Tsien Chiang Tsien Chiang was a wu jen sorceress who formerly lived in Kara - Tur and later became the Lord of I ' Cath in the Demiplane of Dread . History . Tsien was born as the daughter of one of the princes of I ' Cath . From a young age , despite her father ' s objection that women were only needed to make children , she mastered the talents of both the military and wu jen necromancy , and also learning poison craft . In response to her father ' s belittling of her , she became a determined misandrist and eventually murdered her father , then used her wu jen powers to turn her mother and three brothers into imbeciles . Tsien Chiang was acclaimed the ruler of I ' Cath by the local elders , who would rather see her as lord than one of her idiot family members . She quickly became a notorious tyrant and , in time , one of the most powerful individuals in all of Kara - Tur . Despite binding oaths of loyalty to the Emperor of Shou Lung that she reluctantly swore , Tsien was feared even by him . Many young men in time offered themselves for marriage to the beautiful and powerful lord but she accepted only four samurai of the highest rank , who were all killed shortly after they fathered a daughter each — three of whom were evil like Tsien but one who was of good heart . Tsien demanded tribute from the fearful Emperor : four huge bells , all divine relics housed in great temples . The Emperor granted them to her , despite the protests and curses of the temple priests and the complaints of his people . As a tactical genius and supremely powerful wu jen , she defeated all of the neighboring lords who attempted to overthrow her evil rule , taking their lands as her own . Those who didn ' t attack her attempted to appease her with gifts but those lords too were murdered . Still , great men came to claim the hands and hearts of Tsien ' s daughters , all of whom were forced to kill each other for the entertainment of Tsien and her three evil daughters , Hate , Scream , and Spite . When her good daughter , Nightingale ( named for her singing voice ) , complained , she was beaten . The remains of these suitors were used to build a palace , the walls of which cried in madness and despair . Even the gods despised Tsien ; for her lack of faith ; for her desecration of their temples ; and for the regular beatings she gave Nightingale , whose voice they loved . They plagued I ' Cath with storms whenever Nightingale was beaten . Tsien , for her part , was angry at the gods , whom she believed were deliberately withholding power from her . Tsien began to fear death as she noticed herself age . She gathered sages from all over Kara - Tur to find a way to live forever . Almost all were unsuccessful and so she had them tortured to death . One however suggested looking to the trees for answers , an idea that appealed to Tsien ; rather than torture that sage , she had him killed relatively quickly , by being chopped into pieces with the remains consumed by fire . Very few sages visited I ' Cath after that . She used her wu jen powers to bind the souls of her daughters to the temple bells , given to her by the Emperor , as well as a part of her own soul to ensure that her daughters could not escape . The bells were forged to be used by the immortal gods , and imbuing them with part of her soul finally gave Tsien the immortality that she craved . Her daughter ' s soulless bodies survived too , just as immortal as Tsien , but now completely under their mother ' s control . When the Emperor finally plucked up the courage to intervene against his vassal after she blasphemed against the gods one too many times , she executed him , thereby breaking her oaths of loyalty . The thick fog that had recently engulfed her lands drew her into the Demiplane of Dread , where she immediately became one of its Darklords . Personality . Tsien hated all men , thanks to her father ' s disdain for women . She was proud and spirited as well as keenly intelligent . She was a disobedient youth and grew to be sadistic , cruel and selfish . She was also obsessed by the number four , which in High Shou used the same character as " death " . She believed that death was all - powerful and that by mastering the secrets of the number four , she too would become all - powerful . Appendix . Notes . Although not deemed canonical , Tsien Chiang played a prominent role in the early EPIC Living Forgotten Realms modules as a pawn in Shar ' s grand scheme to rule the multiverse .