A Thracian soldier by birth, Gladiator was captured by the Romans and then sold as a slave. His owner owned a gladiator school in Capua and he saw the opportunity to cash in on skills as a gladiator. But a true soldier values his freedom far more than anything else. Soon, Gladiator helped to mastermind a rebellion that ended with about 70 gladiators escaping from the gladiator school, all of them well armed with makeshift weapons.