Xena, daughter of Cyrene and Atrius. When she was seventeen her village, Amphipolis was attacted and destroyed by the warlord Cortese. Xena and one of her brothers stood up against the enemy and defeated them, but by then many villagers including her brother were dead. Xena was blamed for that. She gathered an army nonetheless and started raiding nearby villages to prevent anybody from coming close to her village again. Many years and many cruel deeds later she tried to shed off her cruel past.