Kaevee

Kaevee was a female 🇪🇺 🇪🇺 living on 🇪🇺 during the time of the. After the was destroyed by the forces of, she remained in hiding among the ruins for eleven years. After being nearly killed by Sith assassins, she was rescued by the Force adept Atton Rand. Together with former Jedi Master Atris and a spacer named Cole Terrick, Kaevee embarked on a quest to save the 🇪🇺 from being destroyed by the invading Second Sith Empire.

Early life
Although Kaevee assumed that 🇪🇺 was her homeworld, the identities of her parents and the circumstances of her acquisition by the 🇪🇺 are uncertain. She enjoyed a peaceful early life in the, passing the at age twelve in 21,097 AR. Her mentor, 🇪🇺 Emon Corsio, then formally chose her as his 🇪🇺.

Survivor
Less than a year later, 's forces struck the Enclave in a, killing nearly all the Jedi there, presumably including Master Corsio. Being outside the Enclave when the attack began, Kaevee fled to the, where her friend tried to hide her. However, soon arrived, killing the Matales and burning their home, and the Padawan fled deeper into the countryside. A Sith detachment patrolled the regions surrounding the Enclave for some weeks after the attack, brutalizing and murdering the Dantooine settlers while searching for surviving Jedi.

During this time Kaevee tried to seek shelter among the settlers, only to find that they now hated the Jedi, blaming them for either provoking or failing to stop the Sith attack. Faced with their rejection, she turned to scavenging and stealing in order to survive on her own.

After the Sith had left Dantooine, Kaevee returned to the destroyed Jedi Enclave and stayed in the ruins, believing that the Jedi would one day return to Dantooine to complete her training. After finding that a nest of s had occupied the Enclave's sublevel, she with 🇪🇺, using them to guard the sublevel against 🇪🇺 and other trespassers.

With no one to guide or direct her, Kaevee neglected to practice her skills and 🇪🇺s, causing some of them to atrophy. Her recollection of the Jedi teachings grew increasingly vague and abstract, to the point that she eventually found herself unable to remember the 🇪🇺.

The Jedi Purge
Five years after Malak's attack, the 🇪🇺 Meetra Surik and her companions invaded the Enclave in search of Master, who had secretly gone into hiding on Dantooine after the end of the. Surik and her companions killed a large number of laigreks and penetrated deeper into the sublevel than any salvagers previously had. Caught off-guard, Kaevee assumed the invaders to be Sith and fled from the Enclave again. Some time later she returned, only to find the bodies of Vrook Lamar as well as Masters and, all dead of 🇪🇺 wounds. Following Jedi custom, she 🇪🇺 the bodies. She also kept Master Vrook's lightsaber, as her own had been lost when the Enclave had been bombed.

Kaevee was crestfallen after this, feeling that she had failed to help defend the Jedi when she might have been able to make a difference. However, she refused to believe that the Order was destroyed and continued to guard the Enclave as she had before.

Rescue from Dantooine
Six years after this incident, the Enclave was invaded again, this time by s led by Visas Marr. The Sith slaughtered many of the laigreks and nearly killed Kaevee, but she was rescued by a named Atton Rand, and they escaped aboard the freighter Ebon Hawk, along with a single stowaway laigrek. Kaevee mistakenly assumed that Atton was a 🇪🇺 sent by a Master to rescue her. Choosing to play the part of a Jedi for the time being, Atton explained that a hidden Sith Empire was preparing to wage war on the 🇪🇺 from the 🇪🇺, and that he was on a mission to stall their invasion.

Before going to meet with Atton's "Master" on 🇪🇺, the pair traveled to Lossway 🇪🇺 on to meet with Cole Terrick, a 🇪🇺 hired by Atton to acquire supplies needed for repairing the Ebon Hawk. However, Cole reported that some of the supplies had not come in yet, so Atton arranged to rendezvous again later on. After a run-in with a group of thugs who claimed to have recognized the Ebon Hawk, Kaevee and Atton left Ord Lonesome empty-handed.

During these early trips, Kaevee repeatedly questioned Atton about the state of the galaxy, the nature of their mission, and himself. Although the supposed Jedi Knight told her of some recent events such as the, he was vague and secretive about other matters, saying that his "Master" could explain everything later.

In an abandoned monastery in the frozen wastes of Belsavis, Atton introduced Kaevee to the former Jedi Master Atris. Atris explained that Atton had sought her out for help in gathering Force-sensitive individuals to help fight the Sith, and after seeing Kaevee in a 🇪🇺, she sent Atton to recruit her on Dantooine. During this discussion, Kaevee was distraught and outraged to discover that neither of her new companions were actually Jedi; she was further upset to hear that Atris had renounced the Jedi teachings, considering them corrupt. The Padawan argued with both Atton and Atris, wanting at first to return to Dantooine to wait for the Jedi there. After taking some time on her own to reconsider things, however, she decided to remain and help with their mission.

Legacy
As a survivor of the Jedi Civil War and the subsequent Jedi Purge, Kaevee was eventually listed by historians as one of the Lost Jedi, who wandered or went into hiding across the galaxy after the war's end.

Personality and traits
Kaevee was very close with her Master, Emon Corsio, and remembered him as a gentle, sympathetic father figure. Although shy by nature, she had friends and acquaintances both inside and outside the Jedi Enclave. One of these was Shen Matale, who she trusted enough to seek his help when the Enclave was attacked.

Corsio taught Kaevee to believe and trust in the will of the Force, a conviction that she tenaciously held onto over the years, even as she failed to retain the Jedi Code and other essential teachings of the Order. Driven by devotion to her fallen master and fellow Jedi as well as by a sense of guilt for surviving them, she became convinced that her destiny was to become a Jedi Knight, and was unable to face the possibility that no one remained to complete her training. She idolized talented and famous Jedi such as Bastila Shan, and was deeply scandalized by anyone who questioned or argued against the righteousness of the Jedi.

After spending eleven years in isolation, Kaevee had difficulty reading other people's emotions and intentions, and was slow to respond to sarcasm and other forms of humor. Her naiveté also left her vulnerable to manipulation, allowing Atton Rand to easily fool her into believing he was a Jedi.

During her time in hiding on Dantooine, Kaevee developed a prejudice against common and non-Force-sensitive beings, thinking them generally ignorant, petty, and morally inferior to Jedi. Despite being a thief and a scavenger herself, she had a particular disdain for salvagers, as well as 🇪🇺 and anyone else she considered to be unprincipled or motivated by mere self-interest. In keeping with this, she intensely disliked Cole Terrick and dismissed him as a coward. However, she still felt compassion for him and never doubted that she had done the right thing by saving his life.

Powers and abilities
During her Jedi training, Kaevee attained a rudimentary command of the Core 🇪🇺 such as, 🇪🇺, 🇪🇺, as well as the basics of 🇪🇺. Early on in her training, she was found to have a natural talent for. This enabled her to control the dozens of laigreks inhabiting the Jedi Enclave sublevel with little effort.

Aside from Beast Control, however, Kaevee's command of the Force was partially vitiated after eleven years with no training and little practice. For instance, while she could utilize telekinesis to levitate or throw objects or persons, she had difficulty using the power with much precision, and her concentration could easily be disrupted. Her neglect of meditation and discipline also weakened her mental defenses, leaving her vulnerable to Force-based attacks such as  and.

Kaevee spoke and had an intermediate understanding of 🇪🇺. Her comprehension of other languages is assumed to be slight; on at least one occasion she heard 🇪🇺 and mistook it for 🇪🇺.

Behind the scenes
Kaevee is based on from  who was  but later restored in fan-made modifications. In the game, the player as the Exile would have been able to encounter her in the Jedi Enclave sublevel, and then kill her or encourage her to embrace either the light or dark side of the Force. In this original conception, she was also apparently being influenced toward the dark side by a 🇪🇺 that she had found in the ruins. The latter element of her character is omitted in this fan fiction, mostly because the author completely forgot about it while writing the outline and character concept notes for Torchbearer.

Other changes, such as Kaevee's never encountering the Exile or her companions during their visit to Dantooine, were made for more practical storytelling purposes. The intention was to distance her from recent in-universe events so that, as the outline puts it, "she can serve in the narrative as the curious, clueless sort-of-everywoman who helps explain things to the reader by asking everyone else questions about what's going on."

Early on in the planning stages for the series, the author was uncertain as to who would be its protagonist. Before settling on Kaevee, he considered several other minor or secondary characters from the KotOR games, such as. The reasons Kaevee won out include that she had more distance from the main plot of the games, and also that her backstory was less filled-in and more malleable.

Appearances

 * Torchbearer