Bhekifa Mnqobi

Bhekifa Mnqobi of the Mazuzi, Emperor Consort of Hybretia is a prince of the Mazuzi tribe, and their Ambassador to the Hybro-Gorathic Empire, where he is also married to Empress Lenara. The Mazuzi reside in part of Hybretian Makriaudia, and Bhekifa was sent to negotiate further rights and protections for his people, successfully swaying the Empress and Kankelorios. He also began a friendship with the Empress, which quickly became a courtship, to the shock of more conservative elements of the government.
Mnqobi married Empress Lenara in a quick ceremony, before returning to his people during the Solitudean War. His flagship was sunk and destroyed by an unidentified attack in the Lorinatic Ocean returning from the succesful seizure of Garmanese Eudeon, his body was never recovered. Survivors reported he helped several men evacuate the lower decks, but was unable to escape himself and went down with the ship.
The Empress was pregnant with a child at the time, and was pushed down a flight of steps by an agent of the conservative elements of the government, in the Eurylochos Affair. Reports of his heroics, and the cold blooded murder of his unborn child, helped popularize public acceptance of Makriaudians in the Imperial Union.