IMMORTAL STAND

In our game, the first film 'The Highlander' and Highlander: The Series occurred. No other film has occurred - if you are interested in using a character from another film, you can retrofit them into the game with monitor approval.

Connor MacLeod did not win the Prize. The Kurgan's quickening was very great and he had spread a rumor that the Gathering was happening in New York City in 1986. This lie was successful in that it made Connor fight him, though it did not end well for the Kurgan himself.

The Season Five episodes 'Comes a Horseman' and 'Revelations 6:8' did not occur as they did in the series. The Horsemen did not band together again, Kronos merely plotted and tried to get Methos involved, thus exposing his past. In the end, Kronos escaped. Caspian and Silas were not contacted at all and remain alive.

Immortals can die. When killed by means other than decapitation, immortals go down for the count, recover and awaken again, fully healed. The only means of permanent death, of course, is decapitation. The more gruesome the death, the longer it may take to awaken.

In the series we find the concept of Foundlings (that all immortals are 'found'). In the novel, Connor is born to his mother who later dies. In the film, we are never told. In our game, however, immortal children are born at one time or another. Not all immortals are foundlings.

Immortals stop aging at the time of their First Death, which is sometimes referred to as their 'Mortal Death'. This is always a violent death which can include a virus or poison if they are sufficiently damaging enough. Please ask the mod if your idea will work if you want to use one of those options. Once pre-immortals die for the first time, they awake fully immortal and no longer age from that day on.

In immortal culture, it is taboo to tell a pre-immortal what they will become.

Immortals can feel quickenings of immortals as well as pre-immortals, but pre-immortals do not sense anything. For Immortals, the Quickening can be sensed, but not at extreme distance except if your character is ancient. It has been established in game that the older you are, the further your range is, and the more acute the sense is. Ancients could, for example, sense the approximate age of an immortal. Younger Immortals can sometimes get a sense of a general age as well but that is highly variable. Sensing a pre-immortal is still somewhat difficult for any immortal. They have a muffled feel to their nascent quickening and even ancient immortals need to be fairly close to feel them.

It has been theorized in game that this development of additional sensitivities was somehow caused/brought about because of the extreme loss of mortal life due to the 2002 plague - ie mortals somehow naturally dampened the sense. It has also been theorized that it is perhaps a step up in evolution (so to speak) as the world is now so vastly different.

In the series Xavier St. Cloud lost his hand and it never grew back. In our game this is not the case because frankly, how much sense does it make that someone could live a few hundred, let along a thousand years, without accidentally losing *something* and not being able to immediately reattach it as the producers decided would work - not to mention if an Immortal could regenerate a body burned in fire, why not an individual limb? Game canon states that a loss that happened prior to the First Death (ie a limb, eye sight, or hearing etc), the loss remains after the First Death. In relation, something like a tattoo that happened prior to the First Death would remain after no matter what happened (if it helps, think of it as the quickening 'deciding' the body's 'factory settings' include whatever happened before whatever caused that first death) for instance if the skin the tattoo is on is cut it would heal and the tattoo would look completely normal. Tattoos received after becoming immortal may or may not last 'forever.' They would fade faster than the average tattoo, and in fact completely heal if not touched up for long enough. Things like piercings would possibly migrate out or heal if jewelry was not worn in them constantly. Limbs severed post First Death can regenerate though it takes time. In game, Connor lost his hand and it took several weeks to grow back/regenerate.

Highlander canon applied to the Stand: Randall Flagg, the antagonist of The Stand and an evil being of unknown origin, has the ability to 'steal' a Quickening from the victorious immortal after a fight if he is in the area. It is not yet known how he learned to do this.