Hecuva is an unsubtle presence in Lady Daneni's Shadow Group to report to the Queen on Daneni - she makes no bones as to her allegiances and may be perhaps a bit gullible compared to Kyrisis, her older sister and Daneni or Mata. She is also definitely more closed minded - even to the extent of not perhaps realizing all the advantages of having non-Tier'Dal allies. However, she does have some strong qualities. She has an iron will - unmoveable and unswerving in its purpose- unlike Kyrisis who tended to question even herself. To Hecuva the ends definitely justify the means. While she feels no real loyalty to any non-Tier'Dal, as long as they serve as the means of accomplishing something she will endure them and any hardship to ensure the advancement of the Queen's goals. Of course, once a pawn fulfills its task - unless needed for some future task - it becomes an unnecessary burden. So she will calmly watch past allies be sacrificed and feel no remorse. Kyrisis always feels kinship with peoples, and is outraged at their exploitation.

Kyrisis and Hecuva both share the same father and mother – and while their father is not a First Born (although his father was) - their mother is. The royal offspring tend to hold status according to age – with assassination being an accepted means of advancing oneself - and of course alliances shift between the different offspring (there are several hundred First Born) as each tries to jockey for advantage. Marriages tend to be to non-First Born - as a means of gaining a broader power base and also due to a distinct lack of trust among the direct siblings. The Queen actively encourages these contests of will among her children as a means of insuring that they are all too busy watching their backs to attempt to dethrone her. She also feels that in this winner-take-all atmosphere, the strongest and smartest survive and the weak are weeded out - which ensures that the ones left are the best of the best - as her children should be, since they wield the most power in society. This general atmosphere trickles down to the lesser ranks, although a person of lesser birth does not advance if they simply kill a First Born, unless they can do so in the service of another First Born and can make it look like the one killed was inept or traitorous. If they can't they may be executed - of course the First born they served advances away - minus their trusted lesser-ranked helper.

Both Kyrisis and Hecuva lost their mother two hundred years ago at a relatively young age. Kyrisis was only approaching adulthood - merely 65 years old - Hecuva was a child of 25 years. She was killed as a First Born in one of these plottings. Kyrisis was deeply hurt by this - and drew even further distrustful of Tier'Dal society, leading to her becoming an enchantress and thus Spurned. Hecuva, being even younger than Kyrisis, seemed to be less upset by the loss - but more determined to avenge the insult done her lineage. Kyrisis using her rudimentary art of enchanting managed to gain enough information to implicate the followers of another First Born - one of her mother's older brother - and so demanded their executions (which were granted by the Queen since they were inept enough to leave evidence to implicate them). This cunning upon Kyrisis' part caused her at a youngish age to raise higher in the Queen's favor than would be normal for one of the Spurned, and Kyrisis came to serve the Queen out of a sense of gratitude for the justice dealt to her mother's murderers. Hecuva, jealous of her sisters' newly gained status and also thinking her sister too much of an intellectual fool for always reading forbidden works and wandering about into lesser races' cities, strove even harder to ensure her own rise in power. She, through the use of her sister's newly gained rank, engineered her association with people in power in the necromancy guilds, who were impressed by her determination to suffer anything to win. Her rise as a necromancer of rank has been less spectacular than Kyrisis' - however some elders are appreciating her more direct approach, which is to give complete loyalty in exchange for the same to any Tier'Dal loyal to the Queen. As such she has been recently seen as a person who can be completely trusted to be given a task and complete it - or die trying. She has absolutely little use for the political maneuvers of the court and of the First Born's and has recently been seen as a powerful card given her absolute allegiance to Queen Christanos. Her unbribeability - as several First Borns have discovered - as well as her ability to survive assassination (five attempts to date all ending in total failure, although she carries the scars of the last attempt).

With her sister now effectively removed from power Hecuva feels at last vindicated that she is a worthier servant to the Queen than her always-questioning older sister. She doesn't hate her sister - rather she often feels confused, or doesn't understand her actions, and often feels that in some way she must have been tainted by the outsiders she has dealt with, since she often was so trusting of some of them. As to anything happening to her sister - unless it occurred at the express wishes of the Queen, Hecuva would feel obligated to avenge the insult to her family line by - with the Queen's permission - killing the person involved.

As to the First Born elder brother who originally had members of his staff murder her mother…he died an unexplained death. As his death wasn't traceable to any other First Born (which would be excusable - whereas a non-first born would have to show him to have been a traitor first) - it remains a mystery. There is a suspicion however that the rather cool attitude both sisters display on the topic might indicate that this was one rare instance where they both collaborated on something to their mutual benefit. In general however Kyrisis sees her sister as an unthinking unquestioning fanatic, who is very dangerous due to that, while Hecuva sees her sister as a foolish intellectual tainted by foreign societies and drawn away from the true Tier'Dal purpose. They both probably see each other as dangerous - and they both may hold enough evidence secreted away of the other's complicity in the death of a First Born (if rumors are true) to prevent them ever from acting on their distrust of one another.