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Grace Chandel has used her healing talents for over 600 years, even before she met her first death by stoning as a witch, and learned that she was Immortal.
Grace served as mentor to Kristin Gilles teaching her how to handle a sword if she needed to, but to avoid fighting if possible because, like most female Immortals, who lack the brute strength of a man, she would have to rely on her beauty and her brains if she was to survive. It was a lesson Gilles took to heart, and out of context, and used to kill numerous male immortals by disarming them with her sexuality and ambushing them when they spoke of leaving her. This caused an irreparable rift between her and Grace. Grace sent Gilles away, saddened over what she had become, and in part blaming herself for the monster she created. This was likely a reason as to why Grace stopped taking heads.
Grace met Duncan MacLeod in 1660. He happened upon her when she was acting as a midwife for a woman giving birth, and was told by her to either let her do her work or kill her where she stood. When Duncan did not kill her, they became friends. She eventually fell in love with another Immortal, Carlo Sendaro. Duncan had heard that he was overbearing and possessive, and warned her about him, but she was sure she could handle him, and accompanied him to South America. She spent 100 years on an Amazon plantation in Brazil with him. At last, unable to endure his possessive megalomania, she fled from him, changing her identity every few decades.
By the 1990s, Carlo found Grace again, and pursued her through Paris,murdering her husband, Paul Warren, and framed her for the murder. Distraught and grieving, she went to Duncan for help. Tessa, while initially concerned about Grace's presence; became warm and friendly towards her when she found out about the death of her husband and that she and Duncan were old friends but not involved romantically. Grace also expressed her concern that Duncan would lose his head if he went after Carlo, and that she did not want to lose a friend. He was stopped by Duncan. The two fought in the Metro, where Duncan knocked Carlo back to the third rail, and Carlo was electrocuted then fell on to the tracks. When the train passed, it took Sendaro's head and Duncan took the Quickening.
After Sendaro's death, Duncan helped Grace change her identity and acquire the needed documents to start a new identity. Grace kept with her plan to leave Paris and continue her work elsewhere.
Fighting Style[]
Despite not seen taking heads, Grace likely learned to use a one handed sword as Gilles used one herself.