Arhymeria Ithal Queen Arhymeria Ithal was the wife of King Nishan Ithal II of Tethyr . Description . Arhymeria was an exquisitely beautiful Calishite woman and also a loving and compassionate one . Abilities . She was a wizard , a student of Princess Rhynda Ithal and a better one than her grandfather ever was . She was the creator of the royal artifact known as Arhymeria ' s Dagger , and she also developed several peaceful and fun spells . Family . Arhymeria was born Arhymeria yr Una el Shoon , the youngest daughter of Akkabar Shoon the Elder ' s oldest son and Una el Shoon , making her a granddaughter of Akkabar Shoon . She had an older brother , Akkabar , and a younger brother , Amahl . Her nephew , through Akkabar the Younger , was Amahl Shoon II . She gave birth to three sons and two daughters . Her third son Clovis ' descendants lived in exile until the fall of the Shoon Imperium . Relationships . Arhymeria was happily married to Nishan . She had little contact with her Calishite family , with the exception of her younger brother Amahl . History . When Arhymeria was only four - years - old , she was engaged to be married to Nishan Ithal II , grandson of Princess Rhynda Ithal , as part of a treaty orchestrated by Akkabar the Elder to support the regency of Rhynda , Akkabar ' s former tutor , until Nishan would come of age . She grew up in the royal palace of Tethyr as a lady - in - waiting . Secretly , Akkabar the Elder intended to use his granddaughter to steal magic from his former tutor Rhynda , but Arhymeria grew close to Rhynda and was a better student of hers than Akkabar ever was . Akkabar soon gave up on his plan to use Arhymeria , considering her , in his own words , an " insolent and traitorous " granddaughter . Arhymeria and Nishan were married at the end of Kythorn in the Year of Gleaming Frost , −64 DR , when they each were fifteen - years - old , the age of majority in Tethyr , becoming queen . Nishan and Arhymeria had their five children over the next seven years , and the kingdom was at peace . During her husband ' s 73 birthday celebration in the Year of Scarlet Scourges , Arhymeria , Nishan , and all but four members of the royal family were killed during a siege of the castle of Ithalyr by Clan Fyrson and their hired pirates . These four survivors were spared because of the wise planning of Queen Arhymeria and the help of an elven woman named Ochyllyss Bormul . Arhymeria led the survivors to a secret room in the castle and placed two of her grandchildren and her great - grandson Yardane , heir to the throne , into the care of Ochyllus . She also gave Ochyllus the Shield of Silvam and a magic dagger she created that could only be wielded by someone of royal blood of House Ithal . The elven woman would raise Yardane among the Suldusk elves of the Forest of Tethir . Despite the fact that Arhymeria saved the royal line of Tethyr from extinction , because Tethyr soon after came under the control of the Shoon Imperium , her blood family , for centuries most Tethyrians believed that Arhymeria was a traitor who orchestrated her husband ' s death . Even though her innocence was proven when the Imperium fell , it was perpetuated by the inaccurate " Chronicla Tethyria " of Alemander III . This false belief earned her terrible nicknames , such as the Betrayer , the False Queen , and Tethyr ' s Bane . The true history of Arhymeria was written down by King Haedrak Rhindaun III in 1370 DR as part of his " Historia Tethyra " , in an attempt to clear her name . Haedrak theorized that it was because she had prepared entertaining spells for her husband ' s birthday that she was unable to help defend the castle with her magic . Afterward , her brother Amahl took the throne , as orchestrated by the wicked Pasha Akkabar Shoon the Elder . Amahl refused to obey his grandfather ' s orders , however , because of his love for and in honor of the memory of his sister .