<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Name:</strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><em>Livia Sabina Metalla</em></span></span></div><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><div align="center">(http://www.flicksandbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/angelina-jolie-alexander.jpg) (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g3jNtz1y9kQ/Tbh_xVB2vHI/AAAAAAAACUg/IwMmlreG61A/s1600/angelina-jolie-and-alexander-gallery.jpg)</div><br/>At 5'8" and with a very slender frame, sallow complexion and clear skin, with hair the shade of a ravens wing and eyes as bright as a cerulean sky; Livia is a vision to behold. Her mode of dress is of the best quality, she wears togas that are the height of fashion though always purposefully designed in such a delicate manner as to appear demure of coin. Her stola and decorated with cuff bands of cold and the jewel most in favour with Rome at that time. Always perfectly groomed, her makeup flawless and her hair coiffed to perfection, she wears it in the latest modes resorting only to wearing a wig of a different hue when attending a function with her husband.<br/>Upon her palla she wears a modest array of jewelery in the way of a broach to clasp it in place.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Position in Ludus/Society:</strong>Domina (rival ludus)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>A great favourite with all who meet her, she is compassionate, gentle, strong of character and patient. Her natural propensity for calm resolution, added to her years of etiquette and learning, deems her a commanding presence. Charming and often times witty, she is every inch a lady no matter that the fourteen years of matrimony has seen her as Domina to a great Ludus. A good listener and a propensity for astute observation, means little about her home alludes her. Her personal slave tells her everything that occurs and even the ordinary house slaves find themselves openly relaying events that they might not to the Dominus. They favour her fair hand in dealing with all matters and are never fearful in approaching her. The gladiators at the Ludus are enamoured with her but though some Domina's might take one to their bed, she has not in all her married life. Faithful, dutiful and adoring of her husband, he was her first and only love.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/>Daughter to Caliqua and Julii of Tarraco, Livia was born and raised in the city venturing only to Rome when her fathers business took him there. His great friend Fabrizio had a son three years older than her and on Lulia's twelveth birthday and Livia's 9th they were betrothed in marriage to one another. In her fourteenth year she married and soon fell in love with the handsome Lulia. She moved to the home of the Metalla's, a large Ludus on the outskirts of the city. The sounds of the gladiators disturbed her greatly at first, the smells and the sights she witnessed daily. Her nature however being gentle and caring led her to tend the wounds of one of the newer slaves who was to train to be a gladiator. He later became the Doctore of the Ludus but from that day to this earned her deepest respect and admiration.<br/><br/>As she grew in both beauty, temperance and knowledge of the Ludus, she did the latter only because she saw how much it pleased her beloved husband that she be part of all of his daily dealings. She gave birth to a son in her seventeenth year but he died of at the age two of tuberculosis. A year later she gave birth to a girl but she did not survive the year. Distraught that she could not give healthy children to her husband she begged him to divorce her and take a wife worthy of him but Lulia swore his fidelity and undying love to her that day, promising that they would grow old together and that their children would be the gladiators, theirs to mold and shape into the finest warriors the arena would ever see.<br/><br/>By the age of twenty six, typhoid had wiped out her father, her husband and his father; his mother having left years earlier to live out the rest of her days in a warmer climate. It is left to Livia to take the glorious Ludus Metalla and maintain it as such, the Doctore for his part aids her while the champion, now her champion steps up to do his also. Two years have passed and the Ludus struggles to hold their titles as more aggressive gladiators come forth determined to take their place among the ranks of the champions. Livia's closest confidante becomes greatly intrigued with the Ludus' champion and impresses upon Livia to use him so she does not marry foolishly for sexual gratification but if she were to marry again, to do so for opportunity for herself and the Ludus. Livia begins to see her champion in a new light and though he will never take the place of her beloved in her heart, he quells her desires with equal fervour.<br/>