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Given the remarks made about Cinder "wanting power", I imagine Salem targets people who are in desperate situations and "saves" them so the result is they have her undying loyalty. Tyrian may have been really screwed up before he met Salem, but perhaps wasn't quite the psychotically violent guy we see in the series.