Methos

Before Methos took his first head, his memories are a blur, no one could be expected to remember more than 5,000 years of history, and he is unsure of his original homeland, people, or language.

Unknown Date — Some time after his first death, a Bedouin tribe found him and took him in, teaching him the ways of survival in the desert. He stayed with them for many years until it became evident that he wasn't aging. The Bedouins began to suspect that he was a demon or a god and forced Methos to fight one of their best warriors to the death. Methos lost. When he revived, he was banished by the Bedouins, who tied his hands and forced him to walk into the desert without any food, water, or weapons. He eventually stumbled upon a pile of bones and used them to cut his bindings.

Uruk, Mesopotamia 36th Century BC — Learned to write in cuneiform when The Sumerians invented cuneiform writing.

Egypt, 33rd Century BC — Learned hieroglyphics some time after The Egyptians began to use it.

Bronze Age, c. 3,300 to 1,300 BC — Methos was part of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This lasted for a thousand years. During that time he was one of the evilest and most feared figures in the World. He was responsible for countless numbers of deaths and massive destruction. He regrets those actions now and says this of his actions: Times were different then, I was different then. It is one of a thousand regrets.

Egypt, 1573 BC — Methos was helping the then-future Pharaohs Kamose and his brother Ahmose in their battle against their Hyksos over lords.

Jerusalem, 904 BC — Methos learned of the existence of the Watchers while in Jerusalem, when he overheard a group of people discussing Immortal names he recognized. He was eventually invited to one of their meetings, where he met the tall, lovely, opinionated, and outspoken Ruth, whom he fell in love with and married. Using the name Alexander, he insinuated himself into their group and learned that his low profile over the years meant that the name Methos was virtually unknown in their records. Methos devoted himself full-time to the Watchers. It was then that he learned more about the Game.

Tibet, 825 BC — After the death of his wife, Ruth, Methos traveled to Tibet in a search of knowledge, for enlightenment in the spiritual side of existence. At first he began as a helper in the monastery, cutting wood and hauling water in service of the monks. Eventually he learned how to read their written language. He soon received training from the monks which he considered akin to military training. His master Lin Chi taught him how to read people's intentions by the way they carried themselves. Twenty years later, Lin Chi told him that the time had come for him to study with his master the immortal Sun Tzu . After calling the temple home for 126 years, Sun Tzu told Methos that it was time for him to return to the world. He was well over 2,000 years old at that time.

During his travels, Methos met Mencius, the Chinese philosopher, and student of Confucius (551-479 BC).

Rome, AD 35 — While living in Rome, Methos was serving as a slave and adviser in the household of Roman Senator Valerius Petronius. When Druscilla, Petronius' wife, tried to seduce Methos, he refused her blatant advances. Insulted, she cried rape and he was then crucified, only to be saved by Marcus Constantine who "...rescued young Remus [Methos] from the cross before he died too many times and helped him out of the country." He and Constantine became good friends, but he never told Constantine his real name.

India, AD 392-410 — Methos, known as Ishvara, takes a student, Naphtali. He tries to counsel Naphtali, but he is young and stubborn.

Unknown Date — Methos crossed the Atlantic to Iceland in a rowboat with six Irish monks . He has hated water travel since.

Heidelberg, Germany 1400’s — Methos, going by the name Adam, traveled to Germany, where he majored in Medicine and Dueling at the University of Heidelberg. It was here that he met immortal Eloise Bennett, who was also a student at Heidelberg, posing as a man and going by the name Eli De Luzzi. The pair became friends and lovers, and he revealed to her his true name they develop a lasting friendship, picking up where they left off whenever they run into each other in the years to come.

Unknown Dates -- Throughout Europe, Methos witnessed witch hunts, wise women and midwives being burned by women they had nursed through labor because they suddenly thought that they were witches.

Italy 16th Century AD (exact dates unknown) — While living in Italy, Methos made friends with his Watcher. The unnamed Watcher kept a separate private journal, recording their friendship, since the Watchers' code prevented any open acknowledgement of the Watchers existence to Immortals and the release of such knowledge may have cost the Watcher his life.

1795 — Methos took his last head and effectively disappeared.

1808-1820 — In the year 1808, Methos, in the guise of Dr. Benjamin Adams, was in New Orleans. He tended to a slave whose sister, Charlotte Johnson, asked why he would show such uncommon kindness to slaves. Methos told her that maybe he had been a slave in a past life. Charlotte flirted determinedly with the Doctor who appreciated her efforts enough to take her to bed. Charlotte, however, was the slave and concubine of jealous immortal, Morgan Walker, who had just returned from sea. Methos sensed Walker's return, and decided to depart quickly to avoid any unpleasantness, telling Charlotte that Walker was coming, and to dress herself. She didn't handle discovery well, insisting that no one had been with her, despite being found in her nightgown, rather than coming up with a plausible lie. Walker killed Charlotte in a jealous rage, and later confronted Methos, telling him it was his fault Charlotte was dead, Methos disdainfully pointed out, "I slept with her. You killed her!" Walker then claimed he had loved Charlotte but Methos scornfully replied that Walker had owned her. Walker challenged the ancient immortal, but Methos refused and walked away, heading to North Carolina where he boarded the first ship to Europe.

In 1816, Methos met Lord Byron, after the latter's suicide and subsequent awakening as an immortal. He taught him about his immortality and the Game. Byron introduced his doctor to his friends Percy and Mary Shelley, the latter of whom Methos rather liked. While in company with the group, Byron found himself challenged by immortal Hans Kershner. Byron took his opponent's head after a brutal fight. An intoxicated Mary had followed Byron and Methos outside and saw both Kershner's Quickening and Byron's resurrection from a fatal wound inflicted by Kershner. The experience, and Methos' explanation of what she had seen, inspired her to write the novel Frankenstein.

1870s — Methos returned to the United States and settled in the Fraziers Well, Arizona area, under the name of Adams. He pulled a scam with the McQuarrie brothers, but he and the brothers were betrayed by a woman named Veronica, who turned them over to Sheriff Willy Bruton. Methos slipped away but Bruton hunted him down with his posse, cornering the immortal on the rim of the tributaries to the Grand Canyon. Methos pulled his empty gun, trying to bluff the sheriff, but one of the deputies shot him “square in the chest with a round from a Winchester rifle and the impact knocked him off the rim of the canyon.” He fell nearly a mile to his death. He was later found by a boy named Little Crow who told his father and tribe about the man who fell from Eagle's Nest and came back to life. Little Crow's father assured Methos they had heard of those beings who could only be killed “among lightning and fire” and asked if Methos was one such. Methos acknowledged that he was. The band called him Eagle's Flight and accepted him as a “messenger of the Great Spirit.”

1900 — Methos found himself working with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to crack a vault, and was eventually saved from a hanging by the bandit duo.

1984 — Having withdrawn from the Game, Methos took on a life of quiet contemplation. While studying ancient languages at St. Aidan's College, Durham University, Methos, under the alias Adam Pierson, when he was recruited by the Watchers as an historian under Don Salzer as a way to keep track of other immortals and avoid the Game. He graduated from the Watcher Academy sixth in a class of 103. By the mid-1990s, he had become the top researcher on the Methos Chronicle. He collaborated with Don Salzer on the creation of a database of the Watcher's records.

He has been married 68 times, the last being to Alexa Bond in 1995, who died of a terminal illness in 1996, within months of their marriage.

At the time of the plague he was vacationing in Canada.