Her Rule Would Always Last by Seth Chambers

With this knowledge and W'soran's aid, she reformulated and distilled the ancient alchemical draught first created by Nagash known as the Elixir of Life, which was intended to grant immortality. Under the malign influence of High Priest W'soran, one of the Great Necromancer Nagash's spies, she used this position to save some of the necromancer's works from the pyres and studied them herself. Instead, she was destined to rule the city-state of Lahmia when she came of age. Her father laughed at her and explained that women could not join that priesthood and, indeed, could never learn magic. Neferata, then called 'Neferatem,' was the daughter of King Lahmizzash of Nehekhara, and as a girl, she expressed a wish to join the Mortuary Cult. Sitting upon her luxurious throne within the former Dwarf fortress-city called the Silver Pinnacle, Neferata has, since the time of her exile from the lands of Nehekhara, been plotting and weaving a web of intrigue and alliances from all the remaining Vampire bloodlines, hoping to unite or enslave them under her rule as she seeks to reinstate the city of Lahmia to its former glory, rebuild the Temple of Blood and reinstate herself as the city's eternal queen. She owes much of her success - and her survival - to her own seductive beauty, a cunning demeanour and a secret network of exquisitely beautiful, female Vampire spies that has since infiltrated the aristocracy of all the Human kingdoms of the Old World.

Neferata, once the queen of the ancient Nehekharan city-state of Lahmia, is one of the most ancient and powerful Vampires to still exist within the present-day mortal world. Neferata, which translates to 'Beautiful Death' in ancient Nehekharan, originally known as Neferatem, is the self-proclaimed Queen of Lahmia, the Queen of the Silver Pinnacle, the ' Vampire Queen,' the ' Queen of Mysteries,' the ' First of the Vampires,' and the founder and leader of the bloodline of Vampires known as the Lahmian Sisterhood.

Neferata, former queen of lost Lahmia, first of the Vampires, and leader of the vampiric bloodline known as the Lahmian Sisterhood ' Behind every great man is a great woman.

Her Rule Would Always Last by Seth Chambers