Tian Heng

The hero of Qi too noble to submit to shame - Zhuge Liang's answer to 'why does not Liu Bei yield?', and the barb that drives Sun Quan from his own audience chamber.

Named in the poem for Zhuge Dan's guards, who refuse their lives one by one at the block: 'Faithful unto death were they, even as Tian Heng's people' - the five hundred who killed themselves rather than outlive their lord.