Entarodora House Military Strategist Entarodora was a member of House Arpexia . She was — according to Plautus St Germain — the greatest of the time strategists . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Entarodora was a celebrated individual for the first few decades of the War , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) but was branded a traitor for her actions as captain of " The San Grael " . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Biography . Glory in the War . Entarodora was among a wave of military thinkers who arose during the fourth year of the War . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) She was a close mentor to Robert Scarratt . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " , " The Book of the War " ) Entarodora was once genuinely infatuated with Scarratt , but Scarratt had no real love for her . Scarratt revealed his true feelings when he slit Entarodora ' s throat while they were in bed . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) In the thirtieth anniversary of the War ' s beginning , Entarodora gave an address — the " Monsters " Coda — to the Fifth Wave , which became a standard House Military text . Entarodora was involved in her House ' s Jungle Children project towards the end . The outcome of the project led her to develop a " disturbance by mystery " policy for future temporal vaccination s . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Failure of the San Grael . Entarodora secretly allied with House Lineacrux to lead in a voyage beyond the Spiral Politic to harvest material from a Leviathan . She chose the name " " The San Grael " " for the ship she would captain out of the Politic . Then , she began recruiting a crew ; first selecting individuals from her coteries , but eventually expanding into inviting all the " disaffected and disloyal " within the Great Houses . Entarodora betrayed Lineacrux and took complete control of " The San Grael " . She kidnapped Captain Tancreevee of " The Brakespeare " and launched " The San Grael " through the Grandfather ' s Maw to the great void between universes . It was her goal to leave behind the War and colonise a new universe where she and her crew could become gods . However , " The San Grael " met with a doomed fate . It became embedded in the side of a Leviathan and reached the end of its lifespan . As the ship experienced a burning apocalypse , Entarodora cut her hand and used the blood as a scrying - anchor . She projected her consciousness into Mictlan and negotiated with Dervishage to get him to act as her agent on " The Brakespeare " . She hoped to have " The Brakespeare " come close to " The San Grael " so that she could escape her ship and take over " The Brakespeare " . As " The Brakespeare " approached " The San Grael " , Entarodora manifested herself on " The Brakespeare " as an ethereal woman wearing a yellow bridal veil . The veil was there to cover her horrific skin , charred by the destruction of " The San Grael " . Mistaken to be a ghost , Entarodora manipulated many inhabitants of the ship , turning them against Captain Robert Scarratt and loyal to her . Although she tried , she failed to entice Philetes to support her . Entarodora left " The San Grael " in a boat - shard with the reanimated corpse of Tancreevee . They boarded " The Brakespeare " shortly after the Cancer Empire launched an attempted take - over of the ship . Entarodora took control of the Bridge in the chaos . She then began broadcasting her manifesto to the crew of her new ship , intent on continuing the mission she began with " The San Grael " . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Shame in the War . Entarodora was disavowed by House Lineacrux and stripped of her authority following the " The Brakespeare ' s " voyage . Though still allowed to contribute to briefings at the behest of other Great Houses , her ideas and comments were regarded as " speculative at best , and spurious if not treasonous at worst . " She kept herself happy by wearing dresses from Thierry Mugler ' s " La Chimere Couture Collection " and by " taking a large number of paramours and abandoning them in different aeons " . " " ( PROSE " : The Book of the Enemy " ) Personality . " The Book of the War " came to the conclusion that Entarodora had a " tremendous desire for control " and an " instinct " to always have the last word . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Beliefs . In the " Monsters " Coda , Entarodora theorised that the Houses deliberately mythologised their enemy as nameless " Monsters " because if they just named the enemy as a specific time - active faction or fallen House , they would ignore the enemy until it defeated them . Entarodora believed that the War would be ended by either the entire War ' s retroactive annulment , or a victory for one side so complete that it would become history . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In her lecture " The Cultural Impact of War - Time " , Entarodora noted that more Homeworlds had been lost " than might be thought prudent " . She argued that the total number of War - time deaths by Great House members was nonetheless small because the inhabitants of these other Homeworlds were " mere - sheath echoes " of a " core probability " . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " )