Red Sonja

Following the assault on her home and death of her family and livelihood at the hands of mercenaries, **Red Sonja** was visited by the goddess Scathath. Gaining unparalleled skill in battle in exchange for the promise to never love any man who could not beat her in fair combat, Red Sonja grew up to become a legendary adventurer, warrior, and eventually **Queen of Sogaria**. Her alliance/rivalry with **Conan the Barbarian**, too, is well renowned: the status of their relationship has varied over the years.

## History

### Origin

Red Sonja lived with her family in a humble home in the Western Hyrkanian steppes. When she had just turned 17-years-old, a group of cruel mercenaries killed her father Ivor, her mother and two younger brothers and burned their house and all their possessions. She survived but at the cost of her own virginity after she was brutally raped by the leader of the group, leaving her in shame. After all this, the goddess Scathach then appeared to her, and instilled in her incredible skill in handling swords and other weapons on the condition that she would not allow herself to be loved by another man unless he defeated her in fair combat.

### Adventures with Conan

Eventually Red Sonja started working as a mercenary and the King of Pah-Dishah hired her services, sending her to the city of Makkalet, where she came across Conan the Barbarian. Sonja assisted Conan in defeating The Vulture, and afterwards they worked together to steal the Serpent Tiara from the King of Makkalet, fulfilling her mission for the King of Pah-Dishah. Although Sonja promised Conan a reward for his assistance, she left Makkalet once she recovered the tiara.

Upon her return to Pah-Dishah, Red Sonja faced treachery as the King took the tiara from her and made her a prisoner. The King planned to make Sonja part of his harem, but that night, Sonja murdered the King and his close guards. Sonja escaped Pah-Dishah and rode west until she arrived to The Maul, where she met with Conan once again. Reunited, Conan and Sonja worked together to stop an undead being, but they were soon chased from the city by bounty hunters, who were seeking Red Sonja for the murder of the king. Their escape led Conan and Sonja to the hideout of a couple of vampires, who made the adventurers their prisoners. The vampires planned to feed from them, but Conan managed to trick them into releasing him, allowing Conan and Red Sonja to escape and burn their hideout, killing the vampires inside. After escaping a certain death, Red Sonja knocked Conan unconscious and continued on her own path, leading danger away from the Barbarian.

Much later, Sonja and Conan met again and confronted the evil sorcerer Kulan Gath.

### Further Adventures

Red Sonja also went to the future on two separate occasions when she possessed Mary Jane Watson and teamed up with Spider-Man in defeating Kulan Gath who had also traveled to the future in one of many attempts to take over modern day Earth.

## Religion

* As an Hyrkanian, Red Sonja invoked the names of the Tarim and Erlik, but has invoked other deities' names, such as Mitra's, as well.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

Red Sonja was one of the most powerful and skilled swordswomen in any era, among both men and women, she was also in peak human physical condition, a martial arts expert and possessed knowledge and experience in fighting the supernatural.