Viktor kept two halves of the key to William's dungeon; one beneath his flesh, and the other around his daughter Sonja's neck, hiding it right under Marcus's nose.

The relationship between the two Vampire Elders was always strained. Viktor, with Amelia's support, undercut Marcus' power as ruler of the Vampire coven, ensuring Marcus would never have the strength to free his brother. However, Viktor never staged an outright coup against Marcus, as he had been told should Marcus ever die, all in his bloodline would follow him to the grave - including Viktor. To prevent this from happening, the "Chain" was constructed, a system when only one Elder ruled while the other two slumbered. Viktor even domesticated the Vampires' former enemies, using the Lycans as watchdogs to guard them during the daylight hours. Eventually Viktor was at the centre of sparking a new war with the Lycans.

His daughter, Sonja, fell in love with a Lycan slave called Lucian and became pregnant. Viktor eventually discovered this, and feared the blending of the species that would result when the child was born. Viktor condemned Sonja, her unborn child, and Lucian to death. Sonja was burnt alive by exposing her to sunlight. However, Lucian used the full moon to transform and escape - but not before taking Sonja's pendant with him. Viktor, determined to keep the location and map of the dungeon a secret from Marcus and Lucian, slaughtered the family of the man he had commissioned to design it. He spared the man's daughter, Selene, however, as she painfully reminded him of his daughter Sonja. He converted her into a vampire soon afterwards. The war raged, and eventually drew to a close after Lucian was seemingly killed by Kraven. After this Viktor gathered more power for himself, making himself leader of the Old World Coven Ordoghaz and going so far as to alter history. In the revised version of history set out by Viktor, Viktor, not Marcus, was the original vampire. In time, he exiled the Official Historian Andreas Tanis, who knew that Marcus was the first Vampire.

In the present day, Viktor was hibernating, not to be awakened for another 100 years. However, Selene was determined to awaken Viktor because she believed only he would have the power to deal with the apparent conspiracy between Ordoghaz's regent, Kraven, and Lucian. A furious Viktor confronted his protege, condemning her to be judged. However, Selene escaped, and returned with proof of not only Kraven's treachery, but Lucian's plan to use the blood of Michael Corvin to create a Hybrid -the ultimate insult to one who feared a union of the species. Viktor promptly launched a full-scale assault on the Lycan lair, breaking the neck of Raze when the transformed Lycan attacked him. He then encountered Selene biting Michael, and threw the dying Lycan through a wall. Unbeknownst to him, Kraven had revealed his duplicity in the death of Selene's family. Viktor furiously protested that he had given her immortality in return, and that he had only been trying to protect the species - only to be confronted by his ultimate fear: Selene's bite had reacted with the Lycan virus and the Corvinus Strain in Michael's body to create a Hybrid. The two battled. Although Michael's power proved formidable, Viktor's experience proved decisive, and he began to choke Michael to death. A vengeful Selene then sliced Viktor's head in two with one stroke of his own sword. It was thought to be inconceivable that a death dealer with Selene's power could kill a vampire elder so old and powerful as Viktor.

Later, Viktor's body was retrieved by the Cleaners, an organization dedicated to cleaning up after the Vampire-Lycan war led by the original immortal Alexander Corvinus. Corvinus extracted the half of the key beneath Viktor's flesh - only to later have it snatched by Marcus.

The war had all but ground to a halt in the blink of an eye. Lucian, the most feared and ruthless leader ever to rule the Lycan clan, had finally been killed. The Lycan horde scattered to the wind in a single evening of flame and retribution. Victory, it seemed, was in our grasp, the very birthright of the vampires. Nearly six centuries had passed since that night, yet the ancient feud proved unwilling to follow Lucian to the grave. Though Lycans were fewer in number, the war itself had become more perilous, for the moon no longer held her sway. Older, more powerful Lycans, were now able to change at will. The weapons had evolved, but our orders remained the same: Hunt them down and kill them off, one by one. A most successful campaign. Perhaps too successful. For those like me, a Death Dealer, this signaled the end of an era. Like the weapons of the previous century, we, too, would become obsolete. Pity, because I lived for it. Though I cannot predict the future, the consequences of this night will reverbiate through the walls of both great covens for many years to come.two vampire elders have been sliane,one by my own hands,soon marcus will take the thrown and a tide of anger and retribution will spill out into the night.

Selene appears to be very serious and bitter as she rarely smiles. She is proficient with many weapons, both medieval and modern, and she is quite fond of the Walther P99. In both movies, she is seen jumping from a ledge from at least 100 feet in the air and landing without injury.

Considering Selene's physical powers, it is also shown she performing various other superhuman abilities, tying into her vampiric strength and such as using her super strength, to pin Michael against a wall, several feet off of the ground, perform spectacular leaps on numerous occasions, striking her enemies with tremendous force (for example, knocking and throwing four armed Hungarian Police Officers around like they were rag dolls; and killing two younger Vampires with just a strike or two),and after ingesting Alexander Corvinus' blood; being able to lift people with one arm and go toe to toe with Marcus in his Hybrid Form.

She also survived taking a shotgun blast to the torso, without being fazed by it.


[edit] Underworld
After a confrontation with the Lycan hitman Raze, she discovered what was supposedly a Lycan lair. She was angry when Kraven dismissed her claims, not knowing that Kraven was in league with the Lycan leader Lucian in a bid to take over the control of the vampire realm from the Elders. She tracked down Michael Corvin, who she believed the Lycans had an interest in. Against the sacred rules of the covenant, she and Michael, who was infected with the lycanthropy disease, fell in love. She awakened Viktor from his deep slumber, believing that only he has the power to deal with the conspiracy between Kraven and Lucian. She then led a mass assault on the Lycans' underground bunker. After Michael was shot by a jealous Kraven, Selene was forced to infect Michael with her vampire strain, thus making him the first lycan-vampire hybrid. She also learned the truth about her family's killer from Kraven, and she struck Viktor down while the Elder was preoccupied with fighting Michael. She then retrieved Sonja's pendant, carrying on her legacy.


[edit] Evolution
After Viktor's death, Selene and Michael went on the run from both Lycans and Vampires. She was confronted by Marcus, the last surviving Vampire Elder. In order to find out why Marcus was after the pendant, she sought out Andreas Tanis. Tanis told her the truth about her family's slaughter and revealed to her that, contrary to popular belief, Marcus, not Viktor, is the original vampire. He then set up a meeting between her and Alexander Corvinus, Marcus' father and the first true immortal.

Selene was angered at Alexander for not removing the threat his sons, Marcus and William, posed long ago. Alexander retorted by asking her if she would murder her own son. An interruption by Marcus caused Michael to be seemingly killed and Selene's memories of the fortress to be taken by Marcus through her blood. Alexander, dying from his son's attack, told Selene that the only way to defeat Marcus and William would be to drink his legendary immortal blood, adding that she would become "The Future". Selene gained greater strength and new powers from Alexander's blood.

The mutual care and circle of protection spotted by the lovers Selene and Michael pervades the plot, allowing several chances of reciprocal rescuing gestures that both perform toward each other. Thus, Selene saves Michael from Marcus, and in his turn, Michael responds saving Selene from a group of Lycans, and so on. Their love survives every menace and resists Marcus and William threat.

She and a squad of Alexander's Cleaners invaded William's dungeon, trying to stop the threat. They arrived too late, however, and Selene was forced to fight Marcus. Marcus was shocked by smelling his father's blood coursing through Selene's veins. Locking Marcus in William's dungeon, Selene discovered that William had infected all the Cleaners, who became Lycans themselves. On the verge of being overwhelmed she was saved by Micha