“I hear the soldier’s footsteps right outside
From Roman legions that are hunting me—
A mother, warrior, Boudica, queen.
That swarm of angry hornets aims to sting
My skin with fire, piercing me with pain.
I will never accept an end like that. “

~Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, The Bones of the Poor

Betrayed by Rome, tortured while she watched her young daughters raped and her kingdom reduced to ashes the Iceni Queen, Boudicca, united the Celtic tribes into a massive army which rained terror on the Roman occupiers of First Century Brittan. She and her Alliance managed to decimate Rome’s elite Ninth Legion before finally disappearing into legend.