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The tribe of Amazons led by Queen Hippolyta coexisted, on shaky grounds, with the people of the village that they shared a forest and hunting grounds with. Her second-in-command was a woman named Lysia. On one visit to the village, for the purposes of sex to continue their family lines, an old man spent the night with Lysia. As she prepared to leave the next morning, he told her that he was Zeus, King of the Gods. She asked for no proof but displayed no signs of awe either, instead just leaving as she would any other man.

Nine months later, Lysia gave birth to a baby girl, whom she named Ania. As the child grew, she was trained by Lysia and Hippolyta personally in the arts of battle and hunting, and a faint amount of training was given in the area of leadership as well.

When Ania was seventeen, a battle broke out between the Amazons and the men of the town. It was a vicious struggle that lasted several months but war was never officially declared. The fighting stopped only when three days of heavy rain flooded the river that separated the village from the forest. The damage to both communities was severe enough to prompt each side to agree to meet for discussions of a peace treaty. Many lives were claimed on both sides by the battles and by the flood, the most notable of the latter being Lysia. With Ania's mother dead, Hippolyta took the girl in as her own.

A treaty was forged between the townspeople and the Amazons through long negotiations of boundaries and trade agreements. It was announced in the village's square in front of every member of both communities so there could be no claim of ignorance later.

Two months later, Ania having turned eighteen during the proceedings of the negotiations, the townspeople sent a gift of a large basket of apples to the Amazon women. Hippolyta took the gift as a sign of goodwill and passed the pieces of fruit out to her women. Their number had been specifically counted, and there was an apple for each woman and girl. Only eight of the Amazons ate from the gift, and Hippolyta was among those that ate. Within the week, all of those eight women and none of the others fell ill and perished.

After Hippolyta's funeral was carried out and Ania was ready to become queen of the tribe, as Hippolyta had decreed as she grew ill that the girl should be, Ania addressed the Amazons. She reminded them of their hardships: the battles, the flood, the uneasy treaty that already seemed threatened, and her own youth. She welcomed any of them to challenge her for her position, for any of the older women to step forward to lead them, but none of the women came forward.

Nearly a year after Ania had become queen, things had grown worse. Ania suspected the townspeople of violating the treaty yet did not have the soldiers enough to challenge them, and there were accusations among the Amazons that Ania could not lead them properly, but not one of them would challenge her for her position and her power. The game continued to thin, and young girls were going hungry.

Finally, Ania made the decision she had known she would have to make: her tribe would have to relocate.


Ania is based on the show Hercules: The Legendary Journey, to which I own no rights. Her particular origin, and the images of Lucy Lawless that I use to represent her, are specifically from Hercules and the Amazon Women. I am not making money off this, and I do not claim the images or most of the characters as my own.

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