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[h1][color=Khaki][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/h1]
[b]Name:[/b] Alcyone Anthophila, going by Athena Eleutheria 
[b]Age:[/b] young
[b]Race:[/b] Bee
[b]Gender:[/b]Female
[b]Class/Job:[/b]Swashbuckler
[b]Appearance:[/b] left: Athena, right: Alcyone. She is noticeably large for a bee as a result of her royal upbringing. 

[h3][color=Khaki]Belongings[/color][/h3][list]
[*] [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Xiphos_2.jpg]Xiphos:[/url] a 50 cm long sword commonly used as a backup by hoplites  
[*] Buckler, a small shield strapped to an arm, used for parrying.
[*] A Sling, a simple weapon used to hurl stones at high speeds 
[*] Javelin/Spear
[*] Dagger
[*] leather armor
[*] a small backpack and various sheaths/holsters for her weapons.
[*] a map of the area
[*] a spyglass
[*] a diary
[*] 100 Chips, spread out around her person so she does not loose them all to thievery
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[h3][color=Khaki]Skills and Abilities[/color][/h3][list]
[*]Training in a large number of weapons, though little practical experience with combat other than sparing
[*]Quad wielding
[*]Military tactics
[*]Diplomacy
[*]A well rounded general education
[*]Nimble flyer 
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[color=Khaki][sup]”I could not stay, for there are so many worlds I needed to see that are beyond our own”[/sup][/color]
[h3][color=Khaki]Personality[/color][/h3]
A highly determined young woman struck with wanderlust, Athena is an inquisitive explorer who is somewhat directionless at the moment. Well educated but lacking in practical experience she might come of to the more rugged and experienced individuals, though her training in diplomacy and politics means she manages to not be easily fooled as her sheltered upbringing might suggest.

She is an avid reader and takes a lot of enjoyment from skillful combat. Despite her training she has never killed someone before and finds the prospect of doing so disquieting, if fighting a person she aims to disarm or wound rather than murder them.

[h3][color=Khaki]History[/color][/h3]
One of the princesses born to Queen Anthophila of the main hive, she was born along with her many sisters on midsummer's day. Alcyone spent her childhood living the charmed life of luxury in the royal palace and in travel to other hives attached to the royal court. She spent much of her spare time reading tales of dashing rogues and daring knights as well as about the other peoples and places found beyond the hives.

She received extensive training in oratory, history, diplomacy, leadership, military tactics the arts and the sciences as well as limited self defence training. All in preparation for her becoming one of her mother's many lieutenants. She did not seem to take well to education, often noted by her tutors to be caught daydreaming or gazing out of the windows at the land below the great hive.

As the time for her to take on her duties of leadership and motherhood grew close she began to chafe against her gilded cage. This was not unexpected, however unlike others who locked themselves in their rooms to brood or compose melodramatic paintings and poetry she threw herself into martial training, skipping other classes to take unofficial training in swordsmanship and other military arts with the royal guard.

The night before she and her sisters were supposed to choose husbands arrived she slipped out of a side door of the palace, left open by a sympathetic(and well bribed) guard, into the dark streets of the hive in disguise. Taking the name Athena Eleutheria, she intends to see the world and become a hero like the ones she has read about. 

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