The Sun-Blessed Blade

Lysandra, a collateral-branch girl condemned as a blasphemer for being female, was forced to replace her sister in marriage to the brutal Commander Darius after her sister died. She fled, trained for years at the Divine Cliff, awakened Hera's apparition, and became Divine Commander of the Southern Allied Forces. At Selon City's grand tournament, when the foreign lord Nicander humiliates everyone, Lysandra walks in—golden divine patterns igniting beneath her steps.