Post by Antoinette on May 5, 2009 16:58:23 GMT -6
Name:-Antoinette
Other names:- Ana, Death's song aka Chanson de Morte,Beautiful Chaos, Succubus, Siren, Banshee,Helene(by birth), among others long forgotten. Is called Nanette or Ana by her friends...when she can find them again.
Age:-~3221 give or take a century she can no longer remember exactly; apparent age 25
Master:-She is a Sourdre de Sange of her own line and is Master to Lily and bonded to Gates, Master of New Orleans. - Is one of the rare few that has no interest in gaining a seat of power.
Sire:- Belle Morte herself
Gender:-Female
Species:- Vampire
Personality:- Quiet, prefers to sit back and watch/think before acting. She lacks diplomatic easiness. It does not come naturally she had to learn it from a very young age even before she was 'killed', the 'hard way' so to speak. She is kind and affectionate. She is the only vampire of Belle's court to have remained with them but having retained her sanity. She despises those who only care about power as well as those that when they look at her and all they see is a 'pretty face'. After the many centuries she has remained sane without loosing her kindness, and conscience. She prefers the countryside over large cities. She's independent by nature. Compassionate, nurturing, kind and playful with those she trusts which is far and few between but Jean Claude and Constance is among them. Has a high sense of honor. Has a beautiful singing voice and often sings to those she feeds from, often either out of affection or guilt. She is very caring and understanding and if given the chance she will try to help those fledglings that have yet to even get 2 centuries under their belts. Help them by teaching them and usually just working it into conversations. She is generally the polar opposite of her sire.
Powers/Strength:-
Given Powers:
* Extreme strength, sense of hearing and sense of smell.
* Faster than most humans with the ability to trick minds into
thinking they've teleported.
* Mind rolling through eye contact allows them to hypnotize
humans for a short period of time.
* Empathy
* Controlling bite where they gain some mental control over their
victim.
* Smell a lie
Additional Powers Granted by Age and Bloodline:
* Flight
* Power drain over vampires they have sired(which she has none never wanting to subject those dear to her by their societies poison while she had been at court)
* Animal to call- all felines
* Obtain an human servant
* Obtain animal servant
* Some resistance to silver
* Levitation
* Early rising
* Voice
* Hiding in plain sight by becoming absolutely motionless as only the really old can do.
* Drawing blood from the distance
* Triumvirate(which she is not in one)
* Arduer~Feed off of lust as well as cause it
* Feed on not only blood but lust and other's energy force.
* Sleep-To sleep for many years without having to feed or going insane which often happens to those who are young.
* She is one of the few in the family that are strong, with the Arduer, enough and old enough to still be referred to as Succubi. Or Succubus.
* Mass hypnosis
*Has some resistance to sunlight as long as she stays to the shadows.
* She is a Sourdre de Sange of her own bloodline.
Weakness:-
* Some weakness to Silver
* Is burned by the sunlight but no longer can be killed by it.
* Her compassion and sense of responsibility for her Sire's actions and insanity
* Seen as a weakness at the court is that she has embraced technology and can even drive, though she doesn't need to drive when she can fly.
* Her compassion towards humans and those who are newly 'dead'
* Holy Objects backed by belief
* Her fear of fire after nearly having been burned alive in the falling of troy.
* Her affection and compassion for Lily.
Appearance:-
Standing at about 5'5'' she is average in height for her time. With a soft tan complection which shows her roots from Greece. She has wavy,almost curly, dark brown almost black hair that frames her face perfectly. With deep gold-ish brown eyes she can see if you are an honest person or a lier. She has strong lean muscles and a gymnasts body from when she was a mortal Spartan woman. She has a kind and gentle face and red pouty lips. She is the "face that launched a thousand ships."
Family:- all long dead
* Father-Tyndarecus, King of Sparta
* Mother-Leda, Queen of Sparta
* Sister-Clyemnestra (1/4 of quartet)
* Brother-Castor(2/4 or quartet)
* Brother-Polydeuces(3/4 of quartet)
* Brother-in-law: Agamemnon
* Husband-Menelaus
*Adopted Daughter- Lily- vampire
History:- Born Helénē of Sparta better known as Helene of Troy. Yes, the Helene of Troy. Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships, was a tantalizing enigma from the very first. She was flesh and blood certainly, but she was also immortal, since her father was none other than Zeus.Or at least that is the myth. Entirely fictional when concerning her birth. Her mother was the beautiful Leda, queen of Sparta, who was ravished by the father of the gods in the form of a swan. Leda's husband was Tyndarecus, who later the same night, unaware of his feathered predecessor, also impregnated his wife. She produced two eggs, one of which yielded Helen and Polydeuces and the other of which contained Castor and Clytemnestra. The swan's egg myth is completely metephorical, the meaning lost on her long ago for she never cared.
It is difficult to imagine the childhood of the famous "egg-born" quartet. Two of them could be injured, perhaps, but not fatally; two had special gifts that made them physically and mentally superior. Apparently there was no jealousy among them. Castor and Polydeuces were so closely attached they swore to die together, even if Polydeuces could not hope to fulfill this resolve. The relationship between Helen and Clytemnestra was not so simple. Helen was stunningly beautiful, and this must have caused Clytemnestra some wistful moments when inevitable comparisons were made.
When the sisters almost had reached puberty, Helen was kidnapped. Two Athenians, Theseus and Pirithous, pledged to wed daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen, and Pirithous vowed to marry Persephone, the wife of Hades. Theseus and Pirithous kidnapped Helen and left her with Theseus' mother, Aethra, while they travelled to the underworld, the domain of Hades, to kidnap Persephone. Hades pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast. As soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there.As sister of the famous twins, Dioscuri (Castor & Polydeuces), they were more than a match for Theseus. The Dioscuri and their army attack Athens and brought their sister back to Sparta. The Dioscuri took Aethra as captive and used her as slave of Helen.Having been only 10 at the time it was all out of her range of understanding. Now she looks back and sees the entire affair stupid.Plain and simple.
When it was time for Helen to marry, many kings and princes from around the world came to seek her hand or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf. Among the contenders were Odysseus, Menestheus, Ajax the Great, Patroclus and Idomeneus, Agamemnon, both of whom were in exile, having fled Thyestes. All but Odysseus brought many rich gifts with them.
Her father, Tyndareus would not choose a suitor, or send any of the suitors away, for fear of offending them and giving grounds for a quarrel. Odysseus promised to solve the problem if Tyndareus would support him in his courting of Penelope, the daughter of Icarius. Tyndareus readily agreed and Odysseus proposed that, before the decision was made, all the suitors should swear a most solemn oath to defend the chosen husband against whoever should quarrel with him. This stratagem succeeded and Helen and Menelaus were married. Following Tyndareus' death, Menelaus became king of Sparta because the only male heirs, Castor and Pollux, had died and ascended to Olympus.(It may be important to realize that Helen really had little say-so in this arrangement. Menelaus was a political choice on her father's part. He had wealth and power, mainly through his brother Agamemnon, but for Helen he did not offer the good looks and glamor of some of her other suitors. It was her lot to grace the palace and the kingdom Menelaus soon inherited. The trophy bride.)
According to some writers, Sparta experienced a plague during the early years of their marriage, and Menelaus was advised by an oracle to go to Troy to observe propitiatory rites at the graves of Lycus and Chimaereus, sons of Prometheus, who were buried there.They were right, she remember that plague well and still can smell the stench of he death that it brought to her people. Menelaus did so and was accompanied on his return by Paris, who had accidentally killed his best friend in an athletic contest and needed purification. The two arrived in Sparta, and during the several days necessary for the purification ceremony, Paris had many opportunities to see the gorgeous woman who had been promised to him. About the time the absolution was completed, Menelaus had to leave unexpectedly for Crete to attend funeral ceremonies for his grandfather Catreus. Ingenuously he left the handsome visitor to be entertained by his wife. Helen had been utterly charmed by the stranger. He was by nature already handsome, but Aphrodite, as if to guarantee the success of her project, had made him even more irresistibly beautiful. In addition, he possessed manners and charm, and it was impossible for Helen not to fall into stupor with this superb young man, after so long of watching her husband(not the best looking man around) have affairs with the servants and slaves while viewing her as a trophy. He, of course, had fallen under her spell the instant he laid eyes on her. He doted on her and had soon stolen her heart. Though when he begged her to come with him back to Troy she refused. She refused to leave her people, her duties, and her children even if none of them where by birth her own. Paris tried to convince and woo her for months before finally just taking her by force to the ships and back to troy. She remembers lying in her chambers only to awaken to the sound of the door creaking. She saw nothing and then suddenly a cloth was put over her mouth. She smelled something fragrant. The next thing she knew was she awoke upon a trojan ship heading back to Troy, with Paris sitting smugly in a chair across the room.
At Gythium, the port of Sparta, they embarked after Paris dedicated a sanctuary to Aphrodite Migonitis in appreciation for her assistance. They were barely under way before they stopped at the island of Cranae, still within view of Gythium. So far the couple had not been to bed together, even though there was ample opportunity after Menelaus left. Perhaps Paris felt comfortable in robbing the treasury of his host but not further violating the code of hospitality by sleeping with his wife in his own house.What a sublime moment for Paris, who now lay with the most desired woman in the entire world. Undoubtedly his passion was heightened by Aphrodite, who must have considered this her most inspired achievement. As for Helen, there could have been a bittersweet response to the great moment. Until then she had experienced sex with only the aging Theseus and the prosaic Menelaus. This virile young man must have given her bliss she had not imagined, but certainly the shadow of her infidelity and the abandonment of her children must have cast itself across the love couch. She was depressed and would sit near a watch hole in the body of the ship and look longingly out to see while her mind was ridden with guilt.
Whatever minor adventures befell them, the company came at last to Troy. The Trojans, even those who had criticized the rashness of Priam’s son, could only marvel at the divine beauty who stepped off the ship. A wedding ceremony took place, and it was as though Helen was marrying Troy, since her destiny became at that moment interlocked with the destiny of the city. Even Priam was fully won over and vowed to protect her as long as she wanted to remain. Though they said she could leave whenever she pleased that was merely a show for she was a prisoner in that city and still she loathes to think of it.
Theys had barely left Sparta before couriers were running swiftly to all parts of Greece. The unthinkable had happened.When he discovered that his wife was missing, Menelaus called upon all the other suitors to fulfill their oaths, thus beginning the Trojan War. Almost all of Greece took part, either attacking Troy with Menelaus or defending it from them. Menelaus came swiftly back from Crete, where his loitering with a nymph had allowed the elopers ample time to outdistance any possible pursuit. Agamemnon was furious. Not only was his family dishonored, but he took the insult almost personally. One suspects he himself was in love with his sister-in-law. Swift action was taken. Menelaus, Odysseus, and, according to some, Acamas, the son of Theseus, went to Troy to demand that Helen be returned. Though counseled by such advisers as Antenor and Aeneas to surrender Helen, Priam stubbornly held his ground and said no. Moreover, he recalled the reverse situation when his sister Hesione had been kidnapped by Heracles and Telamon, and the Greeks had turned deaf ears to entreaties for her return.
Menelaus had demanded that only he should slay his unfaithful wife; but, when he raised his sword to do so, the sight of her beauty caused him to let the sword drop from his hand.Before the end of the war when Paris was killed, Paris' two brothers fought over her: Helenus and Deïphobus. Deïphobus won, and forced her to marry him. Helenus left Troy, after losing to his brother, hoping to reach Mount Ida, but Odysseus captured Helenus, who was a seer. When Troy fell to the Greeks, Menelaüs killed Deïphobus. He would have also kill Helen for her unfaithfulness and causing this long war. Though she was no longer a teenager, she was still beautiful, that Menelaüs immediately fell under her charm.
She looks back now and realizes she was merely a pawn to the greater powers in the world. A week before the war ended she was visited by a beautiful woman with a heavenly glow. She called herself Aphrodite, then she was honored to be in the presence of a goddess though now she knows all to well it was merely Belle Morte who had for a long time be masquerading as a goddess. Over the next week she was 'killed.' She has hidden from the guards in a tower to stay away from the fighting. No one noticed when she didn't rise for three days and only at night. Her world ended there. When her husband came and found her he had intended to kill her. Wracked with guilt she knelt before him. That was the first time she had ever experienced the Arduer. It saved her undead life then. And did a few time later as well.
When she could no longer control her hunger Belle took pity on her new minion and took her in and taught her the ropes. Though she certainly didn't make it easy on her in the least. After about 500 years she decided to spend the next century asleep. She had seen her sire's sanity slowly slipping away and didn't want to be there when it became worse. The next two thousand years were spent defending her sire's sanity and as well as being the families "keeper" and that of her master. By now she was powerful enough to be a sourde de sang in her own right but she had this unexplainable nagging feeling of responsibility for her sire. She stayed by her side the entire time even if she was created in hopes it would drive her insane for Belle Morte could not stand the idea of someone being more beautiful then she. She was overjoyed when Jean-Claude and Asher had come to court. They being the only ones she saw some semblance of sanity and personality. It pained her the torment and torture they endured. She stopped it when she could and helped them control their growing powers. When she could she would help them. Finally she managed to buy them time to get away with Asher's human servant. Before she could ensure them safe passage to the new world she was found out and put into a punishment of forced sleep within a coffin. Belle could not drain her for she was a master, a source of power, in her own right.She spent the next 50 years in solitude. When she was released she was back in her sire's good graces so to speak as if nothing had happened. Still cleaning up her sire's messes she has finally decided to stop and no longer feel responsible. 430 years ago she found a newly turned vampire and took her in as her own. Her name was Lily and she has since then and always will be very dear to her. She loves her like the child she always wanted and spoils her terribly. Having journeyed to St. Louis in hopes to see her old friend Jean-Claude. She was disappointed to find he wasn't there so she continued on.
Now she is in New Orleans checking up on an old friend. She had heard she had risen to power as Temoin of New Orleans. Her name was Constance Casanova. She and Lily have since joined the Kiss under a master vampire named Gates and has decided to settle down for a time.
Weapons:- Being born a spartan woman she was trained in hand to hand combat and had to be strong and fit.She is extremely skilled in gymnastics and combat. Her favorite weapons happens to be daggers.
A small history lesson of Spartan Women:-
Spartan women enjoyed a status, power and respect that was unknown in the rest of the classical world, as well as the modern world in some respects. They controlled their own properties, as well as the properties of male relatives who were away with the army. It is estimated that women were the sole owners of at least 40% of all land and property in Sparta. The laws regarding a divorce were the same for both men and women. Unlike women in Athens, if a Spartan woman became the heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit (an epikleros), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to marry her nearest paternal relative.Spartan women received as much education as men, as well as a substantial amount of physical education and gymnastic training. They rarely got married before the age of 20, and unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore short dresses and went where they pleased. It was possible for them to appear entirely nude even publicly, which they did customarily only at festivals, as did the men.
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© 2009, Antoinette, All Rights Reserved to Danse Macabre.
Other names:- Ana, Death's song aka Chanson de Morte,Beautiful Chaos, Succubus, Siren, Banshee,Helene(by birth), among others long forgotten. Is called Nanette or Ana by her friends...when she can find them again.
Age:-~3221 give or take a century she can no longer remember exactly; apparent age 25
Master:-She is a Sourdre de Sange of her own line and is Master to Lily and bonded to Gates, Master of New Orleans. - Is one of the rare few that has no interest in gaining a seat of power.
Sire:- Belle Morte herself
Gender:-Female
Species:- Vampire
Personality:- Quiet, prefers to sit back and watch/think before acting. She lacks diplomatic easiness. It does not come naturally she had to learn it from a very young age even before she was 'killed', the 'hard way' so to speak. She is kind and affectionate. She is the only vampire of Belle's court to have remained with them but having retained her sanity. She despises those who only care about power as well as those that when they look at her and all they see is a 'pretty face'. After the many centuries she has remained sane without loosing her kindness, and conscience. She prefers the countryside over large cities. She's independent by nature. Compassionate, nurturing, kind and playful with those she trusts which is far and few between but Jean Claude and Constance is among them. Has a high sense of honor. Has a beautiful singing voice and often sings to those she feeds from, often either out of affection or guilt. She is very caring and understanding and if given the chance she will try to help those fledglings that have yet to even get 2 centuries under their belts. Help them by teaching them and usually just working it into conversations. She is generally the polar opposite of her sire.
Powers/Strength:-
Given Powers:
* Extreme strength, sense of hearing and sense of smell.
* Faster than most humans with the ability to trick minds into
thinking they've teleported.
* Mind rolling through eye contact allows them to hypnotize
humans for a short period of time.
* Empathy
* Controlling bite where they gain some mental control over their
victim.
* Smell a lie
Additional Powers Granted by Age and Bloodline:
* Flight
* Power drain over vampires they have sired(which she has none never wanting to subject those dear to her by their societies poison while she had been at court)
* Animal to call- all felines
* Obtain an human servant
* Obtain animal servant
* Some resistance to silver
* Levitation
* Early rising
* Voice
* Hiding in plain sight by becoming absolutely motionless as only the really old can do.
* Drawing blood from the distance
* Triumvirate(which she is not in one)
* Arduer~Feed off of lust as well as cause it
* Feed on not only blood but lust and other's energy force.
* Sleep-To sleep for many years without having to feed or going insane which often happens to those who are young.
* She is one of the few in the family that are strong, with the Arduer, enough and old enough to still be referred to as Succubi. Or Succubus.
* Mass hypnosis
*Has some resistance to sunlight as long as she stays to the shadows.
* She is a Sourdre de Sange of her own bloodline.
Weakness:-
* Some weakness to Silver
* Is burned by the sunlight but no longer can be killed by it.
* Her compassion and sense of responsibility for her Sire's actions and insanity
* Seen as a weakness at the court is that she has embraced technology and can even drive, though she doesn't need to drive when she can fly.
* Her compassion towards humans and those who are newly 'dead'
* Holy Objects backed by belief
* Her fear of fire after nearly having been burned alive in the falling of troy.
* Her affection and compassion for Lily.
Appearance:-
Standing at about 5'5'' she is average in height for her time. With a soft tan complection which shows her roots from Greece. She has wavy,almost curly, dark brown almost black hair that frames her face perfectly. With deep gold-ish brown eyes she can see if you are an honest person or a lier. She has strong lean muscles and a gymnasts body from when she was a mortal Spartan woman. She has a kind and gentle face and red pouty lips. She is the "face that launched a thousand ships."
Family:- all long dead
* Father-Tyndarecus, King of Sparta
* Mother-Leda, Queen of Sparta
* Sister-Clyemnestra (1/4 of quartet)
* Brother-Castor(2/4 or quartet)
* Brother-Polydeuces(3/4 of quartet)
* Brother-in-law: Agamemnon
* Husband-Menelaus
*Adopted Daughter- Lily- vampire
History:- Born Helénē of Sparta better known as Helene of Troy. Yes, the Helene of Troy. Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships, was a tantalizing enigma from the very first. She was flesh and blood certainly, but she was also immortal, since her father was none other than Zeus.Or at least that is the myth. Entirely fictional when concerning her birth. Her mother was the beautiful Leda, queen of Sparta, who was ravished by the father of the gods in the form of a swan. Leda's husband was Tyndarecus, who later the same night, unaware of his feathered predecessor, also impregnated his wife. She produced two eggs, one of which yielded Helen and Polydeuces and the other of which contained Castor and Clytemnestra. The swan's egg myth is completely metephorical, the meaning lost on her long ago for she never cared.
It is difficult to imagine the childhood of the famous "egg-born" quartet. Two of them could be injured, perhaps, but not fatally; two had special gifts that made them physically and mentally superior. Apparently there was no jealousy among them. Castor and Polydeuces were so closely attached they swore to die together, even if Polydeuces could not hope to fulfill this resolve. The relationship between Helen and Clytemnestra was not so simple. Helen was stunningly beautiful, and this must have caused Clytemnestra some wistful moments when inevitable comparisons were made.
When the sisters almost had reached puberty, Helen was kidnapped. Two Athenians, Theseus and Pirithous, pledged to wed daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen, and Pirithous vowed to marry Persephone, the wife of Hades. Theseus and Pirithous kidnapped Helen and left her with Theseus' mother, Aethra, while they travelled to the underworld, the domain of Hades, to kidnap Persephone. Hades pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast. As soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there.As sister of the famous twins, Dioscuri (Castor & Polydeuces), they were more than a match for Theseus. The Dioscuri and their army attack Athens and brought their sister back to Sparta. The Dioscuri took Aethra as captive and used her as slave of Helen.Having been only 10 at the time it was all out of her range of understanding. Now she looks back and sees the entire affair stupid.Plain and simple.
When it was time for Helen to marry, many kings and princes from around the world came to seek her hand or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf. Among the contenders were Odysseus, Menestheus, Ajax the Great, Patroclus and Idomeneus, Agamemnon, both of whom were in exile, having fled Thyestes. All but Odysseus brought many rich gifts with them.
Her father, Tyndareus would not choose a suitor, or send any of the suitors away, for fear of offending them and giving grounds for a quarrel. Odysseus promised to solve the problem if Tyndareus would support him in his courting of Penelope, the daughter of Icarius. Tyndareus readily agreed and Odysseus proposed that, before the decision was made, all the suitors should swear a most solemn oath to defend the chosen husband against whoever should quarrel with him. This stratagem succeeded and Helen and Menelaus were married. Following Tyndareus' death, Menelaus became king of Sparta because the only male heirs, Castor and Pollux, had died and ascended to Olympus.(It may be important to realize that Helen really had little say-so in this arrangement. Menelaus was a political choice on her father's part. He had wealth and power, mainly through his brother Agamemnon, but for Helen he did not offer the good looks and glamor of some of her other suitors. It was her lot to grace the palace and the kingdom Menelaus soon inherited. The trophy bride.)
According to some writers, Sparta experienced a plague during the early years of their marriage, and Menelaus was advised by an oracle to go to Troy to observe propitiatory rites at the graves of Lycus and Chimaereus, sons of Prometheus, who were buried there.They were right, she remember that plague well and still can smell the stench of he death that it brought to her people. Menelaus did so and was accompanied on his return by Paris, who had accidentally killed his best friend in an athletic contest and needed purification. The two arrived in Sparta, and during the several days necessary for the purification ceremony, Paris had many opportunities to see the gorgeous woman who had been promised to him. About the time the absolution was completed, Menelaus had to leave unexpectedly for Crete to attend funeral ceremonies for his grandfather Catreus. Ingenuously he left the handsome visitor to be entertained by his wife. Helen had been utterly charmed by the stranger. He was by nature already handsome, but Aphrodite, as if to guarantee the success of her project, had made him even more irresistibly beautiful. In addition, he possessed manners and charm, and it was impossible for Helen not to fall into stupor with this superb young man, after so long of watching her husband(not the best looking man around) have affairs with the servants and slaves while viewing her as a trophy. He, of course, had fallen under her spell the instant he laid eyes on her. He doted on her and had soon stolen her heart. Though when he begged her to come with him back to Troy she refused. She refused to leave her people, her duties, and her children even if none of them where by birth her own. Paris tried to convince and woo her for months before finally just taking her by force to the ships and back to troy. She remembers lying in her chambers only to awaken to the sound of the door creaking. She saw nothing and then suddenly a cloth was put over her mouth. She smelled something fragrant. The next thing she knew was she awoke upon a trojan ship heading back to Troy, with Paris sitting smugly in a chair across the room.
At Gythium, the port of Sparta, they embarked after Paris dedicated a sanctuary to Aphrodite Migonitis in appreciation for her assistance. They were barely under way before they stopped at the island of Cranae, still within view of Gythium. So far the couple had not been to bed together, even though there was ample opportunity after Menelaus left. Perhaps Paris felt comfortable in robbing the treasury of his host but not further violating the code of hospitality by sleeping with his wife in his own house.What a sublime moment for Paris, who now lay with the most desired woman in the entire world. Undoubtedly his passion was heightened by Aphrodite, who must have considered this her most inspired achievement. As for Helen, there could have been a bittersweet response to the great moment. Until then she had experienced sex with only the aging Theseus and the prosaic Menelaus. This virile young man must have given her bliss she had not imagined, but certainly the shadow of her infidelity and the abandonment of her children must have cast itself across the love couch. She was depressed and would sit near a watch hole in the body of the ship and look longingly out to see while her mind was ridden with guilt.
Whatever minor adventures befell them, the company came at last to Troy. The Trojans, even those who had criticized the rashness of Priam’s son, could only marvel at the divine beauty who stepped off the ship. A wedding ceremony took place, and it was as though Helen was marrying Troy, since her destiny became at that moment interlocked with the destiny of the city. Even Priam was fully won over and vowed to protect her as long as she wanted to remain. Though they said she could leave whenever she pleased that was merely a show for she was a prisoner in that city and still she loathes to think of it.
Theys had barely left Sparta before couriers were running swiftly to all parts of Greece. The unthinkable had happened.When he discovered that his wife was missing, Menelaus called upon all the other suitors to fulfill their oaths, thus beginning the Trojan War. Almost all of Greece took part, either attacking Troy with Menelaus or defending it from them. Menelaus came swiftly back from Crete, where his loitering with a nymph had allowed the elopers ample time to outdistance any possible pursuit. Agamemnon was furious. Not only was his family dishonored, but he took the insult almost personally. One suspects he himself was in love with his sister-in-law. Swift action was taken. Menelaus, Odysseus, and, according to some, Acamas, the son of Theseus, went to Troy to demand that Helen be returned. Though counseled by such advisers as Antenor and Aeneas to surrender Helen, Priam stubbornly held his ground and said no. Moreover, he recalled the reverse situation when his sister Hesione had been kidnapped by Heracles and Telamon, and the Greeks had turned deaf ears to entreaties for her return.
Menelaus had demanded that only he should slay his unfaithful wife; but, when he raised his sword to do so, the sight of her beauty caused him to let the sword drop from his hand.Before the end of the war when Paris was killed, Paris' two brothers fought over her: Helenus and Deïphobus. Deïphobus won, and forced her to marry him. Helenus left Troy, after losing to his brother, hoping to reach Mount Ida, but Odysseus captured Helenus, who was a seer. When Troy fell to the Greeks, Menelaüs killed Deïphobus. He would have also kill Helen for her unfaithfulness and causing this long war. Though she was no longer a teenager, she was still beautiful, that Menelaüs immediately fell under her charm.
She looks back now and realizes she was merely a pawn to the greater powers in the world. A week before the war ended she was visited by a beautiful woman with a heavenly glow. She called herself Aphrodite, then she was honored to be in the presence of a goddess though now she knows all to well it was merely Belle Morte who had for a long time be masquerading as a goddess. Over the next week she was 'killed.' She has hidden from the guards in a tower to stay away from the fighting. No one noticed when she didn't rise for three days and only at night. Her world ended there. When her husband came and found her he had intended to kill her. Wracked with guilt she knelt before him. That was the first time she had ever experienced the Arduer. It saved her undead life then. And did a few time later as well.
When she could no longer control her hunger Belle took pity on her new minion and took her in and taught her the ropes. Though she certainly didn't make it easy on her in the least. After about 500 years she decided to spend the next century asleep. She had seen her sire's sanity slowly slipping away and didn't want to be there when it became worse. The next two thousand years were spent defending her sire's sanity and as well as being the families "keeper" and that of her master. By now she was powerful enough to be a sourde de sang in her own right but she had this unexplainable nagging feeling of responsibility for her sire. She stayed by her side the entire time even if she was created in hopes it would drive her insane for Belle Morte could not stand the idea of someone being more beautiful then she. She was overjoyed when Jean-Claude and Asher had come to court. They being the only ones she saw some semblance of sanity and personality. It pained her the torment and torture they endured. She stopped it when she could and helped them control their growing powers. When she could she would help them. Finally she managed to buy them time to get away with Asher's human servant. Before she could ensure them safe passage to the new world she was found out and put into a punishment of forced sleep within a coffin. Belle could not drain her for she was a master, a source of power, in her own right.She spent the next 50 years in solitude. When she was released she was back in her sire's good graces so to speak as if nothing had happened. Still cleaning up her sire's messes she has finally decided to stop and no longer feel responsible. 430 years ago she found a newly turned vampire and took her in as her own. Her name was Lily and she has since then and always will be very dear to her. She loves her like the child she always wanted and spoils her terribly. Having journeyed to St. Louis in hopes to see her old friend Jean-Claude. She was disappointed to find he wasn't there so she continued on.
Now she is in New Orleans checking up on an old friend. She had heard she had risen to power as Temoin of New Orleans. Her name was Constance Casanova. She and Lily have since joined the Kiss under a master vampire named Gates and has decided to settle down for a time.
Weapons:- Being born a spartan woman she was trained in hand to hand combat and had to be strong and fit.She is extremely skilled in gymnastics and combat. Her favorite weapons happens to be daggers.
A small history lesson of Spartan Women:-
Spartan women enjoyed a status, power and respect that was unknown in the rest of the classical world, as well as the modern world in some respects. They controlled their own properties, as well as the properties of male relatives who were away with the army. It is estimated that women were the sole owners of at least 40% of all land and property in Sparta. The laws regarding a divorce were the same for both men and women. Unlike women in Athens, if a Spartan woman became the heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit (an epikleros), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to marry her nearest paternal relative.Spartan women received as much education as men, as well as a substantial amount of physical education and gymnastic training. They rarely got married before the age of 20, and unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore short dresses and went where they pleased. It was possible for them to appear entirely nude even publicly, which they did customarily only at festivals, as did the men.
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