Vampire Chronicles: The Life Of Akasha 'Queen Of The Damned'
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- Akasha, The Great Mother, The Queen of Kemet, The Queen Of All Vampires, The Queen Of The Damned. Akasha’s journey stems back 6000 years ago and she is without a doubt the oldest living being in existence by a long shot. She has an incredibly unique and interesting story and despite the prep for this video taking a seriously long time to do, the end product I hope, will deliver justice on this amazing character and main antagonist from the Queen Of The Damned novel.
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It literally took over a week to re-read the book Queen Of The Damned, then 3 days to pick it apart to structure Akasha's life follwed by about 4 days of editing. I was so drained after making it that i took a week off from youtube lol. So to finally see this beginning to slowly grow, really means the world to me! Thank you for the continued support.
Like I said in the comments of another of your *#VampireChronicles* videos, _take a break!_ Take some time off, to recharge & get yourself right!
We, your fans, love you & are not going anywhere; we’ll be here, patiently waiting, when you're ready! 🙏🏻🥰❤️
You are seen, heard, valid, valued, appreciated & loved! 🙏🏻🥰❤️
Well it was worth it. I loved it. Keep it up.
I appreciate you Dean
Rip Ann Rice
you should do one of these videos for the videogame eternal darkness: sanity's requiem.
Aaliyah IS the only reason the movies worth watching. Read the book, It’s one of the best stories you’ll ever read, promise.
Wrong
@@damien1781 what, oh the soundtrack is great. With the horrible acting & how they dumbed down the intricate storyline to nothing is too much for folks that’ve read the book. Like I said except for Aaliyah, she killed it as Akasha.
I rather enjoyed the entire movie. Jesse was the most annoying part but it's a great b movie classic
Aaliyah is definitely the reason to watch the movie, but as mentioned 'Queen of the Damned' has become appreciated as a solid classic "b movie". Can not even guess what the production and writing teams were trying to make, but some fans can tolerate watching it ( mainly because it is probably all we will see of that book on screen ). As you say, the book is more worthwhile.
I disagree. She does not fit the description of Akasha in the books at all. Though Aaliyah was a gorgeous woman, Akasha was rigid and stauesque. A hard, rigid woman. Aaliyah did not fit the description.
I think Anne Rice gave us the best version and origin of vampires.
but Anne praised Aaliyah's portrayal I got her name right for once I usually butcher the spelling of it sorry Sweet girl
Only if you omit The Replimoids, Atlantis, and all of her other rediculous alien plot elements.
well, not really because in a way she is following the slavic myth, according to the slavic myth a vampire is made by a demon possessing a corpse. and that is almost what Anne Rice is giving us. So it isn't hers.
second the story of Vampire: The Masquerade is better, Cain was the first vampire, cursed by God.
White Wolf's World of Darkness is in my opinion has the best Vampire Origin and Lore.
It's basically Karen outrage simulator, Egyptian edition.
Akasha & Enkil deserve their own movie to me so many epic materials to work with.
No one could play akasha
@@GermanPrincess-pe8rl I disagree lol
She gives me Klaus Michelson vibes
@ithinkDAfucknotUtrickassBITCH Akasha wasn't Egyptian. She was from Uruk - modern day Iraq. She travels to Egypt and marries Enkil.
@@hugodeblois336who would u suggest?
Aaliyah would've liked this vid on her character. She will always b remembered as The Mother of Vampires and The Queen of the Damned. In a behind the scene she told us that she loved stories of vampires and Egypt since she was little.
She was a pretty girl, real shame she didn't live longer to expand upon her career. She doesnt really look Egyptian but her beauty in that costume made up for it, not to mention the movie had nothing to do with the books
I definitely agree!! Great backstory video!
@@thegadflygang5381 most movies about Egyptians are played by people that look nothing like them which is a shame but Aaliyah was definitely a very beautiful woman who passed WAY TOO SOON
She looks more "Egyptian" than Elizabeth Taylor!
@@KiDCRuDi_ not at all. A young Liz with her high cheekbones is in the vein of Nefratiti. The vast majority of Anglos in particular share the same haplotypic markers and direct lineage to Akhenaten
RIP Aaliyah. She did such a good job with this character.
Yes, She Did..... Others Noticed her Dope Skills as well. Awesome Performance indeed. 👍
“She is your mother… she is my mother. She is the Queen of all who are Damned”
Some of the best lines in what was otherwise just an ok movie. Akasha was such a commanding and powerful persona in this film.
And this is one of the rare occasions where I prefer the look of a character in a movie rather than the book description
I spent half my childhood trying to do Aaliyah’s Akasha walk - shes the reason why some of us got waists wit no bones in em! We all wanted to be like Aaliyah, matter fact I still do!
Aaliyah was amazing at everything she decided to do. How many artists can sing, dance, act, and then be kind to everyone? I believe that Aaliyah is in Heaven with Jesus Christ, and one day we will be able to see her again.
Aaliyah ate this role up and left no crumbs. I couldn't imagine anyone else playing Akasha. Thank you for the video! Very informative.
She woke when Lestat played the violin for her. And Enkil attacked him. Marius believed she killed him because she was done with him. Because he was jealous of Lestat. And one sister ate the heart and the other the brain. They weren't sure who the new queen was at first.
If only the script didn't have to be reworked so drastically because the actor playing her, the successful musician and burgeoning actor, the multi talented *Aaliyah* , was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas during filming one of her music videos (the music video for Rock The Boat...one of my favorites by her)
You are thinking of The Matrix: Revolution
She was scheduled to appear in that yes but no filming yet. Aaliyah had shot some footage they decided not to recast so they re-wrote a lot of scenes.
Excellent job on this! Akasha was one hell of a villain! If I were to add one thing to this it would be how Akasha astral projected during her slumber and lived inside other people, living vicariously through them.
Interesting fact...Anne Rice started her career as an Erotic Fiction author. I'm so glad she decided to branch out. If you like these books, try Ramses the Damned or as it's sometimes called "The Mummy", also by Anne Rice. It's a GREAT read.
I've yet to find an erotic book/series that can touch the Sleeping Beauty Chronicles. If you found Fifty Shades of Gray way too vanilla & can handle heavy BDSM/$ex slavery, I HIGHLY recommend. Definitely, NOT for the easily offended. Those books are nearly too 🔥 to handle!
@@RubyRedWitch stop reading it and just do it wierdos
@@RubyRedWitch I read them when my children were toddlers. I felt too dirty reading them with the kids around and would wait to read once they were asleep, lol. I just couldn't believe my favorite vampire author wrote those books.
Go away
Have you read the Witching Hour? Omg so good. Anne Rice always knew how to tell a story and is a great erotica writer.
Aaliyah played this role very well
Thank youuuu for this video... omggg. I read this book as a teenager, I was actually homeless and swatting in an basement storage unit of an apartment building, and I read this incredible book with a flood flashlight illuminated my little area. I got so caught up in this book that I forgot about my situation. I read all of Anne Rice Books during this time and this one blew my mind. Thank you for this it's outstanding.
I really hope your doing better. 👋😄👍
@James Sunderland My parents died
@@laprincessa9787 I am thank youuuuu. Appreciate you.
@@nomiwilliams6195 Wonderful! Have a great day!😌
@Dantes230you are quite nosy
I love how the narrator tells the Queen's Story hardly pausing for a breath.
The only one holding me back from hating that boring movie is Aaliyah as Queen Akasha. She is the most beautiful vampire I've seen and great actress for the vampire character.
I like that they were statues instead of corpse in a coffin.
Akasha is actually a real deity. Sekhmet is her in Kemet. The blood drinker. Also she's a deity in India
In India she is Kali Durga/Kali maa
@@midnightlotus7047 hold on. In that old Indiana Jones film a guy pulls a person's heart out and shouts something like 'Kali Ma!' I have never realised that he might have actually been referring to a real deity. You've blown my mind 😂
Yeah I can see that Sekhmet lioness ferocity and ruthlessness in her. Ra had to dye a lot of beer red in order to resemble blood so she’d get drunk just to stop killing everybody.
People have to be careful what characters they play it may come back haunting you. These are no roles to be playing because they are deities not human
@@mead9lol
Aaliyah will forever be Akasha, no matter what, and she’ll be greatly happy about the discussion topic on the character she played.
Even though the character or characters, was supposedly be light skin people, from what I remember of doing light research or details of the book, I was surprised that everyone will have their own interpretations of how the characters would have look within their heads/mind. I still like the choice of having Aaliyah as Akasha. In which, I don’t know if Anne Rice would have approved of Aaliyah, but I think she did in the end in a weird secret way.
Not white. Anne said Akasha is from Iraq. Aaliyah was one of the only thing’s Anne liked about the movie.
Who is "LIGHT SKIN PEOPLE" 😂
Aaliyah was light skin black person, so please tell me who is light skin? Yes she did a wonderful job. White people have always been known as pale or fair skinned...Black people came up with word light skin for light skin black or mixed people.
@Hazel E She was the best part of the movie for me as well. I did like the actor for Lestat as well. I didn't care for the rest 5oo much and I didn't like the casting choice for Jessie.
@@ShanyShannon my fellow black folks’ definition of light skin always baffled me. Anything a hush shade from mahogany is “light skin”.
@@ShanyShannon right, its really nonblack people out here that think they're lightskin. Lightskinned is associated with nothing but blackness and thats it
The Actress Rip was so beautiful they picked the perfect Akasha!
She was so beautiful.😢
I loved Aaliyah in this film so much i named my first born daughter Aliyah. Brilliant video 😊
I could have sworn in the novel, Maharet and Mekare, one ate the heart and the other ate the brain of Akasha. Just like they did when they were human and their mother had died. After the human mother had died and was roasted one ate the heart and the other ate the brain before the rest of the village helped finish off their revered witch/healer mother. Then again it has been a few years since I read The Vampire Chronicles. Guess I better put that on my summertime To-Do list ;)
That is how I remember it too. It’s how the Vampire race was able to survive.
Yep youre right. ❤
That is how I remembered it when I read the book in the early 2000's, but when I listened to the audio. Mekare, eats the heart and brain both.
I remember the twins work together to pull the heart and brain out, but then Mekare consumed both.
Khayman: "The curse, my Queen," he said, his voice rising sharply to fill the room. 6 thousand years ago Mekare " 'Let the spirits witness; for theirs is the knowledge of the future-both what it would be, and what I will! You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Your only destiny is evil, as well you know! But I shall stop you, if I must come back from the dead to do it. At the hour of your greatest menace it is I who will defeat you! It is I who will bring you down. Look well upon my face, for you will see me again!' loved the atmosphere that curse entailed through the lips of Khayman even Akasha is afraid
Awesome over view. but you did forget to mention one very vital point in the start. The one of the final actions of the twins in the court took that truly triggered Akasha's anger, when she hoped to prove their powers were lies was sending Amel to retrieve something of value that was familiar to Akasha, and he came back with a necklace, one that was worn by Akasha's mother in her death crypt this enraged her. In her anger the twins were ordered raped. You also left out that Maheret had been impregnated by Khayman, this was realized after her and Mekeres trek back home after their initial release. It was then Mekere curses the king and queen by invoking the spirit Amel again sending him back to set them insane. And the eventual turning.
I think I was infatuated with the brooding Louis all the way through the Vampire chronicles. BUT I came to adore Lestat in the Queen of the Damed. When we got to Blackwood Farm, I was so done with the vampires though. -- maybe one day I will crack open my old loves and start this journey again. **Subscribing--> I enjoyed your content**
I loved her witch chronicles too!
The whole bloodlust lessens with more vampires isn't correct. That was what the twins guessed at first, it was just wrong. The more powerful the blood in the vampire is the less they thirst for it. Which is why vampires like Lestat didn't have much thirst when he was turned but onle like Louis has a great amount of thirst from the start. In the books it's even mentioned that because jessie was turned by maharet, she had absolutely no thirst.
I meant to say that the overwhelming power of the core lessened with the aking of more vampires. I incorrectly assumed that the blood lust came with the effects of holding the core within.
The only difference between Akasha and any other vampire is if you kill her all vampires die. It doesn't make her more powerful or give her any extra abilities. Maharet is actually more powerful than Akasha. For 2 reasons. 1st is thousands of vampires have drank from akasha over her lifetime. Meaning she had less blood in her to grow stronger over time. And 2nd. Her and enkil didnt drink from a human for somewhere around 2000 years. She couldn't grow stronger that way either. But Maharet has been awake for her entire 6000. Feeding the whole time.
RIP to THE Mother of ALL Vampires, Anne Rice
Anne Rice vampires are so gay but I kinda look over that fact because I like her narrative.
It sounds like something truly apart of history
Akasha the 6,000+ year old God as she explains her plans for her to be the new God of the world and offers the vampires a chance to follow her as angels in her new world order. She planned to kill 90% of the world's HUMAN MEN and establish a new Eden in which WOMEN will worship Akasha as a goddess.... Aaliyah made this movie; she herself loved the book actually she loved all the books. She was a big fan of ANNE RICE.. she loved vampire's since she was little!! There couldn't be another remake of this movie bc she is gone she was made for this movie! Aaliyah's brother Rashad actually had to overdub some lines that were kinda difficult to understand bc of her accent that Aaliyah spent months learning.. Aaliyah had completed the film before she died in the crash but some of the Egyptian accent line's her character occasionally spoke was difficult to understand so Rashad who sound like his sister with the mellifluous voice re recorded a small portion of his sister's dialogue and they blended it in to make it seem like she had a sinister double sound but it was actually Rashad he was so proud to of helped his sister!! The beautiful Aaliyah just doesn't know how big of an icon she has become I truly believe if she would be alive she would be a major movie star!! She should of been called the Goddess of the Damned.. we love you Aaliyah rest in peace beautiful Queen 👑😓🤎🩸
This is BEAUTIFUL & makes me want to read Queen of the Damned again for the 1st time❤️ This is my FAVORITE Anne Rice book ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Books are always so much better but Townsend and Aaliyah definitely made the movie a good watch❤ rip Anne Rice
I like the Narrators voice.
His explanation fills in a lot of the blanks as I have never read the book...but loved Aaliyahs role in the movie. Now that he explained it, they should have made the movie longer instead of rushing through it.
Thank you 😊
I missed so much
You are the first who put it all together, in an understandable way!😊
I am completely obsessed with vampires and I just found out about this channel, this is my new favorite place on CZcams
Definitely went back and listen to this book on Audible chapters are complicated to follow found it interesting how they never said anything in the movie about the twins or them even being assaulted or anyting about one of them losing a tongue and one of them losing their eyes the book is definitely quite different from the movie
Read these books at 12, it's not that hard
From what I understand, the movie had a rocky development.
@@damien1781 nothing wrong with listening to an audiobook however you can certainly keep your sarcastic comments to yourself
@@Dinker27 that may have something to do with the late great Aaliyah's untimely death because she did die before the movie was even finished being filmed now that I think about it they actually had to have a male relative step in to do some of the voicing for her
@@ladyassassin1082 Possibly.
Thank you so much for this comprehensive video. Very very good. I was in this movie as an extra at the concert scene. Such a great night and honour. Met Anne Rice twice too. I'm a bit of a fan...
Thank you so much, it took such a long time to prepare so I’m delighted it’s been well received
Cool Read... 👍
Great collection of lore, I've had some issues trying to read Queen of the Damned and this summed up her life nicely
I believe it was Mekare and not Maharet who told Akasha about Amel and how she and Enkil were changed. Maharet later in the conversation saw some stuff and spoke about her visions.
As a result of Mekare speaking "blasphemous lies," her tongue was removed and for Maharet's "evil" visions, her eyes were removed.
Yes!
BRAVO 👏 great video dude!! Thank you for taking the time👍
Thanks for this video. This used to be my favourite movie I watched it many times. Love all the extra info👌
Thanks for the hard work it takes to make the videos. I'm so glad you used to book for this more so than the movie. The movie leaves soooo much out when it comes to Akasha and the twins. Something that literally just hit me: Are the twins ancestors of the Mayfair witches? It would account for them being able to breed with vampires. If I'm remembering right, both the Mayfairs and the twins have red hair. 🤔
The movie is the worst adaption from a book I’ve seen, it tries to merge the vampire lestat and queen of the damned
@Vampire Folklore I actually wish I hadn't watched it 🤫 lol. If they had a different creative team and split it into a trilogy, they could've had an amazing franchise on their hands. The world and characters are so rich, and to boil Lestat down to just "the brat prince" is a travesty. At least that's how it came off to me. I found it hard to like or even empathize with him.
I don't believe the Mayfair Witches are a part of Maharet's Great Family. They were not mentioned when the Great Family was discussed in Queen of the Damned and I do not believe Maharet's family was even referenced in the Mayfair books.
It is possible but doubtful. However, Maharet only tracked the female line so it is possible they are connected through the male line somewhere in the distant past.
What book did the witches and vampires breed?
@@joelorlando2677 Hmm I don’t recall Anne Rice’s vampires being able to breed since they can’t have sex. I know for sure something that wasn’t mentioned earlier in the video that one of the twins before being converted to a vampire had a child from Khayman and that’s her descendent. Jesse is one of her descendants from the huge family tree she kept.
Well done, VH…a great recapture of a series of novels I read many years ago. Simply thanks
Thankyou for breaking all this down!! 🙏🏻
You should do Maharet and Mekare next!!
They’re coming soon
Awesome video. I love the breakdown of Rice's lore. I will admit, it was hard to follow when I started reading her books a decade+ ago. This video would've helped back then. 😁
From what I read in the book, enkil lost his thirst for blood and after that so did akasha and they turned into marble like statues, lestats music woke her up and she killed enkil and went for lestat as her new king. there was no great battle until the end when makere killed akasha with one quick swip to her throat decapitating her . Your accurate with it just not in time-lines of the book also vampires tried several attempts to kill them but they couldn't they even fed on akasha but enkil would strike them off her
No, they were trapped by vampires and held so their blood could be stolen from them, they went catatonic and became statues
@@bryndawdy3420 read the book.....
@@mikemichael777 I did? Literally a month ago, cover to cover. And two more in the series since. Either you read it or you didn’t lmao
@@bryndawdy3420 I did too even years before the movie came or was a thought, maybe I forgot some details I apologize for that, either way good book and sort of movie
Also didn’t Lestat wake her once before and Marius loses it because he was never able to wake her and kicks Lestat out?
Very Cool Vid, thanks for your work I enjoyed it. I've only read as far into the Vampire Chronicles as Memnock the Devil. I think I'm gonna have to get back into this story again.
well done dude, I've read the complete chronicles twice so far, best ever
Thanks Brian, I put about 3 weeks work total into the video so I’m very grateful for the feedback
Amazing video!! Don't forget you creativity thrives when you follow your passion and while people don't like change, it is often worth it! I love your new videos!! ^___^
That ending was so much better!
That was so freaking cool! I’m so glad I stumbled across your channel! 👍🏾
Awesome! Thank you!
Loved this👏🏾 well done
Thank you so much for this channel.
You're very welcome! Glad you're enjoying it!
Anne Rice is one of my fave authors and this is one of my favorite books
This showed up on my feed. Liked and subscribed!
Great video! You've got a new sub here, can't wait to see more of your videos, keep up the good work!
Now a die hard fan of the vampire Chronicles and you did grate I truly appreciate it done right and with respect hope to see more
Thank you very much, lots more VC to come
They really gaslit her in the queen of the damned. Made her look like the bad guy. She had good reason to kill everyone
maybe the people that wronger her but not the rest,she was becoming to much of a psychopathic bloodlust monster,so no she didnt have good reason to kill everyone maybe a fuw but thats it.
She was the bad guy 🙄
and she made alot of sense too. I mean look who runs the world and the way we're living. I hate Lestat for turning on Akasha right after he took alot of her power and strenght, like how are you gonna act like she's the bad guy when you part taken on the k*llings
@@Terry_Bell yes, kill most of the world and the rest must worship her. Such a good hero.🙄
@@Terry_Bell she had two girls raped as punishment for having real gods that didn’t align with her fake religion, then cut out one’s tongue and the other’s eyes. She’s a self-centered and impudent child who got the power of a god. “Look at the world” yeah it’s full of humans who aren’t kept as cattle lmao grow up
She needs her own show!
Great account mate, enjoyed listening 👍🏼😊👌🏼🔥🧛♂️
Akasha isn't the oldest living being in existence. Shes been a vampire longer than any is all. Khayman, the 3rd ever vampire, turned about a year after akasha, was older than akasha as a human. So he's older than her all together.
This does not make any sense at all, I think it’s your wording...
@@ivyreid7 this isn't actually correct numbers but let me just give you an example. Let's say Akasha was 30 years old when she was turned 6000 years ago. Shed be 6030 years old. And let's say Khayman was 40 when he was turned about a year after Akasha. He'd be 6039. So Khayman is the older being even though Akasha has been a vampire a year longer.
You're right, the guy was born first, he's older then her and they both lived a long time because they're vampires... He's been alive longer
We need more movies like this!!!
The books were amazing!
This was awesome to watch. I know we are capable of reengineering our minds and achieving a higher state of consciousness. It starts with deprograming our current state of mind. Elevation is achievable.
I enjoyed the video. Good work on the video.
I love Vampires.♥️ I love Enkil and Akasha.🤎 I love the story.💛
Awesome work I have found your presentations extremely informative and well done thank you for once again bringing these tales to life
Glad you like them! Plenty more to come!
Thanks for doing this. I didn't understand what was going on in that movie. I just know I liked it and I wish the ending was better.
After seeing Enkil’s video, I had to see this . This was rather interesting, and to think that there’s “ historical “ precedent surrounding both , was kind of cool . Thanks for the explanation and the upload. The movie was “ mediocre “ for me , but I’m more of a book and history fan. I think the highlight of the movie was Aaliyah , she had the glowing skin , and the effects were just point on ! She made the movie .
Thanks! that was GREAT!
Have a great weekend and keep the videos coming
All the stuff you spoke about in Akasha’s story should have been in the movie
The actress playing her died tragically in a plane crash before the movie was finished. Many parts had to be rewritten.
Excellent work.
Keep them coming.
This was very informative: it's been a very long time since I read the books, so I enjoyed that. I didn't particularly like the cartoonish pictures of Akasha and Enkil, which were especially inconsistent since you showed the film representations for other characters.
Newly subscribed. This video was interesting
Great video!
I loved the film growing up! That being said a faithful tv series adaptation (done right) for the vampire chronicles would be awesome!
I wish they had included Akasha in interview with a vampire. It feels like they would've covered her history better than Queen of the Damned did.
Very interesting story. Thank you for sharing this with us. 👍
Great video. Thanks
TY for. A great representation!,very informative.
Yup, this video got u a new follower,, good work pimp!
Thank you Paul! I can’t even tell you how much effort I put into structuring it. I really appreciate it!
I just came across it. It's pretty good. =)
Have you considered making a video of the very first vampire to grace literature -- Varney?
Great composition and very informative. 🖼
Thank you very much I really appreciate it.
Well put my friend. I just stumbled on ur channel & immediately subscribed
Nicely done.
New subscriber, thank you!
The Vampire Lestat was by far my favorite, in the series.
Meant to subscribe last month. You put out good content, waiting for some Lost Boys action up on here. (KUDOS on the Anne Rice marathon. It took me a decade probably as I would intermittently read a books in between to not burn out)
Still plenty more Anne Rice to do.. I go through phases where I just want to make VC content but I have to spread it out lol. Thanks for the support!
Man, Aaliyah was perfect Akasha
very interesting, glad I listened to it.
my favorite book and movie i loved it so much i named my first daughter akasha
Good job!!!!👍🏾🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥🔥🔥
Their stone inanimate state had to inspire the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who.
I LOVE AALIYAH but that movie suuuuucked guess I should read or listen too the audio book
That book is so long. But worth reading.
I wasn't really into the baby jenks part if i'm honest but really enjoyed the rest
This was great