Born in the late 15th century in Kiev Rus, Armand was an extraordinary ikon painter, pumped full of religious fervor by the ascetic Eastern Orthodox Church. He was kidnapped by slave traders at the estimated age of 15 and sold to the brothels in Constantinople and Venice.
In the face of such horror and sin that was unheard of in his previous pious life, he withdrew into himself, talking to no one and refusing food and drink to the brink of death. When Marius, a vampire, discovered him, he took pity on Armand and bought him from the brothel and brought him back to his house where he nursed him back to health and gave him the best education possible. Armand discovered that he developed amnesia in his state of mental and physical torture and could paint no more.
Marius and Armand had a clandestine relationship as Marius sought to protect him from the evil of becoming a vampire. It became inevitable though, when Armand was poisoned by a jilted lover whose love he did not reciprocate. And so, at the age of seventeen and on the brink of death yet again, Armand was brought into the Dark World by Marius.
Their happiness was short lived and soon came along Santino and his Satanic coven who believed that those Born into Darkness are the Children of Satan and should therefore, renounce all luxuries and walk only in the places of darkness. They believe that to enjoy life as mortals and to walk among mortals when it is their sacred duty to kill and kill only was to defy Satan. And so Marius was burnt and Armand was captured. But because of Armand's earlier religious ardor, he was spared.
Having lost his master and his mortal loved ones and tortured almost to the point of insanity, Armand yielded to the cult. Though having never truly believed their claims, he was nonetheless devoted to the work and perfected their every rule and rose as a powerful figure in the coven. He was sent to the Parisian coven to take over as a new leader.
Then came along Lestat, armed with the powerful blood of an ancient, strutting the streets of Paris with his exorbitant clothes and dancing in the courtyards of the church. It was monstrosity and the Children of Darkness were confused. The old belief was proven to be complete farce and the coven was destroyed.
Unbearably detached once again, Armand formed a new coven of vampires who were disguised as actors to sing and dance and even kill on stage while the mortal audience were completely ignorant of the much darker truth. Eventually, weary of the new generation of vampires in the Theatre des Vampires he allowed them to be annihilated by Louis, whose passion and thirst for knowledge he was in love with. But Louis never recovered from the tragedy of Claudia's death and remained utterly devoid of passion and the burning fire of curiosity Armand had so loved in him. And so, reiteratively hurt and alone, he left Louis to his own mourning.
In a state of loneliness, Armand created a fledgling out of Daniel Molloy but it only proved to be a failure. Separated by the inevitable silence between maker and child, they drifted apart as Armand had so precisely predicted.
When Lestat brought the Veronica's Veil back from hell, Armand went into a state of frenzy and tried to immolate himself by exposing himself to the sun. He was badly burnt but powerful enough to stay alive. Benji and Sybelle, mortals who discovered him, nursed him until he regained his strength. And that is the end of the known story.
As of now, of course he's with me . And always will be because I'll never let him go.
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