Ashaleth
The Ash-Blessed World — Lost Home of the Vahla
"She remembers."
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a fully original homeworld for the Vahla species and the Embers of Vahl cult, expanding on canon lore while supporting narrative threads tied to Vahla player characters.
Image Credit: Planet image generated by OpenAI.
Canon: No (Inspired by Legends canon Ember of Vahl).
Permissions: N/A
Links: Vahla - Wookieepedia, Ember of Vahl - Wookieepedia
GENERAL INFORMATION
Planet Name: Ashlaeth
Demonym: Ashlaeni (archaic), Vahla (modern)
Region: Firefist
System Name: Ashlaeth System
System Features: One dying red dwarf star (Ash'kar), two barren moons, persistent solar interference
Accessibility: Challenging to reach due to its proximity to the hyperspace anomalies surrounding Firefist.
Location: Adjacent to the northern boundary of Firefist.
Major Imports: None (currently uninhabited)
Major Exports: Obsidian, Vahla relics (rare, forbidden)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Gravity: Standard
Climate: Volcanic and searing—thick with ambient ash, heat storms, and spiritual pressure
Primary Terrain: Obsidian plains, volcanic ranges, scorched valleys, molten chasms
Atmosphere: Type II (Requires breath mask—ash particulates and unstable pressure)
LOCATION INFORMATION
Capital City: None known (Ashlaeth is presumed uninhabited and sacred)
Planetary Features:
- The Hollow Flame: A dormant caldera said to be where Vahl first touched reality
- The Black Choir: Jagged obsidian spires shaped like a cathedral, filled with unnatural echoes
- The Ember Reaches: Vast plains of broken glass and ash dunes—believed to store ancestral memory
- Veilpoint: A spiritual wound in the Force, hidden deep within Ashlaeth's crust
Major Locations:
- Ashvault Sanctum: A half-buried citadel with unknown technology, flickering between visibility and oblivion
- The Weeping Ridge: A cliff where molten rock flows upward instead of down—believed to cry for the lost
- Cradle of Cinders: A star-shaped ruin, where it's said the final Vahla seer vanished into ash
Population: None permanent (current visits are myth, heresy, or hallucination)
Demographics: Vahla (formerly), ghosts, legends, and silence
Accessibility: Considered unreachable by known charts. Only those "called" by Vahl—or cursed—find it.
Security: Ashlaeth defends itself not through armies, but by driving minds to collapse. Navigation systems malfunction, time fractures, and visions overwhelm the weak-willed.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Founding: Lost to history, believed to be one of the oldest flame-touched worlds in the Galaxy,
Significant Events:
- The Ash Rite of Severance, where early Vahla sacrificed part of their soul to Vahl
- The Searing Exodus, when the Vahla were cast out or fled, claiming Vahl demanded they wander
- The Silence of Ashlaeth—the moment when all known Force signatures from the planet disappeared
Ashlaeth was more than a home—it was a crucible. Every Vahla rite, prophecy, and philosophy stems from its scorched ground. Vahla oral tradition claims the planet itself is alive—not sentient, but spiritually aware. It "remembers" those born of its fire. Rituals once performed here involved burning names into glass, bathing in ash, or walking blindfolded through emberstorms.
The Embers of Vahl regard Ashlaeth not as a place of origin, but a promised return. Its loss was not destruction—it was transformation. They believe the faithful will find it again only when worthy, or when Vahl herself walks among them once more.
Historical Significance:
Ashlaeth is a planet unmoored from time. Officially, it never existed. The Vahla keep no star maps. Jedi archives mark its mention as unreliable or mythical. Sith records speak of it with caution—as if invoking its name risks drawing attention from something watching through fire and fracture.
One known Vahla hybrid, Emberlyn Rekali, is believed to have glimpsed Ashlaeth while in a deep, trance-like state during her two-year coma. Upon waking, she carried vivid, fragmented recollections of a scorched world—blackened skies, molten rivers, and an echoing voice that spoke in a forgotten tongue.
Though she spoke of it to no one, the imagery returned in cryptic meditations and debilitating migraines. Compelled, she began sketching shapes that matched ancient Vahla iconography—despite having never studied it. Some believe she brushed against Ashlaeth through the World Between Worlds—drawn not by will, but by inheritance.
Ashlaeth may be lost to the galaxy—but it is not gone.
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