First death: due to brutal physical abuse c. 100 B.C. -- Jerusalem

Apparent age: Early twenties

Status: Immortal

Primary weapon: Short sword and Dagger

Secondary weapon: Gun

The first and sometimes the only thing that people notice about David is his disability. In present day David uses a wheelchair to get around, at times he has been known to use crutches and before the advent of such, just a sturdy staff. On his feet David is approximately 5'7" and of slender, yet muscular build. Beyond that David has light brown hair that he (in this era) wears fairly long in a modern, boyish cut. He has warm brown eyes and a soft pleasant voice. In good honest people David usually inspires positive feelings ranging from well-meaning interest to downright protectiveness, while in those of less charitable disposition he mostly inspires feelings of contempt and an urge to lash out. Almost everyone who meets him gets a feeling of safety, quickly surmising that he must be completely harmless, a fact that has helped thousands upon thousands of people to bare their innermost feelings to him, relying on his inability to use it against them. David usually wears a thoughtful, somewhat sad expression although he is usually quick to smile.

David was born on the streets of Jerusalem somewhere around 100 B.C. Born perfectly normal he had the misfortune of being 'adopted' by a Master Beggar who ruthlessly broke his legs and forced them to heal crookedly, not only rendering them all but useless but also leaving David a constant pain in his legs that has been with him ever since. Despite everybody’s bleak expectations, David proved to be a very successful beggar and surprisingly enough managed to grow to adult age in something resembling good health. As an adult, life grew harsher and his pickings leaner.

During his early years he got used to constant physical and mental abuse, exposure and starvation. Somewhere during a particularly brutal assault, he must have died, although he himself doesn't know when it happened. Time passed and eventually he realized that everyone he grew up with was gone and no one remembered the Master any longer. From his customary spot outside the temple square David’s intelligence and natural curiosity enabled him to gather a surprising amount of knowledge. And over the years David evolved into a comparably educated person despite his otherwise unstimulating lifestyle. Inevitably he started to search for answers about himself and an explanation to his unnatural longevity. After a few years of fruitless contemplation, news of the Messiah reached the streets of Jerusalem. Feeling at last that answers were within his reach, he embarked on a small pilgrimage to meet the Christ and find his answers.

For a few intense years he traveled with the faithful as they in their turn followed the rumor of the Christ. Over and over again he heard him preach, saw him in a distance but never got close enough to actually speak to him, that is, not until one fated spring evening when Jesus went alone to the garden of Getsemaneh. To this day David has kept the story of that meeting and the tumultuous days that followed to himself. But it is clear that the meeting has made a profound impression on him, in many ways influencing everything that has happened since.

Over the course of the following years David slowly but unerringly made his way to the little village of Nazareth where he met a holy man Lazarus who became his Tutor and taught him all the basics of Immortal life. Born over a thousand years earlier in ancient Egypt, Lazarus, then a priest of Osiris, had since found other gods, and now preached a universal message of peace. During his time with Lazarus David also learned how to read and write, he learned religion, philosophy, history, geography, herbalism and alchemy, pretty much everything that the time had to offer. In addition to that he also received extensive training with what he now learned was his own special gifts, that of curing and consoling the minds and bodies of the suffering.

Together they traveled all over the middle east, Egypt and Europe, meeting with wise men and enlightened Immortals. All in all David stayed with Lazarus for almost 300 hundred years before Lazarus, who had left the path of war to pursue peace, realized that David had made no such choice and wouldn't have known what the choice meant even if it had been offered. To be whole he needed to come to terms with the darker aspects of the Immortal existence as well. With a sad heart he released David into the care of the best and worthiest warrior that he knew, Gabriel, a former Spartan general, who saw a worthy challenge in the crippled boy.

To everybody's surprise David did remarkably well, finding that while fate had denied him the means to be a good or graceful swordsman, he did have a rare talent for killing.

Travelling about, moving from historical hotspot to hotspot, keeping a fairly high profile, many militant Immortals reacted badly to them and a large percentage of these took it upon themselves to cut away this deformed branch on the Immortal pedigree. Challengers weren't hard to find and with each fight, each close brush with death, David learned more and more about darkness, in himself and without. Although the data is sketchy on the subject of exactly how he did it, the records clearly indicates that he did defeat several competent players during the centuries that they rode together.

At this time a nagging doubt started to grow in David's heart as he felt that he had somehow betrayed the trust that God had placed in him. Thus it was that David parted ways with Gabriel and went to a monastery in Northern Italy where he spent his next lifetime as a scribe.

Throughout the following centuries David took on the persona of a religious man, pilgrim, wandering monk, healer and sometimes priest. During this time David also found great joy in singing, finding that he had a beautiful tenor voice that also proved a great conduit for his empathic talents. Wandering from monastery to church, to small villages David kept away from the Game, hiding on Holy Ground, fighting only when absolutely forced to, using his powers of persuasion to plead for his life rather than take a life needlessly. At this time his healing abilities, awoken by Jesus and developed by Lazarus, came into full bloom. To his infinite joy he found that he could often heal injuries and cure illness, alleviate their pain and mend broken minds. Taking this as a sign that God had forgiven him he devoted his life to relieving the suffering of man.

It was also during this time that David first came into contact with the Watchers. During the mid 9th century his Watcher was a fellow monk going by the name of Brother Ignatius who soon became a close friend. Sensitive to David's plight and his desire to escape the Game he eventually altered the records to suggest that the David of previous centuries had finally lost his head on Crete 536 AD, instead entering David's first death in Italy in 620 AD, between which there hadn't been many entries anyway.

Slowly moving across Europe he met many Immortals, the most important being Amanda (then only a pre-immortal), with whom he spent a few nights in a stinking alley. This way David lived comparably peacefully up until the time of the Crusades when David got concerned about the religious frenzy. Following the masses he saw the limitless suffering and misguided aggression in the pilgrims and was saddened. Here David got to spend all his time and effort trying to do the true work of God, preaching peace and tending the sick and injured.

After his terrible experiences during the Crusades, the Inquisition hit David even harder, shaking the very foundations of his Faith. Caught up in the webs of intrigue, David found himself recruited by the Holy Inquisition, compiling and recording reports of witchcraft all over Europe. Thus it was that news reached him of Lazarus. In 1386 the Jesuits caught up with Lazarus, brought him in and charged him with witchcraft and heresy. With his many miraculous healings Lazarus became a very controversial issue, some claiming him to be an agent of the devil, some that he was truly touched by the Lord. Predictably the matter was resolved at a stake in Southern Spain where Lazarus died the death of a witch, or a martyr. When night fell and David finally managed to get to the body, scavengers had already taken parts to save as relics. Weeping David managed to cut him free and drag him into an alley where he revived, barely, a pitiful sight with his eyes plucked out and his hands mutilated. Horrified David held his old tutors charred body close and realized to his horror that his heart had been stolen by some greedy relic monger. In a barely audible voice Lazarus begged David to release him. Seeing the sorry state of his mentor and the fact that his immortality was faltering anyway, David eventually gathered his courage to decapitate the man who had been like a father to him.

Disheartened by the many atrocities committed in Gods name David left Holy Ground, determined to learn to understand the human condition and the true nature of Evil. With his curiosity and natural thirst for understanding David loved the Renaissance. Sadly he found over and over again he was shut out because of his disability, forced to stay on the outside looking in, eavesdropping through windows, hiding in cellars beneath classical gathering places, resorting to books and public lectures.

Sometimes his Immortality opened doors for him as some of the many Immortals highly placed in intellectual circles now and then invited him to a world of wonder. Most of the time he found though, that he was regarded as nothing more than a curiosity, a freak or at best a trained pet. And although he always enjoyed the entertainment, the music, the poetry, the debates, he felt more and more alienated from his fellow man. Convinced by others that he was worthless, he fled from many challengers, hiding on Holy Ground. As the age drew to a close David felt more lonely and insufficient than ever before. Distancing himself again from the Immortal community he spent most of his time hiding. More than once he ended up begging in the street, too tired and depressed to aim for something better. Again he sank into obscurity and the Watchers lost track of him.

It wasn't until during the French Revolution that again he was startled out of his passivity. Again he saw the suffering around him and rose to do his little part. In the chaos that followed he found new purpose and soon he managed to recover some threads of self-esteem. Here he also met Darius who reminded him greatly of his former tutor.

After that he again resolved to pursue his dreams of understanding and with a little help from his current Watcher he managed to get accepted to Oxford where he studied philosophy and literature. Taking heart from this experience he moved to France where he attended Sorbonne, Heidelberg and even Uppsala, studying history, linguistics, science and arts. During his time he also wrote a lot of books, some of which have achieved some renown.

During the first World War David of course ended up in the trenches were he met MacLeod and Sean Burns. During the time between the wars David was in Warsaw where he was increasingly worried about the Pogrom and finally ended up running a lifeline for persecuted Jews. The end of the war he spent in Treblinka, and similar establishments paying for his efforts against the Third Reich. After the war David was tired of mans cruelty to each other and decided to follow the emigration ships to America, to see if a new continent could possibly offer something different. Unfortunately it didn't prove to be the land of opportunities for him and again he ended up homeless and starving in the streets. During the 1950s David begged on the streets of New York until he got dragged up by Amanda who decided that he should get his act together. During the sixties and seventies he managed a small out-of-the-way church together with his current Watcher Elizabeth, again sinking into some kind of suspended animation, only broken by the efforts of his Watcher who fed him and clothed him, regularly dragging him out to dinner or to a movie.

During the 90s the first truly new thing in almost 1500 years happened to David. He fell completely and utterly in love. Her name was Catherine Daleworth, a woman of great integrity and strength. A former British agent and freelance Nazi-hunter, she stepped into his church one night after a particularly violent day and poured out her heart in confession. From that day his life would never be the same. She brought out in him longings that had been dormant for two thousand years and for the first time ever he shared all his secrets with another human being. Inspired by her energy and the similarity in their goals and ambitions, David found himself feeling alive as he had never truly felt before. In a week she had him out of his church; in a month she had brought him fully into the nineties and in a year they traveled the world together gathering information about war criminals, sometimes even participating in bringing them in. In 2010 they got married and settled down, living happily until 2021, when she died, beheaded by an Immortal, Konrad, who had been the tutor of several of the Nazi war-criminals that she had helped bring to justice. After that David pressured his Watcher for information, followed the Immortal to New York and avenged her. The first time in two thousand years that he ever actually challenged anyone to a duel.

After killing this Immortal David stayed in New York, not sure what to do. Currently between Watchers he knows no one to talk to and no one knows him. The energy that drove him here has subsided leaving only a dull ache and a profound longing. Although he has been seriously contemplating laying down his life, he knows that Catherine would never, ever forgive him for giving up. Thus he goes on. With Catherine’s estate he is economically independent and cannot in good conscience go back to begging.

As he is currently unable to forgive God for Catherine’s meaningless death he does not wish to return to the Church. Instead he has chosen to go to college, studying, for no apparent reason, computer science. He also occupies himself giving singing lessons to underprivileged children (pretending that he makes some money that way) on the side.