Post by Amanda on Mar 21, 2006 15:19:04 GMT -5
Matthew McCormick
Full Name: Matthew McCormick
AKAs: Mathew of Salisbury, Robert Morris
DOB: 1222AD
Apparent Age: 36
True Age: 781
Sex: Male
Hair color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 170 lbs.
Nationality: English
Residence: Washington DC
Close Friends: Carl Robinson
Teacher: Ceirdwyn
Watcher: Agent Donna Schulder
Languages: English, Latin
Personality: Suspects everything
Any Special Skills: FBI Special Agent
Participation in The Game (Good, Evil, Neutral): Neutral
Number of Quickenings: 463
Weapon of Choice: Broadsword
History:
1255 Mathew was killed when a lance in a tourney skewered him. After he woke, he felt a strange feeling in his head that he would later learn was the feel of another immortal. Luck was with him because that immortal turned out to be Ceirdwyn who taught him what it was to be immortal.
1285 Mathew himself became a teacher for the first time when he met the immortal, Ramsey Corwin (Corey Raines)
1388 Mathew fought in the Battle of Otterburn.
1402 He fought in the Battle of Humbleton Hill.
1415 Mathew took part in the battle of Agincourt.
1460 Mathew has had his fill of war so he becomes a Lord in Parliament but quickly finds distaste for politics.
1502 Mathew helps negotiate the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland.
1533 Mathew attends the wedding of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.
1620 Mathew travels to the New World aboard the Mayflower and is among the 41 men to sign the Mayflower Compact.
1638 Mathew teaches at Harvard.
1664 He moves to a farm in Virginia where he buys his first slave.
1692 Mathew is burned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts for being a witch after someone witnessed him coming back to life.
1702 Mathew fights alongside English and American colonist against the French, Native Americans and the Spanish in Queen Anne’s War.
1729 Mathew meets Benjamin Franklin who hires him as a reporter for The Pennsylvania Gazette.
1754 Mathew joins the fight during the French Indian war.
1764 Mathew attends a town meeting in Boston; James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation and urges a united response to the recent acts imposed by England.
1773 He participates in the Boston Tea Party.
1774 Mathew is among the 56 delegates at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1775 Mathew attends the Second Continental Congress and meets George Washington.
1776 He witnessed the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
1778 He “dies” in the Battle of Monmouth and heads south.
1832 After moving to Texas, he again finds himself involved in a war. This time he is fighting with the Texans for their independence from Mexico.
1850 He moves to Louisiana where he marries the daughter of Seth Hobart.
1859 Carl becomes Immortal and is taken in by Matthew McCormick who teaches him about The Game and how to survive.
1874 He joins the Texas Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion.
1885 Matthew returns to Salisbury.
1888 He reunites with his teach, Ceirdwyn, to track down the immortal known as Peter of Glastonbury.
1920 He joins the US Marshals and helps round up “bootleggers”, he is also briefly partnered with fellow immortal, Mako.
1945 Mathew disappears and is not seen again until 1976.
1976 He turns up in New Orleans working a Private Detective.
1986 Mathew joins the FBI and quickly becomes known as the serial killer expert. Most of his cases involve other immortals.
1997 He meets Duncan MacLeod while looking for fellow immortal and his former student, Carl Robinson.
2005 Peter of Glastonbury rapes and kills Matthews’s girlfriend.
2006 Matthew chases Peter to Seacouver.[/i]
Played by Ken