The first immortal on Earth, she was granted immortality by extraterrestrial beings that she saved from death. Her immortality is fed through Starstones, and only she can unlock them. The nature of the immortals' dependency on the stones for immortality means that they also depend on her to continue their lives.
Evangeline asked for immortality because she wanted to pursue the Eden Initiative, which was a belief in which all people should turn to science as a central belief system. She, in pursuing this interest, began to be embroiled in her own power and corrupted eventually, turning into a paranoid, arrogant mad woman.
The rebellion seeks to overthrow her and set Macallan Orsel on the throne of the immortals.
Season 1[]
Evangeline Leifreik was born in the high fjord country of Norway. At an early age, her intellect and spiritual awareness were recognized by her village elders and she was groomed to become a shaman and leader of her tribe. The Valkyrie tribes flourished under Evangeline's leadership and realized many advancements in herbal medicine and natural science.
In the year 1038, she encountered a British explorer named Pieter Scarletton with whom she fell in love with. She forsook her tribe to live with the British in an outpost town known as Somnertock. While she loved Scarletton desperately, the citizens of Somnertock regarded Evangeline with suspicion and resentment. Her devotion to the natural sciences and her Valkyrie heritage raised suspicions of witchcraft.
One evening, while searching in the woods, Evangeline discovered two alien lifeforms, Elgar and Kirana, from the planet Sorax. After their spacecraft crashed on Earth, they were both badly injured. Evangeline took them to an abandoned shelter in the woods. They tell her that the crash meant the device powering their spacecraft, the starstone, was lost but someone else is using it.
Evangeline goes and searches for the stone and finds that it was used by the Scaradoth to heal their community, condemned by the British. She takes the starstone and returns to the community of Somnertock. There she is confronted by Mr. Krigerson who tells her that her love Pieter has also been captured in England and revealed the plans for the Eden Initiative. They take her to be burned at the stake, Mr. Krigerson saying to her that she will burn in hell. The usually calm and loving Evangeline is enraged by this betrayal, she realizes the settlement's members new of her impending death earlier, when they had smiled at her. As she is tied to the stake and a fire is lit beneath her, a rage in her builds. She is then filled by the power of the starstone as its healing abilities seeks to protect her from the fire. She is filled with the strength of ten men and can move at dizzying speeds. She proceeds to kill everyone in the town square, impaling them on sticks, or simply ripping them apart with her bare ends, including children. She saves Mr. Krigerson for last, telling him that she will see him in hell. Looking around at the dead townspeople including children, she wonders what she has done.
Now free of the evil Mr. Krigerson and the betraying community members, Evangeline hurries back to the aliens with the starstone. Evangeline healed their injuries with it and nursed them back to health. To thank her for saving their lives, the aliens altered Evangeline's DNA. They asked her what her wish is, leading her to the conclusion of giving her the gift of time, as she always spoke of with Pieter. If she had time she could fulfill her search of answers in science. The altering of her DNA meant that she would now be an immortal. They also granted her another wish, which was leviathan.
But to sustain her immortality, Evangeline must periodically absorb energy from a Starstone to re-energize her cells. She is also given the ability to convert other human's DNA to become immortal. But only Evangeline can unlock and transmute a Starstone's energy. Thus, she has become the mother of all immortals on Earth, both conferring their eternal lifespan and being the only one to provide the energy to sustain it.
With her newly granted powers, Evangeline created Leviathan, an incredible underwater sanctuary hidden away from the rest of the world. Within the confines of Leviathan, all of the various scientists, philosophers, and artists that Evangeline recruited spend their immortality pursuing their chosen vocations without any need for money and have the luxury of endless time to solve the world's most difficult problems. Leviathan was created by Evangeline intending it to be a paradise of evolutionary thought.
Many centuries later we see that Macallan Orsel has at last found Leviathan deep in the Marianas Trench and asked for help to heal her injured friend Anton. Despite being declared an enemy of Leviathan, Evangeline agrees to help him as Harlequinn has vouched for him and it becomes apparent that the two are lovers. The next day, Evangeline takes Macallan to see the painters of the sky in Leviathan, Stefano Vibrucci and Lorelei. She is then summoned to the war room of Leviathan where she sees Bennu holding Harlequinn under guard and is accused of installing a virus into the city's computer system. Harlequinn denies this, but Evangeline feels betrayed by her lover. Harlequinn reveals that Bennu is actually Mr. Krigerson, former enemy of Evangeline.