The Darklord of a realm of labyrinths and lethal dreamlike sleep, Tsien Chiang has turned a dream life into an inescapable nightmare.

The Domain of Dread often called I’Cath existed in two locations, within the bodily world and in a twisting dream, conjured by its Darklord, Tisen Chiang.

In one world, the town was excellent and idyllic, a near-perfect expression of magnificence and effectivity the place inhabitants toiled away in pursuit of perfection. In the opposite, it laid silent, empty however for the trapped, sleeping folks that littered its streets. All on the behest of 1 dreaming tyrant, obsessive about perfection.

The Dreamer and the Dragon – Tisen Chiang

Before she was a tyrant, trapping her topics in an endless nightmare, Tsien Chiang was a mortal. In her youth, she lived a carefree existence up till a colonizing drive destroyed her house, forcing her to flee into a variety of frozen, icy mountains.

Chiang anticipated to search out her loss of life there. Instead she discovered a gold dragon, who took pity upon the younger lady and gave her shelter. Grateful for her rescure, Chiang pledged to serve the dragon. And within the years that adopted, she discovered on the dragon’s aspect. Magic and medication had been her forte, and earlier than lengthy she was a strong wizard.

But nonetheless, Tsien Chiang’s coronary heart beat to 1 drum: the seductive rhythm of revenge. She clung tightly to the hatred she harbored in her coronary heart, hatred for many who pressured her out of her ancestral house. And there, it festered till the day her need for revenge took its horrendous root.

An Untimely Death

Among the various information in her mentor’s care, had been tinctures and lists of artifacts. Tsien Chiang occurred to come back throughout information of a magic bell that would make its ringers goals come true. However, the bell couldn’t be created with out the size of a gold dragon.

Believing her mentor would by no means present a scale willingly, Chiang brewed a strong concoction to drug the dragon into slumber, hoping to steal a scale whereas the good wyrm slumbered. But the concoction Chiang brewed was made in haste, and the recipe plagued with lethal errors. The dragon’s physique and all the pieces close by aged and decayed shortly, taking out a hoard full of ages of treasures and knowledge as properly.

Once extra, Chiang’s house had been destroyed. But on the bottom the place the proud wyrm had as soon as stood—a single golden scale.

But with that ,Chiang had what she wanted: the Nightingale Bell which may with a single ring return her metropolis.

Tsien Chiang – The Darklord of I’Cath

Chiang took the Nightingale Bell into her metropolis, and rang it, wishing for a metropolis freed from invaders. Immediately they vanished. And the inhabitants of the town executed the few lingering invaders and made Tsien Chiang their queen.

She dominated for years, enacting reforms and legal guidelines to design her personal excellent empire. But in time, the legal guidelines grew stricter. Her grasp tightened, gripping the peeople, metaphorically, till they had been choking underneath her restrictions. When revolution broke out, Chiang cracked down arduous, ordering the execution of all insurrectionists.

Assassins struck, and although Chiang survived, her household didn’t. Chiang, as an alternative, climbed to the very best tower of her palace, and gazing out over a metropolis aflame with revolution, and rang the Nightingale Bell as soon as extra. But this time, the bell didn’t ring. With her vengeful want, the bell cracked and a mist unfold out throughout the town, trapping all inside an unreal prison-city.

Now, Chiang is haunted by the lack of her daughters and the right preferrred metropolis that’s perpetually out of her grasp. She traps her inhabitants each evening, unleashing a horde of hungry jiangshi upon any who would problem her rule. Any imperfection in her metropolis, she ruthlessly stamps out.

And she is going to spend the remainder of her existence making an attempt to excellent a fiction, a dream that even she is aware of will not be actual, however is unable to let go of.

A nightmare queen

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and now and again eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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