Dralin Fortea

Dralin Vhett is a loyal member of House Gladius, and does his best to live up to the expectations of his superiors, as well as his own.

"Aliit ori'shya taldin."

―Mandalorian proverb, translates to "Family is more than blood."

Character History

Preteen Years

Dralin Vhett started off as Dralin Corr, born into a poor family in the city of Coronet on the planet Corellia. His mother stayed home to raise Dralin and his older brother, Dreav, while his father worked as a mechanic alongside his Mandalorian partner, Kardan Vhett, the father of one of Dralin's close friends. Growing up, Dralin and Dreav were as close as brothers could be. Unfortunately, one day, when Dreav was sixteen and Dralin was fourteen, there was a horrible accident, caused by Jedi pursuing their quarry in the streets of Coronet. Dreav, who recently got his license to drive his very own speeder, was in that accident, killed instantly in a violent explosion.

Teenage Life

After the funeral, Dralin's father, Drail, started drinking. Drail and Kardan recently landed a huge contract for starship repair for CorSec, but Drail started coming into work drunk, grieving for his favored son. After Kardan wrote Drail out of the partnership for nearly destroying one of their clients' ships in a drunken stupor, Drail stumbled home and took out his aggression on the closest thing available: Dralin. After a year of being beaten regularly by his drunk of a father, Dralin left his parents' house following a fight between him and his father that ended in Dralin somehow pushing his father across the room without laying a hand on him, moving in with Kardan's family.

After living with Kardan's family for a year and working at Kardan's starship repair business, Dralin was asked if he wished to become a part of Clan Vhett. Agreeing readily, he was initiated in the gai bal manda, the Mandalorian adoption ceremony. Before a crowd of witnesses, which included Dralin's drunk father, Dralin was officially named Dralin Vhett, son of Kardan Vhett. Dralin was to be taught Mando'a, the language of the Mando'ade, and also be taught the ways of the Mandalorians, such as the intricacies of their culture and the discipline of the Mando'ade.

The Mando'ade

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The skull of a Mythosaur, the symbol of the Mando'ade‎

Leaving Corellia

After another year of living as a Mando'ade, Dralin was accosted by his birth father once again. Drail attacked him, and Dralin reacted the same way as before when he feared for his life: an untrained, unknowing Force push. He accidentally pushed Drail into a rack of tools, which stabbed him into his back and clean out of his chest. Kardan, who had witnessed the end of the confrontation, recognized that Dralin was using the Force, and tried to explain it to him the way his brother, who had left to become a Dark Jedi years before, had done for him. Then Kardan smuggled Dralin out of Corellia, sending him to the Dark Jedi Brotherhood, promising to take care of the mess. Dralin would hold the principles of his adopted family close to him the rest of his life.

A Different Kind of Family

Dralin Vhett was accepted into House Gladius of Clan Tarentum, and found that he fit in quite well. After studying with them for some time, Dralin felt that this was a new kind of family for him, another family that transcended blood. Determined to do both Clan Vhett and House Gladius proud, he was apprenticed to Quastor Kromtal Stormfyld, during which he was taken to the old Cestus complex on Koros by Telona Murrage, along with Elols and ShadowReaper. While the apprenticeship didn't last long, Dralin did learn quite a bit from Master Stormfyld. Shortly thereafter, Dralin was apprenticed to Telona.

DJB Facts

Positions Held

• Member of Battle Team Praxeum
• Apprentice to Kromtal Stormfyld
• Apprentice to Telona Murrage
• Archivist of Battle Team Praxeum
• Battle Team Leader of Praxeum

Outstanding Achievements

• Dralin escaped from the old Cestus Complex on Koros.

Trivia

• The idea for this character actually came from a character I made on the Facebook application Jedi vs Sith. That similarly named Dralin Vhett is a Sith Lord who was very similar to Revan and created an organization called the Xendor Alliance along with fellow Sith Discordya in the effort to wipe out the Jedi and bring order to the galaxy. There, Dralin is older, wiser, and is much more powerful than this fledgling Dark Jedi, but I definitely enjoy playing a younger Dralin Vhett.
• Dralin Vhett's name is pieced together from a name I just thought of, Dralin, and the origin of the last name Fett, Mando Clan Vhett, which is pronounced the same.