Little bit of a concept I'm toying with...

[Ariealla Vareldi]

This might be a bit strange so I'll try to explain things as well as I can. Hopefully I won't mess this up too badly.

So I've been sort of forming and toying with an idea with this character, and I've been wondering how strange/odd it is exactly. So obviously she's a sith, however because of her back story she's ancient, and has had plenty of years to experience and see the galaxy change over time. Because of that she's sort of developed an apathy towards the light and dark side, and while she sees the Jedi as evil she's also not entirely anti-jedi. In fact she's much more akin to a grey jedi in that she realizes a balance needs to be maintained, even if the Sith were to succeed and take the entire Galaxy under their control. She'll even go on the record and say that if there were but a single Jedi in the entirety of the galaxy who followed their code and would oppose the sith, she'd side with them as far as protection until the Jedi again can counterbalance the overzealous of the Sith.

So she's kind of a grey Sith, which is the idea I've kinda been toying with. She realizes that light and dark must exist, and so long as jedi exist so will the Sith, and vise versa. Yet she still follows the Sith code in such an interpretation that allows such a world view, much the same as a grey Jedi would observe the Jedi code in such a way to excuse their controversial views. So I suppose the question I'd like to maybe discuss with some peeps would be, is that hypocritical?

I'm certain of course that Sith view themselves as justified of course, but I'm not entirely sure a quote "grey sith" has ever been something played around with.

 

[Darth Metus]

[member="Ariealla Vareldi"]

The term you're looking for is "Dark Jedi."

 

[Ariealla Vareldi]

[member="Isley Verd"]

I was always under the impression that a dark jedi was a force user, usually ex jedi, who never had been taught in the manner of a sith yet still focused heavily on the dark side. Ariealla *is* trained as a sith and maintains all said rituals and practices.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Ariealla Vareldi"]

You are allowed to interpret and represent your Rank Titles in any way you would like. You can even be a Sith Lord who only uses the Lightside of the Force and only to cook spaghetti. Here's some more completely allowable ideas,

• You can be a Jedi Master who massacres entire civilizations because your God told you to.
• You can be a Dark Jedi Knight who only wears white clothing and holds the title Grandmaster of Purity and Chastity.
• You can be a Sith Lord who has forbidden clothing, armor, and weapons to all of his soldiers to wear during war. Because a Sith Spirit told you too.
• Bluehawks.

CHAOS is something of a sandbox in that way. So if you want to break from canon, (or from the tastefulness of your Major Faction,) then yes. You can do that too.

Go nuts Ariealla. Enjoy the game.

 

[Ariealla Vareldi]

[member="Jay Scott Clark"]

Oh i figured it was an allowable thing, considering the number of strange individuals in the galaxy. I was more so hoping to simply, I don't know.

Discuss how such a philosophy would work? Not sure I'm quite explaining things right. More so I was hoping to discuss the concept in general, partly to satisfy my own desire to help solidify it so I wouldn't just come across as a hypocrite.

 

[Alkor Centaris]

Being a Sith means adherence to the Sith code.

That said, there are a hundred million possible ways to interpret the Sith code, all of them relative to the individual. I've heard people extrapolate on the idea of Freedom, and I've heard of some folks taking it piece by piece to break it down into its segments and give them rationalization. My personal interpretation of the Sith code- perhaps the most damning and somber one- is that it embraces the hopelessness of life. That is to say, the Sith can never truly be free, as no one can- but freedom exists in a fleeting moment, and can for that brief time can be experienced. To me, that's the freedom that the Sith chase, because in the end they always go deeper into the darkness, and the chains they cast off always get heavier.

That's just me being a pessimist, of course.

How you interpret the code, and what your character ultimately does as a Sith is totally up to you. That said, a "good Sith" sort of characterizes what Jacen Solo intended to be. He wanted- truly wanted- peace and prosperity, and he believed that the GA couldn't achieve that. He became convinced that as the Dark Lord of the Sith, he could provide that for the galaxy, and in his lusting after power and self-absorbed campaign for greatness, he caused an even bigger war than the one they were fighting to begin with. Is that conducive to balance? Maybe, maybe not.

But dear God, what a story.

[member="Ariealla Vareldi"]

 

[Jsc]

More so I was hoping to discuss the concept in general,

In that case. Meh.

It's a personal interpretation so you don't actually need feedback. You just need to do it. And as for 'Gray Sith' or 'Dark Jedi' or 'I'm Super Special'? ...Yeah. It's been done before. It's been done all the time. Everybody and their dog thinks that every new idea or concept their character comes up with is going to be unique and edgy. Especially among rogues and darklings. Heck, nobody expects you to build a character this a copy/paste of something in canon. Especially not in an original timeline, with original factions, and a limitless supply of Codex people, planets, and cultures. You're actually sort of expected to deviant from the norm. We celebrate that sort of stuff here. It's CHAOS man.

That's probably not very helpful. So I'll just say again, go do et'! Give em' hell and enjoy the game.

 

[Caelag Vass]

[member="Jay Scott Clark"]

Which dog? cause Acapella deffinately could come up with such an idea but Calypso would probably just derp around and roll on the ground.

The cat's another story alltogether.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Caelag Vass"]

Ya know, for a second there I didn't notice you were [member="Ariealla Vareldi"] writer and was really really worried about you.

 

[Ariealla Vareldi]

[member="Jay Scott Clark"]

I have three bad habits in life. Forgetting to change accounts when i post, getting incredibly worried about how I'm doing, and bad puns.