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Kal di Plagia Vorrac is currently Taskmaster of House Plagueis and Commander of Battleteam Primus Pilus. 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 must. Though he ages and deals with past injury, he is rapidly ascending through the powers of the Dark Side.
Character History(In Progress)
Early Years(Age 1-12)
Born and Betrayed
- "Tyber, forgive me."
- ―Karina Brokkol's final words before leaving Jev.
Kal Vorrac was born as Jev Brokkol on Imperial Center in 15 BBY, a name he didn't keep for very long. He was the son of Karina Brokkol and her recent affair, a smuggler named Tyber Vorrac. Jev was conceived during a time when Karina's husband, a wealthy Bakuran merchant named Dobin Brokkol, had been away on Rodia signing a business deal. Dobin was away during Jev's birth, and would be for the first two weeks of his life.
Unfortunately for Karina, Jev looked nothing like his supposed father. He had his biological father's oddly pale skin and striking emerald eyes, inheriting jet-black hair and a sharpness to his features from his mother. Karina immediately had Jev hidden away from her security staff, sabotaging the medical droids that had presided over his birth to appear as if they'd broken down. Eventually, she realized the futility of her actions and ran away with the child.
Sneaking into her personal speeder and flying some miles away to stash him in the lower reaches of Imperial Center, she was first pursued by the CSF and then startled by a Bothan friend of hers named Dhurmak and shot him out of panic. Afterward, she left Jev there, along with a note renaming him as Kal Vorrac for any who would find him. He was discovered by a Twi'lek prostitute named Sali Beel and adopted as her son. Dobin was led to believe that the speeder in question had been stolen and that his son had been kidnapped in retribution for corporate espionage, while Tyber was never again contacted about his son.
Three tongues
- "Mommy, when will I grow lekku?"
- ―Kal Vorrac, age five.
While some children had toys, Kal was left with only his adoptive mother for entertainment. Soon after he began speaking he was able to use words of Huttese, Twi'leki, and Basic, the three languages most often used by Sali's clientelle. His use of Huttese was complete at the age of three, while four and five saw fluency in the other two tongues. In these years, Kal showed the first indications of his brilliant mind, learning to read from holonet displays.
Kal was also exposed to very harsh facets of the world. Sali was not always able to ensure privacy, showing Kal a few instances of rough treatment from clients. Later, he found the bruises and cuts left over from these encounters would be his first source of rage. Some clients would abuse him when he came too close, while others took an odd fondness of the boy, teaching him fighting techniques, stashing secrets, and other tools of their various trades.
Sali Beel was also a picture of addiction for Kal, bringing him to dislike drugs of all forms and giving him a special hatred for Deathsticks. At one point she incurred enough debt with her dealer, the ithorian Haido Kuzh, to put her life at risk and the life of her son. When she spoke to Haido, she offered the boy into servitude in exchange for her own survival. Haido agreed, but when the enforcers came to take Kal they left her with disfiguring scars along both cheeks.
Raised by Thieves
- "Don't tuck it too far back in the sleeve. You need it to slide easily."
- ―Weelin Tham, on hold-out pistols.
Life with Haido quickly became a gauntlet for young Kal. Schooled to be a thief and, in time, an enforcer, he was punished for crying and throwing tantrums. He cleaned up after the ithorian and ran his messages around, growing attached to the man in spite of everything. Haido would reward him for stealing from competitors and innocents alike, instilling a strong drive to take from others. Even so, Haido made sure that Kal respected business and the nature of a deal. He couldn't afford for the boy to undermine him.
Over the next six years, Kal would learn more languages from those Haido did business with and would learn teachings of the fighting style Dulon from a few of those that liked him. Over time he became quite capable in the art, which was useful for the boy's small size. The boy was nearly ambidextrous from birth, and would come to train both of his hands to function equally. A duros named Weelin Tham was especially fond of the boy; he taught Kal how to conceal a hold-out blaster, and how to draw it quickly.
These skills would only serve him so well, however. As he grew up, Haido developed an attachment to the boy. He constantly tested him, encouraging him to steal from bigger and better targets, getting rich and growing proud of the boy. This ambition would be Vorrac's undoing; against Haido's instructions, he stole from a group of Trandoshan slavers. Though they never caught Kal in the act, they blamed Haido as a way to both expand their business and make up for their losses. The ithorian had no choice, offering them Kal's life to keep himself alive. Kal discovered this, hiding away before they could take him and stowing on a freighter bound for Nar Shaddaa.
Teen Years(Age 13-19)
To Bow and Scrape
- "Steal from a Hutt, will you?"
- ―Morseerian port authority on Kal's trip in the cargo hold.
Galaxy Overturned
Student
Abuse
First Blood
Natural
Freedom
Assassin (Age 20 - Age 38)
Bounty Hunter
New Digs
Turf
The Job at Corulag
Dark Jedi Brotherhood (Age 39 - Present)
Apprenticeship
Knighthood
Yuuzhan Vong
The Warrior
Little Spider
War of Ascension
The Way of the Sith
Battlemaster
Cripple
The Dark Side
The Mentor and the Psychopath
One Who Has No Home
Quaestor
The Taking of Si'Tilk
Tempest Omega
Back to Shadows
Battlelord
Kal kills a fellow student while training with the GMRG.
Guardsman
Physical Description
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 well-toned and as healthy as possible. 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, 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.
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 its use, finding the sting and crack of it effective in schooling Journeymen. While not yet skilled enough with it to regularly use the exotic weapon in combat, he is learning rapidly, and will soon be capable enough to disarm, trip, or even kill with it.
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 others 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.
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.
Teacher
Kal seems possessed of an odd penchant to identify with certain individuals and train them, either in his ways or in ways that suit his needs. Through this he has taught Vivackus Kavon, his most successful Apprentice, to become a skillful political player. He has also shaped the haunted Mograine into a killing machine. Recently, he trained the Farghul Necal, only to have the young one fail to kill him and subsequently die. In his void, he has adopted the Weequay Unus Domus as a replacement pupil.
Notable Achievements
- Kal is one of the few awarded the name di Plagia for service to Plagueis.
- Kal is the recipient of a Seal of Loyalty.
Positions Held
Trivia
- Kal is a master of the game Dejarik, having studied the game as it was played on six different worlds.