Vev Nar

Vev Nar
Biographical information
Homeworld	Sriluur
Born	2,046 BBY
Died	149 ABY
Physical description
Species	Weequay
Gender	Male
Height	1.70 meters (5'7")
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Tan
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)	Jedi Order The Reawakened
Apprentices	Unknown Bith Jedi

Vev Nar was a Weequay Jedi Master whose service to the Jedi Order flourished two thousand years before the Battle of Yavin. Departing the Republic to avoid the conflict of the New Sith Wars, he accompanied several other Jedi to the Unknown Regions and fell to the dark side. He helped to lead the Nightmare War against the Golden Empire, fighting through its many battles before he met his end in its final showdown.

Biography

Guardian, not warrior

If you prefer heroics to standing around, becoming a Jedi Guardian may be the path for you.
—Crix Sunburris

Vev Nar was born on Sriluur in 2,046 BBY and recruited into the Jedi Order in infancy. His initial training took place on Coruscant, but he was later relocated to the Jedi enclave at Haashimut for intensive study. He relished lightsaber combat more than any other exercise and dreamed of becoming a Jedi Guardian. He had initially hoped to become the Padawan of the famous Anzat Jedi Knight Sacco Vyrak, but was denied when he requested it; the Jedi Council was unwilling to give Vyrak himself a Padawan. Nar ultimately became apprenticed to a Rodian Jedi Knight instead after winning the Jedi Temple Apprentice Tournament.

Successfully completing his Jedi Trials in his early twenties, Vev Nar embarked on a career as a peacekeeper and law enforcer, routing pirates and arresting slavers in more lawless areas of the Republic. His reputation grew both in the Order and without, both for his ever-growing prowess with a lightsaber and his ferocity in battle. Often his stern, harsh-looking face and imposing presence were enough to keep a tense situation from becoming violent.

A few years after he was knighted, Vev Nar took as his Padawan a young Bith who had performed admirably at the Apprentice Tournament, defeating older and more experienced Initiates. Nar and his Padawan traveled the galaxy for the following decade, fighting crime and routing the forces of evil. Nar imparted a love for swordplay into his own apprentice; while the Bith never matched Vev Nar's own abilities, he nonetheless sailed through his Trial of Skill without difficulty.

Promoted to Jedi Master at his apprentice's knighting, Vev Nar continued to serve in law enforcement assignments for several years. Some of his friends expected him to take a second Padawan, but he did not. He was eventually persuaded to leave the field in order to teach lightsaber combat at the Jedi academy on Socorro. A few years later, he had just accepted an invitation to teach at the Temple on Coruscant when the former Jedi Master Phanius resurfaced as Darth Ruin.

Failure and fall

When Ador Hentral initially sought to dissuade the Jedi Council from fighting Phanius, seeking to preserve peace if at all possible, Vev Nar was openly skeptical. What chance was there to seek peace with a self-declared Sith Lord? He prepared himself to do battle with Ruin and his followers, but was shocked and horrified to discover that his Bith former apprentice was among the Jedi Knights who had fallen to the dark side and joined Ruin's cause.

Vev Nar sank into depression, feeling that it was his failures as a teacher which had driven his student away from the light side. He knew he, as one of the foremost Jedi Guardians of his era, would be assigned to the vanguard of the Jedi attack against the Sith, and he dreaded the idea of facing and striking down his old student and friend. When Hentral and his coalition of likeminded Jedi prepared to depart the Order, Nar reconsidered the idea and asked permission to join them.

The Jedi departed the known galaxy aboard a sleeper ship, but the stasis system malfunctioned. While their bodies were kept immobile, their minds woke up. Trapped in conscious but sensory-deprived paralysis, able to communicate with one another telepathically, they initially tried to keep each other strong and stable. But as weeks turned into years, their sanity frayed, and one by one they slipped into madness and the dark side.

Vessel of slaughter

When the Dark Jedi landed at Kizav twenty-one centuries later, Vev Nar wasted no time in attacking the native Skavik, killing them indiscriminately until Hentral, Karshi Saan, and some others devised a plan. Recruiting the Skavik as an army, they unleashed the force into the neighboring Golden Empire.

Usually at the front lines of battle, Vev Nar did not indulge in torture and rape as some of his colleagues did, preferring to kill as many of his enemies as possible rather than savor the death of any single foe. His lightsaber expertise protected him from blaster fire even as he used both the weapon and telekinesis to kill indiscriminately. More than once he turned on his own forces out of unslaked bloodlust.

When Sacco Vyrak was killed on Daispin, the psychic link which bound the twelve Dark Jedi together began to unravel. Nar became increasingly psychotic, erupting into Force Rage at the slightest provocation and becoming more and more difficult to restrain. Ador Hentral began regularly surrounding himself with clone guards in the event that the Weequay became totally unmanageable.

The Dark Jedi were gradually killed off and lost forces, and after the destruction of Kizav they planned a final, all-or-nothing attack on the Golden Empire at Dolomir. Vev Nar was among the Dark Jedi who boarded the enemy flagship for what became known as the Battle of the Sith Star. Cleaving his way through the ranks of enemy Massassi and Royal Navy personnel, he was leading a contingent of Skavik and a few clones when he encountered Kieran Sapphire, a pair of Novices, and an assortment of soldiers. Vev Nar dueled the Nei Blademaster, but while their initial exchanges were close, the Weequay's insanity had eaten away at some of his earlier skill. After a brief but intense duel, Sapphire dropped into a low spin and cut Vev Nar in half.

Powers and abilities

Famous among the Jedi for his lightsaber skills, Vev Nar was the second best swordsman of the Reawakened, after Sacco Vyrak. He made the unusual and difficult choice to master both Soresu and Djem So, but the result was a style which was both ferocious on offense and nearly impregnable on defense. He was able to use the Jar'Kai style effectively, as he wielded a pair of lightsabers in his duel with Kieran Sapphire. His insanity as a Dark Jedi eroded his skill, although Sapphire felt he still would have been more than a match for many Centurions.

Nar was also adept at the use of telekinesis, able to use Force pushes and pulls in combat with ease. Though he loathed Form VI, considering it beneath a Jedi Guardian, he had mastered both Draw Closer and Pushing Slash. As a Dark Jedi, he also demonstrated the ability to use Force Crush. During a labor dispute on Kattada, he generated a Force Wave which propelled the conflicting parties away from one another and avoided a violent clash.

Appearance and personality

Like all Weequay, Vev Nar had brown skin and wrinkled facial features. He eschewed the Weequay custom of wearing a braid for every year he had been away from Sriluur, although he did grow a single braid in the same style while he was a Padawan. As a Knight and Master, he wore his hair in a ponytail, then loose as a Dark Jedi. He carried the usual blue-bladed lightsaber of a Jedi Guardian, and kept the crystal color even when he fell to the dark side.

Adventurous and bold, Vev Nar fit well in the ranks of the Jedi Guardians. He was assertive in dangerous situations, and his gravity and martial prowess could both quickly defeat a danger or prevent a situation from becoming violent in the first place. Despite his confidence and skill, he grew depressed and self-critical when his former Padawan joined Darth Ruin's Sith, feeling that he was a failure as both a Jedi and a teacher. His emotional vulnerability contributed to his succumbing to the dark side.

As a Dark Jedi, Vev Nar was ruthless and brutal, killing without mercy or principle. His fellow Dark Jedi began to fear his rage, especially after Sacco Vyrak died and there was no equally talented swordsman to play against him.