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 born as daughter of the prince of I'Cath. From young age, despite her father's objection that women only need made children, she mastered the talents of both military arts and wu jen sorcery. At last she mastered poisoning and killed her father and with her wu jen powers made mad her mother and three brothers. So Tsien Chiang became the ruler of I'Cath and in time become one of the powerful individual of Kara-Tur, feared also by the Emperor of Shou Lung. Many young men in time offered themselves for marriage but she accepted only four samurai of the highest rank, that were killed just after fathered four daughters, three evil like Tsien and one of good hearth. Tsien started fearing death so she gathered sages from all Kara-Tur to find a way to live forever. They were unsuccessful and she killed them all. One however had suggested to search in vegetal world. She using her wu jen powers managed to bind the souls of her and her daughters to four trees linked to the evil artifacts The Bells of Eud and Lament and so they stopped age. She started killed all men that arrived in her castle. At least her good-natured daughter questioned the reason of all this evil but was beaten four times, first by beach of her sisters and last by her mother. This triggered the apparition of the Dark Powers that transported Tsien Chiang's castle to Ravenloft.

Personality
Tsien hate all men, thank to her father's hate for women. She was also obsessed by the number four, that in her motherlanguage sounded like "death".