Darth Raivon

Darth Raivon (born Veran Corvain) was a legendary Near-Human, both as a Jedi Knight and as a Sith Lord. During his training, he discovered the seductive powers of the Darkside and renounced his devotion to the Light, becoming a extremely powerful Sith Lord.

Veran has only one living relative, his twin brother Qim Xauweep. The two share a powerful bond that later manifests as a Force Chain, allowing them to aid each other through the force. This chain was later severed by Qim but a bond still remained. Veran’s parents were Xau Vain (mother) and Cor Weep (father), both died protecting their children from an ancient race of sentient machines.

Veran, along with his brother Qim, was found in stasis aboard a damaged starship that crashed on Mon Calamari. A Mon Calamari research team salvaged the vessel and released the children. They took them to their underwater facility where they were later retrieved by a Jedi Watchman who took them to Coruscant. Veran and Qim were trained in the ways of the Force and were both apprenticed to Grand Master Xavier after their formal training.

Before joining the Sith Empire, Veran served as a General in the Galactic Alliance during the Kazzum Skirmishes. As a Sith Lord, he was appointed Supreme Commander of the fleet known as Thule’s Fury, and gained infamy as one of the galaxy's most feared warriors. He also headed the Special Operations branch—a team of Elite Sith Assassins. Prior to the Sith Schism, Veran was given the title of Zealot of the High Council.

Biography
Early Life (210 ABY – 214 ABY)

“''What can I say? We had a troubled childhood''.” – Veran, to Kyra Lynn.

Veran and his brother were born in 210 ABY aboard a Precursor transport vessel. His parents, Xau Vain and Cor Weep, were fleeing from a hyper-advanced machine race that’d attacked a Precursor planet in another galaxy and wiped out its entire population. Their ship was crippled and boarded by the machines near the Outer Rim border of the Star Wars galaxy, Veran’s parents were dragged away and killed by the machines leaving the children safe in a hidden stasis chamber. The machines left the ship adrift and returned to dark space. After several weeks, the ship fell into Mon Calamari’s gravity well and crashed in the ocean where it lay at the bottom of the sea for two days until being recovered by a Mon Calamari research team. Remarkably, the stasis pods were undamaged and the infants were still alive and healthy. The ship was taken to a nearby facility and the children were woken from stasis, upon seeing the Mon Calamari the infants cried and the entire facility shook as a result. Disturbed, the Mon Calamari contacted the native Jedi Watchman who confirmed their force-sensitivity and took them to the Academy on Coruscant. The children were inducted into the orphanage where they enjoyed a relatively happy upbringing.

During the uneventful years before their Force training, the scientists and Medi-droids struggled to classify the children’s species as they were undocumented Near-Humans with remarkable abilities such as: advanced longevity (eternal youth), advanced healing (regenerating wounds almost instantly), limb regeneration, advanced intelligence, advanced physical attributes, diamond-hard bone structure with bone casing around the heart, etc (see Abilities). At the age of four, Veran and Qim began taking Youngling lessons and amazed their teachers by mastering year’s worth of training in just a few months, by this time they had fully mastered the basics of Form I lightsaber combat and were adept at telekinesis and Force Sense. It was not long before they were taken on as padawans to the Jedi Grand Master Xavier.

As a Jedi (214 ABY - 234 ABY)

Under Xavier’s tutelage Veran spent his youth and adolescence learning the mysterious ways of the Force. Veran became a Jedi Consular and, by the time he was 14, had fully mastered Form II: Makashi and Form III: Soresu. As their training progressed, Veran and Qim developed a Force Bond that eventually evolved into a Force Chain. Like his brother, Veran mastered the advanced Jar’Kai form but rarely used it, later choosing the unorthodox Reverse Grip style. Most of Veran’s life as a Jedi was uneventful due to the indomitable control of the Galactic Alliance, which kept large scale criminal activity to a minimum, a fact Veran almost despised.

Inner Darkness

“We are taught that power can only be gained through peace and meditation, not passion and selfish action.”

“Then why, when I’m so full of fury, does my power not dwindle, why does it feel greater.”

“''What you feel is an illusion. A phantom that seeks to deceive you, don’t listen to it''.”

“But it feels so real.” - Qim Xauweep speaks to Veran Corvain about his dark tendencies.

A few years later an emancipated Sith Lord named Darth Kazzum launched an assault on the Alliance by attacking Corellia with a fleet of Imperial warships. Veran and Qim joined the Galactic Alliance Navy as Generals and led a fleet to confront the Dark Lord over Corellia. Qim personally led the fighter squadrons and destroyed numerous Sith fighters while Veran remained on the bridge of the Star Destroyer Peacekeeper, giving orders and directing the fleet through his Battle Meditation. Kazzum could not match the Jedi’s tactical superiority and was forced to retreat back to Onderon with the Alliance hot on his trail. Cornered and effectively disabled, Kazzum prepared for his last stand but the attack came not from the Alliance but from his apprentice Darth Candor. Seeing his opportunity arise Candor attacked Kazzum for the title of Dark Lord and defeated him when the Peacekeeper fired on the bridge, crippling the Dark Lord. Candor then fled the unstable warship shortly before its destruction and docked with the Peacekeeper; Veran met Candor in the hangar and escorted him to the bridge. Candor introduced himself as Kran Tana, a “captive” of the Sith. Qim was slightly disturbed by Kran, though he couldn’t figure out why, Veran on the other hand took an instant liking to him and they became fast friends on the return trip to Coruscant. After giving a convincing story to the Jedi Council, Kran was accepted into the Order and was placed under Veran’s tutelage, though not as an apprentice.

In the following months Veran began distancing himself from his brother, choosing Kran’s company over Qim’s, the closer he and Kran got, the further he and Qim drew apart. This did not improve Qim’s disposition towards Kran and his suspicions increased to border-line paranoia. Kran pretended to be an avid believer of the Potentium Theory and taught his beliefs to Veran who was greatly intrigued by these ideals. Veran came to believe that the Force was neutral and that the Darkside was simply the inner darkness of the soul; hate, anger, betrayal, fear, they were all natural emotions, each with their own benefit. With his new believes solidified, Veran abandoned the Jedi teachings and allowed himself to “feel” everything. While this created no immediate change in him, Veran’s behaviour slowly became more disturbing as he embraced his negative emotions. During a mission to prevent a Trandoshian terrorist group from destroying a mining facility on Bespin, Veran displayed the depths of his darkness by mercilessly slaughtering the terrorists when the negotiations failed, despite the Council’s wishes for minimal bloodshed.

Veran’s Betrayal (235 ABY)