Edward Cullen is in Paris.
 He possesses superior superhuman speed compared to that of other vampires and is the fastest of the Cullens, able to outrun any of them
 His adoptive father, Carlisle Cullen, transformed him into a vampire in 1918 to prevent him from dying in the Spanish influenza epidemic in Chicago, Illinois by the request of Edward's mother, who begged him to do whatever it took to save him

