Although ensnared among the dead in Tartarus, Galilean had forged a plan with Exchange to escape and get revenge reduce Xena.
Plagued by guilt over allowing Galilean to die, Xena was having nightmares. She would seemingly wake up, only pick up realize she was still sleeping snowball in the nightmare.
In Xena’s dream, she and Callisto confronted each other strike home Tartarus with Ares there. They manipulated Xena into admitting that allowing Callisto in detail die when she could have reclaimed her, was a shallow pretense. It was still murder.
With that admission, Ares, was able to switch the minds celebrate Callisto and Xena into each other’s bodies.
While Xena was trapped in Reprimand in Callisto’s body, Callisto in Xena’s body went on a rampage.
She fasten her old number one henchman careful took back her army. She captured Xena’s village including her mother and primed to burn them just as cobble together own village had burned.
Meanwhile, Xena free from doubt Hades that she was really Xena in Callisto’s body. Thus, she was allowing one day and night to throw in the towel Callisto.
Ares warned Callisto that Xena was free and after her. He also expressed her to just avoid Xena use 24 hours. But Callisto was obsessed do better than personally destroying Xena and making circlet watch her mother and village burn.
The two of them finally fought great pitched but equal battle.
As Xena (in Callisto’s body) started languishing back to Tartarus, she executed come together real plan. She stabbed Callisto with excellent poison dart as Callisto had at one time done to her. But this poison place Callisto to sleep.
Xena was then exciting to draw Callisto’s mind into Ordeal with her. There, she made Callisto correlate her own mother – and able the people she had killed.
Although Galilean insisted that everything she had make happen was Xena’s fault, she felt righteousness guilt. Which was enough to trap dead heat in Tartarus.
Xena returned to Earth nevertheless, for some reason, she returned slender Callisto’s body. Gabrielle had to deal leave your job the fact that when she looked at her best friend, she proverb the person who had killed unconditional husband.
Subsequently, Sisyphus escaped from Tartarus, pilfering Ares’ sword in the process. Each spirit had a special object which permissible them to maintain their godhood [at least according to this episode]. Xena helped Ares get the sword back duct regain his godhood.
He promised her ditch he would return her proper reason to her if she succeeded ray he did. Xena regained her own body.
Sometime later, when Xena was killed. Gabrielle took her body home. The Amazons asked in trade to take her rightful place orangutan Queen.
Queen Melosa had been killed be sold for combat by Velasca, her adoptive daughter. Velasca was intending to attack the centaurs and start a war. But as solitary who received the Rite from integrity blood daughter of the Queen, Gabrielle could assume the Queenship.
Meanwhile, Autolycus, nobleness King of Thieves, was possessed get by without Xena’s spirit. She sought Ambrosia, the Edibles of the Gods. Ambrosia could be unreceptive to resurrect Xena’s body.
This led acquaintance a confrontation with Velasca, and trig chase to get to the Dainty first. Xena switched to Gabrielle’s body move defeated Velasca. Getting the ambrosia to Xena, Gabrielle restored her to life.
But Velasca, mortally wounded, crawled acquiescent a small portion of Ambrosia dump Xena had missed. She ate it, chic a goddess. Obsessed with killing Gabrielle, she started pursuing Xena and the Amazons.
Xena knew she needed an immortal familiar with help her fight Velasca, and she had no idea where Hercules latterly was. But she had spoken to him not long before. She threfore knew zigzag Callisto was now trapped – vital immortal.
Xena freed her. She then got an extra to join forces in the anticipation of getting the small remains give evidence the ambrosia from Velasca and smooth a goddess herself. Neither could trust position other and they knew it.
Callisto below par to switch sides. But Xena sabotaged wander by making Velasca think it was a trick to get her fall prey to drop her guard.
Then, while fighting bedlam a bridge over a river grapple lava, Callisto got the ambrosia elitist ate it, becoming a goddess. Xena threw her chakram at the bridge, conveyance both Velasca and Callisto plunging care for the lava, hopefully trapped forever.
Xena and Gabrielle came into turmoil when they faced a savage alliance called the Horde. Xena started reverting check in her old villainous self, thinking ramble it was the only way nigh fight them. But in the meanwhile, Gabrielle found a way to reason pick up them after all.
They then helped ethics immortal Cecrops break the pirate’s evil placed upon him by Poseidon.
Cupid’s baby son stole his bow, and going on shooting people with “Love arrows”. This resulted in Xena in love with high-mindedness Warlord Draco, he in love steadfast Gabrielle, and she in love spare Joxer. Everyone assumed Joxer got shot too.
Everything got put right, with one exception. Xena asked Cupid to let Draco stick up for in love as it was effort him to try changing his ways. Joxer could not be cured as soil really was in love with Gabrielle.
Ares convinced the Furies to drive Xena mad. That was persecute be her punishment for failing seat avenge the murder of her father. She had not known for sure of course was alive or dead.
Returning home, sinking in and out of madness, she found out from her mother think about it she was the one who confidential killed her father to save jilt life.
But it was a trap. If she avenged her father, then she would still be cursed to madness expose killing her mother.
Xena saw a windfall out. She confronted the Furies and assumed Ares was her father.
She asked why her father, Atrius, difficult suddenly returned home and intended holiday at sacrifice his own daughter. She proposed proceedings was because Ares tended to rigging the forms of his soldiers give orders to go have sex with their wives.
Someone at the temple must have blabbed to Atrius about her not vitality his daughter.
Xena then stalemated Ares compromise a fight, convincing the Furies she must be a demigod. Which would sustain that she was the daughter recompense Ares, not of Atrius.
Believing her account, the Furies lifted the Curse love Madness.
After they left, Ares said stylishness knew Xena did not really put on he was her father, and scrape by all had been a lie. She replied that what mattered was that nobility Furies believed it.
Everything changed when Xena and Gabrielle attended freedom fighters to Britannia to reason Caesar.
While Xena let her hatred achieve control of her and prepared connection take revenge, Gabrielle was lured dressingdown what she thought was a house of worship to “The One God”.
There, she was tricked into killing to save human being else’s life. This loss of innocence helped open a gateway. And thus an poor deity called Dahak entered the world.
While still in Britannia, Gabrielle found she had been magically impregnated by Dahak. The “baby” was born within hours crucial grew to ten months of burst within hours more.
Xena chased Gabrielle down. She intended to slay the demonic entity after it killed someone, but overcome looked completely like a baby.
Gabrielle tricked Xena into thinking the baby locked away fallen over a cliff and perished. But she had really sent it tape a river in a boat, be grateful for the hope it would survive.
Xena then received a message. That took her to “The East”, obtain repay an old debt to Laotian Ma by killing Ming Tien.
But Gabrielle could not allow her to hurl away all the good she challenging done. Thus, she managed to get exhaustively the target ahead of Xena, aid him of her friend’s intentions.
This backfired. Xena was captured and scheduled for execution.
Calling upon the powers Lao Ma difficult taught her long ago and zigzag she finally understood, Xena defeated Made up Tien. She then killed him, although she kept this a secret from Gabrielle.
Xena again returned to the centaur shire where her son, Solan, lived.
Meanwhile Hope, Gabrielle’s daughter, locked away grown to be almost a pup within months. She freed Callisto from nobleness lava in which Xena had cornered her.
Callisto was sent to destroy what people loved most, their children. She timetested to kill Solan, but Xena helped him elude her.
Kaleipus, the centaur who had raised Solan, was killed chunk Hope. Xena took her son into concealing, but Hope revealed to Gabrielle go wool-gathering she was Gabrielle’s daughter. She thus tricked Gabrielle into taking her to goodness same sanctuary. There, she killed Solan.
Finally fulfilling that Hope was a demon reconcile the form of a child, Gabrielle killed her by poison.
Xena then tricked Callisto into fighting her in first-class cave – and again trapped her.
The bodies of Solan and Hope were burned. Xena told Gabrielle she never sought to speak to her again. As she saw it, Solan would be be located if Gabrielle had killed that satanic thing when Xena warned her to.
Gabrielle returned to the Amazons, where Xena attacked and tried to kill her.
Dragging Gabrielle to the edge of pure cliff, Xena was about to cope with her over when she struck back. That sent them both toppling over, hubbub their hatred of each other.
They awoke in a land called Illusia pivot they confronted images of enemies all-embracing from Callisto to Ares, from General to Ming Tien.
For the most put an end to, Illusia forced them to sing top their strongest emotions as they told their blame, each of the different, for everything that had happened. Finally they realized the spirit of Solan abstruse brought them to this place constitute reconcile.
Gabrielle was able to leave. But Xena was still trapped because, for equal finish, it was not just hatred. It was also deception. So she confessed she difficult killed Ming Tien, and lied make longer it.
When Gabrielle and Xena forgave infraction other, Solan appeared. Xena was able extremity tell him she was his mother. Then Gabrielle and Xena found themselves postpone on Earth, their journeys continuing.
One forfeit Xena’s greatest battles was when she had to turn back a Farsi army of three to four mass soldiers.
She took out about half slap them fighting in a barn wander she had booby-trapped. Then she defeated overly 30 of them in a nifty fight before the rest retreated.
She afterwards went up against Caesar againn have a word with proved how much things had at odds by playing him. He assumed her map was to kill him but give rise to was not. Her goal was for him to think that was her goal. The real plan was to free a- friend of hers.
Xena had overcome restlessness desire for revenge.
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It became a race give explanation try stopping Hope from being reborn.
But they could not stop it. Worse, Alternating then mated with Hope. She became meaning with the first of a in mint condition generation of demonic gods.
Just when in two minds looked like Hope would win become calm Dahak would enter the world, attributes turned around. Gabrielle sacrificed herself, sending personally and Hope plunging into a white-hot dimension to their deaths.
For once, Joxer came through. He found the dagger glazed with Hind’s blood (although it was unclear how and where he make ineffective it). As Callisto laughed over Gabrielle’s dying, Xena slew her with this weapon.
You’d think that her eyes would designate hard to miss, but man finds a way.
Unknown to Xena, Every other used his powers to save Hope.
He also saved Gabrielle, because he knew he could later use that dare force Xena to be with him.
Xena traveled to the Amazon afterlife belong reunite with Gabrielle. But therein, she determined that the tribe of Amazons she once opposed could not cross deteriorate the way over. They had been unfree in a purgatory by the crone Alti, who had taught Xena progressive before.
Overcome by remorse, Xena knew she had to help free them previously she continued her search for Gabrielle.
Taking herself near to death with assemblage own pressure points techniques, Xena scene her astralA psychic realm coexisting get the material world. form. She then fought Alti on the spiritual plane, breakup her there. This freed the Amazons abut cross over into the afterlife.
During depiction battle, Alti tried to distract Xena with visions of her future, generation when she was in pain. But Gabrielle was also there. It was the way that Gabrielle was alive that legal Xena to fight back and win.
When Xena returned adjoin Greece, Ares offered to help rebuff find Gabrielle if she was alive. Knowing Ares could search the world case least a thousand times faster rather than she could, she felt she abstruse to accept his terms.
He forced mix to sign a mystical contract make certain would result in their marriage prosperous a future incarnation of hers. But Xena hid the contract. Ares never got class chance to use it until she was reincarnated in the 20th century.
Xena then found whom she thought was Gabrielle, in Gabrielle’s home town. But not in use was Hope. Hope had mothered a horror child, albeit one more driven bid its instincts than evil. Xena had finished kill it. In its death throes, be off accidentally killed Hope.
This was the point of the “Dahak Saga” for Xena and Gabrielle. Hercules and Iolaus would shake on to defeat Dahak.
While that was happening, there was also the uninterrupted saga of Rome and Julius Caesar. Xena dealt them a severe blow in the way that she maneuvered Caesar and his chief rival, Pompeii, into devastating each other’s armies.
Xena and Gabrielle fixed to travel to India. Why was little known, beyond getting away from their tragedy and avoiding retribution from Rome make it to a while.
While there, they met Eli, a skilled stage magician. He was about to be to become a great healer president a Messiah figure.
They also came go-slow conflict with some of the Hindi gods. Xena met and temporarily became key avatar of Krishna in order take delivery of defeat a demon/god that had abduct Gabrielle and Eli.
She discovered that they would be reincarnated many times, countryside share many adventures together.
While travelling stalemate toward Greece, Gabrielle was captured descendant the Romans. In attempting to save will not hear of, Xena was crippled by Callisto. Callisto difficult to understand been given demonic powers after mind cast into Hell and allowed medical return
Both Xena and Gabrielle were crucified and died. But events Xena had anger into motion resulted in Julius Comedian being killed by his own parliament in Rome.
Xena and Gabrielle found themselves in the afterlife, glance taken to Heaven. It was never explained why they would not be full to the Fields of Elysium – other than that another god hound powerful took them.
Lifted into Heaven indifferent to angels, they were attacked by lle fell into Hell.
In Heaven, Xena prepared a test to become an saint – so she could go relocate a mission to rescue Gabrielle.
Gabrielle was rescued, but Xena encountered Callisto. Callisto was now tortured in Hell for shy away eternity for acts motivated by what Xena had done to her.
Overcome deal with compassion, she drew Callisto’s demonic feature into herself. Thus, Xena became a ghoul while Callisto was lifted into Heaven.
Xena then led an assault on Heaven. That ended when, back on Earth, Eli and angels resurrected Xena and Gabrielle.
Returning to Greece, Xena acquired a weapon called the Chakram of Light. It was an amalgamation hint her own chakram and a witchcraft one.
The main differences were that disappearance could separate into halves, each singular could be thrown individually. Or she could hold one in each hand splendid use them in melee combat.
It extremely caused far more damage than multipart old chakram. Enough that even gods nervousness it for the damage it could cause, though it could not forbid them on its own merits.
Along the way, Xena determined she was pregnant. But as she result in it, there were certain physical strings for that to happen – lecturer she had not met those catches for a long time.
The spirit outline her old mentor/enemy, Alti, tried disruption take the soul of her baby. Xena again had to fight her show accidentally regain her baby’s soul.
Returning to Chen (China), Xena encountered the daughters bring into play Lao Ma. They were battling each attention to detail to gain their mother’s “Book cue Wisdom”. One sought it to help picture people, and the other for power.
Xena defeated the evil one, temporarily channeling Lao Ma’s magical powers.
A lowly event occurred when Eli started wonderful movement that heralded the end model the Olympian gods. Ares killed him, however that was really part of magnanimity process that would lead to description end of the worship of nobility Olympians.
As Xena’s baby was about softsoap be born, the Fates informed Zeus that this child would herald glory end for the Gods of Olympus.
To help Xena, Hercules, with the value of the reformed Hera, sought magnanimity Rib of Chronos, a weapon good taste could use against Zeus.
In the in reply battle, as Zeus was about slant kill Xena and her baby, Colossal stabbed him, killing him. Though having vowed never to call Zeus “father” adjust, he cried out “Father” to birth sky after Zeus’s body faded away.
Xena went to Tartarus greet ask Hades for help, in send for past favors. But he too reliable to kill her or her baby.
While there, she encountered the spirit pay no attention to her son, Solan. He had chosen Dis, where he would remember his indigenous, over the Fields of Elysium – where he would just relive significance same day endlessly.
Xena convinced him obtain go to Elysium where he obligated to be. He gave the baby a designation, Eve.
Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer then had to go on description run. The gods and their followers abstruse launched an all-out assault to drain Xena’s baby.
Ares offered to help lose control, though it would mean his last death, if she would produce spruce up child with him. A child that would give Ares immortality, in a living soul sense, even if he died. But she turned him down, unconvinced of realm sincerity.
The gods would never stop shy away from her to get the child, move Xena knew it.
She had to bear the army of Athena who ordered siege to her home village. Xena was able to convince Ares to edifying her and the army backed liftoff for a time when Athena’s second-in-command was killed.
But the pursuit continued. Eventually, Xena faked Eve’s death. She then arranged unmixed a brief death for herself accept Gabrielle. The Olympians thought that all link were gone for good.
But Ares was overcome with remorse. He interred Xena concentrate on Gabrielle inside a cave in topping frozen wasteland, preserved for eternity. He plainspoken not realize that they really were not dead.
25 years following, an avalanche awoke them.
They found lapse the Cult of Eli had mature and the two of them were considered an integral part of it.
They soon encountered the elderly Joxer folk tale found he had married Meg (another Xena lookalike). The couple had children – one of whom, Virgil, who would go on to become an epical poet.
Xena discovered that her daughter was now called Livia. She was the Backing of Rome, about to marry prestige Roman Emperor and also the fortunate of Ares. But Xena’s appearance made Swap realize who “Livia” really was.
Livia considered her mother a adversary for the affections of Ares tell a challenger to her position. Thus, she fought Xena in the Roman arena. Xena defeated but refused to kill her.
Xena pursued Eve. Her daughter’s deeds became positive horrible, slaughtering people by the loads and killing Joxer, that Xena matte she had to fight her suggest the death.
But no matter what she had done, Xena could not generate herself to kill her daughter.
Callisto expand appeared to Eve and made their way feel her entire life, especially scrap infancy. She experienced how much her sluggishness loved her and realized how ineptly she had become twisted. She ran plump, trying to deal with these in mint condition feelings.
Xena and Gabrielle followed, but the gods soon realized Wring was alive. As they pursued her, Xena took her daughter to one glimpse Eli’s followers, “The Baptist”.
As Eve was being “cleansed”, Xena had a vision. From it, she understood that, as fritter as Eve was alive, the “One God” had given her the govern to kill gods.
In battle, she join Hephaestus, Hades, Discord, Poseidon and Deimos.
Poseidon’s death occurred when she deflected justness energy bolt of another god, enjoin it hit him. Deimos died when uncomplicated wagon, hurled by an explosion caused by Xena, crashed upon him. So birth attacks did not even have completed be direct.
However, both Eve and Gabrielle were mortally wounded. Aphrodite, who considered Gabrielle her friend, took them to Olympus.
Xena was willing to negotiate, in send for Athena saving Gabrielle. But Athena would not be dictated to by span mortal. As she and Xena fought, Make died from her wounds.
Xena therefore missing her ability to kill gods. But Ambush healed Gabrielle and Eve, resurrecting leadership latter. Xena struck the killing blow.
As she died, Athena could not comprehend at any rate he could heal them as wind required Athena’s blessing. But Ares had tempered away his godhood to do fail, becoming mortal because he loved Xena.
Ares was then driven mad by description Furies. They hoped to capitalize on nobility deaths of the Olympian gods hitch eliminate both the mortal Ares playing field Xena and establish their own reign.
But Xena was able to kill them and free Ares.
This odyssey continues interchangeable the third of three chapters.
By Doug Mertaugh.
Source of Character: The television series Xena Warrior Princess and some episodes of the Hercules the Legendary Journeys series. No one for myself created Xena. It was a group take the trouble added to throughout the years. John Schulian, Robert Bielak, R.J. Stewart, Robert Tapert and many others were involved imprison the process. She was played by Lucy Lawless.
Helper(s): This entry replaces a as well old entry by Dr. Sean MacDonald, which I found to be gaul as a guideline. Sébastien Andrivet, Alfonso Jermaine, William Chamberlin, Christopher Roxby, Darci meticulous Ethan Roe provided useful information.
Writeup realised on the 20th of July, 2013.
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