Duncan MacLeod

1593-1621
Born in Glenfinnan, Scotland, and raised as the son of the Chieftain of the Clan MacLeod. At the age of 13, he is lost in the woods overnight, where he meets the witch, Cassandra.

1622-1630
Fatally wounded in battle, but revives after he dies. Exiled from Glenfinnan by his father, he spends the next two years wandering Scotland, a feared man, returning to Glenfinnan to avenge his father's death at the hands of Kanwulf, the Viking in 1624. Still not knowing what he is, he wanders the Highlands, meeting a hermit the following year, who tells him of his destiny to fight an evil that returns every thousand years. The hermit is an Immortal and forces Duncan to behead him, thereby giving the young Immortal his first Quickening. Shortly afterwards, he meets Connor MacLeod, who teaches him about his immortality. After an encounter with Martin Hyde, he leaves Connor.

1631-1640
Travelling to France and then on to Italy, he encounters a number of Immortals with whom he finds friendship, firstly Ursa, and then, in complete contrast, Amanda, together with her teacher, Rebecca Horne. In Italy, he befriends the irrepressible Hugh Fitzcairn, with whom he travels for a while. The dynamic duo encounter Mako during this time.

1640-1659
Always the wanderer, his travels lead him back to France, where he meets Kyra, and Grace Chandel, but by 1653, he is in Algiers, travelling with Hamza el-Kahir, who is beheaded by Xavier St Cloud. In search of a teacher, he travels to Italy, where he finds Graham Ashe, but is stunned when Haresh Clay kills Ashe in 1657 and taunts MacLeod, who hides on holy ground. Shaken by his experience with Clay, he seeks refuge the following year in the sanctuary offered to all Immortals by Paul. Even here, he discovers there is no safety and, before he leaves, he makes an enemy of Kalas, when he causes Paul to exile his oldest student. When he leaves, he travels towards England, but is delayed in Normandy at the end of the decade, when he becomes the lover of Kristen Gilles.

1660-1695
Leaving Kristen after she murders Louise Barton, he returns to England, where he becomes a wandering actor with Walter Bellman's company, and befriends sculptor John Garrick, who he unwittingly abandons to be burnt at the stake. He returns to his native Scotland by 1670, where he is challenged by Michel Bourgoyne. Little is recorded of his travels for the next 25 years, but it is believed that he again encountered Mako during this period.

1696-1719
By 1696, he was reunited with High Fitzcairn in Paris, where they unwittingly introduce Gina and Robert de Valicourt. During his time in Paris, he also encounters Martin Hyde again, when Hyde challenges Duncan's friend Segur. He returns to England, where he encounters Walter Reinhardt for the first time. By 1712, he is serving as an emissary for Scotland at the court of the English Queen, who makes him promise not to kill Paul Kinman in her lifetime. Leaving England, he encounters Amanda in Constantinople that same year.

1720-1746
He returns to England, encountering Hugh Fitzcairn under Westminster Abbey in 1720 when he is trying to steal The Stone of Scone. Fitz tricks Duncan into trying to blow up the Abbey instead. After this debacle Duncan wanders around England, being saved from being beheaded for poaching by Charles Browning, who later tries to kill him. The storm clouds are gathering and he returns to Scotland in 1745 to fight for the Jacobite pretender, Charles Stuart, alongside Warren Cochrane. Defeated at Culloden, the rebels flee and with the help of Ceirdwyn, he helps the Bonnie Prince to escape the English, before riding against the plundering English troops. Eventually, his anger leads him to the estate of the Earl of Rosemount, who ordered the massacres, where he shoots Stephen Keane, the Earl's Immortal friend, to stop him from interfering as MacLeod cuts down the English aristocrat. As his anger burns out and sickened by war, he returns to Ceirdwyn, who nurses him back to health and sanity. He leaves Britain, in search of adventure, and is not recorded as returning for nearly forty years.1746-1780He travels East and meets the Cossack, Kristov, in 1750. A career as a military strategist in Turkey is cut short when he rescues Amanda from prison in 1753, but they don't stay together long and he is alone when he meets Kassim in North Africa in 1755. He travels to India, by 1764 working for the English army as a scout, where he meets Kamir for the first time. In 1778, he prevents Terrence Kincaid from being beheaded by his own crew when they mutiny, but the mutiny is short lived, as the ship is wrecked in a storm and MacLeod is washed ashore in Japan. After the death of his friend, Hideo Koto, who gives him the sword he will carry thereafter, MacLeod leaves Japan and makes his way back to Europe, meeting Kiem Sun in China, who sends him to May Ling Chen, with whom he stays in 1780, as first her student, then her lover.

1781-1805
By 1785, he is back in England, where he makes an enemy of Peter Canis, and a new friend in Terrence Coventry, but Scotland still calls, or more accurately Warren Cochrane, with whom he goes to see a besotted Bonnie Prince Charlie in Normandy the following year. By 1795, he has his first Immortal student, the improbably named Jean Phillippe de Lafaye III, who is killed by Damon Case. He returns to France the next year to celebrate Robert and Gina de Valicourt's 100th wedding anniversary, along with High Fitzcairn and Sean Burns. Staying in France for the last years of the century, he meets the assassin Kuyler, who kills MacLeod's employer. Later, he befriends Gabriel Pitone, and has a brief encounter with Alex Raven. As relations between France and England deteriorate, he returns to England, where he allows himself to be hanged to save a mortal friend framed by Peter Matlin and Lyland Curlow.

1806-1816
War breaks out across Europe and MacLeod fights for the British against Napoleon. He unexpectedly meets Xavier St Cloud, along with his student, Morgan d'Estaing, as the British advance on Paris. Between the wars, he spends time in Switzerland with Brian Cullen, before living with Amanda in Bavaria, until she betrays him. War breaks out again and, during the last battles of the Napoleonic Wars, he meets his greatest teacher, Darius, on a battlefield. Tired of war, but unable to live with Darius' teachings, he decides to leave Europe, but this time heads west, for the New World.

1817-1860
Travelling as far west as Montana, he sees John Durgan kill a priest for a gold crucifix, but is unable to catch him. He spends sometime in Philadelphia around 1825, befriending David Keogh, before returning to Europe. After a visit to Peru in 1830, where he meets Gavriel Larca, he is reunited with Connor in London around 1832 and a few years later with Willie Kingsley. Leaving England, he moves to Paris, where his attempts to set up a long term invesment are frustrated by Nicholas Ward, and he renews his friendship with Grace Chandel, who introduces him to Carlo Sendaro. He sets aside "European civilization" for a while during these years, travelling with gypsies during 1847, initially in the company of Jacob and Irena Galati, but is cast out when the gypsies become convinced that he will never marry. He travels to Spain, studying flamenco dancing and Spanish swordfighting with Otavio Consone during 1851. Friends become enemies when they fall in love with the same woman and Consone defeats MacLeod in a duel. He spares Mac's life when the girl agress to never speak to Duncan again. Two years later, Duncan returns to Madrid, to find the girl dead and Consone gone. He leaves Europe for America and, by 1854, has returned to the boom town of San Francisco, where he meets a very different Brian Cullen.

1861-1870
The American Civil War finds MacLeod fighting for the Union. He encounter both a child Immortal, and a new friend, Lucas Desiree, who rescues him from a grave after he is hung. His luck does not hold, and he finishes the war a prisoner in Andersonville Prison in Georgia, run by Colonel William Everett Culbraith. He moves to Maryland after the war, but after his lover is killed by her jealous boyfriend, he travels to Mexico in 1867 to fight with Paul Karras. He returns to the United States and helps a posse hunt down Melvin Koren in South Texas, but Koren escapes from his grave before MacLeod can take his head. Unclear anymore as to why he is fighting and seemingly unable to escape the wars that drove him from Europe and Darius fifty years before, the last straw comes for him the next year in Dakota, when he sees an Indian boy being abused and then killed.

1870-1885
He turns his back on the white man's ways and goes to live with the Lacota Sioux, taking care of the wife and son of a friend who dies. He intends to marry the woman, but the gypsies' belief that he will never marry comes back to haunt him when the tribe is massacred by the US Cavalry in 1872, guided by a scout called Kern. Whilst Connor helps him grieve, he is determined to take Kern's head and sets out to hunt him down, becoming as murderous as Kern in the process. He is saved when he encounters the Hayoka, Kol T'ek, who takes his pain from him. He travels to the Pacific North West for the first time, where he learns the ways of the wild from Carl The Hermit, and builds himself a retreat from the Game on holy ground, despite Connor's disapproval. After a visit to Kiem Sun in China, he establishes himself as a newspaper proprietor in the Pacific North West, where he again meets Mako. In 1882, he is killed by the husband of a woman he has fallen in love with and has to leave. He works with Gregor Powers during a cholera outbreak, until Gregor is shot by a grieving father.

1886-1914
He moves back to San Francisco, where he spends time with Alec Hill, until Hill's wife is killed. In 1888, he stays with Kit O'Brady and, subsequently, Amanda, still trying to bring Alec Hill back out of his grief. A short career as a prize fighter, at the behest of Tommy Sullivan, is unsucessful and he leaves, arriving in Boston by 1896, where he encounters Axel Whittaker, apparently not for the first time, and the young Immortal Sharon, who Axel is using as bait. By 1905, he is established in New York, but he returns to Europe when war breaks out.

1914-1920
Haunted by too many battles, his participation in the First World War is as a medic, rather than as a soldier, helping Sean Burns, who is by now a doctor treating the wounded. He is caught in a gas attack launched by Xavier St.Cloud, but they are disturbed before Xavier can take his head. On the last day of the war, he sees Simon Killian order an attack after the war is over and subsequently testifies at Killian's court martial. He begins to travel, but is followed by revolution, first to Ireland, where he turns down Annie Devlin's plea to help the Republican movement, then to Russia, where he persuades Artur Drakov to spare his employer's life, by agreeing never to challenge Drakov. He returns to Paris, where he meets an old enemy. He fights Kalas, but the fight ends when Kalas' throat is slit, destroying his voice. As the year closes, he returns to America, where he is witness to a strike at a Pennsylvania mining company, which leads to the shooting of the miners by company guards.

1921-1939
From now on, MacLeod's life becomes increasingly fragmented, as he begins to abandon his journalist identity in favour of a life as an antiques dealer, (perhaps influenced by Connor). He couples this with an involvement with British Intelligence, which increasingly takes him against the Nazis. He spends the 20s in America, mostly in the Pacific North West, with Michael Moore in 1921, and in 1925 when he takes Marcus Korolus' head, but he does visit New York, at least once, in late 1924, and he spends an extended period in 1926 in the South, where he meets Carl Robinson, and Amanda during her Bonnie and Clyde series of bank raids with Cory Raines. In the later years of the decade, he meets and falls in love with a mortal, Linda Plager, but when she leaves him, there is nothing to keep him in Seacouver. After telling new Immortal Johnny K what he is and being rejected as his teacher, he returns to Europe. In Paris, he meets Tarsis and his student, Lucas Kagan, and takes Tarsis' head. In Berlin in 1935, on behalf of British Intelligence, he works with Ingrid Henning to recruit anti-Nazi Germans, but the next year he again bumps into Amanda, after which he makes his way to Spain, covering the Spanish Civil War as a journalist. Here, he first encounters John Kage. After a trip back to Seacouver, as an antiques dealer, where he meets Benny Carbassa and is killed by gangster Sid Lankofski, he tries to help refugees to escape Stalinist Russia with the aid of Alexei Voshin, but Voshin betrays them and the refugees are killed.1939-1945It is unclear what MacLeod did in the early days of the war, although he was in London during "The Blitz" of 1940. By 1943, he was in Paris, working undercover with the French Resistance, where he encountered Ernest Daimler, but left for Marseille before they could face each other. In 1944, he helps Ingrid Henning in the unsuccessful plot to assassinate Hitler in his Bavarian stronghold.

1946-1960
His activities in the immediate post war years are unknown, but by 1954 he had returned to the US, where he met up with Carl Robinson in the still segregated South. In 1958, hunting Bryce Korland in Greenwich Village, he met Kol T'ek again, by now known as Jim Coltec.

1960-1992
The sixties are unchronicled at present, but MacLeod was in Cambodia in 1975, helping refugees escape, when he met Kage again. He returns to France, living the playboy lifestyle at the Casino Montecour in 1978. In 1980, he was hunting Kuyler in Paris, when he was forced to flee from the police, who were also hunting the assassin. Fleeing their pursuit, he jumped onto a tourist boat on the Seine and straight into an argument with the guide, a young art student called Tessa Noel. In 1983, he told Tessa what he was,and, after she accepted what that meant, they set up an antiques store in Seacouver. This was a period of calm for MacLeod, away from wars and The Game, although he nearly settled his feud with Walter Reinhardt on New Year's Eve 1988. His peace was largely undisturbed until 1992, when Slan Quince challenged him.

1992-Present Day
The years following Slan Quince's challange were times of happiness and sorrow. He and Tessa took in pre-Immortal Richie Ryan. He found out about Watcher's and met Joe Dawson. He grew to trust Joe and count him among his friends. He lost Tessa and Ryan blamed himself for it, especially once he found out he was immortal. He thought he should have been the one to be shot so that Tessa could have lived. Duncan fell into a depression and it took leaving Seacover to start to put it behind himself.

He then met Methos, who at the time was pretending to be Adam Pierson, a watcher who was chronicalling the legend of Methos. Duncan still gets a laugh out of an immortal being their own watcher.

Then something happened that has left a scar on his soul. After a Dark Quickening, Duncan took the head of his own student. He killed Richie and has been racked with guilt ever since.

He had returned to Seacover and was shocked to find a deadly flu had hit the town. He tried to help those he could to find peace and comfort, only to watch them all die. He found himself alone in a ghost town. He heard gunshots occasionally so he knew there were survivors but he did not know if they were Immortals, new Immortals or Mortals that had somehow survived. He decided that he could no longer stay where he was, that he had to find out if his friends are alive. Methos and Amanda definitely were, but what of Joe Dawson?

Duncan packed food and supplies, placing it all into his car, and set out to find the answers to these questions.