Who is Marius de Romanus?

Marius de Romanus is a fictional character in The Vampire Chronicles novels written by Anne Rice. He is the primary character in the novel Blood and Gold.

Marius is an intelligent, wise and optimistic vampire, one of the oldest who are known to be still surviving, a Child of the Millennia. Due to his many drinks of blood from the now-dead vampire queen Akasha from whom the vampiric life fount originated, he is immensely powerful and possesses a number of advanced powers, including the ability to cause combustion (the 'Fire Gift') and the ability to fly (the 'Cloud Gift').

He can also read minds with much ease and block his own mind from being read by using the 'Mind Gift'. Another ability he possesses is the 'Killing Gift' (killing people through immense amounts of air pressure).He is a great painter and scholar, who loves to read and has had several treasured libraries which have been lost due to fire.

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