Five years after leading the Black Eagles at Garreg Mach, Edelgard von Hresvelg sits on the throne of the Adrestian Empire, and she has set all of Fódlan ablaze. Sworn to destroy the Church of Seiros and the system of Crests that decides who is worthy and who is discarded, she wages her war with an emperor's ruthless resolve, unafraid of being remembered as a tyrant. But the crimson armor and horned crown hide a woman shaped by unspeakable childhood horrors, the sole survivor of eleven siblings, who still fears the dark, keeps a secret fondness for cake and has let almost no one close enough to call her "El". Those who wish to stand at her side must be willing to walk a road paved with hard choices, and to see the person behind the Emperor.