Tilon Quill
Intergalactic
NAME: Tilon (ty-lon or TY-lun) Quill, born Tilon Luken
FACTION: TBD
RANK: Jedi Knight, former Sith acolyte
SPECIES: Sharuka, former alchemical test subject
AGE: Adult of indeterminate age; Bowie-like
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: Average
WEIGHT: Wiry
EYES: Orange
HAIR: Reddish to purplish
SKIN: Pale with a bluish tint
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Tilon is lean, colorful, quick with a grin and quick on his feet. He's sometimes kind of...feathery?
BIOGRAPHY:
(Original NPC bio)
Tilon has often made use of Quill's transport, the North Ridge.
TOOLKIT:
Tilon's lightsaber is elegantly designed but not ornate. It has an amber-colored blade from its focusing crystal, which Tilon grew in a Rosé Amanecer. Due to a Sunshard ritual, the lightsaber has certain benefits on Manaan.
In his father's footsteps, Tilon grew up in eclectic and esoteric environments and has built relationships with several Force traditions. Some highlights:
FACTION: TBD
RANK: Jedi Knight, former Sith acolyte
SPECIES: Sharuka, former alchemical test subject
AGE: Adult of indeterminate age; Bowie-like
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: Average
WEIGHT: Wiry
EYES: Orange
HAIR: Reddish to purplish
SKIN: Pale with a bluish tint
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
- Having spent a good portion of his adult life among the Selkath, Tilon is an excellent swimmer.
- He is visually distinctive, both by choice and biology; he just plain cannot blend in.
- As a Sharuka, Tilon has excellent endurance and dexterity.
- Raised primarily on the frigid worlds of Ziost, Hoth, and Pagodon, Tilon is comfortable in cold climates.
- He has a very broad education in nonhuman Force traditions. He has a large tool kit of abilities, mostly nonlethal.
- Due to his youth among the Sith, he is hesitant to participate in violence and not particularly good at it. He has no killer instinct and favors the defensive style called Soresu, which limits his offensive options.
- He has a profound knack for understanding alchemy with a special aptitude for plants.
- An independent Jedi, he has very limited connections with Jedi institutions and governments, leaving him with few options for allies and support.
- He speaks a small amount of many languages, and knows Unknown Regions/Wild Space trade languages like Taarja, Minnisiat, Huttese, Meese Caulf, Cheunh, Sy Bisti, and Rammocate to one extent or another. He is also quite good at Outer Rim Sign Language (ORSL).
Tilon is lean, colorful, quick with a grin and quick on his feet. He's sometimes kind of...feathery?
BIOGRAPHY:
(Original NPC bio)
- An orphan of the Sharuka/Outer Rim Coalition wars, Tilon was a student and occasional test subject in the Sorzus Academy from his earliest memories until age 12. When Jedi terrorists massacred the young acolytes, Tilon was one of several saved by
Darth Daiara and
Jend-Ro Quill
- Tilon became Quill's ward, Padawan and, eventually, adopted son. He spent formative years at the Hoth Enclave, the Jakku Enclave, Quill's nearby hermitage, and (after Quill broke from the Jedi) a library on Pagodon.
- Over Quill's objections, Tilon joined the Jedi and was knighted while still a teenager. Their relationship became strained and distant.
- Despite his best intentions, Tilon had no aptitude for being a Jedi at war. Many of his tasks involved research, and he put his broad background to use analyzing Sithspawn. On a few occasions he even managed to reverse their modifications or ensure they could live relatively normal, free lives.
- He returned often to Ahto City and spent a great deal of time living among the Selkath. As an independent Jedi, he often served as an unofficial Jedi liaison with the Order of Shasa. He also had friends in the environmentalist movement and helped protest the construction of a megastructure for a galactic economic conference circa 900 ABY.
- Around the same time, he joined an expedition to visit a community of Mist-Weavers on an obscure world. He became conflicted: though he had grown up collecting techniques from nonhuman Force-sensitives, a Mist-Weaver showed him how that approach, however well-meaning, could be extractive and ethically complicated depending on the power relationships involved. This was a difficult time for Tilon.
- He signed on to the extragalactic Longjumper's Mark expedition for 900-902 ABY, supporting the communications team with his ability to absorb and share languages. He ranged out from the expedition throughout the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy and returned with it to known space only reluctantly. On the expedition's return, he left the ship when it passed through Nagai space in Firefist, and he lived briefly on the Nagai colony world of Jaibrek.
- Restless, he co-led the 'Mercy-Quill expedition' into the Rishi Maze. It broke even and everyone returned alive, but failed to reach the far side of the Maze, a great disappointment.
- He then went out to Calimancha in Companion Grek to secure funding for another, even farther expedition. He made friends and allies around Grek, fellow wayfaring spacers. At one point he helped attack an ancient Hutt mass driver; at another point he became trapped in a sarlacc and communed with the vestigial personality of a Chiss sky-walker.
Tilon has often made use of Quill's transport, the North Ridge.
TOOLKIT:
Tilon's lightsaber is elegantly designed but not ornate. It has an amber-colored blade from its focusing crystal, which Tilon grew in a Rosé Amanecer. Due to a Sunshard ritual, the lightsaber has certain benefits on Manaan.
In his father's footsteps, Tilon grew up in eclectic and esoteric environments and has built relationships with several Force traditions. Some highlights:
- He is unfortunately very familiar with Sith biological alchemy.
- He has the ability to bend probability like a Suerton gambler, one of his father's most practiced abilities.
- He knows wayfinding and instinctive astrogation.
- He has the ability to acquire and instil portions of languages, which his father learned from Gutretee elders; this has been a cornerstone of his father's work. Tilon began to specialize in this ability during the Longjumper's Mark expedition. In the right circumstance, with the right willingness on the other's part and with enough time and focus, he can acquire language as permanently as any other language-learning.
- Beginning in his youth, Tilon spent time learning from the Order of Shasa and the Progenitor itself on Manaan. He has spent years in close community with the Order of Shasa and knows their skillset.
- He has some skill with the abilities of the Mist-Weavers.
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