Underworld: Evolution (2006) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Alexander Corvinus is the first immortal human who fathered three sons: Markus (the first Vampire), William (the first Lycan), and a third human son whose lineage produced Michael Corvin, the first Vampire-Lycan hybrid. Throughout the centuries, Alexander disguised himself as Lorenz Macaro, a historian, to monitor the ongoing war between the vampires and Lycans without intervention.

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• corvinus bloodline

After Alexander Corvinus sacrifices himself aboard his ship, he urges Selene to drink his blood. This act grants her hybrid abilities, making her the first vampire capable of surviving sunlight exposure. Previously, sunlight was lethal to all vampires in this universe.

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• sunlight immunity
• hybrid abilities
• alexander blood

The pendant is split into two halves - one belonged to Sonja, Markus's sister, and the other was held by Michael after Lucian's death. When combined, the two halves form the key to William's prison. The location of the prison was encoded in Selene's blood, as her father was the architect who built William's imprisonment chamber.

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Viktor killed Selene's family during his campaign against the Lycans. However, he spared young Selene and transformed her into a vampire because her father had built William's prison. Viktor encoded the location of the prison into Selene's blood, making her valuable to those who would seek to free William.

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• prison location

Michael is the descendant of the third Corvinus brother - the only human son of Alexander Corvinus. This makes him the first person with the latent hybrid gene. After being attacked by Lycans in the first film and later bitten by Selene, the combination of Corvinus bloodline and both vampire and Lycan bites activates his hybrid nature, which fully emerges during the climactic battle.

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• lycan vampire

Markus, as the first vampire and elder brother, seeks to free William because he is driven by familial loyalty despite William being the first and most powerful Lycan. Markus believes that with William freed and his hybrid powers combined with Markus's own, they can rule over all vampires and Lycans as god-like masters.

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Viktor chose to imprison William rather than kill him because William was the first pure werewolf and the only one capable of producing more Lycans through his bite. Killing William would risk destroying the entire vampire race due to the magical prophecy surrounding the Corvinus bloodline. Viktor feared that killing one of Alexander's sons could have catastrophic consequences.

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Markus recruited Viktor and his army to fight William because the first werewolves were uncontrollable beasts without human form. Unable to defeat William's growing army of Lycans, Markus offered Viktor immortality through his own vampire blood, creating an army of vampires to combat the Lycan threat.

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• transform
• fight lycans

When Markus attacks them in a warehouse, Michael fights to protect Selene while she escapes. Michael uses tarpaulin to cover Selene and paints the truck windows black to block out the sun, allowing her to flee. Markus is temporarily delayed because sunlight would destroy him if he pursued outside.

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• escape
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• sun

Selene's father was the architect who built William's prison, and he encoded the location directly into Selene's blood when Viktor transformed her into a vampire. When Markus drinks Selene's blood, he can access these encoded memories and discover exactly where William is imprisoned.

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• architect

As the father of Markus and William, Alexander Corvinus cannot bring himself to help destroy his own children, despite their monstrous nature. He has spent centuries watching the war between vampires and Lycans but refuses to actively participate in killing either of his sons.

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• william
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• refuse help

Michael Corvin kills William in the climactic battle. After William is freed and infects the cleaners, transforming them into wolves, Michael awakens in his hybrid form and confronts William, ultimately slaying the first Lycan.

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Kraven, the vampire regent, plotted to seize power for himself by killing Markus before he could fully awaken. Kraven believed that by eliminating Markus, he could become the new leader of the vampires. However, Markus awakens before the betrayal succeeds and kills Kraven and his men in retribution.

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• vampire regent