“Put faith not in your gear, nor the force, for that is only a focus for your true inner strength.”
Kaliss Vendel
(KAY-liss Ven-dell)
GENERAL INFO
Full name: Kaliss Vendel
Alias/Nicknames: The Ashen Blade, The Disgraced One
Gender: Male
Species/Race: Human
Birth Date: Unknown
Age: 26
Descendent(of): Karyst Vendel
Current Residence: - Aboard “The Exodus”
Job/Profession: - Assassin
Title: - “Gray”/ Exiled Jedi
Allegiance/Alignment/Clan(s): - None.
APPEARANCE
Height: - 179.2 cm
Weight: - 50 kg
Build: - Thin
Eye Color: - Black
Hair Color: - Black
Handedness: - Ambidextrous
Skin Shade/Color: - Pale
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: - None
Description:
He wears white, black, and gray robes, often covering his face with a silver mask. Beneath the slim-fitting robes is his strong, yet lean build. He carries a single long-vibrosword, along with two smaller vibro-daggers. Beneath the mask is a stern, pale, face. A sharp jaw, a soft nose, and deep-set piercing silver eyes. Ink-black hair falls to his chin, but is parted about his face.
Outside of combat, on civilian stations or cities, he often wears more ‘casual’, but still formal attire. He wears a long, black jacket with silver trimmings, opened with an upturned collar and rolled-up sleeves, wearing a long-sleeved white shirt underneath, straightened with an unorganized white necktie. Below, Kaliss wears black pants and white shoes. He carries his sword, Forgotten Fire” beside his waist.
MENTALITY
Sexuality/Preference: - Asexual
Sanity: - Perfectly sane
Friends: - Aria Shortail
Likes: - Silence, reading, ice, fire, ‘tending’ to things.
Dislikes: - Wasteless killing, pointless running, anything lacking purpose.
Hobbies: - Reads, trains, meditates.
Personality:
Kaliss is a quiet, serious proper gentleman who is also a stubborn, hotheaded yet composed individual who appears tough and completely no-nonsense on the surface. He is very determined to accomplish his goals, whatever they may be, but despite so Kaliss is willing to set them aside for the finer things in life, such as genuine companionship. Faith is an unknown thing to him which he doesn't understand but he is still willing to believe in it. Kaliss follows a policy where, rather than judging a man by his appearance or words, their actions are what matters more.
He values points such as heroism, and people who value others over themselves. Although his genuine nature contradicts it, Kaliss does have a soft heart, which at times causes him to be very gullible. Despite this, he still attempts to be as indifferent as possible, especially when regarding force-users. Kaliss is also quite modest when around indecently-dressed or nude women, being flustered or embarrassed when any part or nudity is involved. He has a fondness for reading, as he tends to the Exodus’ on-board library.
EQUIPMENT
Weapons:
“Forgotten Fire”— A black and red vibro-longsword, reminiscent of an ancient tachi, that is cloaked in heat. The sword, once removed from its sheath, activates several plasma-generators within the blade that can combat with that of lightsabers, even if not being nearly as agile. The blade can be wielded with one or both hands, and Kaliss switches frequently between handedness during a fight to reach the full potential of this weapon. The blade is carried most of the time, only in times of stealth is it left behind. The blade is concealed in a large sheath centered on his waist. He typically only draws the blade for that of a formidable foe.
“Ash & Mist”— Two short dagger-like vibro-swords, each of which while not as formidable as a lightsaber, is still a supreme cutting weapon, each gilded with a fine edge of plasma. The blades themselves, while being weaker and shorter than a saber, make up for it with the small ‘smoke’ generators concealed in the hilts and blades of each weapon. The weapons themselves are nearly identical, only Ash is black and silver, and Mist is white and silver. He carries each of these with him at all times, typically on his back.
Combat Attire:
“Silver Robes”—The silver robes he wears are fairly simple yet elegant, and despite what the name implies, are not silver in the least. They are mostly thin, form-fitting white nano-weave cloth. The robes have a hood, which is usually pulled up. During combat, or at other certain times, he wears a silver mask, looking similar of that of a skull.
“Void Walker”— The darker, more streamlined version of his other robes, the weaker, thinner black and gray robes have built-in force dampeners woven throughout the fabric, helping obscure his location. These robes are hooded as well, and come with another darker, skull-like mask[/i[
Accessories: – [i]Beyond the few weapons he carries, Kaliss always is certain to have something nearby for most scenarios. He wears a small force-dampening bracelet that furthers his ability to shroud himself in the force, and a small fire-frost stone set into a necklace, and worn around his neck. He uses the ice to help calm and focus his mind when needed, or awaken a fire should the need arise.
FIGHTING STYLE(S)
General/Preferred Style: – Combination of Ataru and Shien fighting, with some reliance on Sorensu.
Hand-to-Hand: – Typical martial art style fighting, trained to both attack the enemy, and send the enemy’s attacks back onto themselves.
Weapons Style: – Single long-vibroblade, or perhaps two-shortened weapons, or a single dagger at a time, coupled with force abilities.
Special Abilities/Affinities:
Doesn’t have a preference over light or dark side of the force, and as such, is practiced in countering force attacks from either alignment.
FORCE POWERS
Force Sensitive: - [i[Gifted. [/i]
Force Alignment: - None, gray
Major Powers: - Teleport, invisibility.
Minor Powers: – Force telekinesis
Abilities:
Masters a kind of monochromatic ‘force fire’, which burns cold. He often uses this flame to surround himself in a cloud of smoke before vanishing. He’s an adept acrobat, able to heighten his physical prowess with aid of the force. However, due to his reliance on the force, when drained, he becomes particularly fatigued, and can be easily defeated.
HISTORY
Relationship Status: – None
Family:
Mother— Karyst Vendell
Father— Unknown
Siblings— Unknown
Known Languages: Basic, and (some) Aing-Tii
Personal History/Background:
Kaliss, The Ashen Blade, The Disgraced One, or even Kaliss the Failure, is an enigma in core galaxies, and completely unknown to most. This was planned.
Kaliss is a child of the Jedi Order, first discovered when an older washed-up Sith placed her son upon the steps of the temple, claiming he could not be allowed to grow up like her. She was later found dead, her own lightsaber thrust into her chest. The child was accepted into the temple, then taken to the academy to begin his training. He was tutored beneath a veteran of the last Sith war, who taught him the ways of the blade almost exclusively, despite the Council’s protests against it. By the time Kaliss had forged his own saber, they had replaced his tutor. It was quickly found that he had a perceptive grasp of the force, but only truly excelled at cloaking and hiding his own lifeforce. Whether that was concealing himself physically, or through the force. He’s grown rather adept at vanishing completely, almost perfectly invisible from both force-users and non-force users alike.
Before the Order chose a master for him, he was sent off to complete his off-world trials, by establishing relations with a small sect of Aing-Tii monks in the Kathol Rift. His trial was noted for taking much longer than expected, taking even an extra year over the expected dates. During his stay, he secretly trained with one of the monks, learning how they managed to teleport and ‘blink’ to other locations. While he was taught this, he was told there was no light or dark of the force, and that it was only an energy that gripped the entirety of the universe. He learned much from them, but even after extensive training, he only mastered rematerialization towards areas within his line of sight. He was unable to teleport through walls, or like the strongest of monks, between planets, and through time.
When he returned, several members of the Order felt he was slightly stronger in the force, when questioned he told them what he learned during his stay, giving him a deeper understanding of the force itself. He was granted a master then, and both were given the task of quelling a small Imperial establishment on some nearby world. The establishment was governed by a Sith, and the resulting fight that ensued left his master dead, and Kaliss questioning his alignment in the force.
Upon returning to the temple, while everyone else mourned over the loss of his master, he meditated in the force, peering into the dark side. There, he found power, and strength, but also felt it was incomplete. He turned his gaze towards the light, and felt a similar incompleteness. He turned towards his masters, questioning them about this emptiness of the force, and they told him it was just the void he felt from the loss of his master. But he felt none. To him, his master was gone, yes. But the force energy was constant, still there, only it lacked focus, strength, and a medium to carry it.
Worried that idleness wouldn’t suit the young Jedi, the Council sent him to protect a sect of Republic royalty. He spent nearly three years serving as the royal protector, growing into the role, making friends, and further questioning the seeming black-white “sides” of the force. One of the family’s members, the son, began to look into a small Imperial operation taking place on the outer rim of the galaxy.
It turns out they were heading the production of a revolutionary new bomb, one that could be dropped into the cores of planets, and detonated, collapsing the entire planet. He was assigned to help take down the operation, along with several other full-fledged knights. The attack was successful, the plant shut down, and the schematics and plans destroyed. Unfortunately, a particularly insane Sith member started a countdown on one of the bombs he stole, threatening to destroy the planet.
The knights rushed after him, and all were set back and delayed. Kaliss was the only one who made it to his destination, but he paused for just a moment too long during the resulting duel with the Sith, allowing the bomb to drop into the planet’s core. He and the surviving knights were forced to escape the burning planet. Unfortunately, the planet’s collapse and destruction resulted in an offset on the gravitational pull of the system, and the rest of the planets quickly fell into each other, or towards the star, killing millions.
Kaliss escaped the council, and turned his back on the Order, exiled as a disgrace. During his banishment, he renounced the barriers the Order had placed on him, and left himself to study the force as a whole, and not to just look at only light or dark. He realized that death gave way to life, and life would eventually fall to death. Upon this realization, the Jedi Council named him a Heretic, and began treating him less like an old ally, and more like a new enemy.
Only then did he meet Aria, and agreed to be hired on as her “private” assassin, putting his skills of stealth into use. Now, he wears the mask out of disgrace.
“Those lives are gone. They exist purely in my mind. I am forced to carry on the legacy.”