Gabrielle became an Amazon Princess when she risked her life to save the Amazon warrior Terreis.  Terreis bestowed her right of caste and rank of
     Princess upon Gabrielle just before she died.  Gabrielle learned the art of wielding a staff during her stay with the Amazons, and has continued to practice
     and improve.  Our Princess became the Queen of the Amazons after the deaths of Melosa and Velasca.  She retains the title in name only, having given
     Ephiny the stewardship of the Amazon Nation in order to continue her travels with Xena.

     Gabrielle has a disarming and genuine innocence, and helps Xena to see the good and light in all things.  She has vowed never to take a life, a code that was
     sorely tested when her new husband [Perdicas!] was murdered by Callisto.  Thus, when she was tricked by the Cult of Dahak into taking a life, she was
     shattered.  Adding to her misery was the fact that she was somehow impregnated by Dahak.  She gave birth to a daughter, Hope, a short while later.
      Against all evidence, she refused to believe that the child could be the incarnation of evil.  Gabrielle put Hope in a basket and floated her down a river à la
     Moses to save her from being killed, an act which had major repercussions.  Gabrielle was killed when she prevented the adult Hope from killing Xena.