Otere

Otere was a character on. She and Yakut acted as leader for the northern Amazons after the brutal death of Cyane I and their leaders at the hands of Xena. However, she and Yakut later helped a reformed a Xena defeat Alti to allow Cyane and their leaders safely cross over to the other side, and out of the amazon Land of the Dead.

When she was a child, her parents were killed during a raid committed by Xena and Borias. Borias took pity on Otere and took her in, clothing and feeding her. Alti, a powerful shamaness, predicted that she would one day take away Xena's power, and told Xena to kill her. She advanced on the child with a blade, only to be stopped by Borias and Otere subsequently being given to Cyane I of the Northern Amazons to raise her (of whom Borias was trying to ally with). However, Cyane was killed by Xena and Alti and Otere and fellow amazon Yakut eventually took control of the shattered tribe.

They came across Xena many years later, when she was trying to access the Amazon Land of the Dead to see Gabrielle. Having realised that Xena had been redeemed, they helped her to defeat Alti, who had trapped the souls of the amazon leaders killed by Xena in the Land of the Dead, unable to cross over to the other side. They defeated the Berserker, a powerful warrior with the powers of Alti, and eventually the shamaness herself by using their own spirits to fight her in the Spiritual Realm.

Xena left Siberia after killing Alti and receiving her vision. She gave Otere the power of the leader of the Northern Amazons.


 * It is unclear what happened to Otere after this episode, as she is not seen or mentioned in "Them Bones, Them Bones," as Yakut has seemingly taken her position as leader.

She was played by Sheeri Rappaport as an adult, and Samelle Vosloo as a child.