Born on the planet Nagi, Drodik Va'lence al'Tor is far and beyond a conventional member of the Brotherhood. Before joining the Brotherhood, Drodik’s personality and belief structure proved him to be invaluable as he came under the service of the royal family: Va’lence on the planet Nythaspir until he came into contact with the Brotherhood. Originally hailing from House Ziost of Clan Exar Kun, Drodik quickly rose to the rank of Dark Jedi Knight garnering the title “First Knight of Plagueis” as he was the first to be knighted so. Drodik Va'lence al'Tor currently resides with House Odan-Urr.
Physical Description
Drodik Va'lence al'Tor, stands at 5 feet 9 inches and weighs 170 pounds and is noted as being physically appealing. Like all Nagai. Drodik has white unblemished skin and appears near human and near dead with angular features. The al'Tors hair flows between just above and at his shoulder level. He has an average sized forehead and nose, and a somewhat round, yet very defined jaw and narrow cheeks. Neither thick nor thin eyebrows although given his race they elegantly flow across his brow framing his blue and silver eyes. Drodik's typical outfits consist of short sleeved shirts and black pants with combat boots and a red bandana. Oftentimes he dons his robes, a custom design provided him by the Herald.
Biography
Childhood
In 4 ABY a young woman named Nina Kyssk on trade business from Nythaspir found herself in the middle of the Twelfth Battle of Zeltros. Her objective was to broker a deal to sell wine to various clubs in the capital when chaos broke out. Nina found that she could not leave the planet when the Nagai warships descended from the skies. When the fighting broke out the woman found herself hiding out in a clubs basement with other people caught up in the invasions. They learned from other incoming people that not only had the Nagai forces been dealt a devastating defeat but had rebounded and were driving off the Tof invaders. Over the past couple days as the battles waged outside, the Zeltron locals and other people taking refuge in the basement were indulged in Ninas shipment of Nythaspirian wines; needless to say her business trip was a success as the proprietor of the club ordered a years’ contract of the spirits with a likely renewal after that.
In the aftermath of the battle Nina and the others ventured out into the rubble strewn streets. Few Zeltrons were among the casualties but as Nina made her way past the pillaged camp of the Nagai towards the starport did she make a discovery that would change her life. Amidst the corpses of Nagai she heard what she thought was helpless crying. She followed the whimpering until she found the source, a child in the protective arms of a dead Nagian woman. Nina approached the child when the dead woman sprang to life, her bloodied face full with terror. The two made eye contact before the Nagai woman spoke her last words “Nogio Drod’Ik Viin”. With that she pushed the infant over towards Nina. The Nythaspirian woman bent to pick up the baby. She noted that although covered in blood he smiled at her and she saw into his silver and blue eyes. Turning back to the woman Nina only saw the cold face of death on the woman.Nina then made her way towards the spaceport where her vessel was luckily spared from any damage during the battle. With her business complete Nina left Zeltros heading for her husband and home.
The canalled city of Va’lence was a welcoming sight to the traveler. Disembarking from the gondola at her residence, Nina was greeted by her distraught husband Jhoren and immediately told him of everything that happened on Zeltros including the dying mother and child whom she held clasped in her arms. Jhoren was very understanding albeit surprised at the idea of raising the alien child. They named the child Drodik, after the most distinctive word Nina heard the dying woman utter in her final moment.
Years passed in Va’lence and the Kyssk family business had grown to a successful small time enterprise. As Drodik grew he became educated in the schools of literature, philosophy, art, music and the sciences. For all intents and purposes the Nagian child was raised a Va’lencian, as a result he was further indoctrinated in various schools of fencing unique to the city-state. Through his natural affinity for swordplay, the Nagai child became adept in his own Va’lencian tradition as well as the styles of Katranin and Shyarn-Ado.
Discovering Ashla
Drodik, now aged 18 years old took on even more responsibility as second in charge of the trading business. Much like his mothers business trip to Zeltros, Drodik was dispatched by Jhoren to Zeltros on a textile deal. With his business concluded Drodik, along with his friends ventured out into the hedonist capital. He split off from his friends to meet with his usual contact who supplied the men with a small shipment of glitterstim as well as a small box for transport to a special courier in Va’lence. That night all parties convened at a private hangar where the drugs were loaded into secret compartments aboard Drodiks vessel the entrance door blew open before a fray of blaster fire peppered out into the hangar. The men loading the narcotics jumped at their blasters to engage the marauders. In the midst of it all Drodik took cover as he saw his sole contact gunned down before him. With the drugs on board the Nagai sped off to deliver his cargo.
While stowing away the last of the cargo Drodik came upon the blood spattered box whose lid was blasted through. Curious he pulled out the package wrapped in a leather cloth and unfurled the covering. The object he held appeared to be a datapad, an old one. He sat down on the bunk and powered on the ald device. He began to navigate the contents stored within finding strange writings along with audio and video logs. From the video files it became clear that the voice and author of the contents was a human man who was aged to around his mid fifties. He continued to apparently be talking to another person but he could not be seen. This man spoke about a mystical energy permeating the galaxy for whose benevolence and malignance were both accessible through those sensitive to its touch. The more he spoke and taught did Drodik find its meaning even more relevant. Already an avid reader of philosophy from childhood everything the man spoke about seemed to hit home. He spoke of things that the Nagai had long felt but hid away. As the trading vessel continued to speed off Drodik voraciously consumed the contents of the datapad.
He found that the man in the datapad spoke about how energy permeates everything and to unify yourself with this energy you can manipulate it. Drodik spent hours contemplating his immediate surroundings while he sat meditating just as the man told him to and quieted his mind. He could feel the coldness of the ship around him and the pure lifelessness of it all while in the center he could see himself sitting cross-legged. He could feel the pile of books in front of himself vibrate as he willed himself to pick them up with his hands. As he opened his eyes he saw that not only did the books fall over, but his hands were clasped together. By the time the vessel arrived in Va’lence Drodik had already completed an exercise on telekinesis.
Thereafter
File:Drodik.jpgDrodik returning to a Vong damaged, victorious Nythaspir
Over the gradual pull of time, Drodik emersed himself in the steady stream of force users. Though he was in a clan of dark jedi, and a brotherhood of even more, he was still untouched by them. From the datapads, Drodik knew he was their prime enemy. And he knew the dangers of lurking in their presence and even in the midsts of them. But he soon found, that the bond they shared wasn't always on the path of either lightsiders or dark siders. It was the bond that they were all together in unity in a brotherhood. Seemingly, all his clanmates of the past and present, tolerate his ethereal mindedness for the light side. As the Vong Invasion insued, Drodik was torn between two situations. Nythaspir, while not being overtly damaged by the Vong Invasion, was dealt its blows. At the same time, Drodik was fighting on two different battlefields. Nythaspir, and the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. After the events of the Vong departed, a new uphill battle ensued: Resurrection.
After the Vong Invasion, and devastating loss on Nythaspir, Drodik was faced with yet another hardship. His post as Aedile under House Oriens Obscurum had come into question as well as that of the entire Clan Summit. For two and a half weeks time, Drodik as well as the entire population of the Brotherhood, were forced to leave their posts. In an order under the guise of Ressurrection took place. All members of the Brotherhood were meant to fight for the open positions now readily available in Clan Arcona. Through the order and the difficulty, Drodik came out victorious and secured his place in Arcona. But it would not be in Oriens Obscurum as he had come to know, rather an older house from Arconas past House Qel-Droma.
Recovery
Times were tough for the Templar soon after. The Vong continued to slaughter the galaxy and any planet that came in it's sight was completely changed forever. Charged with aiding the recovery efforts and ensuring peace between it's citizens, Drodik returned to Nythaspir, leaving Clan Arcona once and for all. It was here he came face to face with Vong warriors for the first time. The war on Nythaspir devastated the planet. Scores of people were killed at once and throughout the ensuing conflict. The three kingdoms of Nythaspir united their armies to to kick back the intruders. The fighting was long and malevolent but they proved their worth against the alien species. The Nagai Jedi assisted in recovery efforts and further fortified relations between the people of the Va'lence Kingdom, and the other kindoms with the Va'lence monarchy.
While still a Clan member of Arcona, Drodik fell out of league with the institution, and began his wanderings. The Jedi traveled first from Nythaspir to Coruscant where on a whim he threw himself from a balcony. Plummeting without a care he landed in a Skycar. Luckily uninjured, the experience hardened the dead feelings he had inside after witnessing the destruction of Nythaspir and other worlds. Again he attempted to end his life but to no avail. He wandered the streets of the city world without the use of the force. Things were no longer colorful, tastes were non-existent, and there was a constant blankness in his heart.
He then left Coruscant after a stint with a deathsticks dealer and entered a period of space drifting. The Epsilon was turned completely off except for the life support systems and the manual lights within. With enough supplies to last over a year, Drodik entered a state of hibernation of sorts.
Time and space ceased to be as he and the ship, as one, silently drifted in open space. The quietness and the bitter cold within did not phase the disassociated Jedi from his meditation. There was no desire to continue life for any reason, or any wish to go on. And like the black outside, so too it was inside as lights of all sort shut down and the only sounds, came from the oxygen supplier.
The Dark Traveler
The blackness remained for a years time when the Nagai suddenly opened his eyes. Weak and barely responsive to his environment, he allowed his body to lean forward and he touched his cheek to the carpeted floor. A few hours passed before he became able to stand and walk, after which he returned to the cockpit and found that it had been a year, a complete year since he set himself adrift in space.
A month had passed since he awoke from his slumber, and Drodik had further nursed himself nutritionally. After much internal debate, he set a course for the one place he could trace his mystical origins, back to Clan Plagueis. After visiting the Brotherhood again, Drodik departed from Arcona territory for the last time and entered into Kapsina air space. With open arms, Drodik was welcomed back to Plageuis. The First Knight had returned. Upon returning, it was soon realized that Drodik's potential as a force user had grown exponentially from the three years since his ascencion to Obelisk Templar. Inquiry was sent forth and Drodik was to be tested.
While relatively new to Clan Plagueis again, Drodik took to wandering the Dark Tower on Kapsina, the Clan Plagueis capital in the Jusidah system. It was in the dark recesses of the clan's library, where Drodik's next tale began.
The Halls of the Dark Tower on Kapsina radiated with a coldness that reflected the morality of the tenants. The Nagai jedi began to spend much of his time within the library, it was a quiet and dark place much like his exile in space. An ancient sructure, the library housed an immense collection of knowledge, as well as a labrynth of complex hallways and dark sections.
While exploring these dark sections of the library, Drodik came upon a mysterious figure. When the figure emerged from the shadows, it proclaimed it's name as Nerius, and atacked the Templar. After subduing Nerius, Drodik learned his attacker had purpose for being in the Dark Tower. Nerius explained that deep within the caverns of the Library, somewhere there was a kind of treasure, a treasure that would prove to be powerful for the one who wielded it.
After agreeing to assist, Drodik and Nerius set out in the library, finding a complex and nearly 100 percent obscured entrance. They climbed through a slit, compact, and deathly tight crack in the bedrock, and squeezed themselves narrowly through the solid rock, and emerged on a ledge, overlooking a city of stone, far off in the gaping chasm. It was there they uncovered an ancient society of beings which dwell within the cavernous bowels under the surface of the planet. This religious society focused around entheogenic enlightenment via an odd spiked fruit called The Emylyanesh,and showed Drodik and Nerius their ways. After a highly specialized ritual involving a psychedelic experience the two were "washed" up on the surface to never see the society beneath the ground ever again.
After the experience in the bowels of Kapsina the lightsided Drodik once again packed up his life and set out on another one of his meditative excursions into space, in his exile the Jedi stopped using the force and relinquished his saber from use. His craft The Epsilon floated once again aimlessly across the stars. Having extracted form of liquid from the Emylyanesh the psychotropic properties he continued his wanderings under the influence of an intensely spiritual journey across the galaxy visiting far flung places of beauty meeting people from all walks of life.
The House of Light
Drodik's failed excursions into Brotherhood political involvement yielded little results over the years, so the decision to rejoin a house was fraught with inner contention. As the Nagai Jedi meditated on the Brotherhood in his vessel, a sudden wave overcame him while under the influence of the fruit. He felt a great cleansing from a faraway planet and the loss of many force users, except that they weren't dead. In fact he felt that a great many of them had a benevolent feeling as the whole instance felt very cleansing. As Drodik pursued this odd change and edged closer toward Brotherhood space he soon learned about a great many members having converted toward the lightside. The once Dark Brotherhood had a splinter within.
Eventually Drodik found his way onto the soil of New Tython.
Effects
Nicknamed Odyssey in honor of the its creators vagabond nature.
Created in 35 ABY, the banner operates as Drodiks Coat of Arms displaying the Star Of Va'lence and the seal of House Odan- Urr.
Crafted by Muz Kiebatsu Sadow, this set of robes consists of: Black pants, Boots, Long sleeved ribbed shirt, and an Armorweave vest that runs to the knee.
- Epsilon: Originally a gift from the King of Va'lence, the modified YT-1760 which acts as both the home and transportation of Drodik. The interior of the vessel has been heavily gutted and resembles little of the stock version of the crafts originally manufactured.
Positions
Trivia
- Drodik was the first member to be knighted after the merger of Clan Satal Keto and Clan Exar Kun, granting him the title First Knight of Plagueis
- Name created during a non-Star Wars related creative writing exercise a year before joining the DB.
- Often confused with Dranik
- Graphically modeled from Nagai agent Den Siva