Xena: Warrior Princess

Place of Birth: Amphipolis, Thrake
Height: 1.83 metres (6 feet)
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Pale Blue
Build: Medium
Skin Tone: Caucasian
Profession: Heroine
Favourite Colour: Green
Second Favourite Pasttime: Kicking Ass

Family:

Mother - Cyrene, Innkeeper of unknown religious affiliation. Raised the three of her children almost completely alone. Her will, intelligence, and personal strength have often been underestimated.
Father - Atrius, Warrior, follower of Ares, god of war. Deceased. Killed by Cyrene when in a drunken rage he was ready to sacrifice his seven year old daughter, Xena, to the god of war.
Lyceus - Younger brother. Deceased. Killed in an attack on Amphipolis by the warlord Cortese. This incident precipitated events  led the young Xena to eventually become the most feared warlord in ancient Greece.
Toris - Older brother. Joined briefly with the reforming Xena to bring Cortese to justice. Current whereabouts unknown.
Partner - Gabrielle of Poteidaea, Bard and Amazon Queen. Since joining Xena on her travels, has become an impressive artist,  negotiator, leader, and warrior.
Son - Solan, father Borias. Deceased. Killed by the demon daughter of Dahak.

Short Biography:
Until the age of fifteen, Xena was a mostly ordinary girl in a medium sized Thrakian village. However, when the warlord Cortese raided the village, she proved to be the only one willing to stand up to him. Rallying the Amphipolitans, Xena lead them in a battle that successfully drove off Cortese. However, in the course of the fighting many villagers had died, and with them her youngest brother, Lyceus. In response to their losses, the Amphipolitans ostracized her, including her mother. Furious and grieving, Xena took to warlording herself. By the time she had finished becoming the most powerful warlord in Greece, she had also travelled around much of the known world at the time, captained a pirate ship, and borne a son in the steppes north of the Black Sea.

Xena's time as a warlord came to an end rather abruptly. Despite ten years of success by a warlord's definition, a combination of dissatisfaction and prickling conscience led her to save a baby in a village her army was raiding. While fortunate for the baby, it was far from fortunate for Xena, who was deposed as leader of her army and nearly beaten to death in a gauntlet the same night. She survived the experience however, and in the course of burying her armour in a small glade on the outskirts of Poteidaea, rescued a group of Poteidaeans about to be dragged away by slavers. One of those Poteidaeans, a striking blonde girl, had stood up to the slavers.

This same blonde girl, whose name proved to be Gabrielle was frustrated and unhappy in the small and rather parochial village. Undaunted when Xena refused to take her with her when she left, Gabrielle simply followed her to Amphipolis, where Xena was going in hopes of mending fences with her mother. Gabrielle then proved her worth by saving Xena from being stoned to death by the Amphipolitans, an action instigated by the warlord Draco, who wished to force Xena to return to her former profession.

Since that time, she and Gabrielle have travelled throughout Greece and points further east and north, defending people from bandits and warlords wherever they may encounter them. For Xena this began as a means to find redemption, but has since become an avocation.

References:

Weisbrot, Robert - Xena: Warrior Princess, A Complete Guide to the Xenaverse
Doubleday, NY. 1996.

Whoosh
http://www.whoosh.org, 2002.