Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To further flesh out Taeli's chief lieutenants
- Image Credit: http://www.artofmtg....rtifice-master/
- Role: A lesser Sith Master in service to the Lady of Secrets (Taeli Raaf)
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- Age: 54
- Force Sensitivity: Master
- Species: Human (Onderonian)
- Appearance: Remalis is above average height, standing at 2.17 meters tall, with braided white hair and a haggard goatee to match. Facial tattoos in the Sith style mark his grizzled and severe face, amber eyes peering out from a prominent brow. Cybernetics and integrated Sith artifacts crafted by Remalis himself replace his right arm and chest, crackling with a red aura that marks the man as a servant of the dark side.
- Name: Remalis Nokoma, Darth Kishi
- Loyalties:
- Wealth: Remalis is relatively wealthy as he has access to the resources of the Lady of Secrets when they are required
- Notable Possessions: The most notable possession Remalis owns is his extensively modified and alchemized right arm. Besides this, he owns various alchemical creations all of his own creation.
- Skills:
- Force Abilities
- Sith Alchemy - Master
- Sith Magic - Master
- Mechu-deru - Master
- Force Destruction - Master
- Kinetite - High Knight
- Darkshear - Knight
- Other Abilities
- Engineering - Remalis is highly proficient in the fields of mechanical and electrical engineering
- Cybertech - Remalis is highly proficient in the field of droid design and creation
- Smithing - Remalis is a master smith, capable of crafting exquisitely high-end and powerful arms, armor, and artifacts
- Force Abilities
- Personality:
- Remalis is an extremely gruff individual, generally uncaring of decorum or proper etiquette. Possessing a violent temper, Remalis is an unforgiving taskmaster to his underlings, punishing failures severely or fatally depending on the severity of the mistake. He is unscrupulous in his goal of crafting extremely powerful and dangerous alchemical creations, all in service to the nefarious goals of his master.
- Weapon of Choice:
- As a Sith Master, he is a powerful user of the Dark Side of the Force. He prefers to engage an opponent from long range with Force Destruction and Kinetite, or utilizing technology around him with Mechu-deru. He is also an accomplished caster of Sith spells, with more of a focus on mind control spells.
- Combat Function:
- When forced into combat, Remalis is a long-range combatant as stated previously. He finds it easier to channel his power through his artificed arm as he has made it into a focus of the dark side.
- Remalis is a master Sith artificer and alchemist, able to create potent and dangerous artifacts and constructs to further the Sith goal of domination and the destruction of the light. His arm has the same properties as a Sith Talisman and he uses this to enhance his Force attacks when channeled through his arm.
- Utilizing his knowledge of Sith alchemy and artificing, he has replaced his original cybernetic life support system with crafted dark side artifacts that serve a similar function. He feels that this gives him an edge over purely organic opponents as attacks that might disable an enemy with like a gut shot won't harm him.
- Due to his reliance on his alchemical implants, ysalamiri bubbles and void stone fields can be fatal to Remalis as his artifacts will lose their connection to the dark side and he will have but moments to escape before he dies.
- His temper can be used against him in a fight, as his failure to destroy his opponents will increasingly frustrate him and he will make exploitable mistakes.
Born on the jungle world of Onderon in the continent-spanning city of Iziz, Remalis Nokoma knew nothing but poverty and adversity growing up. His parents lived in the rundown slums of the city, his father drowning his misery and what little funds his mother made at the rundown laundry in the bottle. This harsh life influenced Remalis' world view even at this young age, hardening his heart and invoking a belief that strength and violence were the only ways to escape the squalor.
The day before his ninth birthday, his father, in a drunken rage, killed Remalis' mother and sold his son into servitude to a small time blacksmith for the money to buy another bottle to drown his guilt in. Remalis swore revenge on his father, but his servitude to the blacksmith revealed his innate talent for working metal. The smith, recognizing that talent, decided to teach the young boy everything he knew. As the years passed, Remalis developed into a skilled smith, far better than his master, and used that skill to barter with the master smith the chance to study engineering, expenses paid. Remalis took to the studies quickly, and with his knowledge base growing, he became a highly sought after artificer in the city of Iziz. When he turned twenty, he arranged the incident that claimed his master's life and took back his freedom and the shop his master owned.
However, fate had other plans for the newly emancipated smith as galactic forces were starting to stir. New powers were rising in the galaxy, their agents looking for individuals, businesses, and worlds that might ally with them. Remalis was approached by an agent of the Sith Empire emerging in the Outer Rim, a Sith Knight that recognized the dormant Force potential of the artificer. He was offered the chance to learn the ways of the dark side, tempted by the Sith's description of arcane artifacts and constructs of the ancient Sith, powerful and dangerous weapons. Remalis agreed and left Onderon for Korriban, becoming a Sith acolyte in 828 ABY.
His time at the Sith academy shaped his nascent cruelty and abilities, his thirst for knowledge on Sith alchemy never being sated as he sought ways to create such powerful devices as those that existed in the stories and vaults of the Sith. However, his studies suffered a reversal when the Sith Empire fell, the dark forces scattering to the winds. Unlike some, Remalis did not join the secretive exodus into the Deep Core, but returned to Iziz. There, he found nothing of his old shop as a major galactic corporation had purchased the surrounding area and developed it into state of the art factories.
Starting anew, Remalis used what he had learned to forge and experiment with alchemical devices, subtly dispersing them into the back alleys and slums to desperate souls. One of those desperate souls was his own father, now a slave to the son he had sold so many decades ago. His plan was to use the followers he gained, enhanced by his devices, to overthrow the government of Iziz and create a new monarchy based on the old Naddist beliefs. However, his plans were discovered by the Republic and local authorities. The assault, by Jedi and Republic soldiers, decimated the nascent Sith's forces before he could even launch his first attack, and Remalis suffered grievous injuries. The only bright spot to the slowly dying man was his father had died in the assault as well, killed by the Jedi.
Missing his right arm, and having suffered horrific wounds to his chest and internal organs, it was likely Remalis would have died if not for the intervention of hidden One Sith agents that secreted him away to their stronghold on Coruscant. There, he received life-saving cybernetics that replaced his right arm and much of his upper body. Recovering, Remalis came to the attention of a younger and more powerful and quickly rising Sith: Darth Arcanix.
Taeli Raaf recruited the artificer into her circle, finishing his training in the dark arts of Sith alchemy. Using that knowledge, Remalis fashioned himself some artifacts to replace his cybernetics, integrating the Sith devices into his body, strengthening himself and his connection to the dark side. With the resources of Darth Arcanix behind him, Remalis became her premier artificer, even after Taeli began her mission to infiltrate the Jedi. A Paradox Adept within the Order of Arcane Syn, Remalis now wields enormous influence and can pursue any project he desires, and constantly works on the Sith devices that are part of himself in a bid to grow even stronger and seeking a perfect balance between metal and flesh.
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