Ronovi Tavisaen

"I endure only the worst to achieve only the best."

―Ronovi Tavisaen

Ronovi Tavisaen is currently a Guardian residing in House Gladius in Clan Tarentum and the present leader of Gladius's battle team, Arcano Signum. She is an Epicanthix who hails from Yridia IX from a tightly knit family of mechanics. While Ronovi may appear to be a blunt, brutal, and slightly irrational character, she is very much devoted to her clan and her house and exhibits impressive strength due to her heritage and her skill.

Character History

Prior Events to Birth

Ronovi's father was a prominent spacer in the Outer Rims and had a strong affiliation with the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. However, he had made no effort to join the Brotherhood himself, as he believed he had no chance as a Dark Jedi despite his warrior blood. After many years of working, he returned to his home planet, Panatha, where he met and fell in love with his future wife. The two married in Tree City before traveling to Yridia IX, where they temporarily resided in its metropolis, Eden City.

When his wife became pregnant, Ronovi's father decided that the best thing to do was move outside of the city despite the planet's barren landscape. They moved into a small house on the outskirts of Eden City in 7 ABY, where Ronovi's mother gave birth to the couple's first child, a son. Three years later, she gave birth to Ronovi.

Childhood

Ronovi was raised on strong family values and taught to cherish being with her parents and her siblings as much as possible. Unlike the other Epicanthix, who were notorious for conquering other planets in the Outer Rims, Ronovi's father wished for a quieter life. He seemed happy enough to raise his children to work on ships like he did, as he was now a mechanic busily repairing the ships of citizens from Eden City.

While her brother began to follow in the footsteps of his father and her younger sister immersed herself in books and philosophical studies, Ronovi did not try to restrain the desire for conquest and challenge boiling in her blood. She believed that if she was an Epicanthix, she was a warrior, and therefore she must act like a warrior. When her brother was not working with their father, she would challenge him to a fistfight or a duel with sticks that she had whittled in her spare time. Most of the time, she would win.

When her father finally noticed his daughter's desire to be a fighter, he taught himself to embrace this fact and aided her in learning various fighting techniques and arts, as he himself had done training as a warrior when he was a young boy. While becoming well practiced in martial arts and sparring with her bare hands, Ronovi also favored using a short staff or a dagger. She preferred close combat because, as she claimed, it got her heart pounding and her adrenaline rushing, and because of this, she felt alive. Ronovi's mother disapproved of her father's support in her interests, saying that she would go out looking for trouble, but Ronovi wasn't looking back. She was certainly the black sheep of the family.

By the time Ronovi was thirteen, her father made the decision to move back to Eden City so that his business as a mechanic would become more successful. While her brother and sister needed time to adapt to the big city, Ronovi was quick to acquaint herself with various others wishing to work as pilots or brawlers. It was in Eden City that she learned about the Dark Jedi, first from her father, then from various colleagues. As her family expressed anti-sentiment toward the New Republic, Ronovi believed that the path of darkness held the true source of power.

Life in the City

Ronovi's notoriety as a strong fighter would soon spread in the certain borough of the city where she lived, and soon she went to search for work. At the age of sixteen, she landed a job in a small tavern known for its customers' rambunctious behavior. Though she was first hired as a waitress because of the fact that she was a girl, Ronovi began to impose her strength on various obnoxious and troublemaking patrons. After separating two large, squabbling Bothans with a swift move of her arm, Ronovi demonstrated her inherited capability as a warrior. The owner of the tavern, impressed, swiftly selected her to be one of the bouncers.

Customers first walking into the tavern were often confused at the sight of a young, female Epicanthix standing by the door, dressed in a bouncer's uniform with her arms folded. However, the fact that she was an Epicanthix, which were rarely found in Eden City, added to her imposing persona, as she shared the species' impressive height, dark features and hair, and piercing eyes. While patrons would drunkenly screech for a fight along with another drink, her ability to calmly hoist the perpetrator up and out of the tavern would occasionally stun the entire bar into silence.

When not working, Ronovi continued to train in close combat fighting with her father until he claimed that he could only give her the basics. By the time she was about to turn eighteen, her father informed her that a member of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood had spoken to him after witnessing Ronovi's feats as a bouncer. Ronovi's father claimed that the member of the Brotherhood insisted that she was extremely Force-sensitive and a perfect candidate for the Obelisk Order. As Ronovi's dream was not only to fight, but also to fight for something, she quickly agreed.

Transfer to the Sword's Sheath

After Ronovi's father handed her over to the member of the Dark Brotherhood to become a member herself, Ronovi was sent to the House of Gladius on The Sword's Sheath, which was located in the Itaana belt. Ronovi realized the extent of her Force abilities as she trained, working with various other new members as she completed her initiation into the Obelisk Order. She was welcomed in open arms after her initiation and shortly after began her academic studies within the brotherhood.

While partaking in Krath studies such as history and lore, Ronovi also began learning tactics as an Obelisk, including marksmanship and core tactics. She also took time to interact with various lower-ranks and higher-ups so she could be seen as a strong participant in the Brotherhood. As a result, she was assigned to tasks other than being instructed academically shortly after she showed success in her studies.

After her first mission, Ronovi was initiated into Gladius's Battle Team, Arcano Signum, and shortly after became Dark Adept Doni Tzu Tarentae's first apprentice. Ronovi highly respected her master despite his reputation for being ruthless in battle and even more so when confronting his colleagues. Even after Doni Tzu Tarentae decided to leave Clan Tarentum to embark on an exodus, Ronovi still maintained contact with him through the Force so that he could continue to teach her even from a distance.

Ronovi became the leader of Arcano Signum after her friend Dralin Hakh'khar became Aedile of House Gladius. With her new position, she worked to make the team a suitable organization for newer House members so they could train and receive instructions from their superiors. Also, despite her initial resistance to the idea, Ronovi began to take an interest in flying and piloting.

Characteristics

"I don't like to dwell within the status quo."

―Ronovi Tavisaen

Physical Appearance & Personality

Ronovi holds the typical Epicanthix appearance, being tall, muscular, and dark-haired. She is an impressive two meters in height, which is actually the average height among Epicanthix, and enjoys it due to the fact that she appears intimidating. She is not a person of fashion, mainly wearing her Obelisk robes or worn out, patched civilian clothing when she's out and about. There is nothing particularly distinct about her appearance, save for a few scattered scars that she has received in combat and in her past career as a bouncer.

Ronovi is an aggressive, impatient character. When fighting, she sometimes resorts to hand to hand combat multiple times when she feels the urge boiling in her blood. While practicing these arts proves her strength, Ronovi has a true brawler's personality and therefore can become incredibly irrational in battle. This can result in potential harm to herself or her comrades. However, Ronovi's ability to cooperate grants her respect from other members.

Although she is a fighter at heart, Ronovi prefers that conflict stay on the battlefield rather than within the clan. While she is not soft-spoken, she will know when to become the mediator or back down from an argument. She is someone who believes in unity at all costs, no matter what the disagreements are.

N/A	Apprentice to Doni Tzu Tarentae 28 ABY - Present	N/A
Dralin Hakh'khar	Obelisk Sergeant of Arcano Signum 29 ABY - Present	N/A

DJB Facts

Medals

• 1 Crescent with a Sapphire Star
• 1 Crescent with an Emerald Star

Outstanding Achievements

• Ronovi was the lowest-ranked member of a fifteen-member strike team that raided Karideph, participating at the rank of Novice.

Trivia

• Ronovi was requested to become Doni Tzu Tarentae's apprentice after she saved his life on Karideph; he had been held captive and tortured by the Yuuzhan Vong, and the two developed a Force connection while they were both treated in medical facilities on Yridia II.
• Despite the fact that she is not incredibly academic, Ronovi is very well read in biology, and her information on Droch aided Gladius against the parasites.