The Muse Galaxy

1. Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ~Dodie Smith

2. How did your birth order in your family affect who you became?

3. Frustration

Like most Immortals, Princess Penelope of Xanthia survived my keeping her eye on the long term goals and prizes that she coveted. Born in the Fourth Century, around 310-320, she was raised as the daughter of Phillipus Ambrosius Junius, one of the most loyal of Constantine the Great's generals turned statesmen. Due to his long and profitable service to Constantine, as well as his marriage to one of the Emperor's half - sisters, Anastasia, he held massive lands, many slaves and great wealth. Penelope was his only child, due to the death of her siblings during infancy. She was the sole heir to the impressive fortune and political power of both her mother and her father, and her marriage was a subject of great planning and debate. Not just any man was good enough for her father, and few men could manage the vast power that her husband would enjoy upon her father’s death. Indeed, even Constantine himself was involved in the decision, while the wishes of the intended bride were no more important than the wishes of a horse being traded.
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