Tsien Seu-Mei
Tsien Seu-Mei is the most fearsome and uncanny of Tsien Chiang’s daughters—a voiceless construct composed entirely of countless human teeth, locked in unnatural harmony. She glides like a whispering wind through the moonlit halls of the Palace of Bones, her presence rattling with menace and maternal grief twisted into monstrosity.
Within the Palace of Bones, Seu-Mei oversees I’Cath’s cryptic justice. She is sent to gather the disloyal, the dreamless, the disruptive, and bring them before Tsien Chiang.
- She is the only one among the daughters permitted to leave the palace walls at night, slipping into I’Cath’s dreamscape, where she hunts those who question their waking reality.
- People who see her in dreams often wake with bleeding gums, loose teeth, or an inability to speak for days.
Seu-Mei embodies Tsien Chiang’s paranoia and cruelty—a daughter made of fear, forged to gnash and grind away disobedience. She is never embraced, never praised, yet always near, like a shadow that follows no light.
- Some believe Seu-Mei retains memories of her past life and silently weeps when alone, her tears falling as tiny, pearl-like teeth.
- But others claim she has grown to love the hunt, the silence, and the terror she spreads—a daughter remade into a weapon who has forgotten what it means to be loved.
Tsien Seu-Mei is a voiceless enforcer wrought from the teeth of the condemned, a daughter of dread whose eternal smile guards her mother’s impossible dream.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
After the uprising that ended her daughters' lives, Tsien Chiang refused to accept the loss. In a deranged act of necromantic artistry, she fashioned Seu-Mei from the teeth of the executed, embedding her with spells of preservation, binding, and silence. These were the rebels who dared defy her dream of a perfect city—and in this creation, she merged daughter and punishment into one.
- Her form is humanoid but inhuman: a lattice of teeth bound by invisible magic, shifting as if by unseen muscles.
- Her face is a smooth, toothy mask, smiling eternally, eyeless yet alert, with rows of teeth forming every inch of her visage and limbs.
- She makes no sound when she walks, save for the soft click of enamel against itself—a rain of whispers in an empty hallway.
Unlike her sisters, Seu-Mei is without a voice by design. Tsien Chiang did not trust this daughter’s past dissent, and so she ripped her tongue from memory. Her silences are not peaceful—they are smothering.
- Her silence is magical: those near her find their own voices weakening, swallowed by oppressive quiet.
- Her communication is made through gestures, glares, and the chattering of teeth, which some say can hypnotize the weak-willed into obedience.
- When she "speaks," it is by biting out words—literally snapping teeth in rhythmic patterns to form uncanny, gnashing syllables only her sisters understand.
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