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The film tells the
story of origin of Lucian, who
was the first Lycan able to take human form. Viktor the king of the
vampires, took him home
after his lycan mother's death. As Lucian grows up at Viktor's home,
his young
daughter, Sonja, develops an attraction to the young Lycan, and Lucian
becomes
fond of Sonja as well.
Wild Lycans attack
Sonja, disguised as a Death Dealer, when she is riding in
the field. Lucian kills two Lycans just about to leap on the Dealer and
kills
one just as it enters the coven's walls.
Lucian asks Sonja
if she would leave with him and
she protests his leaving, but he is determined, and even shows her a
key to his
collar he made himself (the collar, due to its silver metal and deadly
barbs,
prevented him from transforming under Viktor's watch). Finally Sonja
agrees to
leave because she is anxiuos about the attitude of the vampires towards
the
Lycans, who are kept as slaves and inhibited to transfigurate into
wolfes.
As human nobles
come to meet with the vampire
council for protection from the wild wolves in exchange for a tithe,
Sonja goes
out to guard them. Lucian hears the Lycans near Sonja and steals a
horse and
sword from a nearby Death Dealer. The Lycans attack and kill the noble
and
Lucian fights them. When Lucian takes off his collar and changes into a
Lycan,
the wild Lycans back down to his howl and leave before he is shot down
by
Viktor's men. Viktor, feeling betrayed, locks Lucian away after
whipping him 30
times with a three pronged chain-bladed whip.
When Lucian
realizes that his and Sonja's
relationship is not a secret any longer, he tries to convinces her to
flee with
him. Lucian escapes and kills the slave master and begins to free the
other
Lycans. The guards are alerted and the liberated Lycans begin to be
slaughtered
by the Death Dealers' ballista. A majority of the Lycans are trapped
and Lucian
is forced to leave without them. He and Raze begin finding
"conscripts" for his "army" and even travels to the lair of
the wild Lycans in order to forge an alliance between the two "rival"
factions of wolf.
When Viktor
discovers that Sonja has an illegal
relationship with Lucian, he imprisons his daughter.
Lucian learns about Sonja's
imprisonment and sets out rescue her. On their way out they are
attacked by the
Death Dealers. Viktor is also involved in the chase and when it comes
to the
fight, it is Sonja who is confronting Viktor. When Sonja discloses to
him, that
she is pregnant with Lucian's child, Viktor attacks her with a knife to
her
throat and imprisons them again with newfound hatred. After being
condemned for
her crimes against the coven, Sonja is sentenced to death at a trial
presided
over by her father and the Council, and Lucian is awaiting her
condemnation in
chains. After Sonja's death Lucian attempts to escape |
