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Methos
The Really Old Dude!
He is a Watcher, and also an Immortal. The only known Immortal to ever infiltrate the Secret Organization. Fact is, only a hand full of Immortals, from the beginning of known history, know that the Watchers ever existed.
Methos is said to be the "Oldest living Immortal." This distinction has not yet been disputed, from his inception on the show, in Episode 60: Methos, thru to the present (at the time of this, Season 6 had just started). His birth pre-dates recorded history. Methos, himself, is not even sure exactly how old he is, but says that his memory goes back at least 5000 years.
In his over 5 millennia on planet Earth, he has worn many guises. During the first millennia or so, he was a Demonic God, killing for pleasure, taking anything that he wanted, inciting terror in the hearts and minds of everyone that was unlucky enough to cross his path. He has not said what hellish trauma or tragic upbringing started him on this road, but he does say that the Road was paved with death and destruction. In the bronze age (sometime between 3000 B.C. and 1800 B.C.) he was one of the infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Episodes 99: Comes a Horseman, & 100: Revelation 6:8). The Horsemen were made up of Immortals (Methos, Kronos, Cylus & Caspian), which didn't leave any hope for mortals that they came across. They were merciless Gods, and no mere mortal could stand in their way. With the knowledge of Immortality, weapons in hand, and a strong mount beneath them, the world was their personal playground, and no-one could stop them.
Well, somewhere along the way, Methos changed his entire way of thinking. Maybe it was the unwilling love he felt for Cassandra (an Immortal he took captive after slaughtering her people), or he could have developed a conscience, or maybe it came to him from a higher power. Whatever happened to change him, he began to look at the world in a new light. His life of Conquest, Death and Tyranny changed to Knowledge and Philosophy.
Throughout the next 3 or 4 thousand years, Methos has educated himself. He has thrown on a Mortal mask, and merge with our world. He has learned our ways of living and our ideas of civilization, or what we envision it to be and what we strive to make it. He's enlightened himself to the Mortal plight of survival, and has, in his many years, become sympathetic and understanding.
With this examination and exploration of the Mortal (and with that, Immortal) condition, in the deepest reaches of his heart, he has truly become good.
If there is hope for the tangled mass of Carnage that was Methos in his youth, there may be a chance for the redemption from a crippled Humanity that we, mere Mortals, find ourselves in.
