Post by Ares on Jul 29, 2010 19:24:53 GMT -7
Name:Ares(King Leonidas of Sparta)
Age:2550(looks to be 40)
Height/Weight:5'10"/280lbs(solid Muscle)
Eyes:Brown
Hair:Black
Character description/personality:Quiet,confident,willful and calm.
Persuasion:Straight
Type of Creature:Twilight Vampire/Former King of Sparta
Powers:Diamond hard skin,which sparkles in the sunlight,extremely strong and fast and highly skilled in the art of war.His distinctive power is the ability adjust to other twilight type vampires' abilities and,after experiencing them one time,rendering them useless if used against him.
Weaknesses:Other supernatural beings can kill him by dismembering his body and burning the pieces.The scent of blood,in most cases,drives his ilk of vampire to frenzy(though he's lived long enough to overcome this).He cannot be in direct sunlight while near humans by vampire,or Volturi,law.
History:Leonidas was a king of Sparta,the 17th of the Agiad line,one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta,who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Herakles,possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery.History states that King Leonidas of Sparta died at the Battle of Thermopylae in August of 480 BC however very little is known about the year of his birth or,for that matter,his formative years.The date of the birth of King Leonidas has been narrowed down to around 540 BC.
Leonidas was one of three brothers.He had an older brother,Dorieus,and a younger brother,Cleombrotus,who ruled as regent for a while on Leonidas' death before the regency was taken over by Pausanias,who was Cleombrotus' son.Leonidas succeeded his half-brother Cleomenes I probably in 489 or 488 BC and was married to Cleomenes'daughter Gorgo.His name was raised to heroic status as a result of the events in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Upon receiving a request from the confederated Greek forces to aid in defending Greece against the Persian invasion Sparta consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle is said to have made the following prophecy in hexameter verse:
Hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces;
Either your famed, great town must be sacked by Perseus'sons,
Or,if that be not,the whole land of Lacedaemon
Shall mourn the death of a king of the house of Herakles,
For not the strength of lions or of bulls shall hold him,
Strength against strength;for he has the power of Zeus,
And will not be checked till one of these two he has consumed.
In August 480 BC, Leonidas set out to meet Xerxes' army at Thermopylae with a small force of 300,where he was joined by forces from other Greek city-states, who put themselves under his command to form an army between 4,000 and 7,000 strong.He chose only 300 Spartans because if he had taken the entire Spartan Army he would need the permission of the Council who he knew would not agree with him.He therefore chose a small number,saying that it was his own personal choice,not representing Sparta in any way.This force was assembled in an attempt to hold the pass of Thermopylae against a massive Persian army of between 80,000 and 290,000 men-at-arms who had invaded from the north of Greece under Xerxes I.
Xerxes waited four days to attack hoping the Greeks would disperse.Finally,on the fifth day,they attacked.Leonidas and his men repulsed the Persians' frontal attacks for the fifth and sixth days killing roughly 20,000 of the enemy troops and losing about 2,500 of their own.The Persian elite unit known to the Greeks as "the Immortals" was held back and two of Xerxes' brothers,Abrocomes and Hyperanthes,died in battle.On the seventh day,August 11,a Malian Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks.At that point Leonidas sent away all Greek troops and remained in the pass with his 300 Spartans,900 Helots and 700 Thespians who refused to leave.The Thespians stayed entirely of their own will declaring that they would not abandon Leonidas and his followers.Their leader was Demophilus,son of Diadromes,and as it was written "Hence they lived with the Spartans and died with them."
One theory provided by Herodotus is that Leonidas sent away the remainder of his men because he cared about their safety.The King would have thought it wise to preserve those Greek troops for future battles against the Persians but he knew that the Spartans could never abandon their post on the battlefield.The soldiers who stayed behind were to protect their escape against the Persian cavalry.Herodotus himself believed that Leonidas gave the order because he perceived the allies to be out of heart and unwilling to encounter the danger to which his own mind was made up.He therefore chose to dismiss all troops except the Thespians and Helots and save the glory for the Spartans.
The small Greek force,attacked from both sides,were killed except for the Thebans who surrendered.History says at this point that Leonidas was killed but the Spartans retrieved his body and protected it until their final defeat.Herodotus says that Xerxes' orders were to have Leonidas' head cut off and put on a stake and his body crucified. This was considered sacrilegious.
The tomb of Leonidas lies today in the northern part of the modern town of Sparta.Additionally there is a modern monument at the site of the Battle of Thermopylae called the "Leonidas Monument" in his honor.It features a bronze statue of Leonidas.A sign under the statue reads simply:"Come and get them!" which the Spartans said when the Persians asked them to put down their weapons.The hero cult of Leonidas survived at Sparta until the age of the Antonines.
The truth of the matter,which differs from the version written in the history books,is that when Leonidas' faithful subjects searched the battlefield at Thermopylae they didn't find their Kings body so,in defiance of Xerxes,they took the body of Leonidas' second in command and dressed it as the King himself would have been dressed and held it from the clutches of Xerxes so that,if not in body,the memory of their Honored King would not be sullied.
What truly happened was never once put to writing from that time until now.
Drawn by the overwhelming scent of so much blood a then,and now,nameless vampire scoured the battle field searching for living victims,not having a taste for "dead Blood" ,and found many dying Persians,which she turned her nose up at,and one she deemed worthy of a feast.
Leonidas.
This sparkling woman easily lifted the broken and battered body of the Spartan King and carried it off with great speed to a well hidden place where she might savor her meal in privacy.She spent days drinking this mighty warriors blood a bit at a time while he writhed in agony but,as befitting a Spartan and a King,Leonidas never once cried out in pain during this entire encounter and this confused the woman as,in her experience,most would have both cried out and expired long before Leonidas had.
This confusion she felt quickly turned to terror when she returned to the well hidden location she'd taken him to and found he'd survived the near continuous feeding,and thus the venom,she'd tortured him with and now stood in the direct sunlight sparkling like a diamond.Foolishly the unknown vampire woman had not removed Leonidas' weapon from his belt when she removed him from his "Glorious Death" and she paid for this oversight with her existance as he attacked her with all the elemental force of a hurricane and make quick work of dismembering her then,when she began recovering from this,burning the many body parts he'd chopped her into.
Free of his torturer,but also of the one who was to teach him what he was now and how to survive,he mistakenly assumed,after it was too late not to kill her,that the woman he'd slain was sent by the Gods to bring him into Godhood himself for his splended battle with Xerxes and his massive army.Knowing that he was now the superior of any human,even his own people,he left Sparta and Greece forever and took the name of the Greek God of War as the name Leonidas was know far and wide,each new day and night,without sleep,making him that much more sure he was now a God amongst men he traveled the world seeing things he never imagined,fighting the hunger swelling within his with his soldiers discpline,and came about the same feeding choice the Cullens did completely seperate and independant of them.His reasoning,unlike theirs,was that reducing a human to writhing in pain on the ground for hours,or days,while they slowly died wouldn't be something neither a Spartan or a King would do and,besides,would be the exact opposite of a Glorious Death for the human.
For hundreads,close to a thousand,years now he's heard tales of a family,or clan,of vampires whom feed,as he does,only on the blood of animals and he's spent that time,from the moment he'd heard the first whisperings amongst other vampires,searching from these vampires and,at last,he's found them in the New World in a little town called Forks...
Canon or Original?:Original but based off 300 and Twilight
Character is from movies and book and history:
Age:2550(looks to be 40)
Height/Weight:5'10"/280lbs(solid Muscle)
Eyes:Brown
Hair:Black
Character description/personality:Quiet,confident,willful and calm.
Persuasion:Straight
Type of Creature:Twilight Vampire/Former King of Sparta
Powers:Diamond hard skin,which sparkles in the sunlight,extremely strong and fast and highly skilled in the art of war.His distinctive power is the ability adjust to other twilight type vampires' abilities and,after experiencing them one time,rendering them useless if used against him.
Weaknesses:Other supernatural beings can kill him by dismembering his body and burning the pieces.The scent of blood,in most cases,drives his ilk of vampire to frenzy(though he's lived long enough to overcome this).He cannot be in direct sunlight while near humans by vampire,or Volturi,law.
History:Leonidas was a king of Sparta,the 17th of the Agiad line,one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta,who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Herakles,possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery.History states that King Leonidas of Sparta died at the Battle of Thermopylae in August of 480 BC however very little is known about the year of his birth or,for that matter,his formative years.The date of the birth of King Leonidas has been narrowed down to around 540 BC.
Leonidas was one of three brothers.He had an older brother,Dorieus,and a younger brother,Cleombrotus,who ruled as regent for a while on Leonidas' death before the regency was taken over by Pausanias,who was Cleombrotus' son.Leonidas succeeded his half-brother Cleomenes I probably in 489 or 488 BC and was married to Cleomenes'daughter Gorgo.His name was raised to heroic status as a result of the events in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Upon receiving a request from the confederated Greek forces to aid in defending Greece against the Persian invasion Sparta consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle is said to have made the following prophecy in hexameter verse:
Hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces;
Either your famed, great town must be sacked by Perseus'sons,
Or,if that be not,the whole land of Lacedaemon
Shall mourn the death of a king of the house of Herakles,
For not the strength of lions or of bulls shall hold him,
Strength against strength;for he has the power of Zeus,
And will not be checked till one of these two he has consumed.
In August 480 BC, Leonidas set out to meet Xerxes' army at Thermopylae with a small force of 300,where he was joined by forces from other Greek city-states, who put themselves under his command to form an army between 4,000 and 7,000 strong.He chose only 300 Spartans because if he had taken the entire Spartan Army he would need the permission of the Council who he knew would not agree with him.He therefore chose a small number,saying that it was his own personal choice,not representing Sparta in any way.This force was assembled in an attempt to hold the pass of Thermopylae against a massive Persian army of between 80,000 and 290,000 men-at-arms who had invaded from the north of Greece under Xerxes I.
Xerxes waited four days to attack hoping the Greeks would disperse.Finally,on the fifth day,they attacked.Leonidas and his men repulsed the Persians' frontal attacks for the fifth and sixth days killing roughly 20,000 of the enemy troops and losing about 2,500 of their own.The Persian elite unit known to the Greeks as "the Immortals" was held back and two of Xerxes' brothers,Abrocomes and Hyperanthes,died in battle.On the seventh day,August 11,a Malian Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks.At that point Leonidas sent away all Greek troops and remained in the pass with his 300 Spartans,900 Helots and 700 Thespians who refused to leave.The Thespians stayed entirely of their own will declaring that they would not abandon Leonidas and his followers.Their leader was Demophilus,son of Diadromes,and as it was written "Hence they lived with the Spartans and died with them."
One theory provided by Herodotus is that Leonidas sent away the remainder of his men because he cared about their safety.The King would have thought it wise to preserve those Greek troops for future battles against the Persians but he knew that the Spartans could never abandon their post on the battlefield.The soldiers who stayed behind were to protect their escape against the Persian cavalry.Herodotus himself believed that Leonidas gave the order because he perceived the allies to be out of heart and unwilling to encounter the danger to which his own mind was made up.He therefore chose to dismiss all troops except the Thespians and Helots and save the glory for the Spartans.
The small Greek force,attacked from both sides,were killed except for the Thebans who surrendered.History says at this point that Leonidas was killed but the Spartans retrieved his body and protected it until their final defeat.Herodotus says that Xerxes' orders were to have Leonidas' head cut off and put on a stake and his body crucified. This was considered sacrilegious.
The tomb of Leonidas lies today in the northern part of the modern town of Sparta.Additionally there is a modern monument at the site of the Battle of Thermopylae called the "Leonidas Monument" in his honor.It features a bronze statue of Leonidas.A sign under the statue reads simply:"Come and get them!" which the Spartans said when the Persians asked them to put down their weapons.The hero cult of Leonidas survived at Sparta until the age of the Antonines.
The truth of the matter,which differs from the version written in the history books,is that when Leonidas' faithful subjects searched the battlefield at Thermopylae they didn't find their Kings body so,in defiance of Xerxes,they took the body of Leonidas' second in command and dressed it as the King himself would have been dressed and held it from the clutches of Xerxes so that,if not in body,the memory of their Honored King would not be sullied.
What truly happened was never once put to writing from that time until now.
Drawn by the overwhelming scent of so much blood a then,and now,nameless vampire scoured the battle field searching for living victims,not having a taste for "dead Blood" ,and found many dying Persians,which she turned her nose up at,and one she deemed worthy of a feast.
Leonidas.
This sparkling woman easily lifted the broken and battered body of the Spartan King and carried it off with great speed to a well hidden place where she might savor her meal in privacy.She spent days drinking this mighty warriors blood a bit at a time while he writhed in agony but,as befitting a Spartan and a King,Leonidas never once cried out in pain during this entire encounter and this confused the woman as,in her experience,most would have both cried out and expired long before Leonidas had.
This confusion she felt quickly turned to terror when she returned to the well hidden location she'd taken him to and found he'd survived the near continuous feeding,and thus the venom,she'd tortured him with and now stood in the direct sunlight sparkling like a diamond.Foolishly the unknown vampire woman had not removed Leonidas' weapon from his belt when she removed him from his "Glorious Death" and she paid for this oversight with her existance as he attacked her with all the elemental force of a hurricane and make quick work of dismembering her then,when she began recovering from this,burning the many body parts he'd chopped her into.
Free of his torturer,but also of the one who was to teach him what he was now and how to survive,he mistakenly assumed,after it was too late not to kill her,that the woman he'd slain was sent by the Gods to bring him into Godhood himself for his splended battle with Xerxes and his massive army.Knowing that he was now the superior of any human,even his own people,he left Sparta and Greece forever and took the name of the Greek God of War as the name Leonidas was know far and wide,each new day and night,without sleep,making him that much more sure he was now a God amongst men he traveled the world seeing things he never imagined,fighting the hunger swelling within his with his soldiers discpline,and came about the same feeding choice the Cullens did completely seperate and independant of them.His reasoning,unlike theirs,was that reducing a human to writhing in pain on the ground for hours,or days,while they slowly died wouldn't be something neither a Spartan or a King would do and,besides,would be the exact opposite of a Glorious Death for the human.
For hundreads,close to a thousand,years now he's heard tales of a family,or clan,of vampires whom feed,as he does,only on the blood of animals and he's spent that time,from the moment he'd heard the first whisperings amongst other vampires,searching from these vampires and,at last,he's found them in the New World in a little town called Forks...
Canon or Original?:Original but based off 300 and Twilight
Character is from movies and book and history:
