Emberlene's Daughter, The Jedi Generalist
"Reasons for pain. Reasons for sadness. Reasons for life. Reasons for death. Reasons why their lives were filled with suffering. Reasons why their deaths were absurd. Sentients wanted reasons for the destiny that kept transcending their knowledge. And we produce those, as it is what we have been brought into existence for."
- Intent: To continue the silver jedi's arc towards more cosmic horror and eldritch beings.
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"Do you know how you got that dent, in your top lip? Way back, before you were born, I told you a secret, then I put my finger there and I said "Shhhhh!""
- Name: Precepts
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Unknown, there are ancient poems of them where they come from what they are. They are not celestials and murals of them depict them as playing with force users to instigate conflicts between light and dark. In truth they exist within a spatial pocket dimension anchored to reality through the Ophidian grotesques statues that are from ancient civilizations that encountered other species not just the celestials but things older and darker. The statues though need to exist within two points of space time but not within reality to be used as an anchor meaning if it is destroyed the tether and connection can be weakened.
- Average Lifespan: Outside of their pocket dimension they can live for an average of three hundred years. Within their pocket dimension they are able to revitalize and connect in ways to sustain themselves on the unconscious bias and fear of the minds of trillions allowing them to exist in a suspended state. Like Iego exists and suspends hunger and aging on its surface giving the creatures the legend of being immortal. This makes their interaction with beings brief... a blink of an eye for them.
- Estimated Population: Semi-Unique
- Description: Existing in some of the most ancient poems and oral histories of the galaxy as various names and concepts.. the precepts are largely unknown... From where exactly they come from to their exact looks... none are the same... few times they have been seen together to compared. They just are there and able to interact usually embodying a primordial concept like love or hatred, fear, lust, desire, death, destiny, destruction, delirium, despair, dream... something that is in the minds of trillions of beings at any point in time. Something that is almost a universal concept.... and more so... to the viewer who sees them their appearance can change to match their own bias. A twi'lek might be twi'lek features while a trandoshan would see more trando features within them.. something familiar and close to how the Diathim reflect the species viewing them. Others will see in the more dangerous and darker precepts teeth, claws and flesh... malevolent forces and twisted ideas of the flesh threatening to rob one of their very sanity if they continue to look at it. Most of the precepts seem to be bored toying with the peoples that give them form and food but will appear to some who preform at one of their shrines opening a temporary rift to allow them to either go to them or the being to come to their dimension permanently since there is no one there to keep the rift open. Either way can end up being very bad for them as consuming the thoughts and incorporating the flesh sustains the beings that are older and larger concepts the galaxy holds. With the most powerful rarely moving from their places and sending avatars out to interact... something described as a fraction of their strength that is needed so not to overwhelm and crush on a scale of planets others. These avatars are short lived and usually only good for a few days being able to experience life but always returning to the source.
- Breathes: Without accurate readings within their pocket dimension the existing theory is they do not technically breath... being able to live and communicate telepathically or visually in hard vacuum as well as under the ocean.
- Average Height of Adults: Can vary from barely a third of a meter to a towering five hundred
- Average Length of Adults: Can vary from N/A to in some cases almost two kilometers
- Skin color: Pale, ebony or in between
- Hair color: Can vary and change depending.. from bald to black to slimy tendrils
- Distinctions: They have no defining look or feel to their which makes distinctions between.. hard to find. A common feature generally is the attitude... a means for them to interact as their are not just one things.. they might feed on it and embody it but they interact with each others.. they wage war against each other.. they seek to become stronger then one another... and everything else is something to play with to them. The biggest distinction though and considered the mutants.. the strange or weird are the precepts that love sentient beings... aspects of love and devotion... friendship and altruism... These are foreign to them and can look very different taking a much more humanoid look to match those they interact with and basking in their light. Others.. older and uncaring might become concepts or fears to big... to galaxy spanning... too... ancient that their size has created literal ecosystems within where other precepts exist and interact... and they are aware of them... they are aware of other things slithering in the shadows of space.
- Races: N/A
- Force Sensitivity: All
- Ancient: Old, these things have existed in various forms and ideas for to the galaxy what feels like millions maybe billions of years... for them it is the blink of an eyes. Their pocket dimension has different rules for space and time... which allows them to seemingly live forever but they do (secretly) have life spans.. they can die.. they just also can appear to leapfrog through time and come at intervals most would see as several lifetimes.
- Power: The precepts are ancient and powerful.. some formed with the very first thoughts and concepts of sentience... some from fears or hidden IDs.... but all share a common trait their power is based on the trillions of minds in the galaxy. If every living thing thinks something at the same time the precept could become immensely powerful for a moment... if they forgot or ignore it... they can weaken to a husk of what they were.
- Thought: One of the biggest things to the precepts.. they are formed from the collective thoughts of trillions of beings and those thoughts... those fears sustain them. A civilization fearing death can create a precept of death that looms and interacts with them able to observe from the shadows.... a civilization that blames their hangovers and hedonistic ways on a being who pushes depravity and intoxication will begin to see something out the corner of their eye influencing them to give into the pleasures. The precepts exist on thought and if they are forgotten, if they are ignored they can starve.. they can die and be consumed in their weakened state by others seeking to replace them and become stronger.
- Force Voids: While it is not extensively tested it is.... a theory that they can use the force.. the cosmic force exists across space and time and has no real concept of distance or dimension so they are likely connected to it in some way. Making it void can harm them.. can weaken or even damage them forcing them to need to go back to their home dimension in a quick retreat.
- Limitations: Their bodies are weaker when in the main universal dimension while they can still be powerful they do not make a habit of staying for long periods of time.. usually long enough to preform whatever they were brought there for... they know where to influence in areas the force is strong and the dimensional veil thinner... allowing them to fuel their aspects but they are not able to travel across dimensions, they are not going to appear when summoned and serve as a fighter... they are there because someone has called to them and they will see they get their reward... it just will not always be what ones thinks it is. Outside of their own pocket dimension though they can age... they are a long life span but they have a lifespan a concept unknown to them and they can be affected by force voids or even displays of force energy like force light and bolts of hatred pure forms and expressions of the force.
Eternity here in that sagging skin suit, or one more day with me?
Why?
Can't fly. But I can wait. Until the stars burn out
Why?
Can't fly. But I can wait. Until the stars burn out
- Diet: Other: They are sustained on the mental thoughts of sentient beings... things that think they exist to explain something... those thoughts and mental energy give them sustenance... a means to feed and stay strong. So those who fear an idea in large collectives can make them robust and healthy... for those who start to reject an idea... the precept can become sickly and eventually be consumed by another.
- Communication: Verbal and a mixture of body language or force empowered telepathy.. it depends greatly on the precept themselves... how they are formed and what they arer embodying. Some have mouths... some have thousands of eyes... some are teeth and claws and flesh while others are humanoid or serpentine able to speak and move.
- Technology level: They do not use technology
- Religion/Beliefs:
- Concepts to Reality: The precepts are ancient... idea and explanations of the being sin the galaxy. Fears, loves, obsessions... the thought of something evil being the explanation why the sith do what they do created evil... the concept of death and thoughts about it.. the fear of it brought into being something. More so other things like love and hate and suffering... unconscious thoughts that need a place to reach.
- Avatars: Temporary hosts... things created that are able to for a small amount of time allow the precepts to experience what it is like to be human. MOst notable experiences and legend are of such a beings as the oldest precepts becoming human and spending a day with them yearly to remember what feeds them.
- Monolithic: Ancient, slow, hungry.... the feelings to describe being within the pocket dimension of the precepts. Its borders are strange, smooth within and covered in a moisture... almost impossible to reach normally as thousands of concepts inhabit the space within but for those brave enough to survive and reach it... the feeling of being inside of something is there... the ever presence that something is slowly devouring everything within.
- Intercise: The thinnest layer.. the area where the force has thinned the barrier... similar to netherworld rifts and able to let precepts to influence beings. Similar to shrines or places of power within the force... the depths of the ocean or darkest corners of space.
- Abyss: Below the surface of the pocket dimension, further still and swirling... the oldest precept that has always sat as the primordial fear and idea from early beings. Death and its power... it controls much of the dimension... massive in size and always consuming the belief and fears of it... gorging on darksiders who send victims to it..
- Furthest reaches: Seas of red, moonless shores and forests of twisted flesh and organs. The further one goes into the depths of the precepts dimension the more dangerous it becomes and carries across for them.
- Frozen Tears: The last tear shed by one who visits their dimension crystalizes... becoming hard and holding what remains of their final moments. Sorrow, pleasure, pain, despair, wrath and hatred... it is potent... important. Something that can be and has been harvested by precepts during times or isolation and strife. When galactic populations have been devastated on scales unheard of like plagues other rifts opening to tear people apart.
- The struggle: The age old struggle... light and dark, good vs evil... love and indifference. The precepts feed off of this and have been manipulating it... getting countless times for things to clash and fight.. to keep the struggle going as it produces eventually some of the strongest emotions and pushes others to the deepest depths. They push and prod and provoke to get such sweetnesses from force users who come to them.. some come.... others perish but some will try rituals that were whispered in their ears... sacrifice countless in an effort for power and find themselves trapped in a place where they are consumed.
- Lost Children: It isn't all chaos and darkness though some precepts like beings... they enjoy helping them but... sometimes they do not understand. Young precepts that represent childish notions might be closer to the young and play with them... where the force makes the barrier thin they can even bleed through and visit promising a paradise to the children or healing the sick. Stories of children going into forests because they heard laughter need not be legends... it could have been precept children playing with them and they lost track of time. Returning from their end in what felt like a couple of minutes was really centuries.
- Mika: Chaotic precepts that seek to influence evolution by introducing struggle, hardship and chaos that pushes advancement along a path that they choose to push and play with the lives of the people. THey are usually seen as caring though... they do want beings to live, they want them to change and grow stronger but by their hands and under their direction.
- Sochi: Neutral precepts, generally caring and seen as indifferent. THey believe in non-interaction with lesser beings choosing instead to let them evolve naturally along whatever path they choose and are at war with the mika at times.
- General behavior: Documentation of the precepts is... difficult they have not been observed objectionably by researchers to find patterns and common connections.. there was not much. The poems describe them as waging war against each other before the universe exists and manipulating conflicts between light and dark. Some have been observed to hate beings.. consuming and destroying them.. twisting and corrupting... taking joy and reveling in it. The ones that are closest to emotions, that are able to feed off of the energy of darksiders and lightsiders seem to use and influence from the shrines.... but not all are evil or malicious... some like people... some want to help and protect... others just want to play and be liked. The danger observed from them is that they do not always understand what they have done and when they pull beings into their dimension decades or even centuries can pass when they let the children go home and all of their family has perished.... they are not cruel about it but it is a deep understanding... then there are still others who are indifferent. That feed off of the fears and energy created from it and rarely venture out but are so ingrained within the minds of people they can't be forgotten.
"The Precepts? The Precepts are merely patterns. The Precepts are ideas. The Precepts are wave functions. The Precepts are repeating motifs. The Precepts are echoes of darkness and light, and nothing more."
It is not known what the early history of the precepts is... they are featured in a number of poems that the jedi have... their symbol on the cover of a sacred text but there... is no information about them. Even Matsu and Ashin who did much in the way of exploring aspects of the force and its limits. The pair were able to fight something... a force being summoned from a hypergate that had been damaged near a shrine. While Ashin and SPencer went off to do their thing the jedi master stayed to research much of it. She found... very little it took her to Ahch-To and exploring there was the Temple of the Precepts... a place with more murals and busts of creatures... just not a lot of information. The ancient poems were unabridged from the jedi texts and only called the precepts something other then gods... they were not and they were. They were what came from them... thoughts, fears, desires... the things in the mind.
She worked to piece together more information.. the precepts were ancient from a time when the first beings in the galaxy existed... they came into being as opposed to already existing at least and they were.... worshiped by some... feared by others. Angels... demons from the furthest reaches of experience. They could be anything and everything that was there and different beings across the galaxy seemed to encounter all of them but also none of them as the beings didn't come. Shrines were built in the galaxy older things... grotesques that served like anchors connecting the dimensions themselves and allowing connection in many ways but that didn't mean much as a shrine only functioned when you had something to give to it to empower it and sacrifices from some cults led to tales of mass killing or other activities but those did not always fulfill what was needed.
The times when the shrines connected, opened and brought forth things... brought the precepts forward... the tales became raving stories of madness, sanity being lost and horrors that no one else could have seen or believed existed... but there were also tales of precepts that came and were able to heal... were able to offer blessings to them. Restoring the sanity of others... while rare these benevolent beings were some of the purest expressions of the virtues that could be found. Matsu found very little other in terms of information. Her research allowed her to fashion the Precept Armor that would allow her to survive an encounter with one of the beings when she found them. That came later... after Ahch-To's world was invaded and taken over by the eternal empire... the precept temple glowed and lured several jedi in who were worried about attackers.
One of the jedi did something... finding a crystal that bled as it glowed and opening a rift below them. The jedi themselves were grasped and pulled in with the jedi master barely being able to pull the armor in with her. She and the others were pulled in and found themselves in a field... an area of the galaxy filled with swirling miasma and a black sun overlooking them. They fought through slowly being driven mad or being picked off one by one... until the grandmaster was one of the last remaining as she fought something larger.. she found a way to the edge of it and there was something aware of her.. something older then she had experienced and expected. When she was there and thought she might be trapped she met something... a being of almost pure light that was featureless but guided her to a rift... a place where one could push through much easier.
Their journey was not left unnoticed.... something followed them and the jedi master fought against it as it pushed through after her the being of light being forced back. The battle saw Matsu channeling immense amounts of force energy to maintain herself and where she was but she managed to stop the thing cutting it off from the rift as they fought across the surface. WHen she was done and found a means to escape she returned to the jedi themselves and a handful of months had passed... what felt like hours for her was months in the galaxy and they were looking for her after the eternal empires taking of Ahch-To. The jedi master got to work describing and recalling what she could to try and aadd it to the records... cross referencing what she had seen with the galaxy to try and find the connections that might have been missed.
The years of working and researching led to some more information about the precepts... older stories from monoliths that were discovered across the galaxy they were able to research and discover. There was more that they were searching for when the jedi master encountered the peace brigade and another precept being throw into Kashyyyk and the silver jedi again. Her research aiding them where they might need it when after an attack she was one of the jedi brought up to the rank of grandmaster to the silvers. She brought much of her research there and they began to work on it finding other shrines across the older worlds that had dead civilizations and where ancient jedi outposts had been developed. They discovered something on krant and deeper on the prison world of Abeloth and Bedlam.
Without much to go on, they only are able to add more to their knowledge of the precepts after each encounter and when they can find the rare shrine or ancient civilization that recorded the information from before most other species.
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