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Xeus Qel-Droma
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"The greatest journey in life lies not in never falling, but in rising from the dust when we fall. Erring is natural, but redemption? Atonement? That takes a strength and will beyond the things seen, a strength of spirit and of heart. So me tell... how many times will you choose stand?"
―Xeus Qel-Droma
[/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2][fancybox4=http://oi57.tinypic.com/amz80p.jpg]Secret Origins "Who do you say that I am?"[/fancybox4]
“PERSONAL CHRONICLE, GALACTIC DATE—1022∶∶05∶∶33. NOT IN A THOUSAND GENERATIONS HAVE SO MANY FROM ACROSS THE GALAXY BANDED TOGETHER. BUT NOT IN A THOUSAND GENERATIONS HAS THE GALAXY FACED A DANGER AS TERRIBLE AS THIS. THE SITH ONSLAUGHT HAS LEFT THE GALAXY BLEEDING AND BROKEN, ALL OPPOSITION ONCE MOUNTED AGAINST THEM HAS EITHER BEEN CRUSHED OR... HAS DESTROYED ITSELF.
THE FEDERATION IS IN SHAMBLES AND THE JEDI ARE NO BETTER OFF. THE MANDALORIANS, WITHOUT A POWERFUL MANDALORE TO LEAD THEM, CANNIBALIZED WHAT STRENGTH THEY HAD IN CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CLANS UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT. AND TO BE HONEST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAD TRULY BECOME OF THE CHISS. THEY WERE ALWAYS THE WILDCARDS, AS LIKELY TO FIGHT WITH US AS AGAINST US. BUT NOW, EVEN THEY TOO HAVE VANISHED FROM THE GALACTIC SCENE.
AND IN SUCH UNCERTAIN TIMES, I FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO SCRIBE MY LIFE, THE THINGS, THE DECISIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES THAT LED TO ME BECOMING WHO I AM. WAR HAS ARRIVED. IT IS HERE FOR ALL, OR IS AT LEAST COMING TOWARD THOSE NOT YET TOUCHED BY ITS FIRE. AND IT IS IN THE HORROR OF WAR THAT ONE CAN FIND THEMSELVES FORGETTING WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY CAME FROM... WHAT THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR. I WILL NOT FORGET. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHO I AM, WHY I FIGHT. AND IN DOING SO, PERHAPS I CAN KEEP MYSELF FROM THE CURSE THAT SO OFTEN BEFALLS THOSE WHO FIGHT, ULTIMATELY BECOMING THEY VERY THING THEY HATE.
MY NAME IS XEUS. AND MY LAST NAME IS NO LONGER MY OWN. I AM NOT THE SAME PERSON I WAS AT THE TIME I WAS BORN. AND I HAVEN'T THE RIGHT TO LAY CLAIM TO THE FAMILY I BARELY KNEW. I WAS BORN ON A WORLD ABANDONED TO THE POWER OF NATURE. TOWERS OF STEEL AND STONE WERE GLAZED WITH MILDEW, FUNGI AND THE GROWTH OF VINES. WE KNEW OF THE WORLD THAT HAD ONCE BEEN, OF STARSHIPS, CORUSCANT, THE EMPIRE AND FEDERATION, ALL OF IT. BUT IT WAS ALL KNOWN AS LEGENDS AND TALES. THE ONLY THING WE KNEW WAS THE JUNGLE OF EMPTY SPIRES AND A MILLION BUILDINGS ROUND ABOUT. FOR MOST OF US, THIS PLACE HAD NO NAME. BUT FOR SOME, THOSE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE REMEMBERED WHAT ONCE STOOD IN PLACE OF THE OVERGROWTH, IT WAS KNOWN AS 'THE DEAD CITY'.
IT WAS OUR HOME, OUR SANCTUARY, BUT FOR SOME OF US... MANY OF US, WE WANTED MORE. I DREAMT OF RISING THROUGH THE STARS, OF SEEING OTHER WORLDS. THE SPLENDOR OF IT ALL, THE VANITY AND THE LUST OF IT. IT WAS ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT, AND IT WAS ALL I WANTED. I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HAVE IT, AND AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN ONE IS SEDUCED BY DESIRE, FIND A WAY, I DID. AS CHILDREN, WE ALWAYS SEARCHED THE DEAD CITY. THERE WAS NO DANGER, WE WERE THE ONLY ONES ON THE PLANET. BUT A DAY CAME WHEN WE HAPPENED UPON A RELIC FROM THE PAST THAT STILL PULSED WITH LIFE.
EVEN NOW, MY MEMORY OF THAT DAY WAS SUCH A BLUR, I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS. A SHIP? A LABORATORY? I SUPPOSE IT COULD HAVE EVEN BEEN A FACTORY. EITHER WAY, MY HUBRIS BECAME THE BANE OF SO MANY BACK THEN. WE WERE TOLD THAT THE HEART OF THE DEAD CITY WAS DANGEROUS, TREACHEROUS. AND I WAS THE LEADER, THE OLDEST. THE ONE THAT THE OTHER YOUTHS LOOKED UP TO, AND I TOOK THEM ALL WHEREVER I WENT. AND WHEN WE ENTERED THE OLD RELIC, I FOUND THE SCREEN, THE BLUE, FLUTTERING SCREEN, THAT CHIMED TO LIFE AS I TOUCHED ITS HOLOGRAPHIC LIGHT.
A BLUR OF IMAGES AND VOICES CAME FROM THE SCREEN, BUT IT WAS DISTORTED, INCOMPREHENSIBLE. BUT I DIDN'T STOP, I KEPT TINKERING WITH IT, INTERACTING WITH IT. SPEAKING INTO IT. AND IN MY MEDDLING, I SUPPOSE I MUST HAVE ACTIVATED SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T HAVE. I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED IF IT WAS A FAILSAFE OF SOME KIND, A SECURITY MEASURE, OR SIMPLY AN EFFECT FROM AN ANCIENT CREATION. WE WERE IGNORANT OF THE INTRICACIES OF TECHNOLOGY THEN, BUT WE KNEW ENOUGH OF ALARMS AND RED LIGHTS THAT IT WAS SIGN OF DANGER.
SO WE RAN, RAN AS FAST AS WE COULD AND NEVER LOOKED BACK FROM WHERE WE CAME. BUT I WAS THE OLDEST. THE STRONGEST... THE FASTEST. AN EXPLOSION OF BLUE FIRE CAME LIKE A BURNING SCREECH, BLASTING ME AWAY. I NEVER LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, NOT EVEN AS I HIT THE GROUND. MY SIGHTS WERE BLURRED AND I WAS DISORIENTED... BUT NOT SEVERELY ENOUGH TO HAVE SEEN MY BEST FRIEND'S ARM ON MY LAP, BLOWN APART FROM THE BLAST. EVERYWHERE I LOOKED, I SAW THEM. THE OTHERS, THE ONES THAT WOULD FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE, DEAD ON THE GROUND. AND THAT WAS ONLY THOSE WHO STILL HAD BODIES TO BE SEEN, BODIES NOT CONSUMED BY THE BLUE FIRES THAT STILL BURNED.
I NEVER RETURNED HOME AFTER THAT. I WANDERED THE DEAD CITY OVER AND OVER, FOR... FOR SO LONG. SO MANY DAYS. I COULDN'T EAT WITHOUT SEEING THEIR BODIES DEAD ON THE GROUND. I COULDN'T SLEEP WITHOUT SEEING THEIR FACES, BLAMING ME, ACCUSING ME. IT WAS MY FAULT, I'D LED THEM THERE. I'D CAUSED THE CHAIN REACTION, OF WHATEVER KIND IT WAS, AND CAUSED THE EXPLOSION. AND ALL THAT TIME, I KEPT WISHING SOMETHING WOULD KILL ME, MAYBE A BEAST WOULD CONSUME ME. THAT WAY, THEY'D NEVER KNOW. NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW. OUR PARENTS AND FAMILIES, THEY WOULD THINK I'D HAVE DIED WITH THEM, THAT MY BODY WAS ONE OF THOSE BURNED AWAY.
SUFFICE TO SAY, IT NEVER HAPPENED. I WANDERED FOR SO LONG, I NEVER REALIZED THAT I HAD ARRIVED BACK TO WHERE I BEGAN... BACK HOME. AND HOME... HOME WAS ABLAZE WITH FIRE. I SAW THEM IN THE SKY LIKE DEVILS FROM ABOVE, DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN THEIR PATHS. MEN AND WOMAN OF A DOZEN DIFFERENT FACES. SOME WITH SCALES, SOME WITH FUR, SOME HUMANS, SOME ALIENS. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I'D SEEN BLASTERS, AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I'D SEEN BATTLE. SEEN WAR, IN ALL IT'S WONDERS AND ITS HORRORS.
I HID, CLUTCHING MY EARS AND CLOSING MY EYES. I PRETENDED NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, EVEN AS THE SOUND ECHOED THROUGH MY HANDS. I NEVER BELIEVED IT, BUT I HAD TO. I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING, WHY IT WAS HAPPENING. AND BY THE TIME I'D OPENED MY EYES, I SAW A WOMAN STANDING OVER ME. SHE HAD THE EYES OF A CAT, TATTOOED SKIN AND WHITE FANGS, AND AS HER RAISED ARMS CAME DOWN, THE BUTT OF HER RIFLE SMASHED INTO MY FACE AND ALL I COULD SEE THEN WAS DARKNESS.
BY THE TIME I'D AWOKEN, I WAS TRAPPED IN A DARK CAGE OF IRON WALLS AND COLD FLOORS. SHACKLED WERE OVER MY WRISTS AND ANKLES, AND THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO SEE OTHERS. SOME I RECOGNIZED IMMEDIATELY, SOME WERE FROM MY HOME. OTHERS WERE AS STRANGE IN APPEARANCE AS THOSE THAT HAD ATTACKED US. EVEN WHEN I DIDN'T KNOW WHO THEY WERE, I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY WERE; SLAVERS. I'D NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE, BUT THERE WERE MANY IN MY HOME THAT HAD. THEY MOVED EVERYONE AROUND IN CHAINS, BUT I STILL REMEMBER AT THE END OF THE HOLD, ONE OF MY PEOPLE WERE BEING BEATEN. EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS THEY WERE, I COULD STILL HEAR THAT THE SLAVER WAS ASKING HIM ABOUT A TRANSMISSION BURST FROM A WEEK AGO.
MY STOMACH CHURNED AS I WENT THROUGH EVERY THOUGHT IN MY MIND AND BATTLED THE DREAD THAT I WAS AT FAULT AGAIN. THAT I LED THEM TO MY HOME, TO SO MANY DEAD. I VOMITED OVER AND OVER FOR HOURS, UNTIL THE HOURS BECAME DAYS. THEN IT CAME, A SOUND THAT HAD ONCE BEEN THE DESPAIR OF ALL HOPE. AN ALARM, A SIREN OF AN IMPENDING DANGER. ARMED PIRATES RAN THE HALLS AS BATTERIES DETONATED POWER CELLS. THE SHIP WAS IN A BATTLE, BUT I HAD NO IDEA WHO IT WAS AT THE TIME. EVENTUALLY, AN EXPLOSION UNLIKE THE OTHERS CAME, SHAKING THE SHIP TO ITS EVERY BOLT. BLASTERFIRE, A SOUND THAT STILL MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH, FILLED THE AIR AS I LOOKED OFF IN THE DISTANCE OF THE VICINITY OF THE CARGO HOLD.
BLOOD WAS SPLATTERING EVERYWHERE WITH THE GLOW OF BLASTER BOLTS FIRING THROUGH THE AIR. EVENTUALLY THE CARGO DOOR OPENED TO REVEAL A FIGURE, A WOMAN, CLAD IN WHITE ARMOR AND ROBES WITH A WAN-SHEN. THERE WERE OTHERS, WARDENS THEY'D CALLED THEMSELVES. THEY WERE THERE TO FREE US, BUT SO MANY THINGS HAD BEEN HAPPENING SO FAST, I COULDN'T COMPREHEND IT. AND ONCE I DID, I FELT DISGUSTED ON THE THOUGHT THAT I EVEN DESERVED TO BE RESCUED. THOSE FROM MY HOMEWORLD THAT WERE IN SHACKLES WERE FREED FIRST, THEY WERE THE MOST NUMEROUS. THEY HAD BEEN ASKING OVER THE LAST DAYS OVER WHAT THE PIRATE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT REGARDING A TRANSMISSION. AND WHEN THEY'D LOOKED OVER TO ME, I COULD ONLY WEEP AND LOOK AWAY. AND I KNEW—I KNEW—THAT THEY KNEW. THEY KNEW IT WAS MY FAULT, ALL OF IT.
AND WHEN THEY WERE FREED, SEVERAL OF THEM SLOWLY WALKED OVER TO THE FALLEN BLASTER RIFLES, TOOK AIM AT ME, AND WITHOUT THE HESITATION OF THE SECOND BEAT OF THE HEART, THEY OPENED FIRED. I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO CLOSE MY EYES BEFORE A WHIRLWIND BLUR OF WHITE APPEARED BEFORE ME, DEFLECTING EVERY FLASH OF RED LIGHT FIRED AT ME. THEN CAME THE RAGE. THEY SCREAMED AND THEY WAILED, I WAS THE ONE THAT DESTROYED THEIR HOMES, THAT LED THEIR CHILDREN TO DEATH. I REALIZED THEN THAT THEY MUST HAVE INVESTIGATED THE EXPLOSION BEFORE THE SLAVERS CAME. AND THAT MEANT, THEY FOUND... THEM. AND ALL I COULD DO THEN WAS... CRY. I FELL AND I CRIED UNTIL IT HURT, UNTIL I COULDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ELSE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THEN, WHAT WAS SAID. ALL I KNOW IS THAT WHEN I FINALLY OPENED MY EYES AGAIN, WHEN I LOOKED UP, I SAW A HAND OPENED FOR ME TO TAKE HOLD OF. AND SO I TOOK HER BY THE HAND. HOW COULD I NOT? HER WORDS TO ME, I STILL REMEMBER WHAT SHE SAID TO ME THEN.
'I KNOW YOU'VE MADE MISTAKES. I KNOW YOU'RE SORRY. BUT WHAT IS DONE IS DONE, AND YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST. I KNOW HOW YOU MUST FEEL, LIKE YOU ARE NO LONGER DESERVING OF LIFE, THAT IT SHOULD ALL JUST END FOR YOU. THAT DYING NOW WILL SOMEHOW MAKE THINGS RIGHT. BUT EVEN WHEN FALLING UPON THE KNEES, YOU CAN ALWAYS RISE AGAIN, YOU CAN BECOME A THING REDEEMED. AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW, TAKE MY HAND... AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY.”[/FANCYBOX2]
“PERSONAL CHRONICLE, GALACTIC DATE—1022∶∶05∶∶33. NOT IN A THOUSAND GENERATIONS HAVE SO MANY FROM ACROSS THE GALAXY BANDED TOGETHER. BUT NOT IN A THOUSAND GENERATIONS HAS THE GALAXY FACED A DANGER AS TERRIBLE AS THIS. THE SITH ONSLAUGHT HAS LEFT THE GALAXY BLEEDING AND BROKEN, ALL OPPOSITION ONCE MOUNTED AGAINST THEM HAS EITHER BEEN CRUSHED OR... HAS DESTROYED ITSELF.
THE FEDERATION IS IN SHAMBLES AND THE JEDI ARE NO BETTER OFF. THE MANDALORIANS, WITHOUT A POWERFUL MANDALORE TO LEAD THEM, CANNIBALIZED WHAT STRENGTH THEY HAD IN CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CLANS UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT. AND TO BE HONEST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAD TRULY BECOME OF THE CHISS. THEY WERE ALWAYS THE WILDCARDS, AS LIKELY TO FIGHT WITH US AS AGAINST US. BUT NOW, EVEN THEY TOO HAVE VANISHED FROM THE GALACTIC SCENE.
AND IN SUCH UNCERTAIN TIMES, I FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO SCRIBE MY LIFE, THE THINGS, THE DECISIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES THAT LED TO ME BECOMING WHO I AM. WAR HAS ARRIVED. IT IS HERE FOR ALL, OR IS AT LEAST COMING TOWARD THOSE NOT YET TOUCHED BY ITS FIRE. AND IT IS IN THE HORROR OF WAR THAT ONE CAN FIND THEMSELVES FORGETTING WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY CAME FROM... WHAT THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR. I WILL NOT FORGET. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHO I AM, WHY I FIGHT. AND IN DOING SO, PERHAPS I CAN KEEP MYSELF FROM THE CURSE THAT SO OFTEN BEFALLS THOSE WHO FIGHT, ULTIMATELY BECOMING THEY VERY THING THEY HATE.
MY NAME IS XEUS. AND MY LAST NAME IS NO LONGER MY OWN. I AM NOT THE SAME PERSON I WAS AT THE TIME I WAS BORN. AND I HAVEN'T THE RIGHT TO LAY CLAIM TO THE FAMILY I BARELY KNEW. I WAS BORN ON A WORLD ABANDONED TO THE POWER OF NATURE. TOWERS OF STEEL AND STONE WERE GLAZED WITH MILDEW, FUNGI AND THE GROWTH OF VINES. WE KNEW OF THE WORLD THAT HAD ONCE BEEN, OF STARSHIPS, CORUSCANT, THE EMPIRE AND FEDERATION, ALL OF IT. BUT IT WAS ALL KNOWN AS LEGENDS AND TALES. THE ONLY THING WE KNEW WAS THE JUNGLE OF EMPTY SPIRES AND A MILLION BUILDINGS ROUND ABOUT. FOR MOST OF US, THIS PLACE HAD NO NAME. BUT FOR SOME, THOSE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE REMEMBERED WHAT ONCE STOOD IN PLACE OF THE OVERGROWTH, IT WAS KNOWN AS 'THE DEAD CITY'.
IT WAS OUR HOME, OUR SANCTUARY, BUT FOR SOME OF US... MANY OF US, WE WANTED MORE. I DREAMT OF RISING THROUGH THE STARS, OF SEEING OTHER WORLDS. THE SPLENDOR OF IT ALL, THE VANITY AND THE LUST OF IT. IT WAS ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT, AND IT WAS ALL I WANTED. I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HAVE IT, AND AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN ONE IS SEDUCED BY DESIRE, FIND A WAY, I DID. AS CHILDREN, WE ALWAYS SEARCHED THE DEAD CITY. THERE WAS NO DANGER, WE WERE THE ONLY ONES ON THE PLANET. BUT A DAY CAME WHEN WE HAPPENED UPON A RELIC FROM THE PAST THAT STILL PULSED WITH LIFE.
EVEN NOW, MY MEMORY OF THAT DAY WAS SUCH A BLUR, I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS. A SHIP? A LABORATORY? I SUPPOSE IT COULD HAVE EVEN BEEN A FACTORY. EITHER WAY, MY HUBRIS BECAME THE BANE OF SO MANY BACK THEN. WE WERE TOLD THAT THE HEART OF THE DEAD CITY WAS DANGEROUS, TREACHEROUS. AND I WAS THE LEADER, THE OLDEST. THE ONE THAT THE OTHER YOUTHS LOOKED UP TO, AND I TOOK THEM ALL WHEREVER I WENT. AND WHEN WE ENTERED THE OLD RELIC, I FOUND THE SCREEN, THE BLUE, FLUTTERING SCREEN, THAT CHIMED TO LIFE AS I TOUCHED ITS HOLOGRAPHIC LIGHT.
A BLUR OF IMAGES AND VOICES CAME FROM THE SCREEN, BUT IT WAS DISTORTED, INCOMPREHENSIBLE. BUT I DIDN'T STOP, I KEPT TINKERING WITH IT, INTERACTING WITH IT. SPEAKING INTO IT. AND IN MY MEDDLING, I SUPPOSE I MUST HAVE ACTIVATED SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T HAVE. I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED IF IT WAS A FAILSAFE OF SOME KIND, A SECURITY MEASURE, OR SIMPLY AN EFFECT FROM AN ANCIENT CREATION. WE WERE IGNORANT OF THE INTRICACIES OF TECHNOLOGY THEN, BUT WE KNEW ENOUGH OF ALARMS AND RED LIGHTS THAT IT WAS SIGN OF DANGER.
SO WE RAN, RAN AS FAST AS WE COULD AND NEVER LOOKED BACK FROM WHERE WE CAME. BUT I WAS THE OLDEST. THE STRONGEST... THE FASTEST. AN EXPLOSION OF BLUE FIRE CAME LIKE A BURNING SCREECH, BLASTING ME AWAY. I NEVER LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, NOT EVEN AS I HIT THE GROUND. MY SIGHTS WERE BLURRED AND I WAS DISORIENTED... BUT NOT SEVERELY ENOUGH TO HAVE SEEN MY BEST FRIEND'S ARM ON MY LAP, BLOWN APART FROM THE BLAST. EVERYWHERE I LOOKED, I SAW THEM. THE OTHERS, THE ONES THAT WOULD FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE, DEAD ON THE GROUND. AND THAT WAS ONLY THOSE WHO STILL HAD BODIES TO BE SEEN, BODIES NOT CONSUMED BY THE BLUE FIRES THAT STILL BURNED.
I NEVER RETURNED HOME AFTER THAT. I WANDERED THE DEAD CITY OVER AND OVER, FOR... FOR SO LONG. SO MANY DAYS. I COULDN'T EAT WITHOUT SEEING THEIR BODIES DEAD ON THE GROUND. I COULDN'T SLEEP WITHOUT SEEING THEIR FACES, BLAMING ME, ACCUSING ME. IT WAS MY FAULT, I'D LED THEM THERE. I'D CAUSED THE CHAIN REACTION, OF WHATEVER KIND IT WAS, AND CAUSED THE EXPLOSION. AND ALL THAT TIME, I KEPT WISHING SOMETHING WOULD KILL ME, MAYBE A BEAST WOULD CONSUME ME. THAT WAY, THEY'D NEVER KNOW. NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW. OUR PARENTS AND FAMILIES, THEY WOULD THINK I'D HAVE DIED WITH THEM, THAT MY BODY WAS ONE OF THOSE BURNED AWAY.
SUFFICE TO SAY, IT NEVER HAPPENED. I WANDERED FOR SO LONG, I NEVER REALIZED THAT I HAD ARRIVED BACK TO WHERE I BEGAN... BACK HOME. AND HOME... HOME WAS ABLAZE WITH FIRE. I SAW THEM IN THE SKY LIKE DEVILS FROM ABOVE, DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN THEIR PATHS. MEN AND WOMAN OF A DOZEN DIFFERENT FACES. SOME WITH SCALES, SOME WITH FUR, SOME HUMANS, SOME ALIENS. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I'D SEEN BLASTERS, AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I'D SEEN BATTLE. SEEN WAR, IN ALL IT'S WONDERS AND ITS HORRORS.
I HID, CLUTCHING MY EARS AND CLOSING MY EYES. I PRETENDED NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, EVEN AS THE SOUND ECHOED THROUGH MY HANDS. I NEVER BELIEVED IT, BUT I HAD TO. I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING, WHY IT WAS HAPPENING. AND BY THE TIME I'D OPENED MY EYES, I SAW A WOMAN STANDING OVER ME. SHE HAD THE EYES OF A CAT, TATTOOED SKIN AND WHITE FANGS, AND AS HER RAISED ARMS CAME DOWN, THE BUTT OF HER RIFLE SMASHED INTO MY FACE AND ALL I COULD SEE THEN WAS DARKNESS.
BY THE TIME I'D AWOKEN, I WAS TRAPPED IN A DARK CAGE OF IRON WALLS AND COLD FLOORS. SHACKLED WERE OVER MY WRISTS AND ANKLES, AND THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO SEE OTHERS. SOME I RECOGNIZED IMMEDIATELY, SOME WERE FROM MY HOME. OTHERS WERE AS STRANGE IN APPEARANCE AS THOSE THAT HAD ATTACKED US. EVEN WHEN I DIDN'T KNOW WHO THEY WERE, I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY WERE; SLAVERS. I'D NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE, BUT THERE WERE MANY IN MY HOME THAT HAD. THEY MOVED EVERYONE AROUND IN CHAINS, BUT I STILL REMEMBER AT THE END OF THE HOLD, ONE OF MY PEOPLE WERE BEING BEATEN. EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS THEY WERE, I COULD STILL HEAR THAT THE SLAVER WAS ASKING HIM ABOUT A TRANSMISSION BURST FROM A WEEK AGO.
MY STOMACH CHURNED AS I WENT THROUGH EVERY THOUGHT IN MY MIND AND BATTLED THE DREAD THAT I WAS AT FAULT AGAIN. THAT I LED THEM TO MY HOME, TO SO MANY DEAD. I VOMITED OVER AND OVER FOR HOURS, UNTIL THE HOURS BECAME DAYS. THEN IT CAME, A SOUND THAT HAD ONCE BEEN THE DESPAIR OF ALL HOPE. AN ALARM, A SIREN OF AN IMPENDING DANGER. ARMED PIRATES RAN THE HALLS AS BATTERIES DETONATED POWER CELLS. THE SHIP WAS IN A BATTLE, BUT I HAD NO IDEA WHO IT WAS AT THE TIME. EVENTUALLY, AN EXPLOSION UNLIKE THE OTHERS CAME, SHAKING THE SHIP TO ITS EVERY BOLT. BLASTERFIRE, A SOUND THAT STILL MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH, FILLED THE AIR AS I LOOKED OFF IN THE DISTANCE OF THE VICINITY OF THE CARGO HOLD.
BLOOD WAS SPLATTERING EVERYWHERE WITH THE GLOW OF BLASTER BOLTS FIRING THROUGH THE AIR. EVENTUALLY THE CARGO DOOR OPENED TO REVEAL A FIGURE, A WOMAN, CLAD IN WHITE ARMOR AND ROBES WITH A WAN-SHEN. THERE WERE OTHERS, WARDENS THEY'D CALLED THEMSELVES. THEY WERE THERE TO FREE US, BUT SO MANY THINGS HAD BEEN HAPPENING SO FAST, I COULDN'T COMPREHEND IT. AND ONCE I DID, I FELT DISGUSTED ON THE THOUGHT THAT I EVEN DESERVED TO BE RESCUED. THOSE FROM MY HOMEWORLD THAT WERE IN SHACKLES WERE FREED FIRST, THEY WERE THE MOST NUMEROUS. THEY HAD BEEN ASKING OVER THE LAST DAYS OVER WHAT THE PIRATE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT REGARDING A TRANSMISSION. AND WHEN THEY'D LOOKED OVER TO ME, I COULD ONLY WEEP AND LOOK AWAY. AND I KNEW—I KNEW—THAT THEY KNEW. THEY KNEW IT WAS MY FAULT, ALL OF IT.
AND WHEN THEY WERE FREED, SEVERAL OF THEM SLOWLY WALKED OVER TO THE FALLEN BLASTER RIFLES, TOOK AIM AT ME, AND WITHOUT THE HESITATION OF THE SECOND BEAT OF THE HEART, THEY OPENED FIRED. I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO CLOSE MY EYES BEFORE A WHIRLWIND BLUR OF WHITE APPEARED BEFORE ME, DEFLECTING EVERY FLASH OF RED LIGHT FIRED AT ME. THEN CAME THE RAGE. THEY SCREAMED AND THEY WAILED, I WAS THE ONE THAT DESTROYED THEIR HOMES, THAT LED THEIR CHILDREN TO DEATH. I REALIZED THEN THAT THEY MUST HAVE INVESTIGATED THE EXPLOSION BEFORE THE SLAVERS CAME. AND THAT MEANT, THEY FOUND... THEM. AND ALL I COULD DO THEN WAS... CRY. I FELL AND I CRIED UNTIL IT HURT, UNTIL I COULDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ELSE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THEN, WHAT WAS SAID. ALL I KNOW IS THAT WHEN I FINALLY OPENED MY EYES AGAIN, WHEN I LOOKED UP, I SAW A HAND OPENED FOR ME TO TAKE HOLD OF. AND SO I TOOK HER BY THE HAND. HOW COULD I NOT? HER WORDS TO ME, I STILL REMEMBER WHAT SHE SAID TO ME THEN.
'I KNOW YOU'VE MADE MISTAKES. I KNOW YOU'RE SORRY. BUT WHAT IS DONE IS DONE, AND YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST. I KNOW HOW YOU MUST FEEL, LIKE YOU ARE NO LONGER DESERVING OF LIFE, THAT IT SHOULD ALL JUST END FOR YOU. THAT DYING NOW WILL SOMEHOW MAKE THINGS RIGHT. BUT EVEN WHEN FALLING UPON THE KNEES, YOU CAN ALWAYS RISE AGAIN, YOU CAN BECOME A THING REDEEMED. AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW, TAKE MY HAND... AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY.”[/FANCYBOX2]
[FANCYBOX2][fancybox4=http://oi60.tinypic.com/ivel46.jpg]Nature "Is there more to man than meets the eye?"[/fancybox4]
AS A MAN THAT HAS COME TO DEFINE HIMSELF BY REDEEMING HIMSELF FROM HIS PAST RECKLESSNESS AND MISTAKES, XEUS IS A VERY STRONG BELIEVER IN THE POTENTIAL GOOD AND REDEMPTION OF ANY PERSON THAT HAS DONE WRONG OR MADE MISTAKES, SHOULD THEY WILLINGLY SEEK THAT ATONEMENT THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, XEUS COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A PACIFIST OR BENEVOLENT, AND HE WOULD STRIKE DOWN A HOSTILE WHEN ENGAGING THEM. HOWEVER, HE IS ALWAYS WILLING TO BREAK WORDS RATHER THAN BONES IF SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF.
IN SPITE OF DOING HIS BEST TO BECOME A FORCE FOR GOOD, XEUS IS STILL WRACKED WITH GUILT OVER THE TRAGIC EVENTS HE INADVERTENTLY CAUSED WHILE AS A YOUTH. CONSEQUENTLY, XEUS SUFFERS FROM INSOMNIA, SURVIVORS GUILT, NIGHT TERRORS, AND DEPRESSION, WHICH HE STRUGGLES TO KEEP AT BAY THROUGH REGULAR AND RIGOROUS MATUKAI MEDITATIONS.[/FANCYBOX2]
AS A MAN THAT HAS COME TO DEFINE HIMSELF BY REDEEMING HIMSELF FROM HIS PAST RECKLESSNESS AND MISTAKES, XEUS IS A VERY STRONG BELIEVER IN THE POTENTIAL GOOD AND REDEMPTION OF ANY PERSON THAT HAS DONE WRONG OR MADE MISTAKES, SHOULD THEY WILLINGLY SEEK THAT ATONEMENT THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, XEUS COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A PACIFIST OR BENEVOLENT, AND HE WOULD STRIKE DOWN A HOSTILE WHEN ENGAGING THEM. HOWEVER, HE IS ALWAYS WILLING TO BREAK WORDS RATHER THAN BONES IF SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF.
IN SPITE OF DOING HIS BEST TO BECOME A FORCE FOR GOOD, XEUS IS STILL WRACKED WITH GUILT OVER THE TRAGIC EVENTS HE INADVERTENTLY CAUSED WHILE AS A YOUTH. CONSEQUENTLY, XEUS SUFFERS FROM INSOMNIA, SURVIVORS GUILT, NIGHT TERRORS, AND DEPRESSION, WHICH HE STRUGGLES TO KEEP AT BAY THROUGH REGULAR AND RIGOROUS MATUKAI MEDITATIONS.[/FANCYBOX2]
[FANCYBOX2][fancybox4=http://oi61.tinypic.com/2hweosk.jpg]Inventory "Tempered by flame, forged by spirit."[/fancybox4]
AS A FULLY-FLEDGED MATUKAI WARRIOR, XEUS CARRIES THE FULL ARMAMENT OF A MEMBER OF HIS ORDER. HE WIELDS A THREE-METER LONG COLLAPSIBLE TRIDENT-STYLED WAN-SHEN AS HIS PRIMARY WEAPON, AND DONS A TYPICAL MATUKAI WARSKIN, ALTHOUGH USES IT ONLY IN BATTLE, AS OPPOSED TO HIS CASUAL WEAR. IN ORDINARY SITUATIONS, XEUS WEARS SIMPLE WHITE ROBES, TUNICS OR CLOAKS, SELDOM, IF EVER, CONCEALING THE FACT THAT HE IS A MATUKAI WARRIOR.
LIKE MOST MATUKAI, XEUS KEEPS A SHADE DROID AROUND HIM TO CARRY OUT VARIOUS FUNCTIONS THAT HE CANNOT, SUCH AS ANALYZING MATERIALS, SCOURING THE HOLONET, PROVIDING SIMPLE MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS, AMONG HAVING IT CARRY OUT OTHER CASUAL TASKS. AS MOST MATUKAI, XEUS HAS NO PERSONAL SHIP, NO LODGING OR HOME, AND NEVER STAYS IN ONE PLACE FOR TOO LONG, ALTHOUGH HE MAY REVISIT SOME PLACES FREQUENTLY, SUCH AS KARVOSS AND THE MATUKAI PANTHEON.
AS A WARRIOR, MARTIAL ARTISTS, FORCE-WIELDER AND ON THE PERSONAL LEVEL, XEUS IS HEAVILY TURNED-OFF BY BLASTERS AND THEIR ILK, PREFERRING MORE HONOR-CULTURED STYLES OF COMBAT. FOR INSTANCE, XEUS HAS SHOWN BOTH THE WILLINGNESS AND SKILL TO WIELD ENERGY-BOWS, AS IN HIS HEART, HE STILL CONSIDERS SUCH WEAPONS TO BE OF AN HONORABLE SORT. SWORDS, SPEARS, WRIST-BLADES, DAGGERS AND OTHER SIMILAR WEAPONS ARE WHAT HE CHOOSES TO RELY ON, AND ARE THE ONLY SORT OF WEAPONS HE WOULD EVER WILLINGLY CARRY ON HIS PERSON. [/FANCYBOX2]
AS A FULLY-FLEDGED MATUKAI WARRIOR, XEUS CARRIES THE FULL ARMAMENT OF A MEMBER OF HIS ORDER. HE WIELDS A THREE-METER LONG COLLAPSIBLE TRIDENT-STYLED WAN-SHEN AS HIS PRIMARY WEAPON, AND DONS A TYPICAL MATUKAI WARSKIN, ALTHOUGH USES IT ONLY IN BATTLE, AS OPPOSED TO HIS CASUAL WEAR. IN ORDINARY SITUATIONS, XEUS WEARS SIMPLE WHITE ROBES, TUNICS OR CLOAKS, SELDOM, IF EVER, CONCEALING THE FACT THAT HE IS A MATUKAI WARRIOR.
LIKE MOST MATUKAI, XEUS KEEPS A SHADE DROID AROUND HIM TO CARRY OUT VARIOUS FUNCTIONS THAT HE CANNOT, SUCH AS ANALYZING MATERIALS, SCOURING THE HOLONET, PROVIDING SIMPLE MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS, AMONG HAVING IT CARRY OUT OTHER CASUAL TASKS. AS MOST MATUKAI, XEUS HAS NO PERSONAL SHIP, NO LODGING OR HOME, AND NEVER STAYS IN ONE PLACE FOR TOO LONG, ALTHOUGH HE MAY REVISIT SOME PLACES FREQUENTLY, SUCH AS KARVOSS AND THE MATUKAI PANTHEON.
AS A WARRIOR, MARTIAL ARTISTS, FORCE-WIELDER AND ON THE PERSONAL LEVEL, XEUS IS HEAVILY TURNED-OFF BY BLASTERS AND THEIR ILK, PREFERRING MORE HONOR-CULTURED STYLES OF COMBAT. FOR INSTANCE, XEUS HAS SHOWN BOTH THE WILLINGNESS AND SKILL TO WIELD ENERGY-BOWS, AS IN HIS HEART, HE STILL CONSIDERS SUCH WEAPONS TO BE OF AN HONORABLE SORT. SWORDS, SPEARS, WRIST-BLADES, DAGGERS AND OTHER SIMILAR WEAPONS ARE WHAT HE CHOOSES TO RELY ON, AND ARE THE ONLY SORT OF WEAPONS HE WOULD EVER WILLINGLY CARRY ON HIS PERSON. [/FANCYBOX2]
[fancybox2][fancybox4=http://oi61.tinypic.com/1zi4v5.jpg]Aptitude "What makes a man powerful?"[/fancybox4]
XEUS QEL-DROMA IS A POWERFUL MATUKAI WARRIOR, BOTH THROUGH THE FORCE AND AS A MARTIAL ARTIST, DUE TO SPENDING MOST OF HIS LIFE IN ITS ORDER. ALTHOUGH HE HAS A PREFERENCE FOR ECHANI MARTIAL ARTS AND SHOLÂN KHA, HE ALSO HAS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF TERÄS KÄSI, STAVA, MOH-KAY, K'THRI AND BAKUUNI. SO AS TO BREAK DOWN THE MENTAL CONDITIONING OF RECOGNIZING AND IDENTIFYING A COMBAT FORM AND THEN RESPONDING TO IT, XEUS WAS TRAINED EARLY ON WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT FORMS HE WAS LEARNING, SO AS TO MAKE HIS RESPONSE TO VARIOUS FORMS AND STYLES INSTINCTIVE AND INSTANTANEOUS.
WHETHER IT BE SHORT SWORDS, DAGGERS, LONG SWORDS, SPEARS, STAVES OR ANY OTHER MELEE WEAPON, XEUS HAS UTILIZED NEARLY ALL OF THEM, HONING HIS ABILITY TO TURN NEARLY ANY OBJECT OF SUFFICIENT WEIGHT AND DURABILITY INTO A WEAPON - DESIGNED OR OTHERWISE. HOWEVER, HIS GREATEST MASTERY COME THROUGH HIS WAN-SHEN, WHICH HE WIELDS WITH UNCANNY PRECISION AND SKILL. WITH HIS WAN-SHEN, XEUS IS A SUPERBLY DYNAMIC FIGHTER, NEVER KEEPING HIS FOOTING IN ONE PLACE. WHEN FORCED INTO COMBAT, XEUS USUALLY STRIKES-TO-KILL, OR IF HE SEEKS TO TAKE ONE IN, AS OPPOSED TO DOWN, ALWAYS ENGAGES COMBAT WITH THE INTENT AND ATTEMPT TO END THE COMBAT AS SWIFTLY AND PAINLESSLY AS POSSIBLE.
THROUGH THE FORCE, XEUS HAS DEMONSTRATED A MASTERY OF MANY BASIC TECHNIQUES. HE CAN EXPERTLY AUGMENT HIS SPEED, STRENGTH, REFLEXES, SENSES, STAMINA, BREATHING PROCESS, PAIN TOLERANCE, JUMPING ABILITY AND EVEN BODY TEMPERATURE THROUGH THE FORCE. IN THE LATTER CASE, XEUS IS CAPABLE OF DROPPING HIS BODY TEMPERATURE TO FRIGID LEVELS OR RAISING IT HIGH ENOUGH SO THAT HIS OWN SKIN COULD SET CLOTHING ON FIRE. THROUGH MEDITATION, HE CAN RAPIDLY HEAL GRIEVOUS INJURIES TO HIMSELF, SENSE AILMENTS AFFLICTING HIM, PURGE HIS BODY OF POISONS AND EVEN IMMUNIZE HIMSELF TO DISEASES, DRAWING UPON HIS OWN NATURAL HEALTH AND VITALITY TO BOLSTER HIS CONNECTION AND RESULTS WITH THE FORCE.
OFFENSIVELY, XEUS CAN ENTER INTO A FOCUSED COMBATIVE STATE THE MATUKAI CALL "THE WARMIND", WHICH ENABLES HIM TO MAXIMIZE HIS EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN COMBAT BY SUPPRESSING OR BLOCKING OUT ALL WORLDLY DISTRACTIONS. MOST ICONIC OF THESE, HOWEVER, IS XEUS' ABILITY TO INFUSE MATTER WITH THE FORCE, MOST NOTABLY HIS OWN WEAPON. ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT A DAWNWRIGHT, XEUS KNOWS THE BASICS OF INFUSING AN ITEM WITH THE FORCE, AND IS SUPREMELY GIFTED WITH THE ART OF FORCE WEAPON, WHICH ALLOWS HIM TO "CHARGE" ITEMS WITH THE FORCE TO DRASTICALLY INCREASE THEIR RESILIENCE AND STRENGTH, AND IN THE CASE OF HIS WAN-SHEN, ITS CUTTING POWER AS WELL. XEUS CAN ALSO CHANNEL SPECIFIC VENUES OF FORCE ENERGY THROUGH HIS WAN-SHEN, ALLOWING HIM TO CHANNEL EXTREME HEAT THROUGH THE WEAPON TO INCREASE THE DAMAGE IT DEALT, OR TO CRYOKINETICALLY GIVE HIS WAN-SHEN A FREEZING EFFECT.
XEUS CAN ALSO USE "BEYOND-SIGHT", A MATUKAI SKILL THAT ALLOWS HIM TO SEE OTHER SPECTRUM FIELDS OF ENERGY FREQUENCIES AROUND HIM. DEFENSIVELY, XEUS IS A MASTER OF FORCE OF WILL, WHICH ENABLES HIM TO RESIST OFFENSIVE PROJECTIONS OF THE FORCE - A VITAL SKILL, AS NEARLY ALL OF HIS OWN ABILITIES ARE RESTRICTED TO CLOSE-QUARTERS SITUATIONS. THE SOLE EXCEPTION TO THIS IS THE FACT THAT XEUS IS CAPABLE OF UTILIZING THE ANCIENT "KARVOSSI ROAR", WHICH WAS PASSED DOWN TO THE MATUKAI GENERATIONS AGO FROM THE NOW-EXTINCT DRUIDS OF KARVOSS.[/FANCYBOX2]
XEUS QEL-DROMA IS A POWERFUL MATUKAI WARRIOR, BOTH THROUGH THE FORCE AND AS A MARTIAL ARTIST, DUE TO SPENDING MOST OF HIS LIFE IN ITS ORDER. ALTHOUGH HE HAS A PREFERENCE FOR ECHANI MARTIAL ARTS AND SHOLÂN KHA, HE ALSO HAS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF TERÄS KÄSI, STAVA, MOH-KAY, K'THRI AND BAKUUNI. SO AS TO BREAK DOWN THE MENTAL CONDITIONING OF RECOGNIZING AND IDENTIFYING A COMBAT FORM AND THEN RESPONDING TO IT, XEUS WAS TRAINED EARLY ON WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT FORMS HE WAS LEARNING, SO AS TO MAKE HIS RESPONSE TO VARIOUS FORMS AND STYLES INSTINCTIVE AND INSTANTANEOUS.
WHETHER IT BE SHORT SWORDS, DAGGERS, LONG SWORDS, SPEARS, STAVES OR ANY OTHER MELEE WEAPON, XEUS HAS UTILIZED NEARLY ALL OF THEM, HONING HIS ABILITY TO TURN NEARLY ANY OBJECT OF SUFFICIENT WEIGHT AND DURABILITY INTO A WEAPON - DESIGNED OR OTHERWISE. HOWEVER, HIS GREATEST MASTERY COME THROUGH HIS WAN-SHEN, WHICH HE WIELDS WITH UNCANNY PRECISION AND SKILL. WITH HIS WAN-SHEN, XEUS IS A SUPERBLY DYNAMIC FIGHTER, NEVER KEEPING HIS FOOTING IN ONE PLACE. WHEN FORCED INTO COMBAT, XEUS USUALLY STRIKES-TO-KILL, OR IF HE SEEKS TO TAKE ONE IN, AS OPPOSED TO DOWN, ALWAYS ENGAGES COMBAT WITH THE INTENT AND ATTEMPT TO END THE COMBAT AS SWIFTLY AND PAINLESSLY AS POSSIBLE.
THROUGH THE FORCE, XEUS HAS DEMONSTRATED A MASTERY OF MANY BASIC TECHNIQUES. HE CAN EXPERTLY AUGMENT HIS SPEED, STRENGTH, REFLEXES, SENSES, STAMINA, BREATHING PROCESS, PAIN TOLERANCE, JUMPING ABILITY AND EVEN BODY TEMPERATURE THROUGH THE FORCE. IN THE LATTER CASE, XEUS IS CAPABLE OF DROPPING HIS BODY TEMPERATURE TO FRIGID LEVELS OR RAISING IT HIGH ENOUGH SO THAT HIS OWN SKIN COULD SET CLOTHING ON FIRE. THROUGH MEDITATION, HE CAN RAPIDLY HEAL GRIEVOUS INJURIES TO HIMSELF, SENSE AILMENTS AFFLICTING HIM, PURGE HIS BODY OF POISONS AND EVEN IMMUNIZE HIMSELF TO DISEASES, DRAWING UPON HIS OWN NATURAL HEALTH AND VITALITY TO BOLSTER HIS CONNECTION AND RESULTS WITH THE FORCE.
OFFENSIVELY, XEUS CAN ENTER INTO A FOCUSED COMBATIVE STATE THE MATUKAI CALL "THE WARMIND", WHICH ENABLES HIM TO MAXIMIZE HIS EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN COMBAT BY SUPPRESSING OR BLOCKING OUT ALL WORLDLY DISTRACTIONS. MOST ICONIC OF THESE, HOWEVER, IS XEUS' ABILITY TO INFUSE MATTER WITH THE FORCE, MOST NOTABLY HIS OWN WEAPON. ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT A DAWNWRIGHT, XEUS KNOWS THE BASICS OF INFUSING AN ITEM WITH THE FORCE, AND IS SUPREMELY GIFTED WITH THE ART OF FORCE WEAPON, WHICH ALLOWS HIM TO "CHARGE" ITEMS WITH THE FORCE TO DRASTICALLY INCREASE THEIR RESILIENCE AND STRENGTH, AND IN THE CASE OF HIS WAN-SHEN, ITS CUTTING POWER AS WELL. XEUS CAN ALSO CHANNEL SPECIFIC VENUES OF FORCE ENERGY THROUGH HIS WAN-SHEN, ALLOWING HIM TO CHANNEL EXTREME HEAT THROUGH THE WEAPON TO INCREASE THE DAMAGE IT DEALT, OR TO CRYOKINETICALLY GIVE HIS WAN-SHEN A FREEZING EFFECT.
XEUS CAN ALSO USE "BEYOND-SIGHT", A MATUKAI SKILL THAT ALLOWS HIM TO SEE OTHER SPECTRUM FIELDS OF ENERGY FREQUENCIES AROUND HIM. DEFENSIVELY, XEUS IS A MASTER OF FORCE OF WILL, WHICH ENABLES HIM TO RESIST OFFENSIVE PROJECTIONS OF THE FORCE - A VITAL SKILL, AS NEARLY ALL OF HIS OWN ABILITIES ARE RESTRICTED TO CLOSE-QUARTERS SITUATIONS. THE SOLE EXCEPTION TO THIS IS THE FACT THAT XEUS IS CAPABLE OF UTILIZING THE ANCIENT "KARVOSSI ROAR", WHICH WAS PASSED DOWN TO THE MATUKAI GENERATIONS AGO FROM THE NOW-EXTINCT DRUIDS OF KARVOSS.[/FANCYBOX2]
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[fancybox2][fancybox2]
"A wise man fears his power. For power does not corrupt man, but it is man that corrupts power. He that does not fear the power in his grasp will be overcome by it."
Zokroslen (Soft-to-Solid)
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
ANIMUS
"POWER OF THE SPIRIT"
Magnify Senses
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Beyond-Sight
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Reflex
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Remain Conscious
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Warmind
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
ESOTERICA
"POWER OF THE LIGHT"
Force Weapon
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Life Sense
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Tactile Cryokinesis
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Imbue Item
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force of Will
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
RIXOR
"YOUR BODY IS THE GREATEST WEAPON YOU HAVE
Echani
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Sholân Kha
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Moh-Kay
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Teräs Käsi
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
K'Thri
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Bakuuni
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Jeswandi
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Stava
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
[/fancybox2]
"A wise man fears his power. For power does not corrupt man, but it is man that corrupts power. He that does not fear the power in his grasp will be overcome by it."
―Xeus Qel-Droma
[/FANCYBOX2]CORPOREA
"POWER OF THE FLESH"
Force Strength
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Jump
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Speed
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Contortion
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Breath Control
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Crucitorn
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Detoxify Poison
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Regeneration
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Karvossi Roar
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Tapas
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Convection
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Traction
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
"POWER OF THE FLESH"
Force Strength
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Jump
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Speed
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Contortion
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Breath Control
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Crucitorn
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Detoxify Poison
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Regeneration
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Karvossi Roar
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Tapas
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Convection
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Traction
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Zokroslen (Soft-to-Solid)
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
ANIMUS
"POWER OF THE SPIRIT"
Magnify Senses
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Beyond-Sight
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force Reflex
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Remain Conscious
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Warmind
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
ESOTERICA
"POWER OF THE LIGHT"
Force Weapon
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Life Sense
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Tactile Cryokinesis
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Imbue Item
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
Force of Will
[FANCYBOX2][/FANCYBOX2][FANCYBOX2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/FANCYBOX2]
RIXOR
"YOUR BODY IS THE GREATEST WEAPON YOU HAVE
Echani
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Sholân Kha
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Moh-Kay
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Teräs Käsi
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
K'Thri
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Bakuuni
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Jeswandi
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
Stava
[fancybox2][/fancybox2][fancybox2]⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺⟺[/fancybox2]
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