Good Ol' Scoundrel
[Left to right: A Weaving ritual | A Zeltron Weaver | A Mirialan/Human Weaver | Maalika - Matron of the Coterie | Aera - considered the most talented Weaver this generation has known | Weaving]
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Something for Ember and the rest of the board to explore and weave to their liking in the future.
- Image Credit:
- Demons of Demon Slayer by Phobs @ DeviantArt
- Lanya by Sam Hogg @ ArtStation
- Asala from Chronicles of Blood
- Moiraine Damodred from The Wheels of Time
- Loom Cover Art from Loom Game by LucasArts found on WikiPedia.
- Cliffside Ritual by entroz @ DeviantArt
- Banner is edited by me, Background is Angel Of Vengeance by entroz @ DeviantArt and symbol is from iconfinder.
[*]Role: A coterie
[*]Links: N/A
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Group Name: Halari-Ra, also known as the Coterie of the Weave. They refer to themselves as Weavers.
- Classification: Coterie
- Headquarters: Endelaan
- Loyalties: Themselves
- Group Sigil: Thread and needle representation in banner at the top.
- Description: The Halari-Ra are similar to the Jal Shey order in the sense where both are specialists in Force imbuement but that is where the similarities end. The Coterie, mainly females but not restricted to males, are experts in what they call 'Weaving'. To the known galaxy that would be their own way of using the Force to imbue or even create items. As logic dictates, most of their creations or imbuements are in some way related to textile and clothing. The strongest are capable of weaving a cloth capable of withstanding damages unnatural for a cloth to sustain - just like a force imbuement may grant an item supernatural defensive capabilities, for example.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
- Hierarchy: 'Democratic'. While, due to their nature, there is rarely any decisions to be taken, when there is the Coterie all vote with the Matron retaining the executive power. It is her decision in the end.
- Membership: To become an initiate in the Coterie, all members must accept them and each has a different set of factors that judge whether one can become an initiate or no thus becoming a Halari-Ra or having them share their knowledge is quite hard and complicated.
An initiate will be officially inducted into the Coterie as full-pledged member when they undertake the so-called Opus. A ritual in which the initiate has to create a Force imbued thread by themselves, with no help, and with properties to it that will be unique and signature to them. Some have created threads in their Opus that are impossibly flexible, others that are unbreakable but all are unique to their creators.
In the future most's creations and specializations remain dictated by what they had crafted during the Opus, only a few had changed their thread crafting and even less were able to become rather skilled in more than just their own Opus. - Dogma/Doctrines: The Halari-Ra is not a religious cult that possesses a complicated system of dogmas and tenets that are enforced. It is more of a craft in which political affiliation, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and etc do not matter. What only matters is that when they are together, they must retain a harmonic and peaceful atmosphere between each other. Nonetheless, hostility between Halari-Ra is rare but if it arises the Matron is able to take the role of a judge to retain the stability of the Coterie.
- Curios: Tattoo of their symbol somewhere on their body. Other than that, it is a trend among Coterie members to tattoo or pierce their bodies on different, some might say exotic places such as the face (See Maalika, Matron of the Coterie above)
- Goals: The survival and continuation of the Halari-Ra. Otherwise, personal goals vary from individual to individual.
MEMBERS
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The organization Nebula believed that the lost planet of Endelaan would bring destruction to the galaxy so an exploration starship was sent - The Spiral Dancer. Unbeknownst to Nebula, the Spiral Dancer's crew survived a crash landing due to heavy magnetic storms in the atmosphere of the planet. The crew of survivors lived to attempt to reconnect with the known galaxy. A number of the crew committed suicide over time as their situation became dire and the possibility to return home to their families and lives became close to impossible. Those that retained the power of will accepted harshly the reality but pushed on to survive slowly degrading into a more backwater civilization than that of the known galaxy.
The survivors grew in number as they reproduced but decades later they would find themselves new guests. Another ship sent on the same mission crash landed similarly and the same fate followed. Another generation later, as the technological level of the makeshift civilization degraded furthermore, an intense winter capable of exterminating species arrived. Many died of cold before a teenager witnessing the slow death of his mother began...weaving. Thread, after thread. Cloth after cloth. Tears after tears wetting the fabrics. Sobbing endlessly next to the little fire left next to his nearly dead mother, the kid weaved more and more for his mother until one blanket could melt the ice, metaphorically speaking. Upon the brink of destruction, the Force had saved them all with the gift of the kid.
Or so the story says.
But it is accepted by the coterie that the child was indeed the first of the Coterie, unofficially forming a group of people to teach and improvise in order to prepare for another endless winter that may come so they could survive and live to see another day with their beloved ones.
Naturally, the Gulag Plague remained an event unknown to the locals of Endelaan and to the Coterie which had become a respected group on the growing planet. Towards the end of the Gulag Plague, a starship of explorers, among them the Jedi - Maalika. Her expertise in the Force opened new opportunities to the Coterie along with knowledge of the Force. It also brought knowledge of the events across the galaxy, along with a level up of technology on the planet by a small margin. Still rather backwater compared to the rest of the galaxy.
Upon the death of the previous Matron, a few years after the third ship of explorers crashed, Maalika was voted as Matron of the Coterie. Their numbers resumed to be rather marginal, between 20 to 30 at any given time. Nonetheless, Maalika's Jedi code was not completely lost to her. She clearly warned of the dark side of the Force and remained vigilant.
During the Netherworld crisis, more than dozens of people disappeared, among them a few members of the Coterie leading Maalika to suggest that someone of the Coterie needs to find out what is going out by venturing away from Endelaan using the semi-repaired ship in which Maalika had arrived with. Aera - considered one of the most talented Weavers - was sent into the galaxy to learn about the mysterious disappearance and to bear more news to the Coterie. With her a few more locals came seeking either to leave Endelaan or create a way for news of the galaxy to be known on the planet. They had lived on a lost planet for too long.
Yet, that did not mean they would be throwing fireworks of where they were from but simply creating a line capable of delivering happenings across the galaxy to them.
Other than that, they were all fine on the 'lost' planet.
Meanwhile, Maalika and the rest of the Halari-Ra remained honing their skills in Weaving and helping their community in anyway their craft could.
