Sysquemalyn Sysquemalyn was the chamberlain of Lady Polaris of Delia in the Netherese Empire . She was a villainess who landed herself and any nearby into more trouble than she could handle . Description . The red - haired wizard was tall , slender , and beautiful . She wore her hair in outlandish hairdos ( possibly maintained by magic ) , pouted a lot , and preserved her life and good looks by magic as was custom at the time . In her disguise as Ruellana she looked similar , but had " curves like a walrus tusk " according to her chief victim Sunbright Steelshanks . She wore traveling leathers to complement her disguise . After her imprisonment in Hell she looked like an abomination , as a lopsided man - sized thing with staring lidless eyes , a flinty , ebony - colored skin , and diamond - sharp claws . Personality . Sysquemalyn was a cruel , selfish person who cared exclusively about herself and eradicating boredom by placing high - risk wagers and torturing people . She was initially subservient to Lady Polaris , but as this servitude grated on her she became progressively more unhinged . After her hellish sojourn , she lost all reason , desiring only revenge and sharing the pains she had endured . This blinded her to the fact that a wizard of her skill could have restored her beauty in an instant . Possessions . Sysquemalyn dressed in a fish - scaled green tunic with leather breeches and red boots . As decoration , the wizard had a gargoyle pendant that changed its face to reflect her mood . As Ruellana , she possessed a magical rapier whose flimsy appearance was belied by its edge . Relationships . The wizard fought with Delia ' s high steward Candlemas for the attention of Lady Polaris . History . During the Shadowed Age , Candlemas and Sysquemalyn gambled on whether or not Sunbright Steelshanks would survive dangerous tasks . As Sunbright survived each ordeal Sysquemalyn would up the ante with a double or nothing escalation . She had no qualms about removing one of Candlemas ' arms when she thought she ' d won the bet , but refused to reimburse him or undergo it herself when Sunbright turned out to be alive . She slowly grew to be more abusive of Lady Polaris when she wasn ' t around , calling her all sorts of names . Eventually , after acquiring a rare tome from The One King ' s hoard and having traveled with Sunbright and Greenwillow , she enacted a ruse to draw them into her own stolen / recreated portion of the Nine Hells to prevent losing her bet . Candlemas was also drawn in , but things did not go as planned . The owner of the stolen portion dragged them all to his hellish abode and battled them . It took lady Polaris ' intervention to rescue them , though Greenwillow died . Sysquemalyn was then sentenced by Polaris , not just for the inconvenience , but also for the innumerable insults and such , to spend a year , flayed , in her personal hell . Around - 694 DR , Sysquemalyn , who had been forgotten for three years , finally managed to claw her way back out of hell to enact her revenge . Horribly transformed into a misshapen creature with an obsidian skin and full of hell ' s magic , she slew many innocent creatures out of sheer frustration . She killed Candlemas and his apprentices shortly after they had finished a spell to counter the rust - blight that had been destroying the empire ' s crops . She then set her sights on Sunbright and Knucklebone , but was slain by him , though he lost an eye to her claws .