User blog comment:MelDel7/Powers/@comment-184.39.5.36-20130725164235/@comment-178.200.149.138-20130728204657

thought so, too but then it came to my mind that out of 6 billion humans there seem to be only as much as a few hundred vampires alive and those with gifts are valued the most and even sought after in creating new vampires...so i guess it could still be considered a rarity if half of them had special talents...

now, edward was turned without anticipation of his gift...but sometimes you are just lucky i guess ;)

in bella's case this search for talents wasn't the motive but at least it was part of edwards fascination upon meeting her...

benjamin was expected to be talented by amun as far as i'm informed,

about safrina there isn't much known when how and why she was turned...

kate might be another lucky case

the volturi always searched for promising new vampires...for a long time with help of eleazar who might also be another lucky case

but altogether it seems new vampires are not that unlikely to have a power considering how careful most vampires chose whom they will turn...also there was the newborn-armies...some of the many just might have been lucky cases and survived while most of them didn't live long enough to still be around and make the gifted ones appear to be that rare...