Betel
Queen of Dimrillien and Empress Consort of the Old Empire.
Betel was already queen and well into middle-age when she married Adruhil - then a relatively minor member of the Imperial Family. The kingdom needed an heir, and Adruhil could give Betel children. Betel and Adruhil had just one child - Zariel - the future Last Empress and Queen of Dimrillien. Betel cared little for her daughter and rarely saw her.
Betel and her husband were not close, and in later life grew to hate each other. Betel preferred to live in the Imperial capital of Tanurel while Adruhil, even as Emperor, preferred to stay in Dimrillien, leaving rule of the Empire to his Empress and to his uncle Abimelem.
Betel died before her much younger husband and so did not live to see her daughter become Empress. Zariel succeeded her mother as Queen of Dimrillien before she succeeded her father as Emperor.
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