The Wicked Empire Aflame

The Wicked Empire Aflame was an Algarvian historical novel, set in the days of the Kaunian Empire. It depicted heroic Algarvian mercenaries who encountered wicked and cowardly Kaunian men, and sex-crazed Kaunian women. The last chapter described, in very upbeat terms, a massacre of Kaunians.

During the Derlavaian War, the Forthwegian Kaunian refugee Vanai read this novel. At first she found it laughably bad, but then considered that it wasn't so laughable if the redheads were using stories like this to convince the rest of the world that Kaunians weren't quite human.