A middle-class student of languages at the Academy of Linga, Erzebet Mara Lefanu was on the road to grinding out textual analysis of the bones of a dying world and living in gradual immiseration when instead it was revealed to her that a dead language was the key to igniting the flames of war. And by war we mean the ancient triparitate ARM, "Haborym." Erzebet's real core nature is a person who does not do anything by halves, and she has molded her passing talent as a teaching assistant into a dynamic, flashy personality meant to cow the forces of the nations and encourage the people to rise and join together. Unfortunately, this "dynamic, flashy" personality also is a raving lunatic, and the problem for Erzebet is to figure out just where it ends and she begins. This gets tricky when your ancient hell-guns often shoot horrid infernal blasts.
