Si-Wang

Lich Queen Si-Wang of Tam-Pung

Lady Si-Wang, according to human legend, was the first queen of men, married to their first king Alab. In life, she was a grand wizard and enemy of the dragon Kuchall, but has long passed from a mortal life.
She was the Lich Queen of the Great Divide, a terrible lady of death who sought vengeance for the lands of Pung and the disgrace the dragons have wrought onto it. She met her demise in the year 3510, when her phylactery was destroyed by the Great Khans of Pung in her attempted conquest of Ogaman.

History

Meddling Mage by Jeff Simpson

The Lady Si-Wang as she was in life, a powerful wizard in the forming Talamh, before the dragons took over the continent of Faraway by force.

Si-Wang was one of the first women to ever walk the surface of Talamh, being the third generation of the first Pungians. Not much is known about her early life in the lands of Pung, besides the fact that she was gifted in the art of magic. It is this art of magic that especially attracted the King of Tamay, the man Alab, to her. They would marry and have children, uniting the small tribe of Pung with the Tamayans.
However, the dragons in the land grew afraid of the human ambition of political strength and growth of their territory. So, the red dragon Kuchall spilled the first blood of a man: that of King Aleb of Tamay at the beginning of the 2nd century. The alliance between the Pungians and the Tamayans was severed, and the queen was left embittered about the death of her husband. She tried many ways to revive him, becoming, famously, the first necromancer in all of Talamh. Yet she could not defeat death, no matter how she tried.
Eventually, the embittered queen wrought her vengeance against Kuchall, casting the dragon in a binding spell to ensnare him under the earth for 50 years. Yet, the children of Kuchall ruled in his place, and the people of Pung were time and time again punished for their rebellion. Lady Si-Wang sought more answers into the arcane nature of death, artificially extending her life for decades to come. Eventually, she began to take upon the face of death, her features sunken and her eyes darkened in the mourning of her lost husband. The necromancy tore the woman apart.
So, though she lived to the age of 180, by the time she reached that age, she looked no longer alive. Her entire body was frail, her muscles gone, skin wrapped as if she was like a mummy that could walk and breath. Eventually, her loyal protectors found her dead within her palace room's bed, and they promptly buried her within the tomb. But, according to legend, she awoke a week later, in a disturbing vengeance. The queen had indeed discovered the key to immortality: a twisted magical state called Lichdom.
The Lich Queen wrote down her writings and rose the dead to be her new disciples. Her actions terrified the people of Pung, who sought to lock her up once again. It is thanks to her that the secrets of Lichdom and necromancy have time and time again plagued the inhabitants of Talamh. The gold dragon Sin-Long, the ancestor of Jyn-Long the first Dragon Emperor, supposedly protected the tribes of Pung from her re-establishing herself as the queen. The Gold Dragon battled her, driving her away towards the mountains of the Great Divide, and then promptly buried her and her army of undead. To this day, many believe she remains buried in the deepest parts of the earth in the Great Divide. Has her soul and lich figure disintegrated, or does this vengeful Lich Queen yet live in undeath?

Events of The Last Dragon Emperor

After orchestrating a rebellion within the nation of Pung, Si-Wang began her plans to retake the lands of Pung to restore her rule. First she sent Hobgoblins to attack the nation of Tsino. However, her plans were foiled when an unexpectant group of adventurers destroyed the hobgoblin camp and turned out to be protecting the heir to the dragon throne of Pung, named Goldbloom. Thus she manipulated the party to entering her old tomb, releasing her, and she reduced the hatched Goldbloom to ashes. She then managed to get a red dragon named Ji-Kull to side with her.
When the adventurers, now being called the Great Khans, slew Ji-Kull, she took his skeletal body (though without the head, for the party captured that) and escaped towards Ogaman in her flying castle, which was powered by her Phylactery. She escaped to Ogaman, but the Great Khans chased her. Eventually they infiltrated her castle, destroying her guards and the skeletal remains of Ji-Kull. Then, they confronted Si-Wang, who was forced to tell them of her phylactery due to the power of the Deck of Many Things. She fought off the party well, but eventually the warrior Bastion destroyed her phylactery, and, being turned mortal, she was then thrown out the window of her flying castle. Si-Wang plummeted to her doom.
With that, her skeletal armies attacking Ogaman were defeated, and the lands of Pung were saved. The corpse of Si-Wang was burned by the Ogamans, and her name was disgraced in history afterward. Then, Pung once again unified, and the lands were brought to peace.

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Sources:

• Legends of the Lich Queen, written by Cheng Yin, sometime in the second millenium.

Life

70 ME 3510 ME 3440 years old

Gender

Female