Xena

:Xena is also a speculative name for the recently-discovered {{mpl|2003 UB|313}}, a possible tenth planet.

Later adventures (televised 'period')

About ten years after first turning to evil, Xena met Hercules. Initially she set out to kill him. Then, her army turned against her after she stopped her lieutenant Darphus from killing a child in a sacked village. She ran a gauntlet but survived. She then fought Hercules, in the hope that she would get her army back if she could bring back his head. Hercules defeated her but spared her life, and she eventually joined him to defeat her old army.

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Xena then set out to redeem herself by starting to protect those who couldn't defend themselves. On her new path she met a village girl named Gabrielle (later known as the Battling Bard of Potadeia), who became her traveling companion and best friend. At some point in her journeys Xena ran into Ares, the God of War, who had known her from when she was a warlord and was always obsessed with winning her affections, but was more usually her adversary. Later on in the series it appeared that Xena was bisexual, possibly having a relationship with Gabrielle.

Related Topics:
Gabrielle - Ares - Bisexual

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Xena's subsequent life was marred by many tragedies. Her son Solan, who never got to know her as his mother, died at the hands of Gabrielle's demon child Hope with the help of Callisto, a woman warrior who was obsessed with revenge against Xena because Xena had destroyed her village and her family when she was still evil. She nearly lost Gabrielle more than once, and she and Gabrielle were crucified by the Romans on the Ides of March -- the day of Caesar's death -- but later revived by a mystic named Eli. Eve, the miracle child Xena conceived after her resurrection from an angel's touch, was prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods. To escape the gods' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle tried to fake their deaths. Their plan went awry when Ares buried them in an ice cave where they slept for 25 years. During that time, Eve -- adopted by the Roman nobleman Octavius -- grew up to become Livia, the Champion of Rome, and a ruthless persecutor of Eli's followers. After her return, Xena was able to turn Livia to repentance, and she became the Messenger of Eli. After Eve's cleansing by baptism, Xena was granted the power to kill gods as long as her daughter lived. In a final confrontation, the Twilight came to pass when Xena killed most of the gods to save her daughter, and was herself saved by Ares when he gave up his immortality to heal the badly injured and dying Eve and Gabrielle. Xena later helped him regain his godhood.

Related Topics:
Callisto - Eve

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Xena's quest for redemption ended when she sacrificed her life to right a wrong she had committed many years ago in Japan.

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