Connor Macleod Sword Views

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Officially licensed authentic replica of Connor MacLeod’s katana. This iconic sword is for the first time being made with a real hand-forged, 1045 carbon steel blade and authentically detailed faux ivory handle. The United Cutlery replica has been meticulously crafted using actual prop reference materials. The handle grip is cast one-piece hardened resin, to precisely match the look, feel, and weight of real aged ivory. This version features the correct; 24K gold plated extra thick stuba, authentic metal tang caps, improved sculptural details, and authentic red scabbard with genuine red leather sword hangar to match the one worn by Ramirez in Highlander 1. 28 blade, 40 1/4 overall. United Cutlery, UC2593.

In the 16th century, Connor has married a woman named Heather MacLeod (Beatie Edney). One day, a stranger named Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery) arrives at their home, and MacLeod is hit by a sudden, painful sensation, which Ramirez calls the Quickening. Later on, Ramirez and MacLeod are out on a loch in a rowboat, and Ramirez throws MacLeod into the water. Unable to swim, MacLeod panics and begins to sink, but he finds himself still alive. Ramirez finally reveals that they are part of a select group born as Immortals, who are destined to fight and kill each other (by decapitation) until only one survives; this last Immortal will come to wield a prize which will give him supreme power over all mankind. Ramirez begins to train Connor in the use of the Quickening and the ways of the sword.

A novelization of the film was written by Gary Kilworth. It expanded more on the movie by telling how The Kurgan met his first death, his training with an Immortal Arab known as The Bedouin whom he eventually kills. The novel also reveals how The Kurgan gets his customized broadsword and his battle with an Immortal Mongol before meeting MacLeod in 1536. The novel also expands on Connor's friendship with the African Immortal Sunda Kastagir. A flashback of them during the Zulu Natal Wars of 1879 describes how Connor was captured by Zulu King Cetewayo's men and how Kastagir helps his friend escape and showing Connor the way to the closest British camp. Rachel, in the novel, poses as Connor's mother.

It is never revealed where or when exactly Connor got the sword. Though it is known that he used it from the time of his first battle with the Kurgan in 1536 (while battling Clan Frazer), up until the death of his wife Heather MacLeod in 1590. He left it at her burial site to serve as a headstone. He then set out, taking Ramirez's Katana with him in its stead as he left his homeland.