Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new Sithspawn species from Echani to serve the Sith
- Image Credit: https://artcrit.tumb...st/148279554940
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Echani Raven
- Name: Kraujas Arana - Blood Angel
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Amaltanna
- Average Lifespan: 150 Galactic Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: Armored in black armor, with wings that appear permanently stained in blood, the Kraujas Arana are beautiful, but incredibly powerful and dangerous, white haired women.
- Breathes: Type I
- Average Height of Adults: 2.5 meters
- Average Length of Adults: N/A
- Skin color: Pale
- Hair color: White tinged with blood stained red tips
- Distinctions: The most distinctive physical traits for the exclusively female Kraujas Arana are their pure black eyes and the large white wings that emerge from their back that seem permanently stained with blood.
- Races: No other races
- Force Sensitivity: All (Due to their creation process requiring the subject to be Force Sensitive)
- Kraujas Arana are very powerful in the dark side of the Force, gifted with knowledge from the Lady of Secrets in several skills within the Force:
Force Rage - Force Corruption
- Force Speed
- Sith Magic
- Sith Alchemy (limited to the forging of arms and armor, Matriarchs also have the ability to alter other females of Force Sensitivity into new Kraujas Arana)
[*]Due to their Echani heritage, they are extremely capable warriors. They wield their Sith alchemy spears with deadly skill, and are proficient in many different types of unarmed combat such as Echani martial arts. On top of their martial prowess, the Lady of Secrets increased their physical strength and durability to four times that of a Wookiee.
[*]Due to the alterations done to them, the Kraujas Arana have the ability of sustained flight due to their large and powerful wings.
[*]One extra ability that the Lady of Secrets granted the Kraujas Arana was a siren's call akin to the Diathim and Maelibus of Iego that can lull victims into a pliant state where the Kraujas Arana can order them to obey their commands
Weaknesses:
- If subjected to a Ysalamiri void or void stone, they lose access to their Force abilities until they are able to escape the void's circumference, with the same thing occurring if they are attacked with Force Light or other offensive applications of the Light side of the Force. However, this does not hamper their combat or martial abilities.
- If their wings are damaged, which is not particularly hard, they will be unable to fly until the damage heals. This may take days or weeks depending on the injury sustained.
- Subjects with particularly strong will or Force training (typically Knight and above) can resist the siren's call from the Kraujas Arana
- Diet: Omnivore, Force Energies
- Communication: Can speak and understand Basic and the Sith language, have the capacity to learn other languages as well
- Technology level: Galactic Standard, although they prefer to use more basic equipment such as their alchemy treated armor and spears
- Religion/Beliefs: The Kraujas Arana have adapted their original Echani beliefs in line with their new dark alignment. The reigning Dark Lord or Lady of the Sith has become a demi-god in their eyes, an extension of the pure manifestation of combat they view the dark side as. Through the Dark Lord or Lady, the dark side of the Force commands who the Kraujas Arana must fight and destroy, allowing them the opportunity to become closer and closer to pure expressions of combat themselves by learning from each opponent the lesson the dark side wishes to impart to them.
- General behavior:
The Kraujas Arana, much like their original Echani templates, have formed a three tiered matriarchal society centered completely around combat. The strongest, and oldest, warriors among them are known as Matriarchs. These Matriarchs have complete command over flights (generally one hundred individuals) of Kraujas Arana, dictating the roles the others will fill in their groupings and appraising and teaching the younger warriors for advancement. These Matriarchs also fill the roles of high priestess of their religion as they are the closest and strongest in the dark side, with some rivaling Sith Masters in power. Under the Matriarchs are the Daughters, those that command squadrons (twenty to thirty individuals) within the flights of Kraujas Arana. They fill the roles of battlefield commanders, teachers, and are in charge of providing the armor and weapons of the Kraujas Arana. Beneath the Daughters are the Handmaidens, the youngest, weakest, or newest members of the Kraujas Arana. They form the majority of the species and the front line warriors of the race, aspiring to greater status within their society by destroying the enemies of the Sith or defeating their betters in ritualized combat tests that occur once every year. - Kraujas Arana do not allow themselves luxuries, but to entertain themselves, they will compete in monthly contests in arms or hand to hand combat, or partake in strategy games such as dejarik.
- Kraujas Arana do not reproduce like normal species. Instead, they will seek out females among a population that has been defeated, locating those that are Force Sensitive or have dormant Force Sensitivity that have proven themselves in battle and survived, and subject them to an altering ritual given to them by the Lady of Secrets. The captured females will, over the course of a week, be trapped within a cocoon as they are altered by Sith magic and alchemy into a new Kraujas Arana Handmaiden. The process can be stopped if the cocoon is broken, but what has been done will be unable to be undone.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Started as a project due to the Lady of Secrets, Taeli Raaf, receiving a large amount of Echani refugee prisoners from her wife, Fiolette Raaf, Taeli initially wasn't sure what she was going to do with them. Eventually, she decide that those among the captives that were Force Sensitive would prove more useful for experimentation into powerful female warriors for the Sith, particularly those that made up the current organization known as the Sith Valkyries. Obtaining some samples of ravens from Dathomir, the Lady of Secrets and her sorcerers and alchemists began their work.
Combining aspects of the ravens into the Echani women, the males and non-Force Sensitives were sent to Sith-Imperial prison or re-education camps, the new Kraujas Arana began to form. The new beings, once they emerged from their submersion in the alchemical vats and blood of the Sith laboratory, were beautiful winged creatures, although the process in creating them turned their eyes black and their wings and haired were stained red permanently. Equipping them with Sith Alchemy treated armor and spears, the Lady of Secrets dubbed the new warriors the first Matriarchs of the species and began their tutelage in the dark side.
