From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
               A Short Biography of Gabrielle   
      
   Gabrielle comes from Poteidaia, a village which Xena saved from the armies   
   of Draco. Her parents are Hecuba and Horace; she has one younger sister,   
   Lilla. Gabrielle was betrothed to Perdicus, a hometown lad, but jilted him   
   to follow Xena. Gabrielle is a talker, and has become quite a storyteller.   
   At one point, she bested Homer and Euripides in an audition at the Athens   
   City Academy of the Performing Bards.   
      
   Gabrielle became an Amazon Princess when she risked her life to save the   
   Amazon warrior Terreis. Terreis bestowed her right of caste and rank of   
   Princess upon Gabrielle just before she died. Gabrielle learned the art of   
   wielding a staff during her stay with the Amazons, and continued to practice   
   and improve. Our Princess became the Queen of the Amazons after the deaths   
   of Melosa and Velasca. She retains the title in name only, having given   
   Ephiny the stewardship of the Amazon Nation in order to continue her travels   
   with Xena.   
      
   Gabrielle has a disarming and genuine innocence, and helps Xena to see the   
   good and light in all things. She has vowed never to take a life, a code   
   that was sorely tested when her new husband [Perdicus] was murdered by   
   Callisto. Thus, when she was tricked by the Cult of Dahak into taking a   
   life, she was shattered. Adding to her misery was the fact that she was   
   somehow impregnated by Dahak. She gave birth to a daughter, Hope, a short   
   while later. Against all evidence, she refused to believe that the child   
   could be the incarnation of evil. Gabrielle put Hope in a basket and floated   
   her down a river à la Moses to save her from being killed, an act which had   
   major repercussions. Gabrielle was apparently killed when she prevented the   
   adult Hope from killing Xena.   
      
   The fourth season found Gabrielle alive; she had escaped from the fire pit   
   and spent time recovering in a hospice. These events prompted a spiritual   
   quest that led her to India, where she met the healer Eli. She adopted his   
   Way of Peace, and stopped fighting altogether. She also relinquished her   
   title of Queen of the Amazons. Gabrielle abandoned her pacifistic stance   
   when Xena was gravely wounded; in the ensuing "Gabspaz," she killed half a   
   dozen Roman soldiers. Alas, it was in vain; she and Xena were crucified.   
      
   Their deaths and resurrections were chronicled in IDES OF MARCH [#89] and   
   FALLEN ANGEL [#91]. Gabrielle went into full warrior mode, and learned to   
   use many new weapons, including Xena's Chakram. She was last seen (possibly)   
   sailing to Egypt, on her way to new adventures after Xena's death in Japan..   
      
      
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   David   
      
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