Akivasha
Akivasha is a female literary character who features in Conan the Barbarian.
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Biography
Akivasha was a beautiful teenage Stygian princess that was renowned for her stunning beauty born many centuries ago. As such while reveling in the purple feasts amid ancient Luxur's towering black halls, she could not bear the thought of growing old and shriveled with old age, so she sought the favor of the dark gods to gain immortality and eternal youth. With that, Akivasha remained beautiful but would have to consume the blood of the living to perpetuate her youth.
She offered to lead him to the sorcerer Thutothemes, who held the Heart. However, within her burial chambers, as she sought to seduce him, he found the empty sarcophagous of Akivasha and he realized her true nature. Nonetheless, she entranced him with her tale and sought to make her companion. As she was about to bite him in the neck, Conan overcame her control by rejecting her in favor of his true love Zenobia and escaped the chamber, leaving the vampiress behind laughing maniacally.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Akivasha was said to had been born from an ancient Stygian royal bloodline with her possessing long black straight hair, green eyes and having a pale ivory-white flawless skin.
Her only sin was said to be that she loved life and all the meanings of life. To win life, she was said to had courted death. She could not bear to think of growing old and shriveled and worn, and dying at last as hags die. She wooed Darkness like a lover and his gift was life not being life as mortals know it, can never grow old and fade. She went into the shadows to cheat age and death.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Akivasha was created by Robert E. Howard and featured in the story of "The Hour of the Dragon".
In other media
Films
- In Kull the Conqueror, Akivasha appeared in the 1997 live-action film where she was portrayed by actor Tia Carrere. The movie was a loose adaptation on The House of the Dragon with Kull replacing Conan and Akivasha replacing Xaltotun. This version was portrayed as being a long dead demon-witch who once ruled over mankind that was brought back to life by Valusian noblemen as part of a conspiration to kill the recently crowned King Kull.
Video games
- In Age of Conan: Unchained, Akivasha appeared as a boss antagonist who was located in the Sanctum of the Burning Souls.
Comics
Appearances
- Weird Tales: "The Hour of the Dragon"
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