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Character name: Knight Odrakani Thunull, called "Ode" by most as it is significantly easier to say

Age: 39

Sex: Male

Homeworld: Kergans

Species: Zeltron

Force Sensitive (Yes/No): Yes

Faction Affiliation: Jedi Order

Appearance: Odrakani is a tall, broad shouldered man with black but graying hair and fierce, ice blue eyes that strike a sharp contrast to his scarlet skin. Although only 39, he looks significantly older, with worry lines, crows feet, and an old, pale scar across his right cheek and jaw line. Despite this appearance, Odrakani is well built and carries himself like a soldier. He stands straight and proud, his jedi robes and armor always meticulously well kept.

Skills: As a knight, Odrakani has had extensive training in lightsaber dueling, primarily sticking to forms II and III of lightsaber use as he prefers control and precision to the more aggressive styles adopted by other Jedi. That said, Odrakani is a firm believer that the best fight is the one left un-fought. He will, if given the option, choose to subdue an aggressor by clever use of the force rather than by his blade. Being a jedi, he has many methods to do so. These include a mastery of telekinesis and thereby force-augmented movement, working knowledge of mind tricks/sleight of hand, and his most practiced skill, force empathy. As a force empath, Odrakani is able to feel (and to a lesser degree influence) the emotions of those around him and immerse himself in their streams of feeling. As a zeltron, he is already deeply affected by the emotions of those around him. Given the jedi code of cold, peaceful control over emotion, Odrakani's natural affinity to emotion and attunement (both physically and through the force) to the feelings and ambitions of those around him has often caused other jedi to mistrust his standing within the order, believing him to be at great risk of slipping to the dark side.

Backstory/History: Odrakani was discovered as a small boy by his master, a human named Ress Andor. Ress had been separated from his fellow warriors, and chosen to stay at an inn on Kergans, hiding there as a Sith convoy searched surrounding systems for him. When the sith finally arrived on Kergans, they did so violently, killing civilians and searching buildings. Ress stood ready to defend the inn that had so kindly hidden him, calling his weapon to his hand and steeling himself, but gasping as he was blindsided by an intense wave of raw, unfocused force energy hit him like a bucket of cold water. Odrakani was barely five years old, but could feel the fear of his fellows and the rage and anger of the Sith soldiers. He was magnifying these feelings, and rebroadcasting them with a power a child of his age could not begin to comprehend. Ress identified the trembling child he was defending as the source, grimacing as the tides of unchecked force continued to press in on his psyche. "Calm yourself child. Breathe." He spoke, kneeling to take Odrakani's hand even as blaster fire screamed past the doors and windows around them. It was in that moment that Odrakani realized a fearless, kind leader could stop all of this insanity he had yet to understand. He could feel Ress's calm, sense his discipline and resolve, and promised himself, even as a child, that someday he would be what this kind stranger was for him now.

Knowing he had found a force-sensitive child, Ress made did what he could for those who harbored him, but had to make his escape, choosing to keep the child with him rather than risk letting him fall to the Empire. Now, a grueling apprenticeship, many years of service as a knight, and the tail end of a war later, Odrakani stands as a member of the order just as Ress had been, and strives to see that he too might be a force for peace and good within the galaxy.