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| |type=Sith | | |order=NPC |
| |image=[[Image:Kal.jpg|250px|Kal Vorrac]] | | |image=[[File:Kal Vorrac.jpg|250px]] |
| |name=Kal Vorrac | | |firstname=Kal |
| |homeworld=Coruscant | | |lastname=Vorrac |
| | |homeworld=[[starwars:Coruscant|Coruscant]] |
| |birth=15 BBY | | |birth=15 BBY |
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| |species=Human | | |species=Human |
| |gender=Male | | |gender=Male |
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| |height=6'0" | | |height=6'0" |
| |weight=130 lbs | | |weight=130 lbs |
| |cyber= Both legs, left arm, kidney, pancreas, liver. | | |cyber=Both legs, left arm. |
| |allies= *[[Vivackus Kavon]], [[Mograine]], [[Jaecyn Kai Interm]], [[Sanguinius Tsucyra]], [[Aeshi]] | | |allies=*[[Arcadian]] |
| |enemies= | | *[[Muz Ashen|Darth Ashen]] |
| |saber= Red | | *[[Keibatsu]] |
| |form=[[Makashi]] | | *[[Eiko]] |
| |fightingstyle=[[starwars:Teräs Käsi|Teräs Käsi]], [[Grappling]] | | |enemies=*[[Sanguinius Tsucyra]] |
| |profession=Assassin/[[starwars:Dark Jedi|Dark Jedi]] | | *[[Vodo Biask Taldrya]] |
| |position= | | *[[Lacey Serina Mortashka Vorrac|Brijha Mortashka]] |
| | |saber=Red |
| | |form=[[Makashi]], [[Dun Moch]] |
| | |fightingstyle=[[Dulon]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Shadow Fist]], [[Verdanaian]] |
| | |profession=[[starwars:Assassin|Assassin]]/[[starwars:Sith|Sith]] |
| | |position=[[Quaestor]], [[Shadow Academy#Docents|Docent]] |
| |era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] | | |era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] |
| |affiliation=*[[Clan Plagueis]] | | |affiliation=* [[Clan Plagueis]] |
| *[[House Satal Keto]] | | * [[House Satal Keto]] |
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| |dossier= [[dossier:7288|7288]] | | }} |
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| [[Kal Vorrac]] is currently a [[Sith Warrior]] of [[Clan Plagueis]] and [[House Satal Keto]]. A man of manipulation, he has practice in pulling the strings of all around him. While usually preferring to fight from afar and play with lives as if on a dejarik board, his shadowy past as an assassin allows him to fight when he needs to. That said, he grapples with age as he continues his ascension through the Dark Side.
| | '''Kal Vorrac''' is one of the many [[Rogues|Rogue]] Dark Jedi found throughout the Galaxy. An older man, he has lived under many names and in various different circumstances, but at his core he has adopted the way of the Sith above all other things. A Battlelord of the Brotherhood, he currently aligns himself with no one [[House]] or [[Clan]], though he works to have relations and contacts within all seven as well as upon the [[Dark Council]]. Little is known of his current doings or whereabouts, though unconfirmed rumours claim that he was spotted in various locales during the Dark Crusade. |
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| ==Character History== | | == Character History(In Progress) == |
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| ===Early Years(Age 1-19)=== | | === Early Years === |
| | [[File:Sali1.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Sali Beel.]] |
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| ====Second-Hand Boy====
| | Kal was born '''Jev Brokkol''' on [[starwars:Coruscant|Imperial Center]] in [[25 BBY to 1 BBY|15 BBY]]. His mother, Karina Brokkol, engaged in a tryst with a smuggler called [[Tyber Vorrac]], and the child resembled his true father. Not wanting a divorce from her husband, a wealthy Bakuran named Dovin Brokkol, she abandoned the child on the 827th level of the planet. There, she left a note renaming him '''Kal Vorrac''', as Tyber would have named a son. He was discovered by a [[starwars:Twi'lek|Twi'lek]] named Sali Beel, who ran an orphanage on said level and took him in without hesitation. |
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| Kal's origin is rather meager and depressing, though it laid the groundwork for his challenging life and his twisted persona. Abandoned by the parents he never knew when he was just a week old, a note told the people his name, Kal, and that he was to be taken care of. He was found in a case for a rifle, stamped with the mark VORRAC INDUSTRIES, INC. The name Vorrac was used as his last name, and it was more than fitting, as his grandfather's name had given rise to the defense contractor that produced both rifle and box. | | Kal's childhood showed a boy with plenty of mental potential and a healthy supply of luck, as well as an uncanny knack for influencing others. To Beel's behest, he came into contact with the young thugs and miscreants that naturally plagued Imperial Center's lower levels, where he began to flourish and not only fall in with them, but influence them himself. Worried, Beel eagerly sought someone to adopt the boy, only to leave the adoption files open on her datapad when Kal happened by it. Infuriated, he fled to the nearest spaceport, stowing aboard a cargo freighter at the age of twelve. |
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| As such, Kal Vorrac was adopted by a Deathstick dealer's twi'lek slave. The dealer, an Ithorian named Haido Kuzh, let her keep the child because she'd been more than devoted in her duties to him. The boy was raised by a series of uncles and cousins, in reality customers, clients, and lackeys. They took a shine to the little green-eyed boy, whom they found to have a voracious mind. He was taught how to handle a blaster, how to fight, and many languages.
| | === Teen Years === |
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| When he was at the age of ten, innacurate by a few months because they called the day he was found his birthday, Haido began to think the boy was becoming a burden. He forced him to work for his meals, his clothing, and his shelter. For a time, he became Haido's drug runner, able to survive on the streets of lower Coruscant because of his blaster, the dirty tricks he knew, and his quick wits and reflexes. Eventually, he robbed a few people and began dealing his own deathsticks, finally getting rid of the rags and meager food Haido "paid" him with. The boy began buying nice clothing and shoes with the money, having learned charisma and manners from dealing with the many women that the Ithorian and his customers associated with.
| | {{Quote|You don't know this world, boy, and you don't want to.|Vyra Task, attempting to discourage Kal.}} |
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| Soon, though, a few of Haido's customers found that Vorrac had stolen from them, and brought trouble to Haido's doorstep. The Empire was already tough enough on criminals, and Haido had to make a bargain with the vicious trandoshans to slave out his adoptive son, else he would have lost his legs. Kal tried to flee the place, but the reptilian aliens cornered the boy. They didn't expect his aim with a blaster to be so good, though, and he killed them both with a quick-draw of his pistol. Seeing what he'd done and knowing nothing good would come of it, the boy ran away, stowing away on a cargo freighter to find a new home. What he found was just another Hell, one far worse than the last.
| | Kal's luck - a manifestation of the Force's will, though he didn't know it - brought him to [[starwars:Nar Shaddaa|Nar Shaddaa]]. There, the boy's luck and intelligence became his survival. Kal became a thief and a criminal, performing odd jobs as he had to and sleeping wherever he could. This lasted for a few months before he stole from a Togrutan crime lord, who was working under a rather important Hutt at the time. However, as the boy was apprehended, he became mixed up in the assassination of said crime lord by a Zabrak woman named Vyra Task. Task, an expert to the profession, was unaware of Kal's presence until she found him in the cargo hold of her speeder. After a savage beating and several scathing words, Kal still begged for her help, so she took him in as a student while following an odd feeling of purpose. |
| | [[File:VyraTask.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Vyra Task, assassin and unwitting savior of Kal Vorrac.]] |
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| ====The Smuggler's Moon====
| | {{Quote|Help me. Make me strong, like you. I wanna be strong.|Kal Vorrac, age twelve.}} |
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| A startled dockworker was left with nothing but a gasp of surprise and a broken knee the day he found a young Kal Vorrac, twelve years old, scrawny, and dressed in dirty and torn clothing. The young boy gave him no chance to really react, hefting a heavy droid part at his knee and shattering the cap, giving him time to use the one skill he had always been a master of. Kal Vorrac ran like hell.
| | Task's tutoring of Kal was harsh, to say the least. Savage beatings and vicious education in combat taught him his many combat forms of the future, while scathing and hurtful remarks filled him with rage and loathing for all that were about him. Every day, he learned to use his mind to disappear, to use his luck to pull off a tough job, and to use his body as a machine of quick, silent death. By age fifteen, he was killing targets at Task's order; seventeen saw him lethal, trained in hand-to-hand combat and a crack shot with a blaster. By the age of nineteen, the boy had matured into an adult, a lithe and powerful man. Task, once only a trifling user of narcotics but by now well-addicted and mentally unhinged, forced Kal toward her pleasures in a display of savagery, lethal skill, and impure lust. It was the act that drove the young assassin over the edge. |
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| What he didn't realize at the time was how devilish and dark of a place he'd found, learning the name of the place from an old cripple in an alleyway. Having stolen from a man in a blaster shop at the cripple's request, Kal earned the right to know that he now walked upon the surface of Nar Shaddaa, the Smuggler's Moon. For the first week and a half in this new place, the hotbed of criminals and scum that orbited the world of the Hutts, Kal slept under, inside, and behind whatever would keep him from prying eyes. He obtained food and water by using his small frame and quiet demeanor to steal from, sabotage, and even hurt the many people around. Morals and ethics never came to his head, for he'd never known them; it was just another meal, another drink.
| | That night, as Task slept beside him, Kal slit the woman's throat. Taking her starfighter, he made for hyperspace. |
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| In time he gathered a few nicknames, including a very vulgar Trandoshan word that called him thief in very colorful terms. He was the littlest thief, or the ankle biter. It only took so long of this before different people offered him opportunities. The first was a Sullustan named Gav Sumbul, who offered him the job of fixing broken machinery in exchange for the use of a shower and consistent food. In reality, Gav owed a large debt to some very aggressive Hutts and needed to make money without spending too much. To Kal, however, exploitation and charity rhymed quite well.
| | === The Assassin === |
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| ====Another Father, For a Time====
| | {{Quote|Heh, right. ''Had'' to kill him. Funny how we never hear that from [[starwars:Boba Fett|Fett]].| A contract provider who shouldn't have put credits over priorities.}} |
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| Gav Sambul took Kal in at first out of both pity and dire need, making the money he needed to pay off the Hutts and sheltering the boy at the same time. He was able to use the money to keep his debt paid off, while at the same time buying the boy food and clothing. Kal was able to bathe regularly, wear decent clothing, and eat a good meal every night. By every estimation of his mind, he was in paradise, but the true benefit of this came when Gav took a liking to him. He got to know the young boy, slowly adding the Sullustan dialect to the boy's dialogue while speaking with him otherwise in Huttese, and soon came to regard him as a son.
| | Kal's first years as an independent killer were rather messy. His first challenge, that of actually finding work, became difficult as Vyra's well-maintained network of contacts slowly fell apart and began to lose the edge she'd brought them. For a time, he was forced to work for lower-level scum. Initially, he operated as a bounty hunter, going by the alias of '''Ben Ytarr'''. As he had no skill or patience taking captives, he always recieved the lower bounty for a dead target. In time, this became something of a calling card for Ytarr, and he recieved fewer worthy jobs while getting in touch with the wrong kind of scum. Inevitably, as his contacts under his assassin alias, '''Scott Tarkam''', grew more lucrative, he was forced to stage the death of Ben Ytarr and fall in entirely as a killer. |
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| Sambul taught Kal everything he knew about the machines he fixed, from how to rewire a protocol droid's vocal unit to how to boost the navicomputer from a freighter in under twenty seconds. Kal greedily took in the information, eager to learn anything new, glad to be off of the streets at last. Circuitry and metal became the first toys he'd ever really had, and he played with them wholeheartedly. Sadly, this life was not perfect, and would not last.
| | Kal, as Tarkam, would go on to slowly establish himself as a skilled killer. His intelligence allowed him to pick up many new languages and his combative skills became ever more sharp. Best of all, though, his apparent luck had truly begun to blossom. It was on a particularly heated job, after a target named Dovin Brokkol - a man who Kal's studies showed as ruthless and cold since the reported abduction of his infant son, Jev - that Kal would find himself overwhelmed and outgunned by his target's security forces. In an unprecedented surge of fear, reflexes, and accuracy, Vorrac managed to shoot all twelve of the men pinning him down while in mid free-run, hitting them without even truly taking aim. This allowed him to reach Brokkol, who tried to bribe his unknowing "son" before threatening that his assets and contacts would go on to vengeful hands if he died. Kal dropped him out of a window in way of response. |
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| Gav Sambul, aside from having a strong sense of empathy for other beings, especially the helpless, was far from an admirable man. He was a rather heavy drinker, a gambling fiend, and was known to be excessively greedy. In working with underworld types, he would rely on his modified 3PX protocol unit, which he'd nicknamed Noisy. The droid, frequently rewired but never memory wiped, had developed an alarming number of personality quirks. Gav claimed to like these, but Kal never could get used to a droid with a personality and the droid itself hated the little boy in secret. It resented Vorrac, feeling he had usurped its place as Gav's favorite. That was when the droid's personality developments and mental modifications came together in a horrible way, and Kal was quick to spot the droid when it was conversing with some underworld types outside the shop. Kal quickly told Gav, who called the droid in to scold it and shut it down as punishment.
| | {{Quote|You're just a job, old man.|Scott Tarkam, before murdering Dovin Brokkol.}} |
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| What happened next was either the result of far too many modifications and conversations, or of something the thugs had done to the droid. Kal never found out which one was the truth. Noisy went into a screaming rage, using its modified body to beat and bash at the Sullustan. Having been partially modified as a loadlifter and labor droid, the machine was very powerful. Gav was injured badly, and the droid then proceeded to rig the shop's machinery to explode. That was when Kal acted.
| | Kal's years as an assassin would continue to sharpen and escalate, with emotional surges bringing on such bouts of near-superhuman ability. At times, he would know exactly where and when to move when under threat. At times he would predict the actions of his foes, or simply move faster than his enemies. At times, he simply gained far more strength than usual, moving insanely heavy objects or simply breaking men in impossible ways. At first, he tried to dismiss these outbursts, but eventually accepted them as a tool to be use. At times, they even swelled his pride, and he came to grow arrogant as well as furious during combat. |
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| Running from his secluded corner with a fusion cutter, Kal jumped on the droid, wrestling with it and cutting at it with the tool. The machine thrashed about, slamming the boy into several machines and sharp objects and hurting the boy. Nevertheless, in his rage at seeing Sambul killed, Kal managed to slice open the droid's head and rip out his memory circuits, destroying the droid's processor in seconds with the fusion cutter. After this he ran to Gav, who was horribly crippled and couldn't free himself from beneath a fallen machine. Hearing more thugs coming to finish the job, Gav ordered Kal to leave, and the boy had no choice but to flee and weep as the shop's machines blew up and the sound of the thugs' rifles as they put an end to his second father figure. It was on this day, limping and wounded from a crazed protocol droid, that Kal's hatred of mechanical beings began.
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| ====Mother's Love?====
| | {{Quote|You gonna untie me, buddy, or just stare?|The Midnight Rose}} |
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| Kal Vorrac had learned much in his time as Gav Sambul's helper and adoptive son, having the skills to not only steal, hurt, and survive on the streets, but also to work. He received many jobs from varied groups, Gav having taught him a better understanding of economics, if still an imperfect one. He was able to find his way into jobs doing repair work, theft, and sabotage on machinery and droids. When it came to machines, the latter was his favorite, but anything that paid was good enough. During this time he managed to live as a squatter in abandoned apartment complexes or concealed spots in alleyways, buying sufficient food and clothing to survive while paying to use public facilities here or there when bathing became an issue. This was also when he really began purchasing weaponry, and learning its specifics. | | It was near the end of the year [[10 ABY to 19 ABY|16 ABY]] that Kal took a job to eliminate a [[starwars:Falleen|Falleen]] money launderer by the name of Zax Pintell, whose residence was on the planet [[starwars:Sluis Van|Sluis Van]]. "Scott Tarkam" moved in as he usually did, covertly assessing the man's routines and habits. He made a habit of studying the man's departure and arrival to the manor of a [[starwars:Sluissi|Sluissi]] businessman who made heavy use of the Falleen. Infiltrating the manor, Kal came upon the Sluissi's greatest secret - a bound human woman, apparently delivered by some underworld associate. After a rather humorous exchange, Kal came under attack from the manor's security droids, only for the woman to call for Vorrac's aid and offer to help. |
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| As he learned how to operate, service, and even disassemble weapons, he learned how to modify them. These modifications served him well, along with the inevitable ability that came with his knowledge. Vorrac managed to make just as much sabotaging weapons shipments and disassembling weaponry for benevolent groups or rivals as he did by buying and selling modified equipment. Still, he was no mastermind and had no real assets, so every day was another day of survival for the young man. He never really managed to gain in any significant way, and his definition of luxury became the equivalent of everyone else's definition for poverty.
| | On a hunch - something that Kal had come to trust - he unbound her and armed her. While Kal eliminated Pintell, the woman broke into the Sluissi's private art gallery and reclaimed a stolen heirloom. After the assault, she introduced herself as [[Lacey Serina Mortashka Vorrac|Brijha Mortashka]], the '''Midnight Rose'''. Though Kal tried to abandon her, she managed to follow him on civilian transport and, after sneaking into his cargo hold, found herself on the wrong end of a blaster and explaining herself. Inexplicably, Kal's hunch told him not to kill her, so he grudgingly allowed her to stay within his safehouse after stripping her of any communications and weapons. She was allowed to use his shower and refresher as needed and given some of his spare clothing, but was otherwise ignored or even rudely turned aside by Vorrac. The man had not had any intimacy, outside of when a contract demanded it, since his rape at the hands of Task; the old scars ran deep. |
| | [[File:Brijha.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Brijha Mortashka, the Midnight Rose]] |
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| Still, between his mechanical work and his assorted jobs for criminals, he managed to catch the eye of yet another parental figure. As he was watched from the shadows, the littlest thief, the tiny saboteur, was being sized up. One day, in the middle of a job from a local Hutt, he was surprised and ambushed by a group that had been expecting him. Vorrac surely would have died, had a Zabrak woman called Vym Khuzad not intervened. A skilled assassin, she adeptly disposed of those who had assaulted the boy by use of infrared goggles, a flash grenade, and skilled pistol usage. Beckoning Kal on when his eyes again worked, she offered him a chance to rise above the street, to never again need to sleep in a gutter. Kal had never known a mother, but having heard about maternal tenderness and love, he had hopes that his life was about to change. He couldn't have been more wrong.
| | {{Quote|It's like a fire in your eyes. So much hate, and... pain. Who did this to you?|Brijha, asking Kal about his past.}} |
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| ==Physical Description==
| | Mortashka would continue to stay with Kal, eating his rations and using his gear, but otherwise was shut out from the world beyond. This suited her - her family had died at the hands of the Sluissi a couple of years before, and she'd been operating as a bounty hunter and small-time thug to get by until she could recover her heirloom. After several jobs, though, she became restless, going so far as to attempt leaving the safehouse. This at first drew Kal's ire, but in time, he came to regret keeping her locked away. Much as he knew his security depended on it from Vyra's teachings, he could not help but relate to her. In time, she found her way through his rage, and Kal eventually gave in to the romance that was budding between them. He and Bri came to share a bed, a step toward healing his bitterness and isolation. Within the next few weeks, she announced a pregnancy, further complicating matters and leaving Kal with attachments. |
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| Vorrac has black hair, emerald eyes, and skin pale as ice. While not an overbearing man, he is fairly tall at six feet and keeps his medium build in perfect physical condition. His hair is kept so short that he is nearly bald, and his face is kept free of facial hair. His left arm and both legs are prosthetic parts, coated in a black armourweave similar in appearance and texture to skin. Kal always wears his Brotherhood robes, both for effect and to conceal his false body parts.
| | After taking a few months to help Bri and securing a medical droid for her, he went on another contract, this time to kill a lead opponent of an [[starwars:Aleena|Aleenan]] Senator. Upon his return, he was greeted by the sight of his safehouse raided, arriving just in time to be blasted backward as a [[starwars:GAT-12 Skipray Blastboat|Skipray blastboat]] reduced the building to rubble. Scott Tarkam was officially dead, and Kal, believing his lover and child gone, set off with a new purpose; for the first time, he sought revenge. |
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| ==Personality== | | === Matricide === |
| | {{dialogue|Karina Brokkol|Tarkam! You bastard! But how... wait... Jev? M-my Jev?! I'm your mother!|Kal Vorrac|My name's not Tarkam. My name's not Jev. My name is Kal... and ''hers'' was ''Brijha.''|Kal Vorrac to Karina Brokkol, moments before killing her.}} |
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| Kal is a warped individual, completely insane by almost all estimates. Only an examination of his life, an understanding of his mind, and a chance to see him in action would explain how one like him manages to exist in society. The few who come near this understanding, as no one fully gets the Sith, describe him as being a different kind of sane, wired differently than those around him in almost every way. | | Searching through the galaxy for leads, Kal found his contacts were slowly being eliminated, his resources sold out and eradicated. One by one, every safehouse he had was destroyed, all of his assets were siphoned away, and everyone he'd ever come to rely on had been killed or had betrayed him. Over time, Kal turned Scott Tarkam's name into one of bloodshed and retribution, brutally interrogating and killing everyone he could get his hands on. Eventually, he tracked his mark back to the Brokkol Estates on Coruscant. Apparently, Dovin's heirs apparent had made good on his promises. Infiltrating the complex, he found it heavily protected, the tenants prepared for an army to descend. Instead, Kal made an effort to kill each and every one of the people inside as only he could, his rage empowering him with decades of lethal practice and moving him to impossible feats again and again. Only once did he pause, coming across a long-abandoned nursery; there, he felt a tug of some ancient instinct, almost like a memory. Only his fury stopped him from investigating further. |
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| Having lived a life where strength, skill, and cunning allowed him to survive, Kal believes in being the best. Only by being strong has he ever managed to ascend to greater stations and a better life. This has allowed him to grow up with a moral code that vindicates him usurping, manipulating, killing, and dominating all those around him. Similarly, this wildly backward moral code looks down upon mercy, kindness, and benevolence, as these apparent weaknesses have led him and those around him to nothing but pain and suffering. Literally, his moral code seems to match the Sith doctrine in every way.
| | Fighting his way to the top floor, Kal finally found his target - none other than Karina Brokkol. After eliminating her droid bodyguards, Kal blasted through the thick walls of her panic room, and he tore the door open with his own bare hands. After a few moments of pleading, a moment of clarity allowed Karina to see Tyber's strong likeness in Kal. It was then that she recognized her son, begging him not to kill her. Angrily, he declared her to be dead to him, and devoted the kill to Brijha before emptying an entire blaster clip into Karina's corpse. |
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| Kal's lifestyle has unfortunately rendered him extremely paranoid, capable of thought in many directions and compelled to think in the worst possible ways. Everywhere he suspects a trap, or a betrayal. While this attitude has saved his life on thousands of occasions, it also robs him of the potential to enjoy life on any level. The only pleasure he finds is in the pursuit of power and strength, a momentary pleasure that must continually be sated. He cannot enjoy the fruits of his labor, for luxury is weakness in his mind and friendship, trust, and love are all pathways to a pathetic death. | | Afterward, Kal doused all of the bodies in starfighter fuel before setting the Estates alight. The blast was almost as intense as the flames that followed. |
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| Kal is also possessed of a great deal of insecurity, born both of his paranoia and the treatment he has received from nearly every parental or other family figure he's ever had. Having been exploited, abused, and mistreated by every family figure he's ever had, right down to the death of his last parental figure at his own hands, he has learned that reliance on anyone but himself is foolish. He also believes that becoming weak will spell his return to torture and possibly his complete domination or annihilation, and so he emptily pursues power simply because he believes any other path to be foolish. Were he not so twisted and evil, his personality would likely make many weep for him.
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| | Kal's brief vendetta had changed the man's situation drastically; for the first time since his teenage years, all of his contacts had disappeared. Nevertheless, Vorrac maintained many skills in the arts of disguise, espionage, and assassination. These would allow him to ply a far less lucrative trade than he previously had as an enforcer and hitman for many different factions, going under a trio of aliases known as Tulo Marn, Mack Wessel, and Alistair Black. However, where he had once served the upper echelon of crime lords and politicians, now he was working for far smaller goals and gains, which forced him to use the three nomickers and identities to work for and against several of his own employers at the same time. |
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| Believing wholeheartedly in the way of the Sith, Kal has taken on several Apprentices. Of these, only [[Vivackus Kavon]] and [[Mograine]] have been truly successful, Viv becoming a skilled political player somewhat reminiscent of Tyranus as Mog grew more toward the killing-machine ideals of Maul. While these formal Apprentices are his way of guaranteeing that the strong will succeed, he has also aided many others informally and less intensely, either to influence them or for his own personal gain. Many suspect that this pattern of teaching will continue until Kal dies, probably at the hands of one of his many students.
| | Though he was able to keep up the many ruses this required, his increased activity introduced him to new levels of fatigue, which compounded with his grief to drive him toward the vice of adrenal stims. Originally buying the injection cocktails from spice dealers and the like, he would come to experiment with and synthesize his own, making him dependent on increasingly more volatile drugs and forcing him into far worse states of mind. In time, he would come to lose his edge in many ways, forgetting or outright ignoring many of the steps that had made him such a lethal killer. Where once he'd been trained to be silent and invisible, he became loud, aggressive, and extremely violent. This would eventually lead to many of his clients and employers discovering his dishonest dealings, leading him to fake the death of his Tulo Marn alias and establish fake records of Alistair Black leaving the criminal underworld and going legitimate in the Mid Rim. |
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| | It was during 18 ABY when he began to start needing to kill his own clients that his work as an assassin dried up almost absolutely, to which Kal would respond with more rage and dirty dealings against his clients. Soon, the name of Mack Wessel, his last safe alias, recieved the death mark in no fewer than five star systems. Following this, he would be forced to flee into Imperial space, where he would find some small employment with one group that massively needed able hands - the armed forces of the Imperial Remnant. |
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| *Sith Flight Leader and Commander of [[Satal Victus]]
| | Signing up with the [[starwars:Imperial Army|Imperial Army]], he proved far too volatile for either the [[starwars:Stormtrooper Corps|Stormtrooper Corps]] or [[starwars:Imperial Intelligence|Intelligence division]] and very nearly faced court-martial on multiple occasions. However, he would earn his keep fighting alongside ground units against the [[starwars:New Republic|New Republic]]. While his tactics often put his allies at risk and would even lead to their deaths, he was forgiven due to the combination of berserk, drug-addled ferocity he exhibited, his elite combative skills, and his uncanny insights regarding the ebb and flow of combat. However, after the signing of the [[starwars:Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty|Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty]] a year into his service, he would refuse to stand down against the Republic, leading to a massacre that saw "Mack Wessel" charged with war crimes and sentenced to life in an Imperial prison. |
| *Senator of the Plagueis Senate
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| *Former member of the [[Order of Keto]]
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| *Aedile of [[House Satal Keto]]
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| *Quaestor of [[House Satal Keto]]
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| *Major in Clan Plagueis Intelligence Division
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| ==Trivia==
| | Kal didn't care. At this period in time, he had been fighting, killing, and doping to quell the grief. Some have speculated that, at this period in time, he approached a sense of madness. |
| *Kal is a master of the game Dejarik, having studied the game as it was played on six different worlds.
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| *Kal is known to build a new lightsaber every few weeks.
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| *A commonly-known fact about Kal Vorrac is his avid hate for all forms of droid.
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| *Kal is fluent in basic, high galactic, rodese, huttese, sullustan, dosh, and twi'leki. He also comprehends certain varieties of droidspeak and wookiee dialects, though he can obviously speak neither.
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| | {{Quote|I saw you manhandle that guard, and slip the cuffs they put you in. How about getting off this tub?|Arcadian, speaking to a closed-off Kal Vorrac.}} |
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| | Vorrac's sentence would begin on an Imperial prison barge, where he was forced to sober up and face his demons in the darkness of his cell. It was here that he fell into a deep despair, with the weeks-long voyage seeing his hair become unkempt and his face grow a considerable beard. For the assassin, it was a first; never before had Task's iron training been so solidly ignored. Kal had to face the realities of Bri's apparent death, as well as his own atrocities; he had raped, killed, and tortured many, completely abandoning the codes and principles he had been clinging to for years. It was not until he met another captive, the mercenary [[Arcadian]], that he would begin to speak again. Arcadian, a member of a group called the Steel Nova, was planning an escape. |
| | [[File:Kal in Training.jpg|thumb|right|Kal kills a fellow student while training with the GMRG.]] |
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| | == Physical Description == |
| | Vorrac has black hair, emerald eyes, and skin as pale as ice. While not an overbearing man, he is fairly tall at six feet and keeps his medium build well-toned and as healthy as possible. His hair is kept short enough for a soldier, and his face is kept free of facial hair. His left arm and both legs are prosthetic parts, painted a low-lustre black. Kal always wears his Brotherhood robes, both for effect and to conceal his false body parts. |
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| | == Personality == |
| | One could say that Kal Vorrac is an example of life's shaping influences. Between abandonment and abuse at all levels of childhood to a career of assassination, followed by a life of subterfuge and manipulation, all at risk of betrayal, he has become both emotionally scarred and completely self-sufficient. He is known for his deep-set paranoia and his extreme patience and thoroughness, which works with his intelligence and years of experience to make him over-compensate for weaknesses. |
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| | He truly fears only complete helplessness. This fear is so prevalent that he will literally force himself through the gauntlet as his legs give out. Until he is proven useless and someone strikes him down, he will keep fighting. This makes him manipulate and destroy to secure his place of power, but ultimately means that he will likely die a lonely and unfulfilled death. |
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| | == Philosophies == |
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| | === Rule of Two === |
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| | Atypically for a Sith of the Brotherhood, Kal considers one of the most successful and prominent Dark Lords of the past to be [[starwars:Darth Bane|Darth Bane]]. Whereas most of the Brotherhood's Dark Jedi believe that Bane was a fool for reducing the Sith in number to only two, or that he was too cowardly to build up a force and take his enemies head-on, Vorrac's view is that the [[starwars:Sith'ari|Sith'ari]] was brilliant in his decision. |
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| | Any scholar who is honest would agree that, between the time of [[starwars:Lord Kaan|Kaan's]] Sith or even those of the [[Starwars:Sith Empire|True Sith]] and the time of Bane's [[starwars:Order of the Sith Lords|Order]], the power of all given Sith was known to increase. Sith of Kaan's time or before typically had varied studies and experiences, coveting knowledge that could empower the entire Order in order to elevate their own station; the Sith under Bane either came to know each and every known Dark Side lesson and secret, or died in the attempt. Evidence of this difference in power can be seen in the duality between Kaan and Bane themselves - one had a mediocre, balanced skill with many Dark Side doctrines but a mastery of none, while the other was not only masterful in the ways that Kaan had dabbled in but had recovered and learned such incredible techniques as [[Health#Transfer Life|Essence Transfer]] and [[starwars:Sith holocron|Holocron]] construction. |
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| | Interesting, however, is Kal's view of the Brotherhood in relation to the Rule of Two. Rather than a divergence of it, Kal sees the Brotherhood as a unique and thriving take on the Rule; this view is largely justified by the fact that Brotherhood members are taught ''all'' aspects of the Brotherhood's knowledge within their particular Orders, learning new abilities when they become powerful enough to ascend in [[Ranks|Rank]]. It is also justified by the fact that, while the [[Dark Council]] holds great power and presides over the [[House]]s and [[Clan]]s, all are Sith servants and devotees of the [[Grand Master|Dark Lord]] and his [[Deputy Grand Master|Shadow Hand]] - a Sith Lord and his true disciple. In this manner, many Sith have had [[starwars:Dark Side Adept|Dark Side Adepts]] as their servants without them truly being Sith. |
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| | Finally, Kal views the Brotherhood as an expanded and evolved culture based around Bane's rule - as House is to Clan, as Clans are to Council, and as Council is to the Throne, the Brotherhood is based around the mighty endowing those below with greater knowledge and power, until ultimately all members are surpassed and replaced. Thus, Kal is able to rationalize the Brotherhood as both a true Order of Sith ''and'' an expression of the Rule of Two. |
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| | === Sith Divergence === |
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| | Kal is, as he has explained to many others in the Dark Brotherhood, a Sith purist; he emphatically insists that he is ''not'' a Dark Jedi at all, and will correct others who call him as such if necessary. This is because he has never had any interaction with the Jedi Order or its teachings, aside from instances of combat. He considers himself a Sith, and interestingly, considers all members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood to either be Sith or their divergent cousins, though he acknowledges their status as Dark Jedi. |
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| | Vorrac is of the belief that both the Obelisk and Krath Orders are still forms of [[starwars:Sith|Sith]] - the Obelisk are the ilk of [[Ferran]], who was a member of the [[starwars:Sith cult|Sith cult]] known as the [[starwars:Mecrosa Order|Mecrosa Order]], while the Krath originated as the [[starwars:Krath|cult]] from the [[starwars:Empress Teta system|Empress Teta System]]; [[Tiamat]] herself was originally a [[starwars:Sith sorcerer|Sith Sorceress]] - and thus, refers to all Brotherhood Dark Jedi as [[Sith]] at times. |
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| | As is typical for a member of his [[Order]], he has an arrogant standpoint on "pure" Sith of the Brotherhood; while Krath have their place as scholars and sorcerers and Obelisk are ideal as warriors and assassins, in Kal's mind, it is the place and way of the mainline Sith to rule over the "lesser" divergent Orders. The only exception seen in these views are afforded to [[Sith Lord]]s of the Brotherhood, who in his mind have risen above the divergent groups and become total masters of the ways of the Dark Side - true Lords of the Sith. |
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| | == Weapons and Equipment == |
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| | Having lived the life of a contract killer and having devoted most of his credits to weapons and equipment, Kal has an intimate knowledge of blasters and other guns. While he prefers pistols for their availability and ease of concealment, he's not loathe to pick up a rifle when the situation calls for it; often, he'll grab a spare off of a dead enemy when in a tight spot. Unlike some Dark Jedi, Kal treats the blaster as a ready secondary weapon in most situations; his lightsaber is fearsome, but when confronted with range, his skills as a marksman allow him to quickly end lives without putting his own in danger. |
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| | Since becoming a Dark Jedi Knight, as he was a Journeyman in the time before armory lightsabers were issued, he has carried a saber of his own at all times. In his free moment and at his place of residence, he modifies and constructs several replacement hilts; while his blade is one of the few things he truly loves, he will discard it at the first necessity, refusing to become attached. As such, many places he inhabits such as homes, offices, and even temporary headquarters will have the weapons concealed in ideal spots. |
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| | The Force is also something of weaponry and equipment to Kal; his injuries during the Second Battle of Antei left him greatly weakened, as replacement organs and the requisite surgeries worked with missing limbs and age to destroy his prior physical ability. In his rehabilitation, he came to understand the Force more deeply, and often uses it for camouflage, subterfuge, protection, self-augmentation, healing, weaponry, and even to resist the cold of Morroth during his treks with new Apprentices. His familiarity with it is so deep that he will use it by reflex for tiny tasks like opening doors, or grabbing a drinking glass; it's as familiar to him as using his hands. |
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| | The newest weapon in the entourage of Vorrac is the whip. Since becoming the Taskmaster of Plagueis, he has taken to the use of a simple leather whip, finding the sting and crack of it effective in schooling Journeymen. When outside of combat, he takes instead to a scourge with five thongs. Each is made of a three-foot strip of braided rancor leather, and is tipped with a cruel durasteel hook made for sinking into flesh. When not surgically removed, these usually leave the body in a cruel manner, ripping apart the muscles and tendons that they are embedded in on their way out. |
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| | Armor, robes, and clothing for Vorrac depend greatly on the situation; he is fixated on no one set. Should the event occur where it is necessary to be protected, he will don such equipment as [[starwars:Stormtrooper armor|Stormtrooper garb]] or even stolen durasteel variants of [[starwars:Mandalorian armor|Beskar'gam]]. In other situations, he will stick to lighter armor or simple clothing, while still other incidences see him down to underclothes to escape the heat. Clothing is just that to Vorrac's sensibilities, gear to be changed at first need and without attachment or preference. |
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| | Only one article holds any attachment to the Sith: A Krayt dragon pearl, engraved faintly with his insignia and kept on a cord of bantha leather. Upon being asked about it in the past, he has reacted violently, even going so far as to mortally wound a questioner. It is kept securely guarded in a bank on Coruscant, inside one of the deepest-kept vaults he could afford. |
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| | ==Apprentices Trained== |
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| | === Dark Jedi Knight or Above === |
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| | Kal has seen many of his Apprentices become true Dark Jedi, mastering his Sith teachings and rising above the level of [[Journeyman]]. These he still considers Apprentices under him, if unofficially, but in the manner of Bane and his Order rather than that of Sidious and his Adepts. |
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| | *[[Vivackus Kavon]] |
| | *[[Mograine]] |
| | *[[Unus Domus]] |
| | *[[Telum Vas Umbra]] |
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| | === Jedi Hunter or Below === |
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| | While Kal trains many Dark Jedi, those below [[Dark Jedi Knight|Knighthood]] are treated by him as minions and tools to be used and sacrificed - similarly to how Darth Sidious would train many Dark Adepts, but would only have one Sith Apprentice. |
| | *[[Nariah]] |
| | *Vengen Stormshadow |
| | *[[Imichua Haruki]] |
| | *[[Lacey Serina Mortashka Vorrac]] |
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| | == Notable Achievements == |
| | * Known as the Last Son of Plagueis, being the final di Plagia named before the closing of Old Clan Plagueis. |
| | * Recipient of the [[Seal of Loyalty]]. |
| | * Has achieved the rank of Sith Battlelord. |
| | * Wrote and designed the [[Plagueian Path]] Master/Student Program. |
| | * Rewrote [[Morroth]] and wrote its [[Temple of Plagueis]] article. |
| | * Wrote and rewrote [[Sigil 2]], incorporating [[Si'Tilk]] and [[Fort Ash]]. |
| | * Wrote the majority of the [[Taking of Si'Tilk]] plot and competitions. |
| | * Received a Crescent with Diamond Star for victory in [[Tempest Omega]]. |
| | * Wrote the storyline for Shards of a Lingering Darkness, an incredibly successful [[Plagueis|PLA]]-[[Scholae Palatinae|HSP]]-[[Revan|IHR]] event. |
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| | == Positions Held == |
| | * [[Flight Leader]]: Satal Victus |
| | * [[Commander]]: [[Satal Victus]] |
| | * Senator: Plagueis Senate |
| | * Member: [[Order of Keto]] |
| | * [[Aedile]]: [[House Satal Keto]] |
| | * Quaestor: [[House Satal Keto]] |
| | * Brigadier General: Jusadih Intelligence Directorate |
| | * Quaestor: [[Plagueis|House Plagueis]] |
| | * Praetor: [[Grand Master]] |
| | * Commander: [[Primus Pilus]] |
| | * Taskmaster: House Plagueis |
| | * Judge: [[Antei Combat Center]] |
| | * Community Helper: Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild |
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| | == Trivia == |
| | * Kal is a master of the game Dejarik, having studied the game as it was played on six different worlds. |
| | * Kal was temporarily part of both the [[Krath]] and [[Obelisk]] Orders - he incorporates this into his backstory by saying he learned from both, but chose the studies of the Sith. |
| | * Though Kal is a part of Plagueis, he does not consider himself a Dark Jedi - he has never had anything to do with the Jedi themselves, and thus he considers himself purely a member of the Sith Order. |
| | * Kal enjoys gambling for the same reason he enjoys manipulation - overcoming an enemy and gaining from their loss - but has a strong dislike of wealth and luxury. He believes they are a path to weakness. |
| | * Vorrac, while taking women to his bed from time to time and unafraid to pose as a lover to gain information, will never take another wife; the loss of Brijha and his children has hardened him against such things. |
| | * While he has had many years speaking Basic to cover it, Kal's first language was Huttese and he does, in fact, have a very faint Hutt accent. It can only be heard when he does not actively try to cover it. |
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Kal Vorrac is one of the many Rogue Dark Jedi found throughout the Galaxy. An older man, he has lived under many names and in various different circumstances, but at his core he has adopted the way of the Sith above all other things. A Battlelord of the Brotherhood, he currently aligns himself with no one House or Clan, though he works to have relations and contacts within all seven as well as upon the Dark Council. Little is known of his current doings or whereabouts, though unconfirmed rumours claim that he was spotted in various locales during the Dark Crusade.
Character History(In Progress)
Early Years
Sali Beel.
Kal was born Jev Brokkol on Imperial Center in 15 BBY. His mother, Karina Brokkol, engaged in a tryst with a smuggler called Tyber Vorrac, and the child resembled his true father. Not wanting a divorce from her husband, a wealthy Bakuran named Dovin Brokkol, she abandoned the child on the 827th level of the planet. There, she left a note renaming him Kal Vorrac, as Tyber would have named a son. He was discovered by a Twi'lek named Sali Beel, who ran an orphanage on said level and took him in without hesitation.
Kal's childhood showed a boy with plenty of mental potential and a healthy supply of luck, as well as an uncanny knack for influencing others. To Beel's behest, he came into contact with the young thugs and miscreants that naturally plagued Imperial Center's lower levels, where he began to flourish and not only fall in with them, but influence them himself. Worried, Beel eagerly sought someone to adopt the boy, only to leave the adoption files open on her datapad when Kal happened by it. Infuriated, he fled to the nearest spaceport, stowing aboard a cargo freighter at the age of twelve.
Teen Years
- "You don't know this world, boy, and you don't want to."
- ―Vyra Task, attempting to discourage Kal.
Kal's luck - a manifestation of the Force's will, though he didn't know it - brought him to Nar Shaddaa. There, the boy's luck and intelligence became his survival. Kal became a thief and a criminal, performing odd jobs as he had to and sleeping wherever he could. This lasted for a few months before he stole from a Togrutan crime lord, who was working under a rather important Hutt at the time. However, as the boy was apprehended, he became mixed up in the assassination of said crime lord by a Zabrak woman named Vyra Task. Task, an expert to the profession, was unaware of Kal's presence until she found him in the cargo hold of her speeder. After a savage beating and several scathing words, Kal still begged for her help, so she took him in as a student while following an odd feeling of purpose.
Vyra Task, assassin and unwitting savior of Kal Vorrac.
- "Help me. Make me strong, like you. I wanna be strong."
- ―Kal Vorrac, age twelve.
Task's tutoring of Kal was harsh, to say the least. Savage beatings and vicious education in combat taught him his many combat forms of the future, while scathing and hurtful remarks filled him with rage and loathing for all that were about him. Every day, he learned to use his mind to disappear, to use his luck to pull off a tough job, and to use his body as a machine of quick, silent death. By age fifteen, he was killing targets at Task's order; seventeen saw him lethal, trained in hand-to-hand combat and a crack shot with a blaster. By the age of nineteen, the boy had matured into an adult, a lithe and powerful man. Task, once only a trifling user of narcotics but by now well-addicted and mentally unhinged, forced Kal toward her pleasures in a display of savagery, lethal skill, and impure lust. It was the act that drove the young assassin over the edge.
That night, as Task slept beside him, Kal slit the woman's throat. Taking her starfighter, he made for hyperspace.
The Assassin
- "Heh, right. Had to kill him. Funny how we never hear that from Fett."
- ― A contract provider who shouldn't have put credits over priorities.
Kal's first years as an independent killer were rather messy. His first challenge, that of actually finding work, became difficult as Vyra's well-maintained network of contacts slowly fell apart and began to lose the edge she'd brought them. For a time, he was forced to work for lower-level scum. Initially, he operated as a bounty hunter, going by the alias of Ben Ytarr. As he had no skill or patience taking captives, he always recieved the lower bounty for a dead target. In time, this became something of a calling card for Ytarr, and he recieved fewer worthy jobs while getting in touch with the wrong kind of scum. Inevitably, as his contacts under his assassin alias, Scott Tarkam, grew more lucrative, he was forced to stage the death of Ben Ytarr and fall in entirely as a killer.
Kal, as Tarkam, would go on to slowly establish himself as a skilled killer. His intelligence allowed him to pick up many new languages and his combative skills became ever more sharp. Best of all, though, his apparent luck had truly begun to blossom. It was on a particularly heated job, after a target named Dovin Brokkol - a man who Kal's studies showed as ruthless and cold since the reported abduction of his infant son, Jev - that Kal would find himself overwhelmed and outgunned by his target's security forces. In an unprecedented surge of fear, reflexes, and accuracy, Vorrac managed to shoot all twelve of the men pinning him down while in mid free-run, hitting them without even truly taking aim. This allowed him to reach Brokkol, who tried to bribe his unknowing "son" before threatening that his assets and contacts would go on to vengeful hands if he died. Kal dropped him out of a window in way of response.
- "You're just a job, old man."
- ―Scott Tarkam, before murdering Dovin Brokkol.
Kal's years as an assassin would continue to sharpen and escalate, with emotional surges bringing on such bouts of near-superhuman ability. At times, he would know exactly where and when to move when under threat. At times he would predict the actions of his foes, or simply move faster than his enemies. At times, he simply gained far more strength than usual, moving insanely heavy objects or simply breaking men in impossible ways. At first, he tried to dismiss these outbursts, but eventually accepted them as a tool to be use. At times, they even swelled his pride, and he came to grow arrogant as well as furious during combat.
Complications
- "You gonna untie me, buddy, or just stare?"
- ―The Midnight Rose
It was near the end of the year 16 ABY that Kal took a job to eliminate a Falleen money launderer by the name of Zax Pintell, whose residence was on the planet Sluis Van. "Scott Tarkam" moved in as he usually did, covertly assessing the man's routines and habits. He made a habit of studying the man's departure and arrival to the manor of a Sluissi businessman who made heavy use of the Falleen. Infiltrating the manor, Kal came upon the Sluissi's greatest secret - a bound human woman, apparently delivered by some underworld associate. After a rather humorous exchange, Kal came under attack from the manor's security droids, only for the woman to call for Vorrac's aid and offer to help.
On a hunch - something that Kal had come to trust - he unbound her and armed her. While Kal eliminated Pintell, the woman broke into the Sluissi's private art gallery and reclaimed a stolen heirloom. After the assault, she introduced herself as Brijha Mortashka, the Midnight Rose. Though Kal tried to abandon her, she managed to follow him on civilian transport and, after sneaking into his cargo hold, found herself on the wrong end of a blaster and explaining herself. Inexplicably, Kal's hunch told him not to kill her, so he grudgingly allowed her to stay within his safehouse after stripping her of any communications and weapons. She was allowed to use his shower and refresher as needed and given some of his spare clothing, but was otherwise ignored or even rudely turned aside by Vorrac. The man had not had any intimacy, outside of when a contract demanded it, since his rape at the hands of Task; the old scars ran deep.
Brijha Mortashka, the Midnight Rose
- "It's like a fire in your eyes. So much hate, and... pain. Who did this to you?"
- ―Brijha, asking Kal about his past.
Mortashka would continue to stay with Kal, eating his rations and using his gear, but otherwise was shut out from the world beyond. This suited her - her family had died at the hands of the Sluissi a couple of years before, and she'd been operating as a bounty hunter and small-time thug to get by until she could recover her heirloom. After several jobs, though, she became restless, going so far as to attempt leaving the safehouse. This at first drew Kal's ire, but in time, he came to regret keeping her locked away. Much as he knew his security depended on it from Vyra's teachings, he could not help but relate to her. In time, she found her way through his rage, and Kal eventually gave in to the romance that was budding between them. He and Bri came to share a bed, a step toward healing his bitterness and isolation. Within the next few weeks, she announced a pregnancy, further complicating matters and leaving Kal with attachments.
After taking a few months to help Bri and securing a medical droid for her, he went on another contract, this time to kill a lead opponent of an Aleenan Senator. Upon his return, he was greeted by the sight of his safehouse raided, arriving just in time to be blasted backward as a Skipray blastboat reduced the building to rubble. Scott Tarkam was officially dead, and Kal, believing his lover and child gone, set off with a new purpose; for the first time, he sought revenge.
Matricide
- Karina Brokkol: "Tarkam! You bastard! But how... wait... Jev? M-my Jev?! I'm your mother!"
- Kal Vorrac: "My name's not Tarkam. My name's not Jev. My name is Kal... and hers was Brijha.'"
- ―Kal Vorrac to Karina Brokkol, moments before killing her.
Searching through the galaxy for leads, Kal found his contacts were slowly being eliminated, his resources sold out and eradicated. One by one, every safehouse he had was destroyed, all of his assets were siphoned away, and everyone he'd ever come to rely on had been killed or had betrayed him. Over time, Kal turned Scott Tarkam's name into one of bloodshed and retribution, brutally interrogating and killing everyone he could get his hands on. Eventually, he tracked his mark back to the Brokkol Estates on Coruscant. Apparently, Dovin's heirs apparent had made good on his promises. Infiltrating the complex, he found it heavily protected, the tenants prepared for an army to descend. Instead, Kal made an effort to kill each and every one of the people inside as only he could, his rage empowering him with decades of lethal practice and moving him to impossible feats again and again. Only once did he pause, coming across a long-abandoned nursery; there, he felt a tug of some ancient instinct, almost like a memory. Only his fury stopped him from investigating further.
Fighting his way to the top floor, Kal finally found his target - none other than Karina Brokkol. After eliminating her droid bodyguards, Kal blasted through the thick walls of her panic room, and he tore the door open with his own bare hands. After a few moments of pleading, a moment of clarity allowed Karina to see Tyber's strong likeness in Kal. It was then that she recognized her son, begging him not to kill her. Angrily, he declared her to be dead to him, and devoted the kill to Brijha before emptying an entire blaster clip into Karina's corpse.
Afterward, Kal doused all of the bodies in starfighter fuel before setting the Estates alight. The blast was almost as intense as the flames that followed.
Burning Bridges
Kal's brief vendetta had changed the man's situation drastically; for the first time since his teenage years, all of his contacts had disappeared. Nevertheless, Vorrac maintained many skills in the arts of disguise, espionage, and assassination. These would allow him to ply a far less lucrative trade than he previously had as an enforcer and hitman for many different factions, going under a trio of aliases known as Tulo Marn, Mack Wessel, and Alistair Black. However, where he had once served the upper echelon of crime lords and politicians, now he was working for far smaller goals and gains, which forced him to use the three nomickers and identities to work for and against several of his own employers at the same time.
Though he was able to keep up the many ruses this required, his increased activity introduced him to new levels of fatigue, which compounded with his grief to drive him toward the vice of adrenal stims. Originally buying the injection cocktails from spice dealers and the like, he would come to experiment with and synthesize his own, making him dependent on increasingly more volatile drugs and forcing him into far worse states of mind. In time, he would come to lose his edge in many ways, forgetting or outright ignoring many of the steps that had made him such a lethal killer. Where once he'd been trained to be silent and invisible, he became loud, aggressive, and extremely violent. This would eventually lead to many of his clients and employers discovering his dishonest dealings, leading him to fake the death of his Tulo Marn alias and establish fake records of Alistair Black leaving the criminal underworld and going legitimate in the Mid Rim.
It was during 18 ABY when he began to start needing to kill his own clients that his work as an assassin dried up almost absolutely, to which Kal would respond with more rage and dirty dealings against his clients. Soon, the name of Mack Wessel, his last safe alias, recieved the death mark in no fewer than five star systems. Following this, he would be forced to flee into Imperial space, where he would find some small employment with one group that massively needed able hands - the armed forces of the Imperial Remnant.
Signing up with the Imperial Army, he proved far too volatile for either the Stormtrooper Corps or Intelligence division and very nearly faced court-martial on multiple occasions. However, he would earn his keep fighting alongside ground units against the New Republic. While his tactics often put his allies at risk and would even lead to their deaths, he was forgiven due to the combination of berserk, drug-addled ferocity he exhibited, his elite combative skills, and his uncanny insights regarding the ebb and flow of combat. However, after the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty a year into his service, he would refuse to stand down against the Republic, leading to a massacre that saw "Mack Wessel" charged with war crimes and sentenced to life in an Imperial prison.
Kal didn't care. At this period in time, he had been fighting, killing, and doping to quell the grief. Some have speculated that, at this period in time, he approached a sense of madness.
The Steel Nova
- "I saw you manhandle that guard, and slip the cuffs they put you in. How about getting off this tub?"
- ―Arcadian, speaking to a closed-off Kal Vorrac.
Vorrac's sentence would begin on an Imperial prison barge, where he was forced to sober up and face his demons in the darkness of his cell. It was here that he fell into a deep despair, with the weeks-long voyage seeing his hair become unkempt and his face grow a considerable beard. For the assassin, it was a first; never before had Task's iron training been so solidly ignored. Kal had to face the realities of Bri's apparent death, as well as his own atrocities; he had raped, killed, and tortured many, completely abandoning the codes and principles he had been clinging to for years. It was not until he met another captive, the mercenary Arcadian, that he would begin to speak again. Arcadian, a member of a group called the Steel Nova, was planning an escape.
Kal kills a fellow student while training with the GMRG.
Physical Description
Vorrac has black hair, emerald eyes, and skin as pale as ice. While not an overbearing man, he is fairly tall at six feet and keeps his medium build well-toned and as healthy as possible. His hair is kept short enough for a soldier, and his face is kept free of facial hair. His left arm and both legs are prosthetic parts, painted a low-lustre black. Kal always wears his Brotherhood robes, both for effect and to conceal his false body parts.
Personality
One could say that Kal Vorrac is an example of life's shaping influences. Between abandonment and abuse at all levels of childhood to a career of assassination, followed by a life of subterfuge and manipulation, all at risk of betrayal, he has become both emotionally scarred and completely self-sufficient. He is known for his deep-set paranoia and his extreme patience and thoroughness, which works with his intelligence and years of experience to make him over-compensate for weaknesses.
He truly fears only complete helplessness. This fear is so prevalent that he will literally force himself through the gauntlet as his legs give out. Until he is proven useless and someone strikes him down, he will keep fighting. This makes him manipulate and destroy to secure his place of power, but ultimately means that he will likely die a lonely and unfulfilled death.
Philosophies
Rule of Two
Atypically for a Sith of the Brotherhood, Kal considers one of the most successful and prominent Dark Lords of the past to be Darth Bane. Whereas most of the Brotherhood's Dark Jedi believe that Bane was a fool for reducing the Sith in number to only two, or that he was too cowardly to build up a force and take his enemies head-on, Vorrac's view is that the Sith'ari was brilliant in his decision.
Any scholar who is honest would agree that, between the time of Kaan's Sith or even those of the True Sith and the time of Bane's Order, the power of all given Sith was known to increase. Sith of Kaan's time or before typically had varied studies and experiences, coveting knowledge that could empower the entire Order in order to elevate their own station; the Sith under Bane either came to know each and every known Dark Side lesson and secret, or died in the attempt. Evidence of this difference in power can be seen in the duality between Kaan and Bane themselves - one had a mediocre, balanced skill with many Dark Side doctrines but a mastery of none, while the other was not only masterful in the ways that Kaan had dabbled in but had recovered and learned such incredible techniques as Essence Transfer and Holocron construction.
Interesting, however, is Kal's view of the Brotherhood in relation to the Rule of Two. Rather than a divergence of it, Kal sees the Brotherhood as a unique and thriving take on the Rule; this view is largely justified by the fact that Brotherhood members are taught all aspects of the Brotherhood's knowledge within their particular Orders, learning new abilities when they become powerful enough to ascend in Rank. It is also justified by the fact that, while the Dark Council holds great power and presides over the Houses and Clans, all are Sith servants and devotees of the Dark Lord and his Shadow Hand - a Sith Lord and his true disciple. In this manner, many Sith have had Dark Side Adepts as their servants without them truly being Sith.
Finally, Kal views the Brotherhood as an expanded and evolved culture based around Bane's rule - as House is to Clan, as Clans are to Council, and as Council is to the Throne, the Brotherhood is based around the mighty endowing those below with greater knowledge and power, until ultimately all members are surpassed and replaced. Thus, Kal is able to rationalize the Brotherhood as both a true Order of Sith and an expression of the Rule of Two.
Sith Divergence
Kal is, as he has explained to many others in the Dark Brotherhood, a Sith purist; he emphatically insists that he is not a Dark Jedi at all, and will correct others who call him as such if necessary. This is because he has never had any interaction with the Jedi Order or its teachings, aside from instances of combat. He considers himself a Sith, and interestingly, considers all members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood to either be Sith or their divergent cousins, though he acknowledges their status as Dark Jedi.
Vorrac is of the belief that both the Obelisk and Krath Orders are still forms of Sith - the Obelisk are the ilk of Ferran, who was a member of the Sith cult known as the Mecrosa Order, while the Krath originated as the cult from the Empress Teta System; Tiamat herself was originally a Sith Sorceress - and thus, refers to all Brotherhood Dark Jedi as Sith at times.
As is typical for a member of his Order, he has an arrogant standpoint on "pure" Sith of the Brotherhood; while Krath have their place as scholars and sorcerers and Obelisk are ideal as warriors and assassins, in Kal's mind, it is the place and way of the mainline Sith to rule over the "lesser" divergent Orders. The only exception seen in these views are afforded to Sith Lords of the Brotherhood, who in his mind have risen above the divergent groups and become total masters of the ways of the Dark Side - true Lords of the Sith.
Weapons and Equipment
Having lived the life of a contract killer and having devoted most of his credits to weapons and equipment, Kal has an intimate knowledge of blasters and other guns. While he prefers pistols for their availability and ease of concealment, he's not loathe to pick up a rifle when the situation calls for it; often, he'll grab a spare off of a dead enemy when in a tight spot. Unlike some Dark Jedi, Kal treats the blaster as a ready secondary weapon in most situations; his lightsaber is fearsome, but when confronted with range, his skills as a marksman allow him to quickly end lives without putting his own in danger.
Since becoming a Dark Jedi Knight, as he was a Journeyman in the time before armory lightsabers were issued, he has carried a saber of his own at all times. In his free moment and at his place of residence, he modifies and constructs several replacement hilts; while his blade is one of the few things he truly loves, he will discard it at the first necessity, refusing to become attached. As such, many places he inhabits such as homes, offices, and even temporary headquarters will have the weapons concealed in ideal spots.
The Force is also something of weaponry and equipment to Kal; his injuries during the Second Battle of Antei left him greatly weakened, as replacement organs and the requisite surgeries worked with missing limbs and age to destroy his prior physical ability. In his rehabilitation, he came to understand the Force more deeply, and often uses it for camouflage, subterfuge, protection, self-augmentation, healing, weaponry, and even to resist the cold of Morroth during his treks with new Apprentices. His familiarity with it is so deep that he will use it by reflex for tiny tasks like opening doors, or grabbing a drinking glass; it's as familiar to him as using his hands.
The newest weapon in the entourage of Vorrac is the whip. Since becoming the Taskmaster of Plagueis, he has taken to the use of a simple leather whip, finding the sting and crack of it effective in schooling Journeymen. When outside of combat, he takes instead to a scourge with five thongs. Each is made of a three-foot strip of braided rancor leather, and is tipped with a cruel durasteel hook made for sinking into flesh. When not surgically removed, these usually leave the body in a cruel manner, ripping apart the muscles and tendons that they are embedded in on their way out.
Armor, robes, and clothing for Vorrac depend greatly on the situation; he is fixated on no one set. Should the event occur where it is necessary to be protected, he will don such equipment as Stormtrooper garb or even stolen durasteel variants of Beskar'gam. In other situations, he will stick to lighter armor or simple clothing, while still other incidences see him down to underclothes to escape the heat. Clothing is just that to Vorrac's sensibilities, gear to be changed at first need and without attachment or preference.
Only one article holds any attachment to the Sith: A Krayt dragon pearl, engraved faintly with his insignia and kept on a cord of bantha leather. Upon being asked about it in the past, he has reacted violently, even going so far as to mortally wound a questioner. It is kept securely guarded in a bank on Coruscant, inside one of the deepest-kept vaults he could afford.
Apprentices Trained
Dark Jedi Knight or Above
Kal has seen many of his Apprentices become true Dark Jedi, mastering his Sith teachings and rising above the level of Journeyman. These he still considers Apprentices under him, if unofficially, but in the manner of Bane and his Order rather than that of Sidious and his Adepts.
Jedi Hunter or Below
While Kal trains many Dark Jedi, those below Knighthood are treated by him as minions and tools to be used and sacrificed - similarly to how Darth Sidious would train many Dark Adepts, but would only have one Sith Apprentice.
Notable Achievements
- Known as the Last Son of Plagueis, being the final di Plagia named before the closing of Old Clan Plagueis.
- Recipient of the Seal of Loyalty.
- Has achieved the rank of Sith Battlelord.
- Wrote and designed the Plagueian Path Master/Student Program.
- Rewrote Morroth and wrote its Temple of Plagueis article.
- Wrote and rewrote Sigil 2, incorporating Si'Tilk and Fort Ash.
- Wrote the majority of the Taking of Si'Tilk plot and competitions.
- Received a Crescent with Diamond Star for victory in Tempest Omega.
- Wrote the storyline for Shards of a Lingering Darkness, an incredibly successful PLA-HSP-IHR event.
Positions Held
Trivia
- Kal is a master of the game Dejarik, having studied the game as it was played on six different worlds.
- Kal was temporarily part of both the Krath and Obelisk Orders - he incorporates this into his backstory by saying he learned from both, but chose the studies of the Sith.
- Though Kal is a part of Plagueis, he does not consider himself a Dark Jedi - he has never had anything to do with the Jedi themselves, and thus he considers himself purely a member of the Sith Order.
- Kal enjoys gambling for the same reason he enjoys manipulation - overcoming an enemy and gaining from their loss - but has a strong dislike of wealth and luxury. He believes they are a path to weakness.
- Vorrac, while taking women to his bed from time to time and unafraid to pose as a lover to gain information, will never take another wife; the loss of Brijha and his children has hardened him against such things.
- While he has had many years speaking Basic to cover it, Kal's first language was Huttese and he does, in fact, have a very faint Hutt accent. It can only be heard when he does not actively try to cover it.