Penthesilea
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Re: Atlas: People
Reply #8 - Dec 31st, 2006 at 11:33pm
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Keyholder Penthesilea
Penthesilea MoonFire, Clan Swordkin of Themyscira was born 1,029 years ago (Year 10,938 Current Age) to Mara Swiftwind, Clan Swordkin and Ares, Son of Zeus, God of War. At the time of her daughter’s birth, Mara’s father had just taken the Keyholder’s Seat and she had been estranged from the family for several years. Mara wasn’t an Amazon-born but had been adopted into the nation after she had saved the Amazon Queen Alcippe from assassination. Her courage, as well as her extraordinary beauty caught the eye of the God and he successfully courted her. Their passion turned into genuine love and by the time that their child was born, Ares had offered his love immortality. After careful thought, Mara declined. She believed that she was not yet spiritually mature enough for immortality so it was with a sad heart that Ares watched her descend to the Elysian Fields when Penthesilea was eight years old. Queen Alcippe took her dead friend’s child to raise as her own and loved her like a daughter until her own death.
Penthesilea was initiated into full Amazon adulthood at the age of twelve (previously unheard of) when during the ambush of a royal caravan she killed four enemy fighters in defense of the Queen’s son. Three years later at fifteen, the minimum age allowed, Penthesilea took the Queen’s son as her first lover. He was her first love and he died when she was eighteen. At loose ends after her lover’s death, Penthesilea left the Amazons and entered the service of her Aunt Aphrodite as a priestess. She rose through the ranks quickly and became High Priestess, a post she held for forty years. During that time, her favors were the reward of heroes. Kings and princes competed for her and there was no male, God or mortal, that she could not satisfy. Ever restless, she left Aphrodite’s formal service and began to roam the world.
In the year 11,734 CA, Penthesilea ran afoul of The Goddess of the Sand. This Goddess, a minor Deity with a small area of influence, had taken offense some years before when Penthesilea had rejected the advances of Her son. She tricked Penthesilea into accepting the power that Penth required to defeat an enemy with the stipulation that Penthesilea would take no lover that had not defeated her in a fair fight. Penthesilea agreed, believing that the Goddess would take the extra power back when Penth no longer needed it. When Penth went to return the power, the Goddess refused to take it back and Penthesilea was cursed. She was unstoppable in battle and any man who touched her with desire was immediately burned to death from the inside out. None of Penthesilea’s Divine family could break the curse nor force the Goddess of the Sand to release her and Penthesilea was forced to cope as best she could. In the year, 11,740 CA, Penthesilea was kidnapped into an alternate reality by the Sorcerer King Allbane. There, aided by spells and drugs, he forced himself on Penthesilea and eventually fathered her two daughters, MoonCat and SpiritFire. Time moved differently in Allbane’s reality so that when Penthesilea and her by then adult daughters escaped back to Penthesilea’s native reality only a dozen years had passed.
Penthesilea and her daughters continued to roam the world as mercenaries until late in 11,965 CA when the Keyholder’s Castle, having selected her to be the next Keyholder, began to call to Penthesilea. Penth reclaimed the Castle and took the Seat in 11,966 CA. She and the Darklord Kodiak were handfasted in 11,967 CA and founded their new nation of Valcaria at the same time.
Penthesilea is five and a half feet tall and weighs in at between 125 and 130 pounds. She has the curvy build of a dancer and the strength of a warrior. She has long red-gold hair and vivid green eyes. She has no distinguishing marks or scars but is extraordinarily beautiful. Like Darklord Kodiak, she wears black with silver and onyx jewelry.
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