Nathan Bloodscrawl
House Bloodscrawl Patriarch
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
House Bloodscrawl symbol "The Fanged Chevron."
(NOTE: All links listed as Flashback posts take place at later times, but were selected to tell as coherent an origin of his earliest days as could possibly be managed)
Keystone post flashback
Foundation Flashback Post 1
Foundation Flashback Post 2
Dark Below Flashback Post 1
Dark Below Flashback Post 2
Dark Below Flashback Post 3
Dark Below Flashback Post 4
Spelunking Flashback Post 1
Spelunking Flashback Post 2
Spelunking Flashback Post 4, 5, 6
Kill them all and Let God sort 'em out (Post 1)
Batallion Invasion Post 2
Battalion Invasion Post 3
Family Bonding
Battalion Invasion Post 4
The Maze of Darth Phyre
Family Bonding : Prescott/Arianna
Reconnection: Percival Io
Dominion of Krant
Lost on Lothal
Welcome to the Future
Paying The Piper
The Fall of Laertia Io
Gift of Light
Dominion of Kinyen
Dominion of Sullust
Brentaal Relics
RAT RACE
Grandson Versus Grandfather
Rimma Trade Incident
Founding of Bacta-Works
Followers of the Hidden Truth
The Ghost and The Dragon
Contemplation of Stone
Spark of Hope
Kirdo in Chains
Annihilation of Exogal
Sacrifice's End
Securing the Past
Glued Together
Mining Crisis
Fishing for Friends
Caldera Crisis
Charity Event
Hapes Mission
Second Hapes Mission Post
Podracing on New Alderaan
Three Rings of Defense
Blades drawn Blunt-Side (Extended Duel with Braze, the fight and Braze's words inspire him to marry Vera and reform House Bloodscrawl)
Mandalorian Op
New Year Gala + Winter Gala
Enter the Krayt Dragon
Relief Efforts
Dissolution of the Rim
Defense of Tython
Apprentice to Flesh
Like a Horse and Carriage
The Aftermath
The Door (House Bloodscrawl Civil War)
Fragments Held Close + A Pretty Face
Apprentice to Ions
Paradigm Shift
The Lost World of Kytrand
Eclipse
Bonding Time
Total War
Echoes of War
Battle for Balance
Relief Efforts: The Greenhouses
Relief Efforts: The Nexus Search
End of the Core Wars
GENERAL INFORMATION
Colossus of Tython (Stolen by House Io Defectors, and presented to Nathan as a Gift)
Colossus of Shadows (Stolen by House Io Defectors and presented to Nathan as a Gift)
Bacta-Works of Epica
SOCIAL INFORMATION
MATRIARCH: The one in charge when the Patriarch isn't. The Matriarch is the mediator between the Patriarch and the rest of the lower groups and has the most access to him
PRIME SIBLING: Any who the Patriarch adopts as a Sister or Brother, they have the most access to the Patriarch after The Matriarch herself, and take more active roles in running Divisions/Troops/Projects
HEIRS: The Patriarch and Matriarchs Children, often acting as diplomats, personal representatives. To attack one is to effectively declare war on House Bloodscrawl itself.
HIGH ABBESS: Responsible for spreading the teachings of the Light Side throughout the population. Head Religious Authority in the House
MODERATORS: Citizens who have demonstrates significant loyalty and contributions are entrusted with special assignments and programs, and are given special equipment to help carry out whatever task they are given more efficiently
CITIZENS: Everyone else. Given wide ranging latitude to operate how they please so long as they adhere to the rules and goals of the organization
De Lifte Experimental Armor
De Lifte Hazmat Exosuit
Jedi Grav Armor
Prototype Armor
Bloodscrawl Jedi Armor
Plague Era Jedi Power Armor
Armor of Antony Bloodscrawl
Armor of The Bloodscrawls
Morris Crownwraithe's Reinforced Fiber Armor
Lysandra's Protection
Weapons:
Bloodscrawl Lightsaber
Ancient Bloodscrawl Set
Sword of Natalya Bloodscrawl
Lance of Ession
Needle of Csilla
Morris Crownwraithe's First Lightsaber
Sword of 007 Blessings (Stolen)
Lysandra's Pike
War Sword of Darth Xiphos (Stolen)
Crystals
Plague Ankarres
Opal of The Specialist (Stolen)
Pearl of The Flame Matriarch (Stolen)
Moya De Lifte's Ankarres Crystal (Stolen)
Furnace of Ession
Databases:
Holocron of Blades (Stolen)
1. Serve The Public Trust
2. Protect The Innocent
3. Uphold The Will of The Force (Authors Note: Nathan mentions these rules often in many of my posts after the Krant Dominion Thread listed in the links section above)
House Bloodscrawl Members
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
What-shall-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
What-shall-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
What-shall-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
Stab-em-in-the-chest-with-a-rusty-Bes'kad!
Stab-em-in-the-chest-with-a-rusty-Bes'kad!
Stab-em-in-the-chest-with-a-rusty-Bes'kad!
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
Blast-'em-in-the-bar-before-they're-sober
Blast-'em-in-the-bar-before-they're-sober
Blast-'em-in-the-bar-before-they're-sober
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
Stick-'em-in-a-pit-that's-full-of-Voxyn
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Stick-'em-in-a-pit-that's-full-of-Voxyn
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
Put-'em-in-the-jaws-of-an-upset-Rancor
Put-'em-in-the-jaws-of-an-upset-Rancor
Put-'em-in-the-jaws-of-an-upset-Rancor
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
That's-what-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
That's-what-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
That's-what-we-do-to-a-Drunken-Sith-Lord
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Hey-Hey, our-saber-flashes
Early-in-the-morning!
--House Bloodscrawl Official Anthem
House Bloodscrawl, which in its pre-Jedi related history were known as House Krimsonmarke of Ession (And before that, as House Scarletscratch) have long been great but secretive patrons of various Light Side related efforts, long before any of its members first picked up a lightsaber (Or even so much as a sword imbued with the Force) but they only truly began to be documented around the Jedi's most ancient beginnings on Coruscant, with its members serving as temple guards, each gaining a reputation for stoicism and unflinching willingness to fight the Dark Side. They were among the very oldest families to continually give children of theirs to be trained. So old, in fact, that they were around during a time before Jedi Lightsabers having red blades carried a stigma (It should bear noting that the natural red crystals used in such sabers were not the same shade as the synthetic 'bloodshine' crystals used by Sith). The Bloodscrawls even possessed a lightsaber lance that had a natural red crystal, passed down to each successive Patriarch that produced a blade that was red to the core, and a right of passage for generations of the family were to use said blade to carve the Jedi code into a slab of stone (This was how they acquired the name Bloodscrawl) Even after most other Jedi were completely banned from using red bladed lightsabers, the Bloodscrawls were given special permission by the council to continue wielding and making red blades as long as they were the same shade as the blade of the lance that they got their name from...one utterly red to the core.
This tradition would very slowly but surely fade out as the Jedi Council became stricter and stricter until by the time of the Clone Wars it had almost faded from memory from everyone but the Bloodscrawls themselves, who continued to make and wield such blades in secret. By the time of the Clone wars, the Family was a pale shadow of its former glory, with it's at the time last living descendant, Antony Bloodscrawl, fruitlessly trying to convince the Order that the Clone Army wasn't to be trusted. When he was ignored, Antony gave up and focused on upgrading his own gear and refusing to be near any Clones, which saved his life when Order 66 was executed. Unlike so many Jedi, he quietly survived the purge in hiding and did not emerge until Palpatine and Vader were long dead. Declaring the Jedi Order must never be so easily wiped out ever again, he set in motion the Bloodscrawl Family's post Clone Wars rebirth, his children creating the mighty Bloodscrawl Medical Corporation and climbing to heights of power and wealth previously unimaginable for even what had been a once very wealthy family.
200 years before the Gulag Virus brought the Galaxy low, the Family had become an anti-heroic counterpart to groups like the exchange, its focus bent on making sure the Order could survive and rebuild after ANY purge attempt, creating so many storehouses of Jedi Knowledge (And squirreling away trillions in aurodium bullion, ships, weapons and armor, all for Jedi and their governments to rebuild following a disaster. The crown jewel of their efforts was the hidden world of Kytrand, which they discovered during scouting. Thinking it an excellent location to eventually rebuild the order from in the event of another purge, they kept the world hidden and cultivated it to be a way to produce trillions in wealth for their efforts, going beyond the ordinary bounds of the law to eliminate Dark Side threats in the process.
The Gulag Virus wiped out a cast chunk of their former power and reach yet they persisted in their duties trying to keep worlds from sinking into total chaos, even as their numbers were gradually whittled down until by the time Elaine tear visited the Family Castle on Ession, the Bloodscrawls were barely a hundred in number, once more a shadow of their former glory.
Long convinced that the Bloodscrawls were concealing the secret to some long lost light side superweapon due to finding ancient records of their more clandestine activities in the past, Elaine traveled there with a small army of Essonian Jedi and Troops and confronted Nathan's father and mother, Angus and Natalya Bloodscrawl for the secret, hoping to give Ession an advantage in the Plague Era. Nathan's parents refused, and Elaine ordered her troops to arrest the family. A vicious fight broke out, the last surviving members of the Family butchering the attackers. The fighting grew so vicious that despite each Bloodscrawl being outnumbered forty to one, they fought so savagely that though they all died except Nathan, almost the entire attacking force besides Elaine was wiped out, and became known as the 'Nightingale Plains War' or 'Ession Lightsaber Massacre' or the more poignant 'Last Stand of The Bloodscrawls'. Elaine personally killed Nathan's parents in the fight while he watched at a distance, already badly wounded and near death himself, and this unable to help. Nathan lost his entire family, including siblings, and fled into the burning castle's undercrypt. It's believed Nathan deliberately started the fire to kill the rest of the attacking troops still alive in the castle, making it so that other than him, Elaine was the only other person who left the castle interior alive that night.
In the crypt, Nathan came across a prisoner, a Force Spawn and dangerous Light Side using Heretic called the Sorceress of Ossus, who offered to save his life and make him stronger than ever (Even going so far as to tell the exact truth of what would happen to him if he took her offer). Nathan, having nothing left, and possibly wanting to utterly forget himself and his pain took the offer, setting her free, where she used her own blood and mixed it into a pit of the castle dirt, immersing him in the slurry and mutating him into one of her Deputies and even giving him a special position as her adopted son, as he was the only one of her converts who had ever been in any condition to speak to her before being altered and the circumstances of his injuries caused her to take pity on him. He served as her personal and most favorite Assassin and even when he later encountered his Jedi Master Moya De Life (Secretly the Light Side Sith known as
Darth Themis
) he continued to serve the creature that eventually became known as
Magdalena Bloodscrawl
in secret for some time.
It is unclear just what eventually contributed to him somehow reversing most of his mutations from Magdalena's blood. Magdalena herself believed she pushed him too far when she requested he lure the fanatical Elaine Tear into a position to be killed and absorbed by her: She speculates that even with most of his memory gone he still hated Elaine so much for killing his family he would allow no one but himself to kill her when the time came. Others believe it was because Nathan's trauma was so great that he somehow retained more memories than most of her Deputies or even her Sheriffs, and that this eventually awakened his desire to be free again, due to possibly even feeling closer to Moya at the time than he did with The Sorceress. Nathan himself privately believes it was Lysandra Li-Ves, who the tormented Deputy fell in love with over time, feelings that should have been impossible in his altered state, and that love eventually motivated him to rebel. The truth may lie somewhere between these three explanations. Whatever the case, Nathan's rebellion was successful, and he imprisoned the Sorceress, yet notably spared her (That was because even if he didn't consciously admit it, he had developed some affection towards the creature that had saved his life all those years ago) even going so far as to free her right before he died. Still using the name The Sorceress had given him, Morris Crownwraithe, he eventually became one of the most famous and powerful Jedi of the Gulag Era, feared and respected in equal measure, even saving Csilla, the Chiss home world from having its surface bombarded with nuclear weapons from an ancient war satellite. It won him great acclaim and admiration back on Ession, including the killer of his parents Elaine, in a horrible irony. Not realizing who he was, Elaine continually tried to draw him over fully to the Ashlan faith whenever he came back to Ession. This only deepened his hidden loathing of her, finding it unfair she managed to eventually salvage her reputation after the horror of Castle Bloodscrawl. (Nathan even speculated with utter revulsion that the older woman may have had a mild crush on him due to not knowing who he actually was). Elaine even taught him the Makashi style, as Nathan was torn between his hatred of her and his desire to adhere to the Jedi code and show mercy.
Nathan's activities over the years would draw the attention of no less than Darth Phyre, who obsessively pursued him without him quite realizing it until she started murdering his friends that he had made during growing up, To his horror, he found out Phyre was seeking his child with his now-wife Lysandra out because her Goddess, a Dark Side Abomination had prophecies his daughter would be a great champion of the cult. Desperate to save his newborn daughter, and seeing a vision of he and his wife dying on Ession, he schemed with Themis to alter his child genetically with methods similar to what has turned him into a Deputy and then conspired to use magic on the hyperspace module of his ship to cause a very slow hyperspace jump that would carry his daughter centuries into the future with a guardian crafted by Themis to protect and raise her, hopefully forever beyond Phyre's grasp. He also arranged things so that Elaine Tear would hopefully be killed by the Cult of the Brain Demon by giving away her travel arrangements anonymously to them. This was an especially heinous thing to do because literally weeks before, Elaine, having been made aware of his and his wife's impending death due to her own ability to see visions of the future, traveled to his hiding spot to offer hom the protection of Ession's Ashlan government, despite still not knowing the truth of his origins, for the first and only time in his original life, Nathan made no attempt to disguise his utter loathing of Elaine, calling her a crucifixion-happy psychopath to her face before dismissing her from his presence. Even to the very end of her original life before Darth Phyre personally killed and converted her into the Cultist known as
The Battalion
, Elaine would never knew who 'Morris Crownwraithe' really was, or what she had done to anger him in particular. Even centuries after conversion, The Battalion still didn't know until she came across one of his lost journals.
The future
Laertia Io
, born Julia Crownwraithe, was sent to the future on the day he and his wife were brutally murdered by Phyre, having been finally run down by the psychotic Sith Abomination. Nathan's entire first life and original death were steeped in the machinations of the Force Spawn all around him. Lysandra was murdered so completely she no longer exists in the Force due to how she was killed, something that horribly damaged his own connection to the force just before he himself was murdered. He would remain dead for centuries, until the Force Manipulations of
Darth Solipsis
during his attempt to Annihilate Tython sent out terrible reality warping echoes in the Force that reached all the way to Dantooine, effectively reversing his death and bringing him back to life. He dug himself out of the grave Thenis buried him in screaming in temporary insanity.
Nathan would exist in the wastelands of the Dantari Plains by an old military wreckage site, living barely above that of an animal before an attempt by the New Imperial Order (The "Iron Sun") to detain the mysterious vagrant went awry and he ended up saving their lives when the shuttle they were taking him away in almost crashed. He was given the chance to run and for a time, only wanted to be nothing more than a scavenger prowling lonely space ways for something that could keep him breathing another day, wanting nothing more to die with the force. In those early days of his resurrection, he was a hollow, embittered shell of his former self, deeply traumatized by his entire life, his death, and his wife's death and the loss of a baby daughter whose face he could no longer recall. Gradually though, his inability to watch evil and do nothing about it warred with and at times overrode his desire to be alone and friendless, and he found himself doing heroic deeds almost against his will.
The revelation that all of his efforts had been for nought, that his daughter had become the Cult's champion caused what many now consider something of a psychotic breakdown. Nathan's Anti-Sith Religious Fanaticism came truly roaring back with a vengeance and he devoted himself to becoming powerful enough to completely crush the cult in revenge for his wife's murder, the complete destruction of his wife's soul, and his daughters irreversible corruption at the hands of Darth Phyre. To that end he started recruiting people who knew his daughter, former allies of hers, conspiring with them to create something powerful and brutal enough to crush the utterly perverse House Io and the Cult that controlled it.
Using resources and blueprints from his now utterly forgotten family's medical research, while barely getting into the Trade League to join its Jedi as an unusually old Padawan, Nathan started Bacta-Works of Epica on the world where he began to journey to recover some semblance of humanity, and the success of his family's rediscovered formulas and tech made his business a multi billion credit success within months of it launching.
As the months passed and his battles grew more intense, the Company grew in wealth and power, until it has outlets on multiple worlds stretching from the Rimward Trade League's capital world of Susevfi, the birth world of his own mother, to Coruscant, Capital of the Alliance, gradually indoctrinating select employees meeting ideal psychological prerequisites into his Anti-Sith beliefs. He even went so far as to ally with Clan Li-Ves, his first wife's old clan, eventually marrying its modern Matriarch, Vera Mina, a vicious, deadly biot who slowly but surely seduced him (and was herself seduced by him in turn) by being utterly unlike Lysandra in virtually every respect.
Part of Nathan's incredible climb to power was how he went out of his way to make himself nothing more than a low level courier/scavenger in the Jedi Factions he served. His icy demeanor and strict, always business approach to interacting with other Jedi ensured most never tried to peer beneath the surface save for extremely rare exceptions such as
Braze
(A duel of theirs, and the words exchanged, where Braze accused him of being afraid to live inspired him to marry Vera and make efforts to reform House Bloodscrawl fully) or
Caltin Vanagor
, whose training in telekinesis massively expanded Nathan's approach to the Force. He even--forcibly--recruited a by then reprogrammed Darth Phyre whose Life he saved on Korriban from The Battalion, preparing to do to Syd what Syd's Sith self had once done to her.
The crisis of multiple wars eventually made him consider stepping up his campaign by going to the Jedi with the coordinates to Kytrand, though he used the planet as a sort of dowry when he sort of made a marriage proposal to Vera without quite consciously realizing it. She accepted, and married him, and they began resettling the planet with their now thousands of employees. It was here that Kytrand's lost army of Fett Clones were discovered, grown by scientists allied with his family from before the Gulag Virus, were discovered in stasis pods on space stations orbiting Kytrand's sun. After weeks of deliberation, he eventually decided to wake them up after receiving visions of the Trade League's destruction at the hands of the Sith, using them to evacuate thousands on Susevfi itself, and evacuated the Jedi Academy at Dagobah when it was assaulted by Sith and Droid Forces led by the Droid known as
Commodore Helix
The Clones fought so viciously at Dagobah to allow Jedi to escape that Helix was actually forced to withdraw despite technically utterly routing and defeating the Clones, but not before they utterly destroyed the swamps beneath the temple and inflicted catastrophic damage on his assault force through clever traps, timing, military discipline and tactics, and a fanatical dedication to defending the Jedi at all costs. Nathan would eventually gain a supreme revenge on the Cult when House Io's Countess, the deadly Force Spawn
Arianna Belasko
defected and struck a deal with him...she would give him the means to sneak in and bypass House Io's military security around its capital planet of Khemost, in exchange for a twisted merger that couldn't be undone. One his wife had to convince him to go through with. But Arianna kept her word, and Nathan scored a serious blow after the hideous cybernetic experiments of his daughter were uncovered, which inspired most of the Nuetralizer Droids his daughter made to rebel and initiate the House Io Civil War, which pretty much brought about the end of Laertia's twisted societal experiment, and completely crushing some of the most long held beliefs of the Cult themselves, severely demoralizing them and driving Laertia and her surviving loyalist forces into hiding, licking their wounds that by this point, will not close. Nathan took and absorbed almost half their military into his, almost all consisting of those utterly disgusted by the Dark Side and it's various cults. He now has access to some of the most dangerous ships and weapons in the known galaxy as a result.
His clone army, which he struggled to hide for the rest of the Core Wars, secretly fought in the successful defense of Coruscant, and secretly participated twice in both failed attempts by the Alliance to retake Tython, both on ground and in space. With the Core Wars over and The Cult being slowly hunted down, Nathan has declared it time to reinstate his House on an official basis...
...in total secrecy of course.
Because this iteration of House Bloodscrawl is LEAGUES shadier in its approach to defeating the Sith than even it's Pre-Gulag version was...
The strange symbol of the house is known as the Fanged Chevron. House Bloodscrawl functions as an odd combo of Democracy and Corporation, and all adult and teenage citizens are allowed to own deadly weapons provided they are law abiding citizens by the terms of the House.
- Intent: To create the Lore Page for my renamed and repurposed faction
- Image Credit: https://www.deviantart.com/lepios/art/Batman-Beyond-Logo-40925615
- Canon: N/A
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(NOTE: All links listed as Flashback posts take place at later times, but were selected to tell as coherent an origin of his earliest days as could possibly be managed)
Keystone post flashback
Foundation Flashback Post 1
Foundation Flashback Post 2
Dark Below Flashback Post 1
Dark Below Flashback Post 2
Dark Below Flashback Post 3
Dark Below Flashback Post 4
Spelunking Flashback Post 1
Spelunking Flashback Post 2
Spelunking Flashback Post 4, 5, 6
Kill them all and Let God sort 'em out (Post 1)
Batallion Invasion Post 2
Battalion Invasion Post 3
Family Bonding
Battalion Invasion Post 4
The Maze of Darth Phyre
Family Bonding : Prescott/Arianna
Reconnection: Percival Io
Dominion of Krant
Lost on Lothal
Welcome to the Future
Paying The Piper
The Fall of Laertia Io
Gift of Light
Dominion of Kinyen
Dominion of Sullust
Brentaal Relics
RAT RACE
Grandson Versus Grandfather
Rimma Trade Incident
Founding of Bacta-Works
Followers of the Hidden Truth
The Ghost and The Dragon
Contemplation of Stone
Spark of Hope
Kirdo in Chains
Annihilation of Exogal
Sacrifice's End
Securing the Past
Glued Together
Mining Crisis
Fishing for Friends
Caldera Crisis
Charity Event
Hapes Mission
Second Hapes Mission Post
Podracing on New Alderaan
Three Rings of Defense
Blades drawn Blunt-Side (Extended Duel with Braze, the fight and Braze's words inspire him to marry Vera and reform House Bloodscrawl)
Mandalorian Op
New Year Gala + Winter Gala
Enter the Krayt Dragon
Relief Efforts
Dissolution of the Rim
Defense of Tython
Apprentice to Flesh
Like a Horse and Carriage
The Aftermath
The Door (House Bloodscrawl Civil War)
Fragments Held Close + A Pretty Face
Apprentice to Ions
Paradigm Shift
The Lost World of Kytrand
Eclipse
Bonding Time
Total War
Echoes of War
Battle for Balance
Relief Efforts: The Greenhouses
Relief Efforts: The Nexus Search
End of the Core Wars
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Organization Name: House Bloodscrawl
- Classification: Family/ Jedi Aligned PMC/ Shadow Organization
- Affiliation: Nathan Bloodscrawl
- Organization Symbol: See Above
- Description: A Shadowy PMC/Relief organization consisting of relief workers, doctors, clones, sentient biots and droids, and dangerous rogue light side users with massive economic reach and an even more massive spy network throughout the Alliance, constantly seeking out Sith/Dark Side threats to eliminate them by any means necessary
- Headquarters: Bacta-Works Estate
- Domain: Kytrand
- Notable Assets:
Colossus of Tython (Stolen by House Io Defectors, and presented to Nathan as a Gift)
Colossus of Shadows (Stolen by House Io Defectors and presented to Nathan as a Gift)
Bacta-Works of Epica
SOCIAL INFORMATION
- Hierarchy:
MATRIARCH: The one in charge when the Patriarch isn't. The Matriarch is the mediator between the Patriarch and the rest of the lower groups and has the most access to him
PRIME SIBLING: Any who the Patriarch adopts as a Sister or Brother, they have the most access to the Patriarch after The Matriarch herself, and take more active roles in running Divisions/Troops/Projects
HEIRS: The Patriarch and Matriarchs Children, often acting as diplomats, personal representatives. To attack one is to effectively declare war on House Bloodscrawl itself.
HIGH ABBESS: Responsible for spreading the teachings of the Light Side throughout the population. Head Religious Authority in the House
MODERATORS: Citizens who have demonstrates significant loyalty and contributions are entrusted with special assignments and programs, and are given special equipment to help carry out whatever task they are given more efficiently
CITIZENS: Everyone else. Given wide ranging latitude to operate how they please so long as they adhere to the rules and goals of the organization
- Membership: House Bloodscrawl consists of thousands of secret members all of the Alliance's territory, all secretly answering to the upper ranks in some form or another. Consisting of everyone from wealthy executives to lowly janitors, all sworn to undermine the Dark Side and it's adherents in any way possible for them. Its largest population segment consists of Refugees who often become doctors, relief workers, or lawyers, as well as Force Users among this segment. Each are psychologically screened at a distance for things like receptiveness to the cause before being approached to join. Should they refuse, their memories of the offer and what they were told about the house in the process are instead peacefully, painlessly erased by telepathy specialists. To join the upper ranks is not easy...you would have to demonstrate consistent fealty and loyalty. The House looks for high amounts of competence and loyalty no matter the occupation...as well as notable aggression towards followers of the Dark Side
- Climate: It has an oddly laid back corporate climate for the most part. Citizens are expected to aid one another if asked and education is highly encouraged at all levels. They take the latter bit so seriously that House Bloodscrawl citizens are among the most educated population in the Galaxy, to a degree even Governments who pride themselves on such things would find extremely unusual. It's a friendly atmosphere even at the lowest levels but highly secretive.
- Reputation: House Bloodscrawl goes out of its way to keep its existence a secret for the most part. People who learn of them often assume that they're just oddball nobodies with no real influence. People who learn more often end up realizing they have a SCARY amount of reach across the Alliance in ways you wouldn't expect (The Patriarch's Daughter, Sera has the ear of no less than Chancellor Alicio Organa himself) and often react with alarm once they realize how powerful the faction actually is, and the alarm grows when they realized they absorbed up to half of the fallen House Io's navy and army...all defectors from the madness of the Cult of the Brain Demon that House Io's Matriarch granted more and more authority over the years. The Defectors of House Io are slowly reorienting themselves to House Bloodscrawl's goals but it's touch and go. Sith who learn of them or survive encounters with their combat forces learn to fear them for their ruthlessness at pursuing and killing Sith. Other more puritan Light Side types may become instantly wary of their underhanded methods at fighting Sith, and more wary of their political and economic power for a minor faction. Most however, don't even know they exist...and hostile enemy witnesses don't often live to tell their friends
- Curios:
De Lifte Experimental Armor
De Lifte Hazmat Exosuit
Jedi Grav Armor
Prototype Armor
Bloodscrawl Jedi Armor
Plague Era Jedi Power Armor
Armor of Antony Bloodscrawl
Armor of The Bloodscrawls
Morris Crownwraithe's Reinforced Fiber Armor
Lysandra's Protection
Weapons:
Bloodscrawl Lightsaber
Ancient Bloodscrawl Set
Sword of Natalya Bloodscrawl
Lance of Ession
Needle of Csilla
Morris Crownwraithe's First Lightsaber
Sword of 007 Blessings (Stolen)
Lysandra's Pike
War Sword of Darth Xiphos (Stolen)
Crystals
Plague Ankarres
Opal of The Specialist (Stolen)
Pearl of The Flame Matriarch (Stolen)
Moya De Lifte's Ankarres Crystal (Stolen)
Furnace of Ession
Databases:
Holocron of Blades (Stolen)
- Rules:
1. Serve The Public Trust
2. Protect The Innocent
3. Uphold The Will of The Force (Authors Note: Nathan mentions these rules often in many of my posts after the Krant Dominion Thread listed in the links section above)
- Goals: House Bloodscrawl seeks to genuinely aid the Galaxy from the shadows, turning otherwise lethal and violent, dangerous individuals to a noble cause of upholding the innocent and delivering swift, final justice to the wicked
House Bloodscrawl Members
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
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--House Bloodscrawl Official Anthem
House Bloodscrawl, which in its pre-Jedi related history were known as House Krimsonmarke of Ession (And before that, as House Scarletscratch) have long been great but secretive patrons of various Light Side related efforts, long before any of its members first picked up a lightsaber (Or even so much as a sword imbued with the Force) but they only truly began to be documented around the Jedi's most ancient beginnings on Coruscant, with its members serving as temple guards, each gaining a reputation for stoicism and unflinching willingness to fight the Dark Side. They were among the very oldest families to continually give children of theirs to be trained. So old, in fact, that they were around during a time before Jedi Lightsabers having red blades carried a stigma (It should bear noting that the natural red crystals used in such sabers were not the same shade as the synthetic 'bloodshine' crystals used by Sith). The Bloodscrawls even possessed a lightsaber lance that had a natural red crystal, passed down to each successive Patriarch that produced a blade that was red to the core, and a right of passage for generations of the family were to use said blade to carve the Jedi code into a slab of stone (This was how they acquired the name Bloodscrawl) Even after most other Jedi were completely banned from using red bladed lightsabers, the Bloodscrawls were given special permission by the council to continue wielding and making red blades as long as they were the same shade as the blade of the lance that they got their name from...one utterly red to the core.
This tradition would very slowly but surely fade out as the Jedi Council became stricter and stricter until by the time of the Clone Wars it had almost faded from memory from everyone but the Bloodscrawls themselves, who continued to make and wield such blades in secret. By the time of the Clone wars, the Family was a pale shadow of its former glory, with it's at the time last living descendant, Antony Bloodscrawl, fruitlessly trying to convince the Order that the Clone Army wasn't to be trusted. When he was ignored, Antony gave up and focused on upgrading his own gear and refusing to be near any Clones, which saved his life when Order 66 was executed. Unlike so many Jedi, he quietly survived the purge in hiding and did not emerge until Palpatine and Vader were long dead. Declaring the Jedi Order must never be so easily wiped out ever again, he set in motion the Bloodscrawl Family's post Clone Wars rebirth, his children creating the mighty Bloodscrawl Medical Corporation and climbing to heights of power and wealth previously unimaginable for even what had been a once very wealthy family.
200 years before the Gulag Virus brought the Galaxy low, the Family had become an anti-heroic counterpart to groups like the exchange, its focus bent on making sure the Order could survive and rebuild after ANY purge attempt, creating so many storehouses of Jedi Knowledge (And squirreling away trillions in aurodium bullion, ships, weapons and armor, all for Jedi and their governments to rebuild following a disaster. The crown jewel of their efforts was the hidden world of Kytrand, which they discovered during scouting. Thinking it an excellent location to eventually rebuild the order from in the event of another purge, they kept the world hidden and cultivated it to be a way to produce trillions in wealth for their efforts, going beyond the ordinary bounds of the law to eliminate Dark Side threats in the process.
The Gulag Virus wiped out a cast chunk of their former power and reach yet they persisted in their duties trying to keep worlds from sinking into total chaos, even as their numbers were gradually whittled down until by the time Elaine tear visited the Family Castle on Ession, the Bloodscrawls were barely a hundred in number, once more a shadow of their former glory.
Long convinced that the Bloodscrawls were concealing the secret to some long lost light side superweapon due to finding ancient records of their more clandestine activities in the past, Elaine traveled there with a small army of Essonian Jedi and Troops and confronted Nathan's father and mother, Angus and Natalya Bloodscrawl for the secret, hoping to give Ession an advantage in the Plague Era. Nathan's parents refused, and Elaine ordered her troops to arrest the family. A vicious fight broke out, the last surviving members of the Family butchering the attackers. The fighting grew so vicious that despite each Bloodscrawl being outnumbered forty to one, they fought so savagely that though they all died except Nathan, almost the entire attacking force besides Elaine was wiped out, and became known as the 'Nightingale Plains War' or 'Ession Lightsaber Massacre' or the more poignant 'Last Stand of The Bloodscrawls'. Elaine personally killed Nathan's parents in the fight while he watched at a distance, already badly wounded and near death himself, and this unable to help. Nathan lost his entire family, including siblings, and fled into the burning castle's undercrypt. It's believed Nathan deliberately started the fire to kill the rest of the attacking troops still alive in the castle, making it so that other than him, Elaine was the only other person who left the castle interior alive that night.
In the crypt, Nathan came across a prisoner, a Force Spawn and dangerous Light Side using Heretic called the Sorceress of Ossus, who offered to save his life and make him stronger than ever (Even going so far as to tell the exact truth of what would happen to him if he took her offer). Nathan, having nothing left, and possibly wanting to utterly forget himself and his pain took the offer, setting her free, where she used her own blood and mixed it into a pit of the castle dirt, immersing him in the slurry and mutating him into one of her Deputies and even giving him a special position as her adopted son, as he was the only one of her converts who had ever been in any condition to speak to her before being altered and the circumstances of his injuries caused her to take pity on him. He served as her personal and most favorite Assassin and even when he later encountered his Jedi Master Moya De Life (Secretly the Light Side Sith known as
Darth Themis
) he continued to serve the creature that eventually became known as
Magdalena Bloodscrawl
in secret for some time.It is unclear just what eventually contributed to him somehow reversing most of his mutations from Magdalena's blood. Magdalena herself believed she pushed him too far when she requested he lure the fanatical Elaine Tear into a position to be killed and absorbed by her: She speculates that even with most of his memory gone he still hated Elaine so much for killing his family he would allow no one but himself to kill her when the time came. Others believe it was because Nathan's trauma was so great that he somehow retained more memories than most of her Deputies or even her Sheriffs, and that this eventually awakened his desire to be free again, due to possibly even feeling closer to Moya at the time than he did with The Sorceress. Nathan himself privately believes it was Lysandra Li-Ves, who the tormented Deputy fell in love with over time, feelings that should have been impossible in his altered state, and that love eventually motivated him to rebel. The truth may lie somewhere between these three explanations. Whatever the case, Nathan's rebellion was successful, and he imprisoned the Sorceress, yet notably spared her (That was because even if he didn't consciously admit it, he had developed some affection towards the creature that had saved his life all those years ago) even going so far as to free her right before he died. Still using the name The Sorceress had given him, Morris Crownwraithe, he eventually became one of the most famous and powerful Jedi of the Gulag Era, feared and respected in equal measure, even saving Csilla, the Chiss home world from having its surface bombarded with nuclear weapons from an ancient war satellite. It won him great acclaim and admiration back on Ession, including the killer of his parents Elaine, in a horrible irony. Not realizing who he was, Elaine continually tried to draw him over fully to the Ashlan faith whenever he came back to Ession. This only deepened his hidden loathing of her, finding it unfair she managed to eventually salvage her reputation after the horror of Castle Bloodscrawl. (Nathan even speculated with utter revulsion that the older woman may have had a mild crush on him due to not knowing who he actually was). Elaine even taught him the Makashi style, as Nathan was torn between his hatred of her and his desire to adhere to the Jedi code and show mercy.
Nathan's activities over the years would draw the attention of no less than Darth Phyre, who obsessively pursued him without him quite realizing it until she started murdering his friends that he had made during growing up, To his horror, he found out Phyre was seeking his child with his now-wife Lysandra out because her Goddess, a Dark Side Abomination had prophecies his daughter would be a great champion of the cult. Desperate to save his newborn daughter, and seeing a vision of he and his wife dying on Ession, he schemed with Themis to alter his child genetically with methods similar to what has turned him into a Deputy and then conspired to use magic on the hyperspace module of his ship to cause a very slow hyperspace jump that would carry his daughter centuries into the future with a guardian crafted by Themis to protect and raise her, hopefully forever beyond Phyre's grasp. He also arranged things so that Elaine Tear would hopefully be killed by the Cult of the Brain Demon by giving away her travel arrangements anonymously to them. This was an especially heinous thing to do because literally weeks before, Elaine, having been made aware of his and his wife's impending death due to her own ability to see visions of the future, traveled to his hiding spot to offer hom the protection of Ession's Ashlan government, despite still not knowing the truth of his origins, for the first and only time in his original life, Nathan made no attempt to disguise his utter loathing of Elaine, calling her a crucifixion-happy psychopath to her face before dismissing her from his presence. Even to the very end of her original life before Darth Phyre personally killed and converted her into the Cultist known as
The Battalion
, Elaine would never knew who 'Morris Crownwraithe' really was, or what she had done to anger him in particular. Even centuries after conversion, The Battalion still didn't know until she came across one of his lost journals.The future
Laertia Io
, born Julia Crownwraithe, was sent to the future on the day he and his wife were brutally murdered by Phyre, having been finally run down by the psychotic Sith Abomination. Nathan's entire first life and original death were steeped in the machinations of the Force Spawn all around him. Lysandra was murdered so completely she no longer exists in the Force due to how she was killed, something that horribly damaged his own connection to the force just before he himself was murdered. He would remain dead for centuries, until the Force Manipulations of
Darth Solipsis
during his attempt to Annihilate Tython sent out terrible reality warping echoes in the Force that reached all the way to Dantooine, effectively reversing his death and bringing him back to life. He dug himself out of the grave Thenis buried him in screaming in temporary insanity.Nathan would exist in the wastelands of the Dantari Plains by an old military wreckage site, living barely above that of an animal before an attempt by the New Imperial Order (The "Iron Sun") to detain the mysterious vagrant went awry and he ended up saving their lives when the shuttle they were taking him away in almost crashed. He was given the chance to run and for a time, only wanted to be nothing more than a scavenger prowling lonely space ways for something that could keep him breathing another day, wanting nothing more to die with the force. In those early days of his resurrection, he was a hollow, embittered shell of his former self, deeply traumatized by his entire life, his death, and his wife's death and the loss of a baby daughter whose face he could no longer recall. Gradually though, his inability to watch evil and do nothing about it warred with and at times overrode his desire to be alone and friendless, and he found himself doing heroic deeds almost against his will.
The revelation that all of his efforts had been for nought, that his daughter had become the Cult's champion caused what many now consider something of a psychotic breakdown. Nathan's Anti-Sith Religious Fanaticism came truly roaring back with a vengeance and he devoted himself to becoming powerful enough to completely crush the cult in revenge for his wife's murder, the complete destruction of his wife's soul, and his daughters irreversible corruption at the hands of Darth Phyre. To that end he started recruiting people who knew his daughter, former allies of hers, conspiring with them to create something powerful and brutal enough to crush the utterly perverse House Io and the Cult that controlled it.
Using resources and blueprints from his now utterly forgotten family's medical research, while barely getting into the Trade League to join its Jedi as an unusually old Padawan, Nathan started Bacta-Works of Epica on the world where he began to journey to recover some semblance of humanity, and the success of his family's rediscovered formulas and tech made his business a multi billion credit success within months of it launching.
As the months passed and his battles grew more intense, the Company grew in wealth and power, until it has outlets on multiple worlds stretching from the Rimward Trade League's capital world of Susevfi, the birth world of his own mother, to Coruscant, Capital of the Alliance, gradually indoctrinating select employees meeting ideal psychological prerequisites into his Anti-Sith beliefs. He even went so far as to ally with Clan Li-Ves, his first wife's old clan, eventually marrying its modern Matriarch, Vera Mina, a vicious, deadly biot who slowly but surely seduced him (and was herself seduced by him in turn) by being utterly unlike Lysandra in virtually every respect.
Part of Nathan's incredible climb to power was how he went out of his way to make himself nothing more than a low level courier/scavenger in the Jedi Factions he served. His icy demeanor and strict, always business approach to interacting with other Jedi ensured most never tried to peer beneath the surface save for extremely rare exceptions such as
Braze
(A duel of theirs, and the words exchanged, where Braze accused him of being afraid to live inspired him to marry Vera and make efforts to reform House Bloodscrawl fully) or
Caltin Vanagor
, whose training in telekinesis massively expanded Nathan's approach to the Force. He even--forcibly--recruited a by then reprogrammed Darth Phyre whose Life he saved on Korriban from The Battalion, preparing to do to Syd what Syd's Sith self had once done to her.The crisis of multiple wars eventually made him consider stepping up his campaign by going to the Jedi with the coordinates to Kytrand, though he used the planet as a sort of dowry when he sort of made a marriage proposal to Vera without quite consciously realizing it. She accepted, and married him, and they began resettling the planet with their now thousands of employees. It was here that Kytrand's lost army of Fett Clones were discovered, grown by scientists allied with his family from before the Gulag Virus, were discovered in stasis pods on space stations orbiting Kytrand's sun. After weeks of deliberation, he eventually decided to wake them up after receiving visions of the Trade League's destruction at the hands of the Sith, using them to evacuate thousands on Susevfi itself, and evacuated the Jedi Academy at Dagobah when it was assaulted by Sith and Droid Forces led by the Droid known as
Commodore Helix
The Clones fought so viciously at Dagobah to allow Jedi to escape that Helix was actually forced to withdraw despite technically utterly routing and defeating the Clones, but not before they utterly destroyed the swamps beneath the temple and inflicted catastrophic damage on his assault force through clever traps, timing, military discipline and tactics, and a fanatical dedication to defending the Jedi at all costs. Nathan would eventually gain a supreme revenge on the Cult when House Io's Countess, the deadly Force Spawn
Arianna Belasko
defected and struck a deal with him...she would give him the means to sneak in and bypass House Io's military security around its capital planet of Khemost, in exchange for a twisted merger that couldn't be undone. One his wife had to convince him to go through with. But Arianna kept her word, and Nathan scored a serious blow after the hideous cybernetic experiments of his daughter were uncovered, which inspired most of the Nuetralizer Droids his daughter made to rebel and initiate the House Io Civil War, which pretty much brought about the end of Laertia's twisted societal experiment, and completely crushing some of the most long held beliefs of the Cult themselves, severely demoralizing them and driving Laertia and her surviving loyalist forces into hiding, licking their wounds that by this point, will not close. Nathan took and absorbed almost half their military into his, almost all consisting of those utterly disgusted by the Dark Side and it's various cults. He now has access to some of the most dangerous ships and weapons in the known galaxy as a result.His clone army, which he struggled to hide for the rest of the Core Wars, secretly fought in the successful defense of Coruscant, and secretly participated twice in both failed attempts by the Alliance to retake Tython, both on ground and in space. With the Core Wars over and The Cult being slowly hunted down, Nathan has declared it time to reinstate his House on an official basis...
...in total secrecy of course.
Because this iteration of House Bloodscrawl is LEAGUES shadier in its approach to defeating the Sith than even it's Pre-Gulag version was...
The strange symbol of the house is known as the Fanged Chevron. House Bloodscrawl functions as an odd combo of Democracy and Corporation, and all adult and teenage citizens are allowed to own deadly weapons provided they are law abiding citizens by the terms of the House.
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