Name: Mazai "Maz" Kiro
Species: Nautolan
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 110lbs
Class: Jedi Consular
Position: Librarian/Council Member

Primary Strengths: Maz is particularly skilled at force persuasion and as a Nautolan is naturally almost unparalleled in underwater activities.

Appearance: [img]http://i.imgur.com/7mbhuQ8.jpg?2[/img]

Weapons: Maz is pretty simple when it comes to weapons only wielding one single chartreuse bladed lightsaber.

Armor/Clothing/Equipment: Maz wears standard Jedi robes, though since the Sacking she typically wears a one-piece swimsuit underneath as well just in case. She also owns a Gungan personal shield  she acquired as a young Knight while on Naboo studying the ancient culture of her fellow amphibian species.

Skills/Abilities: 

- While Maz does avoid fighting where at all possible and is not very varied in her lightsaber combat abilities she is very skilled at Soresu form.

- Maz uses the force to enhance her natural Nautolan affinity for Empathy, while not particularly useful for combat, combined with her proficiency in force persuasion it has allowed her to avoid some otherwise inevitable combat.

- As a somewhat zealous Jedi Maz does resent the use of any Dark Side force powers. Herself sticking to basic telekinetic ability and non-lethal abilities such as force light and force blinding in combat.



Background: Born and raised on Glee Anselm Maz never saw a single non-Nautolan until the day a Quarren Jedi arrived in her town and sensed the presence of the Force in her. She didn't come from much, just average working-class Nautolans, conflict had mostly avoided the watery planet since most of the war-like species tended to care more for actual land than the war sunny beaches and endless seas of her home. Her family was more than willing to give her the opportunity to become a Jedi as it was more than they had ever dreamed for her.

Leaving Glee Anselm was fascinating for her young mind, she travelled to Coruscant and saw species and technology she couldn't have imagine in her wildest dreams before. She was only five when she set herself to a goal of learning everything she could about the galaxy, she wanted to absorb all the knowledge she possibly could about every planet, every species, every culture, all of it.

During her years as a youngling on Coruscant Maz proved herself an exceptional student while not a natural at some of the more physically demanding rigors the Jedi she was determined to succeed to give herself the opportunity to see the galaxy. And she did, by the time it was time for her to go under the tutelage of a Jedi Knight she had already something of a reputation as a studious pupil even if somewhat lacking in physical proficiency.

She was taken under the wing an older Fosh Jedi who called herself Teren, for the most part her time as a padawan was uneventful compared to many. For the most part she accompanied her master on mostly diplomatic missions. Though that isn't to say they didn't encounter their fair share of scraps along the way, though her master did make sure to provide plenty of difficulty for her in lieu of actual combat. Nightly sparring matches became a routine with a new ruleset every night one night she would have to singe a feather on her master's body, while the next would see her defending from an onslaught of force thrown rocks while blindfolded, and then another night she would be quizzed on Jedi history where every missed answer meant a half-hour of defending from a relentless barrage of attacks from her master. She would have been a liar to say the tests did not grate on her though she assumed that was the point. 

By the time Maz achieved the rank of Jedi Knight the initial skirmished with the Mandalorians were beginning though she was determined to avoid the conflict wherever possible instead hoping to serve the Order in less combative ways. Wanting to become a researcher for the Jedi rather than a fighter she managed to avoid combat for the first few years of the conflict, earning the ire of some of the more conflict oriented Jedi in the Order. 

Unfortunately that could only last so long and once the war was fully underway the Order couldn't afford to have a young knight researching  Ancient Gungan ruins. She was eventually assigned to several battles once it had become obvious the war was not going to be something that could be won without the full attention of the Jedi. And in those battles she proved herself a capable warrior often routing small forces on her own.

After the battle of Malachor V though it became apparent that the Mandalorians would likely be victorious in the end. She was one of several Jedi called to Coruscant in the days before the sacking, several ships were filled with copies of as much of the Jedi Archives as they could manage. Before being sent to the secret enclaves throughout the galaxy, herself being on one such ship bound for the Enclave of the in her eyes radical, Master Antilles.