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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Marius, Pandora, Amadeo entitled Blood and Gold?
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conversations.value: Blood and Gold: The book begins with an ancient vampire of Nordic descent awaking after being frozen in a block of ice for hundreds of years.\nThe vampire, Thorne, meets Marius de Romanus and inquires about Marius\' past.\nMarius then provides his life story.\nAs a young Roman patrician, Marius was abducted by druids who were trying to find a replacement for their "god of the grove"—a vampire, kept locked inside a chamber underneath a tree, who took on the role of a god in a druidic religion.\nMarius does not want to receive the powers of the dying god, but is given them nonetheless.\nUnable to face a life imprisoned in a tree, Marius escapes from the druids (one of whom is Mael).\nHe embarks on a trip to Egypt, where he learns of Akasha and Enkil, the Mother and Father or Those Who Must Be Kept—the progenitors of all vampire-kind.\nHe takes them back to Rome with him after learning that if they die then every other vampire in the world will suffer the same fate.\nHe falls in love with a mortal woman, Pandora, and turns her into a vampire.\nThey live together happily for a long time, although they argue frequently.\nOne day, their house is attacked by a group of vampires who want to know the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept.\nThough they destroy these vampires, the attack leads to an argument between the two and Marius, filled with anger, leaves Pandora.\nMarius then returns to Rome, where he creates a life for himself as a socialite, fraternizing with mortals and practicing painting.\nIt is here that he meets Mael and Avicus, the latter of which is a former god of the grove—a vampire older than Marius, but who does not seem to know his own power.\nThere is still much enmity between Mael and Marius, and Marius asks them to leave.\nThey do so, but remain in the city of Rome.\nMarius does not mind this, as they keep the city free from other blood-drinkers who may pry the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept from his mind.\nMarius continues to live this way even as the Roman Empire splits, with its capital city moving to Constantinople.\nEventually, Marius, Mael, and Avicus leave Rome when it is sacked by barbarians.\nThey travel to Constantinople, taking with them the Mother and Father.\nThere they meet a powerful vampire named Eudoxia, who wants Marius to put Those Who Must Be Kept into her care.\nAfter praying to Those Who Must Be Kept for an answer, he relents just far enough to allow Eudoxia to see them.\nAfter a series of violent conflicts, Marius angrily drags Eudoxia back down into the shrine and casts her at Akasha, who suddenly awakens to destroy her.\nRealizing that he cannot live with other vampires due to his custody of the Divine Parents, Marius elects to return to Italy.\nHe becomes disheartened by the horrors of the Black Death and sleeps for hundreds of years.\nHe awakes again during the Renaissance and travels all around Italy, visiting Venice and Florence, admiring the art and culture.\nIn Rome he meets the vampire Santino, who claims that Marius is living in sin by not serving Satan.\nMarius threatens him and tells Santino to never come near him again.\nMarius decides to make his home in Venice, and he establishes himself as an amateur painter.\nHis house is set up as a place where young boys can come and improve themselves, preparing to go to university or to become craftsmen.\nDuring this time, he also falls in love with the works of Botticelli, whom he briefly considers turning into a vampire.\nIt is in Venice that Marius meets Amadeo (Armand), whom he discovers in a filthy cellar, waiting to become a prostitute in the city\'s brothels.\nHe purchases the boy from the slave traders and takes him back to his house, where he bathes him and promises him a better life.\nAs the years pass Marius happily continues his life, disappearing occasionally to attend to the Divine Parents.\nAmadeo grows up, and the two often share a bed.\nMarius is sorely tempted to give Amadeo the Dark Gift, making him into a vampire, but he stops himself from doing so.\nWhen Marius is away looking after the Divine Parents, his house is attacked by the Englishman Lord Harlech who became obsessed with Amadeo after sleeping with him.\nAmadeo manages to kill Harlech, but sustains several wounds from Harlech\'s poisoned blade.\nHe slips into a fever.\nMarius arrives and is told that Amadeo will die as the poison is too strong.\nMarius turns Amadeo into a vampire in order to prevent the boy from dying.\nHe teaches him to prey only on evildoers in order to save his conscience.\nSome time after Amadeo becomes a vampire, the house is attacked by a large mob of Satan-worshiping vampires under the leadership of Santino.\nMarius is burnt and almost killed, but manages to save his own life by jumping into a canal.\nNonetheless, he is severely wounded and believes that Amadeo will be killed.\nHe calls a woman named Bianca to his aid.\nThe two have known each other for a number of years and have a close relationship.\nMarius is too weak to hunt, so he transforms Bianca into a vampire in order to have her help him to recover his strength.\nThe two move to the shrine of Those Who Must Be Kept and live there for over a century, where Marius gradually recovers his strength by drinking from Akasha.\nAfter Amadeo had transformed, Marius had met with Raymond Gallant, a man from the Talamasca, a group of scholars who found out information about supernatural things, just for information.\nHe hears from him that Pandora is being kept hostage by another vampire and moved around Europe and Russia; so Marius decides to move to Dresden to try meeting with Pandora, whom he still loves.\nHe does not tell Bianca of this.\nMarius does indeed find Pandora there, but discovers that she does not want to live with him and Bianca and wants to stay with her traveling companion, who was not holding her hostage after all.\nMarius offers to leave Bianca for Pandora, but Pandora refuses this offer.\nWhen Marius sees Bianca the next day, she declares that she is leaving him because she overheard what he said to Pandora.\n50 years later, as he is shifting to America, Marius discovers a letter from Pandora offering to live with him if he comes to collect her at a certain place, but it is too late and she is gone.\nMarius then shelters a young vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt, who when playing a song for Akasha on his violin, wakes her up.\nShe comes to him and they drink each other\'s blood.\nEnkil is furious and almost crushes Lestat when a shocked Marius saves him.\nMarius sends Lestat away, thinking that he can pose a danger, but is sad that it is the fourth time he is losing a love.\nYears later, Marius brings a television into Those Who Must Be Kept\'s Chapel, for their entertainment.\nOn this they see news, songs, etc.\nand also The Vampire Lestat\'s rock guitar music.\nThis, Marius feels, corrupts their minds, and Akasha awakens from her slumber with the evil idea of taking over the world.\nShe destroys Enkil and buries Marius in the ruins of his house, where he lies, injured.\nMarius lies there trapped, for weeks, but with the Mind Gift informs Lestat that he is in danger, and also asks for help.\nHe is soon found by Pandora, and Santino—whom he tries to kill, but realises that all force would be needed to stop Akasha from her evil deed of taking over the world, killing all males and having a female dominated world with her as the leader.\nA council is formed and the vampires try to convince Akasha, but she does not listen.\nFinally, Maharet\'s (who created Thorne) mute sister Mekare fights with Akasha and destroys her.\nThat is the end of Marius\'s story through time.\nThe story then moves back to the present day, where Marius and Thorne are at a jungle hideaway with other old and powerful vampires—Amadeo (now going by the name Armand), Santino, Maharet, Mekare, and Pandora.\nMarius wants justice against Santino for taking Armand away from him, but Maharet refuses to let Marius kill Santino, who is weak.\nThorne does not want to accept her decision and so kills Santino himself with the Fire Gift.\nIn penance for his deed, he gives over his eyes to Maharet.
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Blood and Gold
  His name was Thorne. In the ancient language of the runes, it had been longer—Thornevald. But when he became a blood drinker, his name had been changed to Thorne. And Thorne he remained now, centuries later, as he lay in his cave in the ice, dreaming.
  When he had first come to the frozen land, he had hoped he would sleep eternally. But now and then the thirst for blood awakened him, and using the Cloud Gift, he rose into the air, and went in search of the Snow Hunters.
  He fed off them, careful never to take too much blood from any one so that none died on account of him. And when he needed furs and boots he took them as well, and returned to his hiding place.
  These Snow Hunters were not his people. They were dark of skin and had slanted eyes, and they spoke a different tongue, but he had known them in the olden times when he had traveled with his uncle into the land to the East for trading. He had not liked trading. He had preferred war. But he'd learnt many things on those adventures.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: I did not seek now to imitate Botticelli. But I did return to the old motif of the garden which I had so loved centuries ago, and I soon found myself rendering my Venus, my Graces, my Flora, and infusing into the work all the details of life which only a blood drinker can behold.
  Where Botticelli had painted the dark grass rich with varied flowers, I revealed the small insectile creatures inevitably concealed there, and then the most flamboyant and beautiful of creatures, the butterflies and the varicolored moths. Indeed my style ran to frightening detail in every respect, and soon an intoxicating and magic forest surrounded the Mother and Father, the egg tempera lending a gleam to the whole which I had never achieved in the past.
  When I studied it, I became ever so slightly dizzy, thinking of Botticelli's garden, indeed, thinking even of the garden I had dreamt of in old Rome, of the garden I had painted—and soon I had to shake myself and collect myself because I did not know where I was.
  The Royal Parents seemed more solid and remote than ever. All trace of the Great Burning was now gone from them in that their skin was purely white.
  It had been so long since they had moved that I began to wonder if I had dreamt those things which had happened—if I had imagined the sacrifice of Eudoxia—but now my mind was very much intent upon escaping the shrine for long periods of time.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Then he felt others gathered around him. He felt the fabric of their garments, he felt their smooth hands.
  The chains were being put around him. He felt their thick links and knew he could not break loose from them. And being dragged further away, he said nothing.
  The blood flowed from his eye sockets. He knew it. And in some quiet empty place he was now bound exactly as he had dreamt of it. Only she wasn't close. She wasn't close at all. He heard the jungle sounds. And he longed for the winter cold, and this place was too warm and too full of the perfume of flowers.
  He saw what they saw again, in another room, as they looked at each other, all of them talking in hushed voices of his fate and none fully understanding it. He knew that Marius was pleading for him, and he knew that Maharet whom he saw so vividly through their eyes was as beautiful now as she had been when she made him.
  Then he felt her hand on his cheek. He knew it. He knew the soft wool of her gown. He knew her lips when she kissed him.