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
“Keep the dream alive.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4
“Nessie, would you like to come help your mother?” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 32
“Jane‟s mine. She needs a taste of her own medicine.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 38
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.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: She considers Kate and Irina her sisters, even though they are not biologically related. All three were transformed by Sasha. Tanya considered Sasha her mother. Carmen, Eleazar, and Garrett are also part of her coven.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Tanya was the first of Sasha‘s adopted daughters. She was Sasha‘s biological great-niece, and when Sasha decided she‘d like some companionship in her vampire life, she chose Tanya to join her. Sasha enjoyed having the company of another female so much that she added two more
―daughters‖ to her coven in the first century after changing Tanya.
Tanya was the closest to Sasha, so she was even more shocked than the others when Sasha‘s crime was revealed. She could never understand why Sasha would act in such a way, but once the Volturi had tested Tanya and her sisters‘ innocence, she did understand why her adoptive mother would keep it a secret from her.
Losing Sasha was a tremendous blow to Tanya and her sisters.
Losing Sasha was a tremendous blow to Tanya and her sisters. Tanya always felt like there was an immense hole in her life. She tried to fill the emptiness with a long line of flirtations, which were enough to frequently distract her from her loss. Tanya was the first of the sisters to become sensitive to the deaths of her human companions as she inevitably killed them for their blood. Over time, these smaller losses of short-term friends began to remind her too much of Sasha‘s death. When the pain of these losses became greater than her entertainment in the liaisons, she gave up human men for a time. Frustrated by the return of her nagging loneliness, Tanya tried to think of a way she could go back to her romantic pursuits without killing her human friends. After much thought, she decided it was the steady diet of human blood that made it so difficult for her to resist the blood of specific humans she wished to spare.
Eventually, she discovered that substituting animal blood took care of her nutritional needs without weakening her ability to resist human blood. Her sisters enthusiastically mimicked her new behavior, and in a few centuries they had perfected their ―vegetarianism.‖
When Tanya met Eleazar and Carmen, she was happy to explain her dietary choices. As the newcomers became closer and closer to Tanya and her sisters, Tanya naturally took her place as the leader of the whole family. She was delighted to meet Carlisle when the Cullens finally encountered them, seeing him as her peer in many ways. She also was intrigued by Edward, mostly because he showed no interest in her advances despite the fact that he had no partner.
Tanya never gave up her lighthearted pursuit of Edward, which is one of the reasons the Cullens did not settle in Alaska with the Denalis.
FAMOUS QUOTE
“We‟ll get to know each other later. We have eons of time for that!” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DENALI COVEN