What did one do with female offspring? Most royal births are sent to convents to be raised up as proper ladies to be married off to knights. But in a move to mock the gods, Emperor Aodh ordered all his daughters to be brought up like sons. He sent them all to the estates of his knight masters and commanded his knights to handle them as if they were male. His wives pleaded for mercy - no mother wanted such sorrow for her daughter. "If you can bear me a son, then I can spare your daughters," the emperor answered them. Not one wife could. This is the story of one of the princesses of Dolos and how she became a prince adored by an empire that lives only for the strong.