Illeana - Aesalon Nocturna

Age: 25

Birthplace: Rome

Fighting style: Dimachaearia/Thraex

History: Aemellia Illeana was once wife to a wealthy senator. Many years her senior, he died leaving her his vast fortune.

Always a thrill-seeker, Illeana – in contravention to Roman custom – signed on at the Ludus Magnus to train as a gladiatrix and takes to the life as though born for it. Fighting under the name of Aesalon Nocturna – the Midnight Falcon – she climbs through the ranks to become Gladiatrix Prima in only a few short years.

And Rome loves her for it.

Hailed by the Emperor Domitian and the Senate and People of Rome as the most beautiful woman in the world, Illeana has no peers, no equals and no rivals. She is the perfect warrior, a goddess made flesh. There are some that say she is the offspring of Mars, others the child Venus. Whatever the truth of the rumours, the fact remains that she reigns supreme on the sands of the arena.

Domitian knows that there is only one woman who stands a chance against the Aesalon Nocturna. Gladiatrix Prima of the Eastern Empire and Champion of Athene...

...Lysandra of Sparta.