Orlando

Orlando (born Bio of Thebes) is a central character and one of the main protagonists of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. Orlando has appeared more times than any other character in the series.

Early Life and Before the League
Orlando was born in Thebes of 1260 BC as Bio, daughter of the blind seer Tiresias, once cursed to transform into a woman for seven years. Tiresias had passed his gift of prophecy to his older daughter Manto, who would go on to be an Oracle of Delphi, while Bio inherited his omnisexuality that manifested itself at the age of ten when she transformed into a boy. Out of shame, Tiresias sold his son to pirate slavers bound for Egypt, where he became a favourite of Ramesses II.

Nine years later, having aged beyond the Pharaoh's tastes, Orlando joined an expedition bound for the Horn of Africa, where as soon as they docked, he transformed back into a woman. Fearing what might become of her among her crew mates, she fled into the jungle and wandered for weeks, eventually stumbling into the city of Korin Uganda, where she found a mystical pool of liquid flames in which she bathed and emerged an Immortal.

After spending several decades in a community of immortals who had bathed in the pool of flame, Bion, as he would be known as a man, went to defend Troy. It was there that he met Aeneas, who he would join in for eighty years, eventually leaving with his great-grandson, Brutus, to travel at the behest of the goddess Diana to a northern isle where he would found a mighty nation. Brutus and their companions would spend a decade culling the land they called Brutain's population, which consisted of a grotesque race of giants.

Bored and a female once again, Bio would fight for Persia in Marathon, assist Alexander of Macedonia, read the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria, take part in Spartacus' slave revolt and fight for Julius Ceasar and later for Marc Antony. Bio abandoned Britain again, traveling to witness Beowulf defeating Grendel, where the two began to travel together.

Now named Roland, he joined the knights of Charlemagne and fought the Saracens in Pyrenees until he was the last man standing. Admiring his fortitude, the Saracens spared him and invited him to join them, and Orlando accepted. In Baghdad he would come to be known as Orlando, and became acquainted with Caliph Harun al-Rashid, his consort Scheherazade and most importantly, Sinbad, who would become his most enduring love, until he eventually left for an Eight Voyage from which he would never return. Orlando then fought in the Crusades along with Beowulf (who had since found the Pool of Fire.) After failing to recapture Jerusalem from Saladin, Orlando and Beowulf returned to England, where upon returning they receive an invitation from Arthur, asking to accompany him on a quest.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vanquish
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