Cirilla Fiona (imposter)

False Ciri was a girl of roughly the same age and somewhat similar appearance as Ciri. Because of this, she was abducted and taken back to Nilfgaard. The emperor Emhyr var Emreis knew immediately that she was not Ciri, but decided that the people of Nilfgaard should remain none the wiser. He sent her off to the farthest reaches of the empire while he continued his search for the real Ciri. Later accounts of this tale suggest that the incident happened during the emperor's later period, which was not known to be his most lucid. Emhyr married her and she became the empress Cirilla, and to all intents and purposes the Nilfgaardian people were none the wiser and accepted her as Ciri.

In the end, Emhyr grew to love her anyway, so she remained.

Emhyr's Consort is mentioned in Ambassador Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen's first letter to the Emperor.

Trivia

 * Illustration is by Jana Komarková and comes from Czech issue of Lady of the Lake.
 * Though she never features in the release version of, "False Ciri" was mentioned in leaked materials from 2014. She was to appear on the Skellige Isles, and use another name - "Becca" (the same as the first Queen of Cintra). It was not explained whether or not this was her real name or just another alias.