift This was one of the later powers to come to Marius, or rather, one of his later powers to realize (B&G pg. 208). With this power, he is able to think of a destination and move there faster than the eye can see. He's also able to jump very high. He notes in Blood in GOld, within the first hundreds of years of his immortality that he can easily jump to the top of a four story building. This power increases with age until Marius can rise high in the sky high above the ground, moving at great speed.

The Killing Gift Marius didn't even know that he possessed this one until he used it on Eudoxia (B&G pg. 163). Using it, he repelled her attacks and knocked her down to the floor, causing enough pain in her when he lashed out that she lost her strength and would go weak. Marius described this power as pressure (B&G pg. 165). Testing the power out later on rats, Marius determines that the power would explode a mortal from the inside since the rats had exploded (B&G pg. 166).

The Healing Gift A power to heal fast. After his first time drinking Akasha's blood after the incident with the Elder, Marius goes home and drives a knife through his hand, witnessing it heal over completely and immediately (B&G pg. 83-84). The same went for after he was buried by ice in QotD. As soon as he stepped out of the ice, his body began to heal and his bone mend. In Blood Communion, Marius is able to fix his own broken neck, his spine healing such that his arms could move and replace his head.

The Speed Gift Related to the Cloud Gift, perhaps, but Marius can move faster than the eye can see. He seems to vanish and reappear.

The Spell Gift This power is used to hypnotize and put a 'spell' over mortals. Marius uses this a lot to gain the trust of his slaves, putting a spell on them or coaxing their mind into believing something (or disbelieving something). It is how he gets what he wants or escapes suspicion. He uses it at times to change a person's behavior.

C. 30 BCE - Marius is born (Pandora pg. 36 & 53)

5 BCE - Pandora & Marius meet for the first time (Pandora pg. 53)

0 - Pandora & Marius meet a second time (Lupercalia) (Pandora pg. 55) The Great Burning Spring,

5 CE - Marius is kidnapped from Roman Gaul, Summer

5 CE - Marius is made on the eve of Samhain December,

5 CE - Marius “rescues” Akasha from her keeper in Egypt. (Pandora pg. 294)

20 CE - Pandora is made in Antioch, Syria

c. 30 CE - Flavius is made a vampire in his 40th year

c. 250 CE - Marius leaves Pandora

c. 300 CE - Avicus and Mael come to Rome and become long companions of Marius

410 CE - With the burning of Rome by Alaric and the “fall of Rome” Marius sleeps (B&G pg. 127)

c. 500 CE - Marius wakes to move to Constantinople with Avicus and Mael (B&G pg. 129, 132, 133) Marius meets Eudoxia and Zenobia

1200 CE - Marius sleeps again, the second time, stating, “I was weary” (B&G pg. 209)

c. 1350 CE - Marius awakens in the time of the plague and goes back to sleep

1481 CE - Armand/Amadeo is born in Kiev Rus

1482 CE - Marius wakens from his third and last sleep (B&G pg. 212-213)

1482 CE - Marius meets Santino

1482/1486 CE - Marius meets Sandro Botticelli Marius opens up his palazzo and begins a school/home for boys

1495/1496 - Marius meets Bianca

1496 CE - Marius finds Armand in a Venetian Brothel

1498 CE- Armand is made a vampire

1499 CE - Attacked by the Children of Darkness, Armand is taken, Bianca is made a vampire

c. 1580-1590 CE - Marius and Bianca move to Dresden (bg)

1580 CE - Armand becomes coven Master in Paris

c. 1680 CE - Marius finds Pandora in Dresden during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King (pan. 94 c. 1680-1690)

c. 1680 CE - Bianca leaves Marius

1789 CE - Marius goes to Lestat and brings him to his island in the Aegean

1985 CE - Queen of the Damned, events of

1985 CE - Akasha is killed

1991 CE - Tale of the Body Thief, events of

1997 CE - Armand attempts suicide January,

1998 CE - Sybelle and Benji are made Marius takes Daniel into his home Moves to Norway

2001 CE - Blood and Gold is published Moves to Stockholm, Sweden with Daniel c.

2013-2015 - Lives in Rio with Daniel

Reunites with his maker Teskhamen

The Court is established– Marius begins working on laws

Marius destroys Arjun

But as I gained skill as a painter, and I did indeed gain skill, other aspects of the work disturbed me.

I was convinced that there was something unnatural in it, something inherently ghastly in the manner with which I drew human figures so nearly perfectly, something unnatural in the way I made the colors so unusually bright, and added so many fierce little details. I was particularly repelled by my penchant for decorative details.

As much as I was driven to do this work, I hated it. I composed whole gardens of lovely mythic creatures only to rub them out. Sometimes I painted so fast that I exhausted myself, and fell down on the floor of the shrine, spending the paralytic sleep of the whole day there, helpless, rather than going to my secret resting place - my coffin - which was hidden not far from my house.

We are monsters, that is what I thought whenever I painted or looked on my own painting, and that's what I think now. Never mind that I want to go on existing. We are unnatural. We are witnesses with both too much and too little feeling. And as I thought these things, I had before me the mute witnesses, Akasha and Enkil. What did it matter to them what I did?