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Duncan MacLeod
of the Clan MacLeod
He was "?born?" in the year 1592 A.D. in Glennfinin, Scotland.
Sometime around 1630, he was killed in battle. And, when he miraculously comes back to life, he is exiled from his village by his own father, the Chief of the Clan.
In the years that follow, he learns about his Immortality, and that there are others like him. With the help of some of these other Immortals, he learns the rules of "The Game", and begins the fight of good over evil.
Over the last 400 years, he has been a warrior, a wanderer, a lover, and an all around good guy. For the first 250 years, or so, he was a warrior and a soldier, fighting for what he thought were just and honorable causes. But, during the Napoleonic Wars he meets another Immortal, that would, forever, change the way he looked at war -- and life in general. That Immortal was Darius.
From Darius, he learns that the only thing to be gained by war, is death. That, to achieve their goals, the warring factions destroy the very things that they're fighting to protect -- their homes, their families, their culture, their morals . . . their minds. The politicians, the aristocracy, the generals, the privileged elite, who start and direct these exchanges of hell-bent glory, from the relative safety of the back lines and the board room, pit the insignificant multitudes against each other for their own, sometimes, not so just and honorable purposes. These, self-proclaimed "Elite", may gain from their wars, but at what cost to the people they govern? Millions of lives gone or torn apart. Does a dead man care that the King's Legions gained land in the far north? Does the dead man's mother care?
From that time on, Mac focuses his warrior skills on helping the Huddled Masses that, do to the madness of war and tyranny, find their selves in need of some superhuman intervention.
In the present, Mac continues in the battle for Immortal supremacy. As he passes his 400th year on this planet, the line between "Good" and "Evil" seems to be getting less and less instinctive. Black and white have been showing their infinite tones.
He also seems to be struggling between his, highly seasoned, perceptions against war and violence, and the vicious nature of the "The Game". On one hand, he believes Darius' teachings of violence not being the answer, and on the other he believes that "those who live by the sword, die by the sword," and that, sometimes, it's his sword that's choose to carry out the sentence.
