Balaya Praelior Zambrano
Balaya Zambrano, Emperor's Bust
"Whenever darkness wanes and the light increases I send myself forth.
For the defilement of the pure and for the strengthening of chaos,
I come into being age after age."
For the defilement of the pure and for the strengthening of chaos,
I come into being age after age."
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To add more detail to the Firebirds Force Leader
- Image Credit: Queen of the Damned
- Role: To serve as the grandmaster of the order of the terrible glare who act as the force order of the Firebirds
- Permissions: N/A
- Links:
- Firebirds Crystalline Implants
- The Order of the Terrible Glare
- Oubliette
- Age: 47 (actual) nearly 27,000 because of the oubliette suspending in stasis several thousand years at a time
- Force Sensitivity: Master
- Species: Human
- Appearance: Strong and tall with nut brown skin and her eyes and hair like polished jet. Her voice is in the old tongue with a liquid feeling as it rolls off the tongue and wearing minimalist clothing and walks with a sway to her body that is considerably otherworldly as she see visions that have altered her perceptions.
- Name: Thulsa
- Loyalties: Firebird Society
- Wealth: Rich as she overtook Rennek palace. Using the large throne there to give herself a vast fortune.
- Notable Possessions: Oubliette
- Skills: Highly skilled in mental techniques like illusion, precognition and far seeing. Skilled in psychokinetic capabilities like crush, repulse and maelstrom by extension of her mental discipline
- Personality: Disconnected in her interactions with many, she rarely has a look of interest and wishes for the galaxy to revert back into a chaotic balance through the crusades that the Firebirds religious leader the Morning star seeks to bring. Compared with many though she does not view the members of the Order of the terrible glare as people but pawns to the end of all things... bringing the galaxy back to the blackness that was before.
- Weapon of Choice: The force, primarily crush and telekinetic abilities as well as mental trickery. Her penultimate skill is destruction orbs to smite the heretics of the Morning stars crusade.
- Combat Function: Primarily a range fighter, Thulsa doesn't seek to be involved within combat preferring to avoid it. She rarely carries a blade or close range melee weapons, a blaster or personal shield generator instead relying almost exclusively on her force based attacks.
- Loyal: Feelings much more for her then from her... She commands a devoutly loyal force order that hang on her whims and are willing to commit atrocities at her command.
- Mental Focus: Higly developed sense of telekinetic and telepathic force based abilities to the detriment of other abilities.
- Stealth Be Damned: Not one for being subtle, the force enhancements to her body have turned her into a beacon of the darkside for anyone who can sense her.
- Force Dependency: Her bones, her skin, her body itself is essentially reliant on the force to continue to function. Around force nullification technology or artifacts she can become almost sickly and enfeebled.
- Brittle Bones" The grafting process relies on the force to knit and hold together its subjects, without the force their bodies almost breakdown and collapse from the broken bones and crystal.
- Aging: A side effect of over using the oubliette is that her age eventually will catch up with her as the suspension doesn't last forever and like a drug her body has been getting more and more resistance to the stasis effects. Without regular uses she starts to rapidly age and goes through a manic withdrawal.
- Melee Fighting: Her hyperfocus on the force has led to an atrophy of her normal skills, melee fighting she simply does not have the muscles to do physically.
Tulsa was born a long time ago and taken as a slave child by sith purebloods. When they first encountered them on her world the little child tried to fight them off with a knife but was easily overpowered by her new master. Being taken to his citadel the child watched and came to understand the magics that he was using at least in theory and when he was presented with a casket that was supposed to make him stronger she formulated a plan to destroy him. She would use it and become far stronger then he could possibly imagine. The first stage of her plan was to secure it away and she got it onto a ship. Setting a random course that would get her away from the world and going inside as she could feel his rage.
Then she was asleep and the ship drifted through the space between star systems until it crashed on a planet on the other side of the galaxy. The worlds around her when she work up were very different... darker but also filled with pirates and it had been a handful of centuries where she was just drifting. All information showed that her former masters were long dead and dust.. she had survived and in her sleep she had been infused with something. her eyes would take on in her anger a golden iris... her rage fueled her thoughts and around her others seemed to hold their tongues and then their throats in shock and surprise.
She managed to find a place to hide the ship and the casket.. keeping it powered in case she sought to use it again and worked for a few years to develop and practice her skills... finding she had no real talent for physical means she instead sought to manipulate the weaker minds of the others. Getting them to do her bidding and only stopped when it attracted the wrong kinds of attention towards her. A jedi and his padawan came looking for her and at first she had no idea what that was exactly but soon came to learn they were not to be messed with. Fleeing instead of trying to fight she managed to get to the cliffs that were near her ship.
The jedi master and his padawan confronted her and she crushed the boys throat with the force before sending him over the cliff... upset with the death of his student the jedi renewed their attack to try and stop her from using her hands and distractions so she couldn't focus on him. It mostly worked keeping her from being able to crush his windpipe before they managed to get in close to her. She escaped only after being kick accidentally... maybe off of the cliff and she wrapped the force around herself into a cocoon that kept her safe when she slammed itno the waters and swam her way to the cave where her ship was located.
She climbed into the casket and managed to preserve herself waking up twice as she was being imprisoned in a massive chamber. She could feel other things around her and someone was trying to open the casket each time but they failed. Their tampering had initiated a wake up procedure but when they stopped and couldn't get through she went back to sleep. Then she finally awoke and was somewhere new... someplace she couldn't explain and came out in the aftermath of something that had happened. Grey figures who were silent and short were around as well as what remained of a few soldiers.
She couldn't find her ship but managed to find another... different and the technology largely had remained the same as she loaded the casket into it and using the computer learned that she would be able to go... anywhere much much faster. The information it was giving though showed there was a lot of conflict but she was able to head somewhere else.. a largely unexplored region of space and it led her to the Dark Worlds. There she found pirates and raiders but it was far out of the way and after a Republic raid chased them away and she was able to move the casket into one of the palaces. Finding rennek's secret in a massive throne with gemstones from a thousand worlds.
She sealed up the palace as the world seemingly became abandoned and storing the casket in the lowest reaches was able to uise it and the wealth that had been accumulated to hide her little area. She went back to sleep and was awakened when the Morning Star found her... she had been drawn by the force of the casket down into the secret areas. The Morning Star was far different from many others who she had met or seen... charismatic and speaking of the great crusades against the heretics of the galaxy... Thulsa didn't care about that but the picture of it was painted wonderfully... even down to the props.
The kyber crystal spikes through her hands and piercing her flesh did a lot to reveal her dedication and what she said would certainly attract others but for Thulsa it was less about the cause and more that she was being offered a great deal of power... power to change any number of things and as the military group was looking to set up a larger presence in the unknown regions. She was going to be in charge of the force users and converting them to the society. Thulsa would have said no but there was more offered a chance to become even more powerful with legions of followers at her command. That was what she needed to agree to the Morning Stars request.
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