ARTEMIS CAMPBELL aka Stephania Euripidi, aka Stephanie Campbell, aka Artemis Euripidi

Artemis was “born” in 1942 when she was rescued from a “displaced persons” camp in Epirus, Greece.  She had been badly injured and was suffering from amnesia when she was liberated from the Italian camp by Greek Partisans working with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE.)  Later she would remember that she had been moved from Thessalonika, where her parents were killed by Bulgarian troops occupying the city.  Her father had been targeted as a leader of resistance forces.  Their treatment of her had been rough and she had suffered abuse before being shot in the head.

She survived and following her rescue by the National Republican Greek League – a Royalist freedom fighting faction backed by the British– and fought with Greek Partisans through the rest of the war.  For a time unable to remember her name, she took the nom de guerre Artemis.
During that time, she was close to one of the British officers, Royal Marine Captain and SOE operative John Campbell, who was working with the NRGL and the leftist EAM, trying to keep the factions from turning on one another.  When the Germans took possession of Epirus and the Italian holdings in Greece after 1943, the fighting became fierce.  John was killed in action staging an ambush on German supply convoys, after which Artemis took his name and claimed marriage later to gain British citizenship.

After the Germans retreated in 1944, Greece tore itself apart in a civil war between the Western supported Papandreou government and the Soviet-supported EAM.  Artemis quickly found a way to profit off of the war  – in the old Greek tradition of smuggling.  While providing supplies to those who could pay, she was able to gain information for the British forces supporting the government.

Campbell has a Greek and British passport, and is an agent of MI6, working with them at her discretion.  Having fought with the partisans as a real soldier, she doesn’t acknowledge any weaknesses of her gender; she is just as good as a man, and often more effective because they don’t see her coming.  She is a decent rifle and pistol shot, has knife fighting skill, and has even used a sword in a pinch.  As a partisan, she rose to the rank of lieutenant – rare for a woman.  During the war, she formed contacts throughout Western Greece and Albania that have made her a go-to person for espionage missions and for smuggling materials.

She hates Bulgarians and Germans intensely, and finds the Croatians just as bad, but it’s not as personal.  She is less judgmental about Italians, despite their having been the enemy.  They were never as callous and brutal (to her) as the Nazis, and since the collapse of Mussolini, have been useful in the Greek resistance.

Artemis is proud, willful to the point of intransigent, and tough to the point of overcompensation for her hurts and fears.  She can be very feminine, but is just as at home in the field or on the sea, where she will put up with deprivation and danger as well as a man. She is a cool, hard woman who has formed by war.  She doesn’t form real attachments with people beyond that of “comrades.”  The last real friend/lover was Captain Campbell.  His death knocked any dreams of love out of her.  (She carries his Canadian-made John Inglis High Power 1935 9mm pistol and wears his British crop jacket in the field.)

Ht: 5’6″   Wt: 130 lbs.   Eyes: Hazel   Hair: Black   Age: ~23 (in 1946)

Body: 2   Dexterity: 3   Strength: 2   Charisma: 3   Intelligence: 2   Willpower: 4

Size: 0   Move: 5   Initiative: 5   Perception: 5   Defense: 5   Stun: 2   Health: 6   Style: 3

SKILLS:  Acrobatics 5, Athletics 4, Brawl 4, Bureaucracy 3, Con 6, Demolitions 3, Diplomacy 4, Drive 4, Firearms 6, Gunnery 3, Investigation 4, Larceny 6, Linguistics 4, Melee 4, Performance 4, Pilot (Boats) 5, Ride 5, Stealth 5, Streetwise 6, Survival 4, Warfare 4

LANGUAGES: Greek (native), English, Italian, smattering of German and Serbo-Croatian

TRAITS & RESOURCES: Allies 1 (MI6), Artifact 2 (MAS205 torpedo boat, disarmed), Contacts 2: Partisans, Followers 2: crew of MAS205, Iron Will

FLAWS:  Addiction, tobacco; Danger Magnet; Intolerant:  Nazis and Bulgarians