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Name: Krynda Draay
Canon: Star Wars
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: End of Vindication 04
Number: RNG it please!

Setting: Krynda is from Star Wars, that galaxy that's far, far away and full of creatures like Yoda, Wookies, and Jedi and similar kinds of people that use a thing called the Force. Basically it's your standard space opera like place and people use the Force for a variety of things if they're a Jedi or similar. The Knights of the Old Republic era is set many, many years before even Yoda was born and is basically like the Dark Ages to us, long forgotten and surviving in modern Star Wars history as you know that ancient past bit where they think they've grown from it.

History:

Krynda Draay was the youngest daughter of a rather lecherous Miraluka Jedi, Noab Hulis, and a human woman who we never learn the name of. Her and her sisters didn't share a mother, hence the you know lecherous bit, but they were family and that's really the only important bit about this. Because her father was a Jedi, his daughters were trained as Jedi including Krynda and she was sent to train under Arca Jeth alongside two men that were experiments in if they could be trained as Jedi, Barrison Draay and his family servant, Haazen. The three of them trained for years together and Krynda grew to have feelings for Barrison and he for her while Haazen grew to have them for Krynda. Just remember that for later, okay?

But of the three of them only Krynda and Barrison were deemed worthy enough to be Knights, and with Hulis's help, Barrison arranged for his family's money to be set into a trust to keep it safe and to keep his investors happy. Even being a Jedi he watched out for those he had employed and the trust would insure they'd keep their jobs. But that's totally not relevant too much here, as the main bit of this is that Haazen wasn't allowed to become a Knight and just ended up following Barrison around like a lost puppy after this.

As two people tend to do when they can, and the Order isn't full of giant assholes, Barrison and Krynda got married somewhere around after leaving Jeth's tutelage and Krynda trained under Vodo-Siosk Baas, who was also the master of a number of other Jedi at the time (namely Exar Kun). This led to the eventual conception of Lucien and this ultimately distracted Krynda greatly from galactic events happening at the time, namely Exar Kun and his rise to power. In fact Lucien's difficult birth made it impossible for her to get involved in things and to make it worse she had a vision of Exar Kun's rising to power as she gave birth to her son. And so starts Lucien being the worlds biggest pain in his mother's ass.

But with the rise of power of Exar Kun, so started the Great Sith War that Krynda ended up sitting out of because of her son. Barrison, however, didn't sit it out nor did Haazen, and both men got involved in the war. Haazen, being jealous of the Barrison's prowess and family and getting the girl and money, set up an entire thing to get power and kill Barrison. This ultimately led to Barrison dying and Haazen ending up a deformed mess of Sith artifacts and scars.

If you hadn't noticed by now, but being a Draay or associated with this family is rather bad for your health, just fyi.

With Haazen's thing occurring, he returned to Coruscant and served Krynda loyally. Krynda would help where she could with the Jedi and would always come home to be disappointed in her son not seeing her return via the Force, and while for a time she avoided the Jedi Order as a whole, she started training young seers when Q'Anilia was brought to her. This led to the creation of the Jedi Covenant, not associated with the Jedi and run by herself and Haazen and run out of her home. With the goal of keeping an eye out for the rise of more Sith and finding their artifacts to hide and study, that's pretty much all she did for thirty years, using her reputation as one of the last survivors of the Great Sith War to give herself some leeway, as well as making life difficult for her son reminding him that because he can't see the future it means he's pretty worthless to her. Well until Haazen convinced her to let him be the Hand of her best WatchCircle. Which after some himming and hawwing she allowed as the prophecy she had concerning this WatchCircle involvied five and Haazen was rather convincing in why Lucien should be with them.

She kept in touch with all of her agents, including Lucien and his WatchCircle, especially them as they were the best of the entire Covenant as they were the best seeing further together than even she could. When they were sent to Taris and were ready to commit the Padawan Massacre, she had a vision of it and it caused her to have a stroke, which Haazen took advantage of and shoved her into a prototype oubliette. Where she stayed awake and suffered the pain of the deaths of all the Taris Padawans for the like next thirty issues of the comic, even though Lucien keeps looking for her and Haazen keeps smacking him down about it.

In fact it's only when Zayne is captured and Haazen reveals himself to be a Sith that anyone even finds her upstairs in her room int he oubliette. Gryph is the one that gets her out and drags her down to talk to Lucien whose in the middle of a fight with Zayne and Haazen, and gets Force pushed for his efforts. It's there that she confesses that if Lucien had brought the Padawans to her as she ordered this could've been avoided as she wanted to see if any of them really were the Sith they thought them to be and the only thing that got her through her time in the oubliette (a Sith device that's like a coffin but puts people in stasis sort of), was the thought that Lucien wouldn't actually kill them. When Lucien confessed that he had because of what she taught him, and recovering still from her stroke, Krynda took it horribly and died in Lucien's arms.

She'll just be showing up a little before that however.

Personality:

Krynda is ultimately what one would expect in a Jedi as well as what one would not. She's sure of herself, knowing precisely what she thinks should be done and doing all she can to insure that it is, which ultimately is protecting the galaxy from the Sith. Forming the Covenant is her main way to insuring the galaxy is safe, and keeping herself seperate from the Jedi Order in general insures she has the best possible reach for these goals.

However she tends to focus much more on the Force and how it works and how her Seers can see and such that her focus on matters that aren't her ultimate farsighted goals tend to be ignored. The Draay Trust she trusts others to control and she even passes on the opportunity to train Lucien because he doesn't share her visions. Instead she focuses on what she thinks is important and tends to be blind to what effects she's having on others. Especially when she all but plays favorites doing this, lavishing so much attention on the seers she trains that Lucien ultimately lashes out at her numerous times over it. In fact she gets outraged when Lucien harms them during a training exercise and instead of being proud of her son for beating four students on his own lectures him about what why he shouldn't.

She's easily frustrated, especially when it's over something that's sensitive to her. Her lack of ability to see Exar Kun's rise to power is one, and it's also in part guilt over not seeing that galaxy changing event ultimately makes talk of her husband frustrating and sensitive. Frustration often ends in her lashing out at people and no one in this family has a healthy way of coping with their issues as it then leads to her looking for a place to go and hide and let herself recover on her own. She's easily tired from dealing with such topics and ultimately will try and push the people bringing them up away from her. This is in part why her relationship with Lucien is so tense, because he reminds her in so many ways of her dead husband, his father, that she couldn't save via her visions that she can't really stand being around him too long. Though this in part can also be because of need to protect him so she doesn't lose people again, as the Covenant was formed to do in a fashion. Mostly it has to do with how big a button Lucien tends to hit in her however and well, Jedi aren't all about being serene yet in this era so she lashes out. And like her son she lashes out violently and quickly, which would be where he got it from.

She's another one of those Jedi that hates the Sith and ultimately isn't ashamed to admit it. She's a Sith hunter in a fashion, and sees no reason why she shouldn't hate them after what they've done to her and others.

As was mentioned before she carries a lot of guilt and shame over not seeing Exar Kun's rise to power, ultimately this is her driving force to keep the Covenant going. That someone has to do these things and she should because she was part of the problem, it's a Jedi problem after all and she sees no reason why she shouldn't be the solution when the Council is happy to ignore it. It's also why she's kept space between herself and the Order, she doesn't want to deal with anything that reminds her of her late husband and the shame she thinks herself under for failing him, her sister and her former master who died. This is a woman attempting to find atonement in whatever way she can using her skills and the visions of others to get that.

To that end she's closer to her seers than she is Lucien, but she still thinks Lucien's picked up on her teachings even though his raising was under Haazen. Her seers in fact, get her views on things much better than her son and it is that which ultimately breaks her heart as there are some lines she'll never cross, including killing Padawans and younglings without proper cause, something which Lucien has done without problem. This also shows however, that for those that she considers close she's ultimately blind to how they really are, as even Haazen, close to her for years, was able to hide his true intentions from her with the aide of Sith Artifacts. This is a result of her being so focused on her visions that she just assumes everyone is learning as they should and she doesn't really ever think twice about it. She's like the ultimate at snap decisions basically. Being blind to how people around her act also makes her pretty easy to guide along and manipulate if you know the proper words to say, something which Haazen has gotten to an art form and Krynda has yet to notice it.

She doesn't really ever put on an act, she sees no reason to even though she's acting behind the scenes mostly. She is who she is and that's enough for her to be as she has been for the last thirty years, turning down a seat on the Jedi Council to keep to herself and do her own thing. She however isn't afraid to use her status as a survivor of the war to keep people in line ultimately to the frustration of others.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

Krynda is a Jedi, which means she has a connection to and uses the Force. She is not a Guardian like her son or husband however, but a Seer and a trained Counselor as well. Which means she focuses more on manipulation of the Force and how to use it on people as well as gathering information on people via both mundane and Force methods. All Force powers will be up to Mod Discretion ultimately and controlled via a permissions post and she won't have any visions unless I ask about them to you. Her greatest strength is in her visions but she is a Jedi so she's bound to have all the other skills of a Jedi in her era, including Force Push and similar talents.

Again she's not a warrior but she does know how to use a lightsaber, she just won't be as proficient with it as other Jedi on the ship.

She can also speak a number of other languages, presumably that of all the non-humans she has in the Covenant like Lucien can. It can also be assumed she has a good head on her shoulders in being a leader somewhat, but not nearly as well as others.

She is half-Miraluka, half-human but the only advantage her blood gives her is seeing the future. She's otherwise a squishy fleshy being like everyone else.

Inventory: Her lightsaber (yellow), purple Jedi robes (noticeably less fancy then her son) and shoes.
Appearance: Krynda's your average older woman with blonde/white hair (depending on canon art like really...) that's shoulder length but because of how varied her appearances are in canon I'm using Glenn Close as a PB to just have consistency.
Age: No canon age is given but a rough estimate somewhere in her 50s is the best I can offer.

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

It's difficult for her to watch Lucien fight the others, how he slips in and out, dodging and kicking his fellow students in the practice area. It's difficult because he's so much like his father that she finds it hard to watch, hard to keep her eyes on him when he kicks Feln and then gives Q'Anilia a cocky grin. Part of her wants to march down there and stop it, stop him from harming her Seers else he accidentally (or perhaps intentionally though she doubts it) harm them in such a way that they're out of commission for too long. But Haazen had told her to stay out of it and so she will, instead she's taking to watching from a nearby balcony. It's not the best of places but it keeps her out of sight from them and won't start another fight with Lucien about something.

She has to admit to herself that he has turned into a good Hand, as Haazen called him. He's every bit the protector she's certain Barrison would approve of and seems to have a good head for the business and people involved in it, he's much more grounded. He's exactly what they need, or at least that's her opinion of the entire thing and ultimately in the end, it's her orders that insure he's kept with them. But seeing how he is around Q'Anilia, especially after they extinguish their lightsabers and he places a hand on her arm, she can see him only improving. Perhaps, perhaps he'll live up to his father's name after all. Or perhaps she's just wishful thinking as she looks at him, especially when she can start to see more parallels between himself and her and Barrison and she's not going to think about that.

Shaking her head she clasps her hands and moves on, back into the halls and away from those too similar scenes. She doesn't need reminders of the past, what she needs are signs of the future. Perhaps that she can save.

Comms Sample:

[There's an older woman on the screen and she brushes back her hair some, looking stern as blue eyes seem to focus on something else entirely and not the camera.]

It has come to my attention that there may be others here who would call themselves seers and perhaps there are those here who are such and don't know how to use their talents. I am willing to teach you or perhaps guide you in your abilities. I have taught many and guided many more in how to understand what they see and am more than willing to do so here.

[A pause as she looks confused for a moment before pressing on.]

Even if for now I do not understand how it is you do as you do, I will try to understand in order to offer aide better. You need only ask.

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The reason why she's such a powerful figure head is in part due to her abilities as a Seer, one of the most powerful in the Jedi Order in her time and in part because because she's one of the last remaining heroes from the war still in touch with the Jedi Order. Her words carry a lot of weight because of it, especially as she's not sitting on the Jedi Council which makes her a rather odd but untouchable Jedi in the eyes of the Council without proof of her Covenant activities, solid proof or else they might be seen as attacking a war hero and that's not something they want to do when the Jedi are already divided over getting involved in a war or not. She's smart and uses that to her advantage, at least when dealing with the Council. With those in the Covenant they see her as working for a purpose that no one else is willing to do, which is the truth. The Council isn't looking to worry about Sith or other concerns and she's very much focused on preventing such things again. It's because the Covenant is the only group working towards such things that they follow her, and her visions and resources to study the Sith only help. She relies heavily on doing the right thing in her mind and the minds of others to keep them all loyal. But to them all she very much seems in control of everything, knowing precisely what to do to help Raana Tey with her nightmares or to give a kind word to someone to put them in her favor. She's not manipulative, she does it out of a desire to help them to be at their best to further her own goals and save the galaxy. She routinely comes off as haughty and proud because of it and she doesn't change this for anyone, student or son, retainer or droid, they all get the same treatment.

The motivations behind the Covenant and what she does tie into her feelings of betrayal and helplessness from allowing so many to die. Being one of the greatest seers of the Order to her means she should have seen Exar Kun's betrayal and been able to prevent the deaths of one of her sisters and Barrison and her Master. She has immense pride in her abilities as a seer because of people constantly praising her on it and not seeing Exar Kun's fall or being able to stop those deaths weighs very heavy on her both in a blow to her pride and in the guilt that she couldn't stop it. She relies a lot on the Force since those incidents to tell her when somethings wrong because it's what she knows she's the best at and ultimately she trusts in it to tell her when something's wrong. Barrison understood people, Krynda doesn't, and it's how Haazen was able to work his way into her service and work his own plans into the Covenant along with a lot of praise to bolster her pride, calling her work a higher purpose and similar and because of various Sith artifacts he had on his person she had no reason to not trust him. This also ties into her hatred of the Sith which is her underlying motivation into running the Covenant, to protect the galaxy and learn all she can about them to prevent their rise again. This also leads to her views being very harsh in how to handle potential Sith, and Haazen really only helps to feed these extreme measures with those around her but she ultimately thinks they'll come to her before doing anything and listen to her word being the end all be all of things so she doesn't really pay much attention to the views taught to her students by Haazen when she isn't around. Ultimately she's out to try and prevent people from losing close loved ones again even though it's those deaths that drive her to keep the Covenant going. So it's also fear that drives her to this, fear that the Sith will rise and she won't be able to protect what few people she has left.

While she knows visions are fickle and all avenues should be investigated as to the shatterpoint of what could cause a future, it doesn't stop her from encouraging heavy reliance on those visions and the Force to others even for herself. It's that pride thing really again, because why would a Jedi need to learn how to read people when they can use the Force, and again it makes her think she knows the people around her. Especially those she's known for years like Haazen and Lucien, which is why their betrayal, especially Lucien's, hit home hard. The fact that Lucien would kill students without thought because of what he perceived her views to be was a massive blow because she thought she understood him, same with Haazen and putting her into the Sith device. To her Haazen was just the family retainer of Barrison with a crush on her that she blew off because of Barrison and not a threat and Lucien being her son she thought she knew him above all else. Relying so much on visions and teaching her students means she didn't know them. The mission of saving the galaxy was always more important to her which meant her students were more important to her which ultimately made Lucien revealing the truth about why he did hit home so much more. Again they were close to her and she never dreamed they'd do as they did which is why the shock of it all killed her. She couldn't stand the thought of a loved one doing that, and more than likely was also afraid of what it meant; that his actions would lead to punishment and her losing him and ultimateley a loved one, again. But it really comes down to what was she supposed to do when she realized she didn't even understand her own son? It's really only as she lays dying that she realizes her pride is a huge factor in things but habits are hard to drop. She blames everyone but herself for what's happened before telling Lucien to face the future with humility and hopes that her dying words are enough to convince her thirty-six year old son to change his ways. Yeah.

Really at the end of the day she's so not mother of the year material, her pride gets in the way of even forming a healthy relationship with her son outside of her work and she doesn't really care about the feelings of people she assumes she understands. She's basically like a hippy, all up into a higher purpose and listening to things and acting shocked when people act totally different than she thought they would. Then people wonder why she isn't on the Council.