Kronos (Highlander)

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Kronos is a male television character who features in Highlander.

Biography

Kronos was the leader of the Four Horsemen. Along with Methos, Silas and Caspian, he spread terror across two continents in the Bronze Age, killing while roaming the land and destroying everything in their way, just for the pleasure of it all. In November 1996, Kronos resurfaced in the city of Seacouver. He tried to reunite his infamous brethren, The Four Horsemen again. The Immortal female Cassandra, a former slave of The Four Horsemen was battling Kronos when Duncan MacLeod came across them. It was then that Duncan MacLeod discovered the dark past of his close friend, the wily and peace-loving Immortal Methos. For centuries, Methos was one of the infamous Four Horsemen. He destroyed, pillaged and plundered a myriad lands across the world, right alongside them.

During a raid on a small nomadic tribe, Methos took the newly Immortal Cassandra, fresh from her first death when she was stabbed by Kronos, as his personal slave and concubine. Methos kept Cassandra secluded from his brothers, and Kronos noticed. Since he didn't want the attention of his 'brothers' on anything but the Horsemen and their next raid, Kronos involved himself when he noticed Methos beginning to distance himself from his brethren, choosing to spend more time with Cassandra then the other three. Eventually, matters came to a head, and Kronos confronted Methos, demanding that he share Cassandra with the rest of them. Methos, reluctantly submitted, dismaying Cassandra, who would stab Kronos to death later that night. To Kronos' outrage, Methos failed to pursue Cassandra, allowing her to escape into the wilderness. By the time of ancient Greece, Kronos had not changed, "I'm Kronos. I always have been, and I always will be." But Methos had changed a great deal, and wanted to leave the Horsemen in order to learn and grow, rather than continue to raid and kill. Kronos would not hear of it: "Don't you understand, Methos? The only way to leave the Horsemen... is by leaving your head." Methos then poisoned Kronos, and locked him in a dry well, he hired priests to keep Kronos fed, but then disappeared, and didn't look back. Kronos was trapped for centuries before he escaped. He managed to find both Caspian and Silas eventually, but never Methos, and thought him dead for a long time.

In 615 BC: Mesopotamia, on one occasion, he encountered the Kurgan, following his triumph over another Immortal. Kronos tried to persuade him to join the Horsemen in order to make up for Methos's absence. The Kurgan refused, claiming that the rules stated that Immortal combat was strictly one on one, and that the Horsemen's alliance would not last, because there can be only one. The incident forever changed the relationship between the Horsemen, and soon the band was sundered and lost to each other. Kronos tried desperately to find followers equal to his former brethren, but none were able to match. "A dozen times I tried to take up the old ways. I failed. The others I rode with were trash. Scum. I had no one to plan my raids, no one who understood the true use of terror." Eventually Kronos gave up trying to reassemble the Four, assuming his brethren killed or lost, though he always dreamed of reunion. By the summer of 1867, Kronos rode with a band of Commancheros in the American West, under the alias of Melvin Koren. While in the frontier town of Agua Dulce, Texas, his band was confronted by a band of Texas Rangers who had been tracking them from their latest murders. The Ranger's group included Duncan MacLeod. While the Rangers dealt with the Commancheros, Duncan attacked Kronos. Kronos disarmed the Highlander and threatened his head with a scythe, but Rangers gunned him down before he could take Duncan's head. He escaped his grave a short time later and disappeared, before Duncan could continue the fight.

Cassandra and MacLeod decided that all four of them had to be killed, though MacLeod still found it difficult to see his friend as an enemy. The two of them followed a trail laid by Methos to Bordeaux, where they faced the Four Horsemen. Kronos and Caspian were defeated after fierce and drawn-out battles by Duncan MacLeod (who had known Kronos as the vicious killer and outlaw Melvin Koren in the American Old West). The Immortal Methos, who allied himself with Duncan MacLeod, beheaded the violent yet slow-witted Silas, his only true friend among The Four Horsemen. Cassandra then tried to kill Methos, her former captor, but was convinced by MacLeod to let him live.

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Notes

• Kronos was portrayed by actor Valentine Pelka where he featured in the setting of Highlander: The Series universe.

Appearances

• Highlander: The Series:

External Links

• Highlander Wiki Entry

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