Tjulan Kwaad Tjulan Kwaad was a Master Shaper of the Yuuzhan Vong , the head of Domain Kwaad , and the lord of Domain Yim . However , his domain s suffered humiliation by events that occurred on the moon Yavin 4 in 26 ABY . One of the Master Shaper ' s subordinates , Mezhan Kwaad , and her respective adept , Nen Yim , committed heresy by violating the sacred laws governing the shaper caste and utilizing unorthodox methods in their biological experimentation . To his chagrin , Kwaad ' s domains subsequently fell into disrepute , and , when Yim contacted him later that year to ask for aid , Kwaad was unwilling to help her . Only a short time after Yin ' s plea , however , Kwaad sent Master Shaper Kae Kwaad to her aid . Biography . Tjulan Kwaad attained the rank of Master Shaper and the position of both the head of Domain Kwaad and the senior master of Domain Yim . Elderly at the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War of the galaxy , he was a staunch adherent to the laws which governed the shaper caste , and was thus deeply angered by the events which occurred on the moon of Yavin 4 in 26 ABY . One of Kwaad ' s subordinates , Mezhan Kwaad , had been tasked with experimenting on a captive Jedi . Along with her adept , Nen Yim , Kwaad had performed heresy while carrying out her mission , ignoring the strict guidelines of the shaping protocols in order to conduct unorthodox experiments . As the shaping protocols were sacred the the Yuuzhan Vong gods , their violation was a severe transgression usually punishable by death . The two shapers had been discovered by other Yuuzhan Vong , and Mezhan Kwaad had been killed . The entire affair had come to light shortly thereafter , and Domain s Kwaad and Yim were both disgraced , a source of acute embarrassment for Tjulan Kwaad . Kwaad was contacted by Adept Nen Yim a short time after the events on Yavin 4 , who had been spared execution as a heretic by Warmaster Tsavong Lah due to her exclusive knowledge of the Jedi and had been subsequently transferred to the worldship " Baanu Miir " . Yim , who had made contact with Kwaad by a villip , a Yuuzhan Vong organic communications device , petitioned the old shaper for aid . Yim revealed that the " Baanu Miir " was dying , and asked the senior master for a shaping protocol which could prevent the death of the ancient vessel . Kwaad was unwilling to provide the knowledge of protocols which were beyond the level of those to which Yim already had access , not only due to orthodox shaping procedure , but especially due to the fact that it was Yim who had asked . Before long , as Yim pressed the issue , Kwaad became enraged . He blamed Yim for what he believed to have been the fiasco on Yavin 4 and , when she attempted to appeal to him on the level of saving those aboard the " Baanu Miir " , Kwaad curtly reminded the adept that everything died . The Master Shaper was not interested in continuing the conversation . Yim ' s continued attempts to secure his aid for the sake of the worldship ' s inhabitants — whom Kwaad believed were useless for the war effort anyway — were ignored , and Kwaad ended the transmission . Several minutes later , however , Kwaad contacted the adept by villip again and informed her that he would send a Master Shaper to the worldship . The reason Kwaad gave the adept for his action was that a Master Shaper would prevent Yim from bringing more shame to his domain . Personality and traits . Tjulan Kwaad was unwilling to compromise with Yim to save members of his species for several reasons . Firstly , the Master Shaper felt anger towards the adept due to her part in disgracing the Kwaad and the Yim and for not reporting the actions of Mezhan Kwaad . Secondly , the Master Shaper believed that the laws of the shapers were not to be defied . Finally , Kwaad felt that those present on the " Baanu Miir " were not worth saving , not only because of their lack of worth in terms of the war effort , but also due to his belief that they were all fated to die anyway . Kwaad was also prone to anger and had little patience for sophistry . Behind the scenes . Tjulan Kwaad appears only in Gregory Keyes ' " " , for one chapter , during which he interacts with Nen Yim , a predominant Yuuzhan Vong character in The . His dialogue reveals some of the consequences of the events of the , such as the embarrassment of Domain Kwaad . Kwaad ' s sudden turn from his initial response to Nen Yim ' s requests is unexplained , though the more likely alternative to the reason the Master Shaper gives — that Yim should not be left unsupervised — is that he is ordered by either Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane , or coerced by the true power behind the Yuuzhan Vong , Onimi , who controls Jamaane by means of the Force , to contact the adept again . The " Master Shaper " whom Kwaad sends is , in fact , a disguised Onimi , who uses the pseudonym " Kae Kwaad " to observe Yim ' s heresy . It later transpires that Yim is required by Shimrra Jamaane — as the puppet of Onimi — to undertake secret , heretical research into advanced Yuuzhan Vong technology . The Master Shaper ' s words also raise the question of the relationship between the Kwaad and the Yim . While he claims that Mezhan Kwaad was his subordinate , Tjulan Kwaad also refers himself as the leader of Domain Yim . He later states that Yim disgraced " our domain , " and refers to the " Yim crèche " suggesting that the Yim are perhaps a subsidiary domain of the Kwaad .