Jae/Jaehalla

The Jae were a group of force-sensitives during the Galactic Sentient Discovery and were primarily active during the Dawn of Genesis before being destroyed in 89,980 BBY by the Knights of Genesis.

The order was founded by Lorna Metivatcha, a disgraced Nightsister, and co-founded by Lorna's adoptive brothers (by her); Simeon Giddley, Viktar Susima and Gen Donovan in 90,017 BBY. At the time of founding, Lorna was twenty-six, Simeon and Viktar being eighteen and Gen being sixteen.

Origins
"You have no idea what it's like to be alone! I built this order with my flesh and blood for the good of the people."

- Lorna Metivatcha to Gavin Avonine After being disgraced by her fellow Nightsisters, Lorna sought to build an order so that rejected magicks and force-sensitives like herself would never be alone and do good for others. She adopted three young boys to be her brothers and together they founded the Jae.

The order grew quickly. After the four founders opened themselves up to the force more willingly, they were able to locate others who possessed magick and force-sensitivity. By 90,010 BBY, over 40 pupils as young as seven years old had been collected and brought to the growing Jaehalla Academy built in Ithor.

Building the Order
Within the years the academy and order grew, Jaehalla had evolved. The Jae had found force-sensitive kyber crystals, in which they used to create weaponry and teach the pupils self-defense if necessary. These weapons ejected a sort of light that had great ability to burn through objects. Single-bladed weapons were respectively names lightsabers, double-bladed were lightpikes and malleable blades were lightwhips.

The Jae had also discovered soaking; a practice in which a Jae would spend time meditating in solitary to further their connection with the force. They believed that strengthening the connection made them more powerful.

Lorna and her brothers took on apprentices, and once they had graduated their apprenticeship they themselves would be allowed to search for a pupil through the force or choose one that was a more or less new arrival. Apprentices were trained in self defense using the force (however some pupils possessed similar Nightsister magick, in which they were personally trained by Lorna, but this was rare) and later gifted a lightweapon of choice before being trained with it. Although the Jae trained in some combat, this was not the focus of their practice. Many Jae used the force for medicinal purposes, such as transferring their life force into others', some only practiced Jaehalla for the sake of controlling and understanding themselves and others used this as a way to quench their thirst of the universe.

A technique called Whisping was discovered by Simeon when a group of bandits sought to ransack the academy. The Jae only wished to scare and drive the bandits away with only a little combat if necessary, however Simeon had accidentally killed one of the bandits. He panicked and discovered that the bandit he had murdered was force-sensitive. Simeon learned he could consume one's force energy after death to gain more power and closeness to the force without having to spend time soaking. He shared his burden with his two brothers, the three of them keeping the murder a secret, however after Simeon's first Whisping he began to crave more. Unbeknownst to him, this had him wind up on a forkroad of light and dark.

Disturbance in the Force
In 90,005, a strange disturbance was sensed within the force by Lorna, her brothers and many of the pupils. She was unsure whether or not the disturbance was of negative of positive force energy, however she began seeking out the root of this immense amount of power she felt, hoping to recruit what could possibly be the most powerful Jae. Unfortunately, the search for this power was a dead trail, as Lorna and her brothers couldn't track where the disturbance was from.

In 89,998 BBY, Simeon had found Milia Quinning and her two brothers; Makeo and Arvo Quinning, when sensing them through the force. Due to the three siblings having strong force energy together, Lorna believed this was the force energy she had felt years previous and had been trying to search for. The three Quinning siblings were accepted into the order and trained at the academy.

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