Himiko (Survivor Timeline)

Himiko is the first & last queen of Yamatai & is the main focus of the Ancient Scrolls. In many ways she is the main main antagonist of the 2013 Tomb Raider game.

Background
Himiko is the Queen of the Island of Yamatai.

She is beautiful, yet inscrutable, enigmatic but ruthless queen who ruled Japan thousands of years ago with the help of her Stormguard. She surrounds herself with the priestesses of the sun with no men attending her. She is believed to be able to communicate with the spiritual world, to be able to control the sun and the rain. She is worshipped by some of the villagers of the island, as though she is more than a queen to them.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow

Himiko is the first and last queen of the island, as her soul is passed through generation. Himiko chooses to 'adopt' certain females in different communities to live with her in luxury, to never want again. This is the greatest of honours which will raise their family to the height of Yamatai society. However their is a sinister twist, though all those who are chosen will be assess by their queen. She will choose one to participate in a ceremony, when the sun queen becomes old, where her soul will be emerged on to the chosen priestess, therefore the queen would live forever.

Trapped in a Decayed Body
The queen had chosen Hoshi to become the priestess of the sun queen. Which made her above all others in the court. She learnt languages, etiquette, history and warfare. However Hoshi felt that something wrong, as being doted by the queen felt false as though a performance. She then became looked after like a doll by the queen, and found that when the queen gazed on her features, she looked as though looking at a reflection.

She was chosen to be the successor, however Hoshi had discovered what the ceremony would do to her. She found that the ritual would make her become emerge with the queen soul. So believing for the sake of Yamatai, and all the priestesses that would follow her, she took her own life with a dagger stolen from the stormguard general.

With the ritual corrupted by Hoshi's death, the sun queen lives a half life, in a decaying body. She rages in storms which will never abate while her soul is tied to this earth.

Arrival of Mathias
Mathias arrived to the island by his plane being caught in the sun queens storm causing it to crash. Him and his men tired numerous times to escape, however all failed. Mathias seeing that they could not escape, knowing their was something more with the storms, did not get on the last attempt of their men trying to escape by boat, which killed them all. Leaving him alone.

Knowing to unlock the power of the island, he must first understand it, looked for secrets around the island. Avoiding any other survivors that came to the island and killing them if they got in his way. But he soon found that he may need help, so started gathering loyal followers forming them into killers, with no intent to share what they may discover of the island. This formed the solari brotherhood.

Believing the sun queen was guiding him, he search for a desendent of the sun queen to complete the ritual.

Arrival of the Endurance
The endurance was another victim of the sun queens storm. Aboard the ship was a descendent of Yamahai, Samantha Nishimura. She was the Documentary Producer/Translator of the Endurance's expedition.

Mathias located Sam, as well as encountering Lara Croft at the same campsite. Tending to her injuries and listening to her stories of Sun queen and the Stormguard, Mathias realized that she was a descendant of the Sun Queen and the key to her reincarnation (and his escape). As Lara feel asleep at the campsite, Mathias kidnapped Sam and took her to the Solarii base. He played Whitman's ego against him to distract a pair of Oni, allowing him to slip into the Monastery with Sam and leading to Whitman's death. There he started to perform the ritual to merge her soul with the sun queen, believing this was the key for him to escape the island.

Final Death
While still in the proses of "poring" her soul into Sam Lara was able to make her way through Mathias' Solarii Brotherhood, Himiko's own Stormguard & Mathias himself Lara walked in-between her best friend & the Sun Queen & stabbed her in the heart with a torch & Himiko was finally killed.

With her death the Storms sounding Yamatai began to disappear which allowed the survivors of the Endurance to escape & brought an end to the Himiko's reign.

Trivia

 * While she does not appear physically until the very end of the game Himiko could be considered the main antagonist of the game as she is the cause of the storms & the reason the Endurance Crew is stranded on the island. Also every inhabitant on the island, apart from the Endurance Crew, severs Himiko whether it is the Solarii Brotherhood, the Storm Guard or the weather itself & throughout the game Mathias claims that Himiko speaks through him & that he is her servant.
 * With her God like power, ancient knowledge & sleep of death Himiko, for the game, seems to have been inspired a by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
 * Himiko mean “sun child,” or “sun daughter” in archaic Japanese.
 * The sun queen may come from Himiko or Pimiko who was an obscure shaman queen of Yamataikoku in ancient Wa (Japan). She occupied herself with magic and sorcery, bewitching the people. Though mature in age, she remained unmarried. She had a younger brother who assisted her in ruling the country. After she became the ruler, there were few who saw her. She had one thousand women as attendants, but only one man.