Supernatural Creatures

Amazons

Lore

Amazons were tribe of female warriors in Greek myth who were thought to live in Central Asia or North Africa. Legends said that they mated with other tribes to preserve their race, but kept only female infants. They were said to amputate their right breasts so that they could shoot better with bow and arrows. Later historians claimed that the Amazons were a tribe of men and women in which both sexes fought in battles. Herodotus claimed that no Amazon woman could marry until she had killed a man. One famous queen of the Amazons was Hippolyta; Hercules in his Twelve Labors was commanded to steal her girdle, though she decided to give it to him as a gift.

After their ranks were devastated in a long war, the Amazon warrior tribe made a deal with the goddess Harmonia. She gave them supernatural strength and the ability to reproduce rapidly. The Amazon women gave birth to a child 36 hours after conceiving it, and the children matured rapidly, reaching adolescence within 3 days. Each girl then had to ritually kill the man who had fathered her, removing his hands and feet and carving an Amazonian symbol on his chest. Every two years, women of childbearing age would repeat the cycle to increase the ranks.

The children were trained by Amazonian elders as fighters, to be able to both endure and dispense pain. One of their rituals involved consuming the flesh of their dead father. They were also branded with the sign of the Amazons on the insides of their wrists.

Powers and Abilities

Superhuman strength

Rapid aging until adulthood

Vulnerabilities

Any type of weaponry