Naris Suril

""Did I say we were done, Sithy? Get back here and fight me!""

 Naris Suril was a Jedi Weapon Master during the Cold War Era of the Old Republic. Though she was known for being brash and short-tempered, she was a genuinely good person at heart. Though she often could be described as a Grey Jedi, she remained in the Order because she believed in carrying out the will of the Light Side of the Force, and that the best way to do that was to remain within the order, even if she didn't always see eye-to-eye with the Council.

Early life
She had the same childhood as most Younglings in the Jedi order. She quickly befriended a large group of other children that were seen as "outsiders"--a depressive Chiss boy, an extremely dorky Mirialan boy, a constantly anxious Rattataki girl, a sardonic Twi'lek girl, a lazy Togruta boy, a shy Zabrak boy, a snarky Nautolan boy, a fiery Rodian girl, a slightly-arrogant Miraluka girl, an overly-prepared Tholothian girl, and a morose Kel Dor boy. These people would become a surrogate family for her.

As a Youngling, Naris was a bit of a "wild child"--running, climbing--things like that. She disliked wearing shoes, to the point that her Master claimed that it "was like pulling teeth" to get her to wear shoes half the time. She was also greatly enjoyed playing pranks on people she thought were stupid. These were always harmless pranks, but she would often get reprimanded for them just the same. Her sarcasm began during child-hood.

At 13, like most Jedi, she received a gift she would cherish the rest of her life from her Master. It was a small container of soil from her home-world, Iridonia.

Career
Over time, Naris grew to become a very skilled fighter under Master Cagrine Thirmian. The human noticed his young Padawan's almost inexhaustible amount of energy and sought to help her find ways to harness it, as well as control her temper. As such, he would drill her often on her skill with Lightsaber forms, with her mastering Forms II and IV, as well as developing a level of skill with Teräs Käsi as a way to try to cut through some of that excess energy. Initially, her lightsabers burned blue, but turned purple over time due to her constant struggle with the Dark Side.

After training two Padawan learners, a former Dathomirian Zabrak Sith Knight named Sever and, when she was much older, a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered Nautolan boy named Oric, she decided to train Younglings in the basics of Lightsaber combat. Against the wishes of the Council, she would go on to wed Serdur Noth and have a young daughter with him.

Death
Naris, after spending many years instructing Younglings in Lightsaber combat, died of old age. She was 80 years old and passed peacefully in her sleep.

Post-mortem
As Naris spent most of her life as some-what of a Grey Jedi, she could not become a Force Ghost.

Personality and traits
Naris always wore her auburn hair short--never going past her jaw-line. She had a small line of horns going up around her hair-line, but the shorter ones were often obscured by her hair. She had a ridge of three horns, starting behind the top-center horn and going back two more, forcing her to almost always part her hair in the center. She tended to like to wear darker clothes than most Jedi so she could, in her words: "skulk about and be all sneaky". She was around average in height for an adult female Zabrak, but had an athletic build, which made her weight a little bit more.She had hazel-green eyes and her facial tattoos had a harlequin or jester type inspiration behind them, incorporating large diamonds around her eyes and lines crossing her mouth.

Naris was known to have a very short temper and a foul mouth on her and would not hesitate to start arguments and fights with Sith--she wanted to fight them. She was sometimes described as being contentious, but was otherwise friendly to most. However, once someone crossed her, "the gloves came off".

She was also given to sarcasm and liked to joke a lot, especially with her dearest friend, Domi Zurdag, a Nautolan male. They would often make off-color jokes as they watched things on the holonet together.

She also had a strong appreciation of art--especially music and dance, often incorporating the latter into her fighting style, and she was seen to enjoy gardening and working with plants.

Powers and abilities
While below-average in her command of the Force, she was a highly skilled Lightsaber duelist who would almost always wield two blades at the same time. Her philosophy on this was: "I got two hands. Way I see it, that's two hands I could be holdin' Lightsabers in."