Tessia Jax

"We stand today, as ... and as . Comrades-in-arms, against an unstoppable enemy—never before has there been a danger such as this. We have borne witness to the extinction of entire civilizations. Worlds consumed, stars extinguished. But this is not our day to die. This day, we live! This day, we face the Dominion with a thousand hearts as one! And as one, we shout! As one, we fight! As one, we live!"

- Tessia Jax at the start of the Battle of the Otherworld

Tessia Jax was a   who served as the High Protector of the Echani Covenant during the Extant War. A close ally to the Prime, Lauron Yusanis, and a longtime advocate for stronger offenses against the Charon Dominion during the Extant War, Tessia Jax was the heir-apparent to the Tribe of Jax, one of the strongest Echani tribes.

An indirect descendant of the galactically infamous, and would-be , , Tessia inherited her tribe's frequent manifestation of. Developing a highly patriotic stance toward her people, due to the unspoken stigma of Carnor Jax and the Echani's history of being manipulated into a Sith cult, Tessia was a fully fledged Enchantress, although preferred to rely on her physical and mental prowess to earn merit among her people.

One of the most talented warriors and martial artists of the Echani, Tessia was initially antagonistic to the founding of the Bloodmoon Pact as part of the Treaty of Korriban's Galactic Emergency Coalition. Although disapproving of politics, Tessia was quickly considered to have been a war hero and led the expedition into Otherspace, upon the discovery of the Otherworld.