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| |type=Sith | | |order=Sith |
| |image=[[File:TeylasRamar1.jpg|250px]] | | |image=[[Image:Teylas3.png|250px]] |
| |firstname=Teylas Ramar | | |firstname=Teylas |
| |homeworld=Anzat | | |lastname=Ramar |
| |birth={{Birthyear_and_Age_(BBY)|286}} | | |homeworld=Falleen |
| |species=Anzat | | |birth={{Birthyear and Age (legends)|BBY|179}} |
| | |species=Falleen |
| |gender=Male | | |gender=Male |
| |hair=Black | | |hair=Black |
| |eyes=Brown | | |eyes=Hazel |
| |height=1.74 m | | |height=1.85 m |
| |weight=74.7 kg | | |weight=85.1 kg |
| |allies=[[Evoroth Stigaryl]] | | |spouse=Halim † |
| |saber=Red | | |allies= |
| | |saber=Violet |
| |form=*[[Makashi]] | | |form=*[[Makashi]] |
| *[[Soresu]] | | *[[Djem So]] |
| |fightingstyle=*[[Broken Gate]] | | |fightingstyle=[[Broken Gate]] |
| *[[Jeswandi]]
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| |profession=*Pilot | | |profession=*Pilot |
| *Engineer | | *Politician |
| *Politician (former) | | |position=*[[Praetor]] to the [[Master at Arms]] |
| | *[[Clan_Plagueis#Dread_Lord|Dread Lord]] of [[Clan Plagueis]] (former) |
| |era=* [[Rise of the Empire Era]] | | |era=* [[Rise of the Empire Era]] |
| * [[Rebellion Era]] | | * [[Rebellion Era]] |
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| * [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] | | * [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] |
| |affiliation=[[Plagueis]] | | |affiliation=[[Plagueis]] |
| |masters=[[Solus Gar]] | | |ship=[[Oppressor]] |
| |apprentices=[[Evoroth Stigaryl]] | | |masters=*Falleen masters |
| | *[[Solus Gar]] |
| | |apprentices=*[[Jai'de Serpens]] |
| | *[[Evoroth Stigaryl]] |
| | *[[Marduss]] |
| |dossier=[[dossier:12761|12761]] | | |dossier=[[dossier:12761|12761]] |
| }} | | }} |
| | {{Quote|A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness.|Teylas Ramar, 51 BBY}} |
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| {{Quote|A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness.|Teylas Ramar, 47 BBY}}
| | '''Teylas Ramar''' is an [[starwars:Falleen|Falleen]] [[Sith]] who currently serves as the [[Praetor]] to the [[Master at Arms]] of the [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood]], formerly the [[Clan_Plagueis#Dread_Lord|Dread Lord]] of [[Clan Plagueis]]. Teylas' personality could be described as calculating, patient, and meticulous. He is arrogant, sometimes sadistic, but always just. In any combat situation, his nature as a strategist becomes apparent as he prefers to allow his opponent to make the first move. This allows him to both judge the combat effectiveness and tactics of his enemy while also allowing his opponent to become the aggressor. Ramar is an adherent of the recorded teachings of [[starwars:Darth Tyranus|Darth Tyranus]] particularly his mastery in the art of dueling. |
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| '''Teylas Ramar''' is an [[starwars:Anzat|Anzat]] who eventually turned to the [[starwars:dark side of the Force|dark side of the Force]] and joined the ranks of the [[Sith]]. Originally Teylas' main goal was for personal fame and renown, but as he's quickly become comfortable with his darker nature he has developed the thirst for power that overwhelms many other Sith. An engineer by trade, he later developed his skills into a trained pilot and later politician on his homeworld.
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| Upon a chance encounter on [[Port Ol'val]] while waiting to catch a transport back to the [[starwars:Anzat (planet)|Anzat homeworld]], Teylas was sought out by [[Solus Gar]] to be his apprentice in training of the dark side of the Force. Already familiar with his Force sensitivity, the training began as a rigorous and quick campaign to allow him to join the ranks of the Sith Order as quickly as possible.
| | == History == |
| | === Early Life === |
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| == Character Biography == | | Teylas Ramar was born during the waning years of the [[starwars:Golden Age of the Republic|Golden Age of the Republic]] on the [[starwars:Falleen_(planet)|Falleen homeworld]]. Growing up his life was a rather plain, mundane existence within a small farming community on the vast farming plains of Falleen. The plains were filled with the poor working class and farmers of Falleen. Teylas' family were only fortunate enough to leave this meager living through military service. As soon as he was of proper age, Teylas enlisted and began his basic military training. After his service was complete he returned to his family's homestead in the plains to return to his former life.. All the while, he had an insatiable desire as a young man to become more than what his family was. |
| === Reclusive Anzat === | | |
| Teylas was born and grew up feeling a solitary life. Being one of the first newborns in decades, there were none of his kind on his homeworld that were even within a hundred years of his age. While there was somewhat of a boom, as much as could be from the Anzat, of new births shortly after Telyas', it came too late for his upbringing. Spending much of his time around fellow Anzat that were much older than him, the feeling of an entire community helping to raise him was obvious from early on. Although instinctively many of the other Anzat were losing their paternal and maternal traits as it had been so long since any of them had to raise a child. | | Eventually, Teylas found a wife, Halim, and began a small farming family oblivious to the world around them. As their two children grew their extended-family farm prospered until war beckoned. |
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| | Drafted back into service by the Falleen military, Teylas was thrust into the front lines of a conflict not far from the homeworld. Having been trained many years prior as a pilot and an infantry soldier, his skills would finally be put to use. Tensions between the Falleen and [[starwars:Verpeine|Verpine]] finally came to a head, resulting in skirmishes and open conflict. The inhospitable industrial world of [[starwars:Metalorn|Metalorn]] became the staging ground of war; primarily over certain manufacturing rights as the planet sat near the [[starwars:Perlemian Trade Route|Perlemian Trade Route]]. During the preamble to conflict, Teylas encountered his first run in with [[starwars:the Force|the Force]] in the form of a [[starwars:Force vision|premonition]] that foretold of his own demise if he remained on the battlefield of Metalorn. An extremely powerful and rare event, he took its warning seriously enough to steal a small craft and flee. Taunted as he left for being a coward, he turned towards the [[starwars:Outer Rim|Outer Rim]]. |
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| | While in the Outer Rim, Teylas used his Falleen lineage to his advantage by manipulating those he needed with his species natural pheromones.. Finding odd jobs, mostly as a pilot, he drifted through an unmotivated, directionless life for several decades until he came upon whispered rumors. These rumors told of the legend of a mysterious group of Falleen masters strong in the ways of the Force, who lived deep within the [[starwars:Unknown Regions|Unknown Regions]]. Wishing to finally fulfill his boyhood dream of becoming more than what he was born into, he embarked in a small craft towards the planet [[starwars:Vondoru|Vondoru]]. |
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| | Upon arrival, he was drawn to a large and isolated valley on the planet, where he was greeted upon landing by the Falleen masters that were previously believed to be mythical. Teylas would remain on Vondoru for many years, learning to master many skills, the intricacies of a lightsaber, and the ways of the Force. It was also during this time that he used the assistance of the Falleen masters to craft his trademark lightsaber: a curved, violet bladed hilt wrapped in [[starwars:Krayt_dragon|Krayt dragon bone]]. |
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| | Once adept in the dark side of the Force Teylas left the masters and embarked on a return journey to the Falleen homeworld. Hoping to return to his family and people to clear his name as a coward, a more powerful entity than when he left many years ago, he returned to find his family's farm barren and empty. He searched frantically for any of his family chasing down rumor and supposition. He finally tracked down gossip that his wife had abandoned his family shortly after he did to live a life of adventure. |
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| | === Hate === |
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| | Believing that his wife was his only way to track down his two children Teylas began a complex search. After a few years he was finally able to track her down on [[starwars:Nar Shaddaa|Nar Shaddaa]]. Halim had by that time joined a small pirate gang. When confronted, she admitted that she left their children alone on Falleen as she fled with another man whom she had met on one of the Falleen orbital spaceports. Crushed by the news that she had betrayed him at his most vulnerable, left their children, and had no idea the whereabouts of them forced Teylas deeper towards the dark side of the Force than he had ever experienced before. |
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| | Embracing the dark side as a partner, and satisfying his growing vengeance, he destroyed the entire pirate gang one by one in front of Halim as she taunted him for his cowardice so many years previously. Vowing to never let someone betray him so viciously or label him a coward or weak ever again, Teylas ripped Halim's beating heart right from her chest before crushing it under his boot. As he cemented an entire chapter of his life finally complete, he realized that the power he had obtained from the Falleen masters was a critical stepping stone in completing his aspirations. This lust for power would help drive him towards another goal: reuniting with his two children some day. Knowing that this task would be nearly impossible he returned to Falleen to use his newfound power and begin turning it into political capital. |
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| | === Power === |
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| | Teylas returned to Falleen in the year 32 BBY. After a few short years later, he obtained a political position of governance over one of the planets' larger nation-states. Political power was unlike anything he was used to, and while incredibly intoxicating, it did nothing to ease the draw to increase his power with the Force. |
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| | Falleen was incredibly involved in galactic politics during this period and was one of the many focal points for the [[starwars:Clone Wars|Clone Wars]] by siding with the [[starwars:Confederacy_of_Independent_Systems|Confederacy of Independent Systems]]. After the fall of the [[starwars:Galactic Republic|Galactic Republic]] and the rise of the [[starwars:Galactic Empire|First Galactic Empire]] Teylas left Falleen and ventured towards the Empire in hopes of embracing the new leader, [[starwars:Palpatine|Darth Sidious]], and his apprentice, [[starwars:Vader|Darth Vader]]. However, Teylas also feared that the presence of any other strong Force-sensitives would bring upon a purge and remained on Falleen until the disarray of the Galactic Empire and deaths of both Vader and Sidious. |
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| | Once that day came, Teylas desired an expansion of power beyond his own people, as well as the location of his children, and again ventured out into the galaxy. |
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| After he began feeding, his connection to the Force began early on. This connection was quickly boosted once Teylas joined his parents, both Anzat representatives to the Sublight Products Corporation, and was able to have a much larger feeding area. Although they didn't leave the confines of an orbital station, it was a unique experience for the first Anzat to be born in generations.
| | === Returning to the Dark Side === |
| | {{Quote|Wolves do not concern themselves with the opinion of sheep.|Teylas Ramar, 24 ABY}} |
| | In the year 29 ABY, Teylas found his way to the [[Dark Brotherhood]]. Solus Gar, a powerful Sith within the Brotherhood, was tasked with reacclimating Teylas with many of the arts he hadn't used in nearly a century. Quick to return to form, the Falleen studied much of what had happened since the last time he had ventured so far out into the galaxy. As his skills sharpened he found a home for himself in Clan Plagueis. |
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| During his youth, Teylas also showed quite an adept attunement to the Force given his young age and lack of training. However it was the lack of training that both made him dangerous and nervous of his own abilities. Because of that, he was reluctant to focus in on using the Force other than his species natural abilities to lure others in for feeding. | | The first major campaign that Teylas took part in was the conquering of the Outer Rim world of [[Nfolgai]] during the war against the [[starwars:One Sith|One Sith]]. During the assault and pillaging of Nfolgai was also when Clan Plagueis revealed itself to the galaxy again after the remainder of the Brotherhood believed it to be destroyed. The [[Ascendant Fleet]] wasted no time moving onto their next target, [[starwars:Khar Delba|Khar Delba]], in order to claim the ancient Temple of Naga Sadow from right under the Sadowans. Teylas was a member of the strike team which was assigned to explore the decoy fortress on Khar Delba's icy surface. During the landing attempt, the strike team's shuttle was sabotaged and they were eventually incapacitated and captured. Finding that the culprit behind it was [[Xander Drax]], the entire group was tortured for information and, in some cases, the sheer joy of it. During their escape and attempt to reunite with the rest of the team, Teylas and [[Arden Karn]] were forced to combat Drax's apprentice, Fuuka Ashasti. Although the two inexperienced Sith were no match for Ashasti one-on-one, they were able to use their numbers to outsmart the Sith apprentice. This gave Teylas the opportunity to deliver the crushing blows which defeated Ashasti. |
| | [[File:Teylas1.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Teylas in 33 ABY.]] |
| | During the campaign to win the spoils of the desert planet [[starwars:Ch'hodos|Ch'hodos]] Teylas was assigned by [[Alaris Jinn]] to oversee Sith assault operations from orbit on the ''[[BAC Terminus]]''. Fighting the assault on the ground would have been preferable for the Falleen, but the experience of commanding from behind the front line only further improved his skills as a tactician. |
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| It was also during his youth that Teylas took a keen interest in the sciences, particularly engineering and it's surrounding fields; likely due to the fact that his parents were working so closely with his species' relationship with a ship-building manufacturer. Although like many Anzat, his long life enabled him to master the field and then quickly grow bored of it without new challenges, settings and the overwhelming drive to feed.
| | As Plagueis' power base expanded, so did Teylas' position within Clan Plagueis. With his skill and power only outmatched by his ambition, Teylas quickly rose within the ranks as a pivotal player in the shadow takeover of Hyperdyne Manufacturing as a capitalist asset of Clan Plagueis, the purging of the ancient evils in the bowels of [[the Anchorage]], and the Plagueis Civil War. The latter of which led directly to his ascension to the position of [[Clan_Plagueis#Dread_Lord.27s_Wrath|the Dread Lord's Wrath]]. However, the Plagueis Civil War, best described as a shadow puppet war, took its toll on the Dread Lord at the time, [[Vivackus Kavon]], resulting in his death and later mysterious resurrection in another body. The new body was too much for Vivackus to control and was slowly driving him mad forcing him to step down as the Dread Lord. |
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| | | Teylas went unchallenged ascending to the position of Dread Lord and commander of Clan Plagueis. He immediately cast out many of the old ways seeing the path of destruction that the treachery and deceitfulness of the past few years had on Clan Plagueis. A more structured, more efficient, culture was put into place with a more balanced share of power among the Lords of Plagueis to ensure a stronger loyalty to the Dread Lord. As Dread Lord, Teylas refused to let the clan again be decimated by the easily avoidable chaos that ravaged the clan for so long. |
| === Revenge ===
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| While traveling out into the galaxy on his own for the first time, the young Teylas happened to venture to the crime ridden world of Nar Shaddaa. It was during his time there that he happened to come upon the nightspot of Club Vertica. While maintaining a solid stance in the corner of the club he was approached by a middle-aged, ruggedly dressed, yet beautifully kept woman. After a long conversation between the two the woman, Captain Brivi Dobal, offered to bring young Teylas on board her ship as a member of her crew. With that she promised to teach the young Anzat all the ways of the galaxy, the methods of privateering and pirating, and how to handle himself as a member of her crew. It was the first promise of many that she would keep.
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| It was during his time on the Revenge that he was able to hone in and master his interest in engineering and similar fields. For his first few years on board the ''Revenge'', Teylas served as first a technician, and later the ships primary engineer.
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| === His Own Revenge ===
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| ''Obtaining the Revenge for himself, and later losing it.''
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| ''Finding himself in a galaxy without a starship, trying to make himself again.''
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| === Returning Home ===
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| Finally giving up on the galaxy, or even the galaxy giving up on him, Teylas returned to Anzat. He started by joining the internal planetary security force, which only patrolled the orbit of the planet itself as was the reclusive nature of the Anzat. As a pilot for the security force he often tended to orbital patrols for ships that may pass by the system to ensure they don't come near the homeworld without authorization.
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| Finding himself to be disinterested with the position as a pilot, and it's reminder of grander times on the ''Revenge'', he eventually decided to use his interpersonal and charismatic skills gained while out in the galaxy to make a position for himself in the government of his people. Putting down his blaster and fighter cockpit in favor of a desk, he obtained governorship of a small chain of islands in the southern hemisphere of his homeworld. Beginning his push into the political world, he was able to help influence and shape his people's future. Throughout the next 40 years, Teylas was able to slither his way up through the political life of the planet using his personal attributes, and a touch of Machiavellian-like plotting.
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| === The Dark Side ===
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| [[File:TeylasRamar.png|thumb|left]]While tending to a small matter on Tatooine regarding trade between Anzat and the Hutts, Teylas found himself on a short layover at Port Ol'val. The previous flight he was able to charter from Tatooine only took him to the Port, and while waiting for a transport from his homeworld to pick him up, he had an encounter with the Dark Jedi [[Solus Gar]]. Sensing the largely untapped Force sensitivity within Teylas, Solus took time to get to know the man during his stay at Port Ol'val. Eventually he propositioned Teylas to take him under his wing as an apprentice to teach him the dark side of the Force. The Anzat was intrigued enough to attempt what was being proposed. Already attuned to his own telepathic powers, and only slightly scratching the surface of others, it was to be a grueling process.
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| Intending to bring Teylas into the fold quickly, an arduous regiment began for Teylas' training. Immediately showing his competitive nature, Teylas was able to master things quickly, and became quite the duelist with a lightsaber, just like his master. Although his mastery of telepathy was above par for most others, mostly due to his own species mastery of the ability, his attunement to the other Force abilities was untrained. Even after months of attempting to master his abilities, he was only able to become proficent in skills such as Force lightning and telekinesis. However, his seemingly natural flow with a lightsaber was more than enough to compensate for his lack of mastery of the higher Force abilities that could be worked on in time.
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| | Teylas is easily distinguished by a strong, chiseled face that blends naturally with his pure green skin tone. He typically keeps his thick, black hair slicked back into a ponytail, and clean shaven on the face to match this kept style. |
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| Teylas is easily distinguished by a strong, chiseled face to naturally match his very lightly tanned skin tone. He always sports a black goatee which matches his short, slicked back, thick, black hair and dark, almost haunting eyes. The two tentacle-like proboscises used by his species to feed upon other humanoid species are completely unnoticeable when retracted into their proper seams along the ridge of his nose. A witty, sarcastic demeanor is usually cast about his face as the wrinkles on the corners of his mouth can attest.
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| | Teylas, loathing the inability to maneuver that comes with more armored clothing, prefers lighter robes. His silk undershirt is a deep purple and is accented with a long, leather jacket fastened by a large, metallic belt bucket that displays the sigil of Clan Plagueis. The jacket itself is also accented with gauntlet-like sleeves near the cuffs. The robes are more than just for maneuverability, however, as they also have practicability. The gloves gauntlet-like ends allow for storage of small items, as does the clasped-belt. The outfit is rounded off with leather pants, and knee-high leather boots. |
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| Like many other Sith, Teylas subscribes to the dress code of simple, long, dark robes underneath a hooded cloak. However, the top half of his body is reinforced by armor plating and adorned with robes. This mix also gives him an opportunity to carry many more smaller objects within the armor part, including a holstered blaster.
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| == Psychological Profile == | | {{Positions}} |
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| Teylas Ramar is a self-centered, narcissistic and sarcastic insufferable genius with a cunning wit. He is also easily described as antagonistic, confrontational and demanding. Despite these character flaws, he makes up for it in other aspects of his personality. Highly intelligent and quick to absorb information, he often prioritizes most of his intelligence on personal projects, advancing his own personal agenda, or gaining influence or power. For him, it's mostly about personal gain and professional credit. In conjunction with his high level of intelligence, Teylas constantly has a way of rubbing people the wrong way and coming off as quite a jerk. Since embracing the dark side, his personality has only been enhanced with evil, proving him to be almost cruel at times. Teylas also uses his intelligence to help justify his personal decisions as almost always being for the greater good, although typically they are only for self-serving reasons.
| | |before= [[Howlader]] |
| | | |title= [[Praetor]] to the [[Master at Arms]] |
| At any point that Teylas seems approachable and charming is, however, mostly a farce to have his way with people when subterfuge and cunning are needed on his part. He can quickly bring people together with his charisma if needed for whatever purpose it might serve him. Although these skills of deception have been gathered over his long life, they have only been enhanced with his growing familiarity with the Force to complement his species native telepathy.
| | |years= [[30 ABY to 39 ABY|35 ABY]] - Current |
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| == Background Information == | | }} |
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| | |before= [[Vivackus Kavon]] |
| | |title= [[Consul]] of [[Plagueis|Clan Plagueis]] |
| | |years= 33 ABY - 35 ABY |
| | |after= [[Selika Roh]] |
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| | |before= ''Various'' |
| | |title= [[Magistrate]] to the [[Master at Arms]] |
| | |years= 34 ABY - current |
| | |after= ''N/A'' |
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| | |before= [[Kz'set]] |
| | |title= [[Proconsul]] of [[Plagueis|Clan Plagueis]] |
| | |years= 32 ABY - 33 ABY |
| | |after= [[Selika Roh]] |
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| | |before= ''Various'' |
| | |title= [[Magistrate]] to the [[Master at Arms]] |
| | |years= 32 ABY |
| | |after= ''Various'' |
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| | |before= [[Arturis Schulen]] |
| | |title= [[Quaestor]] of [[Ajunta Pall]] |
| | |years= 31 ABY - 32 ABY |
| | |after= Selika Roh |
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| | |before= Position Created |
| | |title= [[Aedile]] of [[Ajunta Pall]] |
| | |years= 31 ABY |
| | |after= [[Furios Morega]] |
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| | |before= Arturis Schulen |
| | |title= [[Battleteam|Battleteam Commander]] of [[Karness Muur]] |
| | |years= 31 ABY |
| | |after= None |
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| | |before= Position Created |
| | |title= [[Battleteam|Battleteam Sergeant]] of [[Ajunta Pall]] |
| | |years= 30-31 ABY |
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| The character of Teylas Ramar takes heavy inspiration from the character of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Stark Tony Stark] with certain specific twists and characterizations to be more adaptive to the Star Wars universe. He is portrayed through the likeness of Robert Downey Jr to match the familiarity that readers would have with his portrayal of the aforementioned Tony Stark.
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- "A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness."
- ―Teylas Ramar, 51 BBY
Teylas Ramar is an Falleen Sith who currently serves as the Praetor to the Master at Arms of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood, formerly the Dread Lord of Clan Plagueis. Teylas' personality could be described as calculating, patient, and meticulous. He is arrogant, sometimes sadistic, but always just. In any combat situation, his nature as a strategist becomes apparent as he prefers to allow his opponent to make the first move. This allows him to both judge the combat effectiveness and tactics of his enemy while also allowing his opponent to become the aggressor. Ramar is an adherent of the recorded teachings of Darth Tyranus particularly his mastery in the art of dueling.
History
Early Life
Teylas Ramar was born during the waning years of the Golden Age of the Republic on the Falleen homeworld. Growing up his life was a rather plain, mundane existence within a small farming community on the vast farming plains of Falleen. The plains were filled with the poor working class and farmers of Falleen. Teylas' family were only fortunate enough to leave this meager living through military service. As soon as he was of proper age, Teylas enlisted and began his basic military training. After his service was complete he returned to his family's homestead in the plains to return to his former life.. All the while, he had an insatiable desire as a young man to become more than what his family was.
Eventually, Teylas found a wife, Halim, and began a small farming family oblivious to the world around them. As their two children grew their extended-family farm prospered until war beckoned.
Coward
Drafted back into service by the Falleen military, Teylas was thrust into the front lines of a conflict not far from the homeworld. Having been trained many years prior as a pilot and an infantry soldier, his skills would finally be put to use. Tensions between the Falleen and Verpine finally came to a head, resulting in skirmishes and open conflict. The inhospitable industrial world of Metalorn became the staging ground of war; primarily over certain manufacturing rights as the planet sat near the Perlemian Trade Route. During the preamble to conflict, Teylas encountered his first run in with the Force in the form of a premonition that foretold of his own demise if he remained on the battlefield of Metalorn. An extremely powerful and rare event, he took its warning seriously enough to steal a small craft and flee. Taunted as he left for being a coward, he turned towards the Outer Rim.
Apprentice
While in the Outer Rim, Teylas used his Falleen lineage to his advantage by manipulating those he needed with his species natural pheromones.. Finding odd jobs, mostly as a pilot, he drifted through an unmotivated, directionless life for several decades until he came upon whispered rumors. These rumors told of the legend of a mysterious group of Falleen masters strong in the ways of the Force, who lived deep within the Unknown Regions. Wishing to finally fulfill his boyhood dream of becoming more than what he was born into, he embarked in a small craft towards the planet Vondoru.
Upon arrival, he was drawn to a large and isolated valley on the planet, where he was greeted upon landing by the Falleen masters that were previously believed to be mythical. Teylas would remain on Vondoru for many years, learning to master many skills, the intricacies of a lightsaber, and the ways of the Force. It was also during this time that he used the assistance of the Falleen masters to craft his trademark lightsaber: a curved, violet bladed hilt wrapped in Krayt dragon bone.
Once adept in the dark side of the Force Teylas left the masters and embarked on a return journey to the Falleen homeworld. Hoping to return to his family and people to clear his name as a coward, a more powerful entity than when he left many years ago, he returned to find his family's farm barren and empty. He searched frantically for any of his family chasing down rumor and supposition. He finally tracked down gossip that his wife had abandoned his family shortly after he did to live a life of adventure.
Hate
Believing that his wife was his only way to track down his two children Teylas began a complex search. After a few years he was finally able to track her down on Nar Shaddaa. Halim had by that time joined a small pirate gang. When confronted, she admitted that she left their children alone on Falleen as she fled with another man whom she had met on one of the Falleen orbital spaceports. Crushed by the news that she had betrayed him at his most vulnerable, left their children, and had no idea the whereabouts of them forced Teylas deeper towards the dark side of the Force than he had ever experienced before.
Embracing the dark side as a partner, and satisfying his growing vengeance, he destroyed the entire pirate gang one by one in front of Halim as she taunted him for his cowardice so many years previously. Vowing to never let someone betray him so viciously or label him a coward or weak ever again, Teylas ripped Halim's beating heart right from her chest before crushing it under his boot. As he cemented an entire chapter of his life finally complete, he realized that the power he had obtained from the Falleen masters was a critical stepping stone in completing his aspirations. This lust for power would help drive him towards another goal: reuniting with his two children some day. Knowing that this task would be nearly impossible he returned to Falleen to use his newfound power and begin turning it into political capital.
Power
Teylas returned to Falleen in the year 32 BBY. After a few short years later, he obtained a political position of governance over one of the planets' larger nation-states. Political power was unlike anything he was used to, and while incredibly intoxicating, it did nothing to ease the draw to increase his power with the Force.
Falleen was incredibly involved in galactic politics during this period and was one of the many focal points for the Clone Wars by siding with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After the fall of the Galactic Republic and the rise of the First Galactic Empire Teylas left Falleen and ventured towards the Empire in hopes of embracing the new leader, Darth Sidious, and his apprentice, Darth Vader. However, Teylas also feared that the presence of any other strong Force-sensitives would bring upon a purge and remained on Falleen until the disarray of the Galactic Empire and deaths of both Vader and Sidious.
Once that day came, Teylas desired an expansion of power beyond his own people, as well as the location of his children, and again ventured out into the galaxy.
Returning to the Dark Side
- "Wolves do not concern themselves with the opinion of sheep."
- ―Teylas Ramar, 24 ABY
In the year 29 ABY, Teylas found his way to the Dark Brotherhood. Solus Gar, a powerful Sith within the Brotherhood, was tasked with reacclimating Teylas with many of the arts he hadn't used in nearly a century. Quick to return to form, the Falleen studied much of what had happened since the last time he had ventured so far out into the galaxy. As his skills sharpened he found a home for himself in Clan Plagueis.
The first major campaign that Teylas took part in was the conquering of the Outer Rim world of Nfolgai during the war against the One Sith. During the assault and pillaging of Nfolgai was also when Clan Plagueis revealed itself to the galaxy again after the remainder of the Brotherhood believed it to be destroyed. The Ascendant Fleet wasted no time moving onto their next target, Khar Delba, in order to claim the ancient Temple of Naga Sadow from right under the Sadowans. Teylas was a member of the strike team which was assigned to explore the decoy fortress on Khar Delba's icy surface. During the landing attempt, the strike team's shuttle was sabotaged and they were eventually incapacitated and captured. Finding that the culprit behind it was Xander Drax, the entire group was tortured for information and, in some cases, the sheer joy of it. During their escape and attempt to reunite with the rest of the team, Teylas and Arden Karn were forced to combat Drax's apprentice, Fuuka Ashasti. Although the two inexperienced Sith were no match for Ashasti one-on-one, they were able to use their numbers to outsmart the Sith apprentice. This gave Teylas the opportunity to deliver the crushing blows which defeated Ashasti.
Teylas in 33 ABY.
During the campaign to win the spoils of the desert planet Ch'hodos Teylas was assigned by Alaris Jinn to oversee Sith assault operations from orbit on the BAC Terminus. Fighting the assault on the ground would have been preferable for the Falleen, but the experience of commanding from behind the front line only further improved his skills as a tactician.
As Plagueis' power base expanded, so did Teylas' position within Clan Plagueis. With his skill and power only outmatched by his ambition, Teylas quickly rose within the ranks as a pivotal player in the shadow takeover of Hyperdyne Manufacturing as a capitalist asset of Clan Plagueis, the purging of the ancient evils in the bowels of the Anchorage, and the Plagueis Civil War. The latter of which led directly to his ascension to the position of the Dread Lord's Wrath. However, the Plagueis Civil War, best described as a shadow puppet war, took its toll on the Dread Lord at the time, Vivackus Kavon, resulting in his death and later mysterious resurrection in another body. The new body was too much for Vivackus to control and was slowly driving him mad forcing him to step down as the Dread Lord.
Teylas went unchallenged ascending to the position of Dread Lord and commander of Clan Plagueis. He immediately cast out many of the old ways seeing the path of destruction that the treachery and deceitfulness of the past few years had on Clan Plagueis. A more structured, more efficient, culture was put into place with a more balanced share of power among the Lords of Plagueis to ensure a stronger loyalty to the Dread Lord. As Dread Lord, Teylas refused to let the clan again be decimated by the easily avoidable chaos that ravaged the clan for so long.
Appearance
Physical Characteristics
Teylas is easily distinguished by a strong, chiseled face that blends naturally with his pure green skin tone. He typically keeps his thick, black hair slicked back into a ponytail, and clean shaven on the face to match this kept style.
Attire
Teylas, loathing the inability to maneuver that comes with more armored clothing, prefers lighter robes. His silk undershirt is a deep purple and is accented with a long, leather jacket fastened by a large, metallic belt bucket that displays the sigil of Clan Plagueis. The jacket itself is also accented with gauntlet-like sleeves near the cuffs. The robes are more than just for maneuverability, however, as they also have practicability. The gloves gauntlet-like ends allow for storage of small items, as does the clasped-belt. The outfit is rounded off with leather pants, and knee-high leather boots.
Positions Held