Time Travelers

Roger finally discovers who the Nucklavee is when he finds William Buccleigh “Buck” MacKenzie lurking around Lallybroch in the 1980s. Buck heard Craigh na Dun buzzing sound while passing and went to check out the noise only to be sent forward in time. After arriving he saw Roger and Brianna and followed them back to Lallybroch where he’s been getting the children to give him food. Roger and Brianna aren’t that happy with Buck because he is reason Roger was hanged. Buck is confused by what happened to him and Roger and Brianna explain they are all time travelers and that Roger his he many times over grandson. Buck’s attitude seems to change and he is invested in what happens to the MacKenzies.

Source: Where the Waters Meet, A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers

While ministering to soldiers, Roger tells a man who asks for advice, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” A man among the conscripted says, “Ali,” as he recognizes the quote from the future. Roger is stunned to find a time traveler. Wendigo Donner introduces himself and asks Roger for help. He has a gemstone and just wants to go back to his own time, but needs help escaping.

Roger talks with Brianna about this and ultimately decides he can not help Donner escape.

Source: A Life Well Lost

Who is the man in the jail? He stole one of Flora MacDonald’s emeralds from her necklace which suggests he was actually after the stone and not the necklace. As we know, gem stones are needed for steering and protection through the stones.

Claire hears him whistling “Colonel Bogey March” which was a song that came about in 1914 but became the anthem of WWII. This proves the man isn’t from the 18th century.

Source: Give Me Liberty

Claire encounters Wendigo Donner while in the captivity of Lionel Brown and his men. After confirming she’s from the future he says he traveled back in time with a group of American Indians in 1968. She tells Donner of Otter Tooth’s (Robert ‘Bob’ Springer) fate but Donner is confused because they came back to save their people. Donner wishes to go back to the future and Claire promises to help him for helping her but he doesn’t.

Source: Never My Love

Jeremiah “Jemmy” MacKenzie is the son of Brianna and Roger MacKenzie, though believed to be the biological son of Brianna’s rapist Stephen Bonnet.

Jemmy is drawn to gemstones because of a noise they make. However, when playing with Claire’s opal (Otter Tooth’s); he claims it is hot. Brianna, Roger, and Claire feel it’s warmth though Ian and Jamie do not. While holding the stone it breaks apart causing a sound much like the standing stones which only travelers can hear.

Brianna believes Jem must be Roger’s child and he has the time traveling gene from both his parents for it to be so strong as to break a gemstone.

Source: Journeycake, Down the Rabbit Hole

The Mohawk tell Jamie, Claire and Ian about Otter Tooth (the previous owner of Claire’s stone). He appeared to know the future. He told the Mohawk of the future. He tried to convince them to war on the white man going so far as to scalp some nearby. He angered the elders who sent him away but he was always nearby ranting and raving. They thought him possessed and chased him for days until they caught up to him and killed him. They continued to hear his words even after taking his head and so buried his head far away, under a tree where Claire eventually found his skull and satchel with the opal inside.

Young Ian gives Claire and Jamie Otter Tooth or Robert Springer’s journal. In Springer’s journal he mentions others: Rains Hard, Strong Walker, Six Turtles and Talks with Spirits. It seems Otter Tooth went back too far.

Source: Journeycake, Man of Worth

As Roger is a descendant of Geillis Duncan he also can hear the calling of the standing stones. Fiona takes him up to Craigh na Dun so he can follow Brianna.

Fiona can not hear the stones.

Claire tells Roger he is related to Geillis Duncan who she met after traveling back to 1743. Geillis was to be burned as a witch after she gave birth to the child she carried. Claire knew the child was Dougal’s and tells Roger his genealogical chart is wrong when it gets back to that point in history and that he is the descendant of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie.

Source: Dragonfly in Amber