David Talbot (The Vampire Chronicles)

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David Talbot is a character in the Vampire Chronicles. He is Superior General of the secret organization the Talamasca, which researches and investigates the supernatural. He is a prominent figure that connects Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches series of books.

David is an elderly man, unlike the screen depiction of him in the film version of The Queen of the Damned. In the book version, he met both Lestat and Louis, after the events of Queen of the Damned. Lestat taunted David, offering him the blood, which David soundly refused. In TALE OF THE BODY THIEF, it seems he and Lestat had a friendship. After Lestat tried to end his immortal life by flying into the sun in the Mojave desert he visited David. It was also to David he went when Raglan James offered to switch bodies with him, though he didn't listen to what David had to say. It was him who helped Lestat regain his body. In a twist, in the resulting struggle he switched bodies with Raglan James, and ended up in a much younger, body, described as a tale Indian body with chestnut hair, while Lestat returned to his preternatural body. This was unknown to Lestat however, and there was a resulting struggle, in which Lestat killed David's old body that was possessed by James. Lestat ended up forcing the blood upon David, making him his fledgling. David became a somewhat confidant to the Vampire Armand, in which he ended up writing his book. He is also depicted as having sexual preferences with young women and men, preferring men in The Tale of the Body Thief. David also appears in Merrick, where he contacts his old friend, in the Talamasca, Merrick, who also happens to be part of the Mayfairs. In this book Merrick raises the spirit of Claudia for Louis. At the end you find out that Merrick had been using Voodoo to bring both David and Louis to her, in order for her to get what she wanted, eternal life. This plan worked out as Louis did turn her out of his love for the witch. After this though he tried to kill himself, by placing his coffin out in the sun. He nearly got what he want, but he was too old for the sun to end his life. David, Merrick and Lestat offered their blood that reconstructed his burnt form. Lestat's blood making him all the stronger. The four formed a coven in New Orleans, but the Talamasca enraged that two of their members had taken the blood, threatened the vampires, demanding Merrick be returned to them. David finally talked Lestat out of doing anything rash, and the four had to leave their home in the Rue Royal.

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire | The Vampire Lestat | The Queen of the Damned | The Tale of the Body Thief | Memnoch the Devil The Vampire Armand | Merrick | Blood and Gold | Blackwood Farm | Blood Canticle
New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora | Vittorio the Vampire
Characters
Lestat | Gabrielle | Louis | Claudia | Armand | Magnus | Those Who Must Be Kept | Maharet and Mekare | Marius | Pandora Bianca | David | Jesse | Khayman | Daniel | Mael