False Ciri

False Ciri was a girl of roughly the same age and appearance as Ciri who was also refugee and war orphan. Codringher and Fenn had a plan to use her as a decoy to make Ciri herself safer. Upon their deaths however the fake Ciri was abducted and sent to Nilfgaard (as per Vilgefortz's plan to use her as a decoy so 'he' could have the real Cirilla for himself). In Nilfgaard, she was groomed and ultimately presented to the Imperator by Stella Congreve. Due to his secret identity the emperor knew immediately that she was not Ciri, but decided that the people of Nilfgaard should remain none the wiser. He sent her off with a title to Darn Rowan, at 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 Imperator'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.

According to Encyclopaedia Maxima Mundi, the Empress was in close personal relationship with Stella Congreve, who was referred to as the "Imperial mother-in-law".

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