Inspired by characters and events in the Book of Esther in the bible, Tyranmaton reveals Queen Vashti's fate in excile, including her witnessing of the incomprehensible massacre of her people by themselves, as carried out by Tyranmaton's soldiers. Thematically Tyranmaton is about tyranny, beauty, love, the power to tame white tigers, justice, and related small matters all considered within a larger concern for pathological vertical-mindedness and its long history of perversion of character, misogony, and sectarian slaughter.