Editing Talamasca (section)

== History in Rice's works ==
Introduced in ''[[The Queen of the Damned]]'' (1988),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Badley |first=Linda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iaHQorgoqd4C&dq=talamasca+shaman&pg=PA127 |title=Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice |date=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29716-8 |pages=127 |language=en |access-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-date=January 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117142114/https://books.google.com/books?id=iaHQorgoqd4C&dq=talamasca+shaman&pg=PA127 |url-status=live }}</ref> the Talamasca is said to have formed in 758 by Teskhamen, Heskreth and Gremt, and though it operates in offices worldwide, the organization's central files are held in London.<ref name="melton"/><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Becket |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nd5WDwAAQBAJ&dq=talamasca&pg=PA124 |title=Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery |last2=Rice |first2=Anne |date=2018-10-23 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-525-43473-3 |pages=124–30 |language=en |access-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019143043/https://books.google.com/books?id=nd5WDwAAQBAJ&dq=talamasca&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q=talamasca&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the novel ''[[Prince Lestat]]'' it is revealed to the vampire [[Pandora (The Vampire Chronicles)|Pandora]] and [[Arjun (The Vampire Chronicles)|Arjun]] that the founder of the Talamasca is the spirit Pandora encountered upon the death of [[Cassiodorus]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-11-25 |title=Anne Rice Reveals Why She Brought The Vampire Lestat To The Realms Of Atlantis |language=en-AU |url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/anne-rice-reveals-why-she-brought-the-vampirelestat-to-the-realms-of-atlantis/ |access-date=2022-02-19 |archive-date=February 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219212440/https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/anne-rice-reveals-why-she-brought-the-vampirelestat-to-the-realms-of-atlantis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The leader at that time is David Talbot, who spearheaded its growth at the end of the twentieth century.<ref name="melton">{{Cite book |last=Melton |first=J. Gordon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ9clsv_L0EC&dq=talamasca&pg=PA687 |title=The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead |date=2010-09-01 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1-57859-350-7 |pages=190, 687–688 |language=en |access-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019143043/https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ9clsv_L0EC&dq=talamasca&pg=PA687#v=onepage&q=talamasca&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Earlier in the Vampire Chronicles, the society was sent to New Orleans to uncover the truth behind the story told in ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' (1976).<ref name="melton"/>