Nearly a century after Lestat destroys Armand’s coven, the Children of Darkness, sometime during the late twentieth century, the term “Children of Darkness” recurs, this time as a general reference to any and all vampirekind. Benji often calls vampires the Children of Darkness in his radio broadcasts; Everard recalls how Queen Akasha destroyed the Children of Darkness globally; even Lestat recalls the same, mourning the loss of three- and four-hundred-year-old Children of Darkness, although Gregory argues that vampires should not be called by such an idiom while they live in a world brightened by technological advances. This idiom, as distinct from the coven by the same name, occurs in Prince Lestat (2014) and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016).
For more perspectives on the Children of Darkness idiom, read the Alphabettery entries Benji Mahmoud, The Children of Darkness, Everard, Gregory Duff Collingsworth, and Lestat de Lioncourt.