Aro

Aro

Name: Aro

Born: April 16th 1000BC in Florence, Italy

Died: December 24th 962BC in Volterra, Italy

Status: Undead

Eye Colour: Currently vampire burgundy, but with milky cataracts. Hazel as human.

Height: 170cm (5'7")

Hair Colour: Shoulder length jet black

Talent: Can read everything thought by a person when physically touching them.

Star Sign: Aries

Spouse: Sulpicia

Human History:

In his human life, Aro was a curious young lad who loved getting to meet new people to befriend. Being the son of an artist, Aro was encouraged to look at life from all perspectives with an open mind. His father, although he had good morals, was incredibly bitter towards authority figures, especially the armed forces, because in 998 BC the Roman army executed his wife in the occupation of their village in central Italy.

When Aro was an adolescent, he clashed with his father increasingly often on the subject of Aro supporting the leaders of their current home of Volterra. His father promptly threw him out of the house when he got a job as the assistant to the King. Years later, when Aro was in his late twenties, he set out to reconcile with his father. Upon entering their old home, he found the dead body of his father slumped over the kitchen table, almost fully decomposed. This devastated Aro, who left his job and went on a journey of self discovery around Italy to help him mourn the death of his father. Aro re-discovered his passion for art, and befriended several sculptors and painters of the day. Ten years later, Aro made the return journey to the city of Volterra. Just outside the city gates, he was attacked by a rouge vampire warrior who wanted fit men to fight against the rule of Volterra. Aro woke 2 and a half days later as a newborn vampire.

Vampire History:

When it was explained to Aro what he had become, he quickly agreed to join the vampires plight to overthrow the human rule of Volterra. Aro's creator, Julius, soon realised what a magnificent fighter Aro was, and within a few days of Aro's change, they had killed the entire ruling party of Volterra, and named themselves kings. About a hundred years went by with Julius rarely leaving his throne in the castle of Volterra, but Aro was sent out of the city frequently to hunt humans and bring them back to the castle. It was on one of these hunting trips that Aro ran into the vampire Sulpicia. Sulpicia begged Aro to take her back to his castle for refuge, and Aro agreed because he thought her magnificently beautiful. On the return journey, Aro and Sulpicia fell in love, and married as soon as they returned to Volterra where Sulpicia was crowned queen.

Five years after this joyous wedding, Julius made one of his rare trips from Volterra, taking Aro with him. It was on this trip that they encountered the ferocious fighting duo of Caius and Athenodora. A battle ensued and Julius was quickly destroyed, but Aro talked his way out of certain death by offering then a place in his palace. Caius and Athenodora were greatly in favour of this arrangement because they had been nomads for too many decades. Whilst returning to the castle, the party were pursued by another pair of vampires, Marcus and Didyme, who wanted revenge on Caius and Athenodora, because they destroyed their immortal 3-year-old child. Aro again acted the peacekeeper and helped the quartet resolve their issues. Upon hearing that Aro was a king, they also wanted a place in his palace, which Aro agreed to.

This new ruling party reigned for a full millennia without encountering any serious opposition to their rule. In about 200 AD, a crazed coven of vampires challenged their rule. Although the coven were great in numbers, the kings and queens of Volterra and their bodyguards, Renata, Chelsea and Afton, had the upper hand in skill. The invading coven was quickly defeated, but for before their leader used his cruel and unusual gift to destroy Didyme. Marcus is still devastated to this day.

As the Volterra coven grew in numbers and stories of vampires were becoming myths, they took it on themselves to become the law enforcement of the vampire world, so that they could rule with complete supremacy over the humans of Volterra. Over the years, the Volterra coven became known as the 'Volturi' by vampires around the world.

The remaining five core members of the coven started sending their guard to deal with breaches of the law, and didn't leave their castle turret for centuries, not knowing that even vampires would start to appear withered if they stayed in a fixed position for too long. They realised this too late, and that is why their skin has a papery appearance, and their eyes seem milky.

In the next few decades, Aro found the need to leave Volterra to deal with multiple serious breaches of the vampire law. Immortal children were becoming increasingly popular amongst the ancients of the vampire world, but they seriously jeopardised the secrecy of the vampire world. Aro had to personally destroy man ancient vampires who harboured immortal children. The destruction of vampires older than himself had a deep effect on Aro, but he was a slave to the rules he made, and saw no option in his actions.

To this day, Aro, Marcus and Caius still secretly rule Volterra from their mysterious tower, with more guards than ever who have outrageously useful talents. Aro's confidence was greatly shaken in the Battle of Forks when an informant fed him false information, resulting in an embarrassing forfeit, leaving the Volturi's reputation in tatters.

Aro is currently personally seeking out an Amazonian vampire who believes he is creating a master race of half humans – half vampires. Aro sees this as a way to save his reputation and to re-assert his position as ruler of vampires all over the world.