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Ord Mantell
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10 BBY (age 53)
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Human
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Female
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5’7”
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132lbs
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Brown, medium length
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Dark brown
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Zele Rax (adopted)
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twin silver blades
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Shien
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Shadow Fist
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Dark Jedi, Assassin
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Quaestor of House Caliburnus
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Caliburnus
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7370
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22977
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- "Do not waste my time with 'what if's. I will do whatever has to be done. I'll deal with the consequences later."
- ―Rasilvenaira, during the Acclivis Draco-Caliburnus Conflict
Sith Warlord Rasilvenaira StormRaven is a member of Clan Scholae Palatinae. She has served in a number of positions within her Clan, including Clan Envoy, Battleteam Leader, Aedile, and Quaestor. She is currently the Quaestor of House Caliburnus.
Character History
Birth of an Outcast
Rasilvenaira Stormraven was born in an isolated village on Ord Mantell in 10 BBY. Her father was the village leader, Sandral Nel’Kathar. As his wife, Ferina Nal'Kethar, her mother, was the highest-ranked woman in the village.
The village had been founded roughly four hundred years earlier, and over that time and given the increased isolation of the village, the population developed a common standard. They tended to have blond hair and either blue or green eyes. Anything else was considered unnatural.
When Rasilvenaira was born, she was an anomaly born with dark hair and dark brown eyes. Given her parents’ ranks within the village, it was forbidden to kill the child, but she was still branded as an outcast.
Her mother gave her the name of Kaishera, meaning Shadowed Star; however, the rest of the family and village began calling the girl Rasilvenaira, meaning Silver Raven. The name was meant in cruel jest because with her dark hair and even darker eyes, there was nothing silver about her, though she did seem to have a strong affinity for the bird she was named after.
As she grew, Rasilvenaira was subjected to frequent abuse and neglect. By the age of five, she began showing latent talents, which earned her even more abuse as such abilities were considered unnatural and evil.
Rise of the StormRaven
At the age of sixteen, Rasilvenaira was beaten so badly that it came close to killing her. She realized that, given time, they would succeed in ending her life. Thus, she came up with a plan. As soon as she was physically recovered enough from the beating, she slipped away one night with what few possessions she had and stole one of the village’s riding beasts for faster travel.
Two weeks away from the village, she encountered a merchant caravan. She managed to win a few races with the beast, which earned her some credits to buy a knife, fresh water, and some fruit, which she shared with the beast to reward it for winning. The most important thing her wins earned her, though, was information. She learned the direction for the closest city, known as Trader’s Quarter.
She made her way to the city, and on the day she arrived, the weather turned bad. Torrential rain soaked her threadbare clothing in moments. She found a beast trader, and as much as she hated to sell the riding beast, she figured she would need credits more than another mouth to feed, and in the city, she had no place to keep it. She bid the animal farewell and took the credits the trader offered her. She sighed as she walked away, knowing she likely got cheated in the deal for such a fine animal, but it would do for the time being.
She wandered the streets, lost and confused. The city was a huge shock for her after spending her whole life in an isolated village. She finally crouched under a narrow overhang, hugging herself, trying to stay warm. Suddenly, an alien she’d never seen before stopped in front of her and offered her a place to stay if she would follow him.
She took the chance and trusted him, and as they walked, she learned he was a Dressellian named Phutari. He explained that he ran a popular cantina with a vacant room she could use, and he’d be willing to hire her and teach her how to take care of the place if she wanted to learn and earn credits on her own.
As the months passed, they developed a close relationship, Phutari looking after her almost as if she were his own daughter. It was also Phutari who first gave her the name of StormRaven. He always called her ‘little Raven’ since he found that easier than her full name, but he coined the name StormRaven for her because of her stormy and unpredictable temper, combined with her incredible ability of stealth. As he told her, "You move like a shadow, yet strike like a storm. Storm Raven, that's what you are." From that day on, she took the name StormRaven as her own.
Flight of the Raven
Phutari used his many connections to help Rasilvenaira as much as he could in various ways. One of those occasions involved him arranging for her to learn to pilot ships. She was a fast learner and soon progressed to being able to manage even a mid-sized freighter on her own. Her favorite teacher was another Dressellian by the name of Tsudaly, who taught her how to pilot his YT-2400 called the NyghtFyre. Rasilvenaira was also particularly fond of the two droids he kept on the ship: a protocol droid called Verlassen, and a spunky astromech droid, R5-K7, simply known as R5.
Rasilvenaira also began to find her own place in the scheme of things in the city. When she wasn’t spending her time working in Phutari’s cantina, Rasilvenaira gained a reputation as a talented thief. Eventually, she also became an assassin. With her ability to seemingly disappear into the shadows, it was an occupation she was well-suited to. Phutari knew of her activities, but he never openly disapproved of them, as long as she didn’t practice her trade within the cantina.
When Rasilvenaira was twenty, Phutari gave her a special gift. She had been planning on leaving Ord Mantell when she had enough credits saved up to get her own ship. Rasilvenaira was presented with one of the ships she had first learned to pilot, one that was very special to her. Tsudaly found himself in debt from gambling, and in return for Phutari’s help in getting out of that debt, he gave Phutari the NyghtFyre as well as the two droids that served as its crew. Phutari had no real need for the ship, so he offered it to Rasilvenaira as a gift. Soon after getting the NyghtFyre, Rasilvenaira left Ord Mantell and set out to explore the galaxy and to make a name for herself.
The End of an Era
Rasilvenaira started out working various merchant networks, building a solid base of contacts with initial help from Phutari, who put her in touch with some of his contacts. She also quickly became familiar with the added profit to be had in smuggling, as well as occasional jobs as an assassin that presented themselves. The NyghtFyre served well for smuggling with the extra cargo space that Tsudaly had built into the vessel, and the additional sensor jamming systems that she had installed into the ship made it that much harder to catch.
However, despite her rapid successes and growing reputation, a deep-rooted restlessness plagued her. Nightmares that had been infrequent while she was around Phutari’s calming presence became almost constant in the solitude of her ship in deep space. StormRaven stayed on the edge, pushing herself to the limits of her endurance in not sleeping; she sank herself into her work, knowing that if she didn’t sleep, she wouldn’t dream, and the nightmares would be kept at bay. Over time, it gradually began to wear on her; the nightmares drifted into her thoughts even when she was awake, and memories she tried to forget kept haunting her. Unable to escape them, she was pushed close to the edge of madness, driven by those nightmares until she wanted nothing else but to end them once and for all.
One year after leaving Ord Mantell, Rasilvenaira finally gave in to the growing thirst for vengeance, the need to destroy that which kept haunting her thoughts. She returned to Ord Mantell, setting a course for the village where she had been born, navigating mostly by remembered landmarks from her flight away from the village five years previous.
Landing the ship near the village caused quite a stir from the superstitious and isolated people. Rasilvenaira left the ship, walking the last distance to the edge of the village, wanting to make sure that they knew who it was that would bring about their demise. She wanted them to know what their actions had earned them.
Following her orders, Verlassen, aboard the NyghtFyre, opened fire on the village with the full extent of the ship's weaponry, quickly leveling it to smoldering rubble. Those who hadn’t run when they had the chance were killed in the destruction. The way of life, all that the village had been for over four hundred years, came to an end in that firestorm.
Rasilvenaira stood silently watching the remains of the village burn for several minutes, then turned away and returned to her ship. Resigning her past to the ashes of destruction, she vowed never to look back and focused her attention on the future.
A New Beginning
In the year 21 ABY, Rasilvenaira was on Tatooine settling the payment for a job. On her way back to her ship, she ran into a Trandoshian bounty hunter who was after her for killing one of his kin.
Unable to make it to her own ship, she sought the next best thing. Someone else with a fast enough ship to get her safely off planet. She could send a signal to her astromech that would tell him to take her ship to her nearest safehouse. He would hold out there till she came for her ship or sent other commands.
The ship she found belonged to one Jaxyn Rax, a half-Kiffar pirate. The Red Dawn was on Tatooine to pick up goods for a smuggling run. However, Rasilvenaira convinced him that she could make it more worthwhile for him to get her safely off Tatooine, covering his time and lost cargo. While he might have been skeptical of how deep her pockets were, he found her just intriguing enough to take the chance.
The pair left Tatooine and made their way to an apartment that Jaxyn kept on Corellia. This ended up marking the beginning of an affair between the two. During their time together, she would often join the Red Dawn on runs, and sometimes she shared contacts with Jaxyn that led to higher profits for them to split. Everything seemed to be going well until, one year after their first meeting, Rasilvenaira would disappear without a trace. No warning, no goodbye, leaving a confused and heartbroken Jaxyn behind.
StormRaven's Crest
Embracing the Darkness
Rasilvenaira’s latent force abilities continued to grow and develop, even though at the time she didn’t really understand the importance of them. This changed during a trip to Tatooine. Rasilvenaira was killing time in one of the local cantinas while a client’s cargo was to be unloaded from the NyghtFyre and transferred to his ship. Out of boredom and curiosity to see if she could still practice the art of pickpocketing, she scanned the busy cantina looking for a potential target.
Finally, she spotted an older man who seemed to be dozing at a table in the far corner of the room. Casually, she moved around the crowded room and made to walk past him, his purse full of credits in plain view, seemingly a very easy target. As Rasilvenaira made her move, she gasped in shock as his vice-like grip caught her wrist. At his bidding, she sat down across from him to avoid drawing any further unwanted attention.
Rasilvenaira questioned how he was able to catch her, and he explained that while she had talents, her untrained abilities were no match against someone trained in the Force. She questioned him further, and he explained what the Force was in very basic terms and told her of a place where others like her were trained and taught how to use their abilities. After he left her sitting at the table, she thought over his words and decided to seek out the “Brotherhood” he had mentioned.
Rasilvenaira returned to her ship and set a course for Coruscant, having some unfinished business to attend to first. After that was concluded, she intended to find the Antei system the old warrior had told her about. The trip to Coruscant went smoothly, she finished what she’d needed to, and was looking forward to finding out more about the Antei system. What Rasilvenaira didn’t realize at the time was that she had been set up to run straight into a trap. The dark Jedi who’d told her of Antei had actually been working for the same Neimoidian that she had just done a job for, and a message had been sent to the Dark Brotherhood, telling them of an assassin on the way to kill their Grand Master.
When Rasilvenaira’s ship neared the Brotherhood’s system, she was attacked by two capital ships. Trapped between a Strike Cruiser and a Victory-class Star Destroyer, she was unable to escape, and her ship was captured by the Star Destroyer, the VSD Excidium. Taken into custody aboard the Excidium, Rasilvenaira was subjected to several long and rather painful interrogations about her reasons for being near Antei.
It was during those interrogations that her latent and untrained force abilities flared, and her captors decided that she would be held and taken to Antei. Once they reached Antei, Rasilvenaira was presented to the Grand Master, Jac Cotelin, who would ultimately decide her fate. After he questioned her, it was determined that Rasilvenaira indeed was innocent of the charge of intending to attempt the assassination of the Grand Master.
Rasilvenaira was then given the option to stay and learn to use her abilities as part of the Brotherhood, which she readily accepted.
A New Home
After her initial training was completed, Rasilvenaira was sent to the Cocytus system, home to Clan Scholae Palatinae, and settled on the planet Antenora, which was home to Acclivis Draco. Rasilvenaira continued her studies of the Force and the Dark Side, her insatiable quest for knowledge allowing her to move through the ranks quickly. She gradually earned the trust and respect of the Clan leadership. Rasilvenaira was appointed to the position of Clan Envoy, and it was a position to which she applied herself well.
For the first time in her life, Rasilvenaira found herself as a part of something greater, and while she had her own ambitions, she felt a pride and loyalty growing in her heart that she had never known before. Her drive and ambition pushed her forward, but now she considered others before herself, a feeling that was new to her, but one she accepted readily. The sense of belonging, the knowledge of now being responsible for others, made her efforts worthwhile.
Rasilvenaira was, however, outspoken and bold; when she believed she was right on a course of action, there was little that could sway her from it. This caused some measure of tension between the StormRaven and some older, established members of the Clan. Many expected her fire to burn itself out, as others before her had, but instead, she kept going.
As time passed, her loyalty and love for her House and Clan only continued to strengthen and grow. Rasilvenaira gained the position of Sith Commander of the squadron Draco Conspicari and led the team through the Aranna and Selen Incidents. She also led Draco Conspicari through part of the Sixth Great Jedi War.
It was during the War that the leadership of Acclivis Draco changed, under the direction of the Clan Summit. Braecen Kunar became the Quaestor, and Rasilvenaira was appointed as the Aedile of Acclivis Draco. As she always did, Rasilvenaira poured her energy and efforts into her position, fueled by an intense desire to see her House thrive. Many criticized the decision to grant her the position; others questioned her motives and ambitions. Rasilvenaira refused to dwell on the futile attempts of others to discourage her; instead, she focused her efforts on proving her abilities.
Bitter Conflict
In late 25 ABY, an open conflict erupted between Acclivis Draco and its sister house, Caliburnus. While Rasilvenaira was no stranger to warfare, the idea of fighting members of her own Clan bothered her. Scholae Palatinae had become family to her, and she was torn between loyalties to the Clan as a whole as the Clan’s Envoy, and the loyalties to the House she was sworn to protect as Aedile.
Tensions began building between Rasilvenaira and the Quaestor, RevengeX Palpatine, as the Sith grew increasingly frustrated with the ways in which RevengeX was handling the conflict. Finally frustrated beyond the point of caring about the chain of command, Rasilvenaira took matters into her own hands.
Acting against the Quaestor’s orders, she, along with the members of Draco Conspicari, led by Adam Anderson, conducted maneuvers in an effort to bring the conflict between the Houses to an end. RevengeX was furious about the blatant disobedience and labeled his Aedile as a traitor. Attempts were made to arrest Rasilvenaira, but she managed to evade them.
When Caliburnus attacked Antenora, RevengeX was forced to turn his attention to defending his House, but promised himself that Rasilvenaira would be punished for her actions. Rasilvenaira and the members of Draco Conspicari continued to act independently and flanked the attacking forces of Caliburnus. It wasn’t until after the final battle was over and finished that RevengeX realized that Rasilvenaira had, in fact, been acting in the House’s best interest.
While he was still unhappy about her public defiance and disobedience, the Quaestor rescinded his accusations of treason. However, the entire event left the working relationship between Rasilvenaira and RevengeX strained and tense.
Rising Star
With the conclusion of the conflict between Houses Acclivis Draco and Caliburnus, the Clan Summit initiated some changes to the leadership of Caliburnus. Thran Occasus became the new Quaestor of Caliburnus following the resignation of Impetus. Thran made the request for Rasilvenaira to become his Aedile.
Presented with the choice, Rasilvenaira accepted the new position. While she regretted leaving Acclivis Draco, which had been her home for so long, Rasilvenaira was looking forward to once again working with Thran. The two had developed a close friendship during his stay in Acclivis Draco, and she was confident that working with him again would be a pleasant change.
Upon moving to Ptolomea and becoming the Aedile of Caliburnus, Rasilvenaira quickly settled in and began focusing her attention and efforts on helping her new House thrive. Under the combined leadership of Thran Occasus and Rasilvenaira, Caliburnus rapidly blossomed into a strong and well-organized House.
When Thran eventually moved on to bigger and better things, Rasilvenaira was chosen to take the helm of the House as Quaestor.
The Winds of Change
When Rasilvenaira eventually stepped down from her position as Quaestor. She took time away from her Clan. She claimed to be retired and kept in minimal contact with the Brotherhood in general.
However, after a few years, she was called back into action when her beloved Cocytus system was attacked, the planets destroyed, and Scholae Palatinae were forced to flee their home system as a Clan. It took time, but they managed to find a new home in the Caperion system on the world of Seraph.
In the year 43 ABY, under the reign of Empress Rayne, Rasilvenaira was fully drawn out of her retirement when she was appointed to lead House Caliburnus once again in a new era of rebuilding and growth.
Another Fresh Beginning
Late in 43 ABY, Jaxyn Rax finally managed to catch up with Rasilvenaira after several years of him searching for her, and her avoiding him. They reconnected on Nar Shaddaa and spent an evening catching up. Jaxyn then agreed to sell the Red Dawn and go back to Seraph with Rasilvenaira so they could work on a fresh start at rebuilding their life together.