Matakara

Matakara, also known as Hatshepsut,Timeless, chapter 16. was the vampire queen of the Alexandria Hive, located a short distance outside Alexandria, Egypt. Before her death, she was the oldest living vampire in the world.
== Appearance ==
As Hatshepsut, she likely had an overbite,https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2009/04/hatshepsut/ may have had painted her nails black and red, had a receding hairline and been overweight with diabetes. She may have sported a false beard.https://www.livescience.com/7336-mummy-reveals-egyptian-queen-fat-balding-bearded.html In early statuary, she has an oval face, softly arching eyebrows and eyes as well as orange skin, merging the red typically used for men with the yellow reserved for women. She was approximately five feet tall.http://web.mit.edu/2.744/student_tinkerdoodles_implementation/lidandcolors.html
As Matakara, she is described as having a heart shaped face, an aquiline nose, large, broadly spaced brown eyes and a small mouth, and her maker fangs are longer than her feeders. Her condition is much deteriorated when we meet her in Alexandria during the events of Timeless. Emaciated, her skin is described as dark and "having grown darker as it shrunk against the bone". She sits on a brass, throne-like chair, the base of which houses a tank with two liquids: the bottom liquid is yellow and heats the upper liquid, blood. The arms of the throne had nozzles, levers and tubes, some under her hands while others went into or out of her arms. Some parts of the throne are bolted directly into her body, which constantly tries to heal around them. She wears a bronze half mask from nose to throat, providing a constant supply of blood. She wears simple white cotton draped over her body with stiff pleats as well as gold and lapis jewelry and a blue wig under a gold snake coronet, the eyes of which are turquoise. Her eyes are described as being "too large [for her] emaciated face" and very sad and desperate.Timeless, pages 214, 215 
== Personality ==
By the time we meet her in Timeless Matakara is, and has been for the last four or five decades, suicidal. Despite her desperation, she's still very clever. She, with the help of Alessandro Tarabotti, began the God-Breaker Plague to rid herself of the werewolves that lived in Alexandria and then she alone later had it extended in an effort to take her own life. When she hears of Rue's metanatural abilities, she commands Alexia through the Westminster Hive to bring the toddler to Egypt. It can be assumed that she orchestrated the intended kidnapping of Rue, in which she accidentally winds up with Primrose Tunstell. She is an Egyptian King and a vampire Queen and as such demands to be shown the proper respect, forcing her English guests to bow so that their foreheads touch the floor. She can be seen as imperious and demanding. She speaks a language unknown to Alexia, likely Ancient Egyptian. She is angry when Rue's touch turns her mortal but doesn't kill her. She becomes determined to metamorphose the dying Ivy Tunstell, her last act as queen.
== History ==
Historically, Hatshepsut was born about 1503 BC and died in 1482 BC. According to Lord Maccon, that is actually her metamorphosis date, and her mortuary temple near Luxor is her metamorphosis temple.Timeless, chapter 16.
Matakara may have been Lord Akeldama’s maker; when Alexia confronted him, he implied her guess was correct but would not directly confirm it.Timeless, chapter 6.
=== Titles ===
Matakara's full name and list of titles is: Matakara Kenemetamen of Alexandria, Ruler of the Ptolemy Hive ad Infinitum, Lady Horus of Fine Gold in Perpetuity, Daughter of Nut, Oldest of the Vampires.
== In the books ==
=== Timeless ===
After ruling for over three millennia, Matakara died at her own wish in 1876Prudence, chapter 5. through a bargain with Alexia Maccon.Timeless, chapter 19. 
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