Prima

Origins
Nobody can be quite sure of the origins of Prima, as she is one of the few people old enough to remember yet refuses to give much away. What is known is that she was born in ancient Mesopotamia to a family of peasants, and was involved in some form of cataclysmic incident when she was in her mid-twenties. Reports have varied as to whether this was related to magical energies stored under the surface of the Earth, a man-made explosion, or the collision of a strange meteorite with the face of the planet.

However the one thing that is certain is that whatever happened changed the young woman who would become Prima. She stood in the epicentre of this disaster, surrounded by the ashes and bones of her dead family, yet was completely unharmed.

As soldiers from a nearby town came to retrieve her, she lashed out and one of them stabbed her with his spear. She fell to the ground and he removed the spear, yet she rose back to her feet as the wound healed over. Horrified by this, the soldiers fled and Prima began to experiment on herself, slicing her flesh with blades and pieces of rock, watching in amazement as her skin stitched itself back together again.

She threw herself into rocks, hurled herself off cliffs and even attempted to drown herself, then felt her bones snap back into place and her lungs fill with air once again. She realised that she could recover from any injury inflicted upon her, and over time she would discover that this also applied to the ravages of age, her body constantly rebuilding itself and keeping her young, healthy and alive for hundreds of years.

Armed with this knowledge and newfound power, she marched into the town the soldiers had come from, straight into the home of the town's leader, and killed him, removing his head and using it to assert her dominance in the small community. The fearful people bowed down to this young, fierce and bloodied woman, and she quickly forged them into a band of marauders who would travel from town to town, taking control of the people and killing those who stood in her way.

The Restless Immortal
Over the years, Prima grew more powerful and influential, with a vast army of commonfolk at her back and enough resources to target bigger town and cities, and she dedicated herself to building an empire which would last as long as she lived.

She was the secret power in the shadows behind some of the most important civilisations throughout history, advising Emperor Augustus in ancient Rome,