Tsien Lei-An
Lei-An Tsien (a.k.a. Voiceless Tsien)
Tsien Lei-An, known as Voiceless Tsien, is the most haunting and alien of Tsien Chiang’s four resurrected daughters. Her body is an uncanny amalgamation of gazes—a being made entirely of eyes, ever-watching, ever-judging, and forever silent. Where others might weep, she watches. Where others might cry out, she only stares.
Tsien Lei-An embodies Tsien Chiang’s paranoia and need for oversight. Once a daughter who questioned her mother’s increasingly harsh rule, Lei-An was reanimated after death—not as she was, but as Tsien Chiang wished her to be: incapable of speaking rebellion, yet never able to look away.
- Tsien Chiang uses Lei-An as her silent watcher, posting her in council chambers, over ministers, or near construction projects.
- Many believe she sees truths even Tsien Chiang cannot, making her a symbol of eerie wisdom and terror in I’Cath.
- She never blinks when watching her mother.
Though she never speaks, Lei-An is still aware. Her silence is not peace, but torment. She remembers who she was—her voice, her laughter, her dreams—and endures her monstrous form with quiet sorrow.
At night, some dream of a girl with a single eye, crying in the dark. In these dreams, she mouths words that can’t be heard. Those who understand lip reading know the phrase: “This isn’t what I wanted to be.”
Tsien Lei-An, daughter of the tyrant queen, is a silent sentinel made of countless eyes—cursed to watch everything, speak nothing, and forever bear witness to the mother who unmade her.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tsien Lei-An’s form is humanoid in outline, but no flesh remains—only orbs of every size and color, clustered like pearls or tumors. Some of the eyes blink or roll. Others are wide, dry, and unmoving. She has no mouth, no nose, no ears—only vision, in all directions.
- The largest eye, resting where her face should be, bears Tsien Chiang’s own iris color, and it seldom closes.
- She does not walk so much as glide in slow, unsettling movements, as if drawn by unseen strings or guided by prophetic vision.
- Wherever she goes, those around her feel as if they are being watched by dozens of people at once, even when her back is turned.
Special abilities
- Tsien Lei-An is voiceless by design, unable to speak, scream, or whisper. But she can command the dreams of others, filling their sleep with unblinking visions or phantom presences.
- Her mere gaze can paralyze lesser minds with fear, dredging up guilt or hidden truths best left forgotten.
- Some say her vision is not bound by the material plane—she sees into dream, memory, and the cracks between realities.
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