Without looking inside the parcel first, Sookie presents Eric the bag which contains a ceremonial knife that is used in marriage ceremonies.

In the ninth book, Dead and Gone, Eric sends Sookie a velvet parcel that he instructs her to give to him in front of King Felipe de Castro's representative, Victor Madden. A blood bond is formed when a human and vampire exchange blood within a short period of time and it allows both to feel what the other is feeling. In the seventh book, All Together Dead, when Sookie is accosted into forming a blood bond with Andre, another powerful vampire, Eric steps in opportunistically as the lesser of two evils and bonds with her himself. He asks her to discuss it, and she refused. In the eighth book, after sitting in Sookie's room and being around the familiar scents, Eric finally reveals that he does remember the days he spent with her when the memory curse was put on him. Eric asked Sookie to tell him the truth in exchange for the favor, so she did. Sookie, however, does tell him what happened between them in the fifth book, Dead as a Doornail, when she asked Eric for a favor to help Tara. After appearing to develop an affection for Sookie in the third book in the series, Club Dead, Eric has a brief romance with her in Dead to the World, the fourth book, though, due to a curse, he lost all his memories of their time together until book eight, From Dead to Worse. In the later books, she has also saved his life several times. Eric then appears in all the subsequent novels and has either saved or attempted to save Sookie's life in every book. The author introduces Sookie to Eric in her first novel, Dead Until Dark. This makes Eric immensely powerful, much more so than Bill, Pam, Chow, and especially werewolves and shapeshifters. When Sookie sees him naked for the first time in the fourth novel, Dead to the World, she thinks that “if there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down – or cheeks up.” Eric is depicted as over a thousand years old in both the novels and television show (due to his Viking roots).

Kind of like the guys on the cover of romance books.” He’s approximately six-foot-five. Sookie describes him as “handsome, in fact, radiant blond and blue-eyed, tall and broad shouldered. In the first novel, Dead Until Dark, Sookie Stackhouse thinks Eric is a 'hunk'.

Television: portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård.4 Work and position within the vampire hierarchy.

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