Kyram Beviin

"Ony thing better than having a Mandalorian's mind is having a Mandalorian's heart."

- Kyram Beviin

Kyram Beviin, was a male   and leader of the reformed Mandalorian Knights, a sect of Force-wielders who followed the cultural teachings of the s. Born under the surname Bindo, he was the son of a Miraluka Jedi who was the grandaughter of  and Jol Bindo who was the son of, during the '.

During his early childhood he was abducted by a swoop gang member ofthe Black Riders and given the name Ayjae. After years of living and acting as crime prince under Riders' leader Aerena, he fled the gang and was later adopted into the  clan Beviin by   Kara Beviin under his chosen name Kyram, he then took up residence on  with his new mother and her friends, Degar Isaad and P'Taen Damuhn at the former  military outpost, on the outskirts of the capital city. after the end of the and the massacre of his family, he had a run in with Kaevee, a Force-sensitive hermit, he won the fight, but before the crazed girl died she used his last bit of strength and placed Beviin in a.

Approximately three centuries later, Beviin would be awakened by Imperial research team who captured him and sent him to the Tarsus prison. After a year of being in prison, he, a fellow prisoner, a Twi'lek by the name Nilim Firith, and two other Mandalorians escaped, killing many of their captors in the process. After splitting up with the Ordo siblings the pair became successful bounty hunters lending their talents to the highest bidder. Not long after, Beviin and Firith were approach by the Sith with a job offer, which they gladly accepted. They continued to work for on numerous assignments and eventually was given one to escort Meila Caliss&mdash;under the guise of a merchant named Deena R'jann&mdash;to Nar Shaddaa to discuss the position of some underworld factions such as the Z'dann Consortium and the Massus Cartel, during the talk, Beviin stepped in when things seemed to get heated amd managed to convince them to side with the Sith Empire. Heading back to Beviin's ship, the Wildcard, but boarding he sensed a disturbance and used to protect himself and Meila from an explosive that had been planted.

Returning to Sith space, Caliss instructed Beviin to report for formal at the  and then to  wherebecame a  and.

Early life (3,970-3,959 BBY)
"You have Jedi blood in you, kid, my blood..."

- Jolee Bindo's spirit, to Kyram in a vision

The grandson of former Jedi Padawan and a Sith acolyte named, son of Jol Bindo and a Miraluka on the ecumenopolis world of Coruscant six years after the start of the  in , the -  named Bindo was cared for during his early months by his mother's Twi'lek friend Daesha Komad after his parents left to participate in a prototype weapon experiment ran by Republic scientists in the  at. After learning of the deaths following an accident, Komad decided to take the eleven-month-old to the  on  as promised to his mother before she left. When the shuttle the Jedi was in approached the Temple's landing platform, the transport was attacked by swoop gang members&mdash;Daesha attempted to fight off the attackers, she managed to kill three of the gangsters before being overwhelmed. A white-haired Human female&mdash;the other gangsters called Aerena&mdash;took a crying Bindo from Daesha's arms and the gang left the vehicle and a badly beaten Daesha. When Aerena discovered the child she was meant to abduct was elsewhere, she and her gang relocated to the planet ', and keeping child she subsequently adopted the abducted child, Aerena raised Bindo as her own giving him the name Ayjae, calling him the child to be an heir to her 'soon-to-be criminal empire'.

Life with the Black Riders
During his childhood, Ayjae committed his first violent act at the age of seven when he killed a sadistic Black Rider lieutenant while he was savagely beating a slave member of the Black Riders named Edessa, he shot the man with a his mother kept. Early in the year 3,959 BBY, with the help of another member of the Riders named Morrigan and a drunken Aerena, Ayjae discovered that he was taken from his real family. He decided to plan a way out of the gang life and began conspiring against the Riders.

Escape from gang life and adoption
"I want to become one of you. Seeing what you people are capable of... I want that, if you will have me?" "[...] Welcome."

- Ayjae and Kara Beviin

During the first months of the, eleven-year-old Ayjae and several other children including Edessa were ready to revolt against and escape the Black Riders. The other children turned to Edessa, hoping she could convince her friend Ayjae to use his status as Aerena's son to help them escape. Unbeknownst to anyone other than her and Morrigan, Ayjae had figured he wasn't Aerena's son and already contacted, although anonymously, a mercenary group via hologram to help them, and they agreed to a hefty sum of 20,000 credits. Less than a week later the Rider base was breached by a team of former s, after killing off a significant number of gang members, the children including Ayjae, Edessa and Morrigan were rescued just as the was arriving and thinking the Mandalorians were kidnapping the children they opened fire on them, the TCA weresoon fired on themselves. Yelling for the fighting to stop, Ayjae asked the pilot, Taen, to land so he could explain the situation to the TCA before they "were all blown to bit," which he did minutes later. The head TCA officer, lieutenant Garen Paduk decided to take the children in, but Ayjae, Morrigan and Edessa decided to stay with the Mandalorians, to which they agreed and understandingly Paduk acknowledged their decision and departed with the remaining children. Subsequently Ayjae was adopted by Kara Beviin, Morrigan by a young  woman, and Edessa by Perero Keth.

Life as Beviin (3,959 BBY&mdash;?)
"Cin vhetin."

- Kyram Beviin, upon putting on his first set of Mandalorian armor

Arriving on as a new addition to Clan Beviin, Ayjae soon began his , the Mandalorian rite of passage and military training regimen. After two years, and the completion of his trials, Ayjae was fully accepted as a within the, not long after he cut his hair off, took the name "Kyram Beviin" after his adopted mother's friend Kyra Ralagla, and donned a custom set  he would until his incarceration at Tarsus where it was taken from him.

Woman in distress
"The name's Kyram Beviin, I'm the one who saved you... you want some chocolate?"

- Kyram, to Elliah Rand upon her waking up in the Forerunner's medbay

Mission to Nar Shaddaa
"My name's Kyram, Jedi, this is Elliah. Now tell me what you want before I shoot you." "He'll do it too. He shot my droid a few days ago."

- Kyram and Elliah Rand, to Jordo Malare

Darkness in the desert
"Dead, but will never be forgotten. Ever! A Mandalorian never forgets."

- Kyram, to Morrigan, after destroying an entire Sand People tribe

In 3,953 BBY, a month before Edessa Lorso's, Lorso ended her relationship with Kyram during their stay on saying "it was something she didn't want to talk about". Edessa and Morrigan accompanied him on a mission to collect Krayt dragon pearls on at the behest of his mother, Kara for a gift for Edessa.

Arriving at Tatooine in the Forerunner, Kyram along with Morrigan and Edessa took a speeder out of and headed into the, they came across dozens of desert wraid and after spending the night in the dunes, they awoke and found a  had come across them and attacked. The Mandalorians fought back and killed most of them except for one who managed to stumble away, wounded. Edessa also fell in battle, being severely wounded and miles away from any, Kyram rummaged through the robes of the dead looking for anything of use but only found several s; not long after Edessa succumbed to her injuries and grief-stricken Kyram and Morrigan tracked the surviving hunter to his enclave and raided it, killing all inhabitants in sight. Kyram personally killed the hunting party survivor and took his mask as a reminder, and upon seeing the creature's face, he vowed never to return to the desert world.

Beviin and Morrigan returned to with the pearls and Lorso's body in tow. While the pearls were given to Kara Beviin, and the body was cremated, as per Mandalorian tradition.

The death of Lorso would continue to hunt Beviin for years to come and served as one of his first steps toward the dark side, one Darth Milias would later exploit.

Taking on a Hermit
Still fuming from his battle with mission, Beviin travelled the galaxy, moving from one place to the next never able to find solace in anything. Kyram eventually found himself on the world for reasons beyond his own comprehension, in his later life he claimed to think it may have been the Force that guided him there. Upon entering the snow-riddened atmosphere Beviin saw an outpost in the distance and landed in the hangar. Exiting the freighter, the young Mandalorian explored the outpost, he cane across frozen corpses of what seemed to be the former staff and a few skeletons. Soon he came across a young woman who immediately attacked him, he fended her off with his step-father's, but she proved to be the better fighter and he used  her back, knocking her against a large  giving him time to escape deeper into the base. He came across a large room where dozens of frozen bodies littered the floor.

A new galaxy and prisoner
Approximately three centuries after his near death experience with Kaevee, Kyram Beviin was awakened from his by a Imperial research team of the new Empire on, the team of scientists and soldiers immediately arrested him seeing he was wearing similar colors to the  whom rebelled against the Empire. Beviin transported to the Tarsus on  in the, where he was incarcerated for almost two years.

As Beviin was brought into the prison, he was struck by a guard, he quickly reacted and took down five guards&mdash;killing three and sending the other two to the infirmary&mdash;this impressed a fellow Mandalorian, Ruusaan Ordo who was nearby watching. He was incapacitated by the warden's assistant, Emazja and sent to the Pits, where prisoners were forced to fight for their lives.

Beviin's revolt
"Jaema Roen, smuggler extraordinaire. Can get any you need. Holos, protection, spice, weapons, whatever you need." "Blasters. And lots of them." "If you got currency, you got your weapons and your man."

- Kyram and Jaema Roen

Bounty hunter
"I don't make threats, I make promises. So are you coming peacefully or do I have to drag you by your lekku, lady?"

- Kyram Beviin, to Ponda Larcharga

Shortly after escaping their incarcerated lives, Beviin and Firith became bounty hunters, their first contract was given to them by Rand, who posted a hit on the Twi'lek Ponda Lacharga. Some time later they took a bounty on Jeib Nistu, who was wanted for the murder of a family, including a four-year-old girl named Saana, and since Jeib was wanted dead or alive by relatives and the, tracking the man to the lower levels of the Republic's capital Beviin took it upon himself to avenge the family, but was intercepted by Dedric Ordo and his Ruusaan whom he hadn't seen in months. The Ordo siblings decided to take the dead man's corpse in, but a fistfight ensued ending with all hunters getting their cut of the bounty. Not long later the groupfound themselves in the, owned by Jaska the Hutt and long-time friend of Kyram's, celebrating their successful catch over drinks, soon enough Nilim and Dedric departed saying they meet up tomorrow, leaving Ruusaan and Kyram alone. Buying dinner for himself and Ruusaan, the pair were approached by a Duros messenger who informed them that a "Miss Ceta Rall" wished to meet them outside the cantina. When they met with the red-headed woman, she informed them of a invite-only party at  Yuul's mansion and that she wished him dead. Accepting the assignment and being outfitted with fake identification card and invitation, Beviin and Ordo sought new garments for the party a week away.

Skirmish at the Yuul mansion
"As a soldier I'm skilled with most weapons the galaxy has to offer." "What aren't you skilled in using?" "Politics."

- Kyram under the guise of Commander "Roland Lagos" and senatorial aide Risha Yuul during the skirmish in the Yuul mansion

A week passed and a  "Roland Lagos" and his wife "Zeera Lagos" arrived atthe Yuul mansion. Later the pair wound up back on Coruscant, and were present when the resurgent Sith Empire. They met a young named Sari Laimand her Human companion he named, Atin and group of street urchins, who were about to be executed by Imperial soldiers in the streets. Beviin and Firith made quick work of the soldiers and Kyram adopted the orphans as his brother and sister.

Outbreak on the Imperious
"A space station&mdash;the Imperious, we've constructed has gone dark and we need someone of your talents to help us retrieve data from the main terminal in the chief scientist office." "How much is it worth to you?"

- Tobin Sesk and Kyram Beviin

Beviin immediately accepted the offer to investigate the Imperious.

Nar Shaddaa
"I think we've heard enough, dikut'la. Join the Sith, and we will grant you expansion of your respectable criminal enterprises, inevitably earning you more money than you could possibly spend in your lifetime. Or be eliminated and replaced by another looking to earn some serious coin. So would do you say? Join the empire? Or die in this room right here, right now?"

- Kyram convincing the Massus Consortium and Z'dann Cartel bosses to join the Sith Empire, after Caliss' negotiations failed

The pair returned to the Wildcard, but once boarded Beviin sensed something was amiss and in a split-second he threw himself on "D'jann" as the starship exploded around them, the Mandalorian instinctively used to  them from the flames. When the smoke cleared, the merchant was visibly stunned, while Kyram stammered over an explanation the pair were forced to find passage back to and decided to steal a ship from a  bounty hunter and headed for Imperial space.

Although unknown at the time Kyram and Meila had both unintentionally forged a between themselves, this bond would serve as a catalyst for their growing feelings for one another.

Sith acolyte and the teachings of Revan's Order
"Relax your mind, Mandalorian. It'll be less excruciating if you calm yourself." "Get out of my head, schutta!"

- Darth Milias, trying to convert Kyram



After being forced to join the as Sith acolyte, Beviin was subjected to rigorous training, he was trained at the  on Korriban for up to several weeks by  Paz'Quin before being transferred to Darth Milias' estate on. During his first day on, he was partnered up with Milias' Meila Caliss who was supposed to show him the basics of , he engaged in dueling saying "if she tries to kill me with her lightsaber, I just hope she aims for my neck, and takes my head clean off&mdash;no pain." By his third month as an acolyte, he was an adept in three forms of lightsaber combat as he "took out four mark I Sith war droids in a short amount of time without using the Force." After another month, during yet another Beviin was surrounded and assaulted from all sides by seven, an , and heavily armored s, feeling rage and the desperate need to survive Beviin released a massive Force pulse against his droid and Imperial attackers, eliminating all of them&mdash;disintegrating all s, turning the war droids into scorched piles of scrap&mdash; and knocking apprentice Meila Caliss and  Milias aside. Not long after the incident, Beviin was approached by a cloaked member of a told to visit a  in the forest outside. Beviin did so and ran into, he stopped the young acolyte but reprieved when he presented a coin the cloaked figure had given him, he was educated in what he was doing there and what there was. Dzoun explained that if he wished to become a part of the Order of Revan, he'd have to prove himself worthy by undertaking tasks from two Revanites, one of which was Paz'Quin and. Farr told him to venture to to kill a beast that has been harassing potential initiates. After killing the beast there he received a vision of Revan who atracked him and was easily defeated, and brought back to the camp, the elderly Sith Lord Paz'Quin explained it wasn't just a test of strength but one of understanding.

Apprentice and warrior of the Sith
After several more months Milias deemed Beviin ready to face a Jedi and gave the location of the relusive Jedi Master Silais.

Battle of Dromund Kaas and desertion
"We are the Mandalorian Knights reformed! We must fight the Sith just as Canderous Ordo did before us. We must fight!"

- Kyram Beviin during his declaration of rebellion

Early in the year 3,651 BBY, two years after Kyram joined the Sith Empire. Beviin, Meila Caliss, Mandalorians loyal to Beviin, slaves and former Sith planned to desert the Empire and tried to take the Devastator. Darth Balac managed to intercept Beviin and Caliss, and steered the confrontation to the engine room where he knocked Meila unconscious by her into the wall, enraging Kyram. Balac dodged Beviin's savage attacks and using the Force, Balac leaped over the Mandalorian. The Sith Lord landed after a mid-air turn, and blindingly fast horizontal slash that cut off Beviin's last two fingers causing him great pain&mdash; in retaliation, Beviin quickly severed Balac's right arm and managed to hit an explosive tank with a wrist-mounted blaster that burned part of Balac's face. Balac swore at him and made his escape before the ship took off.

Rematch with Balac
"Where's that fight you promised me, huh?"

- Kyram Beviin, to Darth Balac

The Mandalorian Knights
"Aren't you a little young to be a Lord?" "Not a Lord, I'm a General you idiot."

- Gesen Yenoa and Kyram Beviin

Return to Onderon
"Soldiers win battles. Republic Generals take credit, but Mandalorians do both. Just look at him."

- Gesen Yenoa, Kyram Beviin

Sometime after the Onderon Address, Kyram and Meila Caliss married in 3,651 BBY and soon after, their first son Demar and daughter Kyra were born.

Later life
In 3,629 BBY, Kyram was among the attendees at his children's&mdash;Demar and Kyra twenty-second birthday, he stood with his wife during the bar fight that ensued after Kyra assaulted a after he touched her arm. He and most of the party goers, including his wife sat back and watched the "fun," while sipping some ale.

At some point after the Kyram Beviin passed away and was buried on  near the Beviin homestead.

Personality and traits
"The next person that that calls me a Jedi will lying in a pool of their own blood."

- Kyram Beviin

While he was living among the swoop gang Black Riders and the Mandalorians, Ayjae was known for his humor, cockiness and mechanical skills, though he was serious when the time. After he completed the  with Kara and Degar, and changed his name, he cut his shoulder-length black hair down and had his clan's mark tattooed on his right shoulder, just above his Black Riders tattoo. Though he was raised by a gang of violent criminals, Ayjae was a kind child; caring about the people around him albeit he wouldn't hesitate to fight anyone who teased him for being a "soft little wuss," as his younger adoptive sister Zula put it. After he discovered he wasn't Aerena's son, Ayjae became a colder and distant person albeit he still cared for the other children gang members around him especially Edessa whom he was very close with and the only person he confided in.

After the massacre of his fellow clan members and his adoptive parents Kara and Tiolle at the hands of P'Taen Damuhn and his mercenaries, a man they all trusted. Kyram went on a homicidal rampage looking for the traitorous Mandalorian and when he finally caught up to him he killed him, though the pain of loss, contempt, and regret lead him down a dark path that eventually led to an encounter with a hermit Kaevee and being put into a. Even after nearly three centuries Kyram was still distraught over the abrupt massacre of his family, though he eventually managed to cope with it after learning of his new-born sister, Kace Beviin's survival of the massacre.

Physical appearance
Beviin was a fairly dark-skinned man with full lips, dark hair and eyes that members of a variety of species including, Human, , , and Soran found him attractive. Before hitting puberty and obtaining his muscular build he was often mistaken for a young girl as a child, this saying angered him whenever someone would call him one. As Ayjae, he possessed shoulder-length hair that was often braided, not long after passing his , and becoming a full Mandalorian, Ayjae cut his hair and changed his name to Kyram Beviin. By 3,950 BBY, he grew a goatee and would keep it groomed as far as 3,654 BBY until he shaved it after awakening from the Force trance. Beviin would wear his helmet majority of the time, though during his brief he wore a cloak and hood over his  to cover his face, but when Lord Semreh arrived on Kaas to congratulate him, she award him the mask of the late , this caused the young man's skin to fade from it original milky-brown complexion to a shade lighter. 

After reclaiming his identity as a Mandalorian, Beviin destroyed the mask of Adraas and had a new set of giving the paint scheme of black for justice, gold for vengeance, and maroon-red for honoring his family, he also re-grew his goatee which expanded into a graying beard over time.

Edessa Lorso
His first relationship occurred during his time as a slave member of the Black Riders. Edessa Lorso immediately attracted Ayjae's attention (due to her features and her "sweet and soft voice"), even when her face was dirty with oil or other grease fluids from daily swoop bike repairs. Lorso was one of the gang children that rescued during the raid and she was adopted by a Mandalorian of the same species, but told Ayjae she only wanted to be closer to him. They had their first kiss during the celebration after the completion of his  and they began a relationship. The relationship lasted for four years until she broke up with him at the skirmish at Halthor for reasons she didn't want to explain to him.

Edessa later accompanied Kyram and Morrigan on a mission to Tatooine, where she died after sustaining serious injuries from group of.

Ruusaan Ordo
"Hey, Ruu."

- Kyram, to Ruusaan after not seeing her for five years

Kyram met Ruusaan and her brother in the Sith prison, Tarsus, on the Sith world, in the, who were arrested for revolting against the resurgent Sith Empire and joining 's schism. The three Mandalorians quickly became friends. Ruusaan was immediately attracted to Kyram when she first saw him entering the prisonin chains, even with his hands binded he managed to takedown five Imperial guards&mdash;killing threeand putting the other two in the infirmary&mdash;this act caused herto be enticed to young Mandalorian. Due to Ruusaan's roommate being killed by the guards during a past riot, Kyram was assigned as her new roommate, the two hit it off and eventually began sleeping together. Some months later another revolt took place under Kyram's leadership; a number of P.O.W.'s escaped as well as a Twi'lek ex-Jedi Master named Nilim Firith, and the Ordo siblings. Soon after escaping, Ruusaan broke it off with Kyram and the left to find her clan with her brother, with whom they lost touch. Heartbroken and in need of credits, Kyram became a bounty hunter and partnered up with Firith.

A year later, Kyram and Nilim ran into Ruusaan and Dedric on Coruscant while hunting a singer named Jeib Nistu. After Nistu's capture, the old got a room at a nearby cantina owned a 'old friend' of Kyram's. After Dedric and Nilim went to bed, Kyram hired Ruusaan to the "lady on my arm" at gathering of high-ranking officers, senators, aristocrats, and other nobility. Ruusaan agreed and two shared several drinks, Ruusaan having Kyram thinking she's drunk confessed she was sorry for ending their relationship and she still loved him and two shared a passionate kiss, before Kyram&mdash;still thinking she's drunk&mdash;pulls away, saying "it wouldn't be right," and takes her to her to sleep it off.

Queen Jaesa
Immediately upon meeting each other, they were instantly attracted to each other. But neither said anything explicitly, more so due to Jaesa's desire to see her uncle dead and Kyram's faith his new-found interest in Meila Caliss. Though Jaesa kissed him and implied that it was to learn Basic but later revealed that she simply wanted to, much to Caliss' dismay, the relationship did not advance past this, and the two decided to keep it completely. She later pledged her fealty and hospitality to him and his Mandalorian Knights.

Meila Caliss
"Death comes for us all eventually, so I think we should enjoy each other's company while we can."

- Kyram, to Meila

Other abilities
Kyram was a competent singer and even better song writer as stated by professional singer Ayy'me Li, with whom he had sing a song he had written in his youth. His favorite form of music was and was able to skillfully play a.

Weaponry
"Do I really look like a guy that would go anywhere unarmed?"

- Kyram Beviin

Beviin was known to occasionally carry with him several lightsabers that been given to him by his biological mother and father, his adoptive father's and later his own. Despite having no formal training with a lightsaber until his apprenticeship under Darth Kissai, Beviin was one of the few non-Jedi/Sith capable of using a lightsaber, this likely came from his Jedi heritage as both his parents were highly-skilled duelists. When his heirloom lightsabers weren't with him they hidden in a box made of, a material he had plenty of access to.

Behind the scenes
Statement Aaron Bryant made while Ayjae Bindo/Kyram Beviin was in development: "Originally I couldn't make up my mind for a name so I went on Xbox Live and asked a friend for help, he suggested Kyram Beviin due to my nature, then a few weeks later I thought of KotOR's Jolee Bindo and Ayjae was born. Also the name Ayjae originally came from the my nickname A.J.."

- Aaron Bryant .

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Mandalorian Wars
 * Dxun: The Massacre
 * Symbol of Victory
 * Star Wars: Bindo's Legacy
 * Mandalore
 * A Friend In Need
 * Draygo's Pleasure
 * "Massacre"&mdash;Mayhem
 * The Mandalorian Crusade
 * "New Arrival"&mdash;Mayhem
 * Fatal Deception
 * Star Wars: Trials by Fire
 * "An Ally in the Wake"&mdash;Mayhem
 * "Resignation is Not an Option"&mdash;Mayhem
 * "Return to Sora"&mdash;Mayhem
 * "Home Again"&mdash;Mayhem
 * "Saving the Urchin"&mdash;Mayhem
 * Ujiin
 * Family Ties
 * Familiar Faces
 * Star Wars: Revelations
 * The Lost Planet
 * What Can Happen over Time
 * Underworld
 * Aberration