Wuluro

Wuluro was a  during the era which preceded the. Departing the along with a group of other disaffected Jedi, she fell to the dark side and helped her colleagues unleash the Nightmare War on the Golden Empire. She was eventually killed by one of her own comrades.

Knight errant
Recruited early in life from her homeworld of, Wuluro was brought to the on  for training. She pursued the study of and sought to become a. She earned her commission less than a decade before the rise of.

Among her fellow Knights, Wuluro acquired a reputation for being an assertive and proactive champion of justice. She was often assigned to law enforcement and peacekeeping assignments, especially in the. Many other Jedi Guardians felt she possessed the drive and commitment necessary to bring about real change.

The Jedi Council, however, was concerned. They worried that Wuluro's passionate defense of the oppressed was giving way to simply passion, and that her combat ferocity hinted at the influence of the dark side. Wuluro, in turn, felt the Jedi were betraying their guiding principles by not actively seeking out wrongs to right, and especially by binding themselves to the moral equivocation of the Senate.

Fight or flight
When Darth Ruin surfaced and a number of Jedi Knights deserted his cause to join the Sith, Wuluro felt she had at last found a perfect venue for her talents. She supported the Jedi Order in its plan to fight Ruin and his followers and volunteered for the first wave of the attack. She was completely flabbergasted and outraged when the Council refused her request, fearing that the combination of her intensity and exposure to the dark side might actually lure her into the Sith fold.

Having given up hope on the Jedi, Wuluro considered leaving the Order. She considered going after Ruin's Sith alone, and might have wound up one of them had she not crossed paths with Sacco Vyrak, an Jedi Knight she respected. Vyrak planned to leave the Order, but to seek a life away from the Jedi, the Sith, and their seemingly endless conflicts. Seeing no future with the Jedi, Wuluro asked to join the group.

First to fall
It was Wuluro who asked where the dissidents could possibly go that would take them away from the Sith and Jedi. The historian Tirj procured a from the, which would enable the Jedi to seal themselves into stasis while their ship traveled. They elected to journey at a less-than- speed, seeking not only physical but also temporal distance from everything they knew.

Once the ship was away, however, the stasis system malfunctioned. The Jedi were kept immobilized, locked inside their own bodies, but their minds woke up. Unable to move, telepathically linked with one another, they struggled to bolster themselves against the horror of being eternally paralyzed without any senses. Wuluro, however, was both terrified and furious, and her raw emotions slowly wore away at the psyches of her fellow Knights and blunted the reassurances of the masters.

Eventually, Wuluro slipped into the embrace of the dark side, and the other Jedi followed. For twenty-one centuries, they existed in a constantly-conscious experience of hate, rage, and horror. Their perpetual imprisonment in their minds and the power of the dark side eventually drove them all mad.

Murderer and murdered
In 148 ABY, the Dark Jedi were finally released from stasis as their ship arrived at Kizav in the. Landing on the planet, they quickly loosed themselves on the native Skavik, butchering hundreds and setting free the dark side they had bottled up for millennia. Wuluro would have happily slaughtered the entire species, but Ador Hentral, Desha Marad, and some of the others retained enough presence of mind to enslave rather than eliminate the Skavik. Stealing weapons and ships from an abandoned military outpost two systems away, the Dark Jedi armed their new force and set it loose in the Golden Empire.

During what became the Nightmare War, Wuluro was usually alongside Vev Nar at the front of battle. She delighted in causing pain and suffering, and would usually spare only a single lightsaber stroke for each enemy. Many she killed, but others she simply maimed or disemboweled, seeking to attack as many victims as possible without any concern for thoroughness. Her tendency to leave enemies at her back resulted in her being shot more than once, although never seriously.

The death of Vyrak at Daispin began to unravel the already-fragile mental link that bound the Dark Jedi together. Wuluro became increasingly violent to anyone within range, and often attacked her Skavik soldiers when all the Empire's forces within reach were dead. Her fellow Dark Jedi sought to control her, leading to arguments and even fights among them. Wuluro's aggressiveness and threats were a leading contributor to Kasavo Shei's paranoia and fear which led her to desert her comrades and ultimately commit suicide on Mandos.

After the death of Karshi Saan, Wuluro began an argument with Tirj and Meerto Adrimbani. Drawing her lightsaber, she screamed and ranted at them, then slapped Tirj. Before she could react, the grabbed her domed head in his enormous hands and smashed it to paste, killing her instantly.

Powers and abilities
Trained in Ataru as a Jedi Guardian, Wuluro was a better sword fighter than many Jedi Knights of her time, although her skills did not come close to those of Sacco Vyrak or Vev Nar. She was proficient at the use of and s even before falling to the dark side. As a Dark Jedi, she would sometimes enemies, or simply use telekinesis to hurl them into walls so hard that their skeletons cracked.

Though deep in the dark side, Wuluro lacked the control to harness or control. In addition, her madness interfered with her battle. She sometimes missed blaster bolt deflections, and her fractured mind and correspondingly slower reflexes ultimately cost her her life when she did not intuit or react to Tirj's lethal attack in time.

Appearance and personality
Wuluro stood 1.70 meters (5'7") tall, and had the reddish-brown skin and yellow eyes common to Mon Calamari. She preferred dark, usually robes of dark brown, black, and deep blue, similar to those which would be worn centuries later by  and .  Her straight-hilt lightsaber was slightly longer and wider than normal for a sentient her height, compensating for her larger, flipper-like hands; the grip was rubberized for the same reason.  The weapon had a blue blade when she was a Jedi, though she replaced it with a violet Kizav crystal when the Dark Jedi awoke.

As a Jedi Knight, Wuluro was outspoken and proactive in the pursuit of justice. She felt the gifts possessed by Jedi obligated them to fight on behalf of the oppressed. Though conceding that her heart was in the right place and her compassion for all beings even admirable, many Jedi Masters felt she had forgotten the precept that There is no emotion, there is peace.

Having fallen to the dark side and gone insane, Wuluro became a caricature of her former self, ruthless and savage in battle with no purpose other than causing pain. She delighted in causing pain and was quick to prey on anything weaker than herself, even her comrade Kasavo Shei. She also became substantially more careless, and this flaw resulted in her ignoble death.