Sela Kerroro

Sela was a human female, and mother of Rufar Kakhuzi.

Early life
"Sela? She's a tough one! Make a good Mandalorian wife one day!" "She'd keep any raiders away from a village all on her lonseome!"

- Two unknown Mandalorians.

Sela was born on the planet of, in a small, forested, Mandalorian settlement. She was born to two unknown Mandalorian people, although her mother was said to have been brash and fiery, very like her daughter would turn out to be. She was born into Clan Kerroro, a powerful clan in the deeps of the Dxun forests. Yet, at the age of two, raiders from Clan Teroko, in the north, stormed down, and destroyed her village, killing both her parents and most of her village. She was one of the few survivors, and was taken, at the age of two, to the village of Clan Teroko, and fostered by Twen Teroko, a recently widowed member of the clan, who had lost both her children in a raid ten years previously. Partly out of pity for the young girl, and partly in memory of her two children, she decided to raise Sela for herself, as a member of her clan. She had sworn to herself that she would remain a recluse for the rest of her life, but she saw her daughter in Sela, and decided to raise her herself.

Under the old woman, Sela gradually grew up as a forward, brave and fiery girl, with little respect for elders or traditions. This angered many people in the clan, yet Twen's husband had been influential enough for her to still have some power among the clan, and she managed to make sure that Sela remained there. Yet still, as Sela's antics continued, the patience of the elders of the tribe began to wear thin. Yet Twen still managed to keep her in the village. One of the elders of the tribe, the brother of Twen's dead husband. He felt it to be a personal insult that the wife of his dead brother, a member of his family, should be raising a foreigner, an orphan, a stray and a misbehaving young girl. He would do all that he could to make her life a misery.

Disaster and trouble
"You young ragamuffin will trouble our village no longer! Begone, and never return, lest we kill you!"

- Twen's brother in law to Sela.

As Sela's misbehaviour continued, Twen continued to fight her case, but it became increasingly hard, especially with the opposition of her brother in law. In Mandalorian society, men had far greater power and influence over women, and Twen was fighting for all she was worth, and for all the memory of her dead husband was worth. She would beg with Sela to behave, and Sela really would try, yet she never could manage. Yet, on the year of her tenth birthday, disaster struck; Twen was struck down with Midnight Fever, and she died, leaving Sela in the care of Twen's brother in law. Sela was appalled at this, yet still hoped for the best. Yet her uncle in law was worse than she had expected; he assailed her, and made to kill her with a large blaster. Yet Sela fought well, and managed to grab a and fight off her 'uncle'. She scarred him horrifically down one cheek, so he gave up all attempts at killing her, and made to destroy her life. He brought her before the Council of Elders, and told of how she had violently assailed him. With no Twen to fight for her, Sela was in trouble. Her 'uncle' elaborated on an assassination plot by her, and the council bought it. The council decreed that Sela was to be exiled from the village upon pain of death. Sela had no choice to agree, and the young ten year old set out into the dangerous Dxun jungle.

Sela instantly found herself confronted by a world of dangerous, violent and bloodthirsty beats, such as 's, s and s. She fled on the night of her exile through the jungle, terrified of the beasts, not knowing where she was running, just trying to get as far away from the village as she could. She ran until the morning light, where she found herself at the shores of a vast lake. The lake was beautifully clear, and covered with fruit trees. It was at the mouth of a large valley, and Sela decided that it was here that she would stay. There was a large supply of water, and an amount of fruit trees which she could eat from. She had found herself, except for the predators, a paradise.

After the first night, Sela set about building herself a shelter. She built herself a small wooden hut in the boughs of a Tekkyr tree, one of the large, native trees of Dxun, far off the forest floor and away from predators. She fashioned herself a hunting spear from a piece of wood, as she knew her ancestors had, and she used this to fend off predators. She foraged food throughout the trees surrounding the lake, and used this to survive. Yet she found herself to be terribly lonely, and she missed her village, except for a few elements, greatly.

The Nobrezan remnants
"Taruk, we may not! She is an outsider! She will tell of our ways!" "She is an orphan, a waif, a stray! Even you couldn't turn her away Kenna"

- Taruk to Kenna about Sela.

Sela lived a reasonably comfy lifestyle, if lonely, for four years, until she was fifteen years old. At the age of fifteen, the great winter struck Dxun. The lake completely froze over, and a large blanket of snow covered everything in sight. Sela's shelter was destroyed by ice cold winds, and she was chased into the forest below, where, it seemed, the cannoks had survived. Food was highly scarce, and the cold was highly dangerous. Sela realised that, if she stayed, she would die. She knew that she couldn't return to the main forest, for fear of her former tribe, so she knew that her only option was to cross the lake and hope for the best on the other side.

What Sela didn't realise was that the lake was far greater in size that she had ever imagined. After it curled around the corner in the valley, it went on for another few hundred miles. Soon, Sela began to flag. The cold and lack of food, coupled with her lack of sleep, due to fear of predators, began to get to her, and she began to die. The forlorn hope that it would all be safe on the other side managed to keep her going. Yet she soon realised that the lake really was too vast. With her last vestiges of strength, she managed to drag herself onto a large ice plateau, where she collapsed, into a deep, dark sleep.

It was, as her life had almost completely ebbed away, that she was discovered by two robed men on a wooden sleigh. Sela was frozen and uncoscious by now, so they bundled her in large robes, before putting her on the sleigh with them. They travelled to a wooded island in the center of the lake, where they took her to their large camp. When she awoke, she was in a small, wooden hut, with large fires at the door and in the hearth. She discovered that she had been rescued out on the ice, and had been taken to this camp. What she discovered was strange though, was that everyone in the camp were ns. They introfuced themselves to her as the Nobrezan Remnants.

When she awoke, Sela found herself still in the same hut, having been heavily tended to by a Miralukan in the camp. She was scared of these strange people at first, as she had never encountered Miralukans, but there kindness and choice to heal her soon changed her mind. As she slowly recovered, they spoke to her in her native language, which they somehow knew, and they told her of Miralukans, and how they were blind in the natural meaning of sight. Sela was fascinated by the fact that they somehow had a control of what her primitive ideas thought of as 'magic', but what was really. The Miralukans controlled this, and Sela thought of them as Gods due to this.

Yet Sela did not know that a large conflict was going on inside the camp. Many of the Miralukans wanted to throw Sela out, after wiping her memories clean with the force, as she, just by knowing of them, was a threat to their very existence. Yet many did not want her to leave, and many believed that she could join them in their quest, of which they hadn't told her yet. The conflict did not turn to blows or violence, yet it came very close, with the ringleader of those wanting to throw her out, Kenna, having to be forcefully restrained in order for him not to attack Taruk, his adversary.

The Nobrezan Quest
"Sela, once we tell you this, there is no going back. Betray us, and die." "I accept."

- Taruk to Sela.

The argument split the camp into two factions, however when the Nobrezan Prophet intervened, and gave his verdict, even Kenna accepted. The Prophet decreed that Sela was to stay, and become a Nobrezan herself, in time. For a year, Sela stayed there quite peacefully, mending broken equipment, and sowing clothes, and her ordeal on the lake seemed to have removed the rebeliious streak from her. However, the law of the Nobrezans stated that, after a year, anyone staying with the tribe must either be initiated, or have their mind wiped clean by the force. Normally, a prospective Nobrezan would have to undergo tests, however the Prophet was visited in a dream by a blinding figure, who spoke to him, and told him that a great destiny was planned for Sela, and she must be initiated at once So, in a[[ ceremony on a day when a blizzard was ravaging the lake, Sela was initiated into the Nobrezans. However, she could never be a full blooded Nobrezan, and would only be a initiation Nobrezan, a Tergo in the home tongue of the Nobrezans. She agreed that, should she tell of their existence and history, she would be killed, and she accepted. The Nobrezan Prophet then told her their history.

In the begininning, there was only the light and the dark, and they raged a battle across the empty vacuum of everything. In a huge, cataclysmic battle, the light threw the dark into the furthest corners of the galaxy, and set about creating the Universe. In the beginning, he created planets and wormholes, and, eventually, people. He created small collections of every race, and gave planets to them. Yet these races were weak, and could do nothing, so he created seven houses, the Seven Houses of light, to guard against the dark, and to give aid to these races. He imbued a little of his power in each house, the Force. These seven houses then set abput protecting the galaxy. Yet, in the furthest reaches of space, known and unknown, the dark had done the same, created his own race, the Sith, and had created Seven Sith Overlords, to break and to burn, to destroy and to kill, to rid the galaxy of the light. These were his servants for the war that would come. As he engaged the light in a battle, the Seven Houses of Light and the Sith Overlords waged a war in the known galaxy. It tore the fledgling galaxy apart, and the battles of the light and dark spread throughout the dimensions, and shattered the fabric between them. Yet, eventually, the dark was defeated, and locked in a deep tomb in the Dimensional Chasm, and the light heavily injured. The Sith Overlords were exiled into the deeps of space, but the deed was done; the Seven Houses had been split apart, and the dark would always hound them.

The Prophet then went on to tell Sela that the House of Nobreza was just one of these houses, and they were the ones fighting the dark. However, the dark had hounded them, and the House of Nobreza had been driven across the galaxy, and many of them killed, until only a small remnant of the original portion remained; them. Their quest was now to hold the dark at bay, and to find the other houses. For, should the houses be reunited again, the dark would be driven from the galaxy for good. This, the Prophet told her, was the Nobrezan quest. He then, in the formal way, asked Sela if she wished to become a Nobrezan, and try and aid them in their quest, and she accepted. She was then admitted into the Nobrezan remnants, and had the mark of the Nobrezans tattooed onto her stomach. Sela had just begun life as a Nobrezan.

Trom and a new life
"Sela? I.... I think I love you! You.... you love me?"

- Keshu Trom to Sela

Sela bega life, from then on, as a Nobrezan. She started off lower down in the hierarchy of the clan, as a cook and cleaner, however she soon worked her way up. Her fiery nature also transferred to hunting, and she became a hunter for the Nobrezan's. She often hunted out on the shores of the lake with the other hunting parties, and hunted the wild beasts on the shore. However dangerous the forests were, Sela had gained a lot of good experience when she was force to live alone, shortly after being thrown out of her clan. Gradually, Sela began to heal mentally, for the wounds of being thrown out of her clan had, psychologically, hurt her badly. Life with the Nobrezan's, with all their kindness, helped to heal Sela, and gradually she began on the path of healing.

It was on one such hunting journey, that Sela discovered a young male out on the shores of the lake; he was badly burnt down his back. Filled with compassion at the site of someone her own age, now about twenty years old, in the same position as she had been in a few years earlier, she took him in, and personally cared for him herself, in her own tent. It seemed that the young Feeorin has been in some sort of spaceship crash, somewhere to the east, and had basically crawled the whole way to the lake in the very same state that Sela has found him. After intensive caring for nearly a month, the wounds began to heal. Yet Sela couldn't seem to discover why he, as a person, wouldn't heal, and why he was unable to speak and walk. Eventually she settled on the reason that he had been mentally hurt more than anything, and something horriffic lay in his past. Realising that only care and love would be able to heal problems such as this, she personally took it upon herself to care for the wounded young Feeorin.

Although he began to grow better under Sela's care, the young Feeorin began to have serious nightmares and spasms of almost eplileptic proportions. He would wake up every night, screaming the word 'Mother!', and would be soaked in sweat and would be convulsing and retching with fear. There was little that Sela could do for the disturbed young Feeorin in these circumstances, and she was forced to just sit with him, and try and clean him. Although this was the only time and only word he spoke, he seemed to be comforted by Sela's presence, and he calmed down much faster when Sela would just sit with him and hold his hand. Something horriffic had happened in the young Feeorin's past, and all Sela knew was that it involved his mother.

Gradually, after a year of care, the young Feeorin began to heal, and he was able to be carried out in a wheelchair. He took delight from the beauty of the outside world, and the sound of the natural wildlife helped him to heal faster. After a year and a half, the young Feeorin began to talk. He told her that his name was Keshu Trom, and he was a Feeorin. Although his language began at a basic level, as you would expect a six year old to speak like, gradually he regained his powers of speech as he must once have had. Sela began to spend more and more time with him, walking around the island, until, one day, the Trom's powers of walking returned, as did his speech, and he took his first, albeit shaky, steps along the island. As Trom began to return to his usual self, he and Sela became great friends, and began to spend more and more time together.

Although Trom still had the nightmares, they had receded to only monthly events, and his powers of speech and walking had returned. As they spent more and more time together, there friendship developed into something more romantic. Although Sela denied to herself, at first, that they were no more than friends, she secretly hoped that Trom would love her too. Trom began to feel the same feelings, yet he did not try to hide them. He felt though that, should he confess his love to Sela, she wouldn't love a cripple like him. But, eventually, it became unbearable for him, and he confessed his love to Sela. She realised that it was what she had wanted for a long time, and she returned his love.

Betrayal
"Keshu? You! Why? You betrayed me!"

- Sela to Keshu Trom

As Sela and Keshu began to continue their life together, Sela discovered more and more about Trom. Although she never directly asked what had happened to him, she began to piece the puzzle together, bit by bit. She discovered that he had been in a spaceship, alone, fleeing from somewhere. He had crashed the ship in the forest on Dxun, and had been burnt badly. Yet just what Trom was fleeing from, he wouldn't say. All that Sela knew was that it involved his mother. Whenever Sela, however subtly, probed into the matter, Trom would clam up tight, and refuse to speak about it. Finally, Sela just let the matter rest.

After a year of being together, Sela began to notice subtle changes in Trom; he began to become more cruel and proud, less humble and less kind. He began to show disrespect to his elders, and even the Nobrezan prophet. He began to think of himself as more important than the rest of the clan, and to consider only himself and Sela to be important. Sela wasn'y happy with this; this wasn't the man she had fallen in love with. And, for all her faults, Sela did not consider herself above her clan. When she spoke to Trom about this, he always just brushed her off, saying that it didn't matter.

Eventually, Sela saw Trom do something that would change her perception of him forever. She found him beating a Nobrezan. The Nobrezan owed him a small sum of furs and equipment, but was unable to pay it back. Trom had taken his entire hut and belongings in payment, and had beaten him horriffically. Screaming at him to stop, Sela forced Trom away from the injured man. There and then, she told Trom that he had changed; that he was no longer the man she loved. He was cruel and unknind, and Sela didn't want to be with him any longer. There and then, she tearfully ended their relationship, saying: Perhaps it's for the best. Trom's anger was unrrivalled, and he instantly left the island, despite Sela's pleas for him to change rather than leave. Swearing that he would have his revenge, he left.

Sela, despite Trom's faults, still missed Trom badly, and began to withdraw into herself. She began to spend more and more time alone, wandering the paths that she had first walked with Trom, when she found him all those years before. She mourned for the man that he once was, the man that she had lost. It was on one such journey, in the middle of summer on a warm evening, that she had wandered to the far side of the lake. She was returning, just as night fell, in a small boat, when she saw the island. The island was ablaze, with all of the trees and huts on fire. As she paddled closer, she found huge, red skinned creatured cutting down the Nobrezans one by one. The Nobrezans were fighting back with the force, but the red skinned creatures seemed to be able to control the force as well. As Sela watched, not one Nobrezan was left alive. As fear gripped her, she managed to row away from the island, back to the lake shore, where she hid.

After a fitful night, she returned to the island, desperately searching for survivors. She found the whole island razed to the ground, and dead Nobrezans everywhere. After much searching, she found Bronkya, a Nobrezan, mortally wounded but still alive. He called her a traitor and, despite her arguments that she had done nothing, told her that she had betrayed the Nobrezans to the Sith, and that the house of Nobreza had fallen. Swearing that it wasn't her, she vowed that she would find one of the other houses, or die trying, to prove her innocence. It was then that she discovered the only living thing on the island. Keshu Trom was there. He approached her, and she demanded to know what he was doing there. He told her that it was he who had betrayed the Nobrezans to the Sith, and the red figures she had seen the previous night were True Sith. He told her that she had betrayed him, and so had the Nobrezans. He believed the Nobrezans to be responsible for his failure to keep Sela. Horrified, she leapt at him and tried to kill him, but he drew a large, and told her that he was taking her hostage.

Nar Shaddaa
"Keshu! For the sake of the love we once had! Let me go! Let you go? Not after your betrayal!"

- Sela to Keshu Trom

From Dxun, Sela was ushered by two large Trandoshan bodyguards, a result of the large amount of money that Trom had been paid by the Sith for the betrayal of the Nobrezan remnants, into a large shuttle. From there, she was taken to, near to the Hutt's world of. Trom planned to get involved in the underworld of the galaxy, into a crime organization, and he believed that Nal Hutta would be the best place to do it. Whilst Sela begged Trom to let her go, he refused; he still believed that she had betrayed him by leaving him. He took her straight to the head quarters of Atrum Vesica, Dark Blade, the dangerous, galaxy spanning crime organization. He told her that she would be sold as a slave, and would fetch a high price because of her beauty. When he offered her to Atrum Vesica, she was bought up very quickly by a rich merhcant of Tarisian origins, Ujell Foth. She was instantly fitted into a slave girls outfit, and taken to dance in Foth's bar.

Behind the scenes

 * Sela is portrayed by, the wife of , , and by Avril Lavigne.
 * The scene where Trom is assaulting a Nobrezan for not paying off a debt was based upon a bible story.
 * The name Sela originally came from Sela the Vixen, a fox from the Redwall book series.