Karos

Karos was a  of the House of Dreypa-Shakkai who was widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars of  and most prolific academics of the post- period. A King of Tund, Sedriss of the, and hermit later called the "Wizard of ," Karos was responsible for the articulation and codification of the Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar , a view of the Force that stated that enlightenment could only be achieved through the walking of a delicate line between the and the  of the Force and the concerted study of both.

Though his early Force-based academic work focused exclusively on the development of the Regeneration ritual, an augmented version of capable of both reversing aging-induced decay and providing functional immortality through the use of both sides of the Force, his subsequent work was significantly wider-ranging in scope, encompassing the study of arcane rituals of both the light and the dark sides of the Force and fields as diverse as  and. In addition to his own body of work, which constituted a library's worth of tomes and treatises written over a span of five thousand years, he coauthored a significant number of seminal academic texts in collaboration with theorists from the, , , and.

Behind the scenes
The character of Karos was in large part inspired by Firedance's Sith philosopher Karros and the varied members of Sakaros' namesake family of Sith Purebloods. The author exploited the convenient orthographic similarities between "Karros" and "Sakaros" in the development of the character's name, considering it a fitting tribute to both fanon continuities and their respective authors. Additional sources of inspiration came from the characters of the from the ' franchise,  from the ' (as well as  portrayal of the character in the film ), and the wizard  from.

The character, originally provided the name "Dzunyâsh" in reference to the Wookieepedia  of linguist, was initially developed as an experiment in the writing of a believable, EU lore-consistent immortal Force user similar to the members of the. However, the concept gradually developed outward into more abstract philosophical waters after the author concurrently encountered unconventional Force-using factions like the and the  in EU lore and fanon characters like those included above.