Revealing Fire of Life
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Sala Corsanis has had a storied history, covered in glory and disaster, honor and ruin, triumph and guilt. She was born the result of a sordid and licentous affair between a heavily genetically engineered sephi – the result of millenia of experiments on his race by the Arkanians 0150 – and an Echani Matriarch. Living with this over her head defined most of her childhood, as while her echani family accepted her into their ranks and did not hold their Matriarch's unfaithfulness against her, many other Echani did throughout her childhood, and would all but ignore her as an outsider.
It wasn't long before Sala would grow into a bright and very skilled young woman – though her physical growth would take time to match her as her sephi heritage had granted her an extended longevity, and it was almost certain she'd live at least twice as long as her brothers and sisters. Trained in the arts of the Echani and raised in the Ashlan faith of her house, she began to wander Echani space, offering her assistance and protection to others, similar to the Jedi. This would lead to the defining moment of her childhood.
While she was barely into her thirties, Sala returned home to see her aunt and two of her sisters slain, and she could feel the foul stench of Bogan wafting through the air of the family estate. Removing her blade from its sheath, she rushed into the central house to find her cousin in a fierce duel with her Mother, the Matriarch, the corruption of Bogan evident on her skin. With her cousin about to overpower her mother, Sala stepped in, striking a killing blow against her kin.
Her mother and family understood that she was just protecting her family, but this was the breaking point of her guilt. Gathering her things, she and a few retainers joined a group of Ashlan pilgrims and departed for Wild Space, where a new crusade was being called, and where hopefully she could atone for her sins. This pilgrims learned from her, and her from them, and when they finally arrived in the Koboth system, They founded the Ashlan Military Order of the Sacred Blades, choosing Sala as her founder. She humbly, and reluctantly, accepted their elevation of her to Grandmaster, and she since has lead them in wartime and in peace, training the next generations of Postulants, Squires, and Knights.
- Intent: Turn an underused PC into an NPC
- Image Credit: N/A
- Role: Grandmaster of the Blades
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Age: Early 50s
- Force Sensitivity: Master
- Species: Echani-Sephi
- Appearance: a beautiful woman, looking half her age, like all Echani Sala has a pale, porcelain complexion, though her pointed ears and heterochromatic gold and blue betray the mixed Sephi heritage that gives her natural longevity. Standing at a tall 6'2", with a an almost amazonian body type, she is rather intimidating on the battlefield and off of it.
- Name: Grandmaster Sala Corsanis
- Loyalties: Ashlan Military Order of the Sacred Blades
- Wealth: Well-Off
- Notable Possessions: Lucignis, the Revealing Fire of Ashla
- Skills: Master Swordswoman, Master of Force Light
- Languages: Basic, Huttese, Echani Battle Language
- Personality: Sala is a zealous and stubborn woman who always has strong opinions on right and wrong, dark and light, and will never back down when she makes those opinions. Though she appears headstrong and indomitable in battle, she can also often appear grief-stricken over her past (and over her origins).
- Weapon of Choice: Lucignis, the Revealing Fire of Ashla
- Combat Function: Sala is an expert of combat with her force-imbued sword, using her speed and strength in a Djem So-esque attack on her enemies, relentlessly attacking in an ever-faster chain of attacks, drawing from the force to strengthen herself and enhance her speed.
- Force Abilities (Force Users Only): Sala Corsanis is strong in the force and as such knows many force abilities, especially Sense and Control abilities like Force Sense and Art of Movement. Most important, however are the two skills she has sharpened and trained and honed to a hairsplitting edge in Force Light and Force Weapon, which she uses in tandem to great effect, channeling them through Lucignis to strike with all the glory of Ashla
- Famous Champion: Being the third daughter of a higher caste Echani matriarch, and born into a house with a history of battling with dark-sided force users, and serving as the Grandmaster of the Order of Blades Salas is highly skilled in martial skills, including her ancestral martial arts form, Teras Kasi, and in several forms of swordsmanship (as well as some lightsaber forms, though she doesn't use a lightsaber).
- Amazonian: Born from a genetically engineered Sephi whose species has been experimented on for years by the Arkanians, and an Echani Matriarch who is not only naturally fit, but expects her own children to maintain strong, combat-ready physiques, Sala is the absolute picture of health, seemingly built for war, and well equipped for the rather long life her Sephi heritage will grant her.
- Guilt-Struck: In the act of defending her family and their retainers from the treacherous and insidious taint of Bogan, Sala was unfortunately forced into the situation of killing one of her cousins. While her family understands the necessity of her actions, Sala forever carries the guilt and grief at having shed her own blood and has exiled herself from Eshan as penance, followed by a few retainers and a few who wish to learn her style of combat.
- Overconfident: Wise and skillful as she is, Sala is often far too overconfident in combat, assuming that she can overcome absolutely any trial that gets in her way. While this is very often true, she can also often be proven wrong, and with her aggressive, offensively-focused fighting style, this can have devastating consequences against an insightful enemy.
Sala Corsanis has had a storied history, covered in glory and disaster, honor and ruin, triumph and guilt. She was born the result of a sordid and licentous affair between a heavily genetically engineered sephi – the result of millenia of experiments on his race by the Arkanians 0150 – and an Echani Matriarch. Living with this over her head defined most of her childhood, as while her echani family accepted her into their ranks and did not hold their Matriarch's unfaithfulness against her, many other Echani did throughout her childhood, and would all but ignore her as an outsider.
It wasn't long before Sala would grow into a bright and very skilled young woman – though her physical growth would take time to match her as her sephi heritage had granted her an extended longevity, and it was almost certain she'd live at least twice as long as her brothers and sisters. Trained in the arts of the Echani and raised in the Ashlan faith of her house, she began to wander Echani space, offering her assistance and protection to others, similar to the Jedi. This would lead to the defining moment of her childhood.
While she was barely into her thirties, Sala returned home to see her aunt and two of her sisters slain, and she could feel the foul stench of Bogan wafting through the air of the family estate. Removing her blade from its sheath, she rushed into the central house to find her cousin in a fierce duel with her Mother, the Matriarch, the corruption of Bogan evident on her skin. With her cousin about to overpower her mother, Sala stepped in, striking a killing blow against her kin.
Her mother and family understood that she was just protecting her family, but this was the breaking point of her guilt. Gathering her things, she and a few retainers joined a group of Ashlan pilgrims and departed for Wild Space, where a new crusade was being called, and where hopefully she could atone for her sins. This pilgrims learned from her, and her from them, and when they finally arrived in the Koboth system, They founded the Ashlan Military Order of the Sacred Blades, choosing Sala as her founder. She humbly, and reluctantly, accepted their elevation of her to Grandmaster, and she since has lead them in wartime and in peace, training the next generations of Postulants, Squires, and Knights.
