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Post by Darth Dreadwar on Jan 20, 2018 23:37:04 GMT -5
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...In the year Six Thousand, Nine Hundred and Six before the Battle of Yavin, during the reign of our Lord Dreadwar, we set our game. For nearly a hundred years civil war has raged across the galaxy. A Great Schism in the Jedi Order has given way to the Hundred-Year Darkness, a brutal conflict of ideology and religion that has torn the Galactic Republic apart. The Black Legions of heresiarch Jedi rampage across a thousand worlds, spreading an evil religion devoted to the worship of a blasphemous, self-proclaimed god-king and the adoration of the Dark Side of the Force. To match them in ferocity, a dogmatic and devout cult of orthodox Jedi defends the corrupt Core Worlds against the forces of the Heresiarchs' tenebrous empire.
From the darkness of the Unknown Regions, meanwhile, twin threats make excursions into the fringes of Republic space even as it flails in civil war, spreading panic on the border worlds and begetting whispers of strange, dark forces. From the west comes the Cold Coil, cultists devoted to a malevolent entity known only as Cold Danda Sine, and from the east, a warlike species of red-skinned demons called the Sith.
It is a time of moral ambiguity. It is a time of clashing fanaticism. It is a time of political chess and religious turmoil. It is the time of The Ancient Sith Trials!
Major Factions:Each major faction represents a separate tagset with overlap during battles. Players may have up to one character each per faction.- Galactic Republic (Stalwarts)
The Stalwart faction of the Galactic Republic, controlled by a political party known as the Alliance to Retain the Republic, occupies the southern half of the Core known as "The Spin," trailing southeastward through the Expansion Region into an area within the Inner Rim known as the Exploitation Region, nominally under Republic control but under the de facto control of corrupt Spin-based corporations. The Mid Rim and most of the Inner Rim is considered Wild Space to the Galactic Republic, and the Outer Rim as well as all of galactic west comprises the Unknown Regions in this early era.
The capital is Coruscant, where the stalwarts of the Galactic Senate meet under the auspices of Chancellor and Grand Master Persinax. The dominant language is Mid-Galactic Standard.
Coruscant, 6,906 BBY.
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- Jedi Order (Stalwarts)
The Watchmen of the Jedi Order act as feudal lords and protectors in this era, overseen by the Jedi High Council based on the adopted Jedi homeworld of Ossus. Jedi Tribune Ku'ar Danar, Lord of Tython, is the champion of the stalwart Jedi against the Heresiarchs, with Jedi Grand Master Persinax's time occupied controlling the Republic bureaucracy.
The stalwart Jedi are loyal to Coruscant, and more importantly, fiercely - and perhaps fiendishly - loyal to the Light Side of the Force, which they revere as the Ashla.
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- Galactic Republic (Axis)
A democracy in name only and overrun by a fanatical faith devoted to the Dark Side of the Force, this faction of the Galactic Republic, denigrated by the Stalwarts as "The Axis," was born out of the Second Great Schism of the Jedi Order and the Alsakan Conflicts, a recurring civil war between Coruscant and nearby Alsakan for the right to be capital of Republic space. The Hundred-Year Darkness has become the Thirteenth Alsakan Conflict, with the Heresiarch Jedi exploiting the perennial tension, and desire of Axis worlds to be independent with minimal oversight by a more limited Republic government, to carve out a swathe of space comprising the northern half of the Core Worlds and controlling the vital Perlemian Trade Route rimward to Contruum.
The capital is Alsakan, where a rival Galactic Senate of internally elected aristocrats convenes under Chancellor Macrulon, puppet of the Hidden Lord Primordius Sallacine Dreadwar and his shadow government of Heresiarchs. The dominant language is High Galactic.
Alsakan, 6,906 BBY.
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- Jedi Order (Heresiarchs)
Although claiming themselves to be the 'True Jedi,' this apostate faction of the Jedi religion is smaller - although considerably more powerful - than the devout Order of orthodox Jedi loyal to Coruscant. Branded by the latter 'Heresiarchs,' these Jedi were expelled by a unanimous vote of the Jedi High Council and brutally attacked and persecuted by their dogmatic brethren for their experiments in using the Bogan, or Dark Side, to manipulate biology, a move which resulted in the Heresiarchs seeking refuge on Alsakan and striking back, kickstarting a Republic civil war nearly a hundred years ago.
Extending their lifespans through their unnatural alchemy, the Heresiarchs hold de facto control over this faction of the Republic under a thin veneer of democracy, and absolute control over its Black Legions through High General Ajunta Pall and Marchioness XoXaan. The Heresiarchs, in turn, are ruled by Imperator and Supreme Daritha Primordius Sallacine Dreadwar, a self-proclaimed god-king worshipped by many for his miraculous powers of resurrection and restoration.
XoXaan and Karness Muur.
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[li] The SithThe Sith are a species of red-skinned simians noted for their fleshy tendrils, bony spurs and innate, universal Force-sensitivity. Revering the Dark Side of the Force as black magic and channeling its power through proscribed spellwork and eldritch alchemy, the Sith are a violent, warlike race cloistered within the Stygian Caldera, a spacial anomaly located deep within this era's Unknown Regions from which the Sith lead raiding parties to attack Republic frontier worlds. News of their existence has not reached the Core Worlds or the Jedi Order; the Sith are prevented from uniting to become a galactic threat due to their multiple, infighting nations.  [/li] - Golg
The Kingdom of Golg controls two-thirds of Korriban. Named after a 100,000-year-old burial valley located near the equator, the kingdom is the oldest surviving Sith nation, having been forged almost immediately after the death of Korriban's only known planet-wide King, Adas, over 20,000 years ago. Golg was originally a small fiefdom consisting of the necropolis of Golg and several desert tribes living near the Valley; that all changed over a hundred years ago, when, according to local superstition, a dreadful god descended from the heavens and dominated the people. Appointing Golg's King Dathka Graush as his vassal, the god vanished back to the celestial realm, yet, it is said, communicated his wishes through Dathka Graush, who, over decades of bloody conquest and allegedly thanks to the intervention of his divine benefactor, expanded the Kingdom of Golg to subjugate two-thirds of Korriban through pioneering necromancy to raise an exponentially-expanding army of abhorrent undead.
Dathka's boasts of immortality were seemingly disproved when he was slain by a band of Massassi assassins, claiming to be acting on the wishes of the dread god, but believed by the people to be conspirators paid off by Dathka's ambitious son and Shadow Hand, Hakagram, who succeeded his father to the throne and rules to this day over Golg.
Golg is an aggressive, expansionist and highly religious kingdom where the Kissai priesthood is predominant and traditions and rituals are upheld. Their armies are primarily undead infantry, each legion led by a Sith necromancer. Being naturally evolved for cold yet finding themselves near the equator, the Sith of the city of Golg tend to dress very lightly, usually in only linen aprons, although the sorcerers and priests of the realm can to be found to wear ornate robes with horned helmets. Their architecture is simple but grandiose, and focused around the sacred pyramid, which the people believe possesses arcane geometry that focuses magical power.
- Kintiktsis
The remaining third of Korriban not dominated by Golg is divided between the Kingdom of Kintiktsis and nomadic tribes collectively known as the Nyâshninkut. Kintiktsis' capital, Kuskut'ari, is located in the north of Korriban and means Dreaming King, so-named after a nearby burial valley. The Kintiktsis control the cold, mountainous regions surrounding this valley, including a vast salt lake known as the Sacred Sea.
The Kintiktsis people are predominantly black-skinned, a rare pigmentation among the Sith species associated with the ancestral King Adas. As such, the Kintiktsis consider themselves superior to all other Sith, and fiercely resist subjugation by Golg. They are more technologically inclined, with the Zuguruk engineer caste the most populous, although Kissai witches, practicing a shamanistic interpretation of Sith magic, are the powerful matriarchs of the Kingdom, leading armies of ferocious Massassi cavalry on the backs of massed Terentateks. Over all rules a dark and tremendously powerful Queen known as Bilious Torment.
- Nyâshninkut
A collection of thirteen nomadic mountain tribes that have taken to making joint decisions in order to combat the aggression of Golg, meeting through a monthly convocation of tribe elders in a natural depression east of the Kintiktsis' Valley of the Sleeping Kings, in the sacred light of the Eternal Pyre. The tribes live in small villages of thatch huts and teepees, and are primarily a hunter-gatherer society dominated by the Massassi warrior caste, and while their soldiers are lightly armoured with primitive weaponry, they are able to inflict devastating losses on the armies of Golg thanks to the ingenuity of the tribes' Ninûshwodzakut: they breed battle hydras, two-headed dragons that are able to carry tribal warriors far and wide across Korriban.
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Minor Factions:These do not constitute separate tagsets for players, but serve as background lore - or enemies. - The Corellian Hegemony is a third faction of the Galactic Republic which, while nominally under the control of Coruscant's central government, remains neutral in actuality, much as it has remained neutral in the Alsakan Conflicts of old, focusing on blazing the Corellian Trade Spine into regions unknown. Being part of the region of space known as "The Spin," the Corellian Hegemony is culturally more associated with the Stalwarts, however the economic potential of the Heresiarchs' power appeals to Corellia's planetary government, and Jedi are prohibited from entering Hegemony space.
- The True Sith are descendants of a bygone age. Members of the Sith species who once ruled a forgotten galactic regime known as the Infinite Empire, the True Sith were defeated by the Celestials before the Galactic Republic even existed, fleeing far into the Unknown Regions in the galactic west. Having abandoned Korriban, the populations they left behind on their homeworld millennia ago degenerated into civil war and primitivism, but the True Sith have more of a hand in the civil wars that plague the galaxy than anyone knows, and the death cultists of the True Sith deity Cold Danda Sine, known as the Cold Coil, have even begun making direct attacks on Republic frontier worlds,
- Hutt Space is considered the second largest and most powerful faction in the galaxy, after the infighting Republic. Ruled by a council comprising the greatest leaders of the Hutt kajidics, Hutt Space is a corrupt autonomous region independent of the Republic.
- The Taung species has recently relocated from Roon to a world they have rechristened Manda'yaim, after its conqueror, the Taung warrior and leader Te Sol'yc Mand'alor. The recently-deceased Te Sol'yc Mand'alor has had an enormous cultural and historical influence on his people, who are calling themselves his sons and daughters - the Mandalorians. The Taung clans, having been united into a cluster of crusaders, are aggressively expanding their territory under the leadership of a single conqueror who has taken his predecessor's title - and mask - as his own: a second Mand'alor.
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Post by Darth Dreadwar on Jan 21, 2018 8:15:39 GMT -5
Primorðiuſ Sallacinuſ Dreadwār
Salute for Dreadwar
Dreadwar's VoiceName/Titles: Dāritha Primorðiuſ Sallacinuſ Dreadwār, more commonly Dāritha Sallacinuſ Dreadwār or simply Dāritha Dreadwār, Imperator of the Galactic Republic (High Galactic)
Darth Primordius Sallacine Dreadwar, more commonly Darth Sallacine Dreadwar or simply Darth Dreadwar, Supreme Commander of the Galactic Republic (Mid-Galactic Standard)
Sith'ari (Sith, meaning Overlord, Supreme Lord or Emperor) of the Sith, Dan'ari (Sith, meaning Dread Lord or Dread King) of Nilrebmah, Jen'ari (Sith, meaning Hidden Lord, Shadow Lord or Dark Lord) of the Heresiarchs
Nicknames/Aliases: Unbeknownst to all but the leaders of the Heresiarchs, Ku'ar Danar Age: 133, looks around 50
Sex: Male Species: Human
Race: White
Orientation: Bisexual
Homeworld: Nilrebmah XIII Occupation: Dark Lord of the Sith and Grand Master of the Heresiarchs Affiliation: The Axis, Heresiarchs, Sith, True Sith Height: 6' 6" Weight: 220 lb Physical Description: Dreadwar is tall and athletic, with long legs, broad shoulders, a powerful, imposing build and a chiseled strongman's form. His skin is pale, greyish, and weathered by age and Dark Side corruption; his lips are thin, and twisted in a perpetual sneer of cold command. His nose is hawkish, and his cheekbones are high, lending an angular, cruel look to his features. His hair, worn long, usually in a ponytail, is black but greying. Upon his forehead is the brand of his personal sigil, ritual scarification in the shape of a lidless eye.
His eyes, deep-set beneath a domineering brow, are difficult to describe; they burn feverishly red-yellow, glowing with the searing intensity of twin flames, yet they radiate shadow and darkness. The unnatural brilliance seems abhorrently wrong, as if nothing shaded so bloody should give off so much light. They are shot through with veins of black that seem to suck the light from the strangely dark fire.
It almost kills one to look at them; they are physically painful to behold, and can flash horribly in a deadly, searing glare.
Clothing: Dreadwar typically wears personalised armoured battle robes that blend Thyrsusian and Sith design. The helmet is a Shadow Crown worn over a black hood, composed of gleaming black nihil smokestone that interfaces with Dreadwar's mind and allows him to control and possess numerous pawns, as well as infect his enemies with crippling fear. A golden mask covers Dreadwar's face at all times, unless in the presence of his most trusted servants. The only part of his face visible are his baleful glowing eyes, and these are obviously deliberately kept exposed as they are almost lethal to look at alone. Over his forehead is a shining black metal plate (bearing the same Sith symbol as a hidden brand beneath). On the forehead plate is a gold-black metal serpent with demonic red eyes.
Overlapping straps of gilded Mandalorian iron, decorated as raptors' wings, form a flexible, light breastplate, complementing a short black kilt trimmed with red, usually worn over bare legs, but sometimes over dark breeches in colder climes, with kneepads and leg guards of the same gilded beskar. Vambraces and shoulder pads on the left arm contrast with a black and gold cybernetic right forelimb and shoulder. His feet are clad with boot-sandal hybrids shining black and red. On his back is a cloak of the same colours. Weapons: A short sword made of gilded beskar, enhanced with dark alchemy to be red-hot to the touch and supernaturally sharp, with the capacity to absorb, store and deflect both conventional and Force energy; this weapon is kept in a sheath hanging loosely from the belt, alongside a cryoban grenade, an adhesive grenade and a thermal detonator. A shikkar dagger of Force-infused glass is concealed within a wrist holster.
Equipment: The Darkstaff, a light-consuming black rod of nihil smokestone capable of draining the life-energy of enemies and reanimating the dead. The Great Amulet, a crimson jewel embedded within a golden gauntlet worn on his left hand, through which Dreadwar exerts psychic control over the Heresiarch leaders and their enslaved amulets. The amulet considerably enhances Dreadwar's native power, and allows for the unleashing of destructive beams of energy. A shield talisman disguised as a pendant is worn around the neck. The amulets are designed to work in tandem, not only in terms of defense and offense, but to furnish the energy required to perform radical rituals involving space and time. On the index finger of his left hand, a ring talisman of transformation. Inset in the golden serpent upon his forehead, comprising two crystalline eyes glowing eerily crimson, are two small but powerful talismans; one bolsters telekinetic ability threefold, and another lets loose alchemical elements that transform targets into Rakghouls. On his belt is a standard med kit, a vial of kolcta, a molecular disruptor, a Mandalorian melee shield generator and a Verpine energy shield generator. In Dreadwar's vault, for retrieval when needed, is the Yoke of Seeming, the Crown of Verity, a crystal ball allowing for farseeing and prodigious precognition known as the Oracle Stone, and a large pyramidal crystalline soul snare replenished with the spirits of Jedi captured by Leviathans' blister-traps. Vehicles: A modified Alsakan War Galley called the Dreadbringer, 216 meters long, with a Class 4.0 hyperdrive, 1 Micrometeorite Gun, 2 Mass Drivers, 2 Flak Cannons, 3 Autoblasters and 3 Heavy Concussion Missile Launchers, a complement of 6 starfighters, a crew of 33 and 1,000 Axis soldiers which can be deployed to planetary surfaces through atmospheric drop pods. Its primary weapon is its ram of layered molecular armour, affixed underneath the front of the vessel, with which it penetrates the durasteel armour of an enemy ship and vents it to space, crippling or destroying it. Upon the prow is a golden figurehead of a beautiful winged woman, commonly thought to represent an angel of Iego but actually depicting the Witch-Queen Vahl.  A Sith Meditation Sphere called the Eye of Dreadwar, a spherical craft focusing the power of the Dark Side, 10 meters in diameter with large solar sails resembling a hawk bat's wings.  Pets: A black female Arkanian dragon called Naz'gull.  A grey-black male Tuk'ata called Rex.  A black stallion horse called Dreadstar.  Languages: Old Galactic Standard, Mid-Galactic Standard, High Galactic, Galactic Basic, Old Coruscanti, Olys Corellisi (Old Corellian), Sith (all variants), Arkanian, Rakatan, Huttese, Taung, Tionese and Tiss'shar.
Combat Abilities: Immensely powerful in the Force and a master of Sith wizardry, Dreadwar is well versed in conventional powers, and boasts a repertoire of more recondite abilities, including necromancy, alchemy, illusions, spellcasting, essence transfer, Deadly Sight, Doppelgänger creation and Force Drain. Dreadwar is familiar with Sith swords and daggers, but prefers to rely on his dark genius and silver tongue to get out of a tight spot if his sorcery is unavailable to him.
Other Strengths: Genius intelligence of a cold, calculating empiricist, with exceptional analytical ability and prodigious scientific knowledge, particularly in areas of biology, palaeontology, evolutionary psychology, cosmology, quantum physics, meteorology and artificial intelligence. Aside from scientific expertise, an all-around academic scholar and polyglot, well-versed in galactic history, philosophy, economics, finance and military strategy, as well as obscurities of the occult and mythology. Glacially calm and logical, even in stress. Extremely adept at understanding, reading and manipulating people. Highly creative.
Flaws: Arrogant, overconfident and stubborn. Unable to feel sympathy, although he views this as a strength. Prone to boredom, and taking unnecessarily complex steps to alleviate it. Prone to procrastination. Well-concealed obsessive-compulsive traits. Hopelessly out of his depth when it comes to lightsaber combat.
Personality: A callous, cynical and amoral rationalist, this high-functioning sociopath and pathological narcissist hopes to remake the universe in his image, ridding the galaxy of death and forging a utilitarian utopia. To that aim he brings a ruthless, diamond-like clarity of cunning, a cold and pervasively unfeeling personality with shallow emotions, and a ferocious power of mind obsessed with survival and infamous for its ability to exploit even the smallest circumstances or weakest powers to their zenith.
Most of his superficial personality is borrowed from holofilms, plays and books, a chameleon's fluidity that obscures a deep and abiding melancholy and misanthropy. He has no caring for social conventions, enjoying violating taboos and covertly revelling in eccentricity, and indeed has little caring for anything at all, beyond his grandiose goals of godhood and immortality, and his beloved Queen Vahl.
Fears: Fear of failure, pathological fear of death
Likes: Intelligence, rationality, logic, science, space, debating, fashion, sex
Dislikes: Stupidity, incompetence, emotion, ideological dogma, closed-mindedness, politicians, Jedi
Habits: Cigarra smoker, recreational glitterstim user (carrying a small glass snuff vial on his person), dejarik player, occasional gambler and all-time hedonist, regularly throwing extravagant parties and feasts at his palace, and rarely seen without a glass of Alderaani bloodwine on his throne's armrest. Enjoys horseback riding, exploration, tomb raiding and artifact hunting. Voracious reader.
Relationships/Love Interests: His Queen Vahl, the Sorceress of Ambria, the Darth Viscretus of the Ember and the Heresiarchs, Dark Lord of the Sith.
Friendships: He is close to his Dark Jedi lieutenant, Ortan Cela the Darth Andeddu, as well as his secret ally and True Sith Battlelord, Darth Cruor.
Family: His parents are both dead. His mother, Va'qua Danar, was a peasant woman living in a forest village on Nilrebmah; on her wedding night to a local farmer, the lord and King of the region, Sakar, attendant at the ceremony as was custom, demanded the wedding night for himself. Refusing, Va'qua was raped by Sakar, her new husband killed in front of her. From this vile union was born Ku'ar. After Va'qua and the other villagers were killed by the King several years later during a brutal pillage, and Sakar was ultimately assassinated in Ku'ar's teens, Ku'ar, an only child, was left an orphan.
Masters: Darth Nemesis (as Overlord of the Sith Pantheon)
Apprentices: Dathka Graush
Reputation: Darth Dreadwar is feared by all the Republic as the secretive Lord orchestrating the Hundred-Year Darkness and leading the Heresiarchs from his hidden lair. The citizenry of the Axis tremble before his terrible and magical power, but also adore and worship him as a dark and shadowy god who has miraculously restored ravaged worlds, healed the sick and even raised the dead. Around Dreadwar and the Heresiarchs an entire religion has been built that has split the Galactic Republic and turned planet against planet in a crisis of faith and ideology.
To the Sith of Korriban, he is remembered as a visitor from beyond the stars who descended from the heavens and swiftly subjugated them, tearing their knowledge of black magic from the mind of their King Dathka Graush, who he made his foremost apprentice and vassal to rule Korriban in his absence. Since Dathka's death, the Sith have resumed civil war, but Dathka's heir Hakagram continues communication with the Dread-King through holocrons and dark magic, directing Sith to raid Republic border worlds on Dreadwar's orders.
To the True Sith lurking in the Unknown Regions, he is seen as a warlord and lesser deity perpetuating the designs of the Dark Pantheon in the greater galaxy, and respected and feared as the Night Herald of the imprisoned Sith Overgod, Darth Nemesis. Biography: His origins are the source of great speculation to the Jedi; only the most senior of the Heresiarchs are aware that he is an alter-ego of Ku'ar Danar, the Jedi Master who secretly seduced them to the Dark Side, a double act achieved variously through telepathic communication, possession of pawns implanted with Nihil smokestone, Sith illusions, Danar's long absences on 'exploratory expeditions,' and use of a Force-created projection known as a Doppelganger, or Similfuturus.
To the Jedi, Darth Dreadwar arose seemingly overnight as a terrible and tenebrous avatar of the Dark Side, inexplicably assuming command of the Dark Jedi who were formally expelled from the Jedi Order for their proscribed practices of foul alchemy. The religion he and his followers spread split the Republic in two, starting the Hundred-Year Darkness. After Alsakan and the region of space known as the Axis seceded under the influence of the newfound Heresiarch faith, Dreadwar dominated the mind of an Alsakani noble and installed him as a puppet Chancellor of a rival Galactic Senate; Dreadwar himself was hailed as the Imperator, or Supreme Commander, of this splinter Galactic Republic.
Dreadwar is rarely seen, hence the title "Hidden Lord" or "Dark Lord" of the Heresiarchs, instead preferring to command from the shadows. However, his few appearances have been the stuff of legends, such as the devastating Battle of Alderaan, in which Darth Dreadwar annihilated an army of Jedi Knights single-handedly, leaving no survivors, or the Battle of Alsakan, in which Dreadwar fought Ku'ar Danar in a legendary duel that resulted in the loss of the latter's arm; in reality, this duel was a staged display between Dreadwar and a Force Projection, in order to account for Danar's loss of an arm next time he attended a Jedi High Council convocation, which he had already lost as his Dreadwar identity to a Jedi Knight at the earlier Battle of Alderaan. |
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Post by Darth Dreadwar on Jan 22, 2018 21:15:08 GMT -5
Ku'ar Danar
Ku'ar Danar, the Iconoclast (theme)Name/Titles: Tribune Ku'ar Danar, Lord of Tython, Master of the Jedi
Nicknames/Aliases: Unbeknownst to all but the leaders of the Heresiarchs, Primordius Sallacine Dreadwar
Age: 133, looks around 50
Sex: Male
Species: Human
Race: White
Orientation: Bisexual
Homeworld: Nilrebmah XIII Occupation: Jedi Master and High Councillor, Tribune of the Galactic Republic Affiliation: Galactic Republic (Spin), Jedi Order Height: 6' 6" Weight: 220 lb
Physical Description: Danar is tall and athletic, with long legs, broad shoulders, a powerful, imposing build and a chiseled strongman's form. His skin is pale and weathered by age. His lips are thin, and quirked in a perpetual smirk of superiority. His nose is hawkish, and his cheekbones are high, lending an angular look to his features. His hair, worn long, usually in a ponytail, is black but greying. His eyes, deep-set beneath a domineering brow, are a cold grey. His right arm is missing; Danar apparently prefers to not use a cybernetic replacement. Clothing: Ku'ar Danar typically wears polished rancor leather armour, with black breeches, knee-high boots, a burgundy tunic and a brown armourweave cloak. All very tasteful and of evident expense. When at leisure, Danar doffs the light armour and wears only the elegant tunic, in the Thyrsian style.  Weapons: None. Danar is infamous for his saying: "A Jedi needs no weapon but the mind, no ally but the Force." Equipment: On his belt is a standard med kit, a vial of kolcta and a comm-link. Vehicles: For his capital ship, a Coruscanti War Galley called the Revenge of the Jedi, 198 meters long, with a Class 4.0 hyperdrive, 6 Autoblasters and 3 Heavy Concussion Missile Launchers, a complement of 8 starfighters, a crew of 25 and 800 Republic soldiers. Its primary weapon is its ram of layered molecular armour, affixed underneath the front of the vessel, with which it penetrates the durasteel armour of an enemy ship and vents it to space, crippling or destroying it. Upon the prow is a golden figurehead of a Vratixan blood eagle.  For his personal ship, a Pythium-class interstellar yacht, 50 meters long, bearing no shielding or weaponry, only three solar sails and a personal cabin.  Pets: A white mare (horse) called Sleheryon.  Languages: Old Galactic Standard, Mid-Galactic Standard, High Galactic, Galactic Basic, Old Coruscanti, Olys Corellisi (Old Corellian), Sith (all variants), Arkanian, Rakatan, Huttese, Taung, Tionese and Tiss'shar.
Combat Abilities: Immensely powerful in the Force and a covert master of Sith wizardry, Danar is well versed in conventional powers, and boasts a secret repertoire of more recondite abilities, including necromancy, alchemy, illusions, spellcasting, essence transfer, Deadly Sight, Doppelgänger creation and Force Drain. Danar is familiar with swords and daggers, but prefers to rely on his evil genius and silver tongue to get out of a tight spot if his sorcery is unavailable to him.
Other Strengths: Genius intelligence of a cold, calculating empiricist, with exceptional analytical ability and prodigious scientific knowledge, particularly in areas of biology, palaeontology, evolutionary psychology, cosmology, quantum physics, meteorology and artificial intelligence. Aside from scientific expertise, an all-around academic scholar and polyglot, well-versed in galactic history, philosophy, economics, finance and military strategy, as well as obscurities of the occult and mythology. Glacially calm and logical, even in stress. Extremely adept at understanding, reading, manipulating and deceiving people. Highly creative.
Flaws: Arrogant, overconfident and stubborn. Unable to feel sympathy, although he views this as a strength. Prone to boredom, and taking unnecessarily complex steps to alleviate it. Prone to procrastination. Well-concealed obsessive-compulsive traits. Hopelessly out of his depth when it comes to lightsaber combat.
Personality: A callous, cynical and amoral rationalist, this high-functioning sociopath and pathological narcissist hopes to remake the universe in his image, ridding the galaxy of death and forging a utilitarian utopia. To that aim he brings a ruthless, diamond-like clarity of cunning, a cold and pervasively unfeeling personality with shallow emotions, and a ferocious power of mind obsessed with survival and infamous for its ability to exploit even the smallest circumstances or weakest powers to their zenith.
He conceals his true nature from his Jedi colleagues, donning the persona of a benevolent and wise Jedi teacher, navigator and Master who ferociously opposes the Heresiarchs in his role as a military tribune of the Galactic Republic.
Fears: Fear of failure, pathological fear of death
Likes: Intelligence, rationality, logic, science, space, debating, fashion, sex
Dislikes: Stupidity, incompetence, emotion, ideological dogma, closed-mindedness, politicians, Jedi
Habits: Cigarra smoker and secret recreational glitterstim user (carrying a small glass snuff vial on his person) and hedonist. Enjoys horseback riding, galactic exploration, tomb raiding and artifact hunting. Voracious reader.
Relationships/Love Interests: None known to the Jedi
Friendships: Among the Jedi he has many acquaintances, but no true friends
Family: His parents are both dead. His mother, Va'qua Danar, was a peasant woman living in a forest village on Nilrebmah; on her wedding night to a local farmer, the lord and King of the region, Sakar, attendant at the ceremony as was custom, demanded the wedding night for himself. Refusing, Va'qua was raped by Sakar, her new husband killed in front of her. From this vile union was born Ku'ar. After Va'qua and the other villagers were killed by the King several years later during a brutal pillage, and Sakar was ultimately assassinated in Ku'ar's teens, Ku'ar, an only child, was left an orphan.
Masters: Unbeknownst to the Jedi, Darth Nemesis (as Overlord of the Sith Pantheon)
Apprentices: Unbeknownst to the Jedi, Dathka Graush
Reputation: Ku'ar Danar is seen as an unconventional and controversial Jedi Master remembered by some for his association with the early Heresiarch movement, giving a series of dissident speeches that criticised the Jedi Order's inaction in matters of healing, and encouraged Jedi to seek immortality. However, after several of his pupils began publicly practicing the Dark Side of the Force, Danar distanced himself from the movement, alerting the High Council to their iconoclasm and encouraging harsh measures of reprisal; expulsion was decided upon, which resulted in a violent altercation on Ossus, forcing the newfound Dark Jedi to flee to Alsakan, kickstarting the Hundred-Year Darkness.
His colleagues interpret the ferocity of his opposition to the Heresiarchs as stemming from guilt and regret at playing a part in the beginning of the conflict, and view him as a courageous paragon of the Ashla whose genius grasp of military strategy and tactics have allowed the Jedi to keep the Heresiarchs at bay. They marvel at his strength in the Force, to which he attributes his unnatural long life and vitality, alongside early experimental research which he claims the Heresiarchs stole, although he covertly fosters speculation that he is half-Sephi - frowned upon as is all species-mixing in the Core Worlds in this era - as an alternative explanation to appease skeptics in the Republic military. Biography: Ku'ar Danar was born in 7,039 BBY and endured a brutal childhood. Danar eventually left the planet-bound existence of his primitive feudal society for the stars, becoming a student of the 'Force of Others' under the auspices of the Jal Shey sect, before becoming an iconoclastic Jedi apprentice, Knight and ultimately Master who hid his addiction to risk and hunger for lost arcana in a nomadic role that assuaged his perpetual boredom best: a Jedi navigator.
Tracking snippets of rumours to Malachor V, Danar traveled thence to Korriban, guided by the secret maps entombed within the Trayus Academy, leading his expedition team to the Valley of the Sleeping Kings, where the indigenous Sith led the newcomer to the Great Temple built in reverence to the primitives' Dark Pantheon. To the astonishment of a man who had long dismissed the superstitious cultism of his childhood in favour of materialistic empiricism, he discovered a shrine through which communion could be established with a deity: The Left-Handed God of the Sith, Darth Nemesis. Danar was inexorably drawn to the promised power, apprenticing himself to the imprisoned god, and tarried on Korriban while his expedition team, fearing the tribal Sith and the growing darkness in Danar, fled the Stygian Caldera. The Dread-King (Dan'ari), as he became known on Korriban, single-handedly subjugated the Sith species and ripped the knowledge of their unique black magic from their minds, dominating and repurposing Dathka Graush, King of Golg, as his vassal and foremost servant, only to ultimately end his reign through assassination after his use as an immortality experiment and apprentice was expended.
Danar, in time, became the first Lord over the Sith not born to their blood, but left Korriban after making himself Sith'ari (Sith Emperor) and Darth (Immortal God), returning to the ranks of the Jedi and hiding the results of his navigation expedition - and his true nature. Danar secretly enticed dozens of Jedi to the Dark Side, including members of his old expedition team, first inciting dissidence through a series of controversial speeches, and then deceiving and enthralling eager pupils through lending them amulets he secretly constructed to enslave their minds to a master amulet he alone possessed. Danar thus orchestrated the Hundred-Year Darkness, leading the resultant Heresiarchs as his alter-ego Darth Dreadwar, and being a principal leader of the Jedi war effort as Ku'ar Danar. |
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