The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide

by Stephenie Meyer

  "Can't tell you what I don't know. He's out."

  Did they guess what I was up to? Was Sam taking preemptive action against me?

  "Do you know if he's with Jacob?" I asked anxiously. There hadn't been enough time for that, had there? Did they guess what I was up to? Was Sam taking preemptive action against me?

  "Don't think so," the old man said reluctantly. "He goes off on his own now."

  Relief rushed through me. "Okay, I guess I'll just come back later."

  The only answer I got was a sour look as he slammed the door. I yanked my foot out of the way, barely avoiding some broken toes.

  Well, that was welcoming.

  I decided I would drive around and hope to find Quil walking along the road, as I had yesterday. I'd much rather talk to him without his grandfather present.

  "NARCOTICS"

  This outtake shows another approach to the scene at the end of New Moon's chapter 2.

  I collapsed back onto my pillow, gasping, my head spinning. My arm didn't hurt anymore, but I didn't know whether that was due to the painkillers or the kiss. Something tugged at my memory, elusive, on the edges....

  "Sorry," he said, and he was breathless, too. "That was out of line."

  To my own surprise, I giggled. "You're funny," I mumbled and giggled again.

  He frowned at me in the darkness. He looked so serious. It was hysterical.

  I covered my mouth to muffle the laughter so Charlie wouldn't hear.

  "Bella, have you ever had Percocet before?"

  "I don't think so." I giggled. "Why?"

  He rolled his eyes, and I couldn't stop laughing.

  "How's your arm?"

  "I can't feel it. Is it still there?"

  He sighed as I giggled on. "Try to sleep, Bella."

  "No, I want you to kiss me again."

  "You're overestimating my self-control."

  "You're overestimating my self-control."

  I snickered. "Which is bothering you more, my blood or my body?" My question made me laugh.

  "It's a tie." He grinned in spite of himself. "I've never seen you high. You're very entertaining."

  "I'm not high." I tried to choke back the giggles to prove it.

  "Sleep it off," he suggested.

  I realized that I was making a fool of myself, which wasn't uncommon, but it was still embarrassing, so I tried to follow his advice. I put my head on his shoulder again and closed my eyes. Every now and then another giggle would escape. But that became more infrequent as the drugs lulled me toward unconsciousness.

  *

  I felt absolutely hideous in the morning. My arm burned and my head ached. Edward said I had a hangover, and recommended Tylenol rather than the Percocet before he kissed my forehead casually and ducked out my window.

  It didn't help my outlook that his face was smooth and remote. I was so afraid of the conclusions he might have come to during the night while he watched me sleep. The anxiety seemed to ratchet up the intensity of the pounding in my head.

  I took a double dose of Tylenol and threw the little bottle of Percocet into the bathroom trash.

  Q. WHAT DO THE COVERS OF THE BOOKS REPRESENT?

  A. The apple on the cover of Twilight represents the knowledge of good and evil. Eve ate this forbidden fruit in Genesis, and Twilight has an epigraph from this book of the Bible: "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." The question inherent in the apple is "Do you want to know?" It asks if you are going to bite in and discover the frightening possibilities around you or refuse and stay safe in the comfortable world you know.

  Unlike the other covers, Stephenie was not involved in choosing the cover for New Moon. The author originally proposed a clock image, as time is such a key theme in the book. But ultimately the team that chose the tulip focused on the theme of loss. The image of the flower losing its petal was chosen to reflect that. They felt the fallen petal could also be interpreted to represent the drop of blood from Bella's paper cut in the first chapter.

  The not-quite-broken ribbon on the cover of Eclipse is a metaphor for Bella trying to leave her human life behind her, but being unable to make a clean break. There are some threads she is unable to cut--she can't completely divorce herself from her past.

  The two chess pieces on the cover of Breaking Dawn both represent Bella. They show her moving from the least significant player, the pawn, at the beginning of the Saga to the most important player, the queen, at the end of the series. The chessboard also hints at Breaking Dawn's resolution, where the battle with the Volturi is one of wits and strategy, not physical violence.

  The image on The Official Guide cover represents all the "pieces of the puzzle" of the Twilight Saga coming together in one place.

  The hourglass on the cover of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella symbolizes the theme of time and represents the fact that it is running out for Bree and her fellow newborns.

  Q. WHEN EDWARD ATE THE PIZZA IN TWILIGHT, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIT OF FOOD HE SWALLOWED?

  A. Vampires cannot digest food, but they sometimes find themselves in a situation where eating human food is unavoidable to keep up a human facade. The food that they consume sits in their stomach until they can find a private place to cough it up.

  Q. WAS EDWARD SECRETLY WATCHING BELLA IN TWILIGHT WHILE SHE WAS READING JANE AUSTEN?

  A. Yes. In secret, Edward used to pay very close attention to everything Bella did before they began their relationship.

  Q. WHY WAS BELLA'S WINDOW SO EASY TO OPEN IN TWILIGHT?

  A. The window was stuck and made a groaning sound the first time Edward opened it. While Bella didn't wake up, Edward promised himself he'd bring some oil for the window the next time, which he did.

  Q. WHAT CAUSES EDWARD TO WARN BELLA ABOUT BEING ALONE IN THE WOODS IN TWILIGHT?

  A. There was no specific threat on Edward's mind when he warned Bella to stay out of the woods. (Peter and Charlotte had been visiting Jasper, but they didn't hunt in Forks, and they were already gone when Edward cautioned Bella.) It was more of a general sense of Bella's vulnerability that motivated the warning. He had tracked her scent in the woods after he came back from his hunting trip in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, and found himself unnerved by the image of her alone and unprotected. After all, Bella regularly attracted catastrophes.

  Q. HOW WAS EDWARD ABLE TO DRINK BELLA'S BLOOD AT THE END OF TWILIGHT AND NOT INFECT HER WITH MORE VENOM?

  A. Edward drank with his lips puckered, as if using a straw, and never touched her with his "saliva."

  Q. IF VAMPIRES ARE SOLID LIKE GRANITE, DOESN'T THAT MEAN THEY MUST WEIGH A LOT?

  A. It is possible for things to be really durable, but not weigh a tremendous amount. Polymers are a good example of this. Vampires do, however, weigh more than humans of the same size.

  Q. CAN ANIMALS BE TURNED INTO VAMPIRES?

  A. No, only humans can be turned into vampires. Venom is deadly to animals.

  Q. HOW IS EDWARD ABLE TO BE AROUND BELLA WHEN SHE HAS HER MONTHLY CYCLE?

  A. Edward is aware of what's going on physiologically with Bella, but he is too much of a gentleman to ever say anything about it, and Bella would be too embarrassed to ask if he noticed or was bothered by it. The blood from a woman's period isn't the same as a cut; it's not freshly oxygenated, not flowing from the heart.

  Q. WHY DO ALICE'S AND JASPER'S SUPERNATURAL POWERS WORK ON BELLA, BUT EDWARD'S, ARO'S, JANE'S, ALEC'S, CHELSEA'S, AND HEIDI'S POWERS DON'T AFFECT HER?

  A. Bella has a shield that protects only her mind. Edward and Aro both have the ability to read minds, but their gifts are blocked by this shield. Jane, Alec, Chelsea, and Heidi also work inside the head. For example, Jane doesn't actually inflict pain on someone's body; she just puts the illusion of pain inside her victim's head. It's a very effective form of torture. Conversely, what Jasper does is no illusion. He affects the physical body, slowing the pulse and
upping the endorphin levels to calm someone, for example, or raising the pulse and pumping out the adrenaline to excite people. Alice also works outside the mind, in the realm of possible realities. She doesn't see the thought process behind the decisions--just the outcomes.

  Q. DID BELLA REALLY HEAR EDWARD'S VOICE IN NEW MOON? WAS HE HIDING IN THE BUSHES, OR WAS HE SOMEHOW COMMUNICATING WITH BELLA TELEPATHICALLY?

  A. Edward was in England, Texas, and Brazil for most of New Moon. What Bella heard in her head was all imagined. Her subconscious was powerfully trying to correct the erroneous belief that her conscious mind was so absolutely sure of--that Edward didn't care about her. The proof that Edward couldn't know what was happening to Bella comes when she is almost killed by Laurent. Had Edward even had an inkling that Victoria or Laurent was back in Forks, he would have returned immediately to protect Bella.

  Q. HOW COULD BELLA FALL IN LOVE WITH JACOB ALL OF A SUDDEN IN ECLIPSE?

  A. Bella actually falls in love with Jacob in New Moon. It's understandable why this fact doesn't occur to her: Bella has fallen in love only one other time, and it was a very sudden, dramatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet, change-your-world, magical, passionate, all-consuming thing (see Twilight). She didn't recognize the much more subtle falling-in-love she experienced with Jacob. She was aware only that she preferred being with him over everyone else, that he was constantly on her mind, and that his happiness was essential to her own. She also enjoyed being physically close to him in a way that she didn't with her other friends. But it took her a while to add up all the pieces.

  Q. IS THE CRYSTAL HEART THAT EDWARD GIVES BELLA REALLY A CRYSTAL?

  A. No, it's an actual diamond that once belonged to Edward's mother.

  Q. WHAT IS FOREVER DAWN?

  A. Forever Dawn is the original title of the book that eventually became Breaking Dawn. Initially it was planned as an immediate sequel to Twilight, but it was decided that the book skipped too much that was interesting in Bella's last year of high school, and didn't have enough space for all the development the characters were crying out for. Still, the basic plotline of Forever Dawn, including Renesmee and Jacob and the Volturi, was always the end toward which the series was written.

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  REBECCA BRADLEY

  Pages 65, 76, 87, 105, 114, 126, 127, 149, 169, 233, 234, 235, 239, 240, 254, 282, 299, 300, 332, 339

  JAMES CAREY

  Pages 342, 343, 345, 346, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 353

  YOUNG KIM

  Pages 66, 73, 80, 85, 90, 95, 103, 108, 111, 112, 116, 173, 181, 186, 250, 252, 284, 290, 291, 292

  SARAH MCMENEMY

  Pages 3, 70, 79, 83, 93, 102, 115, 116, 119, 124, 144, 146, 162, 180, 208, 252, 254, 272, 284, 291, 295, 302, 316, 317, 322, 337

  LEAH PALMER PREISS

  Pages 244, 245, 246, 247, 248

  Table of Contents

  Front Cover Image

  Welcome

  Introduction

  A Conversation with Shannon Hale

  VAMPIRES

  Physical Characteristics

  Abilities and Limitations

  Supernatural Abilities

  Newborn Vampires

  The Transformation Process

  Vampire History

  Vampire Law

  Vampire Myths

  Vampire Lifestyles and Psychology

  Vampire Hybrids

  COVENS

  The Cullen Coven

  Carlisle Cullen

  Edward Anthony Masen Cullen

  Esme Anne Platt Evenson Cullen

  Rosalie Lillian Hale

  Emmett McCarty Cullen

  Mary Alice Brandon Cullen

  Jasper Whitlock Hale

  Isabella Marie Swan Cullen

  Renesmee Carlie Cullen

  The Cullen Home

  The Volturi Coven

  Aro

  Caius

  Marcus

  Other Members of the Volturi Coven

  Athenodora

  Didyme

  Sulpicia

  The Volturi Guard

  Alec

  Chelsea

  Demetri

  Felix

  Heidi

  Jane

  Renata

  Other Members of the Volturi Guard

  Afton

  Corin

  Santiago

  Others Who Serve the Volturi

  Gianna

  The Volturi Lair

  The Amazon Coven

  Kachiri

  Senna

  Zafrina

  The Denali Coven

  Carmen

  Eleazar

  Garrett

  Irina

  Katrina

  Tanya

  Other Members of the Denali Coven

  Sasha

  Vasilii

  The Egyptian Coven

  Amun

  Benjamin

  Kebi

  Tia

  The Irish Coven

  Liam

  Maggie

  Siobhan

  James's Coven

  James

  Laurent

  Victoria

  The Mexican Coven

  Lucy

  Maria

  Nettie

  Riley's Coven

  Riley Biers

  Diego

  Fred

  Raoul

  Bree Tanner

  Other Members of Riley's Coven

  Adam

  Casey

  Doug

  Jen

  Kevin

  Kristie

  Sarah

  Shelly and Steve

  The Romanian Coven

  Stefan

  Vladimir

  The Nomads

  Alistair

  Charles

  Charlotte

  Makenna

  Peter

  Other Nomads

  Mary

  Randall

  Joham and the Vampire Hybrids

  Huilen

  Joham

  Nahuel

  WEREWOLVES

  The Children of the Moon

  The Quileute Werewolves

  Inheritance

  Physical Characteristics

  Abilities

  Lifestyle and Behavior

  Ancient Quileute History

  History with the Cullens

  THE QUILEUTE PACKS AND TRIBE

  The Black Pack

  Jacob Black

  Leah Clearwater

  Embry Call

  Seth Clearwater

  Quil Ateara V

  The Uley Pack

  Sam Uley

  Jared Cameron

  Paul Lahote

  Brady Fuller

  Collin Littlesea

  The Tribe

  Billy Black

  Quil Ateara III

  Sue Uley Clearwater

  Emily Young

  Other Tribe Members

  Quil Ateara IV

  Sarah Black

  Rachel Black

  Rebecca Black

  Harry Clearwater

  Kim

  Joshua Uley

  Claire Young

  HUMANS

  Family and Friends of Bella

  Charlie Swan

  Renee Higginbotham Dwyer

  Angela Weber

  Mike Newton

  Jessica Stanley

  Ben Cheney

  Tyler Crowley

  Lauren Mallory

  Eric Yorkie

  Teachers at Forks High School

  Mr. Banner

  Mr. Berty

  Coach Clapp

  Mrs. Cope

  Mr. Greene

  Mr. Jefferson

  Mr. Varner

  Other Students at Forks High School

  Conner

  Lee

  Austin Marks

  Katie Marshall

  Samantha

  Other Residents of Forks

  Beth Crowley

  Dr. Gerandy

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