Master Xira Shaia (Jedi Knight before Time Skip)

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Age: 42 (25 before Time Skip)

Form Mastery: Shien/Djem so, Soresu, Makashi and Shii Cho.

Teaching Style: Daily Practice. The Best way to learn how to use the force and how to use a lightsaber was through rigorous daily training that’s at least what Xira Shaia thought. Rigorous exercise and daily meditations were in Zoroku’s future for a while until Xira thought he was ready to help refugees on worlds effected by the Revanchists war. She transitioned Zoroku’s regimen from daily practice in the Temple to Daily practice on the field of battle against Mandalorian raiders.

Personality: Xira is the more relaxed of the two while strong willed and disciplined much like her apprentice, she was much more compassionate than the boy and knew that besides teaching the boy the ways of the Jedi and the Basic language she would need to help unfreeze his cold heart. She was for the Jedi going to help the republic to fight the Madalorians but didn’t want to leave the order with the revanchist, feeling that the best way to protect innocents was to quickly end the war that would cause much bloodshed.

Xira has managed over the years to gain Zoroku’s friendship, and they see each other as Brother and Sister. They share many of the same views on the war and she has learned much about war from her apprentice just like she taught him much about the force.

As an aspiring Jedi Battlemaster Xira needed to learn as all the styles of Lightsaber combat, and used her apprentice to teach herself another style of combat Form V Shien/Djem So. She has been given the rank of Master but is not on the Jedi Council, she refused the invitation to sit with them thinking she wasn't ready until she could call herself a Battlemaster. Zoroku was confused with her decision but respected his Masters choice however illogical he thinks it is.

Jedi Master Shaal Manon

Species: Nautolian

Gender: Male

Form Mastery: Djem So, Soresu,

Teaching Style: Experience is best. Shal took the approach of "Throw someone in the deep end and they'll learn to swim." while training Tiberius. Relying on the opinion that by givng his padawan as much experience as possible, he would be ready as fast as possible.

Personality: While age and training Tiberius has tempered it somewhat, Shaal is stil headstrong, stuborn and ocasionally reckless. He loves the adrenaline spike from doing exciting things, leading him to be action prone and ready for a fight at any moment.

Gunda Poot's Master: Teryn Olbark (Jedi Knight)

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 46 (29 before Time Skip)

Form Mastery: Shii Cho, Shien/Djem So, Ataru Striker

Teaching Style: Terlyn beliefs that each being must choose his or her own path. Although he is good enough at teaching his Padawan the basic stuff every Jedi needs to survive, he usually lets his Padawan figure out that he needs to learn something instead of trying to tell him why learning something is important. But, being a rather clever Jedi, he also manipulates his pupil into situations that are likely to teach him something, or at the very least let him appreciate the fact that he needs to learn something he thus far has been content to ignore.

Personality: To say that Terlyn Olbark thrives on danger and adrenalin is an understatement. Although many in the council consider the Jedi Knight to be irresponsible and rash, he has proven his worth to the Jedi order time and time again. A skilled infiltrator, manipulator and technical expert, he is one of the few Jedi Knights trusted for undercover work, dangerous espionage missions and similar tasks.

Terlyn is very intelligent and an expert manipulator of other sentients. In another life he would have made a great fixer or a very successful gambler, but since his path was to become a Jedi he has used his natural abilities, enhanced with the considerable arsenal of skills and powers available to a Jedi to the benefit of the order. His loyalty is beyond reproach, and the results he brings for the order are impressive enough that the council has ceased asking for details of his missions.

As someone used to the risky work he does, Terlyn is also appreciative of the downtime between dangerous missions. At the Jedi council’s insistence, he is occasionally ordered to take long breaks to recover his mind and center himself again. Those breaks he uses to train his Padawan in something he hasn’t had the chance to do on his missions, and to meditate and try to find inner peace back at the Jedi Temple.

I should have also said ( @KungFuFerret reminded me with his post), as this is the Old Republic, characters are welcome to be more extravagant with robes, appearance etc:

Also Plah Nahk is now my new favourite character.

I have posted in the IC, and took the opportunity there to write a little about what Gunda and his master have been up to.

50 minutes ago, Rabobankrider said:

I should have also said ( @KungFuFerret reminded me with his post), as this is the Old Republic, characters are welcome to be more extravagant with robes, appearance etc:

Also Plah Nahk is now my new favourite character.

Yeah, I'm still partial to the styles in the original Tales of the Jedi .

Of course, being a Wookiee, Kataddik doesn't wear robes.

master Khalic edastas.

career:mystic

talent:is an unnaturally good "prophet"

training style: for one, hates lightsabers, and only uses them as a last resort. he finds that all padawans need to learn their own way. and in this case(me)he realizes i need to learn by myself.

Also, while I think on, I've noticed a few characters ad said they're heading to the council chambers. Unfortunately this is the wrong direction, as you guys want to be heading to the docks.

24 minutes ago, Rabobankrider said:

Also, while I think on, I've noticed a few characters ad said they're heading to the council chambers. Unfortunately this is the wrong direction, as you guys want to be heading to the docks.

Noted, and fixed.

Jedi Master: Zear Not

Species: Shistavanen

Fighting Style: Shien Expert
Training Style: Show how it's done. Zear has spent the vast majority of her adult life alone in the wild, fending for herself on some of the most wild and dangerous planets in the galaxy. Because of the great risk she has faced within her travels, she has been force to rely on herself for everything. Since taking on an apprentice, she can often become overprotective, often preferring to show the Padawan how she believes something should be done rather than letting them figure it out for themselves. Zear is a master of all things to do with surviving on the uncivilized planets, and focuses most of her training around this subject.

Personality: Zear is a eccentric individual. Famous for speaking her mind without considering how it will effect others. Perhaps this is why she spend most of her time with animals, as they are not so easily insulted. She has developed a number of tendencies that many of the order consider unorthodox, from hunting for food while leaving her lightsaber at home, to collecting rocks that have abnormal formations or colours. She has a room reserved for her in the Corouscant temple, but is looks more like a storage room, filled with all manner of odd brick-o-brack.

Zear carries a green lightsaber pike with her, ideal for hunting animals for food, though she often doesn't carry it with her, finding it unnecessary and cumbersome.

Svae Xor's Master: Gra Ki Muund

Species: Cerean

Gender: Male

Age: 85 (68 before Time Skip)

Form Mastery: Soresu; Shien

Teaching Style: Gra Ki Muund is a firm believer in the force, books, and experience. In that order. He would always say, "Through the force we can understand everything. Through books we focus our learning. Through experience we apply our learning." Svae took to this teaching style very well. He was always well prepared for his lessons and he loved learning about everything especially about the natural world and the force. He believes that peace comes through understanding and the the force as such he doesn't focus much on lightsaber wielding but he does recognize that one must defend themselves from time to time.

Personality: Gra Ki Muund has a very calm demeanor and always thinks his actions through. Being well versed in many topics of life he almost always has wisdom to share. (Think of Treebeard from LOTR just not a tree and maybe a bit faster. MAYBE )

Alright, was busy and tired yesterday, but here it is.

Master Hanji Sellas

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 47 (30 before Time Skip)

Form Mastery: Shien, Soresu, Niman

Teaching Style: Learning through experience is a good teacher, but a strong bond between master and student is needed to accomplish learning in the first place. Hanji is willing to learn what he does not know along with Walden and is always ready to point out what can be done better.

Personality: Friendly, laid-back, and unassuming, his appearance masks the fact that he has dealt with governments, the military, and the criminal underworld in his time as a Jedi Watchman. Hanji uses his laid-back persona to both test others and fool potential enemies. He is fond of music and isn't seen without a flute or some stringed instrument in his off-time. He does have a great dislike of flying.

Ok, all looking good so far, I'll be producing stats etc for these over the week for the campaign.

So @Rabobankrider in regards to Svae's animal companion, after the time skip I think he should have a companion. I'm thinking it's either the baby Arkanian dragon or a different small animal. If you go with the latter I think it would create a cool mini story arc when Svae loses his companion and then finds the dragon (as an egg or a baby) and there'd be a lot of emotional ties and such.

If going with a smaller animal currently I'm thinking of something like a Loth-cat (stats in NoP), an Asharl Panther (stats in NoP), a Snowfeather (stats in NoP), an Albek (stats in SS), a Kath Hound (stats in SS), or a Manka cat (stats in SS)

All are Sil. 1 or 0 and rival or minion.

If you want to do the rolls for taming an animal in the ooc, I'd be willing to let you choose one of the animal mounts listed in the FaD Seeker book or AoR Pilot book. I won't make you do a roll for a pet type animal though, but if you're interested this is a chance for you to take an animal that is bigger, plis it'll show how well trained it is etc and that could be interesting.

I think we'll find the dragon during the campaign, make more of a big deal out of it.

All that sound cool with you? :-)

1 minute ago, Rabobankrider said:

I think we'll find the dragon during the campaign, make more of a big deal out of it.

Great, we get to have a scene where everyone else goes "Holy ****!!! A dragon!! Ruuuun!"

And Svae goes "PUPPY!!" *glomp*

XD Greater Krayt Dragon wanders in to pillage and plunder, looks down to see a Polis Masan firmly clamped to it's leg. Krayt Dragon shrugs and continues to pillage and plunder.

Well, I think I finally have a name for Kataddik's Master:

Kitanai rōjin

IF anyone here knows Japanese, you'll get the joke.

For those who don't:

1 hour ago, Rabobankrider said:

If you want to do the rolls for taming an animal in the ooc, I'd be willing to let you choose one of the animal mounts listed in the FaD Seeker book or AoR Pilot book. I won't make you do a roll for a pet type animal though, but if you're interested this is a chance for you to take an animal that is bigger, plis it'll show how well trained it is etc and that could be interesting.

I think we'll find the dragon during the campaign, make more of a big deal out of it.

All that sound cool with you? :-)

I'm cool with that the only issue is the majority of them can't be a companion as they are Sil. 2 and Svae only has force rating 2. he needs 95 more xp for FR 4 which would enable a sil. 2 companion.

Well if you want you can use the AoR Beastrider rules, as I don't think they use force ratings.

18 minutes ago, Rabobankrider said:

Well if you want you can use the AoR Beastrider rules, as I don't think they use force ratings.

Yeah I'm not worried about the riding rules I'm talking to companion rules.

8 minutes ago, Stneu73 said:

Yeah I'm not worried about the riding rules I'm talking to companion rules.

My advice is to go with a Sil 1 companion then. This is particularly true if we're going to be travelling on a Starship .

10 minutes ago, Stneu73 said:

Yeah I'm not worried about the riding rules I'm talking to companion rules.

I think there are baby rules that allow you to have a smaller version of the beastie you may like to have. if you have Savage Spirits you should be able to find it.

3 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

If you want to do the rolls for taming an animal in the ooc, I'd be willing to let you choose one of the animal mounts listed in the FaD Seeker book or AoR Pilot book. I won't make you do a roll for a pet type animal though, but if you're interested this is a chance for you to take an animal that is bigger, plis it'll show how well trained it is etc and that could be interesting.

I think we'll find the dragon during the campaign, make more of a big deal out of it.

All that sound cool with you? :-)

TL;DR: Real questions that sums all below up: Should Svae have just a bonded companion animal (would be sil. 1 or 0), a riding animal (usually sil. 2 but there are special exceptions), one of each, or try to make the companion the riding animal as well? Question is more geared towards @Rabobankrider but I appreciate input from anyone.

Svae's attitude towards animals is such that I can make any of the options work story wise.

Fair point @Tramp Graphics we will be on a starship but it'll probably be a freighter or something with similar capacity as there are 7? of us so nothing smaller will really work so I don't think having a place for the animals will be an issue even if it is a sil. 2.

1 hour ago, Shlambate said:

I think there are baby rules that allow you to have a smaller version of the beastie you may like to have. if you have Savage Spirits you should be able to find it.

Yes there are and we'll probably use them for the dragon.

What I was really wondering about is just companion not necessarily a riding beast. They can sometimes be the same animal but not always. I'm not at the point of having them be the same because most riding beasts are Sil. 2 or higher.

1 hour ago, Rabobankrider said:

Well if you want you can use the AoR Beastrider rules, as I don't think they use force ratings.

You are right, but there are things that a companion animal does (through talents I've purchased) that a riding animal doesn't and companions are through force rating.

3 hours ago, KungFuFerret said:

Great, we get to have a scene where everyone else goes "Holy ****!!! A dragon!! Ruuuun!"

And Svae goes "PUPPY!!" *glomp*

3 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

XD Greater Krayt Dragon wanders in to pillage and plunder, looks down to see a Polis Masan firmly clamped to it's leg. Krayt Dragon shrugs and continues to pillage and plunder.

I look forward to this scene with much anticipation Haha!

Just now, Stneu73 said:

TL;DR: Real questions that sums all this up: Should Svae have just a bonded companion animal (would be sil. 1 or 0), a riding animal (usually sil. 2 but there are special exceptions), one of each, or try to make the companion the riding animal as well?

My vote is "companion and mount in one" kind of thing. But that is the Dragonriders of Pern fanboy in me screaming like a nutjob saying "YES!! Magical bond with dragon! YESSSS"

Really though it's up to you. I don't really know the rules about the animal companion stuff, so I can't make any opinion based on mechanics, but if you want a "pet" and a mount, go for it. If you want them to be the same, that's fine too. If you want to have an Appa from Last Airbender, I'm super on board for that, or a dragon like from Pern, also 100%. If "but it will get much bigger" is a problem, well:

1. No guarantee the game will last long enough for that to even be a concern.

2. The GM has expressed no real concern about the idea of you ending up with a big pet, so I'm sure he will find a way to accommodate it, and the GMs opinion is really the only one to worry about.

3. It's not like giant pets haven't been in other stories. The above mentioned Appa from Last Airbender is a great example of how you can have one, have them be integral to many storylines, but also sometimes they're just asleep in the background while the humans go do something else.

TLDR Do you want a giant muthaf'ing dragon to ride around into battle like a freaking bada$$? If YES, then go for it. If NO....*smack* OF COURSE YOU WANT THIS!! WHY IS THIS EVEN BEING DEBATED!! GIANT DRAGON MOUNT!!!