Name: Shauna Lynn Anderson

Born: June 24, 1966 -- Ostersund, Sweden

Died: August 10, 1992 -- Mt. Fuji, Japan

Status: Immortal

All the stories were great, except the one of the Four Horsemen, especially of the one called Death. That one gave Shauna nightmares, but Cassandra held her and spoke gently to her, telling her that it was a story and stories can't hurt people. Her voice was so soothing that Shauna never had another nightmare.

In her high school years, her parents began to go out of town more often. They were part of some organization that studied people. They didn't talk about it much. Shauna thought it was some African tribe but never asked as she was busy learning the martial arts and about Japan. Shauna studied two martial arts, Aikido and Kendo, learning from a Japanese neighbor. She loved her neighbor like a grandfather. She honored him by learning the ways and language of his home land. She was an adept pupil. When she graduated from junior college, she had a scholarship with the University of Tokyo in Japanese History and Culture (1986).

Shauna's neighbor and his wife decided it was a good time to go home and invited her to live with them while she attended college. She was honored. She treated and respected them as if they were her grandparents. The next four years were heaven. She graduated with honors. The staff was impressed with the Giagen, making them and her parents very proud. Her parents had move to Japan in her senior year of college (1990).

Two weeks after graduating, Shauna's parents were involved in an auto accident. They were seriously injured. Her father was the worst. He was so concerned about his job as he didn't want anyone taking his assignment. Shauna learned then what her parents really did for a living and that the tattoos where not some college stunt. They were Watchers of Immortals. When they finished explaining, she knew that Cassandra was an Immortal from the stories she had told but didn't mention this to her parents.

Wishing to see her father get better, she started to Watch her father's assignment. Kazunori Tsukemo was a 1000 year old Immortal. He was tall for a Japanese man, standing at 5'7" and weighing 190 pounds. In feudal Japan, he was a giant and feared. He was a legend. Of course he had changed his name many times. His complexion was fair enough that he was considered half-Japanese and half-white. He was a master of the sword. Shauna met him at a party. They became friends, never telling her parents. Then they became lovers and finally married. She couldn't tell them what she had done and he knew of the Watchers. He had noticed her father and learned of what he was. Kazunori had a home on Mt. Fuji and wanted to live there in peace for awhile (late 1990).

The day Shauna went to tell her parents that she was leaving they were killed in an attack, assassinated. Shauna arrived as the assassin left out the back. Her father told her that she was adopted and that he loved her very much. He died in her arms. Her mother was already dead. The day after the funeral, Kazunori disappeared for three days. When he returned, he said they were avenged and could rest now.

Kazunori and Shauna lived for two years on Mt. Fuji. He had told her after two months that she was a pre-Immortal. He decided that he would continue her training of the katana and several other weapons. He taught her more of the Game and what it meant to be an Immortal. They also agreed that on her 35th birthday that he would kill he so that she would grow no older. In this, she would still be young and very skilled. This never came to be.

(late 1992) On the night of their second wedding anniversary, they were taken captive by six men. They had the Watchers tattoo but said they were Hunters. They were evil men waiting for their leader. So to entertain themselves, they raped Shauna repeatedly for nearly 24 hours. She was close to death from the rape and beatings. They had killed Kazunori repeatedly so that he could do nothing to stop them. Their leader arrived just as Kazunori revived. He called himself James Horton. He explained that her husband could not be allowed to live and that, unfortunately, Shauna couldn't either because she had seen their faces.

Horton took the katana off the wall and took Kanzunori's head. Shauna broke free and feel at he husband's body, crying. Then his Quickening began to flow. It was powerful and started to rip through the house. It was so strong and forceful that Horton and his men ran, fearing for their lives. They never saw how it wrapped itself around Shauna lovingly and then ripped through her heart. It spoke to her of great love and dreams, of honor and revenge. She died there with her husband.

Horton and his men returned and found Shauna dead, killed by something -- possibly the Quickening. They left with their rewards from the house. Shauna awoke to find that this had not been so distant dream. She buried her husband on the mountain he so loved. She left the life she had come to know.

(1993) Shauna found herself a very rich woman thanks to her late husband. She put away over half the money and invested some of what was left. She took the remainder and started to locate the Hunters. She became a hunter of the Hunters. Shauna located the men, one every year, and did to them what they had done to her with the same amount of men. Then when the men she hired had been gone for an hour, she would go in and look at the Hunter, never speaking. When he realized who she was, she would kill him by taking his head. Shauna learned from the third man that the Immortal Duncan MacLeod had killed James Horton. She sent MacLeod a single rose with a note that read: "Thank your for Horton."

(1999) After eight years since the death of her husband and herself, all the Hunters that were involved were now dead. Shaun visited placed that Kazunori had talked with her about, always leaving a single rose behind. She traveled around the world -- to over twenty cities. In half of them, she was forced to take heads of Immortals that could have taken hers so easily if not for the training of her adopted grandfather and her late husband.

(2001) Shauna opened a small import/export shop in a local mall in Portland, Oregon. For several years she did quite well although she had no real experience with retail. But people now felt it was the right time for the Japanese look in their homes and Shauna provided them with what they needed to achieve that.

(2004) Shauna ran into Cassandra in Los Angeles at the airport. Both had just returned from over seas. They spent about two weeks catching up on what had happened in their lives since they had last seen each other. Cassandra was sad to hear about Shauna's parents. She said she had not known of the Watchers until she had met Duncan MacLeod's friend, Joe Dawson. Shauna knew Joe by reputation as her father had mentioned him a couple of times.

Cassandra confessed that she had known from the day she scared away the bully that Shauna was to be an Immortal. Shauna explained that she had figured that Cassandra was an Immortal when her father confessed what he was to her. Cassandra's stories gave her away. Then they went their separate ways.

(2009) Shauna sold her store and decided to travel again. Money was the least of her problems as she always managed to invest in the right items. She decided now was the time to try something wild when she finished traveling. Shauna decided to model a little.

(2015) Shauna got out of modeling and decided to just live alone for awhile. She needed some peace and quiet. She moved to a small town in the Sierra Mountains. There she lived for the last ten years. (2025) She's wealthier now then when she started her investments. Now she lives, once again traveling, seeing the world.