Back with my character story

[Akari]

To anyone who still remembers me... "Hi guys, I'm back!" ^_^

Ok, its long overdue, but I wanted to post the story of my favorite character of all time, which is of course Akari Cloudtamer. The origin, her behaviour and especially her looks are a little similar to Tenel Ka who I always liked a lot in the novels... We have also inadvertently twisted the history and inhabitants of Dathomir a bit, simply because we didnt have any reference material at that time and just made it up on the fly... Our campaign plays shortly before Episode IV.


It all began with Order 66. Yasuro Cloudtamer, a promising young human Padawan at this time, received the mental warning of his mentor to hide in the outer rim. By accident he discovered a vast jungle planet in the Quelii sector, called Dathomir, with a strong darkside aura that should hide his force powers nicely. He hid his YT-1150 freighter and started to settle on the aparently uninhabited, and more importantly, uncharted planet.

After some time on the planet his presence was discovered by a band of Amazon-like darkside force witches who called themself the Nightsisters. He put up a valiant fight, but was eventually subdued by their overwhelming powers. They brought Yasuro before their queen Chu-Thadra and she sensed the "magical energies" in the lowly male. Her plan was to give birth to a heir anyway and with a talented outsider like that, it might just become a child worthy of her position. With her mysterious force powers, she managed to control the mind of the young Padawan and have a child with him, carelessly tossing him into the slave pits afterwards where all males were kept.

During the hard labor, Yasuro trained and honed his force skills and kept spying on the force witches, working on a plan to at least free his daughter who her mother called Aki-Thadra. Eight years after queen Chu-Thadra gave birth, he managed to free all the slaves and in the resulting chaos capture her from the village. After a hot pursuit scene he reached his old freighter with his daughter and managed to lift off from Dathomir.

In the following years he began to systematically remove the darkside taint that her mother indoctrinated her with and began to train the child who he renamed to Akari to not remind her of her sinister heritage in the ways of the force, in firm conviction that the primitive Nightsisters had no way to follow them.

Akaris mother Chu-Thadra however was more then furious, being tricked by a lowly male like that and swore revenge. She began casting a self-designed ritual to force one of those metal flying crafts onto the planet. Several years later, if by accident or due to the massive ritual, a pirate vessel landed on Dathomir to resupply and Chu-Thadra took her chance. In a dramatic display of her frightning mastery of the force, she slew the leader of the pirates, forced the others to acknowledge her as their new leader and took off with them to find her captured daughter.

When Akari was 14, she was already well on the way of becoming a Padawan. Her fathers efforts had cleansed almost every trace of her old self and enabled her to see what was wrong with her mothers teachings. She showed an incredible talent for learning and was almost ready for lightsaber training when the freighter suddenly was attacked by pirates and Yasuro and Akari were startled to see queen Chu-Thadra herself standing in the hatch! A fight between Yasuro and Chu-Thadra broke out, lightsaber versus destructive force powers and Yasuro managed to push his daughter into the only lifeboat on board. While she was jettisoned from the two docked vessels she could witness a huge explosion over her head, engulfing the ships in a fireball and ripping them into tiny pieces.

Akari, shocked by the loss, quickly gained her composure again and tried to make her way, earning some money on backwater planets, staying close to starports and carefully overhearing when people talked about the legend of the Jedis... Then one day her father appeared in a dream. He told her to seek out a certain inhospitable planet, uncharted and far away from the traderoutes and wait there. With her last money she persuaded an independent cartographer to take her there and land on the planet, but he got caught in a tremendous lightning blast which fried almost everything electric on board and the ship crashlanded on the planet, killing the pilot. Akari however survived, badly wounded.

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This is basically the start of Akaris life of adventure. A mere 15d in attributes, 1d in sense, control and alter respectively, 7d in normal skills, only wielding a knife... She met the group there and they went out on several adventures lasting a good year in real life and campaign. Unfortunately I had to leave the campaign shortly after and only recently rejoined.

The GM who ran Akari as an NPC had her captured, tortured and raped for weeks by imperials (mostly as a plot device) in one of the last adventures and (still as NPC) she collected an extremely unhealthy amount of darkside points in the combat that eventually broke her out. Almost turned darkside, she now floats in the ships Bacta-tank, subdued by some stun blasts from the teams leader. The team now wants to find a Jedi that may help her to regain her composure.

I now play another character, an Essastii gunslinger with a pair of very nasty firearms and a rather twisted view of honor. At least for the time that Akari is caught in the Bacta-Tank...
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[Gry Sarth]

That's a very, very nice backstory, Akari. It's very rich. It's just a pity that both the parents are killed, as that undercuts a large chunk of potential for future adventures where Akari's heritage come back to haunt her.

The only problem with Dathomir continuity that I see is the fact that Chu aquires a ship and leaves the planet on her own, when it's established that the Nightsisters were desperately looking for ships in order to spread into the galaxy. However, I think that discrepancy can be explained like this: When Aki was kidnapped by her father, Chu was madly enraged by it. Recovering her daughter (and future queen) consumed her every thought, so when the freighter showed up, she didn't care about her clan's conquering ambitions, she just selfishly hopped aboard to retrieve her daughter.

Anyway, nice character, and I hope you get back to playing her soon.
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"He's Gry Sarth, of course he has the stats for them."

[Esoomian]

Welcome back.

I think you were most active on the forums when I was fairly inactive but I did catch some of your posts. It's good to have you back.

Nice background. Looks like you've got a lot of decent plot hooks in there.

[Akari]

[Gry Sarth]

[Esoomian]

[Akari]

Well, to be honest, I didn't really want to give myself (and the rest of the group!) such a strong adversary, just because it was part of my background story... They would really hate me for that...

Also I couldn't leave her father alive, cause that would account for a major backup and help, which again the group didn't quite deserve.

So I thought about leaving the exact details to the GM... maybe they managed to escape in the pirates vessel escape pods, which got damaged in the explosion, lost their memory for a while and are both still alive...? Frozen in carbonite perhaps? My character doesn't know and I personally don't know (and don't really want to know!), its all up to our gamemaster to decide.
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[Esoomian]

I can see the logic behind that and I do hate people who try to leverage ultra-powerful advantages into backgrounds and then use them like a crutch.
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[garhkal]

[Akari]

[Jedi Skyler]

Welcome back, Akari! Long time no see. How you been?

I just noticed your name and had to say hi. I'll read your backstory a little later when I have more time, and I'll comment then.

Good to see you again!