![]() In order to save her, Lestat transforms her into his first immortal companion. Later, his mother, Gabrielle, arrives to say goodbye to him, herself dying of consumption (tuberculosis). Instead, he decides to shower them with gifts and riches from his new found wealth, as a means to compensate his departure from their lives. Lestat abandons Nicki for fear of causing him harm and shuns contact with his loved ones. ![]() Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200-year-long life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and his rise from humble beginnings as impoverished nobility in the countryside of the Auvergne in France, to the cosmopolitan city of Paris, to become transformed by the Dark Gift into a vampire.Īfter escaping his family and running off to Paris with his lover and confidante Nicolas de Lenfent, Lestat is kidnapped and bitten by the reclusive elder vampire Magnus, who orphans him on the night he is made but leaves him with a tower fortress and a vast fortune. ![]()
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