Twilight
Twilightintroduced a unlike type of vampire , one who can resist exposure to sunlight but has sparkly tegument , though they do have the canonical characteristics of these mythical creatures , such as immortality and feed on origin – so how old were Edward and the rest of the Cullens ? In 2005 , Stephenie Meyer shared her world of lamia , loup-garou , and humans in the novelTwilight , the first entry in a series of four books , with the net one , Breaking Dawn , issue in 2008 . The serial follow the love story betweenvampire Edward Cullenand deadly Bella Swan .
Twilightwas a smasher with readers , and it did n’t take long to attract the attention of motion-picture show studios . The series jump to the big screen in 2008.The Twilight Sagafound its leash in Robert Pattinson , Kristen Stewart , and Taylor Lautner , who played Edward , Bella , and Jacob , severally . Of naturally , some character that could n’t be left behind were Edward ’s home , the Cullens , who played a bigger theatrical role in the stories as the saga progressed . The Cullen family , also known as the Olympic Coven , were all dissimilar ages , brought together by Dr. Carlisle Cullen .
Carlisle Cullen (365 Years Old)
Played by Peter Facinelli
The leader of the Cullen coven was Dr. Carlisle Cullen who married Esme . Together , they served as parent figures to their adoptive children : Edward , Rosalie , Emmett , Alice , and Jasper . Carlisle is the oldest of the Cullen house of vampires , having been sprain after discover a group of vampire dwell in the sewerage in London over 300 years before the events of theTwilight Sagatake station . Carlisle then start out to build his family and strengthened them to survive in the tough world .
In the Twilight series , each of the Cullen mob members became a vampire in a unique way . Here ’s the full lean of every theatrical role ’s backstory .
Carlisle was born in 1640 and was turned into a vampire in 1663 when he was 23 years sometime . carry 2005 as the setting of both theTwilightbook and the film , Carlisle was 365 years former when the saga begin . This also explicate why he is the loss leader . Throughout the years , Carlisle was a overbold man and invested his money , secure that his family had all the finances needed to endure almost any storm . Carlisle ’s net Charles Frederick Worth is actually around $ 34.1 billion , more than any other fabricated quality .
Edward Cullen (104 Years Old)
Played by Robert Pattinson
The first one to join the coven was Edward , born in 1901and plow into a vampire by Carlisle in 1918 , when he was 17 days old . Edward was dying of influenza , and his mother beg Carlisle , who had become a doctor by then , to spare him . Carlisle took a dying Edward to his home and deform him , adopt him as his own son to fulfill Edward ’s female parent ’s give out compliments . By the time theTwilight Sagabegan , Edward was 104 years old .
Edward ’s years made him the oldest " sidekick " of the Cullen children . However , thanks to his new years when he died , still a teenager who had little life before contracting grippe , he remained one of the more emotionally stunted of the siblings . His desire to be with the adolescent Bella came from his experience before death being nothing more than a teenager mostly shelter by his mother . However , being the first , he was also very protective of those around him , and this made him a hero in the end .
Esme Cullen (110 Years Old)
Played by Elizabeth Reaser
Then cameEsme Cullen , whom Carlisle met in 1911 but was n’t changed until 1921 . In 1911 , she was 16 twelvemonth old and suffer a broken ramification , which Dr. Cullen set for her . She eventually married an abusive humans and ran by from him , losing her tyke just two days after their birth . In 1921 , Esme was suffering from injury from a suicide attempt following the loss of her small fry . Esme was turn out in 1895 , and was 26 when she became a vampire , which throw her 110 years erstwhile at the starting time ofTwilight .
Carlisle and Esme finally fell in love , and while she was " immature " than Edward , she was actually nine years older when she was turned , and had much more aliveness experience than any other fellow member of the Cullen family . Getting past the melodic theme of Carlisle and Esme being a couple , it was this life sentence experience and her advanced age that made her a female parent figure to the household , someone who knew how to care for her " children " and a very protective pattern when anyone seek to pain her battalion .
Rosalie Hale (90 Years Old)
Played by Nikki Reed
Next to join the coven was Rosalie Hale . Though all the crime syndicate extremity suffered before Carlisle found them , Rosalie has one of thedarkest backstories of the Cullen crime syndicate . Carlisle discover Rosalie on the street after she was ravish and attacked by her fiancé and his friend . Rosalie was born in 1915 and was turned into a vampire in 1933 at the age of 18 , so she was 90 years honest-to-god when the saga began .
She was only one year older than Edward when she was flex . However , she also carry the harm of the colza and undertake murder with her along the way . This made her much more untrusting and very vengeful . One of the scariest moments from the novels was when Rosalie told her story and disclose how she sought out and murder everyone who assay to hurt her after she turned . Thanks to her age of 18 , and the psychic trauma , she was much more careful when it came to the home than others .
Emmett Cullen (90 Years Old)
Played by Kellan Lutz
Just two old age after Carlisle turn Rosalie into a vampire , Rosalie foundEmmett after a bear attack . Emmett was so badly injure that he could n’t move . Rosalie contain him to Carlisle herself and asked Carlisle to convert him . Emmett and Rosalie were stick out in the same year , but he was turned into a lamia in 1935 at the age of 20 , which also makes him 90 at the starting of theTwilightseries .
Twilight ’s focus might be Bella and Edward , but in the background , there are some severely potent vampire . Here are the most powerful of them all .
While he was older than Edward and Rosalie when he was change state , Emmett is also one of the most unfledged of the Cullen family . This makes a lot of sense , though . Edward was 17 when he was turned , and this means that he was still a " stripling " and never go through lifetime outside his family ’s menage . Emmett , on the other hand , was 20 , which means he was college age and had experienced the fun and partying days of lead home , and that carried over to his light and fun lifestyle from the film .
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Alice Cullen (104 Years Old)
Played by Ashley Greene
Unlike the rest of the Cullen family , Alice and Jasper were n’t turned by Carlisle but fail out looking for the Cullen family based on Alice ’s visions . Alice ( Ashley Greene ) was gestate in 1901 and she go an unhappy life . She had visions even as a human and describe her father was creditworthy for hiring someone to kill her mother . He hold her crazy and had her hold back in an asylum after she charge him since she had no cogent evidence .
Alice was turned into a vampire at the age of 19 , in 1920 , by a lamia working at the asylum she was send off to . He did so to protect her . By the timeTwilightbegan , Alice was the same long time as Edward ( 104 year onetime ) . This idea of Alice living in the institution shows her protective nature as a " babe " in the Cullen family , and her seeming stance as an foreigner is also explained by her not being turn by Carlisle . At 20 , she had experience trauma , which plug into her to the Cullens in an important agency .
Jasper Hale (161 Years Old)
Played by Jackson Rathbone
Of the adopt children in the Cullen home , Jasper is actually the oldest , but he has the most trouble sticking to their " vegetarian " diet of no human blood since he ’s actually been vegetarian for the shortest amount of fourth dimension . Jasper was digest in 1844 . He was a Confederate soldier who had a cracking capacity for empathy , which was noticed by a lamia who wanted to use his skills .
Jasper was change by a lamia named María in 1863 , at the historic period of 19 , and for a long time , he helped her make an regular army of newborn vampire whose emotions he controlled and whose strength she used . Years later on , he met Alice , and together they found and joined the Cullen coven , becoming Edward ’s adoptive siblings . Jasper Hale , then , was 161 years old when theTwilight Sagabegan . He seemed unfledged compared to others , but that was because he was try out to vary .
All vampire in the Twilight universe have special abilities , and the ones Jasper Cullen has can be very dangerous . Here ’s what his powers are .
Based on Stephenie Meyer’s book of the same name, Twilight follows Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who falls madly in love with Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), who she soon finds out is a vampire. Falling in love with her at the same time, Edward and Bella must overcome obstacles to preserve their forbidden relationship.
However , it was also of import to see Jasper as the honest-to-god because he was who everyone turned to when it came metre to prepare for the state of war . As a former Confederate soldier , he was the only fellow member of the family with the experience of fighting in a large - scale warfare , so while he seemed the most unsure , he was actually the arrant mortal to lead others into battle .
Bella Swan & Renesmee Cullen (18 Years Old And 4 Months Old)
Played by Kristen Stewart And Mackenzie Foy
Bella ’s story in theTwilightfranchise begins when she ’s 17 twelvemonth old . She marries Edward Cullen not long after turn 18 and graduating from gamy schooling , but she does n’t become a vampire at the start of their relationship . Instead , her dangerous pregnancy has Edward agreeing to deform Bella . Just before Bella ’s nineteenth birthday , Renesmee is born and Edward turn her to save her life .
Bella becomes a vampire at 18 and will always come out to be 18 years sure-enough , which leave her to joke with Edward about being a year quondam than him , despite their real significant old age difference .
Renesmee is born during the events ofThe Twilight Saga : break Dawn . Renesmee is a rarefied vampire - human kid . She ’s technically less than a year old during the story , but human - vampire hybrids age very quickly right after they are born , making her look onetime . She ’s bear in September and the Volturi come for her in December , making her less than four calendar month old .
Stephenie Meyer ’s polarizing Twilight series is being bring up into a stigma - new telly show , but this time the 2000s lamia phenomenon will be animated .
Renesmee , however , will only age for a few year before she ’s give the vampire equivalent of maturity , appearing as a vernal woman seemingly always . The only other human - vampire nipper in the franchise is say to look like a stripling and stopped aging at seven years old . Renesmee ’s ripening is one of the most puzzling look of the Cullens ’ ages in theTwilightfranchise , but she ’s still technically an baby when the account terminate .
Is A Vampire’s Age Related To Their Power Level In Twilight?
Newborn Vampires Are Temporarily More Powerful
Since many of the lamia in theTwilightbooks and film have special magnate , it ’s rude to wonder whether this has anything to do with how quondam they are . According to Stephenie Meyer ’s canyon , however , the two trait actually are n’t connect for very retentive . “Newborn " vampire are really physically strong and quicker . There is a explosion of initial strength and fastness to help them assist in the transition to becoming a vampire for the first year after they change by reversal .
This is why Bella branch wrestles Emmett not long after turning , and why Jasper helps to make an army of new vampire in his early days as one . That strength , however , does n’t last . While it may be the vitrine in other vampire mythologies that vampire become more potent the longer they be ( such as inDay Shiftor evenWhat We Do in the Shadows ) , in theTwilightworld , mightiness can actually manifest in any vampire .
This explains why very new vampires like Bella and Renesmee have abilities that much elderly ones do not . As they grow older and proceed to gain practice with their mightiness , theTwilightvampires can sure improve their skills , but they do n’t inherently receive limited or enhanced power with age .
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Based on Stephenie Meyer ’s script of the same name , Twilight follows Bella Swan ( Kristen Stewart ) , who falls madly in love with Edward Cullen ( Robert Pattinson ) , who she soon finds out is a vampire . Falling in love with her at the same time , Edward and Bella must overcome obstacles to preserve their forbidden relationship .
