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Post by Anita Blake on May 5, 2007 8:35:14 GMT -5
Use this form to post your Xena or Hercules character bio for approval.
First Name: Last Name: Alias or Nick-name: Age: Height/Weight: Eyes: Hair: Persuasion: Good-Neutral-Evil Type of Creature: Powers/Weapons: History: Character is from (Xena or Hercules):
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Post by Xena on May 9, 2007 21:56:27 GMT -5
First Name:Xena Last Name: Alias or Nick-name:Warrior Princess Age:30 ? Height/Weight:6'1" Eyes:Blue Hair:Dark brown almost black Persuasion: Good, used to be evil Type of Creature:Human Powers/Weapons:Powers: Above normal strength and speed. Fighting, Swordplay, several types of martial arts. Amazon fighting techniques. The pinch. Acrobatics. Qi training. Shaman powers. Powers of the Mehndi. The ability to with stand pain and still fight. Weapons: Sword, Chakram, breast dagger and whip.
History: I have a very long history that would fill many Scrolls. Though here I will try to be as brief as possible. After all I am a warrior not a writer. That would be my very good friend Gabrielle. But more about her latter.
I was born in a small village in Greece, called Amphipolis. I had an older brother Toris and a younger brother Lyceus. My mother was a taverenkeeper named Cyrene. My father a warrior called Lyceus. When I was 7 I had thought that my father had left our family alone. It was not for many years latter that I found out what really happened. It would seem that my father thought that I was a fitting sacrifice for the God Ares. My mother caught my father and killed him, saving my life.
After my father died I spent many happy years with my family. I did things that other girls did. Well mostly. I did learn both fighting and swordplay from my brothers. It would annoy them that I was better at this then them.
Things went well until my 16th year when a warlord named Cortes attacked Amphipolis. My brother Toris along with many of the villagers ran. My brother Lyceus and I convinced the remaining villagers to help us stay and fight. Though we won the fight my brother Lyceus as well as several villagers died in the battle. This caused hard feelings between my mother and I.( We would reconcile many years latter.) As well as the between the villagers and myself. I was suddenly made to feel not welcome in my home village. I soon left thoughts of revenge filling my heart. Seeking to get an army of my own.
There were many things that I did over the next several years. Several of which I am not proud of. Many things I wish that I could take back. I was proud, savage, ruthless, cunning, unforgiving. I killed, pillaged, kidnapped, betrayed was betrayed. I loved and threw away that love. Had it done to me in return. I travel to many places unheard of by the people of Greece at the time. I trained with and loved the God Ares. Was a Valkyrie for awhile and loved the God Odin. This was the time that I mastered most of my fighting skills.
The one good thing that I did at this time in my life was give birth to my Solan. His father Borias who it turned out was a good man was killed. I did one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, by giving up Solan to be raised by the centaurs. I felt at the time that I was unfit to be a good mother to Solan. It was best for him to be raised in peace with the centaurs.
I still went on for a few more years. Just as blood thirsty. Until I meant Hercules. We fought I almost beat him. I would have killed him if I had. He ended up winning the fight and sparing me. It was Hercules that convinced me that there was still good within me. We loved for awhile until I decided to try to make up for my many wrongs and head closer to home.
I was ready to give up fighting for good. I even went so far as to bury my weapons and armor. This is when I meant Gabrielle. She was among a group of girls that had been taken for slaves by a group of warriors. I saved her along with the girls with her. I decided to use my skills to help others.
Gabrielle I could speak for hours of my Gabrielle. There have only been two that have held my heart and will always do so. My soul mate Gabrielle and Ares God of War. Gabrielle holds my kindness, tenderness. Ares holds my passion, fire. Though do not ever tell him this. I will always love them both.
Gabrielle at first drove me crazy. She followed me after I saved her. She would not give up. I finally accepted her. We were together for many years helped many people. Gabrielle came to be known as the Battling Bard of Potadeia. Her fighting skills almost as good as mine. She wrote down all of my history as well as our adventures together.
I gave birth to another child Eve. An gift from and old enemy turned angel. Through circumstances beyond my control I was not able to raise Eve. ( Ares was involved.) When we finally got back together she was a grown woman. And much like I used to be. We fought. I was finally able to bring her to the side of good. She became an Messenger of Eli.
Many times Ares would come to tempt me back down my previous path. Believe me Ares does know how to tempt one. He at one time lost his Godhood to save Gabrielle's and Eve's lives. I returned it to him. I think that is enough for now. If you wish to know more read Gabrielle's scrolls.
Character is from (Xena or Hercules): Character is from both Hercules and Xena.
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Post by Xena on May 11, 2007 17:30:53 GMT -5
LOL oh I will as soon as we get someone for me to play with. Though could you imagine Xena showing up in say Guilty Pleasures. It could be fun. LOL
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Gabrielle
New Member
Queen of the Amazons
The Battling Bard of Potidaea
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Post by Gabrielle on Jul 4, 2007 7:57:17 GMT -5
First Name: Gabrielle
Alias or Nick-name: The origins of her name lies in the Xena Scrolls. Her name is the feminine of Gabriel, from the Hebrew, which means "messenger of God". That is the name of the chief of Archangels, and during the show, Gabrielle becomes an Archangel. While Gabrielle is typically a French given name, it has a grammatically correct Greek feminine ending and contains no anti-Greek sounds (pronounced as Gab-ree-el-lay). Also, the Greek version of "Gabrielle" is Γαβριήλα, (Gavrila). She’s also known as Battling Bard of Potidaea.
Height/Weight: 5’4”, 175 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Strawberry blonde
Persuasion: Good
Type of Creature: Amazon Bard
Powers/Weapons: Her trademark weapons are the Amazon fighting staff and the pair of sai. Gabrielle's strength comes from her wit and her morals.
History: *Brief synopsis - When Xena and Gabrielle meet, Gabrielle is a young, innocent and idealistic scholar. She studies maps and the stars, reads mythology, writes stories, and dreams of traveling beyond her village to see the world. She wants to be a traveling bard. She also has strong ethical beliefs. She believes in the essential goodness of every person, and is willing to put her life on the line for that. In stark contrast, Xena is cynical, hard and world-weary. Xena has killed thousands of people and, overcome with guilt, is returning home, perhaps to give up her own life. But on seeing Gabrielle's willingness to sacrifice herself for others, she is inspired to spend the rest of her life redeeming herself. Together they embark on an arduous, spirited adventure lasting over 30 years. Gabrielle acts as Xena's guiding light, keeping her dark memories at bay and reminding her of the goodness that she once possessed. In return, Xena provides Gabrielle with travel and great adventures, teaches her about survival and the fighting arts and acts as her protector both physically and spiritually. Gabrielle's story is one of growing up. Life with Xena is extreme in many ways, and traveling together often proves more dangerous than she had initially bargained for. Their friendship grows quickly, and they both overcome doubts, grief, loss of hope, and even death. As a burgeoning warrior, Gabrielle becomes more useful to Xena in combat and is increasingly treated as an equal. Eventually they learn that their destiny is woven together, in this and all future lives. By the end of the series, when Xena dies and finally leaves her, Gabrielle has been transformed into a tough and courageous leader, a woman of the world, and a great warrior in her own right. With this power comes sadness, issues of the loss of her own innocence, and what to make of the rest of her life without Xena.
*In depth History - When Gabrielle first meets the Warrior Princess, Xena, she is a farm girl living in the village of Potidaea. She and her sister Lila, along with several other village girls, have been kidnapped by the men of the warlord, Draco, to be sold as slaves. Xena intervenes and rescues them. Awed by her fighting skills, Gabrielle decides that she wants to become a warrior too. She also wants to avoid the marriage that her parents, Herodotus and Hecuba, have arranged for her with her childhood friend Perdicas. Gabrielle insists on following an initially reluctant Xena on the road. The two women soon develop a strong bond of love and friendship. Over the six years of the series, Gabrielle evolves from a naive, idealistic teenager into a fully fledged, but deeply conflicted warrior fighting alongside Xena. Gabrielle becomes an Amazon when she defends a dying Amazon Princess during an ambush. Before she dies, the Princess Terreis passes her "right of caste" to Gabrielle, and Gabrielle inherits her rank and possessions. This leaves Gabrielle the heiress presumptive to the Amazon Queen, Melosa. Melosa's adopted daughter Velasca, becomes a rival for the position of Queen of the Amazons after Melosa's death, but Velasca's schemes (which include aspirations to godhood) are foiled by Xena and Gabrielle. As Gabrielle wishes to travel with Xena rather than rule the Amazons, she appoints her friend Ephiny to act as Amazon Queen in her place. Gabrielle learns how to fight with a fighting staff from the Amazons. With Xena's encouragement, she develops a philosophy of fighting for the Greater Good without killing. About a year after meeting Xena, Gabrielle encounters Perdicas again and decides to marry him. The morning after their wedding, he is murdered by Xena's nemesis, Callisto. Gabrielle's grief and anger tests her ideals of reverence for life, but she nonetheless resists the impulse to kill Callisto. During this period, Gabrielle's strong commitment to peacemaking and compassion often serves as a counterbalance to Xena's warrior nature. When helping to defend Britannia against Caesar, Gabrielle comes into contact with an evil cult that tricks her into killing one of its priestesses, Meridian. The loss of Gabrielle's "blood innocence" enables the evil god Dahak to impregnate her. After a pregnancy that lasts only a few days, Gabrielle gives birth to a girl she names Hope. After becoming convinced that the baby is simply a vessel for Dahak, Xena wants to kill Hope. Gabrielle manages to save her daughter by putting her in a basket and sending her downriver. Several months later, Gabrielle finds Hope again, now looking like a nine-year-old, and already in the process of helping her father, Dahak, implement his plan to take over the world. Hope allies herself with Xena's enemy, Callisto. In revenge for Xena's attempt to kill her as a baby, Hope murders Xena's son, Solan. This forces Gabrielle to accept that Hope is indeed evil. She kills her daughter by giving her poison, an act that continues to haunt Gabrielle throughout the series. She holds herself responsible for Solan's death, as well as for betraying Xena a second time, even after reconciliation with Xena is effected through their musical journey in the Land of Illusia. When she once again encounters Hope, who was saved from the funeral pyre by her father, Gabrielle sacrifices herself to save Xena by jumping into a lava pit and taking Hope with her. Gabrielle mysteriously survives the fall, and is later reunited with Xena. It is later revealed that Ares saved Gabrielle, with plans to use her as a bargaining chip against Xena. After her first kill, and the traumatic events with Hope that followed it, Gabrielle temporarily embraces complete pacifism as an alternative to fighting by Xena's side. She and Xena travel to India, where they encounter a series of false prophets and gurus, as well as a genuine healer and teacher, Eli. Eli claims to have found enlightenment and Gabrielle becomes interested in his philosophy of non-violence and inner peace, which he calls the Way of Love. Gabrielle attempts to follow Eli's way, and throws away her staff under his influence. However, when Xena is in the midst of a battle with the Romans in an effort to rescue Gabrielle, Eli, and a group of prisoners, Callisto, uses Xena's own chakram against her, breaking her back. Gabrielle chooses to fight to save Xena and even kills some of the soldiers herself. Before their crucifixion, Gabrielle tells Xena that she had chosen "The Way of Friendship". After being crucified, Gabrielle and Xena ascend into Heaven, but are soon ambushed by demons. The demons are able to take Gabrielle to Hell, where she comes face to face with the demonic form of Callisto. Xena and a group of Archangels are able to rescue Gabrielle from Hell before Gabrielle can fall to the darkness. She then learns that Xena has taken Callisto's place in Hell. She eventually forgives Callisto for the murder of Perdicas, and that act of forgiveness grants her the right to join the Archangels in battle. During her fight with the demon-Xena, they are restored to life by Eli. At this time, Gabrielle accepts her new path as a warrior and acquires a pair of sai, which become her signature weapon thereafter. Xena's pregnancy, revealed shortly after the duo's return to life, further forces Gabrielle to fight and sometimes protect Xena. On two occasions, the god of war Ares, impressed by Gabrielle's new warrior skills, tries to recruit her to his side, but Gabrielle always resists. Gabrielle and Xena sleep in an ice cave for 25 years after Ares places them there because he mistakenly believes they are dead. After waking up, Gabrielle discovers that her parents have been killed by the North African warlord Gurkhan, who has also kidnapped her niece, Sara, for his harem. Around this time, Gabrielle develops a close friendship with Joxer's eldest son Virgil, who shares many of her traits as a bard and warrior. Gabrielle struggles with the issue of seeking vengeance against Gurkhan. She is often troubled by her role as a warrior, particularly when she has to lead her Amazon tribe into a high-casualty battle against a superior army, led by the demigod Bellerophon, to rescue a fellow Amazon queen. Despite the success of the mission, Gabrielle tells Xena, "With each battle, I lose more of myself". Nonetheless, with Xena's death in Jappa, Gabrielle apparently steps into her friend's role as the Warrior Princess: symbolically she inherits Xena's trademark weapon, the chakram. The series' final scene finds her on a ship headed to Egypt, where she intends to continue the fight for the Greater Good, with Xena accompanying her in spirit.
*The Battling Bard of Potidaea - Gabrielle starts the series as a young girl who more or less stands behind Xena, and relies on Xena to protect her. In the course of 10 episodes, she acquires a fighting staff from the Greek Amazons and is a decent fighter with it shortly after. Another 10 episodes later, she displays immensely impressive skills with the staff, taking on numerous soldiers single-handedly, in the attempts to rescue Xena's presumably dead body.[ Probably what is most impressive, is that two episodes later she blocks an arrow in flight with her staff. As time goes on, we see Gabrielle not only improve with her abilities with the staff, but as a total warrior as well. As she adds kicks, and minor acrobatics to her fighting, rolling over a hunched over opponent before proceeding to beat them. While in India, Gabrielle is also thrown through time by a Darsham to save Xena's soul. It is said that their souls are together throughout time. In this next life Xena is the Mother of Peace, Arminestra and Gabrielle is Shakti, a Warrior Prince of India. At the end of season 4, however, is when Gabrielle shows a leap in her warrior abilities. After months of following her path of the Way of Love, Gabrielle picks up the sword of a paralyzed Xena and fights off a large group Roman soldiers with incredible skill. This however sparked concern among fans, who wondered how Gabrielle knew how to use a sword so well. One theory that could make sense is that in her time as a complete non-violent person, Gabrielle as an experienced fighter, no longer had to focus on her fighting and instead watched as Xena fought. At that point, as a seasoned fighter, Gabrielle is able to grow in a dramatic way through observation. By season 5, we see Gabrielle reach an undisputed status as a warrior, fighting with her sai, incorporating more acrobatic ability, even performing a wall run and back flip. Other than sai and sometimes a new casual staff, she can use a large array of weapons with proficiency. Gabrielle also fights against warriors with notable skill; she defeats the warrior Mavican and stands against Ares and Hades in battle for a brief period before they defeat her. She also fights in a sword duel with Brutus, Caesar's former right hand and one of leaders of Rome, eventually killing him. As previously mentioned, Gabrielle's abilities become noticed by the God of War who seeks her out as his new protégée. It is mentioned later by Gabrielle and numerous others that Xena trained her throughout the years, although there have only been a few episodes that actually show Xena giving her any sort of martial arts training. By season 6, there are clear signs that dictate the battling bard as heading towards Xena's level, such as Xena teaching a part of the pinch along with other pressure points including one that could stop a heart, performing cartwheels and flips, and learning that she had earned the title as the Battling Bard of Potedeia. One of her more impressive moves is whilst holding a cannibal in an arm lock, Gabrielle runs forward and kicks a second cannibal in the face by performing a back flip kick like maneuver, landing with the first cannibal still in hold. One of Gabrielle's biggest fights of the season is her fight against fellow Amazon queen, Varia. They fight in an enclosed arena in a match in which Eve's life is at stake, and they appeared to be at a stand-off before she is beaten by Varia. Gabrielle takes the loss graciously and continues to grow in skill over the season, regaining the title of supreme Amazon queen very soon. By the last episode, it is clear that Gabrielle has grown fairly close to Xena's equal as she displays incredible acrobatics, walks a tight-rope, develops and coordinates strategies, learns Xena's mystifying listening skills and how to perform the pinch in its entirety, defeats a powerful samurai general twice; once in sword and second in hand to hand combat, and more notably throws and catches the chakram with the skill of her mentor.
*Gabrielle as a bard - Gabrielle's bardic skills appear to be natural and self-taught. In the opening episode she displays a remarkable ability to talk her way out of fearsome or difficult situations: she talks a cyclops out of eating her, and makes an ally of him; talks an old man into giving her a lift; talks a violent crowd out of killing Xena; and talks her way into joining Xena as her traveling partner. Besides her persuasive ability, she also reads and writes - rare skills in those days, loves to tell stories, and has some musical ability. As she travels with Xena, she writes up their adventures on a series of scrolls, with an eye for flair and drama. Occasionally her tendency to exaggerate and glamorize the facts gets her into trouble. She is also shown telling stories for money in an inn. In other episodes she wins a place in the Athens City Academy for the Performing Bards, is a famous playwright, is a theatrical director, plays the pan pipes with considerable skill, and is the only person able to recite a magical scroll with the correct accents. Despite Gabrielle's ascendancy as a warrior, her role as a bard remains important. About a year into her travels with Xena, her scrolls about Xena's exploits begin to gain popularity, apparently helping, according to Ares, turn Xena into a legend. After their 25-year sleep, Gabrielle finds out that her stories had been read as far away as North Africa where they were popular among nomad tribes. According to an episode set in modern times, Gabrielle's scrolls were preserved for thousands of years and later discovered by modern archeologists. They found their way to Hollywood, where they formed the basis of the television series.
*Discoveries and inventions - • Gabrielle discovers and names the Big Dipper. • Gabrielle successfully pioneers the custom of Santa Claus bringing down gifts during Solstice Eve, by encouraging Senticles to hand out toy children in the kingdom where winter celebrations are banned. • Gabrielle is responsible for the creation of the game of charades. • Gabrielle thought up the idea of Pinocchio.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Xena the Warrior Princess & Hercules
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Post by Aphrodite on Sept 28, 2007 15:21:20 GMT -5
First Name:Aphrodite Last Name:n/a Alias or Nick-name:Aphrodite, Goddess of Love Age:n/a Height/Weight:1.76, 7'6 Eyes:Green Hair:Blond Persuasion:(Good-Neutral-Evil)Neutral Type of Creature:Goddess Of Love Powers/Weapons:Send hearts at people so that they will fell in love, she can dissapire and reapire at will, she can conjure whatever she wants. Few more unknown powers. History:Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love on both Xena and Hercules. Aphrodite inspires love and passionate desire in humankind while her brother Ares, her antithesis, promotes warfare and conflict. Despite this conflict of values, Ares and Aphrodite are good friends and allies. Aphrodite is portrayed very much like a modern-day valley girl, with somewhat of a dumb blonde and usually vain persona. She is essentially good-natured and helpful; she is close friends with Gabrielle because of that. Nearly all of Aphrodite's attire resembles lingerie, and she always goes barefoot. She dates Hephaestus, but unlike the myths, their relationship is essentially a happy one.
Character development
As in the myth of her birth, Aphrodite first appears rising out of the sea in a giant seashell. As a joke, she then uses the seashell to go windsurfing.
Before her marriage to Hephaestus she is portrayed as being a bit promiscuous; she steals a boyfriend away from Hera and because of that Hera places a curse on her son Cupid.[1] Cupid falls in love with a girl named Psyche, who is said to be more beautiful than Aphrodite, which makes her extremely jealous. Out of jealousy, Aphrodite tries to shoot a love arrow at Psyche, but Cupid tries to stop her.[1] This only makes things worse when Hercules is accidentally hit and falls in love with Psyche. Thanks to Hera's curse, Cupid literally turns into a green-eyed monster with jealousy at the thought of losing Psyche. The curse is eventually lifted when the truth comes, after he confesses his love for Psyche and she marries him. Aphrodite gives Psyche Ambrosia to make her a goddess to make amends, since she is the one who started the mess. Although she soon realizes she is now a mother-in-law, which does not make her very happy.[1] She becomes a grandmother later on when Psyche and Cupid have a son, Bliss.[2]
On Hercules, Aphrodite is usually the comic relief or the viewers' window into the politics of Mount Olympus. Though she is originally introduced as a scheming goddess, devious and almost as uncaring as Ares, she quickly evolves into a more benevolent fun-loving character, though still prone to mood-swings. She is also the only member of his Olympian family, Hercules seems to have any sort of close relationship with, despite the trouble she seems to cause him.
Aphrodite, determines to break up a royal family marriage that will end a war, only because the newly allied kingdoms plan to destroy her temples. As her son Cupid explains to Gabrielle, "When the Goddess of Love decides to do something petty and spiteful, she can be a tad difficult to reason with".[3] She later develops a friendship with Gabrielle and tries to save her during the massacre of the Olympian Gods.
Aphrodite becomes one of the survivors of the Twilight of the Olympians Gods, organized by Xena when the gods, under Athena's flag, join together to kill Eve.[4] Aphrodite remains unconvinced that Eve will willingly destroy the gods, to the point where she sneaks Xena and Gabrielle into Olympus itself. After the Twilight of the Gods, Aphrodite becomes mentally unbalanced due to Ares losing his powers; Love must be balanced by War.[5] Her powers are stolen by Caligula, whom Xena tricks into killing himself.[5] Xena helps restore Aphrodite's and Ares's powers with the golden apples she stole from the Norse Gods, thereby restoring balance to the universe.[6]
This means that Aphrodite is one of the Olympians to survive the events of the show. Since episodes of both Hercules and Xena set in the modern day shows that Ares and Hercules continue their rivalry, it is likely the immortal Aphrodite also survives to the present day of the series universe. (Thanks Wikipedia for the history info only) Character is from (Xena or Hercules):From both
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Post by Hercules on Sept 28, 2007 15:37:31 GMT -5
First Name:Hercules Last Name:n/a Alias or Nick-name:Herc, Hercules Age:30 or so Height/Weight:1.76, 7'6 Eyes:Green/ blue depends on the light Hair:dirty Blond/ brown and short Persuasion: (Good-Neutral-Evil/)eutral unless he needs to pick a side then good but he rather to stay away from fights. Type of Creature:Half god and Half human(His father is the king of the gods, Zeus after all) Powers/Weapons:super strengh, super speed( to a point he does have limits being part god and all), he giot some more unknown but he isn't like other greek gods since he is part human. He can threw stuff very far when he needs too. He knows martial arts which also helps. he can use anything that he can get his hands on vut mostly he doesn't need weapons History:Set in a fantasy version of ancient Greece not precisely located in historical time, the show stars Kevin Sorbo as Hercules and regularly features Michael Hurst as his sidekick Iolaus. Typical plot lines involve Hercules and Iolaus saving rustic villagers from monsters, evil warlords or the often selfish whims of the gods. In the earlier episodes, as mentioned in the show's opening title, Hercules' main nemesis is his evil stepmother Hera, who seeks to destroy Hercules using various monsters, because he is a reminder of her husband Zeus' infidelity. Later in the series, the malicious god of war, Ares replaces Hera as the show's primary antagonist. Towards the end of the series Ares is himself replaced by the evil god, Dahak, who is the main villain in the show's fifth season and sets off a story arc that has Hercules traveling to Sumeria, Norseland and Éire. Although Zeus, Hercules' father, is frequently cited by Hercules as a neglectful father, Zeus' love for Hercules is well documented in the show. Indeed, Hercules is often referred to as "the favorite son of Zeus". Zeus makes several appearances on the show, even saving his son's life and restoring his superhuman strength on one occasion when he needs it the most. Hercules, for his own part, is always there for Zeus when his father needs him, and in the end, Hercules reconciles with his father and buries whatever issues he has with the father he has come to understand and love.
The show had a successful spinoff, Xena: Warrior Princess, with which it shared recurring characters such as Ares (Kevin Smith), Autolycus (Bruce Campbell), Salmoneus (Robert Trebor), and Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings). Both shows, although produced in New Zealand using mostly local actors, who strove for American accents, were syndicated worldwide.
The success of the show also saw a number of similar ancient-set series being commissioned, such as Conan the Adventurer, The New Adventures of Robin Hood, BeastMaster, Cleopatra 2525 and Jack of All Trades. (Thanks wikipdia for the inf)
Character is from (Xena or Hercules):both
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