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Connor MacLeod
By: 22639 Date: December 31, 2011, 5:10 am
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[center][font=arial, sans-serif]Connor MacLeod[/font][/center]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Full Name:Connor MacLeod[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Aliases:Adrian Montague,Hamilton Kopp,
Jacques Lefebert, Rupert Wallingford, AlfredNicholson,David
Carruthers, Russel Nash[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]DOB: January 1st, 1518[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Apparent Age:Early 20's[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Sex:Male[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Hair color:Brown[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Eye Color:Hazel[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Height:6'0"[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Weight:175 pounds[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Nationality:Scottish[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Residence:New York City[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Close Friends:Duncan MacLeod[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Teacher:Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Watcher: Unspecified[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif][/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Personality:Loner. While not wishing to
live for so long, Connor doesn't truly wish to die. Connor
prefers the company of mortals but, keeps few Immortal
friendships. Despite having a few setbacks in his life, Connor
has reentered The Game in order to either protect The Prize or
become the last Immortal standing himself.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif][/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Special Skills: Connor is charming,
witty, optimistic. He has an extensive library at his home,
speaks sever different languages, has a vast information of
historical knowledge.[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Weapon of Choice:Masamunae Katana[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]History:[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1518--Connor MacLeod is born in the
village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel and raised by
his father and his mother Caiolin. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1528--On Connor's 10th birthday, his
cousin Dugal catches a salmon that they eat. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1536-- [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor's father is killed by the Frasers, a
neighboring clan. In a battle between the two feuding clans,
Connor is killed by the Kurgan
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is rescued off the
field before the Kurgan can take his head. His swift and
remarkable healing causes his village to accuse him of
witchcraft and banish him. Later near Glencoe, he meets Heather,
daughter of Angus MacDonald from whom he learns to be a
blacksmith.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1539—Connor marries Heather. Angus
MacDonald dies. Summer [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1541--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor and Heather still live at the forge near
Glencoe after Angus' death. One day while they are rolling in
the hay, up rides Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
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who teaches Connor what it
means to be immortal and prepares him to meet the Kurgan
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battle. over the next
three months or so. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1542--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]But
it is Ramirez
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the Kurgan
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finds first while Connor
is out checking his traps or hunting. The scene in the film
appears to be set in the winter. Ramirez is buried at the
remains of the ruined tor and Connor and Heather re-locate from
near Glencoe to a farm near the town of Montrose.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1555--Connor returns to Glenfinnan in an
attempt to rescue his mother Caiolin from the stake. He fails
and accidentally kills Father Rainey and his adopted son Jacob
Kell. He does not realize that Kell is also an immortal.
Saddened, Connor returns to Glencoe to live out a life with
Heather.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1590--After Heather's death, Connor
leaves Scotland and travels the world. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Late 16th century, Scotland-- Shortly
after Heather's death, Connor goes to work as a field hand for a
farmer and his daughter, Sarah. Sarah is sweet on Connor, but he
fears to again become involved with a mortal woman. when the
farm is attacked by two brigands, Connor is killed and then
revives, killing the attackers and saving the farmer and Sarah.
He then leaves Scotland. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Late 16th century--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor meets Thomas Cavanaugh, a friend of Ramirez
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who convinces Connor that
he needs to pass on what he learned from Ramirez to other young
immortals. Cavanaugh calls a gathering of local immortals on
holy ground to preach about the nature of the prize and the
importance for it to be won by good men. He encourages all to
teach what they have learned. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Late 16th century-- Connor travels on to
the east to learn from the immortal sorcerer Nakano. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1605--While there, Kane and his henchmen
attack. When Kane kills Nakano, the quickening brings down the
mountain and buries Kane and his henchman. Connor
escapes.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]17th Century--Connor and Thomas
Cavanaugh meet again. When Cavanaugh mentions that Connor is
drifting through life rather than living it, Connor determines
to leave England.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1625--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Returning to Scotland, Connor finds Duncan MacLeod
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in "that bloody bog"
following the battle of Glen Fruin. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1630--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor and Duncan
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are apart as Duncan does
not know where Connor is when he is pursued by Martin Hyde, an
immortal who only challenges "seasoned" immortals. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1631--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]A
few years later as they are training in Ravenna, Italy, Connor
teaches Duncan
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an unstoppable
move.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1632-- [/font][font=arial, sans-serif]In
Scotland, Connor and Duncan
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have a brief run-in with
Khordas, the immortal pirate and his companion, the immortal
Nerissa. Duncan leaves Connor to travel in Europe. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]In 1634, Duncan is traveling alone when
he meets Ursa. By 1637 Duncan has returned to Italy.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1712--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor and Duncan
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save the pre-immortal
Catherine Mary "Kate" Devaney from being held-up by bandits.
[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1715--I[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]n
the South China, Connor hears that Duncan
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is preparing to marry Kate
Devaney. He arrives in Ireland and tells his kinsman how the
loss of Heather destroyed him. Unable to let fate decide Kate's
future, Duncan kills Kate on their wedding night to make her
immortal.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1777--Connor MacLeod and Sunda Kastagir
served in the Continental Army with George Washington at Valley
Forge.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1783--As Adrian Montague, a drunken
Connor MacLeod has a duel on Boston Commons with the lawyer
Bassett, whose wife he has insulted. Sunda Kastagir is his
second.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Europe 1786--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor and Duncan
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have a run-in with Hugh
Fitzcairn
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something to do with
"that Montague woman."[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]18th Century--Connor and Thomas
Cavanaugh take ship to France where Connor woos the beautiful
Isabelle Tourez and gives her a ring to remember him by after
Cavanaugh reminds him that a life with a mortal leads only to
grief. The two immortals fight their way out of the castle but
are captured. Cavanaugh is guillotined and Connor takes his
quickening. He is then able to escape.[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]
1793-94--Connor lends support to the French Revolution. He meets
and woos Lady Sarah Barrington, the English niece of a French
noble. When Connor is sentenced to die on the guillotine by the
king... she believes him dead and marries another man. Connor's
place on the guillotine is taken by his friend, the immortal
Pierre Bouchet, who is weary of immortal life. When Connor
returns to Sarah, he does not reveal himself to her when he sees
that she has children and is happy. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1796--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]As
Adrian Montague, Connor purchases the Hudson Street property in
New York City that will later house [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Nash Antiques[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1800--Connor runs across Kastagir in the
West Indies.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1804--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]While serving aboard the [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]H.M.S. Victory[/font][font=arial, sans-serif],
commanded by Admiral Nelson, Connor MacLeod faces off with The
Kurgan
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/>sans-serif]serving aboard a French vessel. Their fight is
interrupted when the mainmast falls on the young Lt. Cavanaugh.
Connor hesitates in his fight to save the boy. The Kurgan
escapes by falling overboard and walking across the sea bottom.
He also takes with him Connor's Masamune [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]katana[/font][font=arial, sans-serif].[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]June 1815-- Connor is with the Duke of
Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. He may also have met and
had dealings with Napoleon.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]16 Jan 1819--Birth of Hamilton Kopp who
dies at birth. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1839--The Hudson Street property is
transferred from Adrian Montague to Hamilton Kopp. Later
transfers of the property are to Alfred Burgess, Wallingford
Benoit or Rupert Wallingford, and finally Russel Nash.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Dry River, Texas, 1851--
[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]Connor and Duncan
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meet up with Sunda
Kastagir who is having difficulty with a quickening.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1853--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor is captain of the [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Rosemary[/font][font=arial, sans-serif] when Duncan
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aboard. The ship
sinks in a storm after another run-in with Khordas. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]
1872--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]Traveling in the Pacific
Northwest, Connor helps Duncan
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bury his Indian family and
tries to console him for their loss. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1879--Connor serves with the British
Army in South Africa. While a prisoner of the Zulu following the
battle of Isandlwana, Connor meets up again with Sunda Kastagir
who plays a joke on him involving a fight to the death with an
"Immortal" Zulu warrior. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]November 1888--In London, Connor runs
across the immortal Jack, a serial killer butchering women in
the White-chapel District. He puts an end to Jack's
activities.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1897--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor takes the name David Carruthers and is captain
of a gun-runner. In Nantucket, Connor and Duncan
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finally deal with the
pirate Khordas.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1936--Rachel Ellenstein is born in
Holland to Jewish parents.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1943--Connor rescues war orphan Rachel
Ellenstein from the Nazis and adopts her, raising her as his
daughter. He serves in a unit with Sgt. W.W. Hicks who sees him
die and revive during a Nazi mortar attack. Hicks says
nothing.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]22 Oct 1945--Russell Edwin Nash is born
at Mercy Hospital in Syracuse, NY to Karen Joan Nash. Both
mother and child die soon after. Dr. Willis B. Kadell is the
physician. Russell was illegitimate. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1952--Rachel graduates from high school.
Connor keeps a photo of the two of them as a memento. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1958--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]A
certain [/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Porsche[/font][font=arial, sans-serif], later bought
by Connor MacLeod, rolls off the assembly line. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1963--Upstate New York. Connor drives
Rachel to the airport. She's off to see Europe with her lover,
Richard. Just before Christmas, he is visited by an old pal from
his army days in WWII. Sgt. Hicks suggests that Connor needs to
visit Berlin. Someone there is doing genetics experiments in an
attempt to create a super soldier... someone like Connor.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1963--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Berlin. while investigating the rumors of super
soldiers, Connor meets immortals Tasya Desny and Paul Furio.
Together they travel covertly to the USSR where they investigate
the rumors of super-soldiers and Connor comes face-to-face with
an old foe... the
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[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]January 12, 1964--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor, Tasya Desny, Paul Furio and Dr. Arman Volkov
pursue the Kurgan
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his super soldiers into
Siberia. Connor and the Kurgan continue their battle in mid-air
and on the ground after they revive from the fall. The Kurgan is
blown out of the building and vanishes beneath the ice. Connor
returns to New York City and to Rachel. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1966--Connor learns the Masamune katana
is up for auction in Paris. Unfortunately the sword is bought by
Toshiro Nakayama, who claims descent from Masamune. When Toshiro
kills the brother of a woman Connor is involved with, he goes to
Japan to challenge Toshiro and reclaim the Masamune. He is
unable to kill Toshiro at that time, but manages to disarm him.
After Toshiro kills Elizabeth, Connor takes Toshira's
head.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]July 1985--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Using the name Russell Nash, Connor operates an
antique store on the Hudson Street property in New York City
with Rachel as his business partner. The Kurgan
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to town. Believing
they may be the last two... Connor and the Kurgan fight. Connor
wins. During this time period he also meets Brenda Wyatt whose
interference in the final battle allows him to win. After the
battle, Connor and Brenda go to Scotland and marry.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]April 1986--London, Connor and Brenda
operate Nash Antiques. He is contacted by an old friend, Tasya
Desny and travels to Paris where he sees a man covered by
Cyrillic tattoos who warns that Russia will be razed and reborn.
Shortly later, Connor hears of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl
and makes plans to go to Moscow.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]26 April 1986--Connor, Tasya Desny, Paul
Furio, and mortal Doctor Arman Volkov fly to the USSR to
investigate the accident at Chernobyl. During the mission, Tasya
kills Paul and Connor must take Tasya's head. Afterward, Connor
returns to London and to Brenda. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]31 December 1986-1January
1987--[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]While at a New Years Eve
party, in London, Connor and Brenda meet up with Duncan
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Brenda is injured in a
traffic accident and Connor worries about losing her.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]February 1987--[/font][font=arial,
sans-serif]Connor suffers from some fallout from killing the
Kurgan
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and Duncan
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is there to help him.
During this time period, Connor is kidnapped by immortal Gordon
Byrne and his associate Sakuro who hope to turn Connor to evil.
Duncan rescues him but another immortal, Kameke Minoto dies.
Duncan takes Connor to Hugh Fitzcairn
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living on a boat in the
Thames to work out his issues. Afterward, Connor deals with
Byrne. "Six months later" Brenda dies in a mysterious car
crash... likely courtesy of Jacob Kell. Connor walks away
without a scratch. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]1987-1992*--Dates not exact. Connor
moves to North Africa, adopts John, and then realizes Kane and
others are still alive. He returns to New York to battle Kane.
He also meets archeologist Dr. Alex Johnson who reminds him of
former lover Lady Sarah Barrington. When his katana blade is
shattered in a battle with Kane, Connor retreats to Scotland and
to the forge near Glencoe where he once lived with Heather and
where he first learned to blacksmith under the tutelage of her
father. Alex brings him a block of steel forged by Nakano. With
it Connor re-forges a new katana. After returning to America and
defeating Kane, Connor, Alex and John return to Scotland...
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Played by Michael[/font]
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