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Talak Rand


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NAME TALAK RAND AGE 27 RANK KNIGHT FACTION JEDI ALIAS (FORMER) THE ARCANIST
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CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES:
Human
FORCE SENSITIVE:
Affirmative
RANK EQUIVALENT:
Councilor
SABER FORM:
Form X
HEIGHT:
6'0"
BUILD:
Athletic

"Great advances require great sacrifices."​

Can you really summarize an entire person in a few paragraphs? All the complexities and intricacies that make them who they are can only be discovered slowly and carefully as you spend time around them.

That’s no less the case with Talak than with anyone else. On the surface people will first notice that he is quiet and determined. Although his goals may not be at first clear to those who don’t know him, people are quickly able to tell that he is a person who will go to nearly any length to accomplish his goal.

As a student of the dark side, he can often appear cold and distant toward the average person. He doesn’t appear to care about the negative impact that his actions have on other people, but this doesn’t mean he enjoys cruelty just for its own sake. It serves a purpose, and Talak’s loyalty comes first toward his duties.

While Talak isn’t likely to openly share his short term goals with others, people might be surprised that he is typically more than willing to discuss his philosophical views and goals. Although this stems partially from wanting to recruit others to his cause, it’s also because he recognizes his own limitations. The galaxy is far larger than any one person, and to be fully prepared for whatever may come requires examining the galaxy from all angles, not just a single, dogmatic view.

If you want to know more about the internal workings of who he is as a person: what he loves and hates or what drives him to do great and terrible things, then you’ll have to sit down with him. Reading the profile alone isn’t any fun.


B I O G R A P H Y
Talak was born and raised by dark siders, and that came with a great deal of associated baggage. Brutal, scarring training was a part of his childhood almost immediately. Trained to be warriors for the Legion, Talak had a lightsaber in his hand almost as soon as he could walk.

Communing with the Force became a routine that he took for granted, and the idea of being separated from it is both shocking and saddening to him. It wasn’t until he had grown older that he even realized that he was special in the galaxy and most individuals didn’t have the capacity to reach out and touch the energy that connected all living things.

While he revels in his Force-sensitivity, his childhood was far from comfortable. The expectation that he would facilitate the galaxy’s natural cycle was ingrained in him from his earliest days.

From the outset of his training, Talak was paired up with another trainee by the name of Zatara. With the two doing nearly everything together, it didn’t take long for the two to become friends and then more than friends. Throughout their teen years, the two were inseparable.

But you guessed it: these happy times weren’t to last. The life of a Legionnaire is about sacrifice, and that was expected of Talak as well. To become what the galaxy needed him to be he needed to embrace the dark side, and in order to do that, he needed to learn to hate.

The day that Talak and Zatara were supposed to graduate from their training, they were given a final test to duel against one another. This was nothing new or anything they hadn’t done a thousand times before. They fought and Talak won. He didn’t know what his victory would mean.

Their master turned on Zatara and unleashed a blast of lightning that slowly tore her down. When Talak tried to step in to defend her, he found himself tossed casually aside as she was murdered by their master.

With the deed finished, he turned to Talak and told him that he now understood what it meant to hate, and he would carry that with him into the future. “Sometimes the best thing a flower can do for us is die.”

His second attempt to kill his master was as much an utter failure as the first, and that hatred boiled and grew. He swore he would kill his master, but before he could, his opportunity for vengeance was stolen. A rival slew his master, and while Talak felt a relief over the death, it ate him up that he hadn’t been able to strike the killing blow.

And so Talak entered the galaxy. Ready to complete his mission, and filled with as much hatred as he’d ever felt before. He swore he would justify Zatara’s death and fulfill both of their purposes in the galaxy.

There, how was that for an edgy backstory? It had all the high points except killing his own parents.

Talak's story hasn't been any more simple in the days since his training. His first explorations in the galaxy weren't particularly successful as a Jedi actually managed to catch sight of the lightsabers of Ender and him, and they failed to capture the artifacts they were pursuing. He met a Force-sensitive woman who he deemed to be an assassin - perhaps irrationally - and the two parted ways with a threat and a scuffle. Shortly thereafter, Talak set about building up the Sith Eternal. He worked to establish a base on Korriban and began planting seeds of corruption in the mind of a young, unaffiliated Force-sensitive while remaining careful to conceal his true affiliations from the Jedi.

He accepted the request of a fellow Sith Eternal and headed to Kashyyyk to help her tap into the power of the dark side. In the process of the corruption, she was subjected to many dangers and atrocities, and Talak questioned his role in becoming like the man he hated: his deceased master.

Things became much more complicated after this. Taking a keen interest in the death of a caf shop owner on Coruscant, Talak launched into a series of perilous adventures alongside the Sector Ranger Trys Aran. They pursued the killer to Gamorr where they destroyed a pair of slaving rings and killed the son of Durr the Hutt. Badly wounded and now practically leading a slave rebellion, the two shared an intense moment before parting ways and leaving Talak more confused than ever.

Talak decided his efforts could best be served by pursuing ancient, lost knowledge for the Sith Eternal, so he set out to find the secret of the ancient Sith Alchemies. He tracked a Sith holocron from its location in the possession of Crimson Dawn to the gladiator pits on Nar Shaddaa. He was pursued by a bounty hunter and a Sector Ranger and struck a deal with a local, Force-sensitive slicer. After convincing the Sector Ranger to work with them, the three found the holocron, killed Gurrba the Hutt, started a small slave rebellion, and escaped.

Realizing that he needed not only the holocron, but also a memory crystal, he tracked the crystal to a palace on Nal Hutta that he worked with Ender to infiltrate. Finding the crystal inside as well as an old Jedi mask, he decided to take the mask with him.

Once again reconnecting to the Sith Eternal, Talak extended help to another fellow Sith Eternal and helped her put a sympathetic politician in power before returning home for the first time in nearly five years to heed the call of the Eternal.

From there, he headed to Tattooine, where he and Ana investigated the rumors of Darth Vader's origin there. They were unsuccessful in their endeavor and found themselves captured and dropped in the empty desert to be hunted for sport, only narrowly surviving, and Talak watched Ana succumb deeper to the corruption he had introduced to her soul.

Talak's actions against the Five Syndicates drew notice from the Durr the Hutt, who placed a bounty on his head and on the sabers of Force-users. Although they couldn't identify the killer who had mounted the attacks, the dangers prompted Talak to take on a public identity and claim credit for the the masked killings on surveillance video under the alias "The Arcanist." Although not specifically naming the Jedi, the blue lightsaber, Jedi robes, and the not-so-subtle implication in his declaration point the finger toward the Jedi Order.

After news of the criminal known as the Arcanist spread like wildfire, the Legionnaire set to work trying to find a lost Gree hypergate. Although things hardly went to plan, and his partner was wounded, they found information that led the Arcanist to the archives on Gree along side his apprentice.

Promoted to a Warden of the Dark Side and still searching for answers, Talak returned to Trys and nearly left the Sith Eternal. However, instead the pair worked to track down the Flower Killer only for him to wound Talak and flee once again.

The Arcanist continued his strikes, repeatedly running into a Jedi Knight through the will of the Force. His curiosity surrounding the Jedi grew and he went out of his way to meet with multiple Jedi while also beginning to cultivate relationships with potential allies in order to consider the reformation of an Empire.

During the meeting to discuss the Empire, he received a warning that the Eternal wanted Trys dead, and he immediately warned her before rushing to meet her. After a tense end to their meeting, he vented his frustration with violence against a local crime group and nearly harmed the woman he loved.

His time was spent searching for arcane secrets and working to form the new Empire. After weeks of not seeing one another, Talak received a distress call from Trys and traveled to Tund where the two were nearly killed by the darkness. After traveling to Mon Cala to blow off steam, the news of the attack on a Sector Ranger station reached the pair and they once again parted ways with mounting tension.

Combined with growing pressure surrounding Trys's investigation and the eventual arrest of Talak's long time friend and student, Talak's confusion and frustration only grew.

When news of Trys's serious injuries reached him, he traveled to meet her only to discover a major attack on the prison where Ender was being held. After confessing his love for her, he rushed to the battle and officially decided to leave the Sith behind. Aided by the Jedi Knight Hannibal Grayza, they slew a Champion of the Sith Eternal. Having lost an arm in the duel and without a faction any longer, Talak has put aside the mantle of the Arcanist and now looks to redirect his path toward redemption.
A R M O R Y
A R C A N I S T

The Arcanist is Talak's public alias and is known to be a Force-sensitive vigilante. At present, it is not public knowledge that Talak is the Arcanist, and Talak can be assumed to only be wearing his mask when specified. The Arcanist has been seen wielding both blue and red lightsabers and has heavily implied, but not directly claimed, to be either a Jedi or former-Jedi.

The Arcanist Disguise (when specified)
  • Mask
  • Blue lightsaber
  • Shoulder satchel for concealing both lightsabers and the mask
O T H E R
  • Talak has the lightsaber of his former lover and fellow apprentice, but does not routinely carry it unless specified. As standard it is hidden in the cockpit of his ship.
  • The Nomad with this
  • Talak is one of the only members in the Sith Eternal who has learned to use alchemy
T H R E A D S
  1. Sanguine Paradise
  2. Hot Gems
  3. New Beginnings
  4. Midnight Stroll
  5. Beneath an Amber Moon
  6. Payback
  7. Trouble in the Streets
  8. Criminal Ties
  9. The Pit
  10. Another Exchange
  11. What Do They Eat When They Can't Get Hobbit
  12. Prison Call
  13. The First Steps
  14. The Great Disease
  15. Public Safety
  16. Medicine Man
  17. The Forest for the Trees
  18. In the Desert, You Can Remember Your Name
  19. Sending the Wrong Message
  20. The Final Nail
  21. Dead Civilizations

    Promotion to Warden of the Dark Side
  22. The Road Less Traveled
  23. Jedi Master Arrested
  24. The Night Market
  25. Everything is Permitted
  26. Man in the Mirror
  27. A Time for Everything
  28. Awkwardness and Desperation
  29. Healthy Coping Mechanisms
  30. The Second Leg
  31. Well It's Worth a Shot
  32. Full Circle
  33. Wild Hunt
  34. Questionable Return
  35. Greedy Little Pigs
  36. Red Saber Terrorist Caught
  37. The End of All Things

    Defection from the Sith Eternal
  38. Attack on Coruscant Prison
  39. Cin Vhetin
  40. Ship Confirmed
  41. Honoring the Dead
  42. First Communion
  43. We Walk a Fine Line
  44. It's a Metaphor, Fool
  45. Völuspá
  46. Binding Ties
  47. Salvaged Memories
  48. A Total Frenzy
  49. The Aftermath of Chaos
  50. Trunk Space
  51. Insert Information Here
  52. Trouble with Temples
  53. Back in Black
  54. First for Everything
  55. Raiders of the Lost Vault
  56. Too Loud to Talk
  57. The Battle of Ryloth
  58. Metal Carrion
  59. Choices
  60. Galaxy in Crisis
  61. Explosive
  62. Revelation
  63. The Impossible Dream
  64. On the Trail
  65. Unrelenting Pursuit
  66. Only Mad if it Doesn't Work
  67. Springing Lieutenant Aran
  68. Frog Flies Squatters
  69. The Cycle Repeats
  70. Another One
  71. On Fire
  72. Building Up
  73. To Reaching Out
  74. Whatever it Takes
  75. Pyke on a Pike
  76. Enough is Enough
  77. The Jedi Lie
  78. What Lies Beneath
  79. Unanswered
  80. We are Jedi?
  81. Three Quite Bitter Beings
  82. A Time to Laugh, A Time to Weep
  83. Protectors
  84. Recovery
  85. Breakthrough
  86. The World Keeps Spinning
  87. Invasion of Denon
 

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I'm very excited to see him in action.

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