Lukas Numan
Name: Lukas Numan
Alias: Stephen Alexander
Date of Birth : Sometime in the year 2600 B.C.
Place of Birth : what is now known as Holland
Date of First Death: Unknown
Status: Immortal/Watcher
Primary Weapon: The Setting Sun Katana (Named so as whoever has fought against this sword has never seen another sun.)
Secondary Weapon: Anything that is to hand
Not much is known about this Immortal until the time of the birth of Jesus. It's believed that he joined and army and killed many soldiers in multi-combat and/or single combat. He has also taken the heads of many Immortals.
In the year 5 BC he was asked by the king of the country he was living in to help him travel to a far away land where he had been told a new king would be born. Lukas decided to travel with this king to Bethlehem. When they reached Bethlehem, they paid their respects to the newborn "king". The others went back to their homelands, but Lukas went into hiding in Israel. Over the next 200 years, he traveled around the Middle East, taking the heads of many Immortals during this time. He then left to travel the Far East.
In 220 A.D. he found himself in China. There he joined one of the clans and picked up the Chinese styles of fighting and weapons skills. Lukas also picked up the Chinese language very easily and within years he became a master at all three. He killed so many warriors over this time that he cannot remember many of his fights -- apart from the fights that he fought against Immortals.
In 540 AD with the development of Kung Fu, he began to train with a passion and soon became a master at both Wing Cheun and Shaolin Kung Fu. In 700 AD, Lukas decided to move to France. He spent the next thirty years as a farmer in Tours.
In 732, he joined Charles Martel’s army to fight against the Moors. He took many lives that day and even took two heads. He stayed there through Charlemagne's coronation in 800 AD, but when the Vikings came, he fled to China during the Tang dynasty. In 850 he took the head of a Persian merchant and with it, his knowledge of that trade. Soon he was well off with many traders working for him.
In 1270, he moved to Mongolia where he joined the Mongol armies. He was part of many invading parties over the next 130 years. Lukas took many heads during this time and gained much knowledge from those Immortals. From 1400 to 1650, he was in hiding in the Far East, only appearing to fight people who wanted his head. In 1650, Lukas re-emerged as a Ju-jitsu fighter. This is when he met his first teacher, Choi Jinn, a fellow Immortal and a Ju-jitsu grand master. They began training together and became good friends.
Amazingly, Lukas was able to beat Choi within twenty years. It had taken Choi all his life to become a grand master. Choi then taught Lukas every move that he knew. Then one night another Immortal broke in and took Choi's head. Lukas was aware of this Immortal and took his head. Lukas received the most powerful Quickening he had ever received. It knocked him off his feet as the Quickening surged through his body for about an hour. Then he passed out from shear exhaustion.
Lukas then traveled around Japan learning as much about Ju-jitsu as he could. He sought to learn from all the grand masters. It inevitably came to the point where he knew all they could teach him. In 1870 he became involved in Kendo as it seemed a natural progression as he knew how to defeat an opponent by hand, but he wanted to improve his sword fighting technique so he went into constant training. It was not unknown for him to spend 36 hours a week in training with his sword.
Lukas quickly built a revered reputation as an undefeatable opponent. He was also taught nin-jitsu and became a ninja assassin. From 1915 to 1953, he went into hiding in Tibet. In 1954, he traveled to Korea where he was to spend the following 30 years of his life. He learnt Tae-kwon-do and soon became a master at that as well. He soon was able to beat many opponents and even occasionally put on shows where he would defeat a multitude of opponents.
In 1984, he move to Chicago, USA to set up his own dojo he taught martial arts, but he also taught his students about theology and philosophy. In 1987, he joined the Watchers Society while running his dojo part-time. In 1994, he witnessed the murder of his then wife by Hunters who were after him. Lukas followed them, killing them one by one in the most painful methods that he could imagine. Since then, he has hunted the Hunters and killed so many of them that he has lost count. From 2000 on, Lukas has taken a part-time job as a physical education teacher at Arizona college and he still finds time to run his dojo and Watching his assignment.
