Character Merion Oreno Varanin

[Merion Oreno]

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NAME: Merion (MAYR-ee-awn) Oreno (or-AY-no) Varanin (va-RA-nin) — typically uses middle name/father's last name for anonymity and to annoy his mother; also uses the alias Vespid.
FACTION: Cult of the Central Isopter
RANK: Prince of the Royal House of Eshan
SPECIES: Echani, part human
AGE: Mid teens as of 900 ABY
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6'
WEIGHT: 160lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: White (Echani)
SKIN: White (Echani)
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes

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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:

• Large and strong for his age.
• Formally trained in the Force from a nondenominational perspective.
• Formally trained in Echani armed and unarmed combat.
• Has the Central Isopter ability to sense when a world or area will experience significant destruction.
• Young and inexperienced.
• Becoming a decent pilot.
• Mask restricts peripheral vision.
• Robes restrict movement.

APPEARANCE:
Merion wears the faceless mask and robes of Central Isopter, which are effectively a mobile burial shroud or casket. The mask includes video recording technology and a Dreamscape unit. At times, he wears the thirty-thousand-year-old Helm of the Hollow Spire Watch instead.

BIOGRAPHY:

• Mother: Noelle Varanin, Queen of Eshan
• Father: August Oreno
• Brother: Aldric Varanin
• Maternal Grandmother: Ashin Varanin
• Maternal Grandmother: Spencer Varanin, Queen Mother of Eshan
• Aunt: Quinn Varanin
• Aunt: Ibaris Varanin

Merion always struggled with his heritage. In particular, he chafed against his mother's firm expectations — that he learn the Force without bias from the Jedi or the Sith; that he take duty to his homeworld as his first priority. After one of the family tutors was dismissed for leaning too far toward Light Side ideologies, Merion began chewing on his self-determination in earnest. Though he had only a distant relationship with his grandmother Ashin, he read her small old book The Enduring Glance with extreme interest. The anecdotes therein prompted him toward a life of unattachment, even radical unattachment. Since he couldn't be a Jedi or a Sith, he decided to seek out other Force traditions and find something that fit him.

This was not a popular decision at home. Neither was his defiant but haphazard selection of the morbid screwball itinerant disaster tourists of the Central Isopter. His robes are not, not welcome at family dinners.

After a particularly challenging formal event and a lot of contemplation over Exegol, Merion struck out on his own in his late teens. He wanted to develop experience he couldn't find with the Central Isopter or with his family heritage. He sank his funds and time into pilot training and his cultic skills into a strange approach to instinctive astrogation. This let him take occasional work with Baobab Astrography.

In 902 ABY, the so-called Planeshift and a concurrent metaphysical crisis had a profound impact on Merion. He logged over a hundred thousand light-years under various flags. In short order he found himself helping re-map routes to Grek and the Aing-Tii homeworld and exploring a thirty-thousand-year-old observatory on the lost world Kiev'ara under the Diarchy's banner. He was inspired and enthralled by the Diarchy's response to the crises, which included connecting many systems in urgent need and many roles for navigators like he was setting out to be.


SHIP:
Merion can often be found traveling aboard a nice shuttle or a Central Isopter Observatory.


NOTABLE ASSETS AND TROPHIES:

• Echo Prism of Veln'Ara