Premise: the timeline of the main Evil Dead universe is
malleable/revisable and not fixed, as implied by AvED S.2 Episode #9 (Home again). Every time one character
comes back in time, the timeline is rewritten in tune with the changes the time
traveler applied to history. However, some events are “predetermined” and meant
to happen, as the Book of the Dead retrieved by Professor Knowby or the five
young guys going to the cabin for a holiday.
In the Evil
Dead universe, time is like a river. You can throw a pebble in and create a ripple, but the
current always corrects itself. No matter what you do, the river just keeps
flowing in the same direction. Only one big “splash”, a huge change like the
one occurring in AvED S.2 Episode #10 (Second
coming), may modify the flux of the continuum to the point history is
radically altered.
Each cycle “1982/1300”
propagates minimal and not consistent revisions along the timeline – Butterfly
Effect type - and this adjusts the events of The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II.
Basically, time adaptation interwined
with Ash’s mnemonic rearrangement can fix all incongruences in the Evil Dead
saga and fill the gaps.
Timeline
One (Before the Trilogy)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Book
of the Dead), also known as Naturum Demonto,
is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned into “red blood”.
1500 d.C. – The Book of the
Dead mysteriously disappears.
No Ash: without Ash’s
intervention, the Evil Dead manages to pollute the land much longer and destroy
thousands of lives along the way.
1958 – Ashley Joanna “Ash” Williams
1 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Dagger in the ruins of
the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; Dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; Dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his
assistant.
In the while, the guardian/housekeeper
of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent the log house to strangers.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the Evil
Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big struggle, Knowby manages to trap
the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known as
Ruby has traced the Necronomicon back
to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Tanya reaches the cabin. Knowby plans to use the girl to make the Evil
Dead transmigrate from within Henrietta onto her, but the ritual doesn’t work
as hoped. Henrietta is mistakenly believed to be human again for some minutes
and freed from her chains. Tanya is then slaughtered by the Deadite. Knowby
apparently kills Evil Henrietta with a gun and her body is quickly disposed
of in the aftermath by the archeologist.
Week
One Day Seven (1°
October) 1982 – Following these terrible events, Knowby chooses to escape away from
the cabin. Presumably, he dies in a car accident while driving in the woods. The
car we can see upside down and stuck in the swamp at the beginning of The Evil Dead is his.
So some days pass by… until…
Week
Two Day Five 1982 – Ash 1, Linda, Scott, Shelly and Cheryl Williams go
to the Knowby Cabin located in the woods within Elk Rapids (Michigan).
Week
Two Day Six 1982 – A slightly different version of the events of The Evil Dead occurs.
Week
Two Day Seven 1982 – A slightly different version of the events of Evil Dead II occurs. At the very end of
the fight with Rotten Apple Head, Ash 1 is absorbed by the Nexus summoned by
Annie.
He eventually materializes in
1300 A.D. near the Kandar Castle. The specific Hero of the Sky Ending of Evil
Dead II happens at this point, the exact way you see on-screen. Timeline 2 is thus created.
Timeline
Two (The Evil Dead Duology)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Book
of the Dead), also known as Naturum Demonto,
is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned into “red blood”.
1200 a.C.
–
Ruby banishes the Dark Ones in the Netherworld forever. After many fights,
the Knights succeed in stealing the Necronomicon from Ruby.
Month
X+10 1300 a.C. – Ash 1 materializes in 1300 A.D., near the Kandar Castle. The specific Hero of the Sky Ending of Evil Dead II happens at this point, the exact
way you see it on-screen. The Evil Dead has plagued the region for eleven months,
the land has degraded and looks desertified, the Wiseman has been killed by the Deadites and a new wizard replaced
him.
Timeline 2 is thus created.
1336 a.C. – Ash 1 (The Hero from the Sky) dies in the
Middle Ages, after having spent the rest of his life battling the Evil Dead,
now also known as Kandarian Demon. His
image magically “appears” on the Necronomicon, the exact depiction you see on Evil Dead II.
1958 – Ashley Joanna “Ash”
Williams 2 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the
ruins of the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; Dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; Dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his
assistant.
In the while, the guardian/housekeeper
of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent the log house to
strangers.
The castle: we can assume that
the word Kandar doesn’t belong to the
castle at all. Kandar is the real name of The Evil Dead, as evidenced by the
incantation able to evoke the demon as well as by AvED S.3 Episode #10 (The mettle of man). It is possible that Knowby
found the name written in the rear chamber where the Necronomicon has been stored/hidden
and he just conveniently used it to address the castle in his recordings. Maybe
the castle never had a real name in the very first place, because Lord Arthur would
have wanted it to be “off the charts”, untraceable and not easily recognizable.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the
Kandarian Demon a.k.a. The Evil Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big
struggle, Knowby manages to trap the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known
as Ruby has traced the Necronomicon
back to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Tanya reaches the cabin. Knowby plans to use the girl to make the Evil Dead transmigrate from within Henrietta onto her, but the ritual doesn’t work as hoped. Henrietta is mistakenly believed to be human again for some minutes and freed from her chains. Tanya is then slaughtered by the Deadite. Knowby apparently kills Evil Henrietta with a gun and her body is quickly disposed of in the aftermath by the archeologist.
Week
One Day Seven (1°
October) 1982 – Following these terrible events, Knowby chooses to escape away from
the cabin. Presumably, he dies in a car accident while driving in the woods. The
car we can see upside down and stuck in the swamp at the beginning of The Evil Dead is his.
Log entry: on October 1st,
4:33 p.m, Knowby leaves one of his last log entries on the tape recorder. He
retells the events surrounding Henrietta’s demise in a different way, in order
to omit Tanya’s involvement.
So some days pass by… until…
Week
Two Day Five 1982 – Ash 2, Linda, Scott, Shelly and Cheryl Williams go
to the Knowby Cabin located in the woods within Elk Rapids (Michigan).
Week
Two Day Six 1982 – The Evil Dead
occurs.
Memory: the brain of Ash suffers
many psychological traumas and even contusions, to the point he will later remember
the events of The Evil Dead in a
twisted and approximative way, not 100% adhering to the reality of facts. Any
discrepancies between The Evil Dead and
Evil Dead II can be “explained” through
memory rielaboration. We can theorize that - during the course of Evil Dead II - Ash remembers the events
of the night before under the guise of a minimalist version plagued by several
holes and false perceptions: he and his friends being slightly “younger”; different
geography (Tennessee); different cabin planimetry; lack of most furniture; no
piano; different cover and aspect for the Necronomicon and so on.
Basically The Evil Dead is the chronicle of the first night at the Knowby
Cabin filtered by Ash’s damaged mind, once the ED2 Recap delusion has evaporated.
Truck: the mysterious
force steering the Delta Oldsmobile 88 from the truck at the very beginning may
be interpreted as the spirit of Ash 1, The
Hero from the Sky (who died in 1336 d.C.), trying to alter the past and save
the guys from certain death. Thus, we can assume that there are two spiritual
forces roaming in the woods during the opening sequence of The Evil Dead: The Kandarian Demon (still in “sleep mode”) and the
spirit of The Hero from the Sky.
Name: Ash recalls a
wrong name for the Necronomicon, Naturan
Demanto.
Week
Two Day Seven 1982 – Evil Dead II
occurs. At the very end of the fight with Rotten Apple Head, Ash 2 is absorbed
by the Time Vortex summoned by Annie.
He eventually materializes in
1300 A.D. near the Kandar Castle.
By effect of the Nexus, whose
nature is mystical, his presence effectively “replaces” the quantized existence
of the “previous” Ash (Ashley J. Williams 1), the one who became The Hero
from the Sky in the Evil Dead II
ending segment (not truly connected to the movie Evil Dead II).
Army
of Darkness occurs and Timeline 3 is
thus created.
Sun: in AvED S.2 Episode
#7 (Delusion), Ash mentions that in
one past occurrence the Kandarian Demon had been drifted away from his host when
exposed to sun and imbued with solar light. He is obviously referring to his
first possession in Evil Dead II.
Maybe in the initial phase of its “awakening mode”, the Kandarian Demon is
always susceptible to sun, but after few days it overcomes this limit - as seen
in Army of Darkness (the Pit
Deadites). This would also justify the chant of Evil Ed and Evil Henrietta
about the cabin inhabitants going to be “dead by dawn”.
Episode #7 even marks the only
instance in the saga in which Ash clearly aknowledges the existence of an
unique entity pulling the strings of all human bodies (Deadites) it possesses.
Bridge: the recap at the beginning of Evil Dead II depicts the flawed synthesis of memories that Ash’s
mind created during the time he had been lying in the puddle, right after the
Kandarian Demon had possessed him for the first time. That would explain why
Ash totally forgets about the bridge having been converted into a giant hand.
Once awaken, he indeed drives to the bridge again, unaware that it is not
viable anymore (despite having previously experienced that with Cheryl on The Evil Dead).
Since his mind has temporarily
suppressed the existence of Scott, Ash also doesn’t take in account the “secret
path” which his best mate previously found out in the woods.
Ash has still some vague reminiscences
of the fake recollections at the beginning of AvED S.2 Episode #9. This implies
that even the subsequent “counterpart” of Ash in Timeline 3/4 experienced the
same trauma.
Book in the fire: AvED S.1 Episode #4
(Brujo) establishes that the
Necronomicon can’t be burnt or destroyed. So we must assume that Ash leaves it in
the hearth right after the events of The
Evil Dead and that the book didn’t truly melt as it seemed.
Recall: we can think that,
some time after his run from the Kandarian Demon pursuing him in the woods, and
before Evil Linda’s head would reappear and bite his right hand, Ash starts to
recall the events of the night before, but still in a twisted and flawed way - as
you see on The Evil Dead.
Piano: Ash’s piano
playing may be a removed memory from the first night that Ash’s mind
“incorporated” into the ED2 Recap delusion.
The mysterious force playing the piano the exact way Ash did in the recap could
be the spirit of The Hero from the Sky (Ash 1) once again interacting with our
physical reality as it did at the beginning of The Evil Dead.
That would also explain why
Ash later felt a “death omen” when Annie shows him for the first time the page of
the Hero from the Sky. Indeed, the
previous version of himself had died in the Middle Ages.
Time mechanisms: the model of time
travel is a variant of the one featured on Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63. Each “subsequent” Ash replaces
the antecedent version within the Nexus, then “resets” the timeline and
nullifies all changes made on the previous excursion.
Timeline
Three (Army of Darkness)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Book
of the Dead), also known as Naturum Demonto,
is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned into “red blood”.
X a.C. – In the
Necronomicon, the prophecy of The Chosen
One magically appears written on a page, time before Ash 2 would operate in
the Middle Ages.
1000 a.C.
–
The Order of the Knights of Sumeria
(KoS) is formed.
1200 a.C.
–
Ruby banishes the Dark Ones in the Netherworld forever. After many fights,
the Knights succeed in stealing the Necronomicon from Ruby.
Decades later, a KoS
necromancer called Kaya betrays the Knights and contacts Ruby, willing to
make the Demon Woman reconcile with the Book of the Dead. Thus, Kaya steals the
Necronomicon. In an unspecified English region, she settles into an unholy cemetery
where she creates some “traps” (the fake Necronomicons) for unwanted visitors. Something
goes wrong in the process anyway, and Kaya is absorbed by the Necronomicon.
The book is lost in the region
of Lord Arthur’s castle, but Ruby doesn’t know its location.
Month
X 1300 a.C. – Ash 2 materializes in 1300 A.D., near the Kandar Castle. In this
iteration, he manifests himself at least ten months before than Ash 1. The
awakening of the Kandarian Demon has just happened, the castle is still in its
prime, the vegetation flourishes and there’s the original Wiseman as wizard of the king.
Army
of Darkness occurs.
Timeline 3 is thus created.
Retelling: the recap at the beginning
of Army of Darkness is Ash’s wild and
raw attempt to summarize his story to Chet Kaminski (AoD version). After all,
many episodes on Ash vs Evil Dead
depict Ash as an unreliable narrator.
White streak: this time, by
effect of different energies running through the “spires” of the Nexus, Ash’s
physiology is “rewinded” to few hours back. His hair are rejuvenated and the
white streak on the left side vanishes.
Wrist watch: Ash was wearing the wrist watch before Evil Henrietta
would throw him through the ladder of the fruit cellar; he must have lost it at
that point.
The wrist watch - broken,
damaged and lying in the cellar - is later invested by the time-reversal energies
of the Nexus; a “temporal copy” is instantaniously created and incorporated into
Ash’s persona the way it was supposed to be few hours before.
Fusion: Army of Darkness marks the only
time in the saga in which the Kandarian Demon clones Ash from the inside, through
a process of fusion. The unusual and intimate replication would imbue the
Kandarian Demon with Ash’s motley and lunatic imagination based on pop culture
fantasies. Bad Ash is the immediate
product of the absorption.
In the Cemetery, Ash starts to
experience “slapstick hallucinations” induced by the Evil Dead, at that point “intoxicated”
by Ash’s mental visions acquired via fusion.
That’s the reason why - in the second half of AoD - the Deadites
are way less brutal and displaying an “human-like” behaviour.
As implied by AvED S.1 Episode
#4, Ash was a TV addicted of some sort during his childhood.
Sleep: taking in account the modus operandi depicted by the
aborted Post-Apocalyptic Ending of AoD,
we learn that Ash just ingests the mystical serum while hidden in an abandoned cave
and then awoke in the “present time” England, after six centuries of hibernation.
1350 a.C. – Wiseman modifies the Kandarian Dagger through the use of mystical
energies, in order to make it more effective against demonic forces. The final
result is the Dagger version AvED.
1400
a.C. – Ruby slaughters the Knights of Sumeria. Only few of them survive,
including Dalton’s ancestors. Ruby still doesn’t know the exact location of
the Necronomicon in the entire world.
1958 – Ashley Joanna “Ash” Williams
3 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl. In the while, Ash 2
(from Army of Darkness) is sleeping
in the cave near the castle.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the
ruins of the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; Dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; Dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his assistant.
In the while, the guardian/housekeeper
of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent the log house to
strangers.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the
Kandarian Demon a.k.a. The Evil Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big
struggle, Knowby manages to trap the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known
as Ruby has traced the Necronomicon
back to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Tanya reaches the cabin. Knowby plans to use the girl to make the Evil Dead transmigrate from within Henrietta onto her, but the ritual doesn’t work as hoped. Henrietta is mistakenly believed to be human again for some minutes and freed from her chains. Tanya is then slaughtered by the Deadite. Knowby apparently kills Evil Henrietta with a gun and her body is quickly disposed of in the aftermath by the archeologist.
Week
One Day Seven (1°
October) 1982 – Following these terrible events, Knowby chooses to escape away from
the cabin. Presumably, he dies in a car accident while driving in the woods. The
car we can see upside down and stuck in the swamp at the beginning of The Evil Dead is his.
So some days pass by… until…
Week
Two Day Five 1982 – Ash 3, Linda, Scott, Shelly and Cheryl Williams go
to the Knowby Cabin located in the woods within Elk Rapids (Michigan). In the
while, Ash 2 (from Army of Darkness)
is sleeping in the cave near Kandar.
Week
Two Day Six 1982 – The AvED version of The Evil
Dead occurs.
Week
Two Day Seven 1982 – AvED Evil
Dead II occurs. At the very end of the fight with Rotten Apple Head, Ash 3
(the AvED Ash) is absorbed by the Time Vortex summoned by Annie.
He eventually materializes in
1300 A.D. near the Kandar Castle.
By effect of the Nexus, whose
nature is mystical, his presence effectively “replaces” the quantized existence
of the “previous” Ash (Ashley J. Williams 2), the one who became The Chosen One in Army of Darkness.
Week
Three Day One 1982 – Ash 2 (The
Chosen One) awakes in England. Later, helped by UK authorities, he comes back
to America.
The S-Mart Ending occurs, before the Ripple Effect caused by Ash 3 (the
AvED Ash) would catch up.
Dream: the Post-Apocalyptic Ending of AoD is just a
dream that Ash 2 had during his stasis.
Scars: in the S-Mart
Ending, we see that Ash 2 still retains his scars. That strongly hints at
the oneiric nature of the Post-Apocalyptic
Ending, where he had no visible scars whatsoever and displayed cartoonishly
long mane and beard.
Then, Ash 3 (the AvED Ash, El Jefè) lives his adventure in the Middle
Ages and Timeline 4 is thus created.
Ash 2 and the S-Mart Ending are erased
when the Ripple Effect reaches the year 1982.
Timeline
Four (Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1/2)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Book
of the Dead), also known as Naturum Demonto,
is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned into “red blood”.
X
a.C.
– In the Necronomicon, the prophecy of the Chosen
One magically appears written on a page, time before Ash 3 would operate in
the Middle Ages.
Prophecy: Ruby reveals this
in AvED S.1 Episode #10 (The Dark One).
1000 a.C. – The Order of the Knights of Sumeria (KoS) is formed.
1200 a.C.
–
Ruby banishes the Dark Ones in the Netherworld forever. After many fights,
the Knights succeed in stealing the Necronomicon from Ruby.
Decades later, a KoS
necromancer called Kaya betrays the Knights and contacts Ruby, willing to
make the Demon Woman reconcile with the Book of the Dead. Thus, Kaya steals the
Necronomicon. In an unspecified English region, she settles into an unholy cemetery
where she creates some “traps” (the fake Necronomicons) for unwanted visitors. Something
goes wrong in the process anyway, and Kaya is absorbed by the Necronomicon.
The book is lost in the region
of Lord Arthur’s castle, but Ruby doesn’t know its location.
1300
a.C. – Ash 3 a.k.a. El Jefè materializes
in 1300 A.D., near the Kandar Castle.
Timeline 4 is thus created.
1350 a.C. – As in the previous iteration, Wiseman modifies the Kandarian Dagger
through the use of mystical energies, in order to make it more effective
against demonic forces. The final result is the Dagger version AvED.
1400 a.C. – Ruby slaughters the Knights of Sumeria. Only few of them survive,
including Dalton’s ancestors. Ruby still doesn’t know the exact location of
the Necronomicon in the entire world.
1958 – Ashley Joanna “Ash”
Williams 3 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the
ruins of the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; Dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; Dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his
assistant.
In the while, the guardian/housekeeper
of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent the log house to
strangers.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the
Kandarian Demon a.k.a. The Evil Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big
struggle, Knowby manages to trap the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known
as Ruby has traced the Necronomicon
back to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Tanya reaches the cabin. Knowby plans to use the girl to make the Evil Dead transmigrate from within Henrietta onto her, but the ritual doesn’t work as hoped. Henrietta is mistakenly believed to be human again for some minutes and freed from her chains. Tanya is then slaughtered by the Deadite. Knowby apparently kills Evil Henrietta with a gun and her body is quickly disposed of in the aftermath by the archeologist.
Week
One Day Seven (1°
October) 1982 – Following these terrible events, Knowby chooses to escape away from
the cabin. Presumably, he dies in a car accident while driving in the woods,
and the car we can see upside down and stuck in the swamp at the beginning of The Evil Dead is his.
So some days pass by… until…
Week
Two Day Five 1982 – Ash 3, Linda, Scott, Shelly and Cheryl Williams go
to the Knowby Cabin located in the woods within Elk Rapids (Michigan).
Week
Two Day Six 1982 – The AvED version of The Evil
Dead occurs.
Week
Two Day Seven 1982 – AvED Evil
Dead II occurs. At the very end of the fight with Rotten Apple Head, Ash 3 is
absorbed by the Nexus summoned by Annie.
Replacement: the cycle of
quantum replacement is disrupted by Ash 2 managing to resurface from
hibernation for a brief time in 1982. So the cycle eventually stabilizes itself
with having Ash 3 either in the Middle Ages and in the current time (1982),
without generating a “version 5” of the Evil Dead events. The timeline doesn’t
change anymore; it’s finally a coherent and full circular loop.
Cabin: the Nexus, once had absorbed Ash and the Oldsmobile,
keeps expanding for a while in 1982 and then gradually shrinks backward. While
still inflating, its energies – the same ones that rejuvenated Ash – “rewinds” the
status of the cabin to few hours back, regenerating the damaged external walls
and the cut cellar door. The time-reversal effect also creates “temporal copies”
of some components which were previously torn apart: the main door; the seesaw
and the smoke outlet.
Week Three
Day One 1982 – Ash 3 comes back from the Middle Ages, re-materializing near the
Knowby Cabin after just one day since his original time displacement. He retrieves
the Necronomicon to keep it far from dangerous individuals.
Week
Three Day Two 1982 – Ruby arrives at the Knowby Cabin too late. Ash is
gone and she doesn’t even know his identity or what did happen at the place.
1983 – After a brief
stint at Elk Grove - where he is believed to be a serial killer and nicknamed Ashy Slashy – Ash 3 begins to move from
one place to other across Michigan, being employed in various ValueStop
residences.
2012 – Brock Williams (aged 75) hides a “secret” in the cellar of his hardware store.
2015 – Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1 occurs.
2016 – Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episodes #1-8 occur.
In S.2 Episode #9, Ash 3 wants
to travel back to 1982 in order to change history again and save Pablo…
Timeline
5
is thus created.
Plan: Baal’s plan is to retrieve the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the past and, at the same time, get rid of Ash and his supporters forever. Besides, he isn’t interested into dealing with the “human version” of Ruby 2016 at all and just wants “his” Ruby back, the Dark One who fell in love with him.
Plan: Baal’s plan is to retrieve the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the past and, at the same time, get rid of Ash and his supporters forever. Besides, he isn’t interested into dealing with the “human version” of Ruby 2016 at all and just wants “his” Ruby back, the Dark One who fell in love with him.
Timeline
Five - Alternate (Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episodes #9/10)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis
(Book of the Dead), also known as Naturum
Demonto, is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned “red
blood”.
1300
a.C. – The materialization of Ash 3 (El
Jefè) in 1300 A.D. has been retroactively erased by the Ripple Effect
starting in 1982 and propagating backwards.
1958 – Ashley J. “Ash”
Williams 3 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the
ruins of the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; Dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; Dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his
assistant.
In the while, the guardian/housekeeper
of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent the log house to strangers.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the
Kandarian Demon a.k.a. The Evil Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big
struggle, Knowby manages to trap the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known
as Ruby (1982 version) has traced the
Necronomicon back to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at
Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Ash 3, Kelly Maxwell and Ruby 2016 materialize in 1982 A.D.
Knowby tries to use his student
Tanya to make the Kandarian Demon transmigrate from Henrietta but he’s stopped
by El Jefè and later slaughtered by
Ruby 1982.
Ruby 2016 (Ruby 1) is unfortunately
killed by Ruby 1982 (Ruby 2).
Week One Day Seven (1° October) 1982 – After a big fight between Ash 3 and Baal, a corollary of the deal between the Prophesized One and the demon turns the Knowby Cabin into a “nexus” between the Alternate Timeline and the Primary Timeline. The mystical explosion of the Knowby Cabin actually “occurs” in the Primary Timeline year 2016, thus Ash and Kelly are automatically transferred to their present time in the Primary Timeline.
Pablo resurrects.
The Alternate Timeline vanishes, while the Primary Timeline stays uncontaminated and intact as before.
Note: the 2016’s Kandarian Dagger which the Ghost Beaters owned is also “deposited” among the ruins of the 2016’s Knowby Cabin, as well as the 2016’s Delta Oldsmobile and Knowby’s car from the Alternate Timeline.
Prophecy: Ruby 1 reveals
this in AvED S.1 Episode #10 (The Dark
One).
Someone is watching: Ruby 2 knew Ash
had shot his sister Cheryl in the face, as evidenced by S.3 Episode 2 (Booth three). This is a detail Ruby 1
couldn’t know, since she arrived at the Knowby Cabin after the events of Evil Dead II.
Week
Two Day Five 1982 – Ash 3, Linda, Scott, Shelly and Cheryl Williams go
to the Knowby Cabin located in the woods within Elk Rapids (Michigan).
Week
Three Day One 1982 – Ash 3 comes back from the Middle Ages,
re-materializing near the Knowby Cabin after just one day since his original
time displacement. He retrieves the Necronomicon to keep it far from dangerous
individuals.
The Alternate Timeline vanishes, while the Primary Timeline stays uncontaminated and intact as before.
Note: the 2016’s Kandarian Dagger which the Ghost Beaters owned is also “deposited” among the ruins of the 2016’s Knowby Cabin, as well as the 2016’s Delta Oldsmobile and Knowby’s car from the Alternate Timeline.
Timeline
Six (Ash vs Evil Dead Season 3)
1100
b.C. – The Necronomicon Ex Mortis
(Book of the Dead), also known as Naturum
Demonto, is written in Sumeria by the Dark Ones, when the seas turned into
“red blood”.
X
a.C.
– In the Necronomicon, the prophecy of the Prophesized
One magically appears written on a page, time before Ash 3 would operate in
the Middle Ages.
1000 a.C.
–
The Order of the Knights of Sumeria
(KoS) is formed.
1200 a.C.
–
Ruby 1 banishes the Dark Ones in the Netherworld forever. After many fights,
the Knights succeed in stealing the Necronomicon from Ruby 1.
Decades later, a KoS
necromancer called Kaya betrays the Knights and contacts Ruby 1, willing to
make the Demon Woman reconcile with the Book of the Dead. Thus, Kaya steals the
Necronomicon. In an unspecified English region, she settles into an unholy cemetery
where she creates some “traps” (the fake Necronomicons) for unwanted visitors. Something
goes wrong in the process anyway, and Kaya is absorbed by the Necronomicon.
The book is lost in the region
of Lord Arthur’s castle, but Ruby 1 doesn’t know its location.
1300
a.C. – Ash 3 a.k.a. El Jefè
materializes in 1300 A.D., near the Kandar Castle.
1350 a.C. – As in the previous iteration, Wiseman modifies the Kandarian Dagger
through the use of mystical energies, in order to make it more effective against
demonic forces. The final result is the Dagger version AvED.
1400
a.C. – Ruby 1 slaughters the Knights of Sumeria. Only few of them survive,
including Dalton’s ancestors. Ruby 1 still doesn’t know the exact location of
the Necronomicon in the entire world.
1958 – Ashley Joanna
“Ash” Williams 3 is born, son of Brock Williams and brother of Cheryl.
1981 – Professor Raymond
Knowby, an archeologist, finds the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the
ruins of the Kandar Castle (England). His personnel in the expedition: his wife
Henrietta; dr. Anne “Annie” Knowby, his daughter; dr. Edward “Ed” Getley, his
assistant.
In the while, the
guardian/housekeeper of the Knowby Cabin starts to secretly and illegally rent
the log house to strangers.
1982 – Professor Knowby
and Henrietta go back to the United States.
Week
One Day One 1982 – Knowby retires in his cabin in order to study the Book of the Dead.
Week
One Day Two 1982 – Corrupted by the power of the Necronomicon, Knowby unleashes the
Kandarian Demon a.k.a. The Evil Dead. Henrietta is then possessed. After a big
struggle, Knowby manages to trap the Deadite in the cellar.
Week
One Day Four 1982 – Knowby calls Ed Getley and his student Tanya from a
civilized place near the woods. He doesn’t reveal anything to both.
Meanwhile, the Dark One known
as Ruby has traced the Necronomicon
back to Michigan, where Knowby headed to. She is investigating at Elk Grove.
Week
One Day Six 1982 – Tanya reaches the cabin. Knowby plans to use the girl to make the
Kandarian Demon transmigrate from within Henrietta onto her, but the ritual
doesn’t work as hoped. Tanya is killed in the process and her body quickly
disposed of in the aftermath by the archeologist.
Week
One Day Seven (1°
October) 1982 – Following these terrible events, Knowby chooses to escape away from
the cabin. Presumably, he dies in a car accident while driving in the woods,
and the car we can see upside down and stuck in the swamp at the beginning of The Evil Dead is his.
So some days pass by… until…
Week
Two Day One 1982 – Because some strange mystical occurrence, Ruby 2 from Timeline 5
materializes in the Primary Timeline as a “time remnant”. She wisely choses to
not interfer with the timeline any further in order to ensure her own
existence, since she is connected to the events of Season 2 and the related
time travel. She keeps her presence undetected from 1982’s Ash and Ruby 1,
watching the events of The Evil Dead
and Evil Dead II from the woods
surrounding the Knowby Cabin.
Week
Two Day Six 1982 – The AvED version of The Evil
Dead occurs.
Week
Two Day Seven 1982 – AvED Evil
Dead II occurs. At the very end of the fight with Rotten Apple Head, Ash 3
is absorbed by the Nexus summoned by Annie.
Cabin: the Nexus, once had absorbed Ash and the Oldsmobile,
keeps expanding for a while in 1982 and then gradually shrinks backward. While
still inflating, its energies – the same ones that rejuvenated Ash – “rewinds”
the status of the cabin to few hours back, regenerating the damaged external
walls and the cut cellar door. The time-reversal effect also creates “temporal
copies” of some components which were previously torn apart: the main door; the
seesaw and the smoke outlet.
Week
Three Day Two 1982 – Ruby 1 arrives at the Knowby Cabin too late. Ash is
gone and she doesn’t even know his identity or what did happen at the place.
Ruby 2 is secretly watching her.
1983 – After a brief
stint at Elk Grove - where he is believed to be a serial killer and nicknamed Ashy Slashy – Ash 3 begins to move from
one place to other across Michigan, being employed in various ValueStop residences.
1999 – Ash marries
Candace “Candy” Barr at Las Vegas. They together conceive Branson “Brandy”
Barr, Ash’s daughter.
Ruby 2 has been stalking Ash
for two decades at this point, taking snapshots of his activity, far from the
Primary Timeline Ruby (Ruby 1) who doesn’t know about the existence of her alternate counterpart.
2012 – Brock Williams (aged 75) hides a “secret” in the cellar of his hardware shop.
2015 – Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1 occurs. Ruby 2
assumes the identity of Rebecca Prevett around this time.
2016 – Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episodes #1-8
occur.
In S.2 Episode #9, Ash 3 wants
to travel back to 1982 in order to change history again and save Pablo…
Timeline
5 – Alternate is thus briefly created and then destroyed.
2016 – The ending of Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode #10 occurs. Ash 3, Kelly Maxwell and Pablo Simon
Bolivar come back to their “present time”, and nothing has apparently changed:
the new timeline resembles Timeline 4. Because the events of S.2 Episode #6 (Trapped inside), Elk Grove people hold a big town parade in celebration of Ash, now regarded as an iconic American hero of some sort.
Ruby 2/Prevett is among the crowd and
she smiles...
2018 – Ash vs Evil Dead Season 3 occurs. At the
very end, Ash 3 defeats Kandar The
Destroyer, an alternate physical manifestation of The Evil Dead. The demonic apocalypse unleashed by the Necronomicon dissipates once Ash defeats Kandar, fulfilling the prophecy and making humanity safe again. In the aftermath, only few big cities (the ones
listed on TV) have been partially damaged.
A new, golden era for human
race has begun.
2x18 – Ash 3 is awaken
in the future. The Dark Ones just reappeared on Earth. Humanity needs the
Prophesized One again...
Timeline conceived and written by Tiziano Caliendo.
Awesome timeline! Just one small change. Can you edit the line : when the seas turned to "red blood" to the original line : " When the seas ran red with blood." Sorry if that sounds like gripe. Other than that I really like this, very cohesive and answers alot of questions about certain events. Thank you
ReplyDeleteHoly shit, this was amazing.
ReplyDeleteso is evil dead 1 & 2 non cannon because of 2.9 and 10's events or will that be explained ? because if their in a timeline where e.d 1 and 2 never happened then he shouldn't be a hero to the people etc.
ReplyDeleteWhere does the 2013 film fit in?
ReplyDeleteFede Álvarez stated on twitter that "it continues the first one. The coincidences on events between the first film and mine are not coincidences, but more like dark fate created by the evil book. (Ash car is still there rusting away.)" Sam Raimi backed this up in 2019, saying "I think that’s a part of the Evil Dead universe but not part of the Bruce Campbell storyline". When asked if this meant that the remake was another corner of the original universe, he said "exactly". Supposedly, Ash's car is rusting away outside the cabin according to the director. I suppose that perhaps the time portal created a copy of Ash's car, just like how it might have repaired the cellar door to how it is seen in the fourth film and TV series. The design of the cabin is different, which could either be magic or a visual continuity error. The cabin is set on fire while it is in perfect condition in the TV series. Once again, the magic of the house can explain why it still stands. Alternatively, this could be a different cabin, ignoring the director's comments and assuming that it was retconed, which helps tidy up any continuity errors. Echos from the past can be heard, as audio from The Evil Dead of Cheryl Williams saying "one by one, we will take you" is played. In the credits, Raymond Knowby's recording from Evil Dead 2 is played. In a post-credits scene, Ash Williams appears in a pitch black location, only stating "groovy" before turning to the camera.
DeleteThe film has no dates but is likely set in 2013.
As a bonus:
Within the Woods is a prototype of The Evil Dead. The Kandarian demon in this short film is known as Tinga. It is a Native American spirit that watches over the graves of the deceased in an Indian burial ground. After Bruce disturbs the grave of a medicine man by taking the knife he was buried with, Tinga turns the group into Deadites one by one. It has no indication of its timeline but can be placed in 1978.
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Delete1300 - Army of Darkness: Director's Cut
Delete1978 - Within the Woods
1982 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x09-2x10 [Alternate 1982 Timeline]
1982 - The Evil Dead
1982 - Evil Dead 2
1982 - Army of Darkness (ending)
2013 - Evil Dead: Extended Cut
2015 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x01-1x10
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x01-2x10
2018 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x01-3x10
2023 - Evil Dead Rise
2095 - Army of Darkness: Director's Cut (ending)
2095 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x10 (ending)
Bruce Campbell confirmed that the ending of Ash vs Evil Dead is the same timeline where Ash ends up in the director's cut of Army of Darkness. Whether it's a different timeline Ash or if Ash had an off-screen adventure where he found his way to the present I don't know.
Um, it doesn't really mention, as far as I could tell, when Ruby met Baal and what happened between them. Surely he had to be somewhat present at some point to have seduced her to fall in love with him, so why did he have to be summoned by the demon spawn? Why was he in that hell dimension? Was he always there and for some reason, Ruby was in his dimension? I'm a little confused about the whole "They had demon spawn and were together at some point" plot-line.
ReplyDeleteNop, all of this is SOOOO WRONG.
ReplyDeleteThere already are an OFFICIAL list about ALL the timelines / universes of The Evil Dead.
So this is pure 💩
Sorry pal, but it is what it is.
The Evil Dead MULTIVERSE exists, and it is NOT how you think it is.
Do BEST research next time.