The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #10)

by Steven Erikson

She lifted her sword, and became a queen going to war. Unleashed, the battle lust of her royal line, the generation upon generation of this one necessity, this nectar of power, rising within her, taking away the words in her voice, leaving only a savage scream that made those close to her flinch and stare.

Yan Motherfucking Tovis