Kerolian Belmont (Jedi Renaissance)

Kerolian Belmont was a male Rellarin Jedi Master who lived during the time of the Jedi Renaissance. Serving as a Shadow throughout the Clone Wars, Belmont was appointed to serve on the Council of First Knowledge in the years leading up to the Battle of Yavin.

Early life
A Force-sensitive Rellarin, Kerolian Belmont was the son of a un'Yala on his homeworld of Rellnas Minor when he was discovered by a Recruiter from the Jedi Order and taken to Coruscant's Jedi Temple for training. Training at the academy there, Belmont's Rellarin heritage put him at ease in the homespun robes of the Jedi and made him predisposed to long hours of study in the Temple Archives. Craving the wisdom of the ancient Jedi long past, Belmont avidly studied the journals of long-dead Master Gnost-Dural and his work on the histories of Tython and Ossus. Peace-loving and kind to all his peers, Belmont was selected for training by Master Orkin Ke, a renowned Shadow and an agent of the Council of First Knowledge. Travelling to Ilum to construct a green-bladed lightsaber, Belmont was frustrated that many of the diplomats he interacted with were frightened by his facial feeding spikes.

Travelling to the world of Glee Anselm in 142 BBY, Belmont and his master were tasked with settling a brief civil war which had erupted between the Anselmi land-dwellers and the aquatic Nautolan people. Staged in the Sabilon region of the planet, Belmont and Ke stayed out of sight while attempting to locate and sabotage the terrorist cells appearing on both sides. Within three months time, Belmont had successfully wiped out terror cells and their weapons supplies within Anselmi borders and was able to bring the civil war to a place where negotiations could begin. Returning to the Temple on Coruscant, Belmont would serve as Ke's student for several more years and complete many more missions before completing his Trials of Knighthood and being elevated to the rank of Knight in 135 BBY. Remaining at the Temple and taking missions on and around Coruscant, Belmont was tasked in 133 BBY to investigate the work of Padawan Leor Hal and his followers who espoused the Potentium way of thinking. Delivering his report to the High Council, the Potentium sect was excommunicated for the Order for heresy.

Rise of the Sith
During the Chancellorship of Vaila Pecivas, Belmont was in the midst of training the young Tafasheel Arkan when he was severely injured in a mission to Iridonia. Rushed back to the Coruscant Temple for healing, Belmont was confined to a hoverchair for six months to ensure that his legs would heal properly after a detonation in a bazaar nearly took off his legs. Returning to active duty once his legs were healed and Chief Healer Ortis Fin had cleared him, Belmont instructed the young Iktoctchi girl Tafasheel Arkan to Knighthood. Serving with distinction as a Shadow for the ensuing decades, Belmont was one of the few Jedi who believed that the Sith had not been vanquished and that they were slowly mustering their strength in the depths of the galaxy's underworld. As the Separatist Crisis threatened the Galactic Republic, Belmont's convictions grew stronger and he was quick to point out that the pall of the dark side seemed to grow stronger day by day blocking out the Jedi's collective ability to sense the future.

When the Clone Wars erupted across the galaxy, Belmont invoked his Right of Denial and refused to take up the rank of General but continued his search for answers to the mysteries he perceived in the Force. Working with the Special Operations Division's covert branch led by Warden of the Order Tomac Moorcé, Belmont often times found himself on the secret twelve-bladed satellite above Shrokaan meeting with the dark siders there and encouraging them to turn away from the malevolent powers they wielded against civilization. When Master Mace Windu recalled all Jedi back to Coruscant at the dramatic conclusion to the war, Belmont was ecstatic to learn that the Order was to return to Ossus and begin working towards peace. Joining the team of scouts led by Master Ricardus Alpert, Belmont was pleased to find the city of Knossa still standing in silent ruin. Making peace with the leaser of the Ysanna tribes, Yohn Lahk, the Jedi were quickly able to beat the forest back out of the city limits and begin rebuilding the ruined city.

As time passed and the Order relocated to the planet, Belmont continued his service as a Shadow and played a part in bringing many holdouts from Darth Sidious's court to justice. When the post-war clean-up wound down, Belmont took up residence on Ossus and worked closely with Warden Coleman Kcaj to rehabilitate the Order's Forceful prisoners from the war. Taking many of them under his wing, Belmont became something of a parole officer as he helped the former inmates adjust to their new life on Ossus as they served out their lifetime sentence on the Jedi fortress world and separate from the rest of the galaxy. In 4 BBY, Belmont was appointed to the Council of First Knowledge as a shadow of a threat became evident in the Gordian Reach. Massassi had begun to spread out from the fourth moon of Yavin as five Human Force-sensitives were caught in the thrall of the dark side there and rallied these armies under the banner of the long-thought dead Sith Lord Exar Kun. As Belmont uncovered these mysterious and sorted rumor from fact, his importance on the Council became undeniable. Working closely with the High Council, Belmont was able to supply vital information which would lead the Order and the combined forces of the Republic and the Confederacy to victory in the historic Battle of Yavin.

Following the battle, Belmont stepped down from the Council and returned to his work with former prisoners on Ossus. Refusing to take another Padawan due to his advanced age, Belmont retired in 4 ABY from all of his prior duties and took up residence in a cave deep within the Eocho Mountains. When he became one with the Force in 6 ABY, his body was recovered and cremated on the Great Pyre of Knossa.