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Koros Major
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1 BBY (age 43)
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1.86 m
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68.2 kg
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Black (w/deep purple forelocks)
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Violet
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- "An illusion is always most effective when you’re showing someone what they want to see, what they expect to see."
- ―Selika Roh
Selika Roh is a Sith Warlord and a leader in Clan Plagueis. Born during the waning years of the Galactic Empire, she grew up within the Noble Houses of Koros Major. Political turmoil following the fall of the Empire saw the overthrow of the royal government during her youth followed by years of captivity, resulting in her discovery of the Force abilities that eventually lead her down the path to the dark side. Her search for the training to fully utilize her skills brought her to the Sith faction lead by Zoraan, and eventually to the Dark Brotherhood during the Dark Crusade.
A follower of the Krath tradition that originated on her homeworld millennia ago, Selika is careful to keep her philosophies hidden. Paradoxically, she also enthusiastically engages in the purging of other Krath undesirables from the Brotherhood. The reason for this is simple: in her eyes the Krath of the Brotherhood perverted the true teachings of the Krath cult, focusing too much on the accumulation of knowledge as opposed to the exercise of vital power based upon it.
Biography
Early life (1 BBY - 5 ABY)
Selika at age 8 in 7 ABY.
Turmoil on Koros Major (5 ABY - 16 ABY)
Familial exploitation (15 ABY - 21 ABY)
Selika in 16 ABY.
Tolcon Roh, Selika’s uncle.
Search for the Force (21 ABY - 30 ABY)
Selika in 21 ABY.
Selika in 26 ABY.
The Dark Crusade (30 ABY - 32 ABY)
Disillusionment
Selika in 30 ABY.
Defection
The heroes of the Dark Crusade.
Learning blinding from Aabsdu Dupar.
Fading Light
A lull in the fighting on Begeren.
Korriban
Fighting on Korriban in 32 ABY.
Winds of change(33 ABY - 34 ABY)
Restoration
Selika's appearance during the campaign against Xander Drax.
Ascension
Tribune of the Holocrons.
Rising Tensions
War on Florrum
In battle on Florrum in 34 ABY.
Appearance
Physical description
Selika Roh.
Selika is a striking woman that stands just over average human height for a female. Selika's eyes are a deep violet color and are framed by her unruly, layered hair that falls just below chin length. Her hair is naturally dark black, save for a single lock of violet-dyed hair on the left side of her face.
Blessed with a lithe build, her movements are fluid and graceful. She carries herself with an almost regal bearing that many find off putting, but it is only an affectation designed to do just that. Her skin is an unblemished dark olive shade free of any scars or distinguishing marks.
Attire
Various examples of Selika Roh’s attire.
Often times Selika can be found wearing a set of deep purple robes made of Ottegan silk. These robes are designed to show off her figure, which is a deliberate choice much like her manner. The robes consist of a stiff collared vest open from neck to navel. Much like the tabard of a traditional Sith robe this vest is gathered at the waist and, as a single piece, extends downward to mid calf. the belt also has an integrated skirt-cape that extends to the ankle. The robes are complemented by long, fingerless gloves that extend above the elbow and thigh high boots. This outfit is her usual choice for both everyday use and combat.
When a more formal look is called for, can be found wearing ebon dresses made of expensive materials. Less frequently, she can still be found from time to time wearing her older combat attire. Colored in shades of grey, it features an asymmetrical jacket that hangs from her left shoulder and extends down below the knee over a set of boy shorts and belt. The ensemble is complemented by thigh high boots and a pair of long gloves.
Personality and traits
Personality
Selika Roh creating an illusory serpent.
Selika Roh is self-serving individual who, at her heart, is only out for herself. Power, glory, wealth, position, and anything that will make her life more comfortable is her goal. It matters little who might be caught in the middle, as long as the result is the further accumulation of power in Selika’s hands. She will lie, cheat, and kill anyone to attain her personal goals.
She has no particular objection to working with others or, for that matter, going it on her own. Her only interest is in getting ahead. Although she does not have the every-man-for-himself attitude of many other Sith, she has no qualms about betraying her friends and companions for personal gain. She is perfectly alright with betraying a family member, comrade, or friend if it is convenient to do so and it advances her agenda. she is personally indifferent to the concepts of self-discipline and honor, finding them useful only if they can be used to advance her own interests or gain power over others. The closest to loyalty she typically approaches is basing her allegiance on strength and ability alone and how much she may gain from allying with them.
She has little respect for the rule of law, and has no qualms about using laws to weaken those who stand in the way of her success. Additionally, if she must resort to breaking the law, she will. She has no real preference for either method beyond their possible efficacy in reaching her goals. She sees laws as tools to use against people, as well as their own sense of honor. Having no internal concept of personal honor, she never feels compelled to keep her word. Additionally, she will attack and kill an unarmed foe and has no issues with harming or killing an innocent. She takes no specific pleasure from killing, seeing it as one of many tools to use in the pursuit of her goals as opposed to a goal in and of itself. Selika will, however, often take pleasure in inflicting pain, either physical or mental, upon opponents.
Philosophies and beliefs
General
Selika feels that the universe is governed by certain natural and manmade forces. If allowed to take their course, they will weed out the weak and useless in society. As such, the deserving should take advantage of this condition to further their own goals by any means possible, especially to destroy weaklings who put forward "good" actions to promote the wellbeing of all, which is just an excuse used to deny the deserving their due. In Selika’s eyes life is of no special value, for those who cannot take advantage of their superiority don't deserve it as they will only interfere with the rightful pursuits of those who do. This is especially true when it comes to the non-Force using populations of the galaxy. In her eyes, the multitudes have crushed those who touch the Force under their weight, preventing the Force users from taking their rightful place atop the galactic order.
Governments
Selika has very little respect for any of the current claimants to the mantle of pan-galactic governance. Her view of the Galactic Empire, and it’s successor state the First Order, is almost entirely shaped by her personal experiences following its collapse. While the Empire under Palpatine maintained order and backed the monarchy of Koros Major, it had collapsed far too easily in the face of the threat posed by the Rebellion. The retreat of the military from the Core into the Unknown Regions just hastened the chaos that followed on Koros Major which lead to Selika’s hellish years of captivity at the hands of extremists who toppled the government. In her eyes, the First Order is but the vestiges of a once proud system now governed by the heirs of cowards who fled when the fight started to get tough.
Selika holds the Republic, however, in almost equal disdain. The treaty ending their war with the Empire had left the remnants of Imperial space to the carrion feeders of the galaxy. The decade after their final victory over Jakku had not lead to the liberation of most of the Old Empire, but instead had seen the decay and despotism that spread there. More interested in maintaining continued trade in carbonite than in the reality of the situation on Koros Major, the Republic had done nothing when the extremists took over. Only after the extremists threatened to nationalize the carbonite trade did the Republic finally take action to topple them, but they would not help reestablish the ruling monarchy. In the end Selika sees both the First Order and Republic as equally responsible for the hardships she endured, and sees both as corrupt entities run by weaklings who been undeservedly handed power by the masses.
Non-Force users
Force choking a non-Force user.
Selika views non-Force users, or as she calls them mundanes, as inherently inferior to those that can touch the Force. In her eyes, a Force user is a rare commodity. Whatever accident of genetics that brings about Force sensitivity can take generations to manifest itself in a mundane bloodline, all the while the mundanes breed like gizka. Even without the power that they wield, the Force user would be more valuable simply based on simple statistics. With their power, the Force user is exponentially more valuable than their non-Force using counterparts in her eyes.
This basic, underlying belief has lead to Selika viewing the lives of mundanes as less important or valuable than those of Force users. Expending massive numbers of the former to reach the goals held by the latter is a perfectly acceptable. What others would describe as senseless slaughter is something that Selika would see as being acceptable if for no other reason than one mundane is essentially interchangeable with the next. Her callous attitude towards them means that she has no compunctions about employing the murder of mundanes to further her own desires. It does not mean, however, that she takes direct pleasure in said killing. The pleasure she derives from any death directly flows from how that action advances her along the road to her destination, not from the murder itself.
Powers and abilities
Selika employing force lightning and illusion.
Unlike many Sith, Selika focuses on a few aspects of the Force at the expense of more across the board skill. Favoring illusions and mental abilities over others, she has never fully developed much of the more physical Force skills. In some areas, like the healing arts, she shows no proficiency at all. Limiting her focus, however, has allowed her great ability but still greater knowledge in how to apply her skills than many others of similar power and skill.
Force powers
Selika’s most devastating ability lies in her knowledge and skill in powers such as illusion or mind trick. She has focused on these skills mostly because she feels that attacking the mind is the most direct path to the defeat of her enemies. In her eyes, those that spend much of their time training their physical abilities and Force powers to complement then (such as amplification) more often than not neglect powers of the mind. Their weakness can then be exploited when they oppose her, with her ability to destroy them from within can make their physical prowess irrelevant.
For times when she is confronted by those who have not neglected the mental battlefied, Selika has applied herself to the study of powers that allow her to engage her foes while still keeping herself seperated from them as she does with mental assaults. Initially, she devoted herself almost entirely to telekinesis in more physical combat situations. More recently, however, she has learned to harness the Force in such a way to employ Force lightning. She has demonstrated remarkable skill in the ability in a far shorter time than most of her others, a fact that she feels is due to the nature of Force lightning. Unlike other skills, there is a mental state that one must reach to project Force lightning. Selika’s great experience with mental manipulation has allowed her to better achieve this mental state and harness Force lightning at a level that is not often seen by one as inexperienced in its usage as she is.
Lightsaber abilities
Selika during the GMIT.
When Selika first learned to use the Force, she had no access to a lightsaber. Her reality lead to her mastering of the Force independent of the traditional weapon of the Sith and Jedi, and her feelings towards the blade were shaped accordingly. As she progressed and gained more experience with other Sith with the followers of Zoraan, she begrudgingly began to use a lightsaber. For many years she still saw the lightsaber as a secondary weapon, something whose use signaled a failure on her part to destroy her enemies with the Force alone. After her arrival in the Brotherhood, however, her view began to shift somewhat. Still viewing the saber with some amount of internal disdain, she has come to see it as another useful tool in her arsenal. Even now, though, she still favors the Force alone over her weapon when she can.
With her saber, Selika rarely goes for the quick kill to open combat. Her tendency is to maintain her Soresu-based defense to, ostensibly, wear down her prey. In reality, she is motivated as much by her desire to inflict pain and torture before finishing off her opponent. She will favor attacks whose goal is to be as painful as possible for mind or body before eventual death, using the taunts favored by Dun Moch to dominate her opponent. When her final strike does come, however, it will often be in the form of a swift and lethal application of Djem So.
Other skills
Many Sith and Jedi see the Force as a tool that can replace many of the more mundane abilities, becoming reliant on mind tricks instead of their innate ability to manipulate others for example. Selika instead feels that those abilities can make your talents with the Force even more useful. In keeping with her focus on those Force abilities that target the mind, Selika has developed her own mental prowess outside of the Force. She uses her sharp mind and perception to augment her Force ability. As a result, much like her Force abilities, she has not developed her physical skill to the same level that many of the more martially focused Sith have.
Relationships
Teylas Ramar
Turel Sorenn
- "Monsters like you don’t deserve to live."
- ―Turel Sorenn
Selika vs. Turel.
Selika and Turel Sorenn are, on the face of things, the most bitter of enemies. Originally crossing paths under the auspices of an intelligence gathering mission, Selika has always pursued a more personal goal when it comes to Turel: turning the Jedi to the Dark Side. She sees his personality type as ripe for corruption, with his time serving Arcona having left him uniquely vulnerable to her machinations. She feels that Turel would make a formidable Sith, and at the same time offer her invaluable information in regards to V'yr Vorsa, one of her most formidable rivals.
In their interactions, both on New Tython and during the Grand Master’s Invitational Tournament, Selika has gone to great lengths to break his spirit. She has engaged in the cold blooded murder of several citizens and law enforcement officers on New Tython as well as tricked Turel into killing an innocent as well, all in the name of destroying his devotion to the light. This campaign has spilled out into a larger conflict between their two respective clans as well, contributing to the conflict between them on Florrum in 34 ABY.
V’yr Vorsa
- "Selika Roh. You are under arrest for the murder of eight Council agents, two law enforcement officers, a father of two, and for assault and injury of a Council member of Clan Odan-Urr."
- ―V’yr Vorsa, 33 ABY
Selika and Vorsa in combat on New Tython.
Selika maintains an adversarial relationship with the Neti councilor. This rivalry began with their overlapping fields of control of the Brotherhood (Selika as Tribune of the Holorons and Vorsa as Herald), but has grown beyond that. Selika felt that she had been appointed to the staff of the Herald as one of Vorsa’s magistrates specifically to keep an eye on the Jedi serving the Dark Council, a notion that has never been confirmed nor denied by others in the Brotherhood.
Beyond their more professional rivalry, the two have developed far more personal animosity from Selika’s interactions with Turel Sorenn. Turel, being one of Vorsa’s proteges, is something of an ongoing project for Vorsa, and Selika’s efforts to turn him fully to the dark side have not gone over well. Their first direct conflict came as a result of Selika’s assault on Turel in 33 ABY and lead to a large amount of collateral damage in Menat Ombo’s Visulu Marketplace. Their battle was ended before a satisfactory resolution due to Selika’s extraction by fellow di Plagia Aabsdu Dupar, so the tension between the two continues. Since then, Selika has attempted to work behind the scenes to sabotage Vorsa’s efforts, especially in operations to engineer the transit of undesirables out of Brotherhood space.