Princess Akivasha is the Pharaoh Tuthamon the Great's eldest daughter and the immortal Stygian vampire princess who existed more than 10,000 years ago before the birth of Conan.

She met Conan during the events of "Hour of the Dragon" when he came to the Temple of Set searching for the mystical Heart of Ahriman in order to regain the kingdom of Aquilonia from his enemies, including the three-thousand-year-old Pythonian demon sorcerer Xaltotun who had wrongfully usurped the throne from him. 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.

With the Heart of Ahriman in his clasp, Conan used it to make the three-thousand-year-old ancient Stygian sorcerer Thoth-merki guide him out of the pyramid for his escape homeward while its glowing light thwarted Akivasha and the other supernatural noctural creatures from pursuing him.

« Her ivory skin showed her to be Stygian of some ancient noble family, and like all such women she was tall, lithe, voluptuously figured, her hair a great pile of black foam, among which gleamed a sparkling ruby. But for her velvet sandals and broad jewel-crusted girdle about her supple waist she was quite nude. »

Robert E. Howard – The Hour of the Dragon

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