Mischa Vorfren (Jedi Renaissance)

Mischa Vorfren was an Anzat male Jedi Knight serving the Jedi Order after being rescued by the Jedi at the close of the Clone Wars. A former mercenary and dark side adept, Vorfren was enslaved by Phylus Mon. When the Jedi freed him, Vorfren was take to the Jedi Shadow Academy where Master Avlis Tholme accepted him as an acolyte. Renouncing his old ways of murder and feeding after a revelation through the Force, Vorfren would later train at the Acolyte Academy on Ossus and become a Shadow for the Order.

Slave of Mon
Captured by the slaver Phylus Mon in 45 BBY, Vorfren's body was rigged with an explosive device which would kill him should Mon die for any reason. Vorfren knew that the explosive in his chest could be deactivated if hit by an ion weapon, but Phylus Mon did not allow any ion weapons into his ship, the Animiasma. Stationed aboard the ship for most of his service to Mon, Vorfren used a heavy blaster pistol and combat gloves as his personal weapons. Another of Phylus Mon's slave bodyguards, Ku-Kak, provided Vorfren with a green lightsaber that had belonged to Jedi Knight Ish-Bel Tur. Vorfren became the only lightsaber wielder that Ku-Kak would not instantly attack.

In 20 BBY, the Animiasma traveled to the Cularin system as a part of Mon's plan to repair the damaged Sith artifact known as the Darkstaff. Phylus Mon was analyzing the Staff when it suddenly disappeared; seconds later, a team opposed to Mon's interests burst in the throne room. At his master's signal, Vorfren pulled his lightsaber, but did not ignite it. He, along with four Coruscani ogres in Phylus Mon's entourage, tried to protect the dais where their master was sitting. However, Vorfren really wanted to be free and to kill Phylus Mon. He planned to offer his lightsaber and his help in exchange for a ion shot to his chest. To increase his negotiation skills, he tried to hide his real species, which was infamous, and be taken for a Human. Despite his efforts, Mon escaped and Vorfren remained a slave aboard the Animiasma until 19 BBY, when Master Devan For'deschel of the Almas Academy led a team to the ship and rescued the slaves. Deionizing the slaves, For'deschel placed them under the protection of the Order, transporting them to the Coruscant Jedi Temple for medical treatment and evaluation.

Powers and abilities
A trained mercenary, Misha Vorfren received his training in these skills from several pilots he flew with over the first century of his life before feeding on them. Feeding on the souls of victims from hundreds of worlds with the facial tentacles his species was known and feared for, Vorfren was a capable pilot and navigator. As a slave of Phylus Mon, Vorfren was taught to wield a lightsaber with some skill, amplified by his own Force-sensitivity. When Vorfren entered into the Jedi Shadow Academy, his mind was reconditioned to find the murder of innocents immoral and cruel. Training his body to gain nutrients through other means, Vorfren eventually came to known the Force in the same manner as other Jedi through his training at the Acolyte Academy on Ossus. During his apprenticeship he underwent several missions with his master which tested his abilities and crafted his own lightsaber, imbuing it with a blue crystal discovered in the caves of Ilum. During his Great Journey on Tython he completed his training at each of the nine Great Temples, finding the study of the Balance at Akar Kesh. Developing his skills as a Sentinel, Vorfren combined the skills he had learned during his past life of crime to becoming a skilled Shadow for the Order.