T-wat Empire
She Who Slaughters the Men of the Island Nations, Mifu Smith, was standing upon a ridge, below she seen her division slaughtering the men of the tribe she had just trampled.
Legend says she herself challenged the strongest man of this tribe to a duel, and the losing side would become the slave of the other. Mifu Smith was determined to win this duel, even after the man she had to face showed himself to be a 7 ft. tall giant of a man, with a giant club for a weapon.
The duel commensed, and after only 2 swings, Mifu had slain her opponent. The men opposing bowed to the female invaders. The T-wat war drums played, and the men were taken into shackles.
The next day, probably because of the minstral cycle, Mifu had ordered them slain. Her women unflinchingly carried her orders out. The women and children were spared, and a few women from the division left behind to teach these new t-wats to be rulers. The women of the division then boarded their ships and continued on to the next island. Much was conquered in the name of the T-wat Empress.
Since the days of Erim the Great, who founded the T-wat Empire from the ashes of Siam, there has been a cult within the lands who had worshipped battle. Mifu was one of these cultists, and within the army the cult was spreading.The T-wat Empresses never took too much heed to any religions not the old gods that were worshipped before the T-wat Empire, who's values were shauvenist, not to Amonism from the north, not from any other religion. To the T-wat Empress, religion was vewed as a way men kept women down. A religion could be used to keep men under the thumb of women, but laws could do that just as equally without religious backing. Thus, the Battle Cult wasn't recognised either by the T-wat Empress, and the ranks in the army grew tired of the Empress not giving their religion credance.
Perhaps a new revolution was to take place within the T-wat Empire. Perhaps a theocracy ran by priestesses would be the result. Perhaps my next story will let this story unfold.