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>Parents likely were killed off by some Talyxian wildlife.
>Shunned from an already backwards and tribal society due to a birth defect.
>Spent her formative years in the wilderness, accompanied only by the local wildlife.
>A wilderness mostly composed of mycelic flesh-trees that secrete hallucinogenic spores.
>The tree-flesh she ate then also contains said spores.
>the tree-flesh mushroom also have spino-cerebral fluid for sap which is basically a combination of 90-proof alcohol, meth and cocaine called Imagoi.
>out of a deep understanding that the mushroom flesh-trees biome and the critters it spawned were a grave threat to whatever passed for civilization (tribal councils headed by shamans high off Imagoi).
>Proceeds to drag the society that shunned her kicking and screaming into a semblance of a pre-industrial shogunate to fend off the encroaching wildlife and creeping murderous vegetation.
>Things start looking up!
>Oh shit is not enough!
>forced to expand south to support your barely upfilted post-tribal slavering nation with tribalistic tendencies by engaging in expansionist warfare to fuel the ever growing demands of your people not dying left, right and center due to aforementioned murderous flesh-fungal fauna and/or flora.
>Have to cope with the stress of leading an assemble of illiterate people while being illiterate and self-taught yourself (Northern Sergal are not merely illiterate, some even don't even handle verbal speech and communicate with animalistic noises in a world where an IQ of 90 is considered respectable in the civilized Southern and Eastern Hemispheres).
>have to cope with the stress of leading a multi-front, multi-nation war against other nations that are better fed, have a larger industrial base, are wealthier, have infinitely more infrastructure, and have citizens than can actually speak and sometimes write.
>Against all odds, win through clever ambush tactics, ruthlessness, terror tactics and sheer combat prowess by being an 8ft tall mountain of a woman.
>On top of all the stress, all the spores, all the battles and grueling clawing inch by inch to the top you're now left with a war-torn world with you at the top and all the spoils that entails by the time she reached her mid-late adulthood.
>Skipped all her childhood and adolescence, and now she's left with the ability to pick and choose young male sergal pleasure slaves at her beck and call.
>While still having to wrestle your entire (still mostly illiterate and mostly uneducated) species with both paws.
>Somehow, after only knowing warfare, conquest and bloodshed for her entire life (a life she has become disenfranchised with) she manages to form a family and connect in a deep emotional sense with her son.
>Mental faculties and strength start to wane and the family she raised from the ground up betrays her, surrendering her to a metal institution.
>To the spend the last years of her life watching the grand nation she built from the ground up to keep to said aforementioned murderous flesh-fungal fauna and/or flora from overunning civilization to splinter and for things to lapse back to how they were before.
>Still manage to
If anything I'd expect the general to fix me. There's a reason the calendar of Tal is named after her, because she basically shaped her world by the sharp end of her halberd. I'd liken her to figures like Cao Cao, or Genghis Khan, that came from nothing and shaped their times, leaving trails of blood a mile wide while coming an inch short of the finishing line. That she didn't become an even bigger despot, tyrant or monster during her lifetime is a wonder.