Sunda Kastagir
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| Race | Human, Immortal |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Black |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Age | 270 (at time of death) |
| Born in | 1715, Ethiopia |
| Affiliations | Connor MacLeod, The Kurgan |
| Weapons | Manchu broadsword |
| Watchers | Joma Kikuyu (1983-1985) |
| Status | Deceased (1985) |
| Killed by | The Kurgan |
| Portrayed by | Hugh Quarshie |
| First appearance | Highlander |
| Movies | 1 |
Sunda Kastagir is a fictional character from the Highlander movies, portrayed by actor Hugh Quarshie. He is an Immortal.
Although Kastagir is a character from the movies continuity, he is mentioned in Highlander: The Series, making him also part of that universe.
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[edit] History
Born in Ethiopia in 1715, Kastagir became a formidable fighter and brilliant tactician. He has spent his life learning and discovering all of the secrets that the world holds. Kastagir eventually became a good friend of Connor MacLeod, and, from December 1777 to June 1778, both were part of General Washington's army in Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War. Once he had to look for Washington's wooden dentures in the snow.
He posed as an Eastern Prince while spending time with MacLeod in America in the early 1780s. In 1783, in a party organized in Boston by Kastagir, a drunken MacLeod was forced to duel a man, after having insulted his wife. He would be mortally wounded and get up and provoke the challenger repeatedly until, tired of the joke, MacLeod finally apologized to him and left as the frustrated gentleman shot his assistant. That party would be their last one together.
After that, Kastagir spend some time in the West Indies, but soon disappeared, since he may have worked in a farm as a slave. In 1879, he lived in the camp of Zulu King Cetewayo and fought in the Zulu War against the British. He again met there MacLeod, who had been taken as a prisoner by the Zulus. Kastagir helped Connor escape and showed him the way to the closest British camp. They would only meet again in 1985.
That was the year of The Gathering, when the last few would fight to the last for The Prize. Living in Chad, he had to go to New York, where The Gathering would take place. He was one of six contenders, along with MacLeod, The Kurgan, Iman Fasil, Yung Dol Kim and Osta Vazilek. After Vazilek and Kim were killed by The Kurgan and Fasil was killed by MacLeod, There were only three left. He decided to first face The Kurgan, whom he had previously encountered in 1750 in North Africa. However, before that, he met with MacLeod in Central Park, so they could celebrate their last day of friendship. That night, they went to a bar, the “Doug Out”, where they had fun getting drunk with Det. Bedsoe, the cop in charge of following MacLeod, who was the suspect of the beheadings that had taken place. Shortly thereafter, he faced The Kurgan in a remote alley. In the battle that ensued, Kastagir lost his head.
[edit] Alternative Continuity
Despite the Highlander Series belonging in a different continuity, Kastagir appears in The Kurgan's Watcher database as one of his beheadings in the episode The Watchers. Also in the Watcher Chronicles it is mentioned that in 1983, Joma Kikuyu, later the Watcher Coordinator of the South Africa region, was assigned as Kastagir's Watcher. Hence Kastagir belongs in the TV series continuity as well.
[edit] Appearances
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