Penthesilea


 * Name: Rasenna Alpanu
 * Gladiatrix Alias: Penthesilea
 * Age: 20
 * Sex: female
 * Faction: An Etruscan Slave of Rome from Etruria
 * Occupation: Roman Gladiatrix
 * Family: none
 * Weapons: one gladius for each hand (a ‘Dimarcheri’)

Appearance: Short and stocky with powerful arms and legs. She has dark brown hair, usually kept in a loose braid, light skin, and high cheekbones. Her eyes are hazel and she has a scar on her right hand from having a blade nearly slice the last two fingers and half of the palm off in a fight.

Personality: Meticulous and cunning, she’s a survivor who plans quickly and works well under pressure. Penthesilea, as she’s known in the arena, is aggressive and standoffish with a keen disinterest for strangers. To those she trusts, Penthesilea is inviting and warm, with an abundance of jokes. She herself always puts her friends first. She prides herself on being Etruscan and despises most Romans.

History: Born Rasenna Alpanu of the Etruscan Alpani family line, this young girl was doomed from her first breath. Nearly two hundred years since the force from power by the Romans, Rasenna’s family was barely hanging on until it all collapsed when her father was voted out of the senate. Growing up in the streets, Rasenna taught herself how to survive. It was at eighteen that she learned of the acceptance of Roman women into the ludi (a gladiator school). To escape an inevitably poor marriage, Rasenna enrolled in the gladiator school. In her first fight, Rasenna killed a lion named ‘Achilles’ and thus earned her new name ‘Penthesilea’. Since then she has become a rising star in Rome and always fought with her twelve ‘Amazons’: They all currently work for Dentatus Manius Curius.
 * AINIA – Hasina – Nubian – uses a mace
 * ALCIBIE – Agrippina – Roman slave - bears a gladius and shield
 * ANTANDRE – Sfiyah – Arabic - uses the sica (a curved scimitar)
 * ANTIBROTE – Servilla – Roman slave – uses a net to catch victims (rides in the chariot)
 * BREMUSA – Ritona – Gallic (blonde) - uses a crossbow
 * CLETE – Jiang – Chinese - carries a bo-staff that turns into the long katana
 * DERIMACHEIA – Alita – Spanish – uses the hasta (a lance)
 * DERINOE – Evdokia – Greek – uses the fascina (a harpoon)
 * HARMOTHOE – Dayo – Egyptian - uses a longbow
 * HIPPOTHOE – Anfisa – Sarmatian/Mongolian – uses two farming sickles as weapons
 * POLEMUSA – Brigid – Briton (red head) – carries a large double sided axe
 * THERMODOSA – Rosmerta – Gallic slave (dark hair) – bears only a shield and small dagger