War is a tragedy. Weaving between the present and a lost past, this is a story about war and memory and the things we do when the people we love stand in the way of our dreams.

That was how my proposal for the Warmongers project began. It continued thus:

When Shushvir hears that the God-King of Syon has died and the new one is crowned, she sneaks home after years of exile and banditry, with one plan in mind: destroy the woman who destroyed her, and ruin the country that maimed her, shamed ...