Dido (legendarily c. 9th century BCE) was a princess of the Phoenician city of Tyre. When her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband to seize his wealth, Dido fled westward across the sea with her followers and treasure, landing on the North African coast. There she bargained with a local chieftain for "as much land as a single oxhide could enclose" — then cut the hide into fine strips and ringed an entire hill, raising the city of Carthage (traditionally 814 BCE) and ruling as its founding queen. Virgil's Aeneid later wove her into tragedy: loving and then abandoned by the wanderer Aeneas, she cast herself onto a burning pyre and cursed Rome — a mythic seed for the century of blood that her city would one day wage under Hannibal Barca. From the Middle East & Africa, her flame endures.
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Dido
Founder-Queen of Carthage
An exiled Phoenician princess who burned a new city into being — and from her funeral pyre, every arrow flies true.
History
On the Battlefield
Dido leads Archers, a ranged damage core who hits harder the longer she fires. Her role blends raw output with support: as her arrows fall, a blessing of Carthage compounds her own strength while her oath of fate quickens the attack speed of nearby allied heroes. Her signature strike rains tear-fire upon a single foe in swift succession, and her exclusive fury looses a three-arrow volley that ends in a scattering burst across the enemy line. A vanguard's general she is not — Dido is the patient flame at the back, growing deadlier with every shot until the field itself seems to burn.
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