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Harmothoe
Fictional Character
"One Touch of Hippolyta"
by Laura Frankos

Urban Fantasy
Type of Appearance: Direct
Nationality: Pontus (first life);
United States (second life)
Date of Birth: 1st millennium BC (original life);
2015 (reborn fully grown)
Date of Death: 1st millennium BC (first time around);
Alive at story's end, 2018
Cause of Death: Natural causes (first life);
N/A (second life)
Occupation: Soldier, educator
Spouse: Naudar
Children: Polemusa, Hippothoe
Relatives: Bremusa (granddaughter);
Alcibe (great-granddaughter)
Military branch: Amazons

Harmothoe was an average Amazon warrior from Amaseia in the kingdom of Pontus. She lived with her husband Naudar, who collected samples of her blood for magical use in his sculptures, and their daughter Polemusa. Harmothoe died giving birth to their second daughter, Hippothoe, but that was not the end of her story.

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