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Name: Kalasin Dido Yamamoto Ti'Ya-Kuk'Tai. Her real name is much longer, as she possesses about four other middle names and two other last names.
Name Meaning: Kalasin means "Strength of Will" in the language of her mothers nomadic tribe, the Vezrit. Dido means "To Give". Yamamoto is the last name of Kalasin's husband Hiroshi and means "Source of the Mountain". Ti'Ya-Kuk'Tai is the amazon name that Kalasin took upon becoming a Shatomlic Amazon, and it means "Warrioress Blessed By The Gods".
Nicknames: Kalay, Kali, Ikari. Ikari is the Japanese word for wrath.
Age: 22 Years
Birth date: April 9th
Zodiac Sign: Aires
Gender: Female
Height: 5"11'
Weight: 105 lbs or 47.73 kg
Eyes: Dark Green.
Hair: Kalasin's hair is naturally chocolate brown, nearing black. It reaches down to her waist, and it often worn plaited.
Build: Kalasin is very lithe and very light. There is not an extra inch of fat other than what is essential on her body.
Clothing: Kalasin is known for her inability to wear modest clothing. If the clothing that she is wearing is not tight, it is revealing. She does not allow for much cloth on her figure, as she believes that it prohibits free movement.
General Appearance/Unique Physical Characteristics: Kalasin is a very beautiful woman, and easily compares to most mortal women, however, she does not dare to contest the gods in beauty. She has a long scar that runs from her left wrist to her elbow on the same arm. She also has many tattoos that adorn various parts of her body.
Favorite Food: Kalasin likes dried seaweed and is very partial to all citrus fruits.
Least Favorite Food: All kinds of nuts.
Favorite Color: White and dark blue
Favorite Animal: The only type of animal that Kalasin likes is the cobra.
Animals owned: Kalasin used to own an eagle named Shiri, but she passed on with old age.
Favorite Form of Combat: Martial Arts.
Strengths: Kalasin is incredibly smart, and very, very fast. She is a very highly capable warrior, who very, very rarely loses out on anything that she wants.
Weaknesses: Kalasin is incredibly stubborn, and gets angry very easily. She is not very strong body-wise, and mentally she rests on shaky ground sometimes.
Biggest Defeat: At the age of 14, when she first encountered Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kalsin attempted to kill the Lord of Himeji and put herself in his place. However, before she could put the plan into action, she was discovered by Hiroshi, who promptly beat her into submission. It was the worst defeat that she ever suffered at the hands of another mortal.
Biggest Win: When she was 19, she and Sumeria Leona, her friend at the time, defeated the goddess Sekhmet in Egypt and banished her to another realm in order to keep the goddess from getting back to her world domination schemes. Her other was the defeat of Emma-o, the Japanese god of Death in order to retrieve the soul of Hiroshi from the underworld. However, she does not see this as a win, as her abilities at the time were fueled by her desperation to restore her husband.
Hobbies: For a warrior, Kalasin keeps interesting hobbies. She likes reading, writing and sewing. However, she does keep some hobbies that are to be expected of a warrior, such as sparring and training.
Goals: To live past the age of 25. Various seers have told her that her death will come to her when she reaches that age. However, she focuses on living for the moment, and being the best that she can possibly be. Her current goal is to have her fourth child with Hiroshi. After a seer told her that her child would live to be one of the most powerful people of their time, Kalasin has been all the more eager to conceive, believing that they could truly change the world.
Personality in General: When she is in a good mood, Kalasin is a very pleasant individual. She tries very hard to be social, even though she knows that it can be very hard sometimes. Her personality, and her inability to let a challenge lie, make social interaction hard. When in a bad mood, or given a reason to dislike someone, she is an awful person to be around. Kalasin has an uncontrollable urge to win everything that she takes part in, which can also affect her social capabilities.
Friends: Kalasin is the best friend of Theseus of Tmeiscrya. Whilst in the Caucasus Mountains with him, she made a pact that she would always try to keep him happy. to say that her life virtually revolves around Theseus would be close to the truth. She loves him beyond all words (in the strictly platonic sense) and will do anything for him. She is also good friends with Ascanius and Alexiares.
Foes: Kalasin does not as of yet have any declared foes. However, she has not taken well to Lysippe of Siberia and Elektra.
Lovers (past and present): For most of her adult life Kalasin has been the lover and wife of Hiroshi Yamamoto. She had also been with a man called Troizen Claudius who she married. She has also had many male lovers that are not worthy of being mentioned.
Children: Alia, Antonia/Arsinoe and Yoruko. Alia is six years old and lives in Chin with Li Shang, Yoruko lives with Hiroshi's family in Himeji and is 1 year old. Antonia/Alia was Yoruko's twin sister, but is deceased. Kalasin has also adopted two children, Lenja, the daughter of her friend Ororo, and Galateia, whom she and the Shatomlic Amazons saved from being raped in Thessalonika.
Parents: Kalasin was born to Cherylnobela Sadrini, a woman from a nomadic tribe in North Africa. She was also known in Rome as Lillian Augustus. Her father was Theodorus Augustus, a Roman general whom most deemed as incompetent. The only reason that he appeared to be in the army was because of his position in Roman society.
Main Deity: Amaterasu, the Japanese Goddess of the Sun and Beauty, also the Queen of the Gods of Jappa.
Countries been to: Rome, Carthage, Phoenicia, Egypt, India, Chin, Jappa, Arabia and Greece.
Languages spoken: Latin, Punic, Aramaic, Arabic, Egyptain, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Vezrit.
Preferred Weapon: Kalasin prefers to use martial arts when she is fighting, which means that she does not often use weapons, though she never leaves home without them. If she had to choose a weapon though, she would pick the sword.
Other Weapons: Kalasin is very adept with anything that had a sharp end on it.
Family: Kalasin had many siblings, all of whom, with the exception of Maia, who she has never met, are dead. They were, in order of age, Elena, Marcus, Sorayn, Antonius, Maia and Dreyanne. Dreyanne is Kalasin's twin sister, who was killed by the assassin Svetlana Nayida.
Occupation: Owner of the LABRYS Amazon Tavern, Seductress, Amabassador, Warrior
Titles: Champion of Themiscrya, Head Amabassador of Themiscrya, Lady of Himeji.
Mask: Mask of the Cobra
Race: Roman
Adopted Race: Japanese
Marital Status: Married to Hiroshi Yamamoto (MO), Married to Theseus (RoC)
Biography:

Before Kalasin
Cherylnobela Sadrini was Kalasin's mother. She was born to a nomadic tribe in Northern Africa that traded with the Carthaginian Empire. She was the daughter of the tribe's chieftain, her own mother was a woman from Carthage that Cherylnobela never met. She was a beautiful child, with a talent for raising horses and elephants. The horses and elephants that she helped her people raise were sold to the Carthaginian Army in exchange for various goods and services.
Cherylnobela and her best friend, Java, were known for their inability to stay with the tribe. They would often go out exploring. One day, whilst in the desert, they stumbled across a man. He could not speak their language, but Java was smitten with him completely from first laying eyes upon him. They took him back home with them, only to have Java fall totally in love with him. He took her away with him, to a foreign land called Greece, which at the time, Cherylnobela had never heard of.
Without Java, Cherylnobela still went exploring in the deserts, her mind filled with childlike fantasies of finding love in the desert. She was not to know that she would never feel true love in her lifetime. It was just not meant to be for the young Vezrit woman.
She was sent to Carthage one day by her father to collect some supplies for the Vezrit Tribe as they prepared to shift locations again. She gladly took the take, having always enjoyed the small jobs that she got to do because she was the daughter of the man in charge of the tribe. Upon arriving in Carthage, she was spotted by a man named Theodorus Augustus, who was the leader of a small groupd of troops that had accompanied a Roman diplomat to the Punic city. He immediately decided that he wanted the young Vezrit girl for the night and sent his troops after her. Though Cherylnobela could fight to some degree, she was no match for well-trained Roman soldiers, and was subdued quickly. She was then taken to Theodorus, who has his way with her for the night, and promptly had her dumped in the desert the next morning.
Cherylnobela was distraught that her virginity had been taken from her. She told her father, hoping that he could pull some strings and get her out of the fate that was awaiting her. The punishment for a Vezrit girl for losing her virginity before marriage was death. He could not save her from the council though, and Cherylnobela was taken captive for execution the next morning. That night, some men, hired by her father, broke Cherylnobela out of the tent that she was captive in, and took her to the docks in Zama, the nearest town. They told her that she could go anywhere that she wished.
She chose to go to Rome.
It was a couple of days later that Cherylnobela discovered that she was pregnant. She was infuriated at this news, and vowed that she would make Theodorus pay for his treatment of her. Recalling his name, she went to Rome and found the villa that he shared with his servants and his mother, Romana. He was away on a campaign in Spain at the time, and so Cherylnobela took the time to get to know Romana, and endear herself to the older woman. When Romana found out that Cherylnobela was with her son's child, she arranged for them to marry, sending word for Thedorus to sign the contract of marriage. He signed it, not knowing who he was marrying, as he had never learned the name of the young girl that he had raped in Carthage.
When he returned, he found himself not only with a wife, but with a daughter named Elena. He flew into a rage, and nearly killed both mother and child. He could not divorce Cherylnobela, or tell his mother it was all a lie, otherwise he would have to explain his actions in Carthage. So he had Cherylnobela's name changed to Lillian, and tried to settle down with his wife.
Cherylnobela however was angrier than sin with Theodorus. She hated him beyond everything else in the world, and did not kill him then only for Elena. However, as the wife of a Roman man, she had to produce heirs, especially seeing that he was a highly ranking Roman. They managed to produce six more children, including a set of twins. The youngest of these children was christened Kalasin Dido, younger than her twin sister Dreyanne by an hour.
Throughout the years, Cherylnobela had been setting up a plot to kill the emperor of Rome so that she could frame Theodorus for it. She spent all her time working out the intricacies of the plot, and how to make it look more convincing. She slept with most of the Senate to get information that would eventually lead to her husband's, and her own, demise.
Kalasin Dido - The Early Years
Kalasin Dido was different to her brothers and sisters. From a very young age, it was clear that she was anti-social, she would often fight with other children, and preferred to do things either by herself, or with her mother and Dreyanne. She was an incredibly beautiful child, and though identical to her twin sister, she had a little something extra that elevated her beauty above that of Dreyanne.
She spent all of her time either with Cherylnobela, or learning. Kalasin Dido loved to study everything, from sewing to fighting. Theodorus did not like his youngest daughter, as it was shown from the young age that he knew her from, that Kalasin Dido was very much like her mother. She looked slightly more exotic than Theodorus cared for, and her first words were not in Latin, but in Vezrit. He insisted that Kalasin Dido get tutored in Latin from the time she was five so that she would not speak in a foreign tongue. After her two years of intensive lessons, the results were a girl that despite being very young, was very articulate.
She liked to question people that came into her life, as was shown when any soldier or bard came past the Augustus villa. She would pay the bards to tell her a tale, and ask the soldiers about the battle's that they had fought. The end result of her education was a very smart young girl, who could quite easily hold her own in a conversation with adults. However, when she was seven that education ended abruptly.
Cherylnobela's plot to have Theodorus killed finally sprung into action in Kalasin Dido's seventh year. She had a friend set up the evidence that led the people of Rome to believe that not only had Theodorus planned to kill the Emperor, but Cherylnobela had helped him in his plot. Cherlynobela did not care that she incriminated herself and her family. Over the years, her hatred for him had reached such a point that she was willing to kill almost all of her family to get rid of him.
It was the night of the festival of Bacchus when the soldiers came to their villa. Kalasin Dido and Dreyanne were playing in their room when Cherylnobela came in and told them to put on some slaves clothes. She told them that they would have to play a game, in which they would have to try and fool the soldiers into thinking that they were slaves. In truth, Cherylnobela simply couldn't stand to see Kalasin Dido, who was clearly her favourite, killed by the Roman soldiers. And since she knew that her youngest would not go anywhere without her twin, she got Dreyanne to do the same.
When the soldiers came, Kalasin Dido and Dreyanne convinced them that they were slave children. Kalasin Dido, who by this time preferred to be called Kalasin, as she considered her name to be too long, did so by speaking Vezrit, and having Dreyanne act as her translator, though Dreyanne did not know a single bit of the language. They were taken into the next room while the family was rounded up. Kalasin listened carefully to everything that was going on. She heard her sisters being raped and killed, and she heard her mother scream curses at Theodorus, then accept the soldiers having their way with her, encouraging them, moaning like a whore and begging for more so that Theodorus would see that he could never satisfy her. She was then tortured and killed, along with the rest of the family. The only members of the family to survive were Dreyanne, Kalasin, Marcus and Maia. Maia had been living in Egypt since before Kalasin was born, and she never knew of her existence, Marcus managed to escape while the guards weren't looking and fled to Egypt to stay with Maia.
Kalasin and Dreyanne escaped from the soldiers and went to their grandmother's house. Romana, their grandmother, took them in gladly, and raised them as her own. Kalasin managed to continue parts of her education, focusing mostly on politics, history, business and geography. Dreyanne on the other hand studied cooking, sewing and religion. She was particularly fascinated with the Cult of Artemis.
Romana wanted her daughters to marry into good families, and from the time they turned eleven, she was trying to pawn them off. Dreyanne was snapped up almost immediately. She was everything that a Roman man could want. Kalasin on the other hand, received a lot of interest for her looks and lineage, but her personality killed any chances that she had with any of the men that expressed interest in her. She had grown into a supremely confident, incredibly smart, very articulate young Roman, and was not scared to express her opinions on anything. While this was endearing to people when she was a child, now that she was a teen, it was frowned upon. Her life was supposed to focus upon attracting a husband, rather than on who would win the up and coming senate elections based upon the areas of Rome that they came from.
When the twins were twelve, they were finally separated. Dreyanne was married to her husband, a senator of some repute. Kalasin sat outside on the stairs of the Temple of Juno when she decided that she wanted nothing to do with the procession that was taking place. She went to the Temple of Minerva, the goddess of Wisdom and Weaving. In those days, thoughts of battle never occurred to her. She decided, after consulting with a priestess, that she would avoid marrying for the moment. She wanted to see the world.
So that night, she took some of her things and fled Rome, taking the first boat out of the city. She ended up in Phoenicia, where she remained for a month, trying to master some of the language. She could speak a little Punic beforehand, but after refreshing her skills, learned it to near fluency. For a while, she stayed with the followers of Astarte, learning their culture. She had her first kiss from a boy when she was there. His name was Tibran, and he was the son of one of the priestess' of the goddess Anat. It was then that Kalasin learned that she could use her incredible good looks to get what she wanted. She spent her month in Phoenicia learning how to flirt with men to get what she wanted out of them, a skill that served her well afterwards.
She later learned of a group of healers in the land of the Hindu people. Having decided that she wanted to become a healer, Kalasin set off for India, totally unaware of what laid before her in the East, where her soul would be virtually destroyed, and would remain so for many, many years.
Heading Out East
Just before she left Phoenicia, Kalasin decided that she wanted to invite Tibran with her. He was sixteen, a good four years her senior, and he had traveled to Arabia before, which in Kalasin's eyes was enough to qualify him to take her to India. They got as far as the River Euphrates when Tibran decided that he wanted to turn back to Phoenicia.
Kalasin did not agree with him, and after a heated argument, she abandoned him, cursing his name for lying to her by saying that he would remain with her until she reached her destination. She continued her path to India, hoping to find one of the healers that she had heard so much about.
On her way there, she stopped at an inn for a few nights, hoping to regain her energy before she tackled the mountain passes that would eventually lead her to India. She was spotted by a few men, that saw fit to try and rape her while she was asleep. The young Kalasin didn't take too well to being attacked, and fought back. It resulted in three dead men. Kalasin did not understand how she had managed to kill three men, but she liked it. She liked the power that she could have over life and death, and it was not the kind of power that she had originally desired over life and death.
She decided that she would not go to India, she would in fact head a little further north and continue to the East. She had heard rumors of great warriors that resided in the East, and she wished to go there and learn from them so that she could become a defender of the people.
That was not what the gods had in store for her though. There were prophecies in the East of a woman that would come from a land of the setting sun who would bring ruin on the Kingdom of Chin. Kalasin got lost in the mountains on the way to Chin, and it as by luck that she stumbled upon a monastery. There she met a man named Li Shang, a warrior monk. He became attached to the twelve-year-old girl that wanted to learn to be a warrior, and decided that he would teach her.
However, there was more to Kalasin than a lot of people thought. Whilst Li Shang taught her the things that she would need to survive, Kalasin quickly got bored. Li Shang had unearthed an enormous potential in Kalasin Augustus. She studied the language of Chin, and learned everything that she could of the nation and those around it. In the meantime she easily surpassed her mentor in fighting ability, and continued her studies under various other tutors.
However, by this time, she had become twisted. Se had not been allowed to develop emotionally, and because of her lack of friendship and support, Kalasin became sadistic and incredibly nasty to be around. Li Shang did not discover this until he saw her spar with, and kill, a master. It was only then that he realised that they had allowed a monster to be created. The only thing that he could think to do was send her out into the mountains to a dead end and hope that she never found her way out.
Kalasin was nearly fourteen when she walked out of the doors of the monastery. By the time she was out of the mountains, she was one month past her fourteenth birthday. She was incredibly bitter about the betrayal and killed every single person in her path. She had decided that she would go to Jappa, take over by killing the Emperor, and lead the army of Jappa, which she had learnt was one of the most powerful armies of the era, and destroy Chin for what they had done to her.
She arrived in Himeji a good three months after her fourteenth birthday. Himeji was a city that thrived off the fishing industry, and the fortress that was built in the middle of it to protect the capital from foreign invasion. She studied the city from the outside for a few weeks, becoming nothing more than an animal in the mean time. She killed any man, woman or child that came across her during her time outside the city. She used the meat on their bones for food, as meat was scarce around that area during that time of the year, and stole their clothing to make her own.
After a couple of weeks, she got sick of waiting around, and started to look for a way into the city. However, before she could make it into the city, she ran into five samurai warriors who were on scouting duty. She instantly attacked them all, killing four of them.
One of the warriors, Hiroshi Yamamoto, hung back from the battle until all of his companions were dead. Kalasin thought that perhaps he was the weak one, and attacked him straight after she was done with the other four. However, she was far outclassed. Her savagery and raw speed were nothing compared to Hiroshi's discipline and swift movements. It was the first time that anyone had ever beaten Kalasin.
Within a few moments, he had her on the ground and had a long dagger to her throat. However, upon looking into her eyes, Hiroshi found that he could not lose his blood innocence by killing this one. He saw the tremendous potential that laid within her, and decided that he would tame her.
He took her back to Himeji, and within two weeks of their meeting, that had been married. Hiroshi had fallen in love with Kalasin, who was officially renamed Maika Yamamoto, and nicknamed Ikari, the Japanese word for 'wrath'. He taught her the language of Jappa in exchange for learning the languages of the West, or as he called it, the lands of the setting sun.
Kalasin and Hiroshi lived in relative peace until a few weeks after her fifteenth birthday, when Kalasin discovered that she was pregnant to Hiroshi, who was twenty-one at the time. She freaked out and without hesitation, fled to Chin. She sought refuge with Li Shang, who, though reluctant at first, agreed to take the baby once it was born. The child was named Alia Augustus Yamamoto, and was renamed by Li Shang to Li Ailiu.
It was then that Kalasin was informed that Chin had launched an attack on Jappa. Her fury, which she had kept under control for a long time, resurfaced, and she went on a mission to decimate the royal family of Chin for daring to attack the people of Jappa. She went to the capital, and succeeded in killing over half of the family before news reached her that Chin had withdrawn.
She rushed back to Jappa, where she found Hiroshi waiting for her. She believed that he would kill her, but he was not angry with her at all. The resumed their lives, though they were anything but ordinary, as Hiroshi's father had abdicated as Lord of Himeji, leaving Hiroshi as the Lord of Himeji. Kalasin was put in charge of all domestic matters, whilst Hiroshi was in charge of the army and defense of the city. They ruled well together.
When Kalasin was sixteen, the Emperor of Jappa decided that he would attack Chin as revenge for their attack earlier. Both Kalasin and Hiroshi were selected to go to Chin to be a part of the force, Kalasin for her skills in cartography, and her knowledge of the area, Hiroshi for his supreme skills on the battlefield. The battles were fought, Jappa winning a lot of them.
However, one afternoon Hiroshi did not return from a border skirmish.
This sent Kalasin into a panic, and she rushed about trying to find her husband. She spent two months looking for him before deciding to give up her life in the East. She was nothing without Hiroshi. The young woman needed him around her, his support of her was crucial to her mental state. Kalasin fled back west, reverting to the bloodthirsty creature that she had been before meeting Hiroshi. What's New

19/10/03 - New layout, relinked to my blog. that is about it.
11/10/03 - Well, today I linked up a few more bits to the site, the Kalasin and Theseus (married) section, erm, put in a few new quiz results, other than that, nothing major. I'm changing the layout though, and going to add some more links later today hopefully!! The fanlisting section is now up and running to some extent.
06/10/2003 - Well, that would be this whole site. What can I say? I'm a worker bee! Pretty much everything that you see right here is new unless stated otherwise!