Raien Keth

[Raien Keth]

There is no guilt or innocence in you. All of that is past. Guilt belabors the dead and I am not the Iron Hammer.

You multitude of the dead are merely people who have done certain things, and the memory of those things illuminates my path.​

NAME: Raien Keth
FACTION: One Sith / Raien Keth - Yes you read that right.
RANK: Sith Knight
SPECIES: Sithspawn (Formerly: Echani)
AGE: 44
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5ft 11
WEIGHT: 169 Pounds
EYES: Crushed Silver - Barely.
HAIR: Silver tinted ivory white. Drying out.
SKIN: Red, repeated wounds, force lightening scars, rebuilt limbs, metal grafting.
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
Apprentices: [member="Jardo Snow"] | [member="Jareth Johnathon Holst"]
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Contents:
1, Strengths, Weaknesses, Appearance
2, Roleplay Bio
3, Items
4, Skills
5, The Progression


Strengths and Weaknesses

Many of these are double edged swords


Weaknesses

• Cannot use elemental abilities, he's lost too much of himself or his nature.
• Family. Every child he's ever had has been taken from him, and denied him.
• Dull senses to anything but force signature/potential. The world is slowly fading away to him.
• Armor which has taken his crumbling physical body, and gives him strength now, but is killing him.
• Blind Pride. Very little is good enough for him, this is one emotion he only partially conquered.
• His people. - He is their Betrayer and they his all consuming focus, that and breading stronger Sith.
• His braced legs are both a strength of stance and a weakness to attack. The armor has taken much of this problem.
• Has been encased in crystal for several hundred years, he won't know what the hell is going on. Fixing through RP.
• Is compelled to unlock the potential in every force user, using any means necessary, regardless of faction.

Strengths:

• Strong force based abilities, not alter abilities, abilities that manipulate the living force.
• Echani live and breathe combat, communicating within it. Raien has lost so much of what being an Echani means, he's embraced and bred the Sith code into his bones. Still he reads people through combat.
• Uses wounds as battlecries, sacrifices everything to win, and embraces those sacrifices again and again.
• Raien has a way of surviving. He's been chopped up and still kept coming, madness does not describe the limits he will break, there are no limits. He bears the wounds as trophies like the victories in his halls. Still he keeps coming, using them to give him strength in his next battle, their memories and pains.
• Has a HUGE variety of force techniques, personally surviving more duels and battles than I can remember.
• Has a way to get IN your head. I'll let you see that for yourself.
• Loves history, and studies ancient languages, being well versed in holocrons, building them, reading rakatan, he's seen star maps, seen everything you might imagine come at him at one time or another. Having a wound to show for it.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• The more you give him. The harder he'll fight. Acceptance is Raien's weakness.
• He needs purpose to drive him, he looks to inspire it in everyone, not having any barriers as to how he does that. When he has purpose, he's a freight train. Without it there is not impetus or a cause. - A BIG weakness too.

APPEARANCE:

Pre bonding with Krayt's armor:
Dry white hair. Cracked Decaying Skin. The midnight iris crushing the remaining silver left in his eyes in pressures so great, his eyes look like hardened shells, weights upon the world. Rebuilt limbs, having lost the limbs, and lost them again. Not artificially, twisting the body to be rebuilt as they were, he enjoys using the pain of the wounds to fuel his next actions. The scars of force lightening are upon his face, and body. Raien has metal bracings inbuilt into his feet and limbs to hold him upright. They give him a strong footing and are built of mandalorian iron (playing regular metal till I do a sub), but drain nearly all of his agility, consider him a juggernaut instead when he starts running at you.

Post bonding with Krayt's armor:
Red skin, black markings, yellow bestial eyes, his body is slowly being eaten away by the armor but at the same time has had much of its original strength returned to it, little by little it is devoured.

BIOGRAPHY:
Summed up in the next post.

SHIP:
Listed in items post.

KILLS:
A lot. None on this board, yet.

BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
Beneath him.

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(Note All @[member="Sera Inkari"] @[member="Natoline"] @[member="Kei Amadis"] @[member="Fyor Nayus"] are (were) supposed to be carrying personality traits from this Sith in their character, taken to a 'lighter' place.)

 

[Raien Keth]

NB A six year old character who is currently in pieces around the board. - Not whole yet, he was frozen in crystal but his personality is in my other characters growing through their actions.

Short Summary of Raien Keth now
Raien crushes everything from someone until he reaches their potential, twisting their causes, their motivations their lives and their minds until he has unlocked the potential he saw in them. Betrayal is a way of life, it is natural and so living within it, puts you in a world, a code free of sin. He believes in creating strong Jedi so he can create stronger Sith in fighting them. Raien believes he is helping you when he causes you to poison your own family, by tricking you into thinking them sick, begging him for the antidote, for which there is only enough for one.... watching you choose and seeing it as character development. Giving you hatred, anger, passion, he uses himself as a center point for all conflict in the galaxy.

This is pure Raien Keth, and what he's done to many, many families, characters and writers all to 'help' them over the years.

Major Plot Points to date - There have been so many, I will just cover a small highlight of some that have crossed several threads.

The Past 700 years ago, his thoughts on waking up in crystal will be as this, consider it PAST tense though, i'll rewrite it when he's been going for a while and he realises and accepts his time away.

Thyrsus, and the restoration of the Echani
OOC: Before Eshan was canon! or known about.
Alongside several characters Hana Kae, Sanfis, and with the Dark Jedi's backing, Raien tried to restore the scattered Echani people and give them a traditional home on Thyrsus. He was elected general of the Thyrsus war council, and with the help of Sanfis and his Echanar Hana Kae, he tried to start a war with Serenno to give his people a common cause to once again unify them. He put much of his life and blood into assassinating several senators, destroying key figures to plant evidence, and arranging weapons contracts to rebuild Thyrsus, as well as making several minor political NPC contacts during his work, or running other missions for the Dark Jedi during this time. He felt betrayed by his former lover, and the Dark Jedi, after they abandoned the cause to focus their attention elsewhere. In his bitterness at what he felt was the betrayal by family, his child being hidden from him, and a loss of a large part of himself in having no cause to balanced the darkness, a Darkside which he had long struggled with internally, he was drawn to the Sith. Not out of revenge, but out of thinking anyone else too weak to fight for better, or to stand for a stronger galaxy.

Hana Kae and Family
Hana is the mother of Raien's child, and a big part of Raien's life, they are currently at odds over both the child and the fate of their people. Their cycle of revenge has taken a very deep and tragic twist, as they pull at each other's sanity. Aiden his brother, Issra his sister and his elders on Wodenstam, are still a big part of him despite his fall to the Sith and him coming to loath what he sees as their defense of mediocrity. Xion is Raien's lover now and has born him a second child Aizen, he almost keeps Xion and Aizen in a protective bubble of sorts, away from any harm he can spare them, so no matter how dark it gets, they are put on a pedestal as his salvation.

The Sun Guard and the Sith Meditation Sphere
During his work on Thyrsus for the Dark Jedi, the former Sith Cult the Sun Guard, inspiration for the former Emperors red robed royal guard, have been reawakened and given manpower from Thyrsus itself. He used to use them in his work for his Dark Jedi then subsequently Sith Masters when called upon, as covert tools, guards, agents and assassins. The Sith Meditation Sphere, an ancient manipulative Sith craft, came into his possession, or rather he came into its possession during this time. The Sun Guard are few in number, but spread out across a few planets, hidden away to be drawn on if needed. Above all the orange armored warriors protect the Sith meditation sphere with an inhuman ferocity. Daniel, another powerful Sith, has since arisen as a competitor for their control, while some have fallen under Nova's influence on Kashyyyk as well. Each Sith is possessive of their own stake in the guard.

Sanctuary
On Kashyyyk Raien and his companion Sith Nova, both students of the same Master James Icarus, have established a city in the deeper forests, hiding the real truth of their purpose there. The local wookies have come to appreciate that someone would do this for them in a such a dangerous environment. Sanctuary hides a vault of their combined research, artifacts they have recovered, and secrets that they keep from the galaxy. Their Master keeps a firm hold over the sanctuary but each and everyone who has a stake in it, has personal projects hidden away deep within Kashyyyk's lower level forests. It is rumored that Raien carries out terrible experiments on unfortunate slaves and prisoners within its hidden depths.


Background before leaving his home
Long past - This is very much how he started 7 years ago OOC and 2 Decades ago IC

Raien was born and raised by a reclusive yet loving family, on the planet Wodenstam in the outer rim. He spent long, unending periods of time meditating on and learning the ways of personal combat. Though his level of skill against a seasoned Echani is still in its infancy, his progress prior to leaving had been remarkable.

Wodenstam contains some of the most unscrupulous loan sharks and bounty hunters in the outer rim, as such the small Echani community largely kept to themselves, and so Raien was not unused to solitude and long walks alone in his thoughts.

Fighting to Raien and many Echani, is never taken lightly, but it is civilized and even though frequent in their culture, is remarkably well controlled, often seeming like a dance to watch. When he was young, he was taught the value of honor, discipline and commitment from all of his peers. Still something about the life never felt right to Raien. The distractions he faced by the awakening pull of the force, were easily noticed to hawk like Echani eyes, and it was not long before all could see his focus on the essence of the Echani way was slipping.

Years past and even the steeled mind of Raien could resist the pull of the force no longer, unknown to him, it was drawing him to seek something out which he had yet to find in traditional teachings. His focus drifting elsewhere, he slipped, injuring a sibling badly in a duel. In his shame, Raien decided to travel off world, to try and find peace of mind elsewhere. He did find some small measure of solace, fighting in tournament matches against seasoned opponents, but as yet his destiny hangs by a dangerous thread. His disciplined mind fights the emotional release he is being now taught. The Echani ways of restricting unnecessary emotion, are constantly at odds with the forces desire to open him up to the new experiences which lay before him.

Knight/Lord Threads

http://swrpg.wikia.com/wiki/Keth,_Raien - This lists up to knight threads, there were plenty of knight threads unlisted, but that's enough of a read.

 

[Raien Keth]

Roleplay Threads

Newest First

Post Death
Byss Souls for Bargaining [Plan B]
What Remains and What Leaves [Kethenite Ruins]
One Must Fall Then All Must Fall [Raien's Tomb]

The Unholy Grail Tython---

The Abyssal Zone [Invasion Defense and Death]
Journey of a Swordsman [Final ever training session!]
Ad Perpetuam Memoriam of Kae [Happy Reunions]
Never a Quiet Drink [A days work]
The Approach, The Real Endgame [Training a Student]
Friends No More [Fight Against Former Student]
Defending the Sith Temple on Coruscant [Skirmish]
Rumble in the Jungle Navarro vs Keth [Duel]
Total Annihilation [2nd Dev Thread]
In Search of Legends [Assisting a Dev Thread]
So it all begins again [Slave pits story arc]
The Student and the Master [Training an Apprentice]
Two Apprentices and Two Prizes Victory and Defeat [Training Apprentices]
Remaking the Past by Corruption of the future. [Dev Thread]
The Raid on Yinchorros vs Republic [Skirmish]
Keth by Name Kira by Nature Reversing History [Relic Thread]
The Ghost of Jedi Past [Assisting a Dev Thread]
Past and Present both Bring the Pain [Duel]
The Unholy Grail Tython [Dominion]
Taking on a Sith Lord [Duel]
Aspects of Light Creating Choices of Survival [Defending Lab]
Potential Birth of Prophecy [Corruption / Taking an Apprentice]
Finding the Force [Character Development / Training]
Remove the Records for Rebuilding [Character Development]
Crystalfire: Pendulum [Reawakening the Muse]
Brothers Once, Dawns of Dreamers [Character Development]



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[Raien Keth]

Items NPC's
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The Edge of Truth​

Ship:

Flarestar Class Attack Shuttle​

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Techs:

Kethanite Shock Mount Armor
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Relics: Coins | Darth Krayt's Reborn Armor​

Surtr's Bounty Board || Locations: The Long Conflict​

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Muse Music Conflict | Life | Past​

 

[Raien Keth]

Force Skills​

Extensively Used - 50+ Threads
Well Trained - 20+ Threads
In Training - 1+ Thread​

Core Abilities:​

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Ruby Red Lightening – Sacrifice made real. *Well Trained
Very well adapted to transfer emotion to a target, usual strength (CW Canon)
Sub Lightening techniques: Kinetite *in training​

Force Shield *Extensively Used​

Able to resist force attacks, very well adapted to lightening. Useful to shoulder charge.​

Force Shockwave *in training
Sub Shockwave techniques:​

Force Shock Push *Extensively Used​

Able to utilize the connecting points of two force pushes, to cause a shockwave at their point of impact.
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Force Crush *In training​

Able to force crush down a weight on those around him and slow them or begin to crush them, alternatively when he releases that crushing pressure, they might speed up.​

Sub Crush Skills: Force Chokehold *Extensively Used​

Able to grip an area of an individual or object applying pressure.​

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Force Combustion *Extensively Used ​

(Previously Force Resonate - Called Force Combustion or Flamusfracta now in cannon)​

Speeding up objects to incredible speeds to shatter them, turning them into weapons or using them as an explosive force to wound
Sub Resonate Skills: Ballistakinesis *Extensively Used​

Force Enhancement *Well Trained
Able to draw down into the darkside to replenish his force potential, or use a great amount of power, weakening him when the effect wears off.​

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Force Fear and Cold Aura *Extensively Used​

Able to generate an aura of cold and fear, drawing out your greatest fears and weaknesses to the surface. Especially those you are unaware of​

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Force Endurance, Use Pain *Extensively Used​

Raien has had every wound possible at some point, and been rebuilt through dark force techniques and alchemy to use the pain you give him. His limbs are a twisted mess of scars and alchemy.​

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Battle Sense - *Extensively Used​

Ability to read the flow of a battle, enhanced extensively through training and the force.​

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Mind Searing - *Extensively Used - Re-Gained now With Fyors Crystal​

Essential Mind Speak Using the Sith emotions he has embodied to wreck havok on weaker minds, by thrusting that emotion or psychological torture into them.​

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Other Abilities:​

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Farseeing *Well Trained (Still vastly Diminished Till Sera's Crystal)​

Ability to sense many possible futures before they happen.​

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Force Run *Extensively Used​

Force Jump *Extensively Used​

Force Telekinesis *Extensively Used​

Force Pull *Extensively Used​

Force Push *Extensively Used​

Sense Aura *Extensively Used​

Favored Saber Forms

Djem So *Favored - Extensively Used​

Vaapad *Well Trained - Rusty
Soresu *Extensively Used
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Thorough Understanding of all Saber forms for teaching purposes.​

Extensive blaster deflection Experience.​

 

[Raien Keth]

Over the years - the IC Progression:

At Home

Gladiator

Dark Jedi

Sith Acolyte

Sith Knight

Keth Dragon

Sithspawn in Krayt's Armor

 

[Akio Kahoshi]

Not entirely sure why you need so many reserved posts, but to received a rank transfer you request the tag in the tag request thread, with a link to a thread proving your rank from another site. If you have that link, then you do not need to worry about the rest.

 

[Raien Keth]

@[member="Akio Kahoshi"]
Reserved posts - If he kicks off you'll see

Thanks for the heads up! The link is in that wall of text but i'll offer it there.

 

[Akio Kahoshi]

No problem, just something I learned during my own rank transfer.