Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
NAME: Velok, called Velok the Younger
FACTION: The Sith Order
RANK: Sith Knight
SPECIES: Whiphid
AGE: 150
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 2.5m (just over eight feet tall)
WEIGHT: 200kg (440lbs)
EYES: Yellow
HAIR: Gray
SKIN: Gray-furred
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
(+/-) Unearned Notoriety: The name Velok rings a bell. Wherever Velok goes, there's half a chance of encountering enmity, distrust, envy, attention, and/or fear.
(+) It Takes Forty Acres: Whiphids are large and strong beyond the strength of man. Velok the Elder once kept a Mandalorian ori'ramikade at bay with a palm grip on the man's helmet. Velok the Younger isn't exactly weak either.
(-) Long In The Tooth: Velok the Younger is younger only in the relative sense. Well into middle age for a Whiphid, Velok will inherit his father's kidney problems, diabetes, and osteoporosis in due course, the more so as his power returns.
(+/-) I Ain't As Good As I Once Was: Velok the Younger used to be a much stronger and more knowledgeable Darksider than he currently is. He still walks, talks, and thinks like a Dark Master, and that can get him into trouble. His power doesn't match his instincts. That said...
(+) It's All Been Done: So far as the Force is concerned, it's fairly rare that Velok runs into something he knows nothing about.
APPEARANCE: Look up. Waaay up. See the tusks?
Velok is fairly big for a Whiphid, and that's saying something. He generally wears ratty gray Jedi robes; unlike his father, he rarely opts for business suits or disguises himself as a traditional, 'primitive' Whiphid.
BIOGRAPHY: Once upon a time, there was a Whiphid named Velok. Born in space and raised by the Blackguard, he grew to become, well, a monster. He enjoyed immense successes and bore with immense failures. After he came into his own, there was a time when he found himself compelled to visit his ancestral home, the ice planet Toola. He learned the ways of his people and a snow-priestess took him as her mate. She bore three cubs, two sons and then a daughter. The oldest son was named Vel'oqq after his father; the second son was named Gharak; and the daughter was named Storne. Though their father was distant, a wanderer, they learned from him and from their mother. They became shamans to rival either one of their parents, though not all for the same reasons.
There are long stories told in the winter night about what came to pass in the following years, during the height of the Dark Age. Grudges keep as long as meat out on the ice, and eventually Storne left Toola to search out her father's most bitter enemies, the Sorcerers of Rhand. Gharak followed, more to keep her safe than to spite his parents, but he lost his way. As his sister rotted and stewed in her own hate, deep in the Nihil Retreat, Gharak wandered the Rim. He found the galaxy far different from the simple, pure life of a hunter on the glaciers. Eventually he received word that his father had killed Storne. Worn down by pragmatism, by one compromise too many, and searching for clarity, Gharak returned to Toola.
It was then he found himself truly alone. He'd always thought that he'd return to his mother and brother. Instead, he found her long dead and his brother Vel'oqq possessed by their father, Velok the Elder, in a craven attempt to come back from death. Likewise, he found Toola subjugated by the Sith Empire, whose Empress had facilitated his father's resurrection. Gharak sought revenge on his father, but the Elder's power in Vel'oqq's younger, stronger body proved more than Gharak's match. Velok the Elder ripped out Gharak's power and much of his memory. In a rare moment of mercy, though, the Dark Lord spared the life of his last child. They would never meet again.
On occupied Toola, Gharak pieced himself together, healing in body and mind. When the Barsen'thor, Aleidis Ijet, killed Velok the Elder over Contruum, Gharak shed no tears. When the Republic crushed the Sith Empire, Gharak and his fellow Whiphids rose up to slaughter the Sith forces on their world. The feast lasted for weeks. Grudges and meat keep long on the ice.
Velok the Elder had returned from death before. Gharak, healed and emboldened, left Toola and went hunting for his father, assuming he'd survived Contruum. As the years went on, Gharak realized that, once more, he'd been too late. His father was gone forever, and Gharak would never feast on his heart. As the eldest son of a vanished family, Gharak took the name Velok in a solemn rite -- the name of his father, but more importantly, the name of his brother. He swore an oath, and it matched the wild amusement that was his only refuge, the hard core of chaotic mischief he'd inherited and nurtured. For their oppression of the Whiphid people, and for the centuries of havoc their teachings had brought to his family, the Sith would pay.
But a hard core of pragmatism had been drilled into him during his long decades in the Rim. The arts of the Whiphid shamans, and the tricks he'd acquired along the way, had proven insufficient against a Sith Lord. To have his fill of blood and fire, he needed to become a Sith like his father. He did so with minimal hesitation. After all, the Sith Code spoke of shattering limitation and achieving whatever victory one saw fit to pursue.
SHIP: None at present.
KILLS: None at present.
BOUNTIES COLLECTED: None at present.
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ROLE-PLAYS:
[Training Mission] For Days Of Auld Lang Syne - Velok seeks out Sasha Santhe; his training begins; they journey to Rhandite territory in the Unknown Regions
[Duel] Knife's Edge - Velok spends several days immersed in the Netherworld, where he encounters Caspian Rekali
[Training Mission] Valik's Treasure Hunt - Velok goes dungeon diving on Tash-Taral, in search of the masterworks of Warren Valik
[Faction Thread] Worm Hunt - Velok and some Sith associates hunt tikulini on Kyrikal 17
[Stunt] Year-Round Halloween - As a disguised contractor, Velok assists in the creation of a minor Dark Side nexus
[Faction Thread] Cartomantic Deliberations - Velok introduces his associates to a plan involving the Stygian Caldera
[Stunt] Through Iron and Ice - Velok attempts to rescue Calina Ovmar from a Mandalorian prison
[Faction Thread] Iliabath: A Quick Meeting - Velok and his associates gather their assets and plan the rebellion of the Stygian Caldera
[Event] Fate of the Duels - Aboard the Omega superweapon, Velok and Onley Xiangu fight the rogue Jedi Master Mira Rekali
[Faction Thread: Rebellion] The Silver Jedi Come - Velok leads a successful rebellion of the Stygian Caldera
[Faction Thread] What Have We Here? - Velok and friends mess with the recently evacuated Jedi Temple on Malachor Five
[Faction Thread] For the Lost - Velok and friends negotiate successfully with the leaders of the Silver Jedi Order
[Faction Thread] False Flag: Trandosha - Velok plans and initiates a covert operation to spur tensions between the Mandalorians and the Silver Jedi
[Semi-Skirmish] My Brother's Keeper - Velok attempts to secure Calina Ovmar's release by the Mandalorians
[Stunt] False Flag: Parcel Post - Velok attempts to spur a Mandalorian-Jedi war
[Faction Thread] False Flag: As I Have Foreseen - Velok attempts to spur a Mandalorian-Jedi war
[Stunt] Geonosian Convention - Velok messes with the Techno Empire and meets Mala Arar
[Stunt] The Finale: Butcher of Korriban (minor role) - Velok attends the trial of Charzon Loulan
[Faction Thread] Hear the Lamentations of their Dependents of Unspecified Gender - Velok and company have a barbecue
[Faction Thread] The Trial of Darth Maladon - Velok and company hold a trial for a terrible Sith Lord
[Faction Thread] The Last Four Riddles - Velok and company try to find Rave Merrill's lost treasures
[Skirmish] See Them Driven Before You - Velok leads a raid on the Jedi Temple at Yutan, and trains Vitor Avendahl
[Training] First Steps Into A Really Crappy World - Velok trains Vitor Avendahl
[Faction Thread] We Are Here For Our Interviews - Velok leads a fact-finding mission and raid to the headquarters of a tabloid which focuses on the Sith
[Duel] Swimming on Kamino - Velok tackles the Imperial Remnant
[Faction Thread] The Return (TRE invasion of Dromund Kaas) - Velok boards and wrecks an SJO command ship
[Personal] The Cold Wind Blows - Velok meets The Slave
[Personal] Wildlife Control - The ORC steals from Velok
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Creations - Materials Alchemy
Svolten Rhyolite Whetstone
Velok's Ritual Knives
Jen'itsukut Butcher Knife
The Red Amulets
Creations - Biological Alchemy
Tyuksleen
Locations
Keleth, spaceport of Ashas Ree
Nighthunter Port, Svolten
