Cleopatra was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Period of Egypt. Despite her alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, she ended up on the wrong side of a Roman civil war. Cleopatra's death marked the end of the Dynastic era, and the beginning of Roman rule over Egypt. She has been popularized through countless stories and works of art, including Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra.
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Cleopatra VII (Aether)
6 Life
3 Speed
8 Experience
1 Damage
Egyptian • Warrior • Female
'fd: At the start of each round, if there is an opposing male warrior, you may move one space.
Born into a crumbling Egypt slowly losing ground to the expanding Roman Empire, Cleopatra used every tool at her disposal to maintain independence and return her nation to the glory that it once held.
Illus.: Terese Nielsen • Set 2 • 51/100
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History in Brief
Anachronism Package Blurb
Queen of a crumbling Egypt at only 18, Cleopatra used her wits and intelligence to pit the might of Rome against itself for over twenty years. She charmed both Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, outlived 3 sisters and a brother, ruled as the last pharaoh of Egypt and proclaimed herself the New Isis, Queen of Kings. With Ast, goddess of death and rebirth watching over her, Cleopatra brings her cunning and wiles into the arena. With her power mandated in the Heqa and Was Scepters she bears, Cleopatra brings a new approach to combat in Anachronism™.
Trivia
Cleopatra...
- was the descendent of Ptolemy I Soter, the Greek general who claimed Egypt after Alexander the Great's death.
- and the other Ptolemaic pharoahs were not the only foreigners to have ruled Egpyt; so did the Hyksos, Nubians, Assyrians, and Persians.
- probably did not die in the manner described by Roman historians and Shakespeare (by applying an asp to her breast/neck).
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