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− | |<center><big>'''[[Pain illusion]]'''</big></center>Jane projects the illusion of being in extremely intense physical pain into others minds, thus incapacitating them. The pain that Jane inflicts is described as being like "burning" inside of the victim. |
+ | |<center><big>'''[[Pain illusion]]'''</big></center>Jane projects the illusion of being in extremely intense physical pain into others minds, thus incapacitating them. The pain that Jane inflicts is described as being like "burning" inside of the victim. Jane's power only allows her to affect one victim at a time, while her bother can affect multiple targets at one time. Although her pain comes instantly, and his power takes a few seconds to fully incapacitate his target. |
|In ''New Moon'', Jane used her ability on Edward who tried to prevent her from using it on Bella. This caused him to collapse on the floor in imaginary pain. In ''Eclipse'', Jane inflicted her talent on the young vampire Bree to force her to tell the truth about the vampire wreckage in Seattle. In ''Breaking Dawn'', Jane tries to inflict her gift upon Bella, but like her twin Alec, cannot pass Bella's shield. |
|In ''New Moon'', Jane used her ability on Edward who tried to prevent her from using it on Bella. This caused him to collapse on the floor in imaginary pain. In ''Eclipse'', Jane inflicted her talent on the young vampire Bree to force her to tell the truth about the vampire wreckage in Seattle. In ''Breaking Dawn'', Jane tries to inflict her gift upon Bella, but like her twin Alec, cannot pass Bella's shield. |
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Revision as of 14:42, 17 February 2013
In the Twilight universe, certain vampires have special abilities gained or enhanced when they are turned.
Explanation
- Main article: Gifted humans
When a human transforms into a vampire, they bring their strongest human trait into their new life. When someone has a particularly intense skill or characteristic, it heightens after their transformation. Some of those characteristics become a supernatural power of some sort. The more pronounced it was in human form, the stronger it becomes in vampire form. For example, Bella's mind originally only covered her from psychic powers, but after becoming a vampire she could project it to cover those around her.
A large majority of vampiric gifts are based on the mind, but there have been exceptions as some powers work physically, like Benjamin from the Egyptian coven; he can manipulate the elements with his mind.
Eleazar has explained that every gift is unique, never working the same way twice because no one ever thinks exactly the same way. This is proven by the differences in similar gifts among vampires, for example Edward and Aro, Bella and Renata, Jane and Alec, or Maggie and Charles.
Also, even though vampires have gifts, some may take time to develop and decades, if not centuries, to improve.
A vampire hybrid can be born with hereditary gifts from their parents; if the human mother is already gifted, her gift may be inherited as well.
Since the Swan family has passed down mental abilities for three generations, it has been speculated that gifts might be passed down genetically, though influence of intrauterine environment during pregnancy and upbringing during infancy and teen years may also be important.
There are currently 23 gifted vampires and one gifted vampire hybrid.
Quantifiable talents
Name | Ability | Examples |
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Edward Cullen | Edward found most of the minds of kids in Forks High School to be unimaginative, but couldn't hear what Bella was thinking at all. He also had the displeasure of reading Jacob's mind. In Twilight, Edward was able to save Bella from a group of men who were going to attack her because he could read what they were planning. He knew Mike, Eric, and Tyler were all going to ask Bella to the dance, but didn't know what her response would be to any of them. In Breaking Dawn, Edward used his ability while confronting the Volturi to know their plans and intentions. | |
Alice Cullen | In Twilight, Alice saw James in Bella's old dance studio in Phoenix, and Bella later being captured by him, once she decided to meet him there. In New Moon, Alice could see Edward's decision to provoke the Volturi but not exactly how he would do it, because he kept changing his mind. In Eclipse, Alice tells the family that the newborns are coming to fight them.In Breaking Dawn, Alice's ability allowed her to warn her family about the confrontation with the Volturi. | |
Jasper Hale | In Twilight, when Bella was stressed caused by James tracking her, Jasper felt her anxiety and calmed her down, so much that she fell asleep. In Eclipse, Jasper used his power to temporarily calm everyone down when the the Cullens and the werewolves almost got into a fight. In Breaking Dawn, Jasper stayed near Bella after she had Renesmee because she was so happy and he was drawn to her positive feelings. | |
Bella Swan | In Breaking Dawn, Bella shielded herself and her allies in the battle against the Volturi. At the end of Breaking Dawn, Bella lowered her shield allowing Edward to read her mind. | |
Renesmee Cullen | In Breaking Dawn, Renesmee used her ability to transfer her thoughts into Bella after she woke up as a vampire, in order to let her mother know about herself. She also used her talent to show the visiting vampires her side of the story. | |
Aro | In New Moon, when Bella was in Italy, Aro attempted to hear her thoughts but failed, just as Edward cannot read Bella's mind. In Breaking Dawn, Aro uses his talent to read Edward's mind, and thus saw the thoughts he had read in everyone else's mind. | |
Marcus | In New Moon, Marcus lets Aro know about the intensity of Bella and Edward's relationship. | |
Didyme | Didyme's aura of happiness that affected anyone nearby caused Marcus to become happy, and therefore he fell in love with her. Her ability also caused Didyme herself to become happy. | |
Afton | Afton's gift wasn't strong enough to land him a spot in the Volturi by his own terms. He owes his spot in the guard to his more talented mate, Chelsea. | |
Alec | Alec can create a mist or fog which upon contact with someone paralyzes them and cuts off all, or some of their senses as he desires. This ability does not reach full effect instantly, as Jane's ability does, but creeps upon the victim. In the movie, he channels the power through his hands; it takes the form of a visible black smoke That slowly moves toward his target, though he can retract it with his mind. |
In Breaking Dawn, Alec tries to cut off the Cullen's and their witnesses senses. It appeared as a mist, but had no effect on them due to Bella's shield. |
Chelsea | In Breaking Dawn, Chelsea attempts to break up the relationships between the Cullens and their supporters, but is blocked out by Bella's shield. Chelsea is said to be useful to the Volturi and often breaks the ties between those the Volturi is eliminating making them easier to destroy. She also makes those who Aro wishes to join the Volturi feel an affinity for them. | |
Corin | Corin uses her gift to make the wives feel happy while being trapped in their castle. | |
Demetri | At the end of New Moon, Emmett, Jasper and Edward joke about hiding Bella because Demetri won't be able to find her since her mental shield prevents him from tracking her. | |
Heidi | Heidi uses her gift to attract "food" for the Volturi. | |
Jane | In New Moon, Jane used her ability on Edward who tried to prevent her from using it on Bella. This caused him to collapse on the floor in imaginary pain. In Eclipse, Jane inflicted her talent on the young vampire Bree to force her to tell the truth about the vampire wreckage in Seattle. In Breaking Dawn, Jane tries to inflict her gift upon Bella, but like her twin Alec, cannot pass Bella's shield. | |
Renata | In Breaking Dawn, Edward mentions Renata's ability and Bella wonders if it would work on her. | |
Zafrina | In Breaking Dawn, Zafrina kept Renesmee entertained by showing her pretty pictures, causing Renesmee to become very attached to her. | |
Eleazar | Eleazar used to be a member of the Volturi and he would help by telling Aro which humans would become useful vampires, in other words, who also had gifts and abilities. Aro sometimes sent him across the world to look for more gifted people.
In Breaking Dawn, Eleazar was the first person to identify Bella's ability as a shield even though he couldn't be specific because she was then unconsciously blocking her mind from him. | |
Kate | Immediately after Kate's sister Irina was killed in Breaking Dawn, Kate shocked three people who tried to stop her from attacking the Volturi: Rosalie, who crumpled to the ground, Emmett, who threw Kate to the ground before his knees gave out, and Garrett, who locked his arms around her causing his body to spasm and his eyes to roll back in his head as Kate shocked him. | |
Benjamin | In Breaking Dawn, Benjamin practices his power by creating gusts of wind and fountains of water from the nearby river. | |
Maggie | In Breaking Dawn, Maggie comes with her coven to meet Renesmee. After Edward tells her what happens she declared that Edward spoke the truth and Siobhan and Liam believed Edward before they even touched Renesmee. | |
Siobhan | During Breaking Dawn, Siobhan wished that the confrontation with the Volturi would not turn out to be a fight. As it turned out, she was correct as the Volturi left without attacking anyone. | |
James | In Twilight, James uses his talent to track Bella and find her old home. | |
Victoria | In Twilight, Victoria knows when to escape once the Cullens killed James. In New Moon, Victoria escapes from the werewolves multiple times. | |
Fred | In The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Raoul and his boys are about to pick a fight with Bree when Fred utilizes his gift, causing most of them to flee the room while others just left them alone. | |
Raoul | In The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Diego mentioned his power to Bree Tanner, but they dismissed it. | |
Alistair | He could sense the enormous presence of the Volturi coming in Breaking Dawn, and fled because of it. | |
Charles | In Breaking Dawn, Charles gives witness that Garrett's speech was the truth before quickly leaving with his mate, Makenna. | |
Unnamed tracker |
Non-quantifiable talents
These vampires have abilities that are not quantifiably supernatural, but are known as their strongest characteristics.
Name | Ability | Examples |
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Edward Cullen | During the game of vampire baseball in Twilight, Edward runs through the forest to retrieve the ball. In Eclipse, Bella compares Edward's speed to Victoria's, saying 'she wheeled and flew like an arrow from a bow. But Edward was faster - a bullet from a gun.' | |
Rosalie Hale | ||
Heidi | ||
Emmett Cullen | During the game of vampire baseball in Twilight, Esme informs Bella that Emmett hits the hardest, while Edward runs the fastest. | |
Carlisle Cullen | He is able to bite (in order to turn them) people without succumbing to the frenzy and killing them. | |
Esme Cullen | She is able to welcome Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper into her home with open and caring arms; as well as Bella, a human girl her son Edward fell in love with. | |
Felix | In the New Moon film, when Edward tried to defend Bella, Felix quickly subdues him, throwing him to the ground, cracking the floor. | |
Bella Swan | In Breaking Dawn, when she caught the scent of human hikers while hunting, she manages to retain control of herself and run away from the scent while holding her breath. When Charlie comes to visit after she changed, she finds her father's smell more attractive than the hikers and yet manages to remain in control. | |
Raoul | Raoul was able to win over and kill countless newborn members in the army |
Note: Some vampires may show special traits beyond their main ability, as with Edward who, in addition to his telepathic gift, shows an incredible speed and mastery of the piano.
Categories
Certain powers' capabilities land in specific categories, but it is at times rather difficult to do so, because no two talents ever work the exact same way. For instance, an ability that protects the bearer, is referred to as a "shield", and one that tracks a target is called "tracker", which is also known as one of the most common talents despite the small population of vampiric supernatural abilities. Since Edward and a few other vampires can "read" minds, they are considered "mind readers"; also, vampires with the power to project a sort of illusion can be considered "illusionists".