Anne Rice’s Vampires Are Alien Cellphones From Atlantis

The gothic, horny, campy craziness of AMC's TV adaptation of Interview With the Vampire has been enjoyable. It captures the magic of Anne Rice's 1976 novel while still updating it. Things are going to get weird if the show goes on. weird, alien cellphones from Atlantis

Anne Rice's Vampires were created because of an alien communication system that powered the mythical island. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis is the twelfth book in Rice's series.

We have to go back to 1988's Queen of the Damned to understand it. The Egyptian queen Akasha was cursed by two witches 6,000 years ago in an attempt to make it as simple as possible. Amel drank her blood and fused with the queen to become the first vampire, with Akasha assuming the spirit's power and his bloodlust.

As the mother of all vampire's, Akasha was able to communicate with them through a spiritual connection, while her children could also feel what she was feeling. Vampires spontaneously combusted when a guardian left Akasha in a sun. If Akasha was killed, all the vampire's would die. It was possible to transfer the spirit of Amel to another vampire.

Amel was once a human whose spirit was powerful enough to escape death and eventually found those aforementioned witches, who enlisted his assistance to get revenge on Akasha. After a long absence in Prince Lestat, the essence of Amel was renamed the Sacred Core. The Sacred Core was taken by Lestat at the end of the book and he became the new #1 vampire with all the powers of Akasha.

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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, which goes far, far deeper into Amel's history than ever before, and transforms the supernatural origin of Rice's vampire into science fiction, was born. Amel was a human who was kidnapped by aliens and turned into an alien-human hybrid, which the aliens felt would eventually become a universal threat. Amel didn't want to do that, so he created Atlantis using the aliens' mysterious technology, which did many, many things, but mostly worked as a communication tool.

The aliens didn't care for Amel's betrayal and destroyed him and Atlantis, but instead of dying, he merged with Akasha and became a spirit. As the Sacred Core, Amel was able to grant some of his power to new Vampires, but only to a limited extent. Akasha and Lestat were able to communicate with any vampire at any time because they were connected to the Core.

If you were upset with Rice taking her series in such a different direction, you won't need to worry about these updates coming to TV screens anytime soon. It would be very odd to see the Interview With the Vampire TV series make it that far. There are other ghosts and spirits with origins in Rice's work that had yet to be explored before he died.

Rice was willing to change her beloved series in such a way that she didn't see it that way. The two-part interview I did with her back in 2016 remains one of my favorite interviews. The season finale of Interview With the Vampire will air on AMC.

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