Here, I used Hero Forge to create a massively muscular female elephant (I think I'll call her Amari, meaning "The Strong One") and a powerfully built lioness (I think I'll call her Imara, meaning "The Strong-Willed One") competing against each other as gladiators.

I was inspired by the fact that in the Colosseum during the ancient Roman era, exotic animals (such as elephants, lions, giraffes, and bears) would fight each other for the entertainment of the crowd, and that they would have to fight with the gladiators. And by the not-so-often-mentioned fact that there were even female gladiators.

Shortly after Caesar's death (44 BC), female gladiators also appeared.
There is a relief in the British Museum in London dated to the 2nd century AD, which was found in Halicarnassus, present-day Bodrum in Turkey. The relief depicts two female gladiators who have just been honorably discharged from the arena – but not from the gladiator school – by the audience, who were thrilled by the fight. This draw (stantes missio) was considered almost more important than a victory, as it was extremely rare. Even the names under which these two female gladiators (Latin: gladiatrix) performed are known: Amazona and Achilla.

Despite this surviving depiction, which shows the two combatants in the armor of provocatores, female gladiators were the exception in gladiatorial combats. Although Nero had already had women (and children) fight against each other and against people of short stature, the use of these groups of people usually served more to amuse the audience.

The use of female gladiators contradicted the basic idea of ​​gladiators: that those fighting in the arena demonstrated the ancient Roman military virtues of courage, steadfastness, and the will to win. Therefore, there were not many supporters for women's combats. Emperor Septimius Severus banned the use of female gladiators in 200 AD.

Here's a link to the image of the relief depicting the female gladiators.: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/.....3583658%29.jpg