Nomad

Nomads are vampires who wander the world on their own or with a single partner. All or most nomads drink human blood, and most vampires are nomadic rather than affiliated with a coven. Certain covens are nomadic, meaning they wander the world without a specific area location of their own.

Nomads in the Twilight Saga

Twilight

There are few nomadic vampires in Twilight, as the novel serves mostly as an introduction to vampires and their culture. However, what action there is involving nomads is crucial to Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. James' coven, consisting of himself, Victoria, and Laurent, shows up while the Cullens are playing baseball, and James immediately begins hunting Bella — partially because of the way that Edward defends her, and partially because her blood smells very tempting to any vampire, despite the particular potency that it holds for Edward. James tracks Bella to Phoenix, Arizona, but is killed by Emmett and Jasper before he can kill Bella.

New Moon

Victoria shows up again in New Moon after Edward leaves, planning to kill Bella in retaliation of James' death at the Cullens' hands. Laurent also comes back and is subsequently killed by the werewolves, although he is not a nomad by that point as he has joined Tanya's coven in Denali, Alaska.

Eclipse

In Eclipse, Victoria comes back with an army of Nomadic vampires, as Victoria's coven of newborns is Seattle-based.

These vampires are eventually destroyed by the combined forces of the Olympic Coven and Quileute tribe.

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn has the most interaction with nomads, as many vampires come from all over the world to testify for the Cullens that Renesmee is not an immortal child but a half-human. The nomads who come to Forks (and others) are listed below.

Known nomads

• Alistair
• Boris
• Charles
• Charlotte
• Cold Man (killed by the Quileute shapeshifters)
• Cold Woman (killed by Taha Aki and his sons)
• Fred (escaped the newborn army)
• George
• Huilen (created by her hybrid nephew Nahuel)
• Jennifer (Joham's hybrid daughter)
• Joham (father to Jennifer, Maysun, Nahuel and Serena)
• Luca
• Makenna
• Mary
• Maysun (Joham's hybrid daughter)
• Nahuel (Joham's hybrid son)
• Peter
• Randall
• Serena (Joham's hybrid daughter)
• Shelly (escaped the newborn army)
• Steve (escaped the newborn army)

Former nomads

• Aro: founded the Volturi.
• Athenodora: joined the Volturi with Caius.
• Caius: joined the Volturi with Athenodora.
• Carmen: lived a nomadic lifestyle with her mate, Eleazar before joining the Denali coven.
• Eleazar: initially worked for the Volturi; then left the coven and lived nomadically with his mate Carmen before joining the Denali coven.
• Alice Cullen: lived a nomadic lifestyle for 30 years before joining the Olympic coven with Jasper.
• Carlisle Cullen: lived a vegetarian nomadic lifestyle for 200 years before founding the Olympic coven.
• Edward Cullen: left the Olympic coven to live a nomadic lifestyle between 1928 and 1932.
• Garrett: lived a nomadic lifestyle until he joined the Denali coven as Kate's mate.
• James: lived a nomadic lifestyle and formed his own coven with Victoria.
• Jasper Hale: led a nomadic lifestyle after leaving the Mexican coven, and then joined Olympic coven with Alice.
• Kachiri: lived a temporary nomadic lifestyle until she changed friends Zafrina and Senna, and formed the Amazon coven.
• Laurent: lived a nomadic lifestyle until he joined James's coven, and later then the Denali coven.
• Liam: lived a temporary nomadic lifestyle as a newborn until he met Siobhan and formed the Irish coven.
• Lucy: lived a temporary nomadic lifestyle after her coven was destroyed; then met Maria and Nettie, and created the Mexican coven.
• Marcus: lived one century before forming the Volturi with Aro.
• Maria: lived a temporary nomadic lifestyle after her coven was destroyed; then met Nettie and Lucy, and together they created the Mexican coven.
• Nettie: lived a temporary nomadic lifestyle after her coven was destroyed before forming the Mexican coven.
• Siobhan: lived about a century of nomadic lifestyle until she met Liam and founded the Irish coven.
• Victoria: lived a nomadic lifestyle after her coven was destroyed; then founded a coven with James; and later her own army.