Beauty, Power and Intrigue

A strategist plots within the confines of the tent, yet determines victory a thousand miles away. She is no beauty; beauties are merely pieces on her chessboard. She holds no title or noble rank, yet countless heroes bow before her. Amid the chaos of a fractured age, with schemes and stratagems at every turn, she exhausts every ounce of her cunning. What she seeks is peace for the realm, and what she seeks is a lifetime of peace and security with him. They are the most trusted strategists in the camps of rival lords, each serving their own master. Yet the one time she allowed emotion to cloud her judgment, he turned it against her, and she died a tragic death on the day the city fell. When she returns to the age of fifteen, she starts again from the lowest position, proceeding cautiously at every step, and vows to overturn the fate that once awaited her. In an age when beauties become withered bones, when deception and betrayal abound and truth is indistinguishable from falsehood, she stands at the threshold of the most dazzling rise of civilization, smiling with folded arms as she watches the world descend into chaos.