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Character
Mephirium
"I have seen the end, and I am to be its judge."
Faction: NoneRank: Self-Proclaimed Deity
Species: Force Manifestation
Age: Timeless
Height: Infinite
Weight: Weightless
Eyes: N/A
Hair: N/A
Voice
Original Profile aged 1-20
Profile ages 21-42 below
Appearance
Standing a little over two meters tall and clad in the traditional leathers of the ancient Jedi Knights, Cyril will stand out in a crowd. The Jedi Master formally known as Graxin Rade has since changed in physical appearance due to the removal of the corruption from his body. His eyes have lost their sharp amber hue, reverting to the deep grayish blue color that he'd had at birth. The various scars that once marred his body have all but faded. His skin tone has paled due to his poor health, shifting from a fair tone to a faint tan. To help hide his identity, Cyril has adopted a (mostly) clean shaven look. His facial features also underwent minor readjustments out of necessity after sustaining grievous injuries from the explosion of a droid. As such, he bears little resemblance to the look of his former self.
His hair is kept trimmed to a short buzz cut to keep it from being pulled in combat. His facial features are angular, and a strong jawline characteristic of his heritage marks him. His voice is deep and commanding in a public setting, though in privacy, Cyril can often sound raspy due to damage to his lungs. His right shoulder is supplemented with a cybernetic replacement due to his duel with [member=Silara], and his left hand has been replaced by a cybernetic equivalent as well.
Biography
The Bastard Son: Graxin Rade
Many years ago during the height of Imperial dominance in the galaxy, Jedi Padawan [member="Feena Mason"] and her lover Captain Cedric Rade conceived a child. The child was an unplanned disaster for a sixteen year old Mason and the power hungry Moff. Terrified by the prospect of motherhood, as many young girls would be at that age, on the day Cyril was born, Feena gave the baby boy to Cedric, and retreated back to the core systems.Left with a child to care for and a military legacy waiting to be forged, Cedric immediately married one of his subordinates. The woman would come to care for baby Cyril while his father rose through the Imperial hierarchy at a rate that any Sith Lord would admire.
Two other children were born to his father and step-mother. These children were named [member="Anastasia Rade"] and [member="Corrik Rade"]. To escape family links to the Jedi Order, Cyril's name was changed to Graxin, and his last name changed to Rade. Too young to understand the reality of what had happened, Graxin was told that his stepmother had given birth to him.
For a time, all was well in the Rade family. Graxin was treated as a lesser child as he was the result of an affair born of lust rather than love. His stepmother was privately resentful of his existence, but his father never failed to express his pride in the boy.
When Graxin reached the age of six, Cedric made a critical error. He went to far in stating that the Graug, the current backbone of the Sith military, were lesser beings and should be ousted if the Empire was ever to reach perfection. This sparked a feud between himself and the up and coming Sith Lord and Graug Overlord Krag.
During a skirmish with a rebellious world under the Imperial cloud of influence, Krag passed his judgement. The Graug turned on Cedric's fleet, annihilating everyone aboard his capital ship. Soon after, Krag's personal agents returned to Korriban to execute the Rades' mother, and take the children for his own sinister purposes.
The three children were separated; Graxin being taken by Krag himself for training.
Sith Training
Graxin was an experiment for both Krag and his Graug priests. A test to see if the Graug could dominate humanity with the powers of the Dark Side. The results of his training would produce the results of the test, and decide if further applicants would be trained as Dark Side adept.For the first four years of his training, Graxin lived solely with the Graug Priests. Cruel zealots of unshakable faith, the Priests molded Graxin into a suitable warrior. They used Sith Alchemy to modify his body, giving him an innate connection to the Bogan. His limbs were stretched, his bones snapped and reattached to satisfy the Priests' curiosity.
The most heinous of tests came about when a nine year old Graxin was thrown into a dueling pit with a Graug by the name of Shlurk. Shlurk was a champion of the Graug race, and heralded as the greatest blademaster to ever grace the dueling ring.
Armed with a Sith warblade, the genetically modified Graxin did battle with Shlurk. In the midst of combat Shlurk snapped Graxin's leg cleanly in two, while the latter subdued him with a torrent of force lightning. With neither duelist capable of continuing, the fight was considered a draw, and Shlurk was given the duty of teaching Graxin how to fight with a blade.
The Priests reattached the severed limb with a grotesque form of alchemy that furthered the innate corruption in Graxin's body. His gray eyes turned to a sharp shade of amber, and his connection to the force tripled. Shlurk helped nurse Graxin through his recovery, showing a hidden kindness unseen by any other Graug. The two became fast friends, and Graxin often plotted to take Krag's place with Shlurk in the wee hours of the night.
The Sith Assassin
Graxin's first test as the Emperor's Hand presented itself on the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyk. He and Corvetta landed on the planet posing as travelling friends, and Graxin made his way toward the Republic Embassy.
Within minutes of arrival, the Republic ambassador assigned to bringing Korriban further under Republic rule lay dead on the floor of his office. As Graxin turned to make his leave, Jedi Padawan [member="Verrin Ris'To"]. Posing as an Imperial Agent, Graxin employed a cortosis weave vibroblade to combat Verrin's lightsaber.
The duel carried them far down into the Shadowlands of Kashyyk, where the two found themselves evenly matched. Their struggle was interrupted by the appearance of a Terentatek. Forging a temporary alliance, the two adepts charged the beast, only to be soundly defeated by its terrible claws. Luckily, Corvetta arrived just in time, rescuing Graxin and Verrin before they could be killed.
The injured Verrin was left to his own devices on one of the docking platforms. Corvetta and Graxin made a quick jump to friendly space, and the two went their separate ways.
Multiple missions of a similar result followed. Graxin made himself known in the Sith Empire, serving alongside the likes [member="Darth Ferus"] and [member="Zius Aurus"] among others. It was the fateful battle of Telos that marked his ascension to the rank of Sith Lord.
The apprentice was sent at the head of an Imperial invasion fleet. The ensuing battle was long and arduous. Casualties were mounting, and it became clear that Telos would endure even against the might of the Sith Fleet. Not one to accept a failure without trying every option, Graxin ordered the destruction of the planet. The SIth fleet turned its guns on the planet itself, and within minute, a vast portion of Telos's surface was turned to vitrified glass.
Telos was considered a victory by the Sith hierarchy, and for his service, Graxin became a Sith Lord of great influence.
It was soon afterword during the assassination of a Republic spy on Naboo that Graxin met [member="Linori Pryde"]. A striking Mialuka woman with a love for books, Linori was unfortunate enough to witness Graxin's murder of her boss. Rather than dispatch the woman, Graxin kidnapped her, and forced her to work as the intelligence agent aboard his ship.
Over time, their disdain for one another developed into a begrudging friendship, with Graxin going so far as to admit feeling for his wayward companion. Linori did not return them, but she did agree to let Graxin train her in the raw basics of the force, and train her he did...
The Fall of The New Order
It was around this time that Krag, fearing his tool had developed too much independence, ordered Graxin's imprisonment and the execution of his crew. The other members of his team escaped Imperial space before they could be sentenced,and Graxin was forced into hiding. The Imperial regime was crumbling, and Vulcanus's power base was slipping from his fingers. He demanded Graxin's death as a show of his own power, and bounty hunters from across the galaxy jumped at the contract. For six months, Graxin jumped from world to world trying to evade the hordes of bounty hunters, finally being saved on Onderon by Jedi Knight [member="Zaren Bouqi"].
Zaren took the battered Graxin to the Jedi Temple on Ossus. Faced with a choice of incarceration or joining the Jedi Order, Graxin opted for the latter. He barely managed to convince Grandmaster @Kiskla Greyson to take him into the Order, and Zaren was informally assigned to making sure Graxin had a smooth transition.
Graxin fully embraced this new path. He began to slowly unlearn his old ways, and accept the teachings of the Light in his heart. It was around this time that the One Sith, now a major player in the galactic game, launched an assault on Ossus in search of the holocron of Darth Krayt.
Graxin, along with many other Jedi fought to defend the temple. Over time, it became clear that the Sith had the advantage. In a moment of morale certainty, Graxin handed over the holocron to Darth Junra. In exchange, the One Sith forces left the planet without causing any further harm.
Whether this was or was not the right decision is up to one's own opinion. Regardless, Graxin was called before the High Council and scrutinized by every Master present. Feeling alienated and confused, as he had thought the preservation of lives took precedence over knowledge, Graxin agreed to securing the holocron from the One Sith at the Imperial Palace on Coruscant.
The mission was entirely suicidal, and even knowing that the Council had given it to him to sweep his existence under the rug, Graxin complied. It was the right thing to do. He made it four steps up the entrance of the Palace when he was overwhelmed by the Sith guards and thrown over the railway.
His inert body was found by a Nabooian handmaiden who quickly saw to his medical treatment, and transported him to Theed. There, by the will of the force, Graxin was reunited with his mother and his little sister, [member="Felicity Mason"]. Though his mother begged for him to remain on Naboo, Graxin was resolute in the thought that he must atone for his sins. After a week of getting to know his family, and learning his birth name of Cyril Grayson, Graxin set out to return to the Order.
Jedi Knight
The fledgling Jedi Knight chose [member="Kaigann Fossk"] to be his student, a talented problem child from the core. Kaigann ended up being a perfect match for Graxin, becoming a fast friend and even developing a father-son bond with the boy. Kaigann became the reason for Graxin's continued existence, and his pride and joy when it came to his accomplishments.
Until he ran into [member=Silara], anyway. Accompanied by Jedi Master [member="Kian Karr"] and his future brother in arms, Ekul Selah, Graxin traveled to Csilla to destroy a Sith factory. It was there that he came into contact with a Sith Apprentice who identified herself only as Silara.
The woman was delirious, and seemed to be obsessed with the idea of procuring Graxin for her own purposes. Seeing a bit of himself in the woman, Graxin pleaded for her to consider defecting to the Jedi Order. His words fell upon deaf ears, and their duel concluded with little more than property destruction.
Even afterwords, Silara did not leave Graxin's mind. The woman was striking in the carnal fashion, but there was something more to her that affixed Graxin's attentions. She was broken, and being the man he was, Graxin was determined to try and fix her. He kept tabs on the Sith Lord's whereabouts anytime she made a public appearance, confident that one day they would meet again, and she would leave the battlefield at his side.
The Ession Reformation
Soon after Csilla, Graxin journeyed to Utapau to confront Darth Vulcanus. There he and the Republic military fought the Graug hordes. The battle came to a final confrontation with Graxin defeating Vulcanus in single combat. As a result, Krag's spirit became tied to Graxin, and would proceed to torment his former apprentice from there forward.
Graxin and Kaigann quickly secured Republic control of Gratos and gained control of the Graug hordes through honorable combat. It was at this time that Graxin was privately informed by a fellow healer that the Sith Runes carved into his body were not reacting well to his current growth. The various forms of alchemy used on his physical form put together in such a mismatch were the equivalent of a terminal illness. Graxin was dying.
Determined to put a dent in the One Sith military efforts, Graxin left the Republic to form the Ession Reformation. There he and Jedi like Ekul Selah, [member="Rusken Shaxx"], and [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"] did battle with the Sith allies known as the Primeval led by [member="Anja Aj'Rou"].
To Graxin's dismay, Kaigann went missing shortly before war was declared on the One Sith, and his sister Felicity was abducted by the rogue Sith @Asterion. Grief stricken, Graxin set out on a manhunt to find his sister.
Together with Shlurk, Graxin tracked the Sith to a private out of the way facility. There he united with [member=Keter], and confronted Asterion. Despite himself, Graxin was of little help in the events following, and found himself exposed first hand to Keter's ways. Disapproving of his mother's husband and displeased with the influence he had on Felicity, Graxin left on his own accord, privately stating that Felicity no longer had what it took to become a Jedi.
Graxin soon took [member="Armand Temi"] as an apprentice to give him a distraction while Ession prepared for war. The former combat medic was a good student, and Graxin was quite proud of the young man, but Kaigann was always on the Jedi Master's mind. He vowed to find out his Padawan's fate before his illness took away his chance to do so.
Kashyyyk and Onward
Ession entered the One Sith-Republic War with enthusiasm. Ten thousand young men and women set out to defend the Republic world of Kashyyk from Sith incursion. The battle was costly, and Ession ended up taking three times as many casualties as the Republic defenders themselves.During the battle, Graxin finally received the duel he had been waiting for with Silara. The two shared a short reunion mired in longing words and previously unspoken affections. Silara, now Darth Vitium, played on the Jedi Master's weaknesses, offering herself if he were to defect to the One Sith.
His will weakened by the death of so many friends and Vulcanus's oppressive influence, Graxin almost agreed. The words of treason were on the tip of his tongue when a final burst of resolve steadied his hand. Outraged, Vitium struck out, attempting to take Graxin's life.
Regrettably, the Archlord fought back. It seemed that his death was imminent, when a desperate attack resulted in the explosion of Silara's lightsaber and part of her arm. Surprised by his own victory, Graxin contemplated killing the woman, both for his own benefit and that of the galaxy. His conscience and his love (unhealthy though it was) for the woman won out in the end. Graxin slowly stabilized her body with the force, and left her there for her allies to retrieve her as Armand arrived to save his own life.
This final act of control broke the connection Vulcanus's spirit had to Graxin's body, and banished the Sith Lord to Chaos. Shaken by the sudden disconnection and the reality of his actions, Graxin commandeered the first transport he could find, and fled the system.
Morbidly wounded and alone, Graxin plotted a course for a random star system on the edge of the galaxy do that he might spend his last moments in peace. Contrary to his expectations, he ended up on an unnamed forest world, and the transponder of Kaigann's starfighter lit up his viewscreen.
Upon landing, he met a disheveled Kaigann. The boy had been looking for a means to defeat the One Sith. Explaining that the war was no longer theirs to fight, Graxin renounced his father's name, and deferred to his birth name of Cyril. Freed of Vulcanus's spirit and the alchemy that had poisoned his body since childhood, Cyril slowly began to recover. Kaigann transported them both to Naboo, where he remained with Cyril while his master was rehabilitated.
Naboo
Overjoyed to know of his Padawan's safety, Cyril had opted to remain on Naboo while he recovered. There he kept watch over his sister from a distance - still entirely self-conscious of the girl and her actions. He promised to finish training Kaigann, and vowed to one day return to the Order.The Dark Side of the force no longer had any hold over Cyril. His ability to attune himself to the Light had grown exponentially, and while his body was slow to recover, his mastery of the force had become the greater change.
The Great War
Once he fully recovered, Cyril moved back into Republic space. There he became the chief advisor to the Prime Minister, for a time, though the rift that had developed between himself and the Jedi Order continued to grow. The onslaught of the One Sith continued, and Kaigann was listed as missing in action during a skirmish on Csilla. Demoralized by the loss of his Padawan, Cyril quietly retired from his position as a military advisor, and opted for a more hands-on position in the war.He was sent into One Sith space with the purpose of stirring up rebellion in its outlying systems. The chief target of this campaign was Balmorra. He arrived on the world with little more than the cloak on his back. His purpose? To find those sympathetic to the Republic's cause, and give them reason to fight once more. Things were slow at first; people were terrified of the One Sith, and with good reason. It took Cyril time to find allies, but he eventually found people he could trust in the likes of [member="Urya Uvatera"], [member="Cyrene Grayson"], and others. He and Cyrene developed a strong bond as they continued to strengthen the rebellion's holdings under the Sith's nose. Eventually this developed into a relationship. Together, they targeted Sith outposts, and spread propaganda to the Imperials stationed nearby.
Eventually, their efforts fell under notice. [member="Darth Arcis"] and his 501st fleet arrived in Balmorra's orbit as the rebels transmitted words of revolution across the planet. Many of the Imperial forces turned their weapons on their Sith counterparts. The reason? They had been promised an Empire ruled by an Imperial Council, rather than the military theocracy the One Sith had erected. Unfortunately for the rebels, and the Republic's plans for Balmorra, Arcis began to glass settlements openly loyal to the rebel cause. The Sith Lord's efforts ultimately crushed any thought of revolution, and Cyril returned back to friendly space alone, Cyrene having stayed behind to continue her career.
From thereon, Cyril returned to Ession. There he fell into a deep depression, refusing to answer even the governing council's calls. Ession's protector and lord had fallen from his good standing -- something he felt he deserved. Eventually he was put into a psychiatric ward for admitting openly suicidal thoughts to a worried friend. The people of Ession ceased to look at Cyril and the remaining Jedi Lords are their protectors. Rather, they saw fallen heroes; the subjects a terribly tragic story.
Things only worsened when Cyril's mother passed away due to an illness. Estranged from the rest of his family, and left without any organization to fall back on, Cyril retreated into his home. There he remained, rarely coming out save to buy the supplies necessary for survival. He would not stir from his hermitage until news of the Galactic Alliance spread to Ession. Hoping for an honorable death by combat, and encouraged by some of the students he'd taken in the past, Cyril set out for the GA.
As of yet he has not met the demise he yearns for. He travels to and fro from Ession and Sullust, working to rebuild his reputation as a protector on the latter, and assisting the New Jedi Order on the former.
Cyril Grayson's future is uncertain. With no great order of his cohorts to fall back on, no code to guide him, and few influences in his life save for his own private thoughts, he is living a life without restriction. There are many paths he may walk, and only time will tell if they are the right ones.
Strengths
-Cyril's connection to the Ashla is paramount. He has access to a myriad of abilities that few others can.
-Cyril is a highly intelligent individual, ranging from galactic history to the inner working of a Sub-light engine.
Weaknesses
-He has a slight limp on his left leg from his duel with Shlurk.
-Eating problem. Cyril has spent his entire life eating protein cubes and food designed for Graug, not humans. Regular food will make him dreadfully sick.
-Eating problem. Cyril has spent his entire life eating protein cubes and food designed for Graug, not humans. Regular food will make him dreadfully sick.
