Yodit

"The beautiful princess Yodit has a promising future at the Aksumite court. But when her jealous nephew accuses her of theft, Yodit is forced to flee her home country. Witness how exile shaped this fallen princess into a mighty queen. For centuries the story of Yodit’s vengeance would invoke fear in the hearts of all Ethiopians."

Yodit was a semi-legendary, non-Christian, Beta Israeli queen (flourished c.960) who laid waste to Aksum and its countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, and attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling Aksumite dynasty. Her deeds are recorded in the oral tradition and mentioned incidentally in various historical accounts. Her sacking of Aksum is depicted in the Yodit campaign in the African Kingdoms expansion of Age of Empires II.