Highlander who is the oldest immortal

Solemnity, I edited the OP to clarify my perspective. You mean the 90s TV series, presumably. The Adrian Paul one. Oops, that was a typo, sorry. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Reign of Djer - — B. Fast forward to Methos met and fell in love with an opera singer named Violetta under the alias Nathan.

Fast forward again to early Dilijan was cornered by Methos who then turned Dilijan's terrible experiments on him as an act of disproportionate vengeance for Dilijan's murder of Violetta. Improve this answer. Indra Blade Indra Blade 1. He was years old, four times older than Methos Community Bot 1. Where is that quote from? You need to cite quotes otherwise it's considered plagiarism. Also, without a source it is unsubstantiated. You could have just made it up yourself right now out of thin air.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Upcoming Events. Considering his age, Methos is understandably tired and burned out by the quest for The Prize and when he's introduced he's essentially withdrawn from the world. Duncan MacLeod crosses paths with him while saving his life from an old enemy and they form a friendship.

Methos has been alive for so long he barely remembers anything before he became immortal, and his morality is always in question. While he initially seems to be something of a sage mentor, a later season of Highlander shockingly reveals he once part of a gang of immortals dubbed the Four Horsemen, who raped and pillaged their way across Ancient Eurasia.

Methos even reveals to MacLeod he enjoyed the power he felt during those times, and he later seeks to reunite the old gang for another reign of terror. He eventually pulls back from this and helps Duncan take them down, though it could be argued he did this to save his own skin. The Highlander series posed some interesting questions about the nature of immortality, with Methos making for one of its most fascinating characters.

And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance. It wasn't for greed. It was because I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death. Death, Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is that what you want to hear?! He has been both a blood-thirsty killer and a doctor, but neither defines who he is. He is a survivor, but he repeatedly risks his life for his friends.

After 5, years, Methos has become so complex that probably even he cannot decipher himself. I grew up, the second son of three boys and two girls, in an oasis village, surrounded by the deserts of what would later be Egypt. My family had made their home in the oasis for over years. My father claimed a vague relation to an extinct royal court. My mother had descended from a line of traders who had settled in the area when she was just a baby.

In the shade of fig trees and palms, my family made its living bartering with the traders who pass through the oasis. When I was 28 years old, our oasis began to run dry.

My family decided to migrate to another oasis, but on the way a sandstorm trapped and killed us. This was my first death, though I didn't realize it at the time. A Bedouin scouting party found and revived me. I stayed with them for many years, learning the ways of the desert and how to find water and food, until it became obvious that I wasn't growing older. They thought I was a god or a demon — both of which were unwanted in their home — so they forced me to fight their best warrior to the death.

This was the second time I died. When I revived again the next morning, they tied my hands and banished me to the desert with no weapons or water. I stumbled upon a pile of bones and used them to cut my bindings. Petra - I travel to a hidden settlement that would later be called Petra and settle with the Nabataeans who camped there.

I live there many years and learn to carve out caves from the stone walls that protected the camp's location. When it becomes apparent that I'm not aging, I know it's time to move on. Sinai - I lived in the desert, married to a beautiful nomad girl.

Then, in what has come to be known as the Smiting of Sinai, the Egyptian Pharaoh Djer orders the slaughter of all nomads. My wife is killed when Egyptian soldiers attack our tribe. Distraught, I wander the desert for months until I'm caught stealing figs and brought before the Pharaoh. He plans for me to be his successor. I plan to avenge my wife's death. I bide my time until one night, when Djer is sleeping, I creep outside the window of his bedchamber and shoot him with a poison dart.

Before he revives, I bind him in burial wrappings and place him in a sarcophagus, dooming him to spend eternity as a mummy. The next morning, I become the new Pharaoh of Egypt. I was years old by my best estimation when I noticed that some of the people I met gave off a unique feeling — I could sense their presence. One of them, Elijah, spoke of a man named Menahem who told tales of others like us who died at least once and returned from the dead.

Menahem once met a women who told of seeing a man like us fall from a such great height that his head was ripped from his body. She waited for him to return to life, but he didn't. Menahem also met others like us who inspired great anger in him — so much that he wanted to kill them even though he had just met them. At the time, I had begun to resent mortals for their fear and prefer the company of other Immortals.

I had fought with some Immortals, but the battles always ended with their death. My first real battle with another Immortal was with a particularly unlikeable guy named Joseph. Remembering Menahem's story, I deliberately swung my sword at Joseph's neck.

After his beheading, I felt a great trembling around me. A mysterious wind grabbed me and threw me to the ground. My mind was filled with visions of places I had never been and people I had never known. I thought I was hexed by some sort of magic or sorcery. I wandered to an inland sea, trying to understand what had happened. It was a while before I beheaded someone again.

I meet Kronos and his friend Silas, who share my distaste for mortals. Caspian is the last to join our band. Silas has an idea to use our power to wreak havoc among mortals. We become known as the Four Horsemen and rule the countyside for several hundred years. On one of our raids we encounter an Immortal living in a small village with mortals who had accepted him despite his inability to age.

Kronos takes his head. This is the first I know of someone besides me intentionally receiving a Quickening. After this, Silas and Caspian hunger to experience it for themselves. Fearing their betrayal, I strike out on my own, avoiding contact with Immortals for the next few years.

There I became friends with a year-old Immortal named Abraham. We worked together for several years on many of the king's construction projects, sharing what knowledge we had of Immortals.

From time to time, we met and fought other Immortals. Egypt - I do Pharaoh Merneferre Ay a favor, solve a political dispute or two, and get a royal medallion as a reward.

Albion - I spend about a hundred years wandering this island and enjoying its good beer, friendly women and intriguing henge monuments. Hated the abysmally chill, dank weather though. During that time I try to groom the brooding young Prince Amar for future kingship but when the crops fail, Amar sacrifices himself. The women there are friendly too — when it pleases them to be. Egypt - I help future pharaohs Kamose and his brother Ahmose in their battle against sadistic Hyksos overlords.

I also face the Immortal Hyksos prince Khyan, but fail to take his head. Ur, Mesopotamia - When I was around years old, a year-old Immortal named Joshua came hunting for Abraham's head. Their fight outside the city walls eventually approached the boundary of an old burial ground.

I felt this strong sense of dread. Upon the time of their first death, they come back to life and find they are immune to disease, have stopped aging, and heal from any wound. The only exception to that last claim is beheading, which is the one true way to kill an Immortal. Highlander spans many different media and can be confusing to follow, especially for anyone who has viewed all the films.

In the beginning, there was no origin story for the immortals. Highlander simply lets us know they exist without focusing on the hows or whys. When Highlander II: The Quickening came out in , it destroyed almost all of the plot points from the first film, and contained a backstory explaining that the immortals were actually aliens transplanted from the planet Zeist.