Akasha then turned Enkil into a vampire by drawing out nearly all of his blood and then allowing him to drink nearly all of hers.

Mekare eats the brain and then the heart, and thereby the soul of Akasha ; as Mekare does so, she takes into herself the source of the spiritual fusion with Amel and becomes the new life force of the vampires, while Akasha's ancient body finally disintegrates into black dust.

Marius then shelters a young vampire named Lestat, who when playing a song for Akasha on his violin, wakes her up.

Akasha fell upon Enkil, draining him of the blood that was left, and then feeding him her own.

Having been awakened by Lestat's rebellious music, Akasha destroys her husband Enkil and plots to rule the world.

There Maharet tells the story of Akasha and the red-haired twins ( who are, in fact, Maharet and her sister, Mekare ) to Pandora, Jesse, Marius, Santino, Eric, Armand, Daniel, Louis and Gabrielle.

Mekare kills Akasha by severing her head.

Akasha allows the king to drink her blood, which saves his life.

However, when the witches admit that they cannot help the monarchs, Akasha orders the mutilation of the witches: Maharet loses her eyes and Mekare her tongue.

The Great Family represents all humanity and shows the vampires what Akasha would destroy with the creation of her New World Order.

However, the result on all other vampires is extreme, and many of the weakest vampires die, thus confirming the legend that anything that harms Akasha will also directly affect all of her progeny.

Akasha feeds from Lestat as Lestat feeds from her.

) She was there to help her son fight against Akasha and help save the world.

Mael is present when Maharet tells Jesse her story, when they later try to reason with Akasha, and when Mekare kills her.

His songs waken Akasha, the Queen of the Damned, from her sleep, and she takes Lestat on as her lover while she enacts a horrible plan to take over the world.

Originally King Enkil and Queen Akasha of Kemet ( now Egypt ) circa 5, 000 BC, they became the first vampires when an evil spirit named Amel was able to enter the body of Akasha through a wound and fuse with her flesh.

It later becomes clear that Akasha intends for those vampires she has spared to become her " angels ", or if they chose to fight her, they will become devils opposed to her.

Meanwhile, Akasha absconded with Lestat to remote places around the world, spreading her dictum that she is the " Queen of Heaven " with Lestat as her mute consort, and commanding women to rise up and kill every man and boy, save a few.

It appeared that Akasha would carry out her maniacal plan with or without the help of the other vampires.

Rice describes Akasha as a lovely young woman who was " almost too pretty to be truly beautiful, for her prettiness overcame any sense of majesty or deep mystery.

" Underneath her physical beauty, Akasha is a fundamentally dark, empty, nihilistic person with no sense of morality, ethics, or human compassion ; her actions are almost always based on her insatiable need to fill her own inner emptiness.

Eventually this spirit inflicts such torment on Akasha and Enkil that they again demand advice and help from the two witches.

In an experiment by the first Keeper, Akasha and Enkil are exposed to sunlight when they are several thousand years old.

Then, Marius shares his past with him, and shows him Those Who Must Be Kept, Akasha and Enkil.

Marius employs the Spell Gift often, especially when employing humans to move Enkil and Akasha to a new location.

As they age they become more powerful and slowly their skin becomes whiter, smoother, and more reflective, resembling marble as seen with Akasha and Enkil, Maharet, Mekare, and Khayman.

In The Vampire Chronicles series of novels ( beginning with 1973's Interview With the Vampire ) by Anne Rice, Characters Akasha and Enkil ( who appear in 2 books in the series, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of The Damned, which were combined to create Queen of the Damned, a major motion picture starring late R & B singer Aaliyah in the title role ) are referred to both as, ' Those Who Must Be Kept ' and also as, ' The Old Ones '.

The term " Those Who Must Be Kept " was coined by the vampire Marius referring to the fact that what befalls Akasha and Enkil also befalls all vampires ; if they are injured, so are their children, if they die, so do all vampires.

After one of these guardians tires of the task, he places Akasha and Enkil in the sun ; vampires worldwide are burned or destroyed as a result of all being linked by the spirit of Amel that still resides in Akasha.

Akasha draws the vampire Marius to her and urges him to take her and Enkil out of Egypt.

Enkil was the King, who ruled with Akasha.

Marius eventually has the task of keeping them, and it is while in his keeping that Akasha destroys Enkil and consumes his blood as she no longer needs him and feels imprisoned and dead around him.

In the book The Vampire Lestat it is specifically spelled out that Enkil and Akasha were made into vampires at the same time by a demonic infusion but it is later explained in Queen of the Damned that Akasha made Enkil into a vampire, after she was first made by demonic infusion, in order to save him from the wounds inflicted upon him by citizens of Kemet.

At numerous points in the canonical history of Rice's books, Enkil rises from his throne to defend Akasha from being drained of her powerful blood.

Marius rescues Lestat from being destroyed by Enkil after Enkil rises and hits him away while he is drinking from Akasha, despite ( or possibly because of ) the fact that Akasha appears to have summoned Lestat to her.

Amel's deadly lust for human blood thus passed to Akasha.

With the Fire Gift, a vampire can set alight an object or being of their choice, for example, in Blood and Gold, when Akasha destroyed Eudoxia's body by fire, or in the film when she set fire to the vampires in bar and at the concert.

Because he has drunk so often from the vampire queen Akasha from whom the vampiric life fount originated, he is immensely powerful and possesses a number of advanced powers: with his mind, he can ignite objects ( pyrokinesis ) ( the ' Fire Gift '), the ability to fly ( the ' Cloud Gift '), very strong telekinesis, and can move with such speed that only other powerful blood drinkers are able to track his movements.

Akasha has abducted Lestat and takes him as an unwilling consort to various locations in the world, inciting women to rise up and kill the men who have oppressed them.

Being " as old as Marius ", his considerable power serves his reign well ; however, it doesn't help much when Akasha invades his temple and kills him within a flick.

After receiving blood from several ancient vampires, including Magnus, Marius de Romanus and Akasha, Lestat's strength increases dramatically, and allows him to fly, perform feats of telekinesis and pyrokinesis, and survive exposure to the sun.