#jensaarai

[madpufferfish]

Really quick sketch of an OC I have--literally did it on the train haha. Hope u guys like it :)

#starwars #jensaarai #oc #owlguy

[jerryb2]

The Importance of the Lightsaber

What follows is a series of excerpts from the novel I, Jedi by Michael A. Stackpole:

The lightsaber, while an elegant and deadly weapon, was not that complex. Getting the parts to put one together was not difficult at all. To serve as the hilt, for example, I salvaged the throttle assembly and handlebar tube from a junked speeder bike. 

(...) I got the dimetris circuitry for the activation loop from an old capital-ship-grade ion cannon fire initiation controller (...) The recharger port and wiring came from a comlink. A milled down Tri-fighter laser flashback suppressor became the parabolic, high-energy flux aperture to stabilize the blade and I pulled the dynoric laser feed line from the same broken laser cannon to act as the superconductor for energy transference from the power cell to the blade. 

Buttons and switches were easy to find, and dear old Admiral Tavira, with her gift of the brandy decanter and snifters, provided me all the jewels I needed to make half a dozen lightsabers.

(...) Before I could figure out how to put Tavira off for another month, Elegos decoded an annotation to the instructions for constructing lightsabers. It turned out that during the Clone Wars, Jedi Masters developed a way to create a lightsaber in two days. Nejaa included this method, noting it was to be used only in times of pressing need, but not in haste. I read it over and felt a certain peace settle upon me. I knew the words had not been written for me, but they sank deep into my core. Urgency without panic, action without thoughtlessness.

(...) I sat in the middle of the floor, with the parts for the blade laid out in a semicircle around me. I studied each one and used the Force to enfold it and take a sense of it into myself. My hands would fit the pieces together, but I wanted the parts to mesh as if they had been grown together. The lightsaber would be more than just a jumble of hardware, and to make it I had to see the parts as belonging together.

I fitted the activation button into its place on the handlebar shaft and snapped the connectors into the right spots on the dimetris circuit board. 

I worked that into the shaft itself, then inserted a strip of shielding to protect it from even the slightest leakage from the superconductor. Next I snapped into place the gemstones I was using to focus and define the blade. At the center, to work as my continuous energy lens, I used the Durindfire. That same stone gave my grandfather’s blade its distinctive silver sheen. 

I used a diamond and an emerald in the other two slots. I wasn’t certain what I would get in the way of color tints from the emerald, and with the diamond I hoped for a coruscation effect.

Onto the end of the hilt where the blade would appear I screwed the high-energy flux aperture. It would carry a negative charge which would stabilize the positively charged blade and provide it a solid base without allowing it to eat its way back through to my hands. 

(...)  I clipped the discharged energy cell in place, then connected the leads to the recharging socket. 

I screwed the recharging socket into the bottom of the hilt, but didn’t fasten on the handlebar’s original butt cap that would protect it because I needed to charge the power cell for the very first time. 

In what amounts to just a handful of pages in a singular book, Stackpole so vividly describes not only the physical process of constructing a lightsaber, but the spiritual essence of what it means to be a Jedi, in its purest form: 

(...) With my finger poised on the transformer button that would start the energy flowing, I drew in a deep breath and lowered myself into a trance. I knew that manipulating matter sufficiently to meld the part and forge the weapon would have been all but impossible for anyone but a Jedi Master like Yoda, but doing just that as part of the construction of a lightsaber had been studied and ritualized so even a student could manage it. It was very much a lost art, a link to a past that had been all but wiped out, and by performing it I completed my inheritance of my Jedi legacy. 

I hit the button, allowing the slow trickle of energy to fill the battery. I opened myself to the Force and with the hand I had touching the lightsaber’s hilt, I bathed the lightsaber with the Force. As I did so subtle transformations took place in the weapon. Elemental bonds shifted allowing more and more energy to flow into the cell and throughout the weapon. I was not certain how the changes were being made, but I knew that at the same time as they were being made in the lightsaber, they were being made in me as well. 

In becoming a conduit for the Force for this purpose, the final integration of the people I’d been occurred. The fusion became the person I would be forever after. I was still a pilot: a little bit arrogant, with a healthy ego and a willingness to tackle difficult missions. I was still CorSec: an investigator and a buffer between the innocents in the galaxy and the slime that would consume them.

And I was Jedi. I was heir to a tradition that extended back tens of thousands of years. Jedi had been the foundation of stability in the galaxy. They had always opposed those who reveled in evil and sought power for the sake of power. People like Exar Kun and Palpatine, Darth Vader and Thrawn, Isard and Tavira; these were the plagues on society that the Jedi cured. In the absence of Jedi, evil thrived. 

In the presence of just one Jedi, evil evaporated. 

Just as with the lightsaber, the changes being made in me were not without cost. What the Force allowed me to do also conferred upon me great burdens. To act without forethought and due deliberation was no longer possible. I had to be very certain of what I was doing, for a single misstep could be a disaster. While I knew I would make mistakes, I had to do everything I could to minimize their impact. It was not enough to do the greatest good for the greatest number, I had to do the best for everyone. 

There was no walking away from the new responsibility I accepted. Like my grandfather I might well choose when and where to reveal who and what I was, but there was no forgetting, no leaving that responsibility and the office. My commitment to others had to be total and complete. I was an agent of life every day, every hour, every second; for as long as I lived, and then some.

(...) I nodded and brandished the lightsaber. I punched the button under my thumb, giving birth to the silver blade 133 centimeters in length. 

“A lightsaber and robes. Looks like a little justice has arrived on Courkrus, and it’s about time.”

This is what almost everybody gets wrong about the Jedi - never mind the Prequels, the Sequels, or the vast majority of EU novels - the Jedi are an absolute good. They are life. They bring order to chaos. Every moment of their lives is spent, their spirits grappling against the disorder of a universe torn between Dark and Light.

If you haven’t read I, Jedi, you might consider picking it up.

As I’m sure many of you have already deduced, the accompanying images are of my own personal Corran Horn lightsaber. I’ve just recently finished a complete overhaul and rebuild of it, and I just had to show it off. I’ll be posting more info & pics about it soon, but I want to address one key aspect of saber building here, as it pertains directly to my own personal journey and growth.

This portion of the book holds incredible significance for me; it allows me to imagine, however briefly, that I’m undertaking a similar spiritual ritual, imbuing my own sabers with the same energy that Stackpole so flawlessly describes here. It’s so rare to feel so seen and be so moved by a piece of fiction. For the discerning Sabersmith, it’s very much like Corran says: 

I knew the words had not been written for me, but they sank deep into my core.

Thank you for this book, Michael. 🥂

#star wars #lightsaber #lightsabers #sabersmith #ijedi #new jedi order #michael a stackpole #goat #expanded universe #eu #legends #corran horn #dual-phase lightsaber #mirax terrik horn #elegos a'kla #leonia tavira #admiral tavira #nejaa halcyon #nikkos tyris #jensaarai #saarai-kaar #halcyon days of star wars

[katarvitz]

"You have been taught much over the past months on fighting style, martial arts, and baseline tactics. From here on, I want you to forget most of that. They're a useful guideline but they're not the beginning an end of fighting. Stick to their every rule, refuse to build upon them, or simply fail to innovate, and you'll end up dead. Just because we expect you to use lethal force as a last resort doesn't mean we don't expect you to fight dirty when it's required. Or that we want you to make the same mistake of other Force users, and abandon pragmatic thinking the second you're given a taste of power.

These lessons won't be teaching you how to fight. They'll be teaching you how to survive odds of a hundred to one, and still walk away in one piece.

Understood? Good. Then let's begin."

This was the second of two pieces that art-finds-a-way (who can also be found on rayn44 here, and on DeviantArt)

was kind enough to accept, and she did a fantastic job with it. As mentioned in the previous commission, this was intended to show Tarvitz and Rhan in more of a contrasting role, in poses and positions that would normally be reserved for their typical counterpart. In this case it was Rhan having a stance relating to less of a builder or teacher, and showing her as a combatant. While Tarvitz is a butcher who spent ten years emulating what most of us do when dropped into a Fallout game, Rhan is hardly a stranger to surviving among the harsher environments of the wider galaxy. So, I wanted an image to display some of that without making it seem as if she was just emulating Tarvitz's typical behaviour.

The dialogue here is something I threw in, so everything in the image is what Rayn44 created after I gave a few general outlines. Please check out her gallery, as if you think this is good you should see some of the things created with her own characters. No, really, there's no end of sheer hilarity and brilliance in there.

—

You can find out more relating to this and other character stories in Clan Odan-Urr in the Dark Jedi Brotherhood, which has been running decades spanning storylines since the late 90s.

If you are interested in joining then take a look here.

#jensaarai #star wars #star wars oc #star wars cthonian dawn #star wars legends #star wars expanded universe #star wars art #star wars fanart #science fiction #lightsaber #nautolan #oc rpg #oc rp #oc art #fiction #dark jedi brotherhood

[sunnyvandsephi]

It's hard to say, that I'm back on a straight line You see my path is in fact just a fault line It's in my blood, it's in my lungs and it won't die I fight these words, I bite my tongue so I don't lie.

Though it's me to blame There is no more shame in me. - I am a Stone, Demon Hunter

#sw oc: Maveth #star wars OC #jensaarai oc #jedi oc #clone wars #bad batch #sephi #space elf #take my troubled troubled paladin #my art #digital art #star wars fanart

[space-blue]

Art Fight #9

Darth Deianira and Lord Cessa both belong to @/Jensaarai

#artfight2023 #artfight attack #team werewolves #pantoran #twi'lek #sith #star wars #sw #sw art #fanart #my art #not my oc

[superectojazzmage]

Is it really wrong to try and wipe the Sith out for good? They're not victims here. It's a "religion", as you put it, that promotes ruthlessness, treachery, evil, and doing whatever you can for a modicum of power. The Sith are hardly victims.

Take note of my comment on my post about how Legends was significantly more willing to portray gray areas in the Jedi-Sith dichotomy and feature sympathetic Sith/Dark Sider characters. That extends to the Sith culture/religion in general.

Legends was a lot more willing to flesh out the Pre-Ruusan Sith and make them feel like an actual functioning society with its own culture and attitudes and traditions and virtues, not just Evil McEmpire. There’s no denying that there were plenty of evil Sith Pre-Ruusan, there absolutely were. And there’s no denying their culture is portrayed as pretty brutal and barbaric by our standards and the Republic’s in-universe standards. And there’s no denying that their complete immersion in the Dark Side and lack of Balance at the expense of the Light is just as unhealthy and destructive to them and others as the Jedi’s Post-Ruusan puritanical hatred of the Dark Side becomes. The Sith are meant as a counterpart to the Jedi narratively, and just as how Legends portrays the Jedi’s story as one of falling to their own flaws and sins but learning and rebuilding themselves anew, the Sith’s story is one of their once-great people being slowly destroyed and warped into a twisted, hateful mockery (Darth Bane’s Rule of Two cult) by their inability to change, their own failings and mistakes, and the outside persecution from their enemies… but unlike the Jedi, they ultimately fail to learn and grow and end up dispersing into other, better groups like the Jensaarai or Lost Tribe or dying out because of it.

But Legends also made a point to regularly emphasize that they were still people, and just as capable of good or evil as any other — highlighted by the fact that Light Side Sith were considered a thing that was actually possible, that using the Dark Side was not always treated as evil, nor was being a Dark Side user always considered as definitely meaning you were a bad person, nor did being Light Side user inherently mean you were good. The ancient Sith culture and its offshoots like the Lost Tribe are portrayed as engaging in things we’d see as evil, realpolitik and slavery and imperialism and expansionism… but so are a lot of the “good guy” factions like the Republic. The Sith are indeed shown have a brutal culture that emphasizes marital prowess and cunning and enforcement of the hierarchy and power-seeking and willingness to do anything for either the greater cause, but there’s also shown to be a lot of emphasis on things like loyalty to family and lords, strict codes of honor and conduct that everyone follows (which seem strange and arguably hypocritical to us, but are shown to make perfect sense to them), hierarchal respect/filial piety/ancestor veneration, self-sacrifice for the community and the cause, upwards mobility, and meritocracy where you only get to keep the power you prove yourself worthy to have and are expected to use it responsibly. They’re not all bloodthirsty sociopaths — in fact, most of them aren’t like that.

And many of the powers associated with the Sith are shown to be capable of being used by Jedi without problem as long as they’re used responsibly and for the right reasons, and vice versa, some Jedi moves are shown to be easily capable of being abused in the same ways they claim Sith moves to be. Great Jedi like Kyle Katarn and Plo Koon and others are shown to be able to use Force Lightning without issue — with the latter even being told by the Council to keep experimenting carefully with using it during the aforementioned Post-Ruusan period where Jedi became significantly more rigid. Other Jedi like Jorus C’Baoth use things like the Mind Trick to straight up mentally torture and mind control people, yet it’s still regular Jedi curriculum despite its obvious bad applications, a fact which is used to highlight how hypocritical the Jedi could be at times. And stuff like Force Healing injured people is actually considered a Dark Side move, due to the fact that it requires more exertion of one’s own will on the Force.

Again, this is not to deny that the Sith are portrayed — even in Legends — as conquering empire. But it’s not nearly as black and white as some of the worse writers tried to paint it nor as Disney canon so far as depicted it, and even then Disney canon hasn’t really featured much focus on the Sith at all and this may change as they get more Post-Disney appearances and Disney starts tackling the Pre-Ruusan days. There are meant to be shades of grayness and the Sith’s descent from a proper culture themselves into a hateful cult hiding in the shadows plotting their revenge is also shown as the Jedi tragically creating their own worst enemy with their mistakes, them and the galaxy paying for the sins and misdeeds of their ancestors, tying into the franchise’s larger themes of generational strife, senseless cycles of revenge, and the struggle to break those things.

The comparison I like to make is to the ancient Central American cultures of real life (which seem to have partially inspired Sith culture, with stuff like their propensity for pyramids) such as the Aztecs and Mayans. Were they brutal, imperialistic, cutthroat, and zealous by our modern standards and even by the standards of many of their contemporaries? Absolutely. Did that justify the persecution, colonialism, exploitation, oppression, forced conversion, and pogroms carried out against those same cultures by the Spanish Conquistadors? Absolutely not.

And to finish off, I’m once again going to emphasize another point on my original post. Namely that Star Wars lore is deliberately meant to inspire many different viewpoints and interpretations and that your personal canon is the only real one ultimately. Meaning that you’re free to disagree with my takes here and think that I’m totally off-base in my interpretations of these stories and their messages and worldbuilding, or just respectfully agree to disagree. I’m just trying to spell out my opinions and takes on Star Wars lore and why I go that way with my Star Wars canon.

#star wars #star wars meta #star wars books #star wars comics #star wars community #star wars fandom #star wars lore #star wars legends #star wars expanded universe #longpost #long post #jedi critical #sith empire #more Star Wars lore fan wank!

[falysyu]

Why The Jensaarai Grey Jedi Were Such DEADLY Fighters

#youtube

[epicmusic42]

WIP Game

Okay so I've seen this around a few times, where you're supposed to list all the stories in your WIP folder and followers can ask about them/request snippets. And it did get me curious how ridiculous my list is because uh... I work on many stories simultaneously. And it's a WIP until it's finished or I decide I'm not writing it.

So yeah. Folks can ask about anything they want. I do not promise you will get an answer since I also included the count of [Redacted] WIP files I've got.

Everything is organized by Fandom and if I have multiple wips for a series, then the series has a subheader. Things in [brackets] are more commentary than wip, but I felt should be acknowledged when counting.

Arda

Crown of mikhil

Prompt notes

Untitled 1

CritRole

Time Fuckery

Modernish AU

Mirror Images?

Two Steps Forward, Nein Steps Back

The Brunch Club

Flashbacks

The Brunch Club backstorys

Mechs AU

Murderplay blumentrio 

Untitled 2

DC

My Wish for You

Not my sister, my uncle 

Agent A

I'm calling Martha

Ot4 but Crack

Untitled 3

Mechs

Breaking Marius's curse

The Terror: God of grieving, living out of spite, and the trapped

Going from Yes, to I love you

Pangolin Brian 

Time loop

Brian is Arthur 40k fiction go

Ocean Pirate AU

On Recovery When You're Immortal 

Te amo

This is new

Next Steps

Untitled 4

I Said I'm Keeping You 

Lyf/Raph

Not Quite Human

[Loose Change]

Promise You'll Keep Me, Even If I'm Real

Quick Thots 

TS/Brian

TS/Jonny

Ts/Jonny end

Ts/marius

Ts/marius/Jonny

Ts/tim

Smut

Ashes/Aurora 

Jonny gangbang

Marius/Jonny cannibalism 

Superhero Stuff

@fracnkie 's Outsider Pov

The Inherent Eroticism of…

Asking for what you want

Welcoming a new crew member

Ivy

Marius

[Concatenated]

Urban Magic

Eyot Cemetery 

Sexy Ghoul Feeding Time

[Like five docs on Ghoul language]

Star Wars

Ka'ra the Gota

Copikla 

Friends

Loose Change 

More Dead than kaysh thought

Prologue?

Sexytimes

Untitled 5

Mir'j'ade

Advice

Comfort 

Consent?

Discussions

Interview

Obi-wan Kenobi of aliit Kryze 

Obi-wan Kenobi of Clan Kryze

Xai giiyha'ah anohrahak uu ehnoctel

[Also like 7 notes docs]

Tra'kem'ad

Goran joha

Tra'kem'ad

Translations

Jesara, celo kat fohl

Ke'nuhoy, ner ad'ika 

Mando'a I see fire

sa sarad cuyir gotal de pitat

Tal jabat te laamtorun (Blood upon the risers)

Werdlaar

Follow up

Jesara celo kat fohl, juve e paihenelru foh keelak

Misc

Tamah qa brok vaversi

"I've been yours"

Alpha means buir

And I say

Bat Concordia 

Dom/sub thing

Ehnap im Lunetana'unru'yth; Rumar'eyir nu Ru'hiib'manir

Jatinobi

Jensaarai

Jetii ori'vod 

Ka'ra'ade 

Kar'ta beskare

Mattress red

Melida/Daan

Merged world's

Mission: babysitter wanted

Paden'hibir

Protest snippet 

Rex fucked up

Rex/sabe

Staging a couple

Stewjoni witch

T'ad runise

Time travel dooku

Time travel maul/Obi-wan 

Time8

To be naasade

To: a connection 

Untitled 6

Untitled 7

Xanatos/Jango?

Xarehk paiochl Rakadaiji

TMA

PA

Brain wtf?

Jonny dville and Jon Sims same guy

Other

Genderfluid?

Marvel-Dimension Travel

Sire, if I may?

Prompt Bucket

Original Work

Space Beowulf

Satan & Jesus go to pride

Cyberpunk persephone 

The Adventures of the Wise Old Wizard

Novel

This is my idea of a pandemic

Generic Prompt Bucket

Loose Change (technically not a WIP)

Redacted

Redacted A

Redacted 1

Redacted 2

Redacted B

Redacted 3

Redacted 4

Redacted 5

Redacted 6

Redacted 7

Redacted 8

Redacted 9

Redacted 10

Redacted 11

Redacted 12

If you read this far, I'll do you the favour of informing you that there are 133 WIPs.

No, I'm not actively working on all of them. But these are all projects that I haven't removed to a "fics I'll never write" or equivalent folder.

#ask game #writing

[imperiumallaboveall]

Watch "Why The Jensaarai Grey Jedi Were Such DEADLY Fighters" on YouTube

Punta

El Toro to Oakley transportation company

#Youtube

[madpufferfish]

Another tiny sketch :]

#starwars #bird #jensaarai

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

The Jensaarai were a group of Force-sensitives whose order arose during the Clone Wars. Founded by Anzati Jedi Knight Nikkos Tyris, whose research into the history of the Sith suggested that the Jedi stole Sith teachings before exiling them, the Jensaarai walked the balanced line between the light side and the dark side. They were disciplined like the Jedi, with an understanding of the power of rage.

Source: Threats of the Galaxy (Art: Gonzalo Flores; 2008)

First Appearance: I, Jedi (1998)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

#jensaarai #the force #nikkos tyris #jedi #sith #gonzalo flores #star wars #expanded universe #star wars canon #star wars legends

[katarvitz]

One piece I always loved by Shellsweet, enough to add a story to it. Please check out her other stuff, or things involving these two on the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. If you're interested in joining up at all, we've also got a character creator page here.

Silently the hunter trudged forward as he scanned the treeline for his opponent. The deep snowfall was slowing his movements, reducing his broad strides to awkward wading. Every step was accompanied by a splatter of frozen water against his palatinate-tinged armour and a loud crunch that could wake the dead. That was part of why he had abandoned any pretense of stealth as he moved through the towering forest. Well, part of why at least. The other reason was that he had no talent for it.

Ka Tarvitz was someone who was as alien to subtlety as a Hutt was to dieting. He simply wasn’t built for it. At six foot tall and broad-shouldered, he had been described more than once as a battering ram given human form when using his fists. When given a lightsaber, he could send opponents flying with sheer brute strength. The forest was not an environment he would have ever chosen to face someone in, least of all due to its odd qualities. Pausing by one tree, he stopped and looked up with his mismatched eyes, squinting against its leafless greying branches for any sign of movement or disturbance. It swayed slightly as if sensing his presence, and a deep rumble resided from within its “trunk” as several roots shifted to steady itself.

The forests walked on Trepus. At least that was the common saying, if not a wholly accurate one. The forests about Solyiat’s northernmost continent were rare things, often twisted and bent against the frequent blizzards which pelted the coastlines. They cropped up about whatever shelter could be found, typically either the volcanic mountains or hillsides and dug into the stonework.

The forests which stuck to the plains, the odd bent-backed and tall rooted Druss trees which drew swarms of Dravik birds to their branches were not wholly trees at all. They benefited from photosynthesis and drank nutrients from the earth, but each was closer to a gigantic insect than a plant. Each night they would uproot themselves, heading for some untouched area of the landscape. While they were not prone to violence, the fact that anyone could awaken at a moment’s notice kept Tarvitz on edge. That was likely why his opponent had picked this spot. Here she had the cards stacked in her favour, and was looking to show off.

As the thought crossed his mind, a warning whisper from the Force sent him leaning backward. A projectile hurtled past, skimming the edge of the nearest Druss tree and leaving a white mark. It rumbled again, and Tarvitz thought he saw a set of compound eyes momentarily blink somewhere near its middle. Another two shots followed in quick succession, as Tarvitz threw himself flaw against the snow, each barely missing him.

“Alright,” he chuckled to himself, “I guess we’re starting.”

He leaped upright, bounding forward as he kicked up waves of snow. Another shot was thrown in his wake, this one too hastily aimed to hit him. Tarvitz was counting now, judging each direction of the incoming shots. He couldn’t see the one throwing them, but he knew that she was nearby, likely somewhere to his left from that last one. With a wave of one hand, he reached out with the Force and scooped up several balls of snow, each one levitating parallel to his body as he charged forward. Then, in a single motion, he released them in a wide arc, sending each one through the broad gaps between the slumbering trees. There was no immediate response, no sudden appearance of footprints or crunch of movement. Instead, there was a short pause before another projectile of packed snow seemed to hurtle out of nowhere, clipping Tarvitz’s pauldron.

Shaking his head as snow splattered against his scarred features, Tarvitz grinned in approval. Score one to the Kiffar. He hadn’t even sensed that one coming this time, which meant that her skills were improving. Unfortunately for her, she had just given him all the information that he needed to find her. The snowball had clipped the upper edge of his pauldron, exploding into fragments at an angle which would have been impossible if she were on level ground.

Looking up, Tarvitz began to squint among the branches overhead, trying to pick out any oddities among them. Then, almost as soon as he started, he quickly gave up. Each one was near identical, filled with roosting clusters of slumbering birds and heavy with resting snowfall from the brief storm that morning. Tarvitz knew that he could have spent hours hunting between them and trying to find even the smallest difference, likely while being pelted by snowballs all in that time. No, it was time to cut a few corners.

Raising two gauntleted fingers to his lips, Tarvitz released a piercing whistle into the air. He might as well have thrown a grenade. Among the branches, a thousand birds shot into the skies, each one squeaking loudly at the sudden disturbance. Each of the trees shuddered at the sound, issuing their own series of throaty rumbles in irritation at being woken, or the echoing clicks of their language. And far above him, some distance ahead of Tarvitz, a small figure briefly blinked into existence as she fell backward from a larger branch. He reached out, slowing her descent with telekinesis before allowing her to fall back into the dense snowdrift and left a person-shaped hole in the white dune. She barely managed to rise to her feet before Tarvitz was upon her.

Sirra was short even for her young age. A childhood of malnutrition and infrequent meals had led to his sometimes-apprentice having a slight build which barely reached his waistline. It was perfect for stealth and infiltration, not so much for overpowering others. Tarvitz easily snatched her up, one arm hooking itself about her middle as the other mashed a snowball directly into her short brown hair.

“Had enough?” Tarvitz said, and then laughed as the image of a white flag appeared in his mind. “Yeah, I don’t blame you.”

Stamping down several times to give her a hardened platform to stand on, Tarvitz gently set the Kiffar down upon it before dropping back into the drift to catch his breath.

“You were close, you know,” he said, still chuckling as she shook the snow from her hair. “You’d probably have won if it wasn’t for the birds.”

Sirra frowned in confusion, and Tarvitz sighed as he felt her mind pressing against his. Lowering his mental barriers for a moment, he focused on an image of himself planted headfirst down in the snow with her standing triumphantly over him. She giggled at the picture, apparently getting his meaning, and Tarvitz felt a brief sensation of joy and appreciation in response. It was by no means a perfect system of communication, especially given his own limited talent when it came to telepathy, but it was the best that they could manage for the moment. Unfortunately, he had yet to think of an easy way of asking “Best of three?” in a way which she could easily understand. As she finished brushing snow from herself, Sirra looked at him and projected an image of the Jedi Temple into his mind, followed by a ticking chronometer.

“Fair enough, I did say we’d only be gone for a couple of hours,” Tarvitz said with a slight smirk. It faltered slightly as he looked back, and realised that their trail here was hardly the easiest one to follow. “I don’t suppose you remember which way is back to the ship, do you?”

Still linked to his mind, the Kiffar apparently caught onto his meaning and nodded. Looking past him, she raised one hand and closed her eyes. Several of the Druss trees released a low, almost subsonic groan as they stretched into life. Tarvitz gave her a worried look, reaching for the sword sheathed at his side, but the creatures merely looked at them for a moment with their multifaceted eyes before stomping off to one side and clearing the start of a small path for them.

“Nine hells, you are growing up,” Tarvitz breathed, looking at Sirra as she beamed in approval. “It’s certainly a step up from scaring hawk-bats.”

Sirra just kept smiling and reaching out with her hand, but nothing else moved. Instead, another image emerged inside Tarvitz’s mind, of two people exchanging coins. He looked at her in confusion for a few seconds, only for her to follow it up with several others, particularly one with Sirra buried up to her head in snow, before he understood.

“I suppose that’s fair,” Tarvitz laughed while patting her on the shoulder. “Just don’t try this with one of your Masters. I don’t think it’d end well.”

Rising to his feet, Tarvitz turned and knelt down before the Kiffar with his back to her. He grunted slightly as she leaped onto his back, scrambling for purchase against his plasteel armour before she settled into place with her arms wrapped about his shoulders. Slowly, careful to maintain his balance, Tarvitz stood upright as he hooked both arms under Sirra’s legs to keep her in place.

“Alright then,” he said as they began to march out of the forest. “Lead the way."

#star wars oc #star wars legends #star wars cthonian dawn #star wars expanded universe #star wars #star wars eu #science fiction #story #jensaarai #kiffar #master and apprentice #snowfall #forest #star wars fanart #sw art #oc #oc rpg #oc rp #star wars art #star wars fanfic #dark jedi brotherhood

[sunnyvandsephi]

you ever realize you were wrong about your own character

and they surprise you with complexities you underestimated

because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how something worked in the setting you dropped them into

hhhhhhHHHHHH

#my dear sweet Maveth im so sorry #jedi oc #jensaarai oc

[dxnniquee]

My opinion on the Force, a long rant :

This is something I wanted to do for a long time : explaining my personal view on the Force, Sith, Jedi etc. Please keep in mind that it is just an opinion and I do not want to spread a truth.

So I’ve seen a lot of people reducing star wars characters as darksiders = Sith or vilain = Sith. I have to say that I do not agree. First, there are a lot of villains being not Force sensitive. For instance : Ysard, Tarkin, Krennic for the new canon... And I have a very personal view on the Sith order that can be completely disputable. I do not believe that there is one Sith order but plenty of visions of the Sith. The one we refer to is generally Bane’s order with the rule of the Two. But before that, we have a complete genealogy of Sith order, each one having a different vision from the previous ones. I do believe that Plagueis is the last one to truly "respect" Bane’s order. I do not think Palpatine and Vader as Sith but more as Dark side users and a Dark Jedi for Vader. Both broke the rule of the Two and carry the Sith legacy only in name. I also do not see the Sith’s view of the Force as only evil and in order to explain that, I’ll explain my view on the Dark Side.

In a certain way, you can compare the idea of a dark and light side and a balance with the Freudian theory of « id », « ego » and « superego ». The first one is the dark side, the place where our darkest thoughts are. The second one is the balance and the third one the light side, trying its best to fit in. With all this, I do not believe that the Dark side is only full of threatening things. Once you master your fears or feelings, you can use the Force from all its aspects. That’s why the idea of the unifying force and Jacen and Vergere’s philosophy are the one that make the more sense to me.

Finally, I think the Sith philosophy should be taught in a dreamy alternative universe. Because if you want to understand fully this entity, you have to master it from all its sides. Once again, we tend to believe light side = Jedi = only light side force users. But the Jedi are one embodiment of the light side. They love by strict rules that maybe should be lifted. To me, the Force is a circle with black on the edges and white on the center. The middle is grey. The dark side is not just being a Sith being power hungry. It can also represent depression, grief, sadness… For instance, Jacen’s Dark Side would have been a very deep depression and PTSD after the Embrace of pain and the end of the war. Jaina’s dark side is anger, the anger she felt because she couldn’t save the people she loved.

I agree with Jacen when he says that the Force is more than just a tool. The Force represents life and humankind in general. And that’s why you have so many philosophies and views, because you have so many different persons in the world. The idea of the Force can be compared to some Platonic ideas. For instance, le ciel des idées where one’s spirit elevates itself can be an interpretation that of the Force. The notion of Beauty (το καλον) can also be an aspect of the Force. An ideal that one seek their entire life. But the idea of the Dark Side / Dark Side users being evil is something that strikes me as reductive. That’s why my «favourite» Force philosophy is the Jensaarai’s one. You use every aspect of the Force (Dark & Light side and the Balance), the Sith’s passion and the Jedi’s harmony. It’s a balance between your passions (in the philosophical sense, sufferings) and our ideals.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk !

#star wars #star wars legends #star wars eu #eu #legends #extended universe #sweu #new jedi order #lila rants #the force #an analysis #the jedi order #the sith #jensaarai #keep in mind that it’s entire personal pls #<3

[cousindunlia]

maybe this is the Mandalorian fan in me but I feel the Jensaarai would be way more interesting and plausible as a concept if they were a bunch of Ex-Jedi or Force Sensitive Mandos trying to make their own force based order outside of the Jedi/Republic instead of like, one Jedi finding a sith holocron that tells him the Jedi plagiarised the Sith and going “yeah this seems totally legit”.

#star wars #lore #mandalorians #jensaarai #does anyone even give a shit about them outside like a very niche bunch of legends fans and rpgers? #lstar wars legends

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

A Jensaarai and a Jedi Knight by Ramón Pérez

#Star Wars #Star Wars: Legends #Jensaarai #Jedi #Lightsaber #Sci-Fi #Ramón Pérez