Emiilia Ask

Emiilia Ask (born Vesüha, 1632) is a Hurmu and former Craitish diplomat and civil servant of Lakkvian ethnicity. Ambassador of Hurmu to Çakaristan from 1691 and onwards.

Educated at the University of Vesüha, 1650–1656, graduated with a Master of Legal Letters. Took therafter up employment first in the civil service of Lakkvia, 1656–1663, and thereafter in the Lakkvia office in the foreign ministry of Craitland, 1663–1690, becoming chief of the office in 1678 and holding that position until the office's disestablishment in 1690. Interim Chief of Protocol at the Foreign Service of Hurmu in 1690 before being named Ambassador to Çakaristan the same year. Her accreditation as ambassador began with the first day of 1691 (See also her accreditation ceremony). She resides in the Hurmu embassy in Agra.

She is a woman of intense culture (she particularly enjoys Atteran opera), and has an outgoing and curious personality.

Aside from her native language Lakkvian, she speaks fluent Istvanistani and Craitish, as well as passable Hurmu Norse. She is currently taking on studies in Arboric and Adarani.

In early 1717, she wrote to the Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Lakes, asking to be given leave of her public duties and allowed to return to Hurmu for retirement, citing her old age and health as reasons. The Chancellor, in coordination with the Secretary of State for External Relations, asked her to stay in office until a suitable replacement had been found, to which Ask agreed. On 18.III.1717, Jaaguzan, Shahanshah of Çakaristan, awarded her the Order of Çakar, Third Class, for long, faithful and honourable service to Çakaristan by fostering Çakaristan–Hurmu relations.

Two days later, she was issued letters of recall and began planning her departure from Çakaristan. She was to be replaced in the position of ambassador by Osman Guadalim al-Osman.