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Xena's past has been explored in many episodes of the TV show, but almost always the authors just focused on her warlord years, neglecting the previous period when she was a young girl in Amphipolis and her brother Lyceus was still alive.
Only in "Remember Nothing", S2, we had a glimpse of the bound between them, but that episode showed an alternative reality in which Lyceus had survived, and Xena had never abandoned her family nor met Gabrielle.
Instead the figure of Lyceus is a cornerstone of the saga, since it is precisely because of the feelings of guilt caused by his death that the restless daughter of the innkeeper will start the process that one day will turn her into the Warrior Princess, and so rightly SVS pays tribute to his character with this "posthumous" episode. Missy Good, who signs the third consecutive script after the previous two-parts episode, takes advantage of this to close at once the issues left open in Amphipolis and Potideia, bringing together, through what is left of the past of the two companions, the destinies of their two native cities.
In the novels of her alternative Xena's ff saga, Missy Good has always exploited extensively the theme of Xena and Gabrielle's families, often putting them at the center of the stories and totally ignoring the funereal events that affected them in the TV seasons. In those novels, Xena and Gabrielle live in a kind of ideal world where their families (who have accepted their relationship, some like Cyrene immediately, others, like Herodotus, Gabrielle's father, with more difficulties) meet frequently, like in a sort of extended family where there's also space for some Amazons, who have never been moved to the New World.
But in the SVS, as we have repeatedly seen, there are rules to be observed that are set by the TV show, and about this, it may be interesting to read in the forum the answer that Sue Beck gave to a fan who asked to put an end to the nomadic life of Xena and Gabrielle finally giving them a home, because "it's not T.V. anymore... it's the internet."
Sue replied: "This is true, but we try, as much as we can, to keep to the spirit of the characters AS TPTB intended them to be, and not how we, the writers and artists of X:WP completely want them.
The X and G that are populating the Subtext VS series are not Missy Good's X and G. They're not TNovan's X and G, and they're not Sue Beck's X and G. Each of the writers has a dramatically differing take on the characters, and it would never work that way. <G>
The Xena and Gabrielle we've, as a group, chosen to represent are as close to the televised X and G as we can make them. As Missy has said, for example, Eve died here, in part, because Eve would have died had the show continued on.
We as writers and as artists, might not like some of the choices TPTB made, but we don't ignore those choices (which is why we "fixed" FIN instead of just ignoring it) unless TPTB themselves ignored them (like in the case of Eve, where she disappeared off the planet after a certain part in season six).
And Missy adds: "We all write our own versions of X and G, in which any or all of the things you mention might or might not have been put in place. But in this version, we all got to gether and decided that to the best of our ability, this would be a reasonable extention of where the show might have gone if it had continued."
But for my usual last note, this time I want to do the devil's advocate and ask a little question: if Lyceus' ghost, as he says, has always remained in the inn, where was he during "The Haunting of Amphipolis", S6, and why didn't reveal himself to Xena in that moment, when, incidentally, she could really use some help?
Ok, nothing serious, but in any case, this is the proof of how difficult can be to hold the threads of a long and complex story, keeping in mind every details and without falling from time to time in contradiction, which, however, also happened in the Tv episodes.