Chaldean Moorchild
Gweneth Zarari
NAME: Gweneth Zarari - The name Zarari was chosen by her parents to honor Zara, the moon of Chaldea
FACTION:
- Veran Wilder force adept
- Friend to the natural world
- Links to ZINO
- Minor sympathies towards Darkwire
- Honorary member of the NJO "Padawan pack"
- Wildling
AGE: 19
HEIGHT: 1.52m
WEIGHT: 49Kg
EYES: Green
HAIR: Red
SKIN: Pale
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
LANGUAGES KNOWN:
- Galactic Basic
- High Basic
- Chaldean
- Kiir
- Shyriiwook
APPEARANCE:
Her adopted parents are Kiir. She was not, of course, born to them, but as a baby moorchild she was trained by her birth parents to mimic their traits in order to blend in to her adopted family. She is a short and flexible package who usually dresses in natural fibres such as leathers and cottons.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Shapechanger - Can naturally change her shape into numerous flora and fauna. The more familiar she is with a shape, the better she can mimic it and the closer she can copy its native abilities. She has several favoured forms that she uses and is deeply familiar with.
Glamoring - Can use telepathy to communicate and also attempt to alter the way people perceive her by telepathically modifying their sight, scent and sounds of her.
Natural born fighter - Brilliant in unarmed combat in many different physical forms.
Force sensitive - Not super strong, but a capable force user.
Limited near human shapechange - She is only truly familiar with one near human shape, which is her default shape most of the time. She has tried other near humans but can never get it right and it is always obvious that it isn't her natural form.
Technophobe - A staunch naturalist who feels incredibly uncomfortable when forced to use technology for things such as space travel. Even things like simple holopads confuse her and she avoids using them where possible.
Cold Sensitivity - Feels quite unpleasant when in a cold environment and this can impact her ability to change into some of her forms.
Trickster - Like many of her species she had a love of pranks growing up but sometimes her sense of humour is a little off.
Fan of natural tech - Technology that comes from nature is acceptable to her moorchild sensibilities and she has a particular liking for gungan equipment such as her booma slingshot and organically powered lightsaber.
EARLY BIOGRAPHY:
Gweneth was born on Chaldea to moorchild parents during a time of sadness for her people. Offworlders had earmarked their home forest as "uninhabited" and despite protests, had begun to use droids to mine for ores using space born lasers.
Gweneth's parents, in the tradition of the Moorchildren, snuck in to the farmstead home of a Kiir couple one night and exchanged Gweneth for their sleeping offspring. And that is where she stayed, with her new parents none the wiser. Several years went by and Gweneth grew into a little girl, always loving tricks and adoring the woodland. It was at around four years that suspicions began to be raised that Gweneth was different to her older sister and her parents began to suspect that the Changelings had been up to their old tricks.
Her parents were heartbroken when they came into the room Gweneth and found her trying to take on the shape of their housecat. They knew then that their real daughter had been stolen from them. They tried in vain to recontact the moorchild tribe, but learned quickly that they all been wiped out. It was lucky for Gweneth that her parents were good people, as they never changed the way they treated her or even told her the truth until she was old enough to understand it. When she was old enough they told her everything, including the name Zarari, that had been associated with the tribe she had been born too originally. She asked her parents permission to add this to her name in honour of her kost tribe.
Gweneth was saddened by the revelations, but she still had the only family she had ever known, so it was tempered. But even so, learning that her heritage had been wiped out, including the death of her blood parents and the child of her adopted parents enraged her. She swore to spend her life helping oppressed people and fighting those using technology for wicked ends.
Her parents had always been humble farmers with little need for technology and that combined with her own true nature made her abhor technology, but this just reinforced it. At 10 she began attending minor protests alongside her older sister, but once she began to learn how to creatively use her abilities to do more than protest, she became more active. Gweneth was aggressive, but always took care to avoid being worse than the problem, she grew into a militant activist and fought where she could, including against the Maw when they came.
LATER BIOGRAPHY:
With the collapse of the Maw she has moved into GA space and made several friends in environmental circles amongst others. While on a planet called Belaruza, Gweneth met a young heiress called Zenitha who helped introduce her to the greatest foe to her cause, the intergalactic megacorporation. She finds the more orchestrated parts of Zenie's campaign a little challenging and dislikes the use of technology by Zenie and her associates, but Gweneth is pleased to have a friend in the cause.
She is still very uncomfortable around technology of all kinds, choosing not to use it both out of discomfort and for fear of losing herself to its temptation. The exceptions she makes is only for absolutely essential gear, and also traditional weapons of species that live harmoniously with nature such as the Gungans, Ewoks and Wookies.
The battle of Chaldea hit Gweneth hard and although her family managed to make it off world in time, the loss of so many people and the world she knew and loved hurt her deeply.
Recently Gweneth has become more closely associated with the Jedi Order and has begun to explore that side of herself more. She fortuitously met her new Master, Vulpesen, and has joined the Wilders, a sect of force users close to nature and focused on many of the things that Gweneth values. She is enjoying this life very much and is growing in both power and personal strength.
SHIP:TBD
GEAR:TBD
- slingshot firing Gungan Boomas
- Pair of alchemised Ryyk blades
- Gweneth's attire
- Echo Stone
- Carved good luck charm made by Dreidi
FAMILY:
- Deceased Chaldean parents
- Orlaith: Kiir adopted mother
- Hehkan: Kiir adopted father
- Holly: Kiir older sister (+eight years)
- Willow: Kiir younger brother (-seven years)
FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES:
-
Dreidi Xeraic
- Growing close relationship -
Zenitha Chuma
- Friend on Belazura, fellow activist -
Vulpesen
- Force Master of the Wilders
FAVOURED SHAPECHANGE FORMS:
- Chaldean breed Tooka ginger tortoiseshell mottling
- Bear-Sloth
- Red furred Narglatch
- Shriek-hawk
- Unnamed Crocodile like aquatic mammal
- Tiny flying rodent
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