The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (twilight)

by Стефани Майер

  The night of the purge came a few weeks sooner than Peter had expected. As it began, he tried to control his panic. He begged Jasper to let him keep one or two. Jasper was adamant; Maria said all of them had to go. Peter tried frantically to come up with an answer as, one by one, he helped Jasper destroy the newborns. Then Jasper brought Charlotte out. She had no idea what was going on; she smiled when she saw Peter there.

  Though he absolutely believed he and Charlotte would be slaughtered on their own, it was the only option he could think of. He didn‘t want to live if Charlotte was dead. He yelled for her to run, worried that she would be confused and hesitate. She didn‘t. He bolted after her, expecting to feel Jasper‘s teeth at any second, but there was no pursuit. They ran hundreds of miles before Peter paused to explain.

  They lived very cautiously in the beginning; it took them a while to figure out that not all vampires lived Maria‘s way. Over time, they grew very comfortable with their new world.

  Peter‘s only regret was leaving Jasper behind. He knew Jasper was his true friend because Jasper had not killed him for leaving. He also knew that Jasper was unhappy, and he was sure that, just like himself, Jasper had no idea of any other way of life.

  Peter‘s only regret was leaving Jasper behind.

  Peter decided to go back for Jasper. He told Charlotte he could move more inconspicuously alone, but in fact he was trying to protect her. Peter knew Charlotte felt no loyalty or friendship for Jasper; she should not have to risk her life to try to help him. Peter would take the risk alone.

  Peter was shocked that Jasper was ready to leave after just one conversation. On the road, Jasper explained how things had changed with Maria. Peter was all for going back together and killing her, but Jasper was happy to not have to destroy her.

  As pleased as Peter was to rescue his friend and have his company, he couldn‘t miss the fact that Jasper wasn‘t much happier with him than he‘d been with Maria. Peter tried to discover what was making Jasper so miserable, and he noticed how much worse Jasper‘s mood became after eating. This was a contrast to how he and Charlotte felt — relieved and well. He discussed this with Jasper, and Jasper recognized the source of his problems. He tried to go without hunting, but struggled. Peter could be of no help to him in this, so Jasper left.

  Peter missed Jasper, but couldn‘t help but enjoy how much happier he and Charlotte were without him. They pursued a comfortable nomadic existence, mostly in the Americas. Peter kept tabs on his old friend and was thrilled when Jasper found Alice. The foursome traveled together for a while, but Peter and Charlotte‘s lifestyle did not help Jasper embrace the way of life he wanted to learn from Alice. Peter never understood the benefits of not hunting humans, but he was glad it made Jasper happier. He and Charlotte stayed on good terms with Jasper and all the Cullens.

  OTHER NOMADS

  MARY A solitary nomad, Mary was born in Nova Scotia around 1890 and transformed just after her twenty-eighth birthday, in 1918.

  RANDALL Randall was born in California in 1945 and became a vampire in 1963, at age eighteen. Carlisle was one of the first vampires he met, and he‘s always considered him a great friend.

  Joham and the Vampire Hybrids

  Joham is the father of the four known human/vampire hybrids in existence aside from Renesmee. With four different human women, he fathered three daughters and one son, Nahuel.

  None of the human women survived. All of Joham‘s daughters are on relatively friendly terms with their father and consider him their coven leader for all intents and purposes, though they don‘t travel with him. Nahuel, the only hybrid capable of effecting a vampire transformation, lives with his aunt — a full vampire changed by him — Huilen. He is not on good terms with Joham.

  HUILEN

  NAME: Huilen

  DATE OF BIRTH: Mid-1830s

  DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: Approximately 1850, at around age 17

  SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Nahuel

  PLACE OF ORIGIN: Mapuche territory, considered to be Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina, particularly concentrated in the Araucanía Region HAIR COLOR: Black

  EYE COLOR: Red/black (vampire)

  HEIGHT: 5‘0‖

  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: She is short and slight, with an olive tone to her pale skin. She wears her long hair in a braid.

  SPECIAL ABILITIES: She does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.

  FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: She is Nahuel‘s aunt. Her sister, Pire, is Nahuel‘s deceased mother.

  PERSONAL HISTORY:

  Huilen was a member of the Mapuche tribe in the mid-1800s. Her people made their living farming and raising livestock.

  Pire was the beautiful one, and Huilen was the strong, capable one.

  Huilen‘s closest friend and confidante was her younger sister, Pire. Only twelve months separated them, and they were like fraternal twins in many ways, having their own shorthand language between them. Pire was the beautiful one, and Huilen was the strong, capable one.

  Because they were so close, Huilen knew immediately when something changed in Pire‘s life.

  However, Pire did not confide in Huilen immediately. Joham had asked Pire to keep their liaison a secret, and such was her infatuation with him that she refused to answer Huilen‘s pleas for information. Eventually, though, Huilen saw the bruises on Pire‘s skin and was able to guess most of what had happened. Huilen was sure that Pire‘s lover was the blood-sucking Libishomen of their legends. Pire refused to believe her or to try to leave Joham, though Huilen did not stop begging her sister to do so.

  This situation did not last long. It was less than a month before Pire realized that she was pregnant. She told Joham, who was very pleased. He told her he had to go away but would return soon, and urged her to run away until the child was born; they both knew that she would be in danger if the truth were known. However, Joham was only truly worried about the safety of the child.

  Huilen was a good hunter and protector, and they did well on their own.

  Pire turned to Huilen for help. Huilen knew that their people, even their own parents, would insist on the child‘s immediate death, though this would mean Pire‘s death as well. Huilen and Pire left their people and took to the wild. Huilen was a good hunter and protector, and they did well on their own. Pire‘s appetite for raw meat and blood confirmed Huilen‘s fears about the child Pire carried, but again Pire refused to hear anything negative about her lover or her child.

  Even when the fetus was strong enough to break her bones, Pire loved it and made her sister swear to protect it if Pire did not live. She called her unborn child Nahuel, for the jaguar, because of his strength.

  Pire did not survive the birth. Huilen, having sworn to care for the baby, truly meant to honor her sister‘s wishes despite her own feelings toward it. But the baby boy bit Huilen as she tried to pick him up out of her sister‘s body. The pain of transformation hit her immediately and quickly incapacitated her. She was only able to drag herself a few feet from Pire and the baby before collapsing.

  When Huilen recovered, she found the boy curled up against her side, fast asleep. She did not understand how a newborn child could have crawled even those few feet, but when he woke she quickly learned that Nahuel was amazingly developed and capable. She did not mean to love him — she blamed him for her sister‘s death — but Nahuel was adorable and endearing, and he resembled Pire quite a bit.

  Huilen‘s appetite had changed, but not her hunting prowess. As a newborn, she became a terror in the area, and several tribes picked up and moved to avoid the new jungle demon. Huilen hunted for Nahuel until he was able to hunt for himself.

  Both Huilen and Nahuel were totally unaware that they‘d had a visitor in that first week after Nahuel‘s birth. Joham, knowing that there was no way Pire would survive the birth, sent his oldest daughter, Serena, to take the child and raise him until he was old enough to live on his own. Joham did not like the bother of dealing with a child. Serena found Nahuel as instr
ucted, but was unsure how to proceed because of Huilen‘s existence. She knew better than to engage with a full vampire, and she mistook Huilen for the child‘s mother, though she had no idea how the transformation could have come about. She went back to report to Joham but was unable to find him for a few years. When he heard the unexpected news, he went to check on Nahuel himself. That contact was the first Nahuel and Huilen were aware of.

  Joham was thrilled to have a son, excited and intrigued by his son‘s ability to create a full vampire, and ready to join forces with him. However, Joham‘s total lack of concern for Pire‘s fate quickly turned Huilen and Nahuel against him.

  Huilen was happy when Nahuel showed no interest in Joham as a father figure and sent him away.

  Huilen was happy when Nahuel showed no interest in Joham as a father figure and sent him away. Whenever Joham visits, Huilen is civil but unforgiving.

  JOHAM

  NAME: Joham

  DATE OF BIRTH: 1560s

  DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: Early 1600s, at approximately age 40

  SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: An unknown female vampire PLACE OF ORIGIN: Portugal

  HAIR COLOR: Black

  EYE COLOR: Red/black (vampire)

  HEIGHT: 5‘10‖

  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Wiry and slight

  SPECIAL ABILITIES: Joham does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.

  FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: He has one hybrid son, Nahuel, and three hybrid daughters.

  PERSONAL HISTORY:

  Joham was born in Portugal in the late 1560s. As a human, he was a scientist with a deep interest in the occult and how it could be proven or debunked by rational thought. He had an obsessive personality, and he found it impossible to let go of any pursuit until it was fully investigated. This obsession with the occult eventually resulted in his meeting a female vampire.

  This vampire was amused by his questions and offered to transform him as a way to satisfy his curiosity. Joham eagerly agreed.

  After his transformation, Joham continued his scientific studies, mostly focusing on vampire abilities. Over time, he grew fascinated with the potential of a vampire-human hybrid.

  To test the possibility, he attempted to mate with a human female. His initial attempt was a failure, as were many subsequent attempts; he was unable to restrain himself from killing the women involved.

  After much practice, Joham developed the ability to be intimate with a human woman without killing her. Still, there were many casualties. Despite his preparation, he sometimes lost control. Others died from injuries inflicted by the fetus before they could carry it to a viable age.

  His first success was Serena, daughter to a Norwegian village girl of the same name.

  Joham stayed with the mother until the child was born, monitoring the effect of the pregnancy on the girl while doing his best to keep her alive. He paid similarly close attention to his first daughter, charting her progress and development carefully. Of all his children, Serena remains closest to Joham.

  Serena was born around 1810, after sixty years of effort on Joham‘s part. After his success with Serena, things moved more quickly. His second daughter, Maysun, also named for her mother, was born in Algeria around 1820. Joham‘s curiosity about the gestation and early childhood of the hybrid was already satisfied; he abandoned his human lover as soon as he knew she was pregnant, and then sent Serena to collect the child and rear it until it was old enough to be interesting to him.

  During the interim between Maysun‘s birth and Nahuel‘s around 1850, Joham fathered three hybrids who did not survive; their mothers died too early in their pregnancies.

  Conceiving Nahuel was Joham‘s biggest challenge.

  Conceiving Nahuel was Joham‘s biggest challenge. For Joham, Nahuel‘s mother, Pire, was a ―singer‖—not as potent as Bella was for Edward, but strong enough to make the situation exceptionally difficult. Joham chose her because he wanted to test a theory he was forming. He had noticed that the more appealing an individual woman smelled to him, the more likely she was to conceive quickly. Pire confirmed this theory; he fathered a child with her within their first two weeks together.

  Once again, Joham deserted Pire shortly after he saw the signs of her pregnancy. He contacted Serena and asked her to take care of the child after Pire‘s death. He did not expect any complications, and left Serena with no way to contact him.

  Joham decided not to alienate his son further by killing the aunt.

  He came looking for Serena a few years later, when he assumed the child would be old enough to carry on an interesting conversation. He was disappointed to hear that another vampire had interceded, but was very pleased to have fathered a son. He tracked Nahuel and Huilen and introduced himself to his son. Already excited about the boy, he was even more thrilled when he learned that Nahuel was capable of transforming a human into a full vampire. However, he was unprepared for Nahuel‘s reverence for his dead mother, and handled the situation insensitively.

  Had he known what to expect, he would have had a convincing lie prepared; during his many courtships, Joham had become an expert in saying the right thing. Joham tried to reason with them — after all, humans were no more than food to them now, and surely Huilen and Nahuel could see how little they mattered as individuals — but they refused to see his side. Joham decided not to alienate his son further by killing the aunt. Instead, he waits for Nahuel to grow out of his strange regard for his human mother.

  Having successfully fathered both male and female offspring, Joham left off his personal experimenting for a while and attempted to find another vampire to join him in his endeavor. The true test of the validity of the hybrid as a race would be its ability to reproduce itself, and it would be an imperfect experiment if there were no hybrids of a different genetic history for his own offspring to mate with. Joham had to proceed carefully; he knew the Volturi might object to his project, so he confided in relatively few vampires. A couple were taken by the novelty of his idea, but neither of them had the discipline to develop the necessary control. Joham went back to his own experimenting, hoping that in time he would meet another male vampire with a scientific nature like his own.

  Joham‘s newest daughter is named Jennifer, after her mother. She was born in Ohio in 1991, and was raised mostly by Serena. Joham was more involved than with the others, careful to avoid another situation like that with Nahuel.

  NAHUEL

  NAME: Nahuel

  DATE OF BIRTH: Around 1850

  DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: Born a vampire/human hybrid PLACE OF ORIGIN: Mapuche territory, considered to be Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina, particularly concentrated in the Araucanía Region HAIR COLOR: Black

  EYE COLOR: Teak brown

  HEIGHT: 5‘7‖

  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Nahuel has dark brown skin and, like his aunt, is short.

  He wears his hair in a braid.

  SPECIAL ABILITIES: He does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.

  FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: He lives with his mother‘s sister, Huilen. Pire, his mother, died during his birth. Joham, Nahuel‘s father, and Nahuel‘s three half-sisters live elsewhere.

  PERSONAL HISTORY:

  Nahuel‘s very first postbirth memory is of Huilen‘s scent, and of her face as she tried to lift him from his mother‘s body. After he found himself essentially alone and abandoned in the forest, he followed that scent to where Huilen lay, convulsed in pain, teaching himself to crawl in his first day of life.

  When Huilen‘s transformation was complete, she and Nahuel began their nomadic life.

  Huilen was lonely without her sister, and she talked to Nahuel incessantly about Pire. She was only mildly surprised when Nahuel answered her back for the first time two weeks later; his startling development was already an accepted fact for her. Grieving for her sister, Huilen made sure that Nahuel knew exactly how wonderful his mother had been. She didn‘t intend for him to turn this knowledge into self-hatred, but despite the lov
e she learned to feel for Nahuel, she did hold him responsible for Pire‘s death.

  Nahuel and Huilen kept to themselves and became extremely close. They did occasionally run into other vampires, but Huilen never really trusted others, thanks to Joham‘s treatment of her sister. She kept Nahuel out of sight during these encounters, not sure how others would react to him.

  He was much more of an anomaly in the vampire world.

  Nahuel found it very easy to pass as a human. The only perceptible differences between himself and the humans were his physical abilities, which he could easily mask when necessary.

  He was much more of an anomaly in the vampire world. Visibly closer to human, Nahuel was also not quite as strong or as fast as a full vampire. His senses were also weaker, though exponentially stronger than human senses.

  All of his sisters have visited him a time or two — on Joham‘s orders. Joham hoped the girls could soften Nahuel to his father. Nahuel found Serena too much like Joham, but liked Maysun and Jennifer quite a bit. Nahuel returned only Jennifer‘s visits; because she is the youngest sister, he feels protective toward her. He remains closest to her.