The Wonder of SWTOR

The Wonder of Star Wars: The Old Republic is a playthrough series hosted by Swtorista, focusing on playing the game “for the first time” by attempting to complete every quest on a free to play account, focusing on the story, the lore, the world and the “wonder of SWTOR”. The series follows Javiik Vutta, a force-sensitive young Cathar who has fallen into the merciless world of the Sith Empire.

Backstory Summaries

Javiik Vutta

• Race: Cathar
• Age: 18-25, young man
• Homeworld Alderaan
• Previous occupation, page in House Thul
• Role ingame: Lightning Spec DPS, possibly Corruption Heals at endgame

Ancestors

The Vutta family can trace their lineage all the way back to Cathar, where they were originally farmers and traders. Their distant relatives though, were force-sensitive seers and witches, who abandoned their connection to the Force as impractical and dangerous, and instead made their way into domestic life. Generations ago, members of the Vutta family were able to smuggle themselves away from the planet on a freighter full refugees, as one of the few families that were able to survive the attack by the Mandolorians and the genocide of Cathar.

Alderaan and the Vutta Family

The Vutta family eventually landed on Alderaan, and built a home for themselves as close allies of House Alde, once again returning to their roots as farmers and traders, but also creating strong neutral trade ties with the Sith-aligned houses including House Thul, even going so far as to serve as pages in their houses. This tradition carried on through the Vutta generations until the galactic war began to break out, where Javiik Vutta’s young father decided to join the war effort and was shipped off to Dathomir, hoping to stop the genocide of a planet so close to their ancestor’s home of Cathar.

Fleeing Alderaan

Not long after, House Thul began to make declarations of their own, leaving Javiik’s mother unsure of their safety on the planet. Not having heard from her husband and presuming him dead, she quietly extracted her son who was serving as a page under House Thul, and together they packed a majority of their trade goods into one of their cargo ships, and left their Alderaanian homeland behind.

Slave

Unfortunately they were not able to escape the war, even in the vastness of space. Through a series of miscommunication and misunderstandings, they ventured into imperial space and came under arrest and were reduced to slavery. Javiik’s mother was sent to the shipyards of Balmorra, and the young Jaavik was sent to Dromund Kaas to work on the unfinished colossus.

Apprentice

When it was discovered he once served as a page in a noble house, he was transferred to serve under a Sith Lord, where his force powers were discovered, and was sent for training on Korriban.

Force Powers

Javiik’s powers first came into play shortly before he and his mother fled Alderaan – but they were something his mother kept a secret even from him. She worried he would be abducted by the Sith on Alderaan the moment they detected he was force-sensitive. She used her own minor Force Powers to dampen his… but once he left her protection, his Force Powers began to manifest more strongly over time.

Under the tutelage of Sith Pureblood Alchemist, Lord Shalin, and then under the apprenticeship of Lord Zash, Javiik Vutta’s connection to the force flourished, with his strength and confidence growing by the day. Although he had not grown as ruthless as the Sith he encountered on a daily basis, he was far from the innocent young man he had been on Alderaan. The marks of using the dark side had begun to creep even into his physical appearance, and even those who once knew him would be hard-pressed to place him as the page who once worked for House Thul.

The Force Trap

On Dromund Kaas, his Sith Lord master began to sense his force potential and decided to lay a trap. The Sith Lord left his own master’s lightsaber, an artifact of blood and betrayal, somewhere Javiik would find it and be tempted to lay hands on it. Jaavik eventually found it one day during his slave duties, touched it, and the darkside energy stored in the saber triggered his awakening force powers, allowing them to bloom into fruition. His master then sent him to the Sith Academy, to train and become a Sith Acolyte.

Sith Master

Jaavik’s master, a retired former Sith Pureblood teacher at the Sith academy on Korriban, was named Lord Shalin. He avoided the politics of the Sith as best he could and focused on delving into the dark mysteries of the tombs and libraries on Korriban.

During his final years of teaching, he advocated for including more “impure” races into the Sith academy. One day, push came to shove, and the Sith had a heated debate about whether the new recruited alien acolytes would ever amount to anything. Javiik’s master claimed, “I promise you, I could make even a slave worthy of your respect.”

After his retirement, he wanted to prove his original statement to be true. Whilst visiting Dromund Kaas to tour the site of the unfinished Colossus he met Jaavik for the first time. His years teaching had given him a knack for spotting talent and there was something about this young Cathar slave that piqued his interest. He made inquiries and to his delight learned Jaavik had at one time served nobility and so made arrangements for Jaavik to join his crew as his personal steward.

He detected early on that Jaavik had some latent force sensitivity and to amuse himself he tried to teach without teaching. He devised tasks for Jaavik that seemed innocent enough but would encourage using the force without saying “Use the force”. Over time Jaavik’s sensitivity became stronger but was still very weak, a cup would move across a table, a holopad would short out in a small display of sparks. He chuckled to himself when these things happened and he saw a confused Jaavik trying to hide what happened. His motivations are mixed – though he has his own goals to achieve, he would also protect, and teach, his apprentice.

Sith Alchemist

Lord Shalin, Javiik’s former master, and a black sheep of the Sith Academy academia, focused on the Sith Alchemy of creating Sithspawn, eventually involuntarily “retiring” from teaching at the Sith Academy to further pursue his research. Lord Shalin hopes to alter, augment and improve sentient species, and not just the “beasts” of old. His studies will focus on Javiik, a male Cathar touched by the force, and will test his strength by pushing him into the Sith Academy. After all, what better subject could there be than one who is already “half beast”? Only once Javiik has proven his natural worth will the experiment continue… and fulfill his promise to the Dark Council. Although he has unleashed his apprentice into the wild, it is unclear if Javiik walks entirely alone, or if he is still subtlety influenced by his former master’s whims and plans.

Lore Shalin’s Disappearance

Before his disappearance, Lord Shalin was studying Sith Alchemy, and his area of expertise was Sithspawn, modifying living creatures with the force to enhance or corrupt them. He had recently developed an interest in sentient species, but it is unknown how actively he pursued this interest. Friction between him and his fellow teachers, and even him and the Dark Council was high, due to his views on recruiting alien species into the Academy and treating them equally to other acolytes. This difference in views forced him to retire, and he chose to instead delve into his research.

While excavating and exploring the tombs of Korriban, he found something, something he kept secret from other Sith. Something so powerful, or so dangerous, that another Lord might want him killed over it.

From this discovery, he decided that in Sith Alchemy, that to enhance beasts, more than pure darkside energy would be required. To test this theory, which strayed dangerously close to the light side, he would have to go to a planet less imbued with the darkside. He would not be welcome on Tython, as his motives were not benign, but instead would seek a planet that did not treat the Force as black and white, Jedi and Sith.

Maybe he traveled to Voss to speak to the Voss mystics or ventured in to the dark heart of the forests with its twisted creatures, to investigate further into Sith Alchemy.

Lord Grathan

Lord Grathan and Lord Shalin share the same Sith Master, the very same Master who’s lightsaber triggered Javiik’s force sensitivity. (Missing information, maybe from a normal episode? Javiik retrieved the lightsaber he touched from Grathan’s estate.)

Lord Kallig

Lord Kallig appeared to Javiik as a Force Ghost in the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas, claiming to be his ancestor – “blood of my blood, son of my sons”. Lord Kallig’s story is largely unknown – a Sith male who had become Tulak Horde’s top general during his lifetime, even his species is a mystery. Tulak Horde said of him, “Easily the most ambitious, and therefore the most dangerous of my rivals is Kallig. Therefore, he shall be the first to die.” When Kallig was ambushed and assassinated, his family fled, his body entombed on Dromund Kaas. Before his death, the pro-alien Kallig took a secret love-matched Cathar wife who bore him sons. Due to the Cathar’s tradition of mating for life, these children would branch into Kallig’s lineage, eventually leading to Javiik, his distant relative.

Balmorra

Through Lord Zash’s lust for knowledge and power, Javiik was sent to the war-torn world of Balmorra to recover an ancient artifact, the last known whereabouts of his missing mother. Following the path of the artifact, the young Sith Apprentice falls into his mother’s slavery camp, the Shipyards of Balmorra. Arriving at the camp’s entrance, Javiik looked across to the ships tethered at their docks, and immediately spotted his mother, and recognized her immediately. This is where our story starts… the story of a young Sith Apprentice returning to his mother.

Javiik’s Mother, Sheeva Vutta

• slender / slim / smaller / gentle / like anakin’s mother
• pale / white colored fur
• eyes same color as Javiik before darkside – yellowish?
• speaks in a very calm manner
• maybe something happened in her past that made her wary of the Sith and of sending her son to the Academy
• untrained force sensitive, exhibited through her free-trading and starship
• force augmented “head for numbers”, skilled mechanic to maintain starship, and the ability to see trends, all three trends towards a focus on force foresight
• use powers subtly in her own business
• Javiik’s strength from his father
• Descendant of farmers on Alderaan, but may in some way have learned about family’s force sensitivity from her parents and grandparents
• Kallig relation is on mother’s side
• Saw Javiik playing with toy levitating it with use of force – to keep him safe, she watches over him all the time on Alderaan. Very successful at it until placed into slavery.
• (Maybe distant relative was named Shavira? Another possible name for Javiik’s mum. Another female name Kiva, Revi came up.)
• Cares deeply about her family and does everything she can to keep them safe, she was devastated when javiik was taken away from her
• The force to be used for their benefit and their safety, she had to be more careful when the war on Alderaan got more overt
• Force powers had a part in getting him a job as a page in house thul, to make him stronger and allow him to thrive in the galaxy, knowing the things to do and say to help him gain favour with the house
• Sly, but honest, suppress force powers but use them when in need. A business woman, but home fairly often. Javiik’s dad would often ask her for trading advice,, or send her in his stead for trade deals, and if they were in risk of taking a large financial hit, or low on funds, she would use the force persuasion – less so to impose her will, but rather to make “light suggestions” with her weak affinity to the force, though even without the force she was a skilled trader due to her growing up poor and working her way up to the middle class.
• Extremely careful and picky of who watched over Javiik.
• Kept her force powers hidden from javiik’s father

Javiik’s Father, Rythen Vutta

• Rythen, Javiik’s father, is not force sensitive
• Rythen never sensed his wife or Javiik was force sensitive, and never “caught” them, either through inattention or misdirection by his wife
• While he was not as charismatic as Javiik’s mother, he helped grow this business though trading, helping in business, and was no slouch himself!
• Rythen is older than his wife
• Javiik’s father is still out there, waiting for the opportunity to find his family again.
• A few months after Sheeva and Javiik leave Alderaan, Rythen came back looking for them on Alderaan only to find them missing. It is assumed he is still searching for wife and son, while Javiik searched for his mother, assuming his father dead.
• Rythen volunteered for the war on the Republic side, having a  good heart, and wanting to help
• Rythen was a dreamer and idealist, while his wife is more practical
• Rythen larger in stature, physically fit
• Rythen has brilliant green eyes and dark fur
• Javiik looks like his father’s father (his grandfather), Javiik’s father would be shocked to meet Javiik, looking like his own father

Javiik’s Mother on Balmorra

Short story, The Shipyards of Balmorra

Javiik’s Mother on Dromund Kaas

Javiik’s mom, Sheeva Vutta, has been placed secretly in an apartment acquired by Javiik to hide her in, so she may not be used as a pawn or a bargaining chip against him. Unfortunately, Javiik is not without enemies, and attracts the attention of an outside force (possibly Lord Skotia) who hires a Bounty Hunter named Huxtor to get “dirt” on Javiik. Huxtor is a hot-headed bounty hunter who has lost carefulness with time, and gets caught by Sheeva while snooping around the apartment. Instinctively, Sheeva Vutta fires a blast of Force Lightning at him. Surprised (the apartment was supposed to be empty, much less having a Cathar force user in it!) Huxtor performs a wise tactical retreat to collect his very generous reward for the intelligence he has gathered. Huxtor was not the only one surprised to “feel” Force Lightning. A perceptive Sith nearby named Kas’iah (pronounced “Kuh-sigh-yah”) also feels the sudden burst of Dark Force where there wasn’t any before, and takes it upon herself to investigate the situation. Interested in archaeology, ancient research, mysteries and the unknown, she might take a great interest in teaching a fledgling Force user… especially if her son is Lord Zash’s new apprentice.

The Cult

In the Inquisitor’s story, a cult is created to meet the needs of the story. Ingame, Javiik chose to create his cult through an act of benevolence, by liberating a cure for “The Rot” plague and sharing it with the less fortunate denizens on Nar Shaddaa. In return, those cured joined the cult, Javiik became beloved, and many gifts were given to his glory.

Even after his departure, his cult will continue helping the lower class of the lower levels, attracting healers, and supporting anti-slavery and oppressed aliens, all while keeping Javiik’s identity a secret. One day, Javiik’s mother may inherit this cult, as Javiik descends deeper into the plans his Master has for him.

Battle of Alderaan

The Vutta family had originally been allied with the Republic houses, and with their penchant for finding rare deals and forging  alliances as freetraders, they had become most aligned with House Panteer. The Panteer house was the most blue-blooded of all the noble houses, especially due to their allegiance to the Republic and their patronage of the arts. During the battle, the Vutta’s crops and freeholding were destroyed by the orbital bombardment, as Javiik’s parents saught refuge deep in the underground cave complexes of Alderaan. Unbeknownst to the hidden family seeking refuge, the cave had a history of its own and had a strong attunement to the Force. Javiik’s Mother, Sheeva Vutta, was affected by the sleeping power in the cave, and had a premonition that her husband would die in battle if he joined the resistance. She begged him to stay with her, but Javiik’s father had always been a dreamer and an idealist, and her insistence for him to hide only drove him further away, and he left to see what he could do to help the shattered world of Alderaan once the bombardment of their territory had ended. Leaving his wife behind, he hoped to help the Royal families who had treated him and his family so well over the years, but even traveling to their estates was fraught with danger. Before ever reaching the royal houses, Javiik’s father discovered a militia force who was picking off Imperial scouting parties and helping where they could, as even the Jedi on the planet struggled to make even the slightest dent in the Sith invasion force. Once Darth Malgus’s troops were ambushed by the troopers of Republic Special Forces Division’Havoc Squad, Javiik’s father was never quite the same, and he refused to speak to his wife about anything that happened after he left their underground sanctuary. Although Javiik had not yet been born during the Battle of Alderaan, as a child he idolized his silent father and his role in the battle. Due to a small deployment of Republic troops working with the militia to keep it organized, Rythan’s skills as a soldier were quickly discovered by the Republic, leading to his eventual participation in the military years later – all in the service of the protection of his wife and young son.

Trouble had been brewing years before the Battle of Alderaan, and the noble houses had experience rumblings of unease even before the Sith launched a swift and savage assault on the planet. After the invasion, the royal family was in shambles and the politics of Alderaan quickly became complicated, leaving the Vutta family in the same state of confusion and fear as the rest of the less notable citizens of Alderaan. As line were redrawn after the destruction of many of the townships, the Vutta family suddenly found themselves under House Thul’s rule, who had taken advantage of the weakened House Panteer and finzlized new borders of its own. Rather than fighting the claim, the Vutta family decided to embrace their new lieges and rebuilt their family home and farm on the ashes of their old freeholding. In an attempt to tie their family more closely to House Thul, Javiik was sent to serve as a page in the noble house’s estate, and not long after, his father would be sent to Dathomir.

Battle of Dathomir

The war on Dathomir was bleak, bitter, and danger lurked around every corner. Not only did the Republic soldiers who had been stationed there have to worry about Darth Arctis’ hand-picked Sith soldiers, but the very planet itself conspired against their every move. The force-wielding Sith troops would cloak themselves in the natural mists to drag sleeping soldiers into the night, rations and supplies were perpetually short, and mysterious deadly illnesses ran rampant through the Republic forces fighting what felt like a hopeless, endless battle.

Rythen, Javiik’s young father, had joined the Republic military as an idealist, to help, to rebuild, to protect the ideals of freedom and peace that the Republic stood for – but on Dathomir, it was almost impossible to even see what the battle around them was trying to preserve. Rumours passed that Darth Arctis was looking for something, something that the Jedi Council didn’t want him to find. He was the head of the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, and then men could only guess in whispers what he could be seeking, and what they were supposedly protecting.

Rythen had joined the Republic military through natural channels. After House Thul accepted his son as a page in their house, Rythen became more familiar with the noble houses and eventually became a solider of House Ulgo, and was quickly put to work rebuilding Alderaan while also training to protect the planet from future Sith invasions. Shortly after, he was scouted into the Republic Military, where he felt he could better practice his ideals, even if it meant leaving his family for a time. The Battle of Alderaan had left scars on him, and the brutality the Sith showed during their attack left little room for doubt when it came to the validity of the battle – but Dathomir was different. There were no tortures. There were no townships burned to the ground. There was only war, and the Sith seemed almost uninterested in the few native inhabitants of the planet. Dreadful rancor attacks were frequent, and he had even lost friends to toxic hallucinogenics released by the swamplands. Rythen had joined the war to protect other families like his own on Alderaan, but there was nothing on Dathomir that he felt was worth saving.

Years later, Darth Arctis gave up his search, but he did not plan to leave the planet unscathed. Leaving a key ruin that was being used as a base seemingly undefended, Darth Arctis lured the Republic to attack through a combination of Sith sorcery and subterfuge. The base itself was not empty, but housed a majority of the beasts that the Empire had trained into their command, and the attacking Republic soldiers were met with the horrors the Sith forces had left behind. As the republic began to realize their mistake, Darth Arctis ordered an indiscriminate wide-scale bombing of the ruined fortress before retreating from Dathomir, not having found what he was looking for. Once the Empire left, the Republic ordered the retreat of what was left of its own soldiers shortly after – the Sith no longer had any interest in the world of Dathomir.

Before his next deployment, Rythen was given leave to return to Alderaan to meet with his family, but he returned to an empty home and a missing family. No one, not even the noble house members, had any idea what had happened to Sheeva Vutta and her young son, Javiik. Knowing that her ship and many of their treasured possessions were missing form their homestead, Rythen could only hope that they had left of their own choice and were safe somewhere in the galaxy.

The battle of Dathomir was a horrific fight, but Rythen strongly still believed that if he fought for the Republic, there must be other planets similar to Alderaan that deserved to be a sanctuary of peace, so he returned to the military shortly after finding his family missing. The needless loss of life and the bombing of his unit had soured Rythen’s view on the war, but his faith in his ideals was still strong, until the fateful day he received word of his next deployment… Dathomir. Darth Arctis had returned, and the pointless, endless war was to begin anew.

Return to Dathomir

After hearing he was to return to the hell that was Dathomir, Javiik’s young father Rythen halfheartedly agreed to return to the front lines after finding his family missing. His requests to take longer leave to find his family fell on deaf ears, as the Republic could not afford to lose even one soldier in the bloody war against the Sith Empire.  He turned to an old friend from the time in service to House Ulgo for advice. After a long argument, Rythen agreed to go to Dathomir, but during the journey he kept thinking about his family.

Darth Arctis had brought new horrors to Dathomir, and the treacherous landscape had not changed. This time though, Rythen had become an expert of the planet’s deadly forests, and was able to both lead his squads safely through the terrain and also avoid the beasts and the dangers that lurked in the darkness of Dathomir.

While he could keep his squadmates and new-found brothers and sisters in arms safe from their environment, he could not protect them from the terrifying attacks made by the Sith Assassins and Sorcerers sent by Darth Arctis in the night. During one of these shadow attacks, Rythen awoke to the screaming of his squad mates – instead of attacking directly, this night their enemies had truly used the landscape to their advantage. The squad had settled down on damp swampland, and Darth Arctis’s sith sent Sith lightning into the wet ground, allowing it to travel to the sleeping soldiers without ever being within blaster range. Sick laughter filled the air as soldiers awoke to electrocution, and only a few of the Republic soldiers survived the attack long enough to chase the Sith back to the shadows.

Repulsed by the brutality of the Sith and the helplessness of their squad against enemies they could not even see, Rythen knew any more time on the poisonous, red-tinged battlefield would kill him. He could feel the fighting and the butchering of his fellow soldiers taking its toll on him, and he knew that, one way or another, he’d die if he stayed on the planet. Unsurprisingly, others shared his sentiment and, with heavy hearts, began to craft a plan to desert their comrades and flee the planet. Very few of the soldiers had survived the night’s attack, and all their communications systems had gone down from the lightning. They spent days waiting for the right moment to flee, but as a Sith bomber squadron began their run they found the distraction they had been aching for. Using the chaos and destruction wrought by the first wave of bombings, Rythen and his band of traitors began their race towards a docked supply shuttle.

Their escape was simple – no one was watching the supply shuttles when some much destruction was happening elsewhere. Rythen being the only veteran aboard calmed down the nervous soldiers, and directed them to leave the planet and make the jump to hyperspace. Unknown to the soldiers, they were not alone in the ship. A young recruit from lavish planet of Commenor was sleeping in the ship’s berth. Although exhaustion had kept her from waking during the solder’s boarding, the ship’s jump to hyperspace woke her from her deep sleep. Racing to the cockpit, she was surprised to find Rythen and two other soldiers handling the ship’s controls. She knew immediately what they were doing, and what they were – deserters. Assuming there was only three soldiers on the ship, she launched herself furiously at Rythen, who was sitting in the pilot’s seat watching the controls. She pulled a utility knife from her belt, screaming as she attacked him. In their surprise, she succeeded in her attack, her knife tearing through Rythen’s shoulder pad, grazing his shoulder. As he cried out, he reactively grabbed for her and slammed her head against the console. Not knowing she was also a soldier of the Republic, Rythen’s forceful blow had been strong enough to kill her on the spot. Shocked and horrified, Jaavik’s father immediately stood up and left the room. Her body was thrown out the airlock by the other soldiers, and they moved on with their plan to escape.

He had gone from a war hero to a fugitive, a father to a murderer. Rythen felt his will to search for his family leave him, and all he craved was to be alone. The ship’s maps lead to many planets, and Rythen chose Tatooine to land on, a remote planet he’d heard was largely ignored by the rest of the galaxy. Once they reached the planet though, dissent spread through the deserters. It was clear even from space that the planet was barren of life, and that there would be no forests or mountains to hide in. Rythen and the other deserters argued, but in the end, they out numbered him, and he realized that no matter what the best course of action was, they would want to soon return to normal, civilized life. During the night, he stole himself away on the ship’s escape pod, and crashed into the desert of Tatooine. No more violence, no more death, no more orders. He was free.

Holopads

#1: Korriban & The Wilds

I was given this holopad by my former Master, as a way for him to track my progress in the Academy. Here I am asked to throw off my shackles and no longer follow the orders of slavemasters… but it seems a good idea all the same. Perhaps recording my knowledge of Korriban will allow me to one day escape it. My arrival came as a shock to me – this red planet is nothing like Dromund Kaas, and its appearance caused me to arrive late, to my detriment, and to Overseer Harken’s advantage. He, and so many others, seem to feel a need to spit on me, not only for being a former slave but also for being Cathar. I’ll spit on them right back.

I do not know if I should record this, but I saw another acolyte murdered in cold blood by the Overseer for failing her trials. A slave as well – now I know exactly what my fate will be if I do not play the Sith games. Her name was Kory, and I left her corpse on the ground to complete my own trials. All of us are vying for the favor of Lord Zash – a powerful Sith, who seems to already have a favourite in a Sith Pureblood named Faun Alt. He hates me. I barely know him.

I was told to go to the Tomb of Ajunta Paul and meet Spindrall, a lunatic hermit hiding in the tombs… but also thought of as a prophet by Lord Zash. Does that make her a lunatic as well? I did, and passed his trials be defeating many other acolytes. My connection to the force is strengthening… every time I step foot in the tombs, the lightning comes quicker to my fingers. I have fought apprentices, Tu’kata, tomb robbers, and Imperial troopers besieged by madness… the Force is currently my ally, but fighting them made me worry it could also have been my enemy, if I was less lucky in the mansion of my Master.

I will rest a moment here in the shadow of the Wilds, and then I will make my way into the tombs once more.

#2: Marka Ragnos’s Tomb & The Rite of Blood & Bone

I traveled into the Tomb of Marka Ragnos. Tomorrow, I will go to the tomb of Tulak Hord. Korriban is the burial grounds of many powerful sith lords… and far too many acolytes. Overseer Harken demanded Faun Altt kill another in cold blood. Will that be me? I have no choice but to comply.. or die. The Sith do not accept weakness. I have already killed murderous acolytes in the tombs and crazed troopers in the Wild, and although Kory’s death shocked me, Ger’s barely made me catch my breathe and wonder if I was next.

I have walked among the halls of the Sith Academy, and found there is much more here than I expected. Tombs within the walls, treachery between teachers. Overseer Ragate administered the rite of blood and bone to me today… to soak the bones of failed acolytes in the pool of blood, and then to fight the monster that emerged. I was successful… I am no longer extending myself to use the power of the darkside, instead, the lightning feels almost as if it comes as natural is breathing or speaking. Perhaps this is why the overseers insist on informing me I have potential… though I am unsure what type of potential that is. Participating in the Sith ritual made me realise what a truly long-lasting organization the Sith are, unlike my own family who have been shifted from planet to planet, too weak to survive wars on their own. Their power comes at a cost though – their compassion and humanity.

I write this journal before leaving the academy once again to head to the tombs.

#3: Tulak Hord’s Tomb & Purity

I journeyed into the tomb of Tulak Hord today, and uncovered his readings for Lord Zash – and his hate machine. I am wondering if I should spend time studying the ancient Sith language, as everything I find is meaningless to me.

As I made my way to the tomb I completed a favor for Lord Abaron. He claims the Sith as a whole are descended from ancient Sith priests and humans, and that the unpure should be cleansed from the Academy. My family lived for hundreds of years on Cathar… I can assure him I am plenty pure, and that the Force flows strongly through me. I hope the Dark Council does not accept his request, I would be one of the first “cleansed” as a former slave and a Cathar.

I will return tonight to give Overseer Harken the shards I found in Tulak’s tomb.

#4: Lord Zash

I have finally met Lord Zash, and I feel that the additional burdens Harken has chained me with will soon come to an end.

On my way to the Tomb of Naga Sadow, I was able to recover Dorji’s lightsaber – I will free the Jedi on my return to the Sith Temple.

In the tomb, I was able to recover the rods and free the Dashade, through a powerful display of the force. Soon we will break deeper in to the temple, and recover the map that lies within.