Joxer played by August
Joxer the Mighty (aka Joxer the Magnificent, Joxer the Lionhearted,
Bloody Joxer, and Joxer, Master of Mayhem) is a kind-hearted,
would-be-warrior who regrettably often gets in the way.
Graced with the courage and spirit of a hero, but sadly not the
ability, Joxer nonetheless desperately wants to fight evil and do
good. His quick wit and wise-cracking persona often
end up saving the day, in places where his clumsiness and bumbling
may have gotten him into trouble in the first place.
He first encountered Xena and Gabrielle as a tentative member of
Callisto's army, and soon began following them around, much as a
stray sheepdog would - annoying, but too harmless to shoo away. He
accompanied them on most of their missions involving Callisto, as
well as adventures involving the Scythians, the warlord Draco, the
Bacchae, and the followers of Dahak. Often he has been involved in
spells cast by the goddess Aphrodite, once metamorphosing into a
swashbuckling hero at the ring of a bell. He has a deep puppy love
crush on Gabrielle. More significantly, he stood by her and defended
her in the Amazon village after her daughter's death, rescued her
from the Temple of Mnemosyne, smuggled the hind's blood dagger into
the temple of Dahak, "saved their butts" when Callisto captured them,
and brought flowers every day to the supposed site of Gabrielle's
death.
Most importantly - he roams through the countryside, he never needs
a place to hide, with Gabby as his sidekick, fighting with her little
stick, righting wrongs and singing songs, and being mighty all day
long. Plus - he's really tidy, everybody likes him 'cause he has a funny
grin, everyone admires him, he's so handsome it's a sin. When
you're in jeopardy, don't call the cavalry - there's a better remedy
(although he doesn't work for free)- he's every man's trusty, he's
every woman's fantasy, plus he's good company...... he's Joxer! Joxer the
Mighty!
Kara played by David
Kara (although she answers to Red, the name she was called in the arena) is 21, 5'6", with shoulder length flaming red hair, green eyes, and a lean, wiry physique. Her body is covered in scars of various sizes from her time in the arena, including a sizeable scar across her throat. She has a large tattoo/scar/brand on her right shoulder and a silver armband on her wrist (which is too tight for her to remove by herself without removing the hand, these were 'given' to her by her last owner. She has a perpetually wary expression.
Kara's mother was a slave to a Roman nobleman; when Kara attempted to run away at 14, she was sold. Her new owner was the master of a school of gladiators. Kara was sent into the arena after a minimum of training. After proving herself by survived her first experience of armed combat, Kara was trained further. Over the next seven years Kara's life entered a repeated cycle of: learn new fighting techniques, go into the arena (firstly small arenas in the provinces then a private indoor arena in Rome which her master called a death pit) and usually kill her opponent, heal the wounds inflicted on her, then repeat the procedure. One of her last fights was with someone her owner claimed was a captured amazon. The warrior woman tried to cut her throat but only succeeded in severing her vocal cords. Finally, when she was being transferred to another arena and the group she was in was in a forest, Kara saw her chance. She killed one of the guards and took the keys to the cage she was being carried in, then killed the other guards and ran before anyone could discover she had escaped.
Kimiko played by David
At age 18, Kimiko has travelled for over two years from her former home in Japan (for reasons she would rather not talk about. She is 5'4" tall with black hair and grey eyes. she tends to travel light with a backpack with limited belongings and a katana for protection. As she travels, she tends to right wrongs while searching for an a way to atone for her past dishonour.
Nautica played by Pol
Luscious mermaid with a heart that warms the cold seas. Literally. Quite possibly the most beautiful individual ever to grace Pacific Renaissance Productions!
Nebula played by Rynn
Slinky pirate queen.
Odysseus played by Rynn
King of Ithaka.
Penelope played by Seriena
Queen of Ithaka.
Sabrina played by Sehena
Nubile, runaway Amazon princess.
Salmoneus played by Rynn
The ancient world's first entrepreneur. This fast-talking, ever
opportunistic huckster is truly an
artist at surviving. He's sold everything from air sandals to sundial
watches, created the first Olympics, acted as self-appointed official biographer to Hercules and produced the world's first beauty pageant. If there's a dinar to be made, chances are that Salmoneus is not far away.
Sirrah played by Rebecca
Lithe, athletic, blonde amnesiac with a wild gleam in her eyes. Recently washed ashore onto the rocky isle of Ithaka.
Strife played by Beth Ann
Ares' toady. Resurrected by his cousin Hecate.
Xena played by Sehena
In the time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena - a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power, the passion, the danger. Her courage will change the world.
RELATIVELY IMPORTANT CHARACTERS CURRENTLY UNPLAYED:
Ares played by _____
The God of War.
Discord played by _____
Discord has long jet black hair, dark eyes, deathly pale white skin, and dresses in slinky, tight black leather. A curvaceous cutie and a cleavage-y little slut-bomb, she's been around since the dawn of time, and has more notches on her bedpost than anyone can imagine. Looking like a weird morphing of Marie Osmond and Lily Munster, she was truly "goth" before her time. Actually named Eris, she is the Goddess of Discord and Mischief, as well as sometime Goddess of Retributive Justice. She doesn't do animals, however, regardless of what you've heard. Daughter of Zeus and Hera, sister of Ares and his constant companion. Her greatest joy is to make trouble.
Iolaus played by _____
Everybody's favorite little buddy.
INACTIVE CHARACTERS:
Aicha |
Algar |
Allsun |
Andra |
Anticlea |
Claudia |
Diokos |
Draxxis |
Falel |
Ingrid |
Lalia |
Meara |
Mekhare |
Mhari |
Miyamori Izumiko |
Morpheus |
Ri ni Conn |
Tempest |
Zuban al-Okab |
Aicha created by Lyzie
A�Eha was born in Pylos from a union between Xouthos and Cr��se. She has two brothers, Ach�os and Diom�d. She is the youngest of the family. When she was around four years old, her parents made a pilgrimage to Athens, leaving her with her aunt in the little town of Aposos. During the time she was there, a group of mercenaries attacked the village, destroying everything in their way. She and her aunt were taken along with a lot of peasants, as the mercenaries' slaves.
When A�Eha was eight years old, her aunt died from exhaustion. A�Eha promised to herself that she would find a way to escape, freeing the other slaves and returning to the location of her childhood. She spent her years in captivity observing the mercenaries as much as she could (when she wasn't in the kitchen to preparing food) especially when she served them their meals. In this way, she learned a lot about their tactical ways of attack. She is now 21 years old. She is 5'4", has long and wavy black hair, and small green eyes.
Algar created by
Dave Findley
Algar is an aging Germanic warrior who travels to Greece
after his entire clan is slaughtered by the Romans. While past his prime, Algar is still a frightening sight on the battlefield. He's over six and a half feet tall, and thickly muscled and scarred. Algar wears a heavy bearskin mantle, refusing to surrender to the Greek climate, and works himself into a mad fury in times of battle. His long, pale hair is held back by braids and grease, and his thick beard is untrimmed. When he speaks, it is done in a loud, boastful voice and he doesn't care much for Greeks, thinking them weak and dishonest. His greatest fear is that he might die in bed, old and toothless. At his side, always, is the wolfhound Bern.
Allsun created by Lisse
Allsun is, for the most part, exactly what she appears to be: a small, red-headed, occasionally tactless
Celtic teenager. She is your typical young would-be warrior who wants to see the world. She also wants to
beat the stuffing out of warlords, scum, and the like - and she's quite good at it, thank you very much.
It's only after one has seen her in battle that it becomes apparent that Allsun isn't quite what she
appears to be. She carries a sword as if she were born with one in her hand. She makes tactical and strategic
observations more fitting to a general than a girl with a quarterstaff and she tends to assume that she's
the leader - although that last could just be her youthful brattiness asserting itself. And, every now
and then, she gives the impression that she is a great deal older and wiser than those around her.
Allsun's other unusual quirk is her tendancy to avoid oracles like the plague. In her short time in Greece,
she has encountered her share of seers and wise women, all of whom rant about her being the once and future
king of Britainia. She tends to view it as a sort of conspiracy to tick her
off and thinks of that king gobbledygook as nonsense. Despite all of this, Allsun manages to be a decent
person. She really means well in a grating sort of way and believes in fulfilling her oaths to the letter. She
rarely accepts payment for anything - which explains why she's broke most of the time - and tends to be a
bit bashful about praise. Contrary to her appearance, she is not delicate and is perfectly happy to clobber
anyone whom she thinks is keeping her from her duty - or anything else that looks like it might be fun.
Andra (Cassandra) played by Seriena
Goes by Andra, although she originally was Cassandra but she doesn't remember it. Her age is unknown, but she seems to be in her early twenties. Green-gray eyes and red, wavy hair kept in a braid. She has a scar across her neck, where her throat was almost cut, luckily whoever cut her was innacurate or didn't mean to kill her. Some scars on her back and arms as if she had once been badly beaten. Carries herself as if she were well bred. Andra is a thief. She steals the lost artifacts of Troy, but she has no idea why. Other than that, she only takes what she need to survive. She cannot sell the artifacts, but she occasionally returns them to the survivors she finds. She knows who they are but she doesn't know how she knows them. Andra has no memory of the past; she is an amnesiac. Her last memory is of being found in a street, bleeding from the throat. She only remembers her own name, Andra, which is actually her childhood nickname. She does get flashbacks of the past, and has nightmares, but she can't remember much more than bits and pieces. Occasionally, she is struck with psychic visions, but pays a terrible price for them - each is accompanied by a horific, blinding headache.
Anticlea created by Sorah
Having been raised in a thieves guild most of her life, "Anti" never knew
much about her real family. She's had a necklace with a large emerald
since she was found in Milos, the town near the guild. She knows that this
came from her father, and has always had her heart set on finding him. She
was kicked out of the guild for arguing with the new leader, and has
developed a number of enemies from doing so. She's still a bit awkward in her
thieving skills, though she'd never confess it. A bit of a smart mouth, she's prone to getting herself in trouble, but otherwise, an outgoing very friendly girl. VERY friendly. Her weapons are throwing daggers, a small sword, and her wits. She's also pretty handy with a staff - though she'd much rather run than fight.
Claudia created by Lisse
Claudia is the eloquent, intelligent, insufferably
arrogant daughter of an exiled (not to mention
executed) Roman patrician and his wife, a virtual
non-entity. Although the rest of her surviving family
was content to live out their lives on a horrible
little villa in Greece, Claudia decided that she was
not only going to keep her beloved Rome from going
down the latrine, but she was going to rise to heights
once allowed only to men. She is somewhere around
sixteen and not above being a lying, deceiving little
*muttermutter* when it serves her purposes, but she
has her strange sense of honor. Everything is viewed
through her belief that Rome is the pinnacle of
civilization and the fact that no one else has noticed
just proves that the rest of the world is incredibly
stupid. She will be friendly when she thinks people
have earned it, but until then she tends to view
humanity somewhere in between rocks and bright slugs.
Diokos created by Dave Findley
Diokos is a healer, and also happens to be a Centaur. As a small, four-footed child he experienced a lot of prejudice
and has resolved to change people's opinions of his race. Diokos, having just gained twenty-eight summers, was thrown out of his clan for suggesting they reach out more to the surrounding towns and try and change their image. His views were regarded as almost-heresy, and many other Centaurs regard him as an enemy to this day. It's been fifteen years since he was banished, fifteen years in which he travelled over the known map and learned healing from far away lands. During that time he was also captured by the slaver Glaphyra and held as her personal healer for two years. She released him, but memories of that day still haunt him and the slaver, both. He stands 16h, with a chestnut coat and black hair and tail. Keeps a neatly-trimmed short beard and moustache, both shot through with grey. Wears a simple brown tunic and belt, his only weapon an herb knife.
Draxxis created by Suz
Draxxis stands about six foot, and is lean and wiry with black hair and hazel eyes. He insists he is in his early thirties, but no one has ever been able to get him confess his actual age. Once an assassin, this thief is more dangerous than his affable nature leads on. He's basically good at heart, but has a hard time admitting it. Draxxis dresses in dark leather pants, loose fitting shirts and soft-soled boots. The only weapons he openly wears are two slim daggers at his belt, though one can be certain he has more than one backup secreted on his person. Draxxis will most likely be found with his long, easily bored fingers in someone else's moneybag or getting his face slapped at the nearest tavern.
Falel created by Brandy
Falel is a forty-something year old mercenary, highly trained in
all of the fighting arts. He dedicated his life to the service of
the war god Ares at the tender age of thirteen. He fights for
the fight itself, not for a love of death. He travels alone,
lending his service to any who need it. Falel has dark, close
cropped hair, and dark eyes. He is always darkly dressed with
little armor and many hidden weapons.
Ingrid created by Lisse
Were Ingrid not quite as large as she is, she would
have been skewered, hung, stabbed, poisoned, or
possibly shot a long time ago. Fortunately, this
blond, tactless, eighteen-year-old Norse girl is
nearly seven feet tall and tends to break up barfights
by quite calmly picking up antagonists and banging
their heads together. A born warrior (or possibly
bouncer) she speaks badly accented Greek and tends to
take everything literally, so metaphors and symbolism
are totally lost on her.
Ingrid's father Sigurd was lost at sea when she was a
young girl. Her mother, a warrior woman by the name of
Thordis, is about half the size of her enormous
daughter and could easily give any Amazon a run for
her money. Ingrid is in Greece only because she didn't
want to live under her mother's shadow, although from
the way she keeps being compared to some Xena lady,
that may not have been such a hot idea.
Ingrid is (as stated) a wiry, slender, enormous girl
with short blond hair and features that might be
pretty if they weren't quite so large. She wears
simple leggings and a tunic, carries a broadsword
about as tall as most Greeks, and tends to assume that
the rest of the world is slightly crazy.
Lalia created by Brandy
Lalia is a twenty year old traveling minstrel from the city of Corinth.
She left her home when she was twelve due to the neglectful nature
of her mother and the nonpresence of her father. Lalia became a minstrel,
tavern famous all across Greece. She is a devoted worshiper of the
god Hermes, having dedicated her life twice to his service. She has
brown hair and eyes and is never seen without her trusty lute strapped
to her back. She is usually to be found wearing a blue tunic, black
pants and boots.
Meara Chattan created by Darkamber
Description: Average height, looks about 30. Shoulder length, straight, dark brown hair. Blue eyes. Gaelic/Nordic looks. She's dressed as a warrior - leather armour, plaid breeches, bracers, ankle high shoes and leg guards. She's got a knife at her waist, and a sword slung over her back. Background:
Meara travelled to Greece with her husband Ailean Chattan. They liked Greece and decided to settle there. The husband died, and Meara has been wandering around since then, looking for work and adventure, not quite feeling at home anywhere.
Mekhare played by Antha
Age: 22. Personality: nice, sweet, clumsy, ditzy, forgetful, can't handle
panic situations. Skills: playing the harp. Family: Egyptian mother, Greek father. Both mortals. No siblings.
Appearance: about 5'5 with brown eyes, olive skin and black hair.
wears a gold bangle that resembles a snake around the top of her
right arm, among lots of other pieces of gold jewellery. Wears a low
cut peacock blue top and heeled shoes. the top of her skirt is a
thick navy blue material with gold beading on. A light peacock blue
material, partially seethrough covers the front and the back of the
skirt, down to the ankles, but not the sides. Half a dozen or so
lines of decorative beads on each side tenuously link the front of
the skirt to the back. Mekhare's shoulder length hair is braided into
plaits and decorative jewelling from her headress run down into her
hair.
History: Mekhare's father is a wealthy greek trader, who married her
mother when he went to Cairo. They lived in Athens for a while, but
moved to Cairo when Mekhare was conceived. Mekhare's mother died in
childbirth, and so she grew up only with her father. They moved back
to Greece when Mekhare's father saw her old enough to travel. When
she was in her teens she was sent into goddess worship where she
learned very quickly to play the harp, becoming the favoured
muscician of the goddess Mekhare and her father paid homage to.
Because she had left Egypt when she was a small child, she yearned to
return, and so took leave of her duties to visit her aunts and see
Egypt. Now she's back, relocated to a different temple in a different
city, ready to cause trouble wherever she goes. Without her noticing,
of course...
Mhari created by Michelle
Age: 16; height: 5?? hair color: brown with blond highlights, short, to the shoulders; eye color: ice blue; complexion: dark tan, bronze skin color; build: tone but not muscular, curvy, more built for running than fighting;
personality: Easy-going, flirty, peppy, talkative, makes light of serious situations. Has a scar on her right arm from digging out the tattoo of a slave, she has a cuff earring on both of her ears, and a small birthmark on her ankle that resembles a lightening bolt.
Mhari is the daughter of Zeus and a mortal woman named Kelsa. Kelsa was
killed three years later when Xena�s army attacked her small village near Corinth. An orphan, she was sold into slavery and quickly learned what it was to be human and poor. She tried many times to escape but didn�t succeed until she was 10. Alone again, she hid in the forest and was found by a nomadic tribe. They were the first people to ever treat her with kindness and taught her to defend herself. That was when she finally realizes she was different.
Mhari took up a life of thieving because it was what she was good at. She traveled the ancient world looking for challenges. She soon met one challenge that would change her life. She stole something from the wrong place�Eera�s temple. If it wasn�t for Zeus, Mhari would have been killed. He saved her life and told her who her real father was. Mhari was outraged. She couldn�t understand how the King of the Gods could have let his daughter live like she had. She began to build a strong hate for the Gods and tried to piss them off any way she could.
Miyamori Izumiko (Miko) created by Joxette
As an infant, Izumiko (or Miko for short) was the only
survivor of a terrible shipwreck. Fortunately, she
washed ashore in a fortuitously placed Akira Kurosawa
film on the festival day of one of the Kami (gods) of
water, and was thought to have been sent by the gods
in answer to the prayers of the local priest and his
wife, whose only child had recently died.
Miko is now in her early twenties and REALLY obviously
not Japanese. She is 5'8", with long blond hair, blue
eyes, and an athletic build. Having been raised as a
temple maiden, she is quite literate, and knows how to
make simple ofuda (those talisman things like Sailor
Mars uses in her Akuryou Taisan attack), but their
effectiveness is mostly psychological. She is also
pretty handy with a sword, but prefers to use a bokken
(wooden/bamboo practice sword). For traveling, Miko
wears dark leggings with ankle bindings and boots that
she picked up somewhere on her way to Greece, and a
short yukata (Better just start looking this stuff up,
guys) Oh, and just in case of emergency (there's
another reason too, but you'll just have to ask me)
her blood type is O.
Morpheus created by Joxette
Morpheus is the God of Dreams/Sleep and nephew to Zeus and Hades (as best I
can figure from Greek Mythology). Normally, he appears as a fairly tall and
attractive man, although he tends to act as though he's just woken up i.e.;
sleepy-eyed, not the best coordination, and easily baffled. His realm is a
little corner of the underworld near the source of the river Lethe (again,
Greek mythology comes in handy) and he has his main temple in the small city
of Morphipolis, although there may be a few other small temples here and
there. He's not a particularly powerful god, his only real powers in the
waking world are to change his appearance into that of any person and to
'eavesdrop' on people's daydreams. He can't really do the fireball schtick
or anything (he'd probably miss), but he's still a good person to stay on
the right side of since he can shape mortal dreams to pass along important
information, oblige them with a strip-tease from Aphrodite, or plague them
with insomnia, or worse yet, a striptease from the Widow Twanky.
Ri ni Conn created by Suz
After her village in Eire was razed by the priests of Dahak, Ri traveled throughout Gaul and Germania before reaching Greece, her mother's native land. She is fluent in both Gaelic and Greek,
and converses passably in Latin. A warrior by necessity, Ri fights with a double-sided, etched axe, forged
by her murdered father, Conn mac Fionn. She avenged his death, but still carries her burden of guilt. Fierce and loyal, Ri is both a fearsome adversary and valuable companion. She has little tolerance for liars, cheats or thieves yet one of her closest friends, Draxxis, is all of the above.
Tempest played by Antha
Actually Peitho, goddess of Persuasion (seduction). Age: it's not polite to as a girl's age you know. Appearance: 5'7"/5'8" with green eyes, long black hair worn down, and
fair skin. Wears a red corset with black lace strips over the boning
and black ribbon to tie it at the back. Pairs it with a black layered
skirt made from a soft fine material & red kitten heels similar to
those Aphrodite wears.
Skills: Persuasion & seduction. Can tie knots in cherry stalks with
her tongue. Family: daughter of the Titans Tethys and Okeanos, which makes her an Oceanid. Sister of goddesses like Tyche, Doris, Metis, & Calypso.
History: Though at first she was seen as a lower god, Tempest was
thought of a very important. For a long time she followed Aphrodite
around, because of the link between love and seduction - it did good
to use both rather than just one. However, when some Greek artists
(who shall remain nameless) decided that the link between 'love'
and 'persuasion' didn't just stop at godly duties and that there was
a lot more between Aphrodite and Tempest than just business, she
decided to split and carry her work out on her own. Now, when she's
not causing seduction between mortals, she's seducing gods, mortals -
anything male with legs that isn't too shabby in the looks department.
Any males reading this: you have been warned.
Zuban al-Okab created by Dave Findley
Born Omeir Fikret in the trade-rich city of Ecbatana, Parthia.
At the age of five, he was stolen from his family by Scythians, and sold to the royal house of Orodes II, known as the Black Eagle. He was raised by the Arsaces's advisors, and taught the ways of silence and stealth. When he reached the age of seventeen, he was given the name "Zuban al-Okab" -- claw of the
black eagle -- and given the position of the Arsaces's personal spy and assassin. It was his work that allowed the Suren to defeat the Roman Crassus, and maintain Orodes's control of Parthia. He gained notoriety among assassins, spies, and other dark sorts for his stealth, and his name, Zuban, became a feared word through out Parthia and areas of Rome. Unfortunately, Orodes couldn't rule forever and his son, Phraates IV, was a greedy, corrupt man who had his father and brothers murdered. He hated Zuban from birth, and as soon as he became Arsaces he banished the spy from Parthia, too afraid to try and kill him. Zuban's face was marked with his own seal, the Claw, as a warning to others and to prevent him from ever returning unnoticed. Now, Zuban has come to Greece in search of a new life and a fresh start in what he considers to be the only other civilized country yet discovered. He carries a staff with a curved blade at one end, and a carved fist at the other.
Take it from the top, Twanky.
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