Niall Brigant

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Niall Brigant is a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries by author Charlaine Harris. He first appears in From Dead to Worse . He is Sookie and Jason Stackhouse's great-grandfather and Claude and Claudine's grandfather. He is tall and slim, extremely handsome with long pale gold hair. Sookie describes Niall as being a lovely creature and having some age to him. [1]

He tells Sookie that his son, Fintan, and Sookie's grandmother, Adele, had two children: Corbett (her father) and Linda (her aunt and Hadley's mother). Adele's husband could not give her children due to a prior bout with mumps, which left him sterile. Niall is a fairy prince who has powerful enemies and wants to keep his new relationship with his great-granddaughter secret in order to protect her. [2] In Dead and Gone it is revealed Niall's nephew, Breandan, is out to kill all those humans who have fairy blood in them and that, for a long time, Fintan was able to keep Sookie's whereabouts secret. It is this desire to destroy that leads to a Fairy War.

Portrayal

In the television series True Blood , which is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Rutger Hauer portrayed Niall Brigant. [3]

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References

  1. Harris, Charlaine (May 2008). From Dead to Worse . ACE. p.  21. ISBN   978-0-441-01701-0.
  2. "Niall Brigant". lovingtruebloodindallas.com. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
  3. Hipes, Patrick; Fleming Jr, Mike (July 24, 2019). "Rutger Hauer Dies: 'Blade Runner' Bad Guy, Genre Star Was 75". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved July 24, 2019.