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DARTH BALAM
| Age | 22 GSY |
| Species | Gungan |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 1.96 meters |
| Weight | 66 kg |
| Force Sensitive | Yes |
| Voice Claim | Ahmed Best |
INVENTORY
- Sith armor fit to his Gungan physiology
- A red-bladed lightsaber
- A pair of cortosis gauntlets
VEHICLES AND MISC.
- The Dark Titavian, his personal LT-X Sith courier
STRENGTHS
Amphibious: His physiology allows for high-speed swimming, extended underwater breath-holding, and superior night vision in low-light aquatic environments.
Dark Knight: Similar to the Sith warriors of Vitiate's Empire, he is adept in martial uses of both the Force and lightsaber combat. He favors a combination of Juyo and Ataru.
WEAKNESSES
Zealotry: An absolute fixation on his overarching vision causes him to ignore critical operational warnings and compromise long-term strategic security.
Sadistic: A tendency to indulge in petty cruelty against subordinates or captives, burning useful assets and exposing covert operations to early detection.
HISTORY
Born as Zorovv Qawn on Naboo, the young Gungan was deeply attuned to the Living Force until the arrival of The Unmaker tore reality open. As Netherworld Rifts bled eldritch horrors across his homeworld, the raw, warp-like exposure shattered Qawn’s impressionable mind, leaving his sensory attunement permanently twisted by dread and madness. In the violent power vacuum that followed the Confederacy’s abrupt withdrawal, he endured severe trauma amidst the planetary breakdown, watching human enclaves hoard resources and marginalize the native Gungans under the guise of "fierce self-reliance."
When order slowly coalesced into the early Royal Naboo Republic, Qawn sought refuge and structure with the local Jedi Order. However, his evaluation proved disastrous; the Jedi detected the volatile dark scar tissue left by the Netherworld and deemed him emotionally unstable and unfit for training. Bitterly rejected by an institution he viewed as an extension of Naboo’s elite, Qawn abandoned his homeworld and fled to the Core Worlds, where he was welcomed into the covert shadows of the Sith Covenant.
Embracing their corrupting power, he cast away his birth name and rechristened himself Darth Balam, adopting the identity of the Gungan god of battles as a calculated psychological tactic. He views Naboo's human and settler populations as a parasitic blight leeching off the planet’s native soul while relying on foreign powers for defense. Backed by the Covenant’s vast resources and shadow networks, he now seeks to exploit historic Gungan isolationism, intending to incite a radical, bloody planetary uprising that will purge the High Republic's influence and reclaim Naboo for its true native species under a dark mandate.