In my currently ongoing roleplay campaign, significant aspect of the game itself, centred around the "hero" concept. Ancient world, that partly resembles ancient Egypt, Rome and Middle East is mostly appear to traveler as lawless land; Huge empires not that huge by modern standards. They cannot ensure safety of big groups of different people, who try to settle new cities and find new lands for themselves. It's only natural, that here, the hero and the mercenary is close entities to each other. Vast spaces and older technology means that words and stories travel mainly through the speech, among the trade routes. So, image this: you're a daughter of the leader of one of the nomad tribes. You're beautiful, not a fighter much, but the circumstances come to be in such way, that you're became a hero. I've tried to envision, how such fantasies about her appearance would be. And she's ended up been more bimboish, than I expected... :D
