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Tarhani Nomar
Jedi Exiles ❖ Level 1 / Exile Apprentice / Exile Marauder
Human ❖ Female ❖ 1.8 m ❖ 63.5 kg ❖ 26 years-old
Biography
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As a child in the village’s of the Nomar Exile’s, Tarhani grew up on stories. Stories of beasts and monsters. The beasts were ever present in her life, prowling the jungles for the weak or unaware. But the monsters, they came a few times a month. The roar of their starship engines bringing fear as armored men ransacked the village. Usually, they took nothing. But when they did find a hidden blaster or datapad, they took the owner as well. The stories called these men demons, usurpers. Naddists.
Fear filled the early years of her life. Until one day, it didn’t. A starship, roaring across the sky, billowing smoke. Naddist fighters tailing behind it, spitting their fire at it. The snapping of trees as they were crushed under the starships weight. Its crash echoing through the jungle. And later, a man hobbling into the village. He was different than anyone Tarhani had ever seen. But he was an enemy of the Naddist’s, so Tarhani’s father, the village chief, hid him when the Naddists came looking. They left empty-handed, assuming he had died.
The man’s name was Bajirao, and he was an exile, like them. An enemy of their enemy was welcome in the village, so they built him a home, hid him whenever the Naddists came. The man helped where he could, but his injuries were permanent and disfiguring. Instead, he repaid them with his powers. He was a powerful Shaman, much more powerful than the one that Tarhani would one day replace, a woman named Mayuri. He had power in his blood unlike any of the Beastrider descendents, who were said to hold the power to control the beasts. Power that ran in Tarhani’s blood, and the blood of Mayuri.
Tarhani was young, but she had already begun to learn the magic of their people. To feel the life in the world, and to seek wisdom in it. But they had never seen such power as Bajirao possessed. Lifting boulders and felled trees with his mind. Calming the beasts and driving them from the village. Mayuri said that his powers came from evil, but over time she grew to accept him, jealous of his power and wishing to learn of them. So he taught Mayuri and the young Tarhani the ways of the force.
Once a Jedi before choosing the path of the Exile, Bajirao taught of the evils of the Jedi and the powers of the dark. His name grew and soon villages all over the demon moon of Dxun began to send their children of strong blood to learn from the Jedi Exile. He soon had many apprentice’s, but of them all Tarhani was his favorite. It turned the others against her, as they sought to usurp her as Bajirao’s favorite apprentice. First they sought to one up her, prove themselves her better. But as she grew more powerful, they turned to violence.
Challenges, traps and ambushes became her life as her fellow apprentices sought to bring her low. But Bajirao did not permit her to strike them down. So she learned not to kill them, but to destroy them. To beat them so brutally, to strip them bare of their confidence. Impressed, Bajirao began to teach her the ways of the Lightsaber. Shien, he called it. And Djem So. First they began with stick, carefully carved into swords. They would spar, and Bajirao began to teach the other students as well, so they could continue to test Tarhani and each other, informing them that this would be the only weapon they were allowed to use in their competition with one another. They would spar with their lessers, challenge their equals over the slightest insult, and ambush those who pretended to be more powerful than them. They would train to protect themselves from missile attacks by ambushing each other with thrown rocks.
He would teach them of the Darkside, how to use their negative emotions to lift rocks and manipulate people. How to influence the simple minds of the jungle beasts. They learned to incorporate the power of the Darkside in their duels and ambushes, to push one another around, and other ways to hurt each other. A few of the students were stronger than the others, Tarhani being one of them. Continuing to hold her place in Bajirao’s favor, he began to train her with one of his lightsabers. His injuries were debilitating but he could draw on the pain to fuel himself, allowing him to spar with her for short periods of time.
It was when Tarhani could beat him that Bajirao deemed her ready. Giving her one of his lightsabers, the one he had kept from his days as a Jedi, he bade her to leave Dxun, leave Onderon, and seek out his Exile brethren. To tell them of the Nomar exiles on Onderon’s moon, and of him and the other apprentices. But first she was to seek out a dark forest, tainted by the darkside on Onderon. Tarhani would feel it, he said, that it would teach her of the Darkside. Taking the lightsaber, Tarhani set out to fulfill Bajirao’s bidding. The only ships that came to Dxun were smugglers or Naddist soldiers. And Tarhani was determined to give the Naddists a taste of the same fear that the Nomar exiles had felt for generations.
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Tarhani has yet to meet anyone on her journey:
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Personality
Her harsh training has led to her developing a distrustful attitude towards all, and the knowledge that the only person she can depend on is herself. That power is the key to survival, believing that only the powerful thrive. She also holds a deep seated hatred of the Naddists who oppress her and the people of Dxun, and through her teacher inherited a hatred of the Jedi. Young and brash, she wishes nothing more than to strike out against the enemies of her people.
Powers & Abilities
While Tarhani is uneducated and barely literate, she possesses a keen intellect honed by survival and competition. Highly perceptive, a life of danger has taught her to be constantly aware of her surroundings. With constant threat of danger comes injury, and unable to depend on others, Tarhani has developed a knowledge of first aid from whenever the tribe might have had modern medical supplies, and primitive medicine from the times when they did not.
A proficient fighter, Tarhani was taught the the basics of Form I, and the two versions of Form V by her master, Bajirao. Her skills in Djem So however far surpass her skills of Shien, due to a lack of practical training in the latter. She also has a basic grasp of Shii-Cho, Bajirao having taught it as the foundation of her training in Djem So. Beyond the lightsaber, Tarhani is proficient in the use of knives and many more primitive weapons, such as the bow, axe, or projectile rifle.
Trained in the Darkside of the Force, Tarhani draws on her anger and other negative emotions to bend the Force to her will. Telekinetic feats such as lifting rocks, and pushing or grasping an opponent is well within her grasp, with most of her training focusing on the combative use of the force. She is also proficient in tapping into her rage to enhance her strength and stamina, allowing her to fight harder and longer. Beyond the use of the Force in combat, Tarhani lacks further training beyond her lessons as a child, in which she learned to listen to subtle pushes of the force, something she still does to this day, though now she listens to the urging of the Darkside.
Possessions
- Homespun tribal clothes
- Blue-bladed lightsaber
- Two Drexl fang daggers
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