2025-05-17

eliyes: Minos biting a wire. (delicious crack)
2025-05-17 11:58 am

maybe I miss university, but

Honestly, thinking of stupid persistant academic arguments the Watchers could be having is really entertaining. I know most of it won't come up unless I deliberately work it in, but if you're writing Highlander stuff, I encourage you to do the thought exercise "what completely opposing viewpoints could chroniclers hold about" your Immortal subject. I guarantee you modern Watchers can have beef with their contemporaries, some of their teachers, and one or more Watchers from centuries past. And arguing about conspiracies and rumours, or was such-and-such really present during whatever event.

But like, Joe thought at least 2 of Duncan' MacLeods past chroniclers were idiots with completely incorrect interpretations of Duncan's personality, and that was before he met the man.

Keeping track of Amanda's actual thefts probably has rules about what can be considered a confirmed theft versus a highly probably one, and reading her chronicles it's probably obvious two long-dead Watchers, themselves seperated by centuries, would have thrown hands had they ever interected because the more recent one took the earlier ones methods and conclusions as a personal insult.

Also, chat handles are a chance to intermix puns, literary references, and obscure but boring alphanumetic codes. The choices give insight on the personality of the Watchers themselves, and a little on what they think of their subjects.