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rhodrymavelyne(Warning, this contains spoilers for Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, including 'Prince Lestat and the City of Atlantis'.)
I keep waiting for Louis’s brother, Paul de Pointe du Lac to return.
The stage appears to have been set for him. We had all of those moments in ‘Interview with the Vampire’ where Louis had visions of Paul. I often got the impression that his ghost was trying to speak to his vampire brother.
It’s been established that ghosts are real in the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat visited an underworld of angry souls in ‘Memnoch the Devil’. Perhaps it was just a vision.
There is another possibility. What if those ghosts were Paul’s army? The ones he’d lead in battle against a godless world?
Perhaps Paul and his army had to die before they could do it. Perhaps it’s part of a metaphysical battle taking place on the spirit plane?
Now we have the Bravennas, an alien race which despises humanity and thrives on their suffering. They may be the masterminds behind the human notion of virtue in suffering.
Perhaps they’re behind Paul’s suffering as well. Could they have sent him the visions?
Perhaps Paul de Pointe du Lac was the Bravennas’s tools, along with Memnoch. Or perhaps Memnoch was their instrument while Paul was Memnoch’s? Just as Lestat was meant to be Memnoch’s instrument.
My fanciful fannish imagination doesn’t stop there.
What if the power that destroyed Atalantaya was one that could be channeled through human tools and worshippers?
What if Paul de Pointe du Lac was one of those tools? What if he had the power to destroy lucrastia, which he interpreted as a holy power to destroy the undead? What if he could activate holy symbols, turning them into talismans which could drive the undead back?
I’m not sure if Anne Rice plans to write any more of the Vampire Chronicles, let alone do anything like this. I detect the seeds for future stories in what she’s planted already, should she choose to.
The idea of Paul being a ghost with strong magic which he believes to be holy power is something that’s been brewing in my imagination since the 1980s. I’ve often been tempted to write some of this down as fanfic. Since Anne Rice didn’t like or approve of fanfic, I’ve resisted the temptation, channeling it into other projects.
Danyel, Tayel, and Christopher owe part of their existence to this fascination with Paul, the sheltered brother whom Louis protected, the mystery that was never explained. Some of my ideas involving the power of faith. It becomes a force which can be channeled into a magic capable of creating gods made its way into the third book of ‘Tales of the Navel/The Shadow Forest’, ‘A Godling for Your Thoughts?’ (currently being expanded and revised).
Ultimately, it’s up to Anne Rice what she does with her characters, whether she decides to weave these plot threads into her overall story.
One thing I’m sure of. Whatever she decides to do will be very different than what I imagined. :)
I keep waiting for Louis’s brother, Paul de Pointe du Lac to return.
The stage appears to have been set for him. We had all of those moments in ‘Interview with the Vampire’ where Louis had visions of Paul. I often got the impression that his ghost was trying to speak to his vampire brother.
It’s been established that ghosts are real in the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat visited an underworld of angry souls in ‘Memnoch the Devil’. Perhaps it was just a vision.
There is another possibility. What if those ghosts were Paul’s army? The ones he’d lead in battle against a godless world?
Perhaps Paul and his army had to die before they could do it. Perhaps it’s part of a metaphysical battle taking place on the spirit plane?
Now we have the Bravennas, an alien race which despises humanity and thrives on their suffering. They may be the masterminds behind the human notion of virtue in suffering.
Perhaps they’re behind Paul’s suffering as well. Could they have sent him the visions?
Perhaps Paul de Pointe du Lac was the Bravennas’s tools, along with Memnoch. Or perhaps Memnoch was their instrument while Paul was Memnoch’s? Just as Lestat was meant to be Memnoch’s instrument.
My fanciful fannish imagination doesn’t stop there.
What if the power that destroyed Atalantaya was one that could be channeled through human tools and worshippers?
What if Paul de Pointe du Lac was one of those tools? What if he had the power to destroy lucrastia, which he interpreted as a holy power to destroy the undead? What if he could activate holy symbols, turning them into talismans which could drive the undead back?
I’m not sure if Anne Rice plans to write any more of the Vampire Chronicles, let alone do anything like this. I detect the seeds for future stories in what she’s planted already, should she choose to.
The idea of Paul being a ghost with strong magic which he believes to be holy power is something that’s been brewing in my imagination since the 1980s. I’ve often been tempted to write some of this down as fanfic. Since Anne Rice didn’t like or approve of fanfic, I’ve resisted the temptation, channeling it into other projects.
Danyel, Tayel, and Christopher owe part of their existence to this fascination with Paul, the sheltered brother whom Louis protected, the mystery that was never explained. Some of my ideas involving the power of faith. It becomes a force which can be channeled into a magic capable of creating gods made its way into the third book of ‘Tales of the Navel/The Shadow Forest’, ‘A Godling for Your Thoughts?’ (currently being expanded and revised).
Ultimately, it’s up to Anne Rice what she does with her characters, whether she decides to weave these plot threads into her overall story.
One thing I’m sure of. Whatever she decides to do will be very different than what I imagined. :)
