Gabrielle, a fictional character in Xena: Warrior Princess, is known to be the Battling Bard of Poetedia.
Once a farm girl, forced to be patrothed to a farmer, she decided to find herself a new life with the Warrior Princess, Xena. Helping her in convincing the villagers of Amphipolis to defend themselves against the warlord, Draco, she became the best friend of Xena.
Gabrielle has learned to defend herself against evil with the use of her trusty staff. She has learned how to use a sword, but she rather to never spread blood. She later learns how to fight with sais, and is known to be very good at using them.
She has been known to be in love. One, with Hercules' partner, Iolaus, second with her childhood friend, Perdicas, whom she had married and was later killed by Callisto. And last, as being with her best friend for six years, she has grown a strong bond of love and friendship with Xena.
When helping to defend Britannia against Julius Caesar, she has came in contact with an evil cult that had her to kill one its priestess, Meridian. Using her, the dark god, Dahak, had managed to impregnate her, as Xena was able to save her. For two weeks, the child inside Gabrielle grew, and eventuall was born into a girl. Gabrielle named her Hope. Fearing that the child will become a danger to the world, Xena wanted to kill it, but Gabrielle had saved her by putting her in a basket.
A year later, Gabrielle finds Hope, grown as a nine year old, and already spreading evil. Xena discovered that Hope is alive. Hope had killed Xena's only son, Solan, and Gabrielle had poisoned her to death. Gabrielle had punished herself for killing Solan and for betraying her, for the second time, the first was when Gabrielle stopped her from killing Ming Tien, a mad tyrant.
When meeting with Hope, again, she sacrificed herself to save Xena as she and Hope had plummeted into a lava pit. Luckily, both of them had survived, somehow by an unknown force.
Gabrielle has longt tried to perfect her soul as she followed the Way of Love, but in the end she followed the Way of Friendship.
In the future, Gabrielle will have an adventurous descendant and be reincarnated into a past-life's counseler.
