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How did Lestat survive from getting set on fire and horribly burned?
posted by tmdb43737777STAFFMOD on November 26, 2018 at 6:26 PM
In regards to the scene where he's trying to get rid of Claudia but Louis protects her and sets Lestat on fire, how was he able to still live?
Those burns would be enough to kill him or any vampire just like when all the other vampires died when Louis got his revenge. Not only that but towards the end, when he bites the reporter.....he suddenly heals, as if nothing had happened.
Reply by alicemh
on December 17, 2022 at 8:13 PM
Well in the books (possible spoiler alert), he survives because he has drank blood from vampires much older than him, making him stronger. He says in The Vampire Lestat: "it was the blood of the old ones, Magnus and Marius and Akasha that sustained me as I crawled away from the flames".