Ambuchar Devayam Ambuchar Devayam was once known as Tan Chin , a powerful necromancer and the emperor of what would become the nation of Shou Lung in Kara - Tur . Biography . Tan Chin is first noted in history as a young man who discovered several artefact s from the fallen empire of Anok - Imaskar . In - 1377 DR , Tan Chin used these artefacts to murder Kwan Ying , the empress of the empire that would eventually become Shou Lung , declaring himself emperor in her stead and renaming the city of Ten Mor Shou to Kuo Meilan after his lover . Tan Chin ruled for seven years over a prosperous nation until word reached his ears of his officials in Fenghsintsu province being extorted and murdered by cultists of some dark entity known as Hei Te Pao . After seven parties of heroes failed to defeat the cult , Tan Chin resolved to defeat the aggressors himself . After researching Hei Te Pao in the Imperial Library , he discovered that the spirit , a black leopard , could be held under thrall by an enspelled ivory chain . Tan Chin correctly surmised that a powerful wu jen must be in possession of this chain . He and his friend Kar Wuan travelled south to defeat this enemy , locating the lair of the cult and eventually meeting their foe . Using the magical spear " Shan Tien " , Tan Chin broke the links of the ivory chain , freeing Hei Te Pao , who turned on the wu jen , effectively ending the power of the cult . Tan Chin and Kar Wuan were lauded as heroes , though they almost certainly only defeated the cult to protect the incomes of Fenghsintsus rice paddies . Twelve years later , the tuigan were annually raiding the provinces of Chukei and Ma ' yuan . The barbarians could not be effectively put down without too high a price so again , Tan Chin and Kar Wuan decided to try and resolve the problem themseves . Kar Wuan had the idea to steal an artefact called the " Jade Mirror of Shih " , which could turn even the mightiest of creatures to stone , from its guardian , the great lung wang Pao Hu , who lived under the waves of the Celestial Sea . Kar Wuan did so , escaping with his life , while Tan Chin waited for the dragon to notice the theft . When it did , it found only Tan Chin and demanded to know if he knew where the thief was . Tan Chin directed him to the Plain of Horses where Kar Wuan was waiting on a mountaintop . Using the " Jade Mirror " , Kar Wuan turned Pao Hu to stone , creating the Dragonwall . Though he was known as " hero - emperor " for these exploits , Tan Chin ' s creation of an undead army and cruel rule spurred a revolution 76 years later . Led by one of the Nine Immortals , the historian Chih Shih ( who was disguised as a wu - jen called Shih - Hai Kwai ) , the revolutionaries destroyed Tai Chin ' s undead army with the " Stone Scepter of Shih " . Tan Chin fled from the city of Kuo Meilan and into the Raurin Desert where he searched for more Imaskari magic to increase his powers . At some point during his search , he discovered a method to turn himself into a strange kind of disembodied lich with the ability to possess other creatures . Over two - and - a - half millennia later , he travelled north to the city of Solon where he used his powers and a Durpari army to conquer the ailing city and subjugate its remaining citizens . With an eye toward ruling over Shou Lung , he began calling himself Ambuchar Devayam , the Raja of Solon , and began excavating the city for yet more imaskar i magic . Any mortal subject who died was quickly turned into an undead creature thanks to the Stamp of Tan Chin and soon there were few living creatures left within Solon ' s walls due to their being overworked and underfed . He also managed to awaken the purple dragon Gaumahavi , capturing her child Sandiraksiva in order to ensure her obedience . Ambuchar attempted to conquer Ra - Khati at the beginning of the 14th century to use as a staging point to attack Shou Lung . During this War of the Purple Dragon , the city of Kushk was destroyed by Gaumahavi at Ambuchar ' s orders and was only foiled when Gaumahavi was defeated in single combat by the Dalai Lama of Ra - Khati in the sky over Saikhoi . Defeated but undeterred , Ambuchar continued searching for imaskari items , incidentally cutting off Ulgarth ' s lines of communication with the lands north of it . He was also responsible for the creation of the monstrous Dowagu . Ambuchar Devayam spent most of his time in Solon in the Star Houses or the Ebony Temple , wherein his crystal phylactery resided . The Ebony Temple had " portal s " to the para and quasi - elemental plane s of ice , ash and vacuum and it is assumed that the unnamed plane upon which his essence resided could be reached from there . It was said that if one could acquire four ebony imaskari artefacts from these other planes and toss them into the Bottomless Pit of Fire in the Ebony Temple , then the lich would be destroyed forever . However , the truth was that doing so would only create a volcano that would bury Solon under ash and magma , which is exactly what happened when adventurers working to help Ra - Khati against Ambuchar did so in 1360 DR . About the same time that year , Ambuchar attempted another invasion of Ra - Khati , this time marching his now - vast undead army into the hidden realm and conquering it . Within a year , he had also conquered Khazari and a large portion of western Shou Lung , nations that were still weak from the Tuigan Horde ' s invasion . Thankfully for the Unapproachable East , a party of adventurers managed to find the lost " Stone Sceptre of Shih " in 1362 DR and used it to destroy Ambuchar beneath Skarou . Appearance . Ambuchar Devayam was six feet tall and weightless in his incorporeal state . Visibly , he consisted only of a pair of glowing golden eyes , a trait gained by any host body that he possessed . Combat . Ambuchar Devayam fed upon the life force of the living , and as such preferred to use his energy drain attack when possible . He often possessed other beings , and retained the use of his supernatural and spell - like abilities while in these hosts .