Amísbë Almikkis

b 2607, d 2634 Beautiful younger daughter to landless Aurician baron, Fraternal twin sister to Amúnbë, courtesan of the poisoned Grand Duke Rhungast Bijäl, failed attempt to reinstate the House Bijäl's remaining heir, Rhoglos, Son of Rhungast (born 2589). ‘Amísbë's Revolution.’ She was in her late teens when she became courtesan to Rhungast and they had no children despite their dalliances.

Amísbë Almikkis stayed in Aurice and pretended to support the revolution, professing abuse at the hands of Rhungast Bijäl. In fact, she was secretly in contact with the Bijälians and ingratiated herself with the household of the newly chosen Lord Governor General. She got close enough to murder him in 2632 so that adherents of House Bijäl (former supporters of Rhungast) took over the palace and made ready for Rhoglos to return from Agogia. The Bijälians appeared shortly and drove the Senators and the Republicans out of the city into Goscundy. The Bijälians pursued them through the treacherous Throe Wastes. They finally met up at Kadraskan wherein the famous battle the Republicans defeated the Bijälians and Rhoglos Bijäl and Hallagunst were slain. When word reached Aurice of the defeat, the palace servants panicked and murdered Amísbë.

There are rumors that between 2632 and 2634, Amísbë gave birth to a child by Steborn Hallagunst who would have only been one or two years old at the time of the Battle of Kadraskan in 2634. Many fanciful speculations have arisen over this detail of history. The child is thought by many to have been Kéwb the Benighted (b 2633/34 to 2680), a famous sorcerer warrior of the Sewdhaine War.

Sources

• Intrigues of the Late Bijälian Court, Perevath Chandomiddo, written 2700-2710, (covers 2574 to 2627, but focuses on 2590 to 2634, the reigns of Vast and Rhungast Bijäl and ending with the Battle of Kadraskan and the death of Rhoglos Bijäl)

See Also

• Amísbë's Revolution
• Amúnbë Almikkis
• Baron Alabast Almikkis
• Battle of Kadraskan
• Kéwb the Benighted