The Vampire Armand

Armand was born Andrei, an icon painter in fifteenth-century Kyivan Rus. Sold into slavery, he is carried to Renaissance Venice, where the vampire painter Marius buys him. Marius takes the boy as his protégé and lover, and in time turns him into a vampire.

The narrative follows Armand through his years in Marius's household and the destruction of that household by a rival coven. From there it traces his rise to lead a coven of his own in Paris. This is the vampire first met in Interview with the Vampire, now telling his own story.

The telling is framed as a confession to David Talbot. Lestat lies silent in New Orleans while Armand speaks. Alongside the old history, Armand also accounts for how he has survived since the events of Memnoch the Devil.

Two mortal companions, Sybelle and Benji, look after him in the present. The book moves between a painter's apprenticeship in Venice and a confession in a quiet room, and it is the sixth volume of The Vampire Chronicles.