Hethri Yinsaad

Hethri Yinsaad (//) was a female Ufali. She was raised and trained as a Seer of Ufalio, but when her homeworld joined the Golden Empire, Hethri joined the Order of Keltrayu and was trained as a Centurion. Her siblings considered her a master of in an Order already famous for its telekinetic prowess, and she served decades as the Order's telekinesis instructor.

Foresight
Hethri was born on Ufalio in 95 ABY. From an early age, she demonstrated the quick reflexes and unusual foresight Ufali associated with the reclusive Seers of Ufalio, a marginalized prophetic sect. While many Ufali considered the Seers to be charlatans, the Yinsaads were less skeptical. Hethri was also their fifth child, and when she began to discuss training with the Seers around the age of ten, the Yinsaads did not try hard to dissuade her.

After her parents arranged for her to be transported to the Enclave of the Seers, Hethri quickly fit in with her new fellows. Around like minds with like powers for once, Hethri blossomed under the Seers' instruction. She spent hours a day in contemplation with the future, and was one of many Seers to sense major changes coming to Ufalio. Though the Seers had become a pacifistic order, Hethri still exercised often, as did many of the younger Seers. Unlike many Seers, she did not see her future in the Enclave indefinitely, but could not understand her visions of alien worlds and space travel either.

Conversion
In 122 ABY, an age-old prophecy of the Seers came true when the Golden Empire arrived at Ufalio, with Queen Rin Sakaros herself at the head of its delegation. When the Seers pointed to an ancient prophecy predicting her coming, down to the clasp of her cloak, many Ufali reassessed the Seers and their gifts. Rin herself visited the Enclave of the Seers and, sensing their Force abilities, invited any interested Seers to join the Order of Keltrayu.

Hethri immediately sensed the path to the murky destiny she had previously envisioned, and Rin herself admitted the Ufali into the Order. Journeying to the Citadel with a handful of other Ufali, Hethri began training as a Novice. Her powers of foresight translated well to battle precognition, which assisted her in learning. However, Hethri preferred to use the Force to fight, and devoted extensive practice to telekinesis. Many mental applications of the Force seemed to come naturally to her, and was merely an outgrowth of the Ufali natural ability to read one another's emotions.

Hethri was often closer to her Praetors than her fellow Novices, given her advanced age, although she remained close with her fellow Ufali. She was commissioned as a Centurion in 132 ABY.

Mastery
Hethri was deployed to field service, often serving as a bodyguard for Royal Integration Corps agents or diplomats. Her skills in telekinesis allowed her to level whole groups of assailants with es, and her precognitive skills often cued her in to oncoming danger. She took part in the Conquest of the Chiss Ascendancy in 137 ABY, experimenting with using her powers to throw squadrons of off course.

In 138 ABY, Prefect Tariun Sakaros appointed Hethri to teach telekinesis and other Force skills to Novices. She served in the position for decades, with brief deployments in the Vagaari War; she also fought in the defense of the Sith Star when it was boarded during the Battle of Dolomir. Many Novices trained under her, and passing her grueling exams was considered a rite of passage.

When Azalyn Kass`l came to the Order, and especially after she spent a year “interning” with the Seers of Ufalio, Hethri occasionally helped her refine her powers of foresight, although she could sense the young hybrid's powers dwarfed her own even in Azalyn's teen years.

Powers and abilities
Despite coming to the Order of Keltrayu later in life than many Novices, Hethri developed telekinetic and telepathic skills which equaled or surpassed those of her fellow Centurions. Many Centurions considered her one of the Order's ablest practitioners of telekinesis, capable of both extreme precision and lifting incredibly heavy weights, including throwing moving starfighters off course with Force pushes.

Hethri's time with the Seers of Ufalio endowed her with precognitive skills usually only seen in Centurions who had extensive combat experience. She devoted extensive time to meditation and was deeply attuned to the.

Hethri possessed the lightsaber combat skills required of a Centurion, and her pursuit of, combined with her precognitive skills, made her a slightly superior swordsbeing than the norm among Centurions. During her decades as a Praetor-Instructor, she also had the opportunity to spar with the Order's lightsaber experts, which helped to refine her skills. However, she preferred to avoid melee combat when possible, fighting with the Force instead. Rin Sakaros taught her Echani martial arts when Hethri balked at the brutal Var Shek regimen of the Order.

Appearance and personality
Hethri had red and yellow skin, with red stripes curving around the outside of her eye sockets. She had a mane of black hair which she wore to the middle of her back, and a slender, almost willowy build. Like all Ufali, she had violet eyes. She carried a curved-hilt lightsaber with a purple blade, though she rarely drew it, and often preferred a black robe or burnous to the traditional black cape of a Centurion's uniform.

Many Novices and Centurions found Hethri detached, humorless, and demanding, both as an instructor and a sibling. She had relatively few close friends in the Order, though she shared mutually respectful relationships with many other Centurion instructors, such as Kieran Sapphire and Eskol Kaartinen. It was one of Te`net Organi's life goals to make her laugh.

While many Novices found Hethri impossible to please, as Centurions most of them (grudgingly) conceded that her demanding standards forged extremely capable telekinetics. She practiced regularly herself to ensure that her skills continued to deepen and grow, and experimented with new and innovative combat applications of the Force as she grew older and less able to engage in direct physical combat.