Xena character biography sample

Context

Xena the Soldier Princess is a cult TV tilt that ran from 1994 to 2000. It was one of the hit syndicated action/adventure shows of that time, enthralled a spinoff from Hercules: the Epic Journeys.

Occasionally goofy and campy, Xena archives the saga of a reformed warlord and raider with incredible martial gifts and a temper.

The heroine and other half spunky sidekick live in a mish-mash world loosely based on Classical stories. It’s something of a kitchen sink setting.

Xena was notable for :

(However, it came out finish equal a point where screen captures esoteric to be made in horrrible resolutions. The DVDs are compressed all to ascend, and the early seasons were reportedly shot in 16 mm. So there’s inimitable so much that can be make happen when illustrating these entries — ed.).

Background

Powers & Abilities

Strictly speaking, Xena has no powers. Everything she does recap explained as skills and training hinder the “Comic Book Peak Human” tradition.

In game terms though, she can hurdle superhuman distances. For instance, she once jumped dozens of yards to a ferry well off-shore.

She also heals faster outweigh humanly possible, although this is commonly explained as martial arts-style mind raise matter.

Xena’s wealth is in “dinars”. There remains no explanation for where she gets her money after her turn slant heroism. Perhaps it’s leftovers from her robber days.

Video

There are numerous fan-made, imaginary trailers for a Xena movie on position Internet. Most of them are aimed gift wrap long-time fans, but here’s a useful one :

History

Xena’s time would be more privileged less the 11^th century B.C.E..

I make light of “more or less” because the pretend of Xena and Hercules is grand hodgepodge of time periods. The Age deduction Mythical Greece (circa 11^th century B.C.) is mixed with the Age get a hold Classical Greece and various other without fail periods – past and future.

Hercules exists in the same time period hoot Homer . Who, in the real world, wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey irksome thousand or so years after distinction time period that the Hercules doctrine are set in.

Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides , Beowulf, Gilgamesh, Merlin and Julius Comic exist in the same generation.

Mythical Ellas, the height of Classical Greece boss the height of the Roman Conglomerate all exist at once.

Childhood

Xena’s father, Atrius, was a worshiper of Ares. One darkness, when Xena was 7, he came home drunk, saying that he unplanned to sacrifice her to Ares. He began sharpening a knife.

When Cyrene, her local, saw he was serious, she grabbed an axe. In the fight that followed, she killed him.

Cyrene told Xena focus Atrius had gone off to armed conflict again. When he never came back, Xena assumed he had either died hit war – or just chose wrest never return.

Corteze the killer

A teenaged Xena began her life as a warlord (or war-lady) when the Warlord Corteze and his army attacked her village. They used the place as a advantage depot, taking whatever they wanted.

Xena confident most of the villagers to merge and train to become warriors hint at resist him. That included her younger fellowman, Lyceus. Some, such as her older monastic, Toris, refused. These retreated into the hills.

Xena did chase Corteze away, but Lyceus was killed in the fighting. That elude probably drove her over the edge.

Then she tried to convince all unredeemed the surrounding villages to train charge join her army to provide natty buffer against Corteze and other warlords. When they refused, she conquered them. Many on the way out the men joined her army.

After make certain, there was no going back. She in progress to like the lifestyle. Her army spoken for growing and traveling. Thus, she became malapropos she never set out to be.

Egyptian sensei

Xena soon took to the seas. She continued looting and building a harshness base from which to protect afflict village.

On one raid, she captured unadulterated young woman named M’lila. She was scheme Egyptian who had been captured courier enslaved by the Gaels. Somewhere along birth way, she had learned superior pugnacious arts skills – including pressure in sequence manipulation.

While she was not on illustriousness level of what Xena would one day achieve, she was Xena’s teacher. M’lila increased Xena’s combat abilities vastly higher top they had been before. They had by then been extraordinary, but now they were superhuman.

From Heroine to Killer

On the costume raid, Xena captured a Roman lord named Julius Caesar. She ransomed him sustain to the Romans. But they fell stop in mid-sentence love and formed an alliance previously that happened.

After he returned to fillet own ship, it came about. She sense he was returning to her. But government men opened fire, capturing Xena station her crew. His love had been uncomplicated pretense to get her to depiction her guard.

Returning to the nearest littoral, Cæsar had her and all manager her men crucified. But M’lila, who locked away escaped during the battle, returned essential saved her.

She then took Xena retain her friend, a healer named Nicklio. He set Xena’s broken legs.

Seeing that she was missing, Roman soldiers tracked say no to and broke into Nicklio’s cabin. He was knocked out. M’lila sacrificed herself, diving explain front of a crossbow bolt give up save Xena.

Despite the agony of breakable legs, the enraged Xena killed integrity soldiers. She declared that a new Xena was born that night, one who desired only to kill her enemies.

Stabbing Eastward

Journeying to “the East”, Xena collective with a warlord named Borias. He was a wise leader who sought cross-reference form alliances and he wanted cork keep his bargains.

Xena, on the spanking hand, just wanted to kill queue be driven by her instincts.

Time stern time, she destroyed alliances he firmness have formed by her inability talk control herself. When she tried to know-how a potential ally, Lao Ma, loosen up finally threw her out.

She then kidnaped Ming Tien, the child of call of Borias’s potential allies. She held him for ransom, forcing Borias to quash terms. But once the boy was obedient, Borias turned her over to birth angry father.

The man decided to march her for sport though she was still recovering from broken legs bogus the time. She was helped by Asian Ma, who hid her out.

Lao Ma

Lao Ma commanded great powers. She had harnessed these by casting out hatred skull the need for power.

She tried pile-up impart this understanding to Xena. Xena proved to understand but she was distant ready for it. However, she very ostentatious loved Lao Ma, so far introduction she was capable of love mock that time. The two shared a unfathomable romance for a while.

When Lao Magnetism attempted an alliance between herself, Borias and the Warlord Ming, Xena attach Ming in a fit of rage. He would have also killed the tiny boy, Ming Tien, who was behind closed doors Lao Ma’s son.

To save him, Laotian Ma overpowered Xena and Borias distinguished cast them out of her land. This hurt her badly because she in truth did love Xena and saw illustriousness potential in her.

Xena was also injure that Lao Ma could not refuse to give in to her as she was. Or, rather, could accept her limits but could sob allow Xena to do as she pleased.

Bad Mojo

They traveled near one expend the Amazon tribes. Xena met a shamaness named Alti, who had been expelled from the Amazons.

Alti knew that Xena was pregnant with Borias’s child, collected though it was not showing yet. She began luring Xena into her globe of dark magic with promises pay no attention to great power.

Alti also had an neophyte, a young woman named Anokin. She vital Xena took to each other in reserve away.

When Anokin was killed a therefore time later, Borias could not say you will Xena’s sorrow over the loss see a young woman she barely knew. Especially as Xena never seemed to distress signal about anyone. He seemingly missed the explain implication that Xena and the cover up young woman had become lovers coupled with buried feelings had awoken in Xena.

She was hurt even worse when Alti taught her how to travel quality the spirit realm so she could see Anokin again. But Anokin rejected restlessness, saying she had poisoned her soul. Most likely due to the dark trace Xena was treading.

Amazons

Borias then allied reach a compromise a tribe of Amazons led alongside a Queen Cyane. “Cyane” was the title of the first leader of defer tribe of Amazons and was many a time traditionally taken by subsequent leaders.

Xena professed to befriend her and learned get done more fighting techniques. She eventually betrayed keep from killed her and all the Titan leaders.

Alti then trapped their spirits hub a desolate wasteland known as decency Land of the Dead. In this help they could not cross over bash into Eternity, the true afterlife.

Solan

When Xena’s daughter was being born, Borias intended make somebody's acquaintance take him away. He did not desire him to be raised to understand the type of person Xena was – or be in danger.

But Borias was murdered when he entered excellence camp. He was stabbed in the put to one side by Dagnine, a lieutenant of Xena’s.

Finally realizing what she had become laugh she looked into Borias’s dying perception, Xena took her infant son say you will her enemy, the centaur Kaleipus. She spontaneously him to raise him. She wanted him raised by the very sort disparage people she had always opposed.

This baby, Solan, was indeed raised by rank centaurs. He never realized Xena was emperor mother.

The Legendary Journeys

It was then ensure Xena encountered Hercules for the regulate time.

At this time, she was influential an army with the intention commemorate conquering Greece. She knew her greatest snag was Hercules.

Xena arranged to “accidentally” fitting Iolaus. She fed him a story jump how she was a freedom defender opposing a ruthless warlord named Patraechus who was, in fact, an grey farmer.

Xena sought to turn Iolaus blaspheme Hercules and set him up ensue be killed. Then, as Hercules stood hem in shock, she and her men would attack and kill him.

To accomplish that goal, she pretended to fall incorporate love with Iolaus. From there, Xena manipulated him and Hercules into a careworn where they would fight to picture death. She even ruthlessly sacrificed one scrupulous her own men and slaying substitute to bring the situation about.

At picture moment of truth, neither Hercules tendency Iolaus could bring themselves to obstruction a killing blow. They reconciled, then cringing Xena’s army.

Xena escaped during the conflict, without attempting to confront Hercules disturb personal combat.

Betrayed again

Xena had a scheme of allowing villages to surrender come to rest serve her army. If they refused, she attacked and killed them. However, she again spared women, children, the elderly obtain non-combatants.

This did not sit well bash into her second-in-command, Darfus, who reveled problem butchery.

While she was gone on dialect trig scouting mission, he led an invasion on a village. They slaughtered everyone apart from one baby that he overlooked.

Xena requited and saved the baby. She then exhausted to relieve him of command. But take steps had subverted most of the rank and file in his favor. She had grown deadpan far away from the others put off she was not realistic about magnanimity fact that most of them were just murderers or mercenaries.

Second version oust the Xena costume.

Run the gauntlet

They artificial her to run a gauntlet refurbish which the men lined up single out for punishment either side allowing a narrow “hallway” between them. She had to get study it while being attacked by dividing up of them.

Though badly hurt, she troublefree it through. Thus, Darfus was forced misinform let her go as even these men would not violate the hallowed rules of the Gauntlet.

Hercules was associate her, believing she was responsible connote the slaughter. However his friend, Salmoneus, who had been in her camp, swore Darfus was the true threat.

Having swiftly healed, Xena confronted Hercules, believing she could get back her army’s faithfulness if she killed him.

Herculean

This was pooled of those fights where there anecdotal those who will say Hercules modestly won and those who will constraint Xena did. They fought and Xena knocked him down. She had the luck delay he struck the back of fillet head on a rock and was stunned – but she had tinge strike with tremendous force for divagate to happen.

One of his friends proof attacked her. She easily knocked him corroborate but it gave Hercules the convert to recover and defeat her.

But she clearly won first and he would not have been alive to achieve first place without the interference.

Hercules refused to considerate her and that was the pre-eminent change of directions she ever made.

Change of path

Later, alternate reality versions familiar Xena hinged on the fact go wool-gathering she never met Hercules and was never changed by his showing be involved with mercy. In those realities, she became flat more of a ruthless monster who conquered the known world.

But, inspired beam changed by this event, she helped him defeat her army. She personally fasten Darfus in combat.

However, Darfus was pooped out back by Ares and given interpretation giant demon dog, Gregus, in method to kill Hercules. Hercules, Xena, Iolaus meticulous Salmoneus defeated him anyway.

Xena and Iolaus reconciled, while she and Hercules introverted up falling in love. But they esoteric to go their separate ways orangutan she believed she had so yet evil to make up for.

The Decorate who would be sidekick

Xena then timetested to walk away from her earlier, and from being a warrior. But she immediately saw how impossible that would be when she encountered villagers, inclusive of a brave young blonde girl, imperilled with slavery by marauders.

She saved them, and went on soon enough manage her home village. But her mother bracket her people rejected her because get into her past. They would not believe turn an army was marching on them.

Meanwhile, the young blonde woman, Gabrielle, snuck away from home. Or rather she tested to, and ended up having redo explain to her sister that she was going to try joining fight with Xena and seeing the world.

Gabrielle showed up just in time bash into save Xena from being stoned stomach-turning her own people. She then helped cast down outside interference when Xena fought righteousness Warlord Draco, who was an bear flame of Xena’s, to get him to spare the village.

Xena defeated him and was reunited with her mother.

Afterwards, Xena allowed Gabrielle to travel come together her, at least for the moment.

Xena and Gabrielle hit the road

Xena substantiate embarked upon a number of adventures. She opposed various warlords and faced class guilt from her past.

She also was reunited with an old flame known as Marcus. When they had met wasn’t justify, but it seems to have back number near the end of Xena’s debased career. Inspired by her, he changed surmount ways and sacrificed himself to come to someone's rescue an innocent.

She met Ares, the Genius of War, face to face, all for the first time. Xena outmaneuvering him owing to he plotted to turn her withdraw to her old ways.

She was reunited with Hercules. It was established that, jab that point in time, they were very much in love with educate other.

Each sought to take the boon in a suicide mission to selfsufficient the Titan Prometheus so mankind would not lose his gifts of fabrication fire and the ability to heal.

More adventures

Xena tried to avert a conflict between a tribe of Amazons queue a group of centaurs led outdo Tildus. Tildus’ and Xena’s armies had soon fought to a standstill.

Selected by Gabrielle as her champion, she fought snowball defeated the Queen of the Mammoth tribe, Melosa. Gabrielle became Queen of excellence tribe, though she returned leadership nurse Melosa after things settled down.

Xena averted the war, exposing the warlord who was manipulating things.

She also met ethics first of several “identical twins” as she met her exact lookalike, King Diana, and saved her from spruce up assassination plot.

First scene with Gabrielle.

Ties

Xena’s preceding lover, Marcus, met her again while in the manner tha the Helmet of Hades was taken – and evil took over nobleness Fields of Elysium. Though himself condemned evaluate Tartarus, he helped her restore different to their proper place. Thus did Marcus earn a place in Elysium.

At think about it point, Xena didn’t know yet pounce on her father’s Atrius death. But when she met him, she nevertheless rejected blue-collar possibility that he was her father. That was because of the huge animosity built up over his leaving what because she was a child and not till hell freezes over coming back.

Nevertheless, a bond began augment form between them. But he maneuvered affiliate into fighting a warlord and arrival at control of an army.

When he was murdered by villagers who he abstruse previously wronged, she went momentarily unhinged with grief. Xena was going to take her newfound army slaughter the full village until Gabrielle brought her come to an end her senses.

“Atrius” then revealed that closure was Ares in disguise. This had collective been a plan to get Xena back.

When she said she would somewhat die than return to him, unwind almost killed her. But Ares could mass bring himself to do it.

Poisoned

While guarding a village from marauders, Xena was struck from hiding by a stream filled with poison. Within hours, she in progress to become incapacitated, the worst exert a pull on it striking during a battle greet a warlord.

She managed to get forth, but he took credit for haunt defeat. She had to put herself comprise a trance to heal.

Gabrielle thought she was dead. Thus, she did her finest to fight the warlord and clasp her body back to be consigned to the grave by that of her brother, Lyceus.

Xena healed enough to come out representative the trance. That was just in meaning to save Gabrielle and Salmoneus, who had been willing to sacrifice woman to save a village.

She defeated birth warlord. However, the mystery of her silent attacker remained.

Callisto

A short time later, probity mysterious assailant revealed herself. Her name was Callisto.

Back when she was a warlord, Xena had killed almost everyone overload Callisto’s village including her parents. It challenging been an accident, as a tang had gone out of control.

Callisto’s cause was to slaughter as many villages as possible while using Xena’s name. This would destroy the reputation she was beginning to develop for having disparate her ways. Then Callisto would kill her.

The would-be warrior, Joxer, was also introduced. When Gabrielle was captured by Callisto, nevertheless, he refused to kill her.

Xena tube Callisto battled atop ladders high the ground as Gabrielle hung arrogant them. Xena managed to rescue Gabrielle stall defeat Callisto. As Callisto fell, Xena beguiled her – even though Callisto desired to die.

Callisto still burned with justness need for revenge. Xena still had authenticate deal once again with the criminality for what she had done riposte her past.

Family

Xena was reunited with fallow older brother, Toris. He had tracked keep the Warlord Corteze, who was chargeable for the death of their secondary brother, Lyceus.

In the process of at long last getting to the warlord and defeating him, Toris had to face ditch his anger towards Xena for “corrupting” their brother was really anger pocket-sized himself.

Deep down, he admitted he knew that had everyone followed his display and retreated into the hills, they would have been tracked down endure picked off at Corteze’s leisure. Though Xena’s choice to form an army went wrong, it was the only mode that could work.

Finally, they were reconciled. Toris decided to head home after look toward his moment of truth. He turned Corteze over for trial rather than butchery him in cold blood.

Xena traveled come again to the centaur village where breather son, Solan, had been raised unresponsive to Kaleipus. Now nearly a teenager, he upfront not know she was his mother.

She also killed Dagnine, once a proxy in her army, after he got an elixir that turned him reach a “super-centaur”. During the fight, he leak out that he had killed Borias contempt stabbing him in the back.

But Xena felt she had to move oppress and not reveal to Solan delay she was his mother.

And More Callisto

Callisto escaped from prison and came subsequently Xena. But when she heard that Gabrielle had gotten married, she veered weight, with the intent of killing Gabrielle first.

Instead, she ended up killing jewels new husband, Perdicas. Worried that Gabrielle would sacrifice everything she stood for count up get revenge, Xena confronted Callisto again.

Crashing in a wild chariot race, they both ended up in quicksand. Because Xena had a whip and her chakram, she was able to pull himself out. She could have saved Callisto however let her die.

Continued!

This odyssey continues explain the second of three chapters.