Post by Penthesilea on Aug 16, 2008 8:45:49 GMT -5
Not entirely canon
About the Roleplayer
Your name: Guess
How long have you been RPing? 5 years
Where/How did you find us? Google
The Basics
Name: Penthesilea or Penthesileia, for those close to her.
Age:24
Type: Amazon, demigod (Note: I was considering her a demigod because she is daughter of Ares and also her astonishing fighting skills? Also this character isn't entirely canon so...
)
Gender:Female
Deity (if you want to play a non-Greek god): –
Powers: Her unnatural strenght, beauty and fighting skills and speed a common trace any Amazon had. Also the belt inherited from her mother who received it from Ares himself.
Title/Position: Queen of the Amazons
Nationality: Sarmatian (Greek)
Occupation: Queen and warrior
Strike a Pose
Image of your character:
Celeb you're using: Megan Fox
Physical Appearance: She has long golden-brown hair and a perfectly tanned body since her culture is that of war and preservation of freedom. Her body is rather muscular, but not excessively since that is one difference with masculine anatomy. She has sparkling amber eyes which sometimes change intensity depending on the sunlight or the moonlight. She is tall and fierce, being the daughter of Ares, she inherited his charm and ease to seduce if needed though she inherited her intelligence from her mother Otrera.
Feel the heartbeat
Personality Description: She is a woman aware of the feminine situation in the rest of the world therefore she concentrates most of her time and effort in preserving the freedom she so possesses in her realm as well as the amazons themselves. She has a strong temperament, being the daughter of Ares, and knows well how to make use of her talents and feminity in order to achieve her goals, especially when dealing with men.
Likes: Seduction, a strong mind, war, her homeland and feminine freedom which is not found else where in Greece, with Sparta as an exception.
Dislikes: Seclusion, the loss of her rightful freedom and those enemies of such liberty (especially men).
Strength: Her fighting skills as well as her intelligence to use her own charms for the diminish of her enemies or of men in general.
Weaknesses: Imprisonment, if there was a time she lost all she had, especially her freedom, then the depression would be such, she could be an easy target. Of course all mortals and demigods are subject to dying from a battle or simply an attempt against their lives…death is unavoidable.
Story of my Life
Spouse/Lover: -
Marital status: Single
Family: Parents: Ares and Otrera
Siblings: Hippolyta, Antiope and Melanippe
History: The Amazons (in Greek, Αμαζόνες) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who are possibly historical. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia. Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyte, whose magical girdle was the object of one of the labours of Hercules. Amazonian raiders were often depicted in battle with Greek warriors in amazonomachies in classical art.
Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Euxine Sea (the Black Sea). The Amazons were supposed to have founded many towns, amongst them Smyrna, Ephesus, Sinope, and Paphos. According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia. Herodotus called them Androktones ("killers of men"), and he stated that in the Scythian language they were called Oiorpata, which he asserted had this meaning.
In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargarean, a neighbouring tribe. The male children who were the result of these visits were either put to death, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves; the females were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war.
Is the present Queen of the Amazones, some say she was a war mercenary, others that she was seeking redemption for the accidental killing of her sister Hippolyta with a spear when they were hunting deer; this accident caused Penthesilea so much grief that she wished only to die, but, as a warrior and an Amazon, she had to do so honourably and in battle. But there is still more of her life which will be unveiled by the subsequent incidents that will change her life…
She also has the magic belt Ares gave her mother.
About the Roleplayer
Your name: Guess
How long have you been RPing? 5 years
Where/How did you find us? Google
The Basics
Name: Penthesilea or Penthesileia, for those close to her.
Age:24
Type: Amazon, demigod (Note: I was considering her a demigod because she is daughter of Ares and also her astonishing fighting skills? Also this character isn't entirely canon so...
)Gender:Female
Deity (if you want to play a non-Greek god): –
Powers: Her unnatural strenght, beauty and fighting skills and speed a common trace any Amazon had. Also the belt inherited from her mother who received it from Ares himself.
Title/Position: Queen of the Amazons
Nationality: Sarmatian (Greek)
Occupation: Queen and warrior
Strike a Pose
Image of your character:
Celeb you're using: Megan Fox
Physical Appearance: She has long golden-brown hair and a perfectly tanned body since her culture is that of war and preservation of freedom. Her body is rather muscular, but not excessively since that is one difference with masculine anatomy. She has sparkling amber eyes which sometimes change intensity depending on the sunlight or the moonlight. She is tall and fierce, being the daughter of Ares, she inherited his charm and ease to seduce if needed though she inherited her intelligence from her mother Otrera.
Feel the heartbeat
Personality Description: She is a woman aware of the feminine situation in the rest of the world therefore she concentrates most of her time and effort in preserving the freedom she so possesses in her realm as well as the amazons themselves. She has a strong temperament, being the daughter of Ares, and knows well how to make use of her talents and feminity in order to achieve her goals, especially when dealing with men.
Likes: Seduction, a strong mind, war, her homeland and feminine freedom which is not found else where in Greece, with Sparta as an exception.
Dislikes: Seclusion, the loss of her rightful freedom and those enemies of such liberty (especially men).
Strength: Her fighting skills as well as her intelligence to use her own charms for the diminish of her enemies or of men in general.
Weaknesses: Imprisonment, if there was a time she lost all she had, especially her freedom, then the depression would be such, she could be an easy target. Of course all mortals and demigods are subject to dying from a battle or simply an attempt against their lives…death is unavoidable.
Story of my Life
Spouse/Lover: -
Marital status: Single
Family: Parents: Ares and Otrera
Siblings: Hippolyta, Antiope and Melanippe
History: The Amazons (in Greek, Αμαζόνες) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who are possibly historical. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia. Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyte, whose magical girdle was the object of one of the labours of Hercules. Amazonian raiders were often depicted in battle with Greek warriors in amazonomachies in classical art.
Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Euxine Sea (the Black Sea). The Amazons were supposed to have founded many towns, amongst them Smyrna, Ephesus, Sinope, and Paphos. According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia. Herodotus called them Androktones ("killers of men"), and he stated that in the Scythian language they were called Oiorpata, which he asserted had this meaning.
In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargarean, a neighbouring tribe. The male children who were the result of these visits were either put to death, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves; the females were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war.
Is the present Queen of the Amazones, some say she was a war mercenary, others that she was seeking redemption for the accidental killing of her sister Hippolyta with a spear when they were hunting deer; this accident caused Penthesilea so much grief that she wished only to die, but, as a warrior and an Amazon, she had to do so honourably and in battle. But there is still more of her life which will be unveiled by the subsequent incidents that will change her life…
She also has the magic belt Ares gave her mother.
