Name: Khan Javari

I had to take a double take for a moment there, namely as I have another PC in another rp that has a very similar name. Khan Jevarath, however I like it and just thought I share that.

Species: Human
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight
Captive? Nope, Rescuer

Appearance:
Khan is a man resembling, in a limited sense, a bear. His face is often unshaven, in fact he rarely goes out of his way to find a conventional blade to put to his face. The hair above his facial hair is unusually long, kept in dreadlocks for his convenience during rapid movement. His hair has a deep, hazelly color in his hair, blending well with the soft beige pigment of his skin. His stocky frame is large, six feet tall in height, and thick with muscle all throughout.

Flaws:
He is prone to hesitation when it comes to hurting people. For this reason, he likes to avoid direct confrontations. Even if he is in a clearly superior tactical or moral stance, he must push himself beyond his comfort zone to consciously cause pain. His belief in people's ability to be redeemed may often lead to unnecessary risks, such as the threat of bodily harm or betrayal. At times, he considers the lives of less sophisticated or non-sentient life forms to be of equal or greater value than the 'people' around him.

Alright, one question. Does the non-sentient refer to animals, or does that include droids too? If does include droids, you might want to clear that up a bit and also include why or how that happened.

What is the reason for his hesitation here? How has he coped with this during the war with the Sith Empire? If this flaw is as marked as it is, why would Master Novan contact him, considering that the rescue mission guarantees he’ll come into direct confrontations and combat?

You speak of “his people”. Who are they?

Skills:
Having lived in the forests of Kashyyyk, he has developed acrobatic finesse and the ability to climb many varieties of trees with his bare hands, or using his lightsaber when necessary. When he can hold himself together in combat he is very effective as a lightsaber duelist, deftly batting his blade unexpectedly in a risky, though typically rewarding, fashion. Also worth noting is his physique. While he is no match in a serious contest, he has playfully wrestled with Wookies for years, increasing his musculature massively through regular practice.

I know it’s not required, or mentioned as it’s needed, but I’m curious. What is your Jedi’s form in combat? Each one has specific areas, like Soresu is mostly known for its defense and out lasting and opponent while Makshi is more suited for 1x1 dueling and less able to combat a whole group at once. However it also depends on many factors like duelist experience, focus, and style. Some Jedi dub in more than one style creating one of their own, though being an ‘expert’ on all styles is very bad as they start to smash together. That’s why some Jedi take bits and pieces of 2-3 styles at most and design their own, however some weakness are present with the strengths. something that usually happens with any combat style.

Does he have any others skills? how is he with working with technology? Can he pilot ships? (if yes, how well?)

Force capabilities:
In addition to standard force abilities, he has an obvious aptitude for turning animals to his side and befriending them, leading to a mind-link with creatures in a 'mid-level' intellectual range. While he is not capable of a Force whirlwind (yet), he is capable of creating one-directional winds, akin to a force push from a direction not his own. Useful while he is amongst beasts is the Revitalize abilities, also used on occasion for more intelligent beings around him.

I think the force ability you’re looking for is Animal Friendship which, to my knowledge, no one has yet. Feel just to state that in the section and I believe it’s an uncommon one which is rather nice. I’ll make sure he gets to use it a few times.

Biography:
The planet Coruscant had been the cradle for many infants in the realm of the Republic, but one of them would be quite different from those around him. Khan Javari had distinguished himself from his peers shortly after birth by building a lifelong relationship with a mere rodent, which would play with him, lay with him, or even fetch such things as a bite to eat for him. When he was three years old, Rauma, as his companion was named, died in her sleep.

Khan was given up by his parents to the Jedi Temple for training before he could develop any real memories of them. As was the case with virtually all around him, he dreamt of becoming one of the highly revered Jedi Knights, respected and beloved by all of the Republic. Yet he was initially awkward when compared to the others, little in size and uncoordinated in the realm of social exchanges. His greatest company and best friends were whatever animals happened to be near him.
The Coruscanti Jedi Temple isn’t the only place of training for Jedi, nor do most who train there stay on Coruscant during their entire training. Seeing how you appear to want to tie Kashyyyk into his story, we would recommend that perhaps he spent a lot of his time on that world, perhaps even had a wookiee as his master while still a padawan.
In addition, we’d add under skills that he understands a certain number of wookiee dialects. Spending years among them would make that easy enough to learn.

Often the subject of pranks or social opposition, he was relieved when he was selected as apprentice by a Jedi named Bell Karama. By Karama's side, he honed his saber wielding abilities and got on a course of being a brutally effective duelist before being traumatzied by an unforseen torture. A mad Sith forced him to experience all the pain he'd caused others to feel through a psychic link. His master was a bit late to save him the pain, but did save his life.

Ellri? A little help here? I’m not sure how this would be possible, within the starwars universe, namely if it’s a force ability, torture droid, or chemicals. The reason I said this is I’m sure unless you're related by blood and very closely connected than Telepathy is very, very limited in what it shares. And that’s the only skill I can think of off the top of my head that would be able to produce that result you’re speaking of. Namely take Jayda. Hymo, who was her master and blood father, would have a deep Telepathic connection to Jayda but using that skill on other Sith or Jedi is more vague and could easily get jumbled. That’s how I understood it.

However, since this seems to be a key aspect to your PC, I can offer up alternatives to get a very similar result without much change.

I would suggest one of three things that could have the same result: A Sith apprentice (these fellows are the equals of Knights usually so isn’t unlikely) captured him, then either tortured him, experimented on him, or tried to turn him mad by making him witnessing experiments/suffering/and worse on innocents. The mad Sith making him actually feel, relieved, and actually experience the memories as his own seems rather out of sorts with what I’ve seen in Starwars Lore.

Exactly how did this encounter come to happen? If you want the trauma of this sort, try to find a reason for it beyond a random encounter with someone. To suggest something to tie into your wookiee plot: Have a certain telepathic connection to his master, then have the master encounter Sish, the trandoshan Sith Lord controlled by Rtron. That character is rather sadistic, so if his master did not get away or died quickly, you can be certain the agony was intense. Masters and padawans often have noticeable telepathic connections, so the emotional torture as his master is tortured would be strong. Given the trandoshan/wookiee relations, such torture is far from unlikely.

At the age of seventeen he was freed of his apprenticeship, and unsurprisingly turned to a life of general seclusion in the forests of Kashyyyk, where he befriended several Wookies. He did so naturally because the Wookies proved too advanced mentally for his skill set. He never left Kashyyyk when higher orders didn't force his hand, but they did so annoyingly often.

This part might be a little harder as most knights, Xid would’ve been included in the rooster, would’ve been sent into war rather than allowed to go on their own way. I suggest he was likely spending most his time on Kashyyyk Fighting some. I don’t recall much fighting but something that comes into the realm of possibility is maybe he was tracking a key Sith apprentice and that took many years, allowing him to live isolated on the planet. Jedi couldn’t easily give him support for a single tracking mission. This would also, if you’re willing, allow him tracking skills that would aid the Jedi besides purely combative skills.

See the point further up about him being on Kashyyyk earlier than that.

While Khan himself was twenty-two he encountered a boy, thirteen years in age, who'd been living among the Wookies for a few days. The youth was capable of speaking basic, but couldn't remember his own history. More unusual though, was the story told by the boy's molten red skin and tendrils hanging on his face. He was a Sith Pureblood. Quickly, Khan made a pact with the Wookies, thanks to one of them who had a convenient speech impediment that enabled him to speak basic, that they would keep the boy's existence a secret. This Sith was named Bell, and he became the secret apprentice of Khan Javari.

I like this aspect, but the probability it up to Echo and Ellri. I would image Red Sith don’t often travel outside Empire space, let alone into a wild, savage land. However, I don’t have any PCs of this race and I could be wrong. As for the speech impediment, Wookies speak through growls, yells, and more animalistic sounds so it would be too farfetched to use an animal to communicate with them? Or contact/keep a translator droid around?

Sith purebloods, especially children, don’t go outside the empire much. At that age, such a child would have been on Korriban, going through training as a Sith, as all force-sensitives in the Empire are law-bound to do.

Also, the wookiee vocal structure is physically incapable of speaking basic. We know there’s one in a few of the EU books that supposedly had such a speech impediment (Ralrracheen), it doesn’t really make sense. If they had been similar enough that a small mutation could let them speak basic easily, then they would have been able to learn to speak rough basic in the first place. Its far more logical for him to understand wookiee speech.

If you want to have such an apprentice, you need to build a strong story and reason for it. Something to explain well why whomever brought him out of the Empire would break imperial law to do so as well as explain how he got left behind and was found.

When other Jedi were to come around, he concealed Bell with a helmet and forced him to keep in a cloak at all times. The years passed by and Bell eventually was taught to use a lightsaber, after much deliberation and peaceful indoctrination by Khan.

Umm, I assume he was force sensitive since he’s being taught. If Jedi visited, they would’ve sensed the boy’s talent though I’m not sure what they would’ve done. Though on a planet like Kashyyyk, there would likely be less chance of encountering other Jedi on the planet. However, Jayda and Khan are around the same age and she, chasing down Sish, was on Kashyyyk. Khan could’ve been informed of Sish and even briefly met Jayda trailing after the Trandoshan. It’s a possibly as I don’t have many Jedi who actually know her and I never said how long her tracking Sish down was, though she does kill a Wookiee when communication is a heavy barrier.

Now that he is twenty-seven years old, he has been contacted by Jedi Master Lyric Novan in response to a number of Jedi disappearances. Entrusting Bell to handle himself responsibly, Khan decided to turn his back on the declarations of the Council and Republic for the sake of his brothers in arms.
Reasons for his being contacted and his choosing to join would be useful.

Personality and/or Motivation:
Khan is not lenient on his stance as a user of the Force's 'Light' side. In fact, he considers it his mission to help bring at least a few of the Sith Purebloods to the Light. He has long tried to spread justice and equality, respect for every individual. He hates no person or beast, attempting to redeem every life in his ability so they don't deserve a terrible fate at their end. However, he does hold a mighty distaste for wicked actions and qualities. When in the defense of those already innocent, he is going to be willing to take a life.
So his goal is to turn the Sith to the light, almost no matter how much they resist?

Player’s long term goals:
In Star Wars there are too many species to number, or at least more than I care too. All in all there are none I can think of that are painted as dark as the Sith Purebloods, discounting the Y. Vong. Prejudice would naturally result. Khan's story is an exploration of Jedi relations with the Sith species, Nature versus Nurture. I want to have him bring a sentiment nearing sympathy for the Sith. Naturally clashing idealogically with Jedi more concretely against them.
Would he have studied what knowledge is available about that particular species, even the darker elements like the Sith Holocaust?

Relations:
You can also put imagined relations here for characters he has yet to meet. How do you imagine he would view them if he gets to know them?

Final Point - Secrets:
Bell - his secret/unofficial Sith Pureblood apprentice

We can review again once you’ve corrected things based on the above review.

Name: Kenth Felian.
Species: Nautolan.
Age: 28.
Gender: Male.
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight
Captive? Yes.

Kenth's appearance is fairly typical of the Nautolan species: light green skin, a head full of tentacly appendages and a large, black eye. The real difference is the fact that more than half of Kenth's body has been replaced by cybernetics. His mouth and lower jaw, left eye, right arm, right side of his chest and both of his legs are completely artificial. They are crude, black metal pieces, grafted into his body during emergency surgery. Kenth's vox-unit electronically generates speech with a flat, emotionless voice, making him sound permanently sarcastic. His cybneretic left eye is too small for the large Nautolan socket, giving that side of his face a skull-like appearance; a small, red light peering out of a large, dark socket.

Using his original, right eye, Kenth can see much better in total darkness than most other species. The aquatic Nautolan normally live deep beneath the ocean surface and their large eyes evolved specifically for low-light environments. Kenth can breathe underwater and the head-tresses that sprout from the back of his skull aid him in detecting pheromones and give him an enhanced sense of smell.

The cybernetics that make up most of Kenth's body are crude, old and mismatched. Kenth was horrifically maimed and almost killed and emergency surgery was required to save his life and get him up and running as fast as possible. As such, there was no time for sophisticated methods and tailor-made prosthetics. The cybernetics have been practically welded into the rest of his remaining tissue, and can't be replaced by better parts -- doing so would permanently damage his nerves.

The result is that Kenth is functionally a cripple. Sure, he can walk, talk, pick up and manipulate objects, but compared to the physicality he had before his injuries, he is a shadow of his former self. Lightsaber combat is very difficult and dangerous for him and if he overexerts himself, the cybernetics have a tendency to seize up and jam.

Bitterness and resentment over what happened to him, and disappointment in himself, are dark clouds that hang over Kenth. He reacts poorly to people taking pity on him and will pretend at all times that there is nothing wrong.

Name: Talija
Species: Sephi
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight Jedi Sentinel
Captive? Yes

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Appearance

Standing at 1.7 meters, Talija is not particularly tall for her species though she is still quite young and has not reached the apex of her adult growth. Her body is particularly modest and toned with soft peach skin and dulled brown eyes that compliment her flowing cerulean hair. If not for her outward pointed ears she could easily pass for a human female. Her attire tends to be a synthesis of her Sephi culture and her Jedi religion.

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Flaws

• Introverted — Due to her introverted and reserved nature Talija has issues even regarding fellow Jedi and their trials. She’s not particularly social thus lacks strong ties to many jedi that were not instructors of hers. She gets frustrated by social issues and finds trouble with finding understanding in communication which lends her to a more direct approach to conversation.

• Limitations — Talija has limited or a lack of knowledge on medicine, mathematics, demolition, sabotage, economics, and things out of her depth. She is only good in what she knows and in certain situations will find herself unable to take action.

• Selfless — Despite her introverted personality and frustrations with understanding others she feels it is her responsibility to put the weight of others on her shoulders. Whether it is droid, Sith, bounty hunter, or monster she will take the route of the selfless; putting herself in blind danger.

• Stubborn — The double-edged sword of resilience. Talija refuses to be ‘broken’ or ‘converted’ thus allowing more ire from her Sith enemies which can lead to more excessive trials and tortures from them.

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Skills

• Lightsaber Combat — As trained and conditioned by Master Laureli Xchal, Talija is skilled in a modified form of Djem-So. Excluding this modified style Talija is also skilled in basic fundamentals of Ataru, Soresu, and Shii-Cho, but she feels most at home with her master's style for obvious reasons. She is also adept in Niman due to her time with her second master.

• Perceptive — Heightened by Master Laureli Xchal’s training, Talija is skilled at perceiving her environment as well as things or individuals in that environment. This can lend to a good deductive mind that can investigate situations clearly and inquisitively. This was particularly helpful in previous missions assigned to her by the Jedi Council.

• Archival Study — Talija was a dedicated student sense her initiatehood. With devoted study of Jedi history, culture, and combat she has proven herself as one of the more committed students of the order despite her being a bit more reserved and introverted for such behavior. Said study also allows her a perspective into galactic culture, trade, and politics; considering many Jedi are seen as more arbiters than warriors she knows these are important knowledges to have.

• Resilient — Talija is particularly stalwart in her ideals and morals. This is particularly helpful under psychological duress.

• Piloting & Navigation — Talija is a competent pilot in small vessels and adept with galactic maps.

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Force Capabilities

• Basic Force Abilities — As a sentinel Talija has been trained to be diverse in the force and the lightsaber equally. She is adept at all of the basic techniques and some intermediate ones.

• Cleanse Mind — A technique passed down by her master; a force power that allowed to negate mind-affecting force powers from the afflicted.

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Biography

Talija was born to a noble family on Thustra on 17 BTC (3670 BBY), the fourth daughter in her dynastic generation. However it would become evident relatively early in her childhood that she had inherent abilities that led to the belief she was a force sensitive. Such thoughts made her father confused on the proper right of action but eventually folded on the matter of calling out to the Jedi Order to investigate the legitimacy of her force abilities—she was only six galactic standard years old. A sequence of tests were given to the young Sephi girl to which they discovered that her father’s findings were correct and started delicate diplomatic discussions with him about inducting his daughter into the Jedi Order as an initiate. Eventually he agreed that it was the best course of action thus beginning her life as an initiate.

For many years following she found the academy on Telos IV to be a more somber home and found peace there despite being whisked away from the only home she had ever known. But her parents had told her it had been very important to not only the family but the galaxy to follow and listen to the Jedi who took her to Telos. She took solace in the instructions as a “youngling” within her initiatehood. This could be one of the many reasons she would adopt a introverted and studious personality that would become part of her character many years later. Driven to live well to her family and culture’s expectations she found herself planting her face in the lessons she was given. In time, Talija became engrossed in the jedi code and the knowledge of her instructor’s teachings as an initiate which led to her strong confidence in passing the initiate trials. As she took the aforementioned trials her diligence caught an eye of a Jedi Master named Laureli Xchal, the Jedi who would later become her mentor and teacher in the ways of the force when she passed from initiatehood to the role of a padawan.

As a Padawan during wartime, Talija was one of many students of the Jedi Order that found themselves dealing with situations that tested their body, mind, and spirit. As her master was a skilled combatant and duelist Talija found herself in the thicket of battles between 7 BTC (3660 BBY) and 3 BTC (3656 BBY) up until the end of her time with her master during the Skirmish on Cyrillia where she and her master faced a twi’lek who happened to be a skilled user of the dark side of the force named Imij’turutu— a Sith. By the end of the battle Talija witnessed her master taking a critical injury before critically damaging the Sith they were facing. If not for the Sith’s injury or overconfidence fighting a Padawan Talija probably would’ve joined her master in her fate… but thankfully it turned out rather the opposite and the planet of Cyrillia was ‘saved’ from the Sith insurrection.

After the death of Master Laureli Xchal it seemed the fate of Talija as a Palawan was in two straits: she would either be reassigned a new master after her master’s own death in the skirmish on Cyrillia or tested by the Jedi Council for her knighthood—being distraught and emotionally exhausted from the skirmish against the Sith that they had discovered was not sure herself if she was even up to the task of Knighthood considering what she had just gone through and tested with.

Her humility in her “failure” was noted by the council and for a time she was reassigned to Jedi Master Ilar Qwik. Qwik was decidedly different given his older and less combat oriented approach. Whereas Master Xchal was a Jedi Guardian her new Jedi Master was known as a diplomatic Jedi Consular who would go on to take a less demanding instruction of Talija but still was very dedicated to instructing her in the ways of the force. He taught her diplomacy, encouraged her reading of the archives, taught her various languages & dialects, and strengthened her knowledge of the force beyond simple lightsaber forms though he did strengthen her ability to wield Form VI a.k.a. “Niman”. As time went on so did the war and in 1 BTC (3671 BBY) Talija decided to take the Knighthood Trials with encouragement from Master Qwik. The trials seemed to flash before her eyes as the Telos IV trials tested her courage, resilience, faith, body, and mind quite rigidly. Upon passing and advancing into knighthood she reflected back on her time as a Padawan and strived to do better as well as to live by both her Jedi Master’s teachings with great dedication. She had made it.

For one galactic standard year, Talija served the order diligently before the transport ship she was on was struck by a Sith attack and she inevitably ended up captured—and so the story begins…

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Personality & Motivation

“I will recite the Jedi Code until I die, I refuse to be broken by the machinations of these masters of darkness.”

A quiet girl known for her diligence in the defense of the faith and the ideals it stands for, Talija stands much like others of the faith with her devout beliefs and unmoving ideology. Despite her ineptitude with greater social interactions the Sephi girl refuses to falter where others shake and it was with that stubborn resilience that she impressed greater Jedi than she and perhaps even a few Sith. Her pride and loyalty to her family and her faith have become walls of strength and despite the dangers of arrogance she struggles with humility though she knows full well the path arrogance takes one down. Talija has been taught to put the needs of others above her own, to have an open mind to the suffering of others, and to tread carefully to not become corrupt—it is in that caution to the dark side that she recites the code of the Jedi several times a day and that was prior to being captured.

With all of her strengths and resilience in her ideals, Talija is hardly ‘perfect’. As a social introvert she has trouble understanding conventions of conversation despite her attempts to do so. She is not inherently robotic and has a great deal of sympathy and sincerity for others thus when she finds herself in situations where she appears cynical or ‘too pragmatic’ she has trouble taking it in stride and not being emotionally offended by the notion. The Jedi Code has of course helped her cope but she finds at best proving to people that she sympathizes with them and is an ally of great character—perhaps this is where her inherent selflessness descends from.

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Player Goals

To tell fun and engaging stories as well as follow a characterization that plays off other talented writers. I’ve been a longtime fan of Star Wars (EU and then some) for over fifteen years and I think I can bring a lot of passion and cooperative play to the collaborative story. I’d like to see where this Sephi that-totally-is-not-lafiel goes in this role-play. The following are some think-tank ideas:

• Light Side – where Talija’s struggles but ultimately doesn’t relent against the influence of the dark side. This could end with her becoming a weathered survivor or a heroic martyr in the face of the Sith subjugation and oppression without yielding in her ideals and morals.

• Dark Side – the opposite effect. Talija crumbles in her ideals and succumbs to darkness and becomes something terrible despite all of her beliefs. This would probably end with her dying no matter what and it isn’t my ideal ending.

• Somewhere in the Middle – I love gray jedi and for Talija to take a new but still inherently good path is interesting to me. If this happens it’d go the route of her finding her emotions like a Sith but finding the good in them to protect others on her own terms and not being particularly blind to the Jedi’s teachings as the end be all.

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Relations

• Jedi Master, Laureli Xchal — Talija’s first jedi master, a blatant perfectionist and dominating jedi who believed in rigorous conditioning to prepare her apprentices for the dangers lying beyond space and the inevitable resurgence of the Sith. She was a Alderaanian human female who was a master of the Djem-So lightsaber form.

• Jedi Master, Ilar Qwik — Talija’s second jedi master, a diplomatic arbiter and wise jedi who believed in allowing the Padawn to bloom with knowledge as well as understanding. He is a Korunnai human male who was a master of the Niman lightsaber form.

• Jedi Knight, Xid Terrik — A fellow jedi that she met as a padawan.

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Secrets

N/A