Keruk Desric
Mandalorian Crusader
Name: Keruk DesricSpecies: Taung
Gender: male
Height: 2.5 meters
Weight: 95 kilograms
Eye color: Yellow
Skin color: Gray
Voice sample: https://youtu.be/h5p2X0Nhqgk?t=15m
Age: 85+ Standard years old
Items: Crusader armor, grenades and a Bes'bev flute. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bes%27bev
Preferred weapons of choice:
Beskad http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Beskad, Kal knives, slug thrower carbine http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Slugthrower and his “brains.”
Quirks:
Irritable, nostalgic, talks to himself, and likes sharp objects.
Strengths:
Strength/ Weakness: Like all Mandalorian crusaders, Keruk considers melee combat to be the truest and most honorable test of a warrior’s mettle. Foes often take advantage of this, nonetheless, if they are ill-fated enough to come within range of his sword Naast or his crushing fists they will fall.
Can see in the dark .
He is surprisingly fast and stealthy for one of his size.
Has extreme physical strength, due to his Taung heritage,
A Master blade smith: Keruk comes from a long line of smiths whose secrets have been passed down from father to son. Warriors flocked to his door, some from even as far as the core worlds to acquire his weapons. Sharp enough to shave a whisker from a Kath hound’s muzzle, yet tough enough to hew through dura-steel. Mandalorians and non Mandalorians alike agreed that no finer blades could be found in this or any other galaxy. Legend has it that one of Keruk’s blades was carried by Mandalore the Preserver himself as a secondary weapon. Centuries later, when the Mandalorians died out, several of these fabled weapons found their way into private collections and museums, most notably the Museum of Coruscant.
He is a veteran of many battles and has the scars to prove it.
Strengths/ Weaknesses:
Just because he prefers to fight close up doesn’t mean he can’t shoot. Keruk chooses slug throwers over blasters, less out of his dislike for technology and more for the unique advantages that a physical round gives. Blaster bolts may shoot further and straighter but they give away your position are more easily deflected. This is one of the biggest reasons for his choice because slugs don’t bounce off light saber blades. Even though the ammo is harder to acquire and he has less shots Keruk believes that the tradeoffs are worth it.
An expert tracker: It is said that he once tracked an enemy for three weeks on a moon where there was nothing but rocks and carnivorous insects.
He doesn’t make friends easily but when he does you couldn’t ask for a better man to watch your back.
Weaknesses:
Strength/ Weakness: doesn’t like technology and prefers to live naturally, but won’t pass up any advantage it could bring over his opponents.
As a Taung out of time, Keruk has great difficulty in understanding and utilizing many of these new-fangled technologies that the modern galaxy has to offer.
Has a deep hatred for the Sith on account of the brutal death of his wife and child at their hands. This tends to get him into trouble.
Biography:
Keruk was a leader of a moderately successful Mandalorian Clan. But when the Mandalore swore himself to the sith, he declared, along with other clan leaders, that they were now leaderless, and led his people without any interference from the Mandalore. they took to calling themselves the Neo Dha Werda the new Warriors of Shadow and returned to the old ways the Sith wouldn’t give up so easily though. They attacked his clan, disguising themselves as the Republic to make these Mandalorians more sympathetic to the Sith’s war effort. The attackers killed Keruk’s wife and child, and also many of his brothers and sisters in arms. The plan worked all too well however, the remaining Mandalorians managed to track their ship when it was retreating to a remote Ice planet. There, the attackers had converged with a Krath/Sith fleet, and the true enemies became apparent. Just before they where Overwhelmed the Mandalorians, who where determend to take as many as they could with them, rammed their ship into the lead vessel. The warship fell from orbit and smashed into a mountain causing an immense avalanche which completely buried it.The left over Krath and Sith gave up searching
for their comrades and assumed everyone on that vessel including Keruk had died in the crash.
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