Honored Tenabrak
"I am Vong. No 'Yuuzhan' necessary."
NAME: Ehud Jamaane
FACTION: Yuuzhan Vong Empire
RANK: Priest
SPECIES: Yuuzhan Vong
AGE: 224
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6'7''
WEIGHT: 235 lbs
EYES: Pale White
HAIR: N/A
SKIN: Wrinkled and grey
FORCE SENSITIVE: Force Dead
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
+Know Your Enemy: Ehud understands the average galactic citizen better than the average Yuuzhan Vong. He has studied various ways of life, philosophies, and religions, and while still believing his Empire to be the best, he sees why others might not think so.
+Know How: This old man from Domain Jamaane is a learned individual. He understands battle in only the way a true Yuuzhan Vong could, valuing brutality and shock, while molding the rest of the galaxy's brighter ideas into his own strategies.
=Know Yourself: Ehud is a rare breed of Yuuzhan Vong; he is a secret atheist, and a kind soul. Because of this, he is more than willing to shrug off some of the more brutal aspects of Vong society, and secretly use technology to further his empire's goals. This also puts him in a precarious position. Should these facts ever come to light, there's a good chance he would be made a Shamed One.
-Know Weakness: All his knowledge on war, government, and religion cannot halt the progress of time. At one time, he would have likely been a great fighter and assassin, but at this point in his life, he is better served on the back lines.
-No Consistency: Ehud is a Yuuzhan Vong, who has grown up being taught that his people were the best. Over his life, he has seen that this is not always the case. While he still views his empire as an inevitability, he is no zealot, and that viewpoint could change under the right circumstances.
APPEARANCE:
Ehud is an older Yuuzhan Vong, and it shows. He is tall, but not overly tall for his species, with an older, but distinguished air to him. He wears various garments of biological material, and even more common clothes when he finds himself amid the lesser folks of the galaxy. His favorite outfit, however, is a red cloaker, covering him in his own personal grandeur and symbols of Yun-Harla, the Yuuzhan Vong Goddess of Trickery. His body is, strangely, unmarred by the genetic modifications used as a sign of status among the Yuuzhan Vong, but covered with tattoos. His noseless face features blue cheek pouches, old pale eyes, and an eternally-bared skeletal smile.
PERSONALITY:
Ehud is a kind man.
This is rare of his people in the Empire. He is a Yuuzhan Vong Supremacist, a strategist unashamed of using uncouth tactics, and a vicious, cunning warrior in combat. But despite all this, through the prejudice and dirty tricks and sharp edges, Ehud is kind. He isn't greedy, power-hungry, cruel, or even particularly war-like. His one vice is vice itself.
Ehud enjoys food unlike any Vong. He enjoys experiences other than pain and war as equally as pain and war. Most surprisingly of all, he does not believe in the Goddess he publicly worships, or any of the Gods, really.
He is a lavish man with a cause, the mind to accomplish it, and the drive to see his culture and descendants where he believes they should be, gods be damned.
BIOGRAPHY:
Ehud is from Yuuzhan'tar.
It is a place of peace in the eyes of the Yuuzhan Vong. They lay stagnant in swamps filled with peace, drowning them in their own complacency. They had forgotten what it meant to be rulers. To be Yuuzhan Vong. To be happy.
This had been Ehud's view on his home from the time he could have such thoughts. He was born into Domain Jamaane, a versatile family of warriors, priests, and shapers. Ehud had never doubted which caste he would pursue, as was his freedom in his Domain. He would become a priest with ambitions as high as the sky of his planet. He devoted himself to Yun-Harla, his people's Goddess of Trickery, Battle, and Aggression. He studied her teachings for years, looking for answers to his most pressing question; How could he help his people regain their former glory?
His answer came, not from his Goddess, but from a surprising mentor. He found himself in the tutelage of a Human Diplomat. This diplomat, named Jon Tarlow, brought his philosophy of hedonism and thrill-seeking to the haughty Yuuzhan Vong, and somehow, some of his lessons and lifestyle stuck. Ehud considered Humans, in general, to be weak and treacherous, but Jon was one of the good ones. Perhaps there were other good ones as well. Perhaps some things they had, like fine goods, philosophies, and ideals, were not so beneath him.
Ehud enjoyed what fineries he allowed himself, actually enjoying different foods, textures, things other than pain. His eccentricities made him an oddity on Yuuzhan'tar, and the heads of his caste made sure to keep him out of any real power. For a hundred years, he waited for meaning, enjoying his fineries and galactic guilty pleasures, and strategizing the furthering of a people that didn't understand him.
It was during this time that Ehud got his nickname. He acted like a lesser species. He rarely performed ceremonies for Yun-Harla anymore. This was unthinkable to the others of the Priest Caste. They began to call him "the Godless Priest". On more than one occasion, his superiors would confront him on the issue, threatening to exile him, or make him a Shamed One. He would say that he was a follower of Yun-Harla, and that his disregard for her, the deception that he didn't follow a god at all, was the greatest deception of all, and therefore, the most pure form of worship to the Trickery Goddess. Whether or not he actually believed this, or this deception was a deception itself, was never entirely clear. He didn't even know, at times.
In either case, his progressive ideals obviously impressed (or duped) his caste to some degree, and he was promoted to Priest.
Ehud is an older man now. He never saw his chance to put the Yuuzhan Vong where they belonged. But all of that would change soon enough. The winds were changing, and he would be there to place the Vong on top.
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