DATE OF BIRTH: 1000s
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1000s
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Sasha
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Slovakia
HAIR COLOR: Pale blond
EYE COLOR: Gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 5‘6?
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Kate is tall and graceful, with long, straight hair the color of corn silk.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She has the power to cause a painful, electric shock — like jolt in anyone she touches.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: She considers Irina and Tanya her sisters, even though they are not biologically related. All three were transformed by Sasha. Kate considered Sasha her mother. Carmen and Eleazar later joined the coven. In addition, Kate has become romantically interested in the nomad Garrett; he recently settled with the Denalis.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
As a human, Kate was an attendant — basically a bodyguard — to a highborn female in a warlike tribe of proto-Slavic people. She was well trained in the martial arts of her people. When Sasha and Tanya attacked a small caravan transporting Kate‘s charge, everyone but Kate was slaughtered. Sasha was impressed by Kate‘s courage and determination to save her mistress.
Kate also resembled Tanya physically. On a whim, Sasha decided to create a sister for Tanya.
She had the ability to create a sensation like an electric shock by touching someone else — vampire or human — with the palm of her hand.
Kate‘s strongly developed sense of loyalty resulted in her becoming quickly bonded to her new family. Within a decade, Kate‘s ability to defend her mother and sister with more than normal physical means began to develop. She had the ability to create a sensation like an electric shock by touching someone else — vampire or human — with the palm of her hand. Although the shock was strongest in her hands, gradually she learned to control the intensity and to project it from any part of her body, though she always needed direct skin-to-skin contact.
Kate had a deep sense of respect for authority, stemming from her early training with a ruling family. This respect transferred to the Volturi when she joined the vampire world and Sasha explained its laws to her. She was horrified when it was revealed that Sasha had broken those laws so egregiously in creating an immortal child. Despite her loyalty to her mother, Kate could not ignore the fact that the Volturi were in the right. When the Volturi spared her and her sisters‘ lives, Kate was grateful for their kindness. She never questioned their motives, and her respect for their authority did not waver.
Always lonely after the destruction of their mother, Kate and her sisters explored different kinds of company. All three were flirtatious and enjoyed the attention of men, whether human or vampire. The human relationships invariably ended in death for the man, and over time, the sisters began to feel remorse for killing these humans they‘d felt a genuine fondness for. Kate was eager to try Tanya‘s solution — avoiding human blood altogether, with animal blood as a substitute. After a few decades, all three sisters grew adept at this new diet, and at enjoying intimacy with humans without causing injury.
A few centuries later, a nomad couple named Eleazar and Carmen crossed paths with Kate and her sisters and eventually joined the family permanently.
By the time the Denali clan encountered Carlisle, they were all as good at vampire
?vegetarianism? as he was. The Denali coven came to bond with the Cullens over their
?vegetarianism,? and considered them extended family.
When Kate met Garrett, she found something she‘d never found in another male. She is currently attempting monogamy for the first time in her long life.
FAMOUS QUOTES
TANYA
NAME: Tanya
DATE OF BIRTH: 1000s
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1000s
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Sasha
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Slovakia
HAIR COLOR: Strawberry blond
EYE COLOR: Gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 5‘5?
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Tanya is very beautiful, even for a vampire.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.
