
He allows Edward to take Bella back to Forks after Alice shows him in a vision that Bella will eventually be transformed into a vampire, which fascinates him.Īro's craving to experience Alice's visions.

He is both surprised and intrigued by Bella's immunity to Edward's power, and even more intrigued when she succeeds in blocking his and Jane's powers as well. He later meets Bella, after she and Edward's sister Alice prevent Edward's suicide attempt. Aro is interested in Edward’s ability to read minds from a distance, and tries to persuade him to join the Volturi instead, saying it would be a waste to destroy such a special gift. Edward was deeply depressed because he was led to believe his love, Bella Swan, had committed suicide, and as such was himself suicidal. Can you imagine the possibilities when she is one of us?" ―Aro's fascination to Bella's immunity Īt one point, Edward Cullen, one of Carlisle's adopted children, comes to the Volturi. I haven't seen a prospective talent so promising since we found Jane and Alec. He declared him untrustworthy and Laurent left. However, Aro turned Laurent away after he found out that he had joined with Vladimir and Stefan for a short while. Aro became heartened when he saw Carlisle did not weaken over time as he had believed originally and, although he did not share them, Aro respected his friend's ways.Īt some point Aro and the other Volturi leaders were visited by Laurent, whom was seeking to join powerful vampires and chose to join the Volturi. Carlisle eventually left to find other vampires like himself. However, Aro was alarmed at Carlisle's preference of "vegetarianism" and believed that this would only weaken him over time. Since Jane and Alec joined the coven, the Volturi have largely become invincible.īy the comment Carlisle Cullen made in Breaking Dawn about the necklace which Bella received from Aro, it can be assumed that he is in the habit of collecting items from different eras.Ĭarlisle Cullen came to live with the Volturi for some time and became close friends with Aro. Aro received word of their sentencing and arrived just in time to save the barely-alive twins and change them into vampires, before slaughtering the entire village so to keep the existence of vampires a secret. His plan backfired as the superstitious villagers deemed them as witches and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. He first visited the twins when they were very young but waited to change them when they were older (since the law against creating immortal children had already been established). His greatest assets being the discovery of Jane and Alec, two young children gifted with enormous psychic abilities. The Volturi, under the three ancients' leadership, set down the laws of the vampire world and punished those who did not follow them, as it posed the threat of exposure to humans. Along with Marcus and Caius, Aro ruled the Volturi, although he generally acted as the spokesperson. However, this experience made Aro and Caius realize how vulnerable they could be if their mates met the same fate and so they had them well protected.Ĭarlisle Cullen's short visit with Aro and with the rest of the Volturi.īy 500 AD, the Volturi had usurped control of the vampire world from the Romanian coven. Aro had Chelsea use her ability to ensure Marcus remained loyal to the Volturi, and Marcus never found out the truth.



In order to prevent their leaving the Volturi, Aro secretly killed Didyme Marcus was too integral to his plans to lose. However, Marcus and Didyme eventually became discontent. Aro's colleague Marcus fell in love with her, and she with him. However, Didyme was blessed with an ability not as useful to him the power to make people happy. Together with Caius's wife, Athenodora, they founded the Volturi coven.Īpproximately a decade after becoming a vampire, Aro changed his younger sister Didyme, in the hope that she would develop an ability related to his, as well as his future wife, Sulpicia. He was transformed into a vampire in his mid-twenties and joined forces with Marcus and later, Caius.
