Borias
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Borias is a fictional character
in the cult television program, Xena: Warrior Princess
. He is portrayed by Marton Csokas
.
Borias, possibly of Hunnish
descent, plundered many cities and villages in ancient Greece
alongside Xena
. They had a passionate affair from which she became pregnant. She cut her ties to the warlord after he betrayed her, when he defended the Centaurs against her reckless cruelty. Borias later came for Xena, as she was about to give birth. He planned to take her and his child away, but was killed before he could carry out his plan.
. Borias met Xena during the most destructive period of her life. While Borias has a calming influence on Xena, he was not able to control her wild urges altogether.
s, slaughtering anyone who stood in their way. Upon their arrival in Chin, Borias set about securing an alliances with two wealthy Chinese houses, the houses of Ming and Lao
. Xena ruined his plans by kidnapping Ming T'ien the son of Ming Tzu, the head of the house of Ming. For this act Borias betrayed Xena to Ming Tzu, and gave her over to him in exchange for money and horses. For a time this saw an end to the alliance between Xena and Borias.
and her apprentice, Anokin who has won Xena's affections, but Anokin was later killed. Borias took a dislike to Alti and begins to realize Xena's change . Alti told Xena she would make her the Destroyer of Nations. The Amazon
queen Cyane, saw the good in Borias and told Xena, "He's trying to change, Xena. Let him. If you two stay together, you're just gonna end up killing him." The prospect of becoming a father caused Borias to seek peace in his life, and he protected the young amazon, Otere, from Alti and Xena, who planned on killing her because Alti predicted that "she will take your power from you one day". Borias tried to forge peace with the Amazons, but Xena betrayed them and killed all of Cyane's tribe.
when Borias told Xena about a young girl named Akemi, who was kidnapped by a Chinese warlord and that her father would pay well if they return her to him. Kao refused to trade Akemi to them for 50 bags of gold because he claimed her as his property, Borias and Xena killed Kao and the other warlords, they then took Akemi who had won Xena's affections. While heading back to her father on a ship, Borias laughed when Xena tried to teach Akemi fighting skills and told Xena that she could not teach a dog to bark. Before Xena went to Akemi to meet her father, Borias told Xena to remember that he gets 10% of the ransom.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in the cult television program, Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....
. He is portrayed by Marton Csokas
Marton Csokas
-Early life:Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent; his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer...
.
Overview
The warlordWarlord
A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil control over a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority. The term can also mean one who espouses the ideal that war is necessary, and has the means and authority to engage in war...
Borias, possibly of Hunnish
Huns
The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns,...
descent, plundered many cities and villages in ancient Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
alongside Xena
Xena
Xena is a fictional character from Robert Tapert's Xena: Warrior Princess franchise. She first appeared in the 1995–1999 television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, before going on to appear in Xena: Warrior Princess TV show and subsequent comic book of the same name...
. They had a passionate affair from which she became pregnant. She cut her ties to the warlord after he betrayed her, when he defended the Centaurs against her reckless cruelty. Borias later came for Xena, as she was about to give birth. He planned to take her and his child away, but was killed before he could carry out his plan.
Borias meets Xena
When Borias first met Xena, she was able to seduce him away from his wife and child, and even away from his army. She persuaded him to form their own army and set off to conquer AsiaAsia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Borias met Xena during the most destructive period of her life. While Borias has a calming influence on Xena, he was not able to control her wild urges altogether.
Journey to Chin
Borias and Xena left Greece and headed east across the Mongolian steppeSteppe
In physical geography, steppe is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes...
s, slaughtering anyone who stood in their way. Upon their arrival in Chin, Borias set about securing an alliances with two wealthy Chinese houses, the houses of Ming and Lao
Lao Ma
Lao Ma is a fictional character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. She is portrayed by Korean-American actress Jacqueline Kim. Lao Ma is first introduced in the series in a two-episode story arc comprising The Debt Part I and Part II. The first episode has Xena, relating to Gabrielle...
. Xena ruined his plans by kidnapping Ming T'ien the son of Ming Tzu, the head of the house of Ming. For this act Borias betrayed Xena to Ming Tzu, and gave her over to him in exchange for money and horses. For a time this saw an end to the alliance between Xena and Borias.
Alti and the Amazons
Some time later Xena and Borias united once again, at this time he had fallen in love with Xena and soon joined forces with an outcast Amazon shaman woman AltiAlti
Alti is a fictional character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. She is portrayed by Claire Stansfield.-Overview:Alti is a Siberian Amazon Shamaness. She was driven out of her Siberian tribe by Queen Cyane, because of her hunger for power...
and her apprentice, Anokin who has won Xena's affections, but Anokin was later killed. Borias took a dislike to Alti and begins to realize Xena's change . Alti told Xena she would make her the Destroyer of Nations. The Amazon
Amazons
The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...
queen Cyane, saw the good in Borias and told Xena, "He's trying to change, Xena. Let him. If you two stay together, you're just gonna end up killing him." The prospect of becoming a father caused Borias to seek peace in his life, and he protected the young amazon, Otere, from Alti and Xena, who planned on killing her because Alti predicted that "she will take your power from you one day". Borias tried to forge peace with the Amazons, but Xena betrayed them and killed all of Cyane's tribe.
Jappa and Akemi
After leaving Qin, Borias and Xena headed to JappaJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
when Borias told Xena about a young girl named Akemi, who was kidnapped by a Chinese warlord and that her father would pay well if they return her to him. Kao refused to trade Akemi to them for 50 bags of gold because he claimed her as his property, Borias and Xena killed Kao and the other warlords, they then took Akemi who had won Xena's affections. While heading back to her father on a ship, Borias laughed when Xena tried to teach Akemi fighting skills and told Xena that she could not teach a dog to bark. Before Xena went to Akemi to meet her father, Borias told Xena to remember that he gets 10% of the ransom.
Borias and the Centaurs
During this time, Borias and Xena had split their army but Xena's army was much more powerful. When Xena planned to lead an attack on the centaurs, Borias, unable to tame Xena's violent ways, broke away from her for the last time. She turned on him, but he did not turn his back on her because of their child. Xena ordered Borias captured unharmed, but when Xena was about to give birth, he pleaded with her to go with him saying, "Before Alti, before all this, we had love, Xena. Maybe we confused it with power, but it was there, is still there. For the sake of our son, and us, I'm taking you away." He then tried to rescue her, and his child, from the army camp where she was planning her attack on the Centaurs, but just as he Category:Fictional Greek peoplesaw his newborn son, he was killed by Xena's lieutenant, Dagnine and a slave woman, Satrina.Borias' legacy
The Cenaturs and Xena were deeply saddened by his death. Kaliepus told Xena that even though Borias is dead, his legend will live on forever with his people. When Xena confronted Satrina, she told her that if she did not kill Borias then he would have changed everything for her and Solan may have been still alive. Xena would not kill Satrina as revenge over Borias' death, because she did not want to taint Borias' memory and that she was not worth it. Xena tells Gabrielle that Borias showed the hatred Xena had for herself and showed her the love that someone could have for a child. Xena's tells Xenan that the blood of Borias is in his son. When Borias' older son Belach kills the Centaurs, Xena is deveasted because Belach had destroyed his father's legacy. Borias' grandson is named after him.Appearances
- Orphan of War (cameo)
- The Debt - Part 1
- The Debt - Part 2
- Adventures in the Sin Trade - Part 1
- Adventures in the Sin Trade - Part 2
- Past Imperfect
- Last of the Centaurs
- A Friend in Need - Part 1
- A Friend in Need - Part 2