当法拉第家族的祖母、暴虐的女族长奎妮(Queenie)最终被安葬时，没有人能预见到她的邪恶影响的可怕程度，这种影响甚至延续到死亡之后。

Nero's reign. The invasion of Parthia has been a fiasco. Two Roman legions have been brought to a stand still in the snowy mountains of Armenia, and the men are dying slowly in the cold. The rest of the Roman army is in Syria, only two weeks march away but the mountains swarm with Parthian patrols. Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted the mission of crossing the mountains to ask ...