Name: Nicolas de Lenfent
 
Maker: Lestat de Lioncourt.
 
Year When Made: 1779
 
Approximate Age: 20 years old when made. Spent around a year as an 
immortal.
 
Appearance: Nicolas was tall with brown eyes. His hair was 
dark brown and very curly; quite boyish looking.
 
Paramour & Consorts: Lestat de Lioncourt and Gabrielle.
 
Fledglings:  None
 
Mortal Background/History: Nicolas was sent to Paris, in order 
to study law, but instead developed an immense interest in the violin. He 
took lessons from Mozart. On his was back home to Auvergne, he ran 
away so he could pursue his musical education, for his family did not 
approve of his love of his new found talent. He eventually came back. 
Nicolas met Lestat in 1778, becoming his best friend and confidant, and 
together they ran away to Paris. He had recently lost his faith and so at times could 
appear to be bitter and resentful. Nicolas got a job at the House of Thespians, until 
he was captured by Armand's Paris Coven. Nicolas always confessed that there 
was a darkness inside him, and needed Lestat's light to block out this darkness.
 
Immortal Background/History: After Lestat made him into a vampire, 
Nicolas became the founder, writer and one of the musicians of the Theatre des Vampires. 
He soon grew mad, trying to make other vampires, and Armand was forced to remove Nicolas hands. 
Nicolas went into the fire in 1789.
 
Reason for the DarkGift: Nicolas was fatally wounded by the members of Armand's Paris Coven. 
Lestat loved him, being his best friend, and couldn't bear to let him die. 
Thus, Nicolas became a vampire, but with a cost. Unfortunately, Nicolas grew to hate Lestat, 
and Lestat couldn't cope with that hate. 
(TVL Excerpt): - And he[Nicolas] was watching me and the hatred was pure, as undiluted by 
remembered love, as it had been all along. 
Also, (TVL Excerpt): - the realization gnawing at my insides like 
a starved animal that I couldn't stand the sight of him[Nicolas] now.
 
Novels: Appearance in The Vampire Lestat.