Ignan Volcovo (AU)

Ignan Volcovo was a Human Male Jedi Knight during the latter years of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order before the Great Jedi Purge, and later was a freedom fighter in the Rebel Alliance.

He was a powerful Jedi Guardian, master of Djem So, Soresu, and Vaapad. He was a very fit individual who could fight for hours on end, and was one of the few jedi to have fought Darth Vader and survived. Granted, only barely.

Early Life
Ignan Volcovo was born on the planet Sol'Mund 19 years before The Clone Wars. The planet at the time was under the rule of an oppressive Feudal Empire that always had a very distant and begrudging relationship with the Old Republic, and in turn, the Jedi Order.

It would be under these conditions, where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, where the population lived in slums and poor villages, where banditry would run rampant across the planet surface, where Ignan Volcovo would be born into a poor family of farmers on the frontier of civilization.

This would quickly take a turn for the worse when his village would be attacked by bandits who would put him under slavery, and would be sold to a wealthy family. It would be here where he would be raised, his body getting stronger as he worked more physically demanding tasks.

Over time he would learn about these strange abilities he has, which he would make the connection to his sharp reflexes and good timing, and would practice these abilities in secret.

He would also often be taken along for political missions, which would shape him into a dogged being.

Eventually, however, when he was 3 years old, Jedi Master Plo Koon came to Sol'Mund whilst on a mission to track down an assassin hiding on the planet. By the time he arrived then he soon discovered a force-sensitive youngling slave, whom he freed and took into the order.

There he would be part of a clan of younglings named for his fire-worshiping home, Vulkan Clan.

Life under the Jedi
He would be raised with caution by some in the order, as they felt an inherent Dark side strength within him. But, this was done in a way that didn't impede upon his Education.

After passing the Jedi Trials, and becoming a padawan, he was selected by Jedi Master Mace Windu, not only because of the child's martial prowess and physical strength, but also because windu could sympathize with the child because of his own inherent pull to the dark side, and believed he could keep him from becoming a Dark Jedi.

He would train the padawan, not only in the ways of the Lightsaber, even in the obscure Vaapad style as a way to further teach how one could be a conduit of the dark side without it touching them.