The Queen of the Damned characters

Appears from the start

The flamboyant vampire whose modern reinvention as a rock star and public exposure of his kind set off the events of this book. Bold, defiant, and hungry for meaning, he has been lifted away by an awakened ancient being at the close of the previous book, and he finds himself caught up in her designs, thrilled and appalled by turns. His restless will and his conscience remain the story's driving force as far larger powers close in around him.

Appears from the start

The primeval queen from whom all vampires descend, an Egyptian ruler of the ancient world transformed into the first vampire thousands of years ago and kept ever since in a statue-like stillness. Newly awakened after her endless silence, she is immensely powerful, serenely certain of her own divinity, and has taken Lestat to her side. Beautiful and terrible, she moves with the calm of a being who regards herself as a goddess and mortals and vampires alike as material for her will.

Appears from the start

An ancient Roman-born vampire, roughly two thousand years old, learned and civilized, who for centuries served as the secret guardian of the primeval king and queen, keeping them hidden and safe. Wise, measured, and burdened by his long responsibility, he is one of the elders drawn into the crisis that the queen's awakening unleashes upon their kind.

Appears from the start

The ancient vampire with the face of a youth, once the leader of an old Parisian coven, known from the earlier books as a figure of great age and power. In this book he is among the immortals swept up in the upheaval that follows the queen's awakening, his fate bound to that of the others of his kind.

Appears from the start

The reflective, guilt-haunted vampire who narrated the first book, still enduring his immortality with a mournful conscience. Known to readers from his own earlier account, he is among the vampires caught up in the gathering danger, his gentleness and doubt a quiet counterpoint to the mightier beings around him.

Appears from the start

Lestat's mother, whom he transformed into a vampire in the previous book, a cool, self-sufficient immortal who long ago withdrew from ordinary human concerns to roam the wild places of the world. Detached and formidable, she returns to the unfolding crisis out of her enduring bond with her son.

Appears from the start

The young man who years earlier, as a reporter, recorded the vampire Louis's confession, an encounter that consumed his life and left him obsessed with the immortals. Since then he has become entangled with the vampire world and bound to the ancient Armand, and he is drawn into the events set off by the queen's awakening.

First appears in chapter 2

A young woman and member of the Talamasca, a secret order that studies the supernatural, who has a gift for sensing spirits and the dead. Sent to investigate vampire phenomena, and connected through her family to a long, mysterious lineage, she follows her research toward the immortals themselves, her ordinary life pulled steadily into their hidden world.

First appears in chapter 3

An immensely ancient red-haired vampire, calm, powerful, and older than almost any of her kind, who has quietly watched over her mortal descendants across thousands of years, keeping a vast record of her human family. Serene and formidable, she carries deep knowledge of the origins of the vampires, and she moves to gather the others as the awakened queen's designs threaten them all.