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Nicolai Ciobanu - The Merchant of Souls

Nicolai Ciobanu
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NAME: Nicolai Ciobanu

Known Aliases: The Merchant of Souls, The Merchant, The Witch, Hey you with the face, By The Force what is that thing?!
FACTION: Unknown

RANK: Merchant

SPECIES: Dark Side Entity (Was Human)

Alignment: Neutral (Out only for himself)

AGE: 1,420 standard years

SEX: Male

HEIGHT: 5'11'' (181 CM)

WEIGHT: 170 Lbs (77 KG)

EYES: Blue

HAIR: Dark Brown/Black

SKIN: Pale White

FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes

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STRENGTHS:

Force Entity: The fact he no longer has a physical body gives him access to abilities that would be much harder for the living to still do. This includes long distance travel, shape shifting, being in multiple places at once, and traveling through walls.

Incredibly Powerful in the force: Even before becoming a force entity his force ability was high. However, over the years, stealing the essences of countless millions, including that of many force users, this has simply increased.

Experienced: The man has existed for well over a thousand years. This has given him an experience level unmatched in many beings. Not the oldest, but it gives him unique insights.

The Spirits: The Merchant is deeply connected to the spirits of the Netherworld, and it is through them he has access to a lot of seemingly supernatural abilities that he uses in his wish granting.

Wealthy and well connected: He has invested well, and as such has amassed a very large fortune. He also has agents in many of the governments, military, and corporations that have caught his eyes.

Charismatic: His ability to see into the very hearts of those around him, to exploit weaknesses, and to mentally twist them to his will, along with a way with words, has led him to be able to manipulate people well.

Powerful Combatant: A life time of combat and fighting, has given him over a millennia of capabilities. He can pilot, saber fight, use a blaster, and the force with great skill

Hard to Kill: When defeated, he is able to simply reform in the Netherworld. However, this is a long, time consuming process, and can be undone by those with the proper knowledge.

Weaknesses:

Lightside: Due to his nature as a Dark Side Entity, Nicolai has a particular weakness to lightside attacks. He can withstand them for a time, but any drawn out confrontations with powerful lightsiders will not go in his favor.

Greed: The Merchant is the embodiment of greed. He wants, he desires anything of value. For him the souls of loved ones, family heirlooms, precious metals and stones, sensitive information, and so much more are all things he covets and desires. He will do almost anything to get what he wants, and Greed is the quickest way to get his loyalty. So long as you are still paying the most.

Lightside Nexus: Without special preparation, he cannot enter lightside nexus.

Technology: As intelligent and powerful as he is, Nicolai just does not have a good grasp on modern technological things. This is especially noticeable in things like repairing ships, droids, and weapons, slicing, or figuring out how to turn on specific systems without prior knowledge.

Neutral: What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or was he just born with a heart full of neutrality? Either way, Nicolai is not inherently evil, and most certainly not good. He is all for himself, doing what benefits his own interests the most. Some days this will be destroying entire planets. Others it will be curing intergalactic plagues, and if he desires it, to save that family from destruction. It creates a capricious nature, that is self serving and self seeking. It is simplistic in its complexity.

Once It's Mine: He does not surrender what belongs to him. This can be people, objects, planets, souls, and everything else. He will fight to the end to keep what he has.

Needs Souls: To maintain life, his ability to grant the desires of others for a price of souls is a must. He needs to continue to feed on the death, and destruction to stay alive. Luckily he has many ways to get what he needs.

Children: As self serving as he is, as fueled by hatred, anger, greed, gluttony, Nicolai has a soft spot for children, and finds it difficult to simply strike them down as he can the rest of the galaxy. Though, it's often a fleeting issue.

Does Not Like Combat: While fully capable of being a powerful combatant, he does not enjoy fighting, and goes out of his way to avoid it. When dealing with him, there are always other options.

APPEARANCE:


Nicolai stands at 5'11'' with an apparent weight of 170 lbs. However, this is prone to change based on whims. As a force entity, he tends to have no set apperence. However, he most often appears as a man in his thirties, with pale white skin, dark hair, blue eyes, with a semi-athletic form dressed in black suits. In this form, he appears unusual, and otherworldly. He often has a cane with him. He has other forms, similar to this but more natural looking, for when he desires to blend in. Or when dealing with children.

BIOGRAPHY:

Early Life:

Nicolai was born to a female Jedi Knight during the time of the Old Republic. She had gone under cover, and during the process of her investigations became pregnant. Brought back to the order, the child was taken from her after birth and raised away from her. Nicolai knew who his mother was, and they had a cordial relationship, but very little feelings about one another beyond the closeness of fellow Jedi.

As a Jedi:

As he grew, his power in the force became obvious. Power, intelligence, and a gift with words served him well, and he excelled at almost every aspect of the youngling curriculum. In time, he was picked to serve with a Jedi Knight named Maria Altros as his Master, and the adventures the two had made them legends on many planets. They grew close, nearly like brother and sister. It was a good, healthy relationship, that kept both of them stable, and in line. They had purpose. On the same day as Nicolai passed the trial, Maria was raised to Master. Years passed and the two remained close even as they went their separate ways.

The Death Of His Master:

However, Maria was betrayed, and slaughtered by the Hutts, during what should have been a routine negotiation with the Hutts in an attempt to solve violence being done planets within their sphere of influence. The Jedi refused to get involved again, even after the Cartel invaded the planets. Without Maria's calming influence and companionship, Nicolai snapped, abandoning the Jedi and joined up with the militaries of the planets.

Soldier in Three Armies:

He joined the militia, and using his powers, Nicolai turned the tide of many battles, and forced the Hutt's to bleed for every inch of ground they took. Hatred, rage, the darkside, it began to fill him. However, even as he fell, abandoned by the Jedi who he had hoped would have his back, the people began to worship him as a hero. However, it was not enough. The first planet fell, and he led a daring escape with most of the remaining military forces. They secured the second planet in the Hutt Invasion, and this time the hutts took far more loses than before.

They had to bring in specialized Mercenary groups to drive out the resistance and even with his power, and the preparation, the second world also fell. However, most of the Hutt Mercenary groups and a good chunk of their military forces had fallen to him.

As they made to invade the last planet, Nicolai led guerrilla tactics on all three planets. With the death toll for the hutt armies so high, and no mercenary groups willing to enter the battle ground the hutts could not withstand the might. One by one, they pushed the hutts off the worlds. Victorious, the planets reached out to the Republic to finalize the peace.

Betrayal:

However, as is the way of things, greed won out. The Hutts stayed away from the planets, but they wanted revenge. The Hutts put a bounty on Nicolai's head, the Republic Labeled him a traitor and criminal, the Jedi declared him a fallen Jedi, and for the planets to be allowed access to republic resources, they had to turn on their hero. And they did. He was smuggled off the planets by a handful of loyal soldiers. He had gotten revenge, but greed, greed was the only thing that mattered. He fought for them, Maria had died for them, and they had betrayed them all. Jedi, Republic, worlds, it didn't matter.

Becoming a Bounty Hunter:

He used his vast combat experience and force abilities to become a bounty hunter in the outer rim, wild space and unknown regions. Nicolai kept his head down, always paying the bills, but never attracting to much attention to himself. His hatred, and resentment grew, and the darkside began to fill him completely.

It was during his bounties that he received a bonus. A Sith Holocron. Perhaps it was a Sith, perhaps they simply didn't know what they had, either way, he unlocked and learned from it. His fall to the dark side was complete.

As a Sith:

Once he had learned all he could from the holocron, the Dark Side led him to a Sith Master, whom he trained under. He took in all the lessons the man could teach him, then killed him, taking his title for his own. Gathering followers and troops, Nicolai became a scourge across the rim of the galaxy. Many Jedi were sent to stop him, all fell. However, across the planets he ravaged, peace keepers found not a single child was harmed. In the core of his being, for all that anger and hatred at the galaxy, he could not bring himself to harm a child's innocence, even as he destroyed everything they loved.

Finding the Spirits:

Wanton violence, the seeking of eternal power, none of this truly satisfied him. He found more joy in the trinkets, and baubles he collected from his conquests, and from the amassing of wealth. His things helped to fill that burning hole in his heart.

He found a particular one on a conquered planet. The relic haunted his dream, filling his mind with visions, and he went to the planet shown to him. Of this time period almost nothing is known, however, for weeks he conversed with the spirits at a temple.

Sucked into the Netherworld, Nicolai was nearly consumed by them. However, his will proved great, and he re-emerged from that place. However, from that moment on, forever changed. Using the relic, he began his quest across the galaxy once more, and slaughtered countless beings and stole their essences and infused them into himself.

Rejecting Humanity:

In time, he gained far more power. His body was aged, failing, unable to contain all the power he had gained. So, like a snake that shed its skin, he shed his humanity. The Darkness, the power, the pact with the spirits, it kept his form whole, and he stepped into the galaxy as a new being. So many older thoughts vanished, so many hungers left to be replaced by new. With distance no longer a trouble, with so much no longer a hindrance, he began to feed on the souls of the dead from all across the galaxy.

The Jedi Attack:

Of course, this disturbance brought the most powerful Jedi together to hunt him down. And they did. The battle was intense, it lasted weeks. Each time he killed one, he stole their power for his own, however, their courage never waned. He was defeated, his darkness cast back into the netherworld.

Pact with the Spirits:

He did not vanish. Instead, he watched the various spirits in the netherworld. He learned from their pacts with mortals, he began to grasp how they managed to keep their powers, gain amusement, and began to emulate them. In time, he was able to step foot once more in the physical plane with the help of nine powerful spirits. This time however, he was not the same as before. He had learned to keep his head down, to become a myth, a legend.

He found the weak, abandoned, the destitute, the desperate, and he said the same thing to them: “What would you do, if I could make your problems disappear?” He gathered their souls, the souls of those they loved, or the ones that they sacrificed to his name. He gathered wealth, money, information, objects.

Birth of the Merchant of Souls:

It took centuries, however, he soon found a pattern, a way to gain what he wanted, while the living still felt satisfied. How to make them the ones who were targeted by law enforcement and Jedi rather than himself. He offered services, they paid a price. The Merchant could make your wildest dreams come true, make a woman fall in love with you, bring you wealth, cure your disease, even bring back your loved one from the dead. Nothing was impossible with his power and the power of the nine. Over the centuries the whispers of the Merchant of Souls crossed the rumors of school children as a dark urban legend, or on the lips of superstitious ship crew members.

His Greed grew.

The Plague:

The Gulag plague changed almost everything. The death toll was so high, the Jedi all but gone, it was a dream come true. So many souls to devour, it was like a buffet. His power grew. And he used to it create bastions that worshiped him as a god, by protecting entire planets from the plague. When the plague ended his loyal followers spread out across the galaxy, and he used his great wealth to start numerous companies, and governments.

Current Day:

The Merchant is a businessman, he offers services to those willing to pay him. His price varies based on who the person asking is, what they are asking for, and how he feels at the time. He does not take every task, but when he does, and you pay the price, he never fails to deliver. All he is now, is all consuming greed. The same greed that got his beloved master killed, that had him betrayed, he now was. It was the nature of the galaxy, to fight this was to fight inevitability.

However, for all that greed, there are times when a child falls sick, when all hope is lost, and they miraculously get better. Or when a pregnant woman is about to be struck and killed by a speeder, and its as if the speeder simply goes straight through them. It makes one wonder, perhaps the merchant grieves for something, that the galaxy was not aware of.



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