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Alexander Corvinus, the father of us all.

Andreas Tanis

Alexander Corvinus, alias Lorenz Macaro, was a Hungarian nobleman and warlord who came to power during the early 5th century AD. He was the patriarch of the Corvinus Clan, thus the eldest of the Immortals.

Biography[]

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Alexander reflecting

Alexander was a Hungarian nobleman and warlord who had ascended to power in the early seasons of the 5th century, just in time to watch his home village be ravaged by a plague. Alexander was the only survivor: the bearer of a rare genetic mutation, his body was able to adapt the virus in an immune response, causing him to become the first of the Immortals.

Years later, Alexander married a woman named Helena and together, they had three sons, two of whom inherited their father's immortality in its active state, and were thus born immortal. Their third son inherited his father's immortality in its recessive state, and was thus born mortal. At some point, Helena passed away.[1]

At some later point, one of Alexander's Immortal sons, William, was bitten by a rabid mountain wolf as the twin brothers were out riding one night. After a long, slow, excruciating metamorphosis, William became the very first Werewolf: a raging, uncontrollable bipedal monster wolf, whose bite passed on his highly aggressive and infectious Lycanthropy virus, making Werewolves of all of his victims. Following this, Alexander attempted to restrain William to contain the outbreak of Werewolves, but was unsuccessful.

Alexander's second Immortal son, Marcus, was later bitten by a bat, becoming the first Vampire. Seeking to eliminate the threat posed by his twin brother's offspring and bring William back to his side, Marcus sought out a dying warlord named Viktor and made a bargain with him; immortality in exchange for Viktor's military genius.

During this time, Alexander established a military force of his own, in his own attempt to quell William's plague. While the Vampire Elders waged their campaign to capture and contain William, Alexander chose instead to focus on keeping the war contained from spilling into the mortal realm. Disdaining direct involvement in the conflict himself, his organization of human warriors were dispatched to clean up any Vampire or Werewolf/Lycan bodies left behind after the battles, in order to conceal their existence from the normal human population.

When William was captured by the Vampires in 1202 AD and locked away by Viktor, Marcus partially blamed Alexander, reasoning that his father had done nothing to help save William.

Sometime, Corvinus had some dealings with Andreas Tanis, an exiled vampire. However, the nature of these dealings is unknown, and also if Tanis knew his real identity: Andreas had meet him face-to-face sometime, but knew Alexander as Lorenz Macaro.

Underworld: Evolution[]

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Alexander is confronted by Marcus

By the early 21st century, Alexander was still operating under the alias of Lorenz Macaro, and runs his operation from his ship, the Sancta Helena. He meets with Selene and Michael Corvin, a Vampire and Hybrid who are being hunted by Marcus, who beg his help to destroy his sons. He reveals that no matter what his children have become, he cannot help to destroy them.

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Alexander is attacked by his son

Alexander has come into possession of Viktor's body, as well as Viktor's half of the prison key that holds William. He is visited by Marcus who confronts him about his rejection of his Immortal sons, and demands to know where Viktor's key is hidden. Enraged by his father's refusal to aid him, Marcus shared his future plans, to create a community which will believe him a god, and gods hadn't fathers, before impaling him with a sword.

Seconds later, Marcus finds the key, but before he can kill his father, the arrival of Alexander's Cleaners team forces him to flee.

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Alexander offering his blood to Selene

As Alexander lies wounded on the floor, was found by Samuel, the Cleaners' leader, which intended to assist Corvinus, but instead, he orders him to bring Selene to him. After they were reunited, he offers her to drink some of his pure Immortal blood. The blood, he tells her, will make her "the future" and is her only hope of being strong enough to enlighten the Corvinus brothers. After Selene and Michael leave, Alexander's blood turns Selene into a Vampire-Corvinus Strain Hybrid and among other things, increases her existing abilities to greater heights and gives her an immunity to sunlight.

After Selene and the Cleaners had departed to stop Marcus, the dying Corvinus detonates a handful of explosive charges, which killed him and totally destroyed the Sancta Helena, making his final act of erasing any proof of the battle fought there.

Legacy[]

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Alexander moments before his death

Because of Alexander's death and the slaughter of the Cleaners, humans soon discover the existence of the Immortals, leading to the near extinction of both the Vampire and Lycan races.

During Underworld: Awakening, Detective Sebastian questions Selene on the immunity to sunlight she possesses. Selene tells him that it was a gift from Alexander Corvinus who Detective Sebastian recognizes as "the Founding Father."

Personality[]

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Alexander was a tired, and world weary old man. He was shown to be kind towards Michael and his Cleaners, but he seems outwardly cold to his Immortal sons and Selene, who he holds in low esteem due to her centuries as a Vampire warrior taking part in racial genocide against the Lycans, maybe specially because she blamed them for her family's slaughter-a crime they hadn't commited.

He exhibits an admirable dedication to hiding the existence of Immortals from humans, believing that the world belongs to mankind, not the Immortals. Alexander shows some paternal feelings towards William and Marcus, due to his reluctance to kill his own sons, despite the fact that they had become monsters. Despite this, he allowed William to remain imprisoned, acknowledging the devastation his bestial son would wreak if freed.

He seemed to hold mixed feelings towards Viktor; while acknowledging the vampire as a racist, Alexander still held some respect for him for containing William and keeping him imprisoned. In the novelization, he silently begs Viktor's forgivness after Marcus takes the second key from him, noting Viktor had protected it better than he had.

Alexander also had a strong moral compass. When his cleaners are sent to clean up any vampire or lycan corpses, he instructed his men to silent any innocent witnesses, but also leave them otherwise unharmed by knocking them out long enough for his cleaners to clear out the bodies and any evidence.

Powers and Abilities[]

It is implied by Selene that Alexander could have stopped Marcus because he was "the oldest and most powerful". But Alexander instead allowed his son to wound him, saying that no matter how monstrous the pair had become they were still his sons. This situation therefore would lead viewers to believe that despite his aged appearance, Alexander is physically stronger than almost any of his descendants and quite capable of dispatching lesser Immortals with ease. It appears that Alexander chose to die, as he made no effort to heal his wound, most likely recognizing that his sons would now have to be killed and not wanting to take that responsibility onto himself.

As a result of his great age, Alexander possesses extraordinary mental strength and discipline, being able to listen to multiple news broadcasts at once, and being able to differentiate between all of them, and understand them regardless of language.

Being a biological Immortal, thanks to his body strain, Alexander was immune to aging and disease, being the only survivor of the plague in his village, and his life had lasted for thousands of years, having had more 1,700 years old, and he could have lived for eternity if his son Marcus hadn't killed him.

Gallery[]

For a complete list of images of Alexander Corvinus, please visit the Alexander images category.

References[]

  1. "[Corvinus] turned to look at the elegant face of the massive carving behind him. The Muse's divine countenance was modeled on that of Helena, his long-dead wife and the mother of his children. He was grateful that she did not live to see the monsters their sons had become." ~ Evolution novelization, chapter 19
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