The Nomads

The Nomads the nomads are a normal sized clan of vampires that was led by James. these are the vampires that would cause so much trouble for the Cullens. every one in this clan are dead.

Full Name: Victoria
Hair color: "Brilliant orange"
Eye color: dark red
Physical description: Bella describes her as "wild" and "chaotic" with a "distinctly feline" posture, and says that she has eyes that "flickered edgily."

Full Name: James
Hair color: Light brown
Eye color: dark red
Physical description: Slighter than Laurent, regular features, very non-descript.
Occupation: Tracker/Hunter
Hobbies: Hunting humans who are favorites of vampires.

Full Name: Laurent
Date of Birth: 1755 (?)
Hair color: Black
Eye color: dark red
Physical description: The most beautiful of James’ coven, pale olive-toned skin, glossy hair, medium build, hard muscled.

Carlisle Cullen Bio

Full Name: Carlisle Cullen

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1640s
Date of change to vampire: After 1663 – he was 23
Originally from: London, England
Hair color: Blond
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 6’2”
Physical description: Very handsome, like a movie star
Special talents: Compassion, Restraint
Occupation: Medical Doctor
Family members: Married to Esme Considers Edward, Rose, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper as his "children."
Nick Names: Stregoni Benefici
Source of change: Unnamed sewer vampires
Hobbies: Medicine - can easily resist the temptation of human blood
Car: Mercedes S55 AMG – black
Personal history: The son of an Anglican pastor, Carlisle was raised during a time of religious persecution. His father led hunts for witches, werewolves, and vampires all in the name of ridding the world of evil. As his father grew older, Carlisle was placed in charge of the raids. Carlisle wasn’t as enthusiastic about killing as his father was, but he was clever enough to discover a coven of true vampires living in the sewers of the city. He set a trap for the vampires and chased one down. Carlisle believes that the vampire was actually too hungry to run and consciously decided to attack. The vampire fell on Carlisle and left him bleeding in the streets after killing two other men and taking off with a third.

Knowing how his father would react, Carlisle crawled into a cellar and buried himself in rotting potatoes for the three days of the change. When he emerged, he was a vampire. At first he tried to destroy himself by jumping from great heights or drowning in the ocean. Somehow, he was so repelled by what he was that he resisted feeding off of humans. He even tried to kill himself with starvation.

Eventually the thirst was too powerful and he attacked a herd of passing deer. He found that living off of the blood of animals could sustain his life and was infinitely more humane than taking the life of a human. Over the course of two centuries, he developed a sort of immunity to the scent of human blood and was able to become a medical doctor.

Carlisle was studying in Italy when he met a coven of vampires called the Volturi that seemed more civilized and educated than those he was familiar with in England. Aro, Marcus, and Caius were the three vampires that inspired some of the works of Solimena. Even though they were refined, they persisted in trying to persuade Carlisle to drink from humans. Naturally, he refused.

In 1911 he was working in Columbus, Ohio, where he treated a happy and beautiful young girl by the name of Esme Platt for a broken leg. Shortly there after, he moved on to Chicago.

He spent several years in Chicago and was nearing the end of his allotted time. (Looking the way he does, he can generally stay in one area until the people believe him to be around the age of 35, and then he has to leave.) The influenza epidemic broke out in the city and Carlisle found himself treating Edward, who had just lost both of his parents and was on the verge of death himself. It was Edward’s mother who requested Dr. Cullen save Edward. She seemed to “know” that Carlisle could save him in a special way and begged him to do it. Carlisle acted out of loneliness and changed Edward.

The pair moved to northern Wisconsin where, in 1921, Carlisle again tended to Esme. This time her injuries were from a failed suicide attempt. Remembering her from before, and feeling saddened by the turn her life had taken, Carlisle changed Esme to save her. The two fell in love and were legally married. (Again, just the one time.)

Carlisle then found and changed Rosalie with the intention for her to be a companion to Edward, but it wasn’t to be. Carlisle then changed Emmett after Rosalie found him being mauled by a bear. Although he didn’t change Alice and Jasper, he accepted them as part of his family when they came to him.

Around 1936, Carlisle moved his family to Forks where they encountered the Quileute Indians who have the ability to transform into werewolves. A treaty was arranged stating that the wolves would leave the Cullens alone so long as they didn’t bite any humans and stay off of the Quileute land. The Cullens lived in Forks for a few years before moving on to other places.
The family returned to Forks, Washington after a stay in Alaska. At the start of Twilight, they have lived there for two years.

Esme Cullen Bio

Full Name: Esme Anne Platt Evenson Cullen

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1895
Date of change to vampire: 1921 - she was 26
Originally from: Columbus, Ohio
Hair color: Caramel
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 5’6”
Physical description: Heart-shaped face, small, slender but round
Personality traits: Ability to love passionately
Occupation: Antique Restoration
Family members: Married to Carlisle
Source of change: Carlisle Cullen
Hobbies: Architecture and restoration
Personal history: In 1911, Esme broke her leg falling out of a tree she’d climbed. Her family lived on a farm on the outskirts of Columbus. The local doctor was away, and it was after dark by the time they got her to the small hospital in Columbus. A Dr. Cullen treated her. It was his last month in town. She never got over the experience.

Esme was the last of her friends to marry. She was thinking of moving West to be a schoolteacher, but her father didn’t think it was respectable for a lady to live alone in the wilds. The son of a family friend, a man with good prospects, wanted to marry her, and her father pressured her to accept. She was indifferent towards Charles Evenson, but not opposed to him. She married him in 1917 at the age of 22, and quickly found that this had been a bad decision. Charles’s public face was very different from his private face; he abused her. Her parents counseled her to be a good wife and keep quiet. When he was drafted to fight in WW1, it was a huge relief to her. When he came back in 1919, it was terrifying.

Shortly after his return, Esme discovered she was pregnant. The pregnancy was Esme’s catalyst to escape. She couldn’t let a child be brought into that home. She ran away in 1920 to live with a second cousin in Milwaukee, and then moved further north when word of her whereabouts leaked to her parents. She blended in easily, pretending to be one of the many war widows. She taught school in a small community outside Ashland. When her baby died in 1921 from a lung infection just a few days after he was born, she had nothing left. She had no idea that Carlisle was working in the little hospital in Ashland when she jumped off the cliff outside the town. Carlisle remembered her, of course, as the happy girl she had been at sixteen. He didn’t want her to die and so he saved her. When she opened her eyes, in all that pain, and saw the face that she’d never forgotten in a decade, she was relieved. She was not really that upset to find out she was a vampire, but she didn’t take it as in stride as Emmett had. Still, she was happy to be with the man/vampire of her dreams. She did always have that maternal ache, and, as the physically oldest of the Cullen’s, she fell into a mothering role.

Emmett Cullen Bio

Full Name: Emmett McCarty Cullen

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1915
Date of change to vampire: 1935 – two years after Rosalie - he was 20
Originally from: Tennessee
Hair color: Dark
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 6’5”
Physical description: Big, muscular, like a weight lifter, curly hair
Special talents: Strength
Occupation: Currently enrolled at Forks High School
Family members: Married to Rosalie
Source of change: Carlisle Cullen
Hobbies: Competition of any form
Car: Jeep Wrangler – red
Personal history: In 1935, Emmett was out hunting in the mountains of Tennessee when he was attacked by a bear. He very nearly died, but Rosalie found him and brought him to Carlisle to be saved. Emmett describes the event as being saved by an angel who brought him to God. Once the pain of the change had passed, Rosalie and Carlisle explained the situation to him, and to their surprise, the whole vampire issue didn’t disturb him. In his own words: “But if Carlisle and Rosalie, my angel, were vampires, how bad could it be?" He had trouble with the rules at first and has tasted human blood on several occasions.

He is married to Rosalie, and has married her several times for show. Emmett will do anything to make Rosalie happy, and since Rosalie likes attention and is all about show, she gets a wedding every so many years. Often time, he and Rosalie live away from the others as a newlywed couple.

Rosalie Cullen Bio

Full Name: Rosalie Lillian Hale Cullen

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1915
Date of change to vampire: 1933 – she was 18
Originally from: Rochester, New York
Hair color: Golden
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 5’9”
Physical description: Statuesque, model-like, wavy hair to the middle of her back
Personality traits: Tenacity
Occupation: Currently enrolled in Forks High school
Family members: Married to Emmett
Nick Names: Rosy or Rose
Source of change: Carlisle Cullen
Hobbies: Mechanical – tinkers with cars
Car: BMW M3 convertible – red
Personal history: To be explored in Eclipse – Rosalie was brought into the Cullen family as a companion for Edward in 1933. However, the two never responded to each other as anything other than a brother and sister. In 1935, Rosalie found Emmett being attacked by a bear and brought him to Carlisle to be saved. She has married Emmett publicly several times, as she is all about show and being fussed over. Rosalie’s true defining personal trait is her beauty. Like Emmett’s strength–they’re both more intensely physical than intellectual, which makes them a perfect match.

Jasper Cullen Bio

Full Name: Jasper Whitlock Hale

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1843
Date of change to vampire: 1863 – he was 20
Originally from: Texas
Hair color: Honey blond
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 6” 3”
Physical description: muscular, but lean
Special talents: Able to manipulate the emotions of those around him
Occupation: Currently enrolled in Forks High School
Family members: Married to Alice – adopted member of the Cullen family
Nick Names: Jazz
Source of change: Maria
Hobbies: Interested in scholarly endeavors
Personal history: Jasper served as a Major in the Confederate army during the Civil War. The vampire family that changed him in 1863 was very different from the Cullens in their dietary habits –they fed off humans. Jasper became depressed over his way of life and sought something better. His search led him to Alice in 1948 , which in turn led him to Carlisle in 1950.

Jasper has the most difficult time with the lifestyle set by the Cullen family. He avoids contact with humans, as he is more tempted than the others to drink from them. Going to school is a difficult task, but he does it for Alice.

He would do anything for Alice, as she is his whole life. Even though he treats the other members of his family with respect, he isn’t bound to them the way he is to Alice.

Jasper uses the last name of Hale because he and Rosalie look so much alike and people assume them to be twins. The vampires tend to go with whatever the humans are willing to believe. Rosalie insists on using Hale as a last name, and therefore, Jasper took it as his, too.

Alice Cullen Bio

Full Name: Mary Alice Brandon Cullen

Status: Vampire
Date of Birth: 1901 (?)
Date of change to vampire: Sometime in the 1920’s – she was 19
Originally from: Biloxi, Mississippi
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Vampire gold/black
Height: 4’ 10”
Physical description: pixie-like, very thin, small features, spiky hair
Special talents: Can see into the future
Occupation: Currently enrolled at Forks High School
Family members: Married to Jasper– adopted member of the Cullen family. Sister Cynthia and one niece.
Source of change: Worker at mental asylum – name unknown
Hobbies: Loves to shop

Personal history: Alice was held in a mental asylum because of her ability to have visions. There she was the favorite of a vampire who worked in the building. James, a hunter vampire, took the challenge of hunting her simply because another vampire desired her. Once it was clear to him that James was after her, he, the vampire who worked in the asylum, freed Alice and changed her before James could kill her. James killed the other vampire instead. She had no memory of these events and was left to find her own way.

At some point she saw Jasper in a vision. He was searching for someone and Alice provided him with what he was looking for. They found each other in 1948 and by 1950 they had found Carlisle with more help from her visions. They have been members of the family ever since.

Alice and Jasper have been officially married, but unlike Rosalie and Emmett, once was enough.
Alice became good friends with Bella through her association with Edward.