She decreed then what she had always done when the world tightened — she would set a spectacle that would terrify all dissent into obedience. A procession at dawn; the guilty and the useless paraded through the streets, bound and bleeding, their names and crimes invented on the fly. Let fear be the currency that filled the empty coffers of loyalty.

: The story begins as the Empress realizes her commands are no longer being followed. The guards who once trembled at her voice now look away, and the silent halls of the palace feel heavy with the weight of her past sins.

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In the end, the "atrocious empress" gets exactly what she built: a world where might makes right, and might has simply changed hands.