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Main Characters

Here is a list of the main characters. Divided up for easy reference into three catagories: good guys, bad guys, and neutrals.

Good Guys

Ephiny
A brave and spirited Greek Amazon, Ephiny is Xena’s loving mother. Despite the trauma leading to her daughters conception, Ephiny harbors no ill against her precious daughter. While she initially wanted to keep Xena within their village, she eventually caves and gives Xena her blessing upon realizing her heir needed to learn things that she could not be taught by Amazons, though she makes it clear repeatedly that Xena will always have a home when she is ready to ascend the throne and take the crown.

Xena
Born in Amazonia, Xena is the daughter of Ephiny and Ares. Upon reaching age, Xena learned about the Academy from Lucious, a centaur friend, and thus decided to go to expand her fighting skill. On her way there she became lost and met Jett, Joxer and Jace who guide her the rest of the way. Later on Xena begins to develop strong, and somewhat confusing, feelings for Jett. Xena comes to learn many skills while in school. They include, but are not limited to, battle tactics, dancing, doctoring, surgery, inventing, sewing, martial arts, swordplay, archery, hunting, riding, swimming, acrobatics and fishing.

Hercules
Son of Zeus, the king of the gods and Alcmene, a mortal woman. Hercules has an amazing gift of superior strength and has a strong sense of moral justice. It is Hercules who first decides to protect Xena from her father, once it is realized that he is her half uncle. Herc and his two friends Jason and Iolus are all a year ahead of Xena.

Jason
Jason is the prince of Corinth. He and Xena are often seen comparing and debating their views on how to properly run a kingdom, usually resulting in Xena storming off in a huff, or nearly beheading the prince. Jason and his two friends Hercules and Iolus are all a year ahead of Xena, Autolycus and the triplets.

Iolaus
Iolaus, Hercules' best friend, is fiercely loyal and brave. Iolaus is a very likeable character who always manages to have a good time no matter what he’s doing (usually annoying Xena to no end). He was a thieving former member of a bandit group who was sentenced to the training academy as an alternative to prison for his crimes.

Jett
The oldest of the three. He was the favorite of his mother, you could say she was obessed with him and still is. He is softspoken unless he looses his temper. He cares about both is brothers. His main reason for coming the Academy was to keep up his training on his fighting skill, which he thinks is better than anyone else. He can be stand offish at first toward most anyone that is not family members, though he swiftly developed feelings for Xena. He has a hidden talent for music which prefers to keep hidden from the rest of the people around.

Joxer
The youngest of three triplets. He is not near as smart as he his older brothers, Jace and Jett. He is still very childlike in action and attitude. He has a caring side but that comes from him being somewhat innocent. He likes to make friends which can sometime cause trouble. He eventually develops strong feelings for Gabrielle and longs to marry her.

Cheiron
Head master at the academy for the warrior, Cheiron is a centaur (half man, half horse). He is very wise, noble, honest and brave. He's of course very respected by his cadets and his wisdom has saved the life’s of Hercules, Iolaus, Jason, the triplets and Xena. Cheiron is eventually killed by Cole during her breakdown.

Gabrielle
One of Xena's sister's who comes to stay with her at the academy and eventually falls in love with Joxer. Gabrielle left home to insure in her own mind that Xena was safe and unharmed by her new found friends. Gabrielle hated Jett until she was captured at one point by Cole and rescued by him.

Solan
Jett and Xena's first born child. Xena denied her pregnancy her entire first three months, being terrified of the idea. Solan was born in an abandoned barn on Xena and Jett's way home from a reunion at the academy with Artemis' help.

 

Bad Guys

Ares
Mighty god of war, son of Zeus and Hera, half-brother to Hercules and brother to Aphrodite and Athena. Ares has a fondness for battle and women. Upon raping Ephiny, he later learns his assault bore Xena, whom he constantly makes attempts to win over to his side as would like her to be his warrior princess as opposed to Ephiny’s wish that she succeed her as Amazon Queen (although we all know this isn't going to happen!) Ares’ current love interest is a teen goddess by the name of Cole, to whom he represents a father, brother, guardian, comforter, and lover.

Discord
Ares' sister and Goddess of Discord and Retribution, Discord is a spoilt child who pouts when she cannot get her own way. She has always tried to get in Ares’ favor and she’s always fighting with Cole for the position of Ares’ second-in-command, driving her to try to kill out of jealousy. She is willing to go to any lengths to get what she wants, and she doesn’t care who gets in her way while she’s doing it. She and Pri can't get along to save their immortal souls unless it involves manipulating people. Eventually Discord takes off with Pri's middle child, Jace, and bares his son.

Strife
Strife is Discord’s pet stooge and nothing more than an annoyance for Ares, Discord, and Cole, who detests all but her beloved Ares. Strife constantly tags along with Ares in his numerous plans to fight Hercules and kidnap his cousin Xena, but usually bumbled the operations. Also butting heads on occasion with Discord (whom he is secretly in love with), who also wanted attention from Ares, Strife usually tried Ares' patience but comforted Cole while Ares was out seeking revenge.

Cole
Known as the Goddess of Regret and Ares’ current love interest, Cole seems to have an intense hatred for the world in general. Very little is known about this blond goddess except that she appears to be a teenager and apparently was cast down from Olympus by Zeus and taken in by Ares. Her favorite phrase is “If a wish seek you today, the apple’s price you must pay.” The “apple’s price” is later revealed to be quite devastating. Cole is prone to fits of deep depression which usually result in her seeing the true state of affairs within Ares' temple. More often than not she can be found right next to Ares smiling psychotically and tossing an apple like a ball. She has long blond hair and deep soulful brown eyes and sleeps on a soft pallet in the uppermost room of the temple, which has a circular window for her to peer out and watch visitors.

Pri
Goddess of Sadism and Terror and mother of Jett, Joxer and Jace, Pri is extremely obsessed with her sons, namely Jett. She detests Xena, Hercules and Discord for taking her boys from her. Though she and Ares fight like cats and dogs, if either one needs the other they are almost instantly there to help (with plenty of bickering).

Jace
Jace is the second oldest of the triplets. He is learning and training to be a thief along with the help of his new found best friend Autolycus. He is very out spoken and hot headed. He gets irritated at his young brother Joxer at times but he will take care of him when he feels he needs it. After finding Discord injured in the woods after she was thrown out by Ares, Jace married her and they later bore a son, Havok.

Havok
Havok is arrogant and irrateing, but is also confused about what his place really is. He can be charming when  the situation calls for it and is Discord's pride. Ares' and Cole once plotted to kidnap him and raise him as their own son but things didn't work out.

Hope
Ares and Cole's daughter and Xena's half sister, Hope is pure evil. From the moment of her birth she has resented and hated her father's attention on her older half sister. Much like her mother, Hope wants nothing more than Ares' attention and love.

Neutral

Argo
Xena's loyal and trusty steed, Argo responds to Xena's whistles and appears to understand every word spoken to her.

Freedom
Jett's horse. Jett found Freedom who is very high spirted. Jett is only one who can ride him and even he has been thrown a few times.

Flicker
Joxer's loyal and trusty steed, Flicker is just a pony and possibly Joxer's best friend.

Shadow
Jace's horse. Shadow moves like a ghost, silently and calmly and seems to understand her master shouldn't be caught or seen.

Athena
Patron goddess of Athens, patroness of arts and crafts and the goddess of wisdom. When Ares refuses to teach Cole to fight, Athena steps in to teach the young goddess to fight and defend herself despite Ares’ insistence not to.

Artemis
Moon goddess, also of hunting and woodlands. Associated with fertility. She is goddess of the Amazons. Artemis was present at Solan’s birth and often times checks in on her favorite niece.

Harmony
Pri's only daughter and the purest of the family. Harmony is the only thing keeping Pri from destroying her sons. Harmony knows nothing of her older brothers and Pri seems to have no plans to tell her.

Lucious
The centaur boy whom first told Xena of the academy. Lucious was the only male Xena knew until she leave the village. Lucious has the upper body of a teenage boy and the lower body of a white horse.

Legion
A stray puppy that Jett found in a village shortly before Solan's birth. Xena instantly fell in love with the dog and claimed him as her own. Legion serves as the family's guard dog, hunting dog, and Solan's best friend in the world.

Autolycus
Self-proclaimed Prince of Thieves and lovable rogue. Although he does his best to appear as if he doesn't care about anyone, he has a heart as big as his ego! He is best friend to Jace and Autolycus has sworn to help him in his quest to become one of the greatest thieves to appease his mother to protect Joxer from her wraith, and still keeps in touch with Jace once he takes off with Discord.
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