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Revision as of 13:30, 30 August 2014

Imajane Rittevon Jimajen was a luarin princess of the Copper Isles. She was the daughter of King Oron Rittevon and the half-sister of two other Rittevon kings, King Hazarin and King Dunevon. She briefly became the co-ruler of the Copper Isles with her husband, Rubinyan Jimajen, upon the death of King Dunevon and his heir presumptive, Elsren Balitang.

Biography

Early life

Princess Imajane had three other sisters who did not survive to adulthood as she did. She was raised in luxury, but also to hate her other siblings. Her father encouraged sibling rivalry, as he was sure that if his children liked each other, they would band together and have him dethroned. She was not raised in a happy manner. She detested her half-brother Hazarin and the feeling was mutual, but it was unknown if she felt anything for her other siblings besides indifference. At some point she married into the Jimajen family, a house as old, powerful, and corrupt, as the Rittevons. It is unknown when she married Prince Rubinyan.

Rise to Princess Regent

The luarin had strict inheritance laws, and they operated based on male-preference primogeniture, which meant that Imajane would only inherit the throne after all male-line relatives of the Rittevon family had died. She was bitter about this, and Alianne of Pirate's Swoop could see it when Kyprioth took her on spirit visits to the Grey Palace. When King Oron died and named his next eldest son, Hazarin, his heir, Hazarin knew he would live in fear of Imajane. He knew he signed his death warrant when he named his younger half-brother, Prince Dunevon, as his heir, with Imajane and Rubinyan as his regents if he succeeded before coming of age. Imajane had no hand in her half-brother's death, since he died naturally, of an apoplexy. Hazarin was still happy because he knew that folk would suspect his sister anyway, due to their known dislike of one another. Thus, Imajane became princess regent upon her half-brother's coronation in 462 HE.

When her brother-in-law, Bronau Jimajen, tried to kidnap King Dunevon in a try for power, Imajane and Rubinyan tried to find him. Knowing that he would probably go to the protection of the Balitang family, they did not invite them back from exile, as they were hoping Bronau would come out of the woodwork. In a fateful fight, both Mequen Balitang, the man who would be King Dunevon's heir died by Bronau's sword, and Prince Bronau died after being shot by Dovasary Balitang with a griffin fletched arrow. After this, Imajane and Rubinyan invited the Balitangs back to the court in Rajmuat and ended their exile.

The Return of the Balitangs

The Balitang family returned in the spring of 463 HE. Already, there was unrest. The prince and princess regent had started to make Examples of people, two of whom were part of the Ibadun family, a powerful luarin clan. Princess Imajane had declared mourning to be an insult to the Black God and had ordered that wearing full mourning was unlawful. Dove assumed that she only did it because Imajane looks terrible in black and also didn't want to mourn for King Hazarin. Imajane also ordered that the Balitangs present themselves to the King and the regents the day after they arrived, in order to make them look silly before the court and humiliate their fashions. Nuritin Balitang, the female head of the Balitang family, saw through this, and had new gowns made for the returning Balitang ladies.

Physical Description

Princess Imajane is described to have a formidable and stately appearance. She was tall, with white blonde hair and icy blue eyes.

Personality & Traits

She was very ambitious, which went against the Rittevon laws of inheritance for females. She was unkind to the raka and a cruel mistress. She was portrayed to be slightly insane for placing one of the most powerful and important men of the Isles, Duke Nomru, into Kanodang.

Appearances

She appears in both Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen. In the former she was sighted by ghost-Aly and Kyprioth.

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