terajk

...huh. This would be my problem with theorising without having seen all the episodes of the show! I was not familiar with Xavier St Cloud. I've now read up on him, and yeah, I'd say that that would make sense, that it would take quite a while for regeneration to occur, but that it would happen eventually. Because seriously. Not even any missing fingers among all of these old people who spend so much of their lives fighting?

I presume a finger wouldn't take as long to grow back, relatively speaking, but losing an entire arm as Xavier did would take quite a while, and it makes sense for one year to not have been anywhere near long enough.

Perhaps regeneration of this sort is absolutely possible, but not many immortals know it because too often when they lose a body part, it hampers their fighting enough that they get killed before it grows back. So Methos is absolutely aware that it's possible, but Duncan doesn't, maybe? Or maybe he knows that a finger or something would grow back, but doesn't know whether the ability would extend to larger parts of the body? Something like that.

Trying to figure out all the mechanics of Highlander style Immortality is always fascinating!