Personality
Quiet and unassuming, Eirene speaks with a foreign accent to show her non-Roman origin and is somewhat of a mystery. Although Eirene's love belonged to a slave who was killed, she has forgiven and married his murderer, Titus Pullo. Although Eirene truly loves Pullo, she is dissatisfied with continually being left behind by him. Superstitious, Eirene wishes to leave the house she was enslaved in because it has become "a house of death." Seeing her mistress Niobe of the Voreni die there, as well as the decapitated head of Erastes Fulmen on the floor in a corner, she believes any baby conceived or born there would be deformed.
"Eirene" (Greek Ἑιρηvη) is Greek for peace; a Roman would arbitrarily give a slave a name appropriate to their perceived qualities - Onesimus, Greek for useful, is another.
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