Archon of Light
Zara Saga
Mid Twenties - Human
Archon of Light, High Council of the Diarchy
"Peace is not a state - it is an imposition. And I will impose it beautifully."
Overview
Zara Saga is a paragon of the Diarchy's new order: poised, powerful, and deeply unsettling to anyone hoping to undermine Bastion's vision of galactic peace. As the Archon of Light, an elite position within the Diarchy's ruling council, Zara bridges the gap between martial precision, spiritual authority, and bureaucratic genius. With a pair of yellow lightsabers and a will of fire, she teaches at the Crucible of Order while enforcing Diarchic law across the stars, embodying both the velvet glove and the iron fist.A born citizen of Bastion and a prodigy of the Brotherhood's Crucible, Zara has risen swiftly under the tutelage of Lady Nocturne. But behind her bright beauty and textbook perfection lies a molten core of ambition, insecurity, and a faintly theatrical disdain for failure, especially your failure.
History
Zara was born into privilege on Bastion, but not luxury. Her mother was a minor logistics officer in the early Diarchic navy - efficient, plain, and revered by Zara about as much as one reveres a spreadsheet. Her father? Allegedly a Brotherhood member, though Zara's only inheritance from him was an unusually high midichlorian count and the nagging suspicion that she was always being watched.Identified early for her rare aptitude in pyrokinesis, she was enrolled in the Crucible of Order by the age of six. There, she rapidly rose through the ranks, not because she was the strongest, but because she was the one most willing to look like the strongest. Zara understood early that power wasn't enough. You had to market it.
Her rise caught the attention of Lady Nocturne, wife of Diarch Reign, who took her on as an apprentice in both Force disciplines and in the ancient art of backroom politics. It was from Nocturne that Zara learned how to mask ruthlessness with grace, and how to deliver policy like a promise and a threat rolled into one honeyed syllable.
At twenty-three, she became the youngest Archon ever appointed to the Diarchy's High Council, a fact she reminds people of regularly, especially those twice her age with half her accomplishments.
Now she serves as a roving enforcer, emissary, and educator, splitting her time between teaching Force theory at the Crucible and executing the Diarchs' will with surgical precision.
Physical Appearance
Zara is genetically engineered to make you feel insecure. She's tall without being threatening, her posture a sculpture of poise and veiled menace. Her blonde hair is a shimmering cascade of calculated effortlessness, and her blue eyes contain just enough warmth to lull people into forgetting she can set them on fire with a blink.She wears robes of the Brotherhood, sleek, matte black with subtle golden lining, but modifies hers for mobility and, let's be honest, style. Her lightsabers are custom-forged: sleek hilts with elegant emitter guards, their yellow blades igniting like twin sunrises designed to ruin your evening.
Personality
Zara is charming in the same way a high-performance speeder is charming, beautiful, efficient, and vaguely threatening if you're in the wrong lane. She's manipulative, but in a way that makes you feel like you're being let in on the plan rather than being used as a pawn in it.Loyal to the Diarchy and to the Diarchs themselves, Zara is nonetheless a self-made phenomenon. She believes in order, not obedience. In control, not chaos. She's mothering when she's teaching, flirtatious when she's persuading, and ruthless when someone needs to be... corrected.
She's also a brat. The kind that's always right, and worse - knows it.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Pyrokinesis Prodigy: One of the most gifted Force users in her generation, especially in heat-based manipulation. Can literally burn through lies.
- Political Weapon: Trained by the best manipulator in the Diarchy. Zara never enters a room without calculating how to own it.
- Jar'kai Expertise: Her twin lightsabers are extensions of her will. She doesn't duel, she choreographs.
- Public Figure: Her popularity within the Crucible and among Diarchy loyalists gives her soft power to rival some military commanders.
- Control Freak: Cannot tolerate chaos. Ambiguity in command structures or emotions makes her twitchy and sometimes unstable.
- Image-Obsessed: Reluctant to show weakness or vulnerability, even when it costs her genuine connection.
- Overachiever Burnout: Constantly operating at 110% and resenting anyone who doesn't, including herself.
- Pyrokinesis Backlash: Her power is potent but volatile. Emotional overload can cause unintended flare-ups.
Quirks
- Drinks a herbal Bastion blend that smells like roasted firewood. Claims it "centers her aura" but it's probably just to weird people out.
- Writes her students' names in red ink. Says it's for "clarity" but it's giving intergalactic mean girl energy.
- Refuses to fly her own ship but critiques her pilots constantly. Allegedly once grounded a transport mid-flight just to "re-express the mission objectives."
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