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280 BBY (age 324)
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Anzat
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Anzati
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Female
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1.65 meters
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68 kg
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Raven black with maroon undertones
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Bright crimson
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Empress Anvara Morvane
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Emperor Viktor Morvane
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Ilianna Morvane; Levoro Morvane; Kalara Morvane
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Silas Abernathy Kal'Vorro, Elyna Kal'Vorro
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Viktor Morvane
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Red, obsidian-black hilt
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Form VII (Vaapad); Form VI (Niman)
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Shadow Step; Sliding Hands
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Medic; Covert Infiltrator
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Odan-Urr
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The Gravewalker
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Character Sheet
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Physical Description
Despite her age, Velira physically appears only to be in her twenties. Her skin is smooth and porcelain-pale with a faint silvery undertone, flawless and almost luminous under light. Her heart shaped face is strikingly symmetrical, with high cheekbones and a narrow jawline that gives her a regal appearance. Thick, dark hair falls in loose curls, cascading over her shoulders with subtle maroon and violet undertones.
Her slightly upturned eyes are round to give her face a gentler appearance, despite the striking blood-red irises. They are framed by long, dark lashes and delicately arched brows, surrounded by shadows. Her lips are full and naturally dark, contrasting sharply with her pale skin.
Her elegant figure is petite with soft, feminine curves, including a larger bust line. She has long, talon-like nails that come to naturally sharp points and are typically painted dark red in color.
Velira in her medic uniform
Unlike others of her species, her nose remains symmetrical alongside the rest of her features, with a smooth bridge due to her intermixed heritage. Two slender facial tendrils—her Anzati proboscises— remain carefully hidden within her cheeks, invisible until she chooses to strike. When revealed, they are thin and semi-translucent compared to her already pale skin, giving them a silky, web-like appearance.
Velira's Timeline
Childhood- 50 Years of Age, Anzati Nobility:
Velira Morvane was born into privilege and power on her Anzati homeworld, descending from a line of nobles whose wealth allowed them to live detached from the harsh realities of their species predatory nature. While most Anzati prowled the galaxy for their sustenance, the Morvane family had meals delivered—captives taken from off world or criminals condemned to death, discreetly transferred to their palace and offered up as living feasts. This arrangement allowed them to maintain their noble veneer, dining in elegance while feeding their appetites without ever leaving home.
From an early age, Velira displayed an acute sensitivity to the Force. Velira’s mother, an Empress among their kind, would spend long hours practicing the Sith arcane traditions of the Nightsisters from high in the palace towers. It was there that her mother mentored her, teaching her how to wield a few of her abilities. This was the only bond that Velira ever forged to her family. Her parents never held any love for each other, their very marriage one that was arranged. Velira's father always pushed for her to learn a careful set of manners and forbade her from seeing the world beyond their palace walls. Meanwhile, her siblings were highly competitive with one another, eager to prove themselves to their father in hopes to gain his favor, a notion that Velira never shared.
Unknown to Velira at the time, there was a ruse for power among the other members of her family, hungry to take it for themselves. Her Mother had always kept a careful balance on their planet with distributing the prey as the sole ruler at the time, ensuring that no Anzat ever went without food. This notion was one the other nobles did not agree with, for they wanted more food for themselves rather than share and have less, even at the expense of losing other Anzati to turning feral. One evening, Velira's uncle and two sisters captured her mother on behalf of orders from her father, casting her deep into a prison cell within the palace. The next day, her father Viktor ascended to the throne in her stead, while her mother was tortured and left to starve. When Velira's mother finally did inevitably became a feral Anzat, she was torn to pieces by the other nobles and died at their hands.
Following the death of her mother, Velira could no longer stand to be anywhere near her family, as her hatred grew. She found her family’s way of life hollow and grotesque— predation stripped of its challenge, turned into indulgence without purpose. While the Morvanes feasted behind silk curtains and polished marble, Velira longed for the thrill of choosing her own path and living by her own strength. Finally, Velira managed to flee the planet, unknown to the others, and has spent countless years ever since evading her family.
Velira Morvane, preparing to feed
50-110 Years of Age
For decades, Velira hunted freely across the galaxy. She embraced the primal aspects of her species, moving like a shadow through underworld dens and battlefield wreckage, feeding on warriors and criminals whose minds burned with intensity.
110-200 Years of Age, Betrayal and Imprisonment:
Eventually, she met a handsome Evereni male of noble blood by the name of Kaleo Davray, and the two fell in love with one another. However, it was not to last. From the very beginning, Velira had carefully kept her true nature and what she really was hidden from her partner, and from his family of nobles. Despite being an Anzat, during this time, she tried to do better. Her feedings became much more infrequent, and when she did need to feed, it was from criminals.
When her secret was finally discovered, she was labeled as a monster and betrayed by her partner. Velira was captured by the family’s personal knights and cast into a deep cavern prison, far from civilization.
There, in the darkness and silence of her entombment, she adapted. Unable to feed at will, she turned inward, using the Force to suppress her hunger, and extend the time she could go without sustenance for days at a time. These meditative techniques, born from desperation, gave her just enough control over her Anzati nature. She learned patience as she waited for lost souls to stumble into her domain, surviving on rare feedings for decades.
When Velira finally escaped nearly one hundred years later from her imprisonment, she fled the planet, after discovering that Kaleo Davray and his family had long passed away.
200-245 Years of Age, Nightsister Coven:
Following her escape from decades of imprisonment, Velira’s path led her to track down a living descendant of her former lover, Kaleo Davray. Consumed by a desire for vengeance, she intended to kill the young woman—only to discover she was living under the protection of a Nightsister Coven on a remote world. Using calculated deception, Velira infiltrated the coven, presenting herself as a wandering Force adept seeking refuge.
Her integration was seamless; she adapted to their rituals and cloaked her true identity beneath feigned loyalty. Over time, however, Velira forged an unexpected bond with the girl she had come to destroy. This fragile connection was shattered when the girl betrayed her trust, revealing Velira’s nature to the coven’s leadership. Rather than fleeing, Velira turned her focus to vengeance once more—this time against the entire coven.
Over the span of years, she methodically and covertly eliminated its members, each death disguised as misfortune, accident, or the work of rival clans. By the time her campaign of quiet destruction was complete, the coven had been reduced to scattered survivors. Velira departed the planet with her vendetta fulfilled, leaving the girl behind.
245-300 Years of Age, Secrecy and Pursuit of Medicine:
By the age of two hundred and forty five, Velira had mastered deception as an art. She cloaked her Anzati nature behind elaborate personas, slipping seamlessly into societies that would otherwise shun her. Through the Force, she delved into the minds of others, ensuring her secrets remained buried. Her preferred targets were influential individuals—politicians, gang leaders, scholars—whose memories she would sip as delicacies before moving on.
But over time, the thrill of endless deception dulled. Velira immersed herself in the study of medicine, adopting the persona of a wandering medic. It was the perfect cover: trusted by the weak and dying, welcomed into societies where others would face suspicion. Though her role began as a disguise, Velira found herself drawn to the act of healing itself. She fed sparingly and, when possible, only from those already at death’s door, convincing herself it was a mercy.
During this time, Velira uncovered that her brother Levoro and wife Sevyrna Morvane, had also fled their homeworld of Anzat to forge a new life for himself along other a few other Anzati. In the wastes of Tatooine near a small mining outpost, they forged a home for themselves hidden within a series of underground crypts. Velira visited, where she befriended another Anzat named Miren and her husband Silas Kal'Vorro. Silas was different among their kind, for he tried to live honorably and had uncovered a more humane way to feed, without killing the victim. Silas taught this particular skill and methodology behind it to Velira. When both Silas and Miren had a daughter together named Elyna, Velira remained as a close family friend and cared for the girl as though her own.
But it was not to last. As the years passed, and Velira was off world in pursuit of her own endeavors, the group of Anzati within that area of Tatooine were hunted to near extinction by local officers, until only Miren, Silas, and Elyna remained. Miren, after countlessly ignoring her own needs to ensure that her family remained fed, eventually turned feral. When Silas went to pick up a blaster to kill her and end her suffering, he was unable to finish the deed, and called upon Velira for help. Velira finished the act, killing one of the rare few she considered her friend with a quick snap to the neck. She ensured that both Silas and Elyna remained safe and hidden, before leaving the planet yet again.
320-324 Years of Age
Concealment Within Odan-Urr:
Velira and Morgan Sorenn's first meeting. Art by Vyr.
At 320 years old, Velira’s path shifted again. Her attention was drawn to Clan Odan-Urr, a community of Force-sensitive individuals known for their strength, discipline, and commitment to safeguarding knowledge. For a predator like Velira, such powerful minds—bright with the Force and rich in experience—were an irresistible temptation. She saw in them the promise of unparalleled meals, each one offering insight and vitality far beyond what ordinary prey could provide.
Yet, upon approaching the Clan, something in her shifted. The discipline, camaraderie, and purpose she observed in them contrasted sharply with her centuries of predation and deception. Instead of stalking them as prey, Velira adopted her medic persona and sought to assimilate discreetly, offering healing and support while concealing her true nature for the next four years.
Her ruse could not last forever. Mihoshi Keibatsu, the Clan’s Proconsul and a skilled telepath, uncovered the truth of what she was. Rather than exile her, Miho offered Velira a choice: to harness her talents for the Clan as a spy and infiltrator. She accepted, outwardly maintaining her identity as a medic working in a Jedi healing facility, while serving secretly in this new role.
Syndicate Alliance:
Velira's need for adequate sustenance to quench her natural Anzati hungers, something that she was unable to easily attain within Odan-Urr, led her to a meeting at The Sinning Den to align her interests with those of the notorious Morgan Sorenn. Velira was eventually offered a position among Morgan and her crew, serving as a Doctor among them.
Feeding Practices
While she will refer to her food source as the soup occasionally, she views this specific term along the lines of being undignified. Instead, Velira prefers to use the Anzati phrases of life essence or sea of memory. In comparison to others of her kind, Velira deems herself as taking a more "humane" approach when it comes to feeding. A few of these beliefs she chose to adopt after she became a medic.
Guiding Principles
There is one moral centered around feeding that Velira has vowed to herself to never break, for however many hundreds of years that she is alive for. She has vowed to herself to never feed upon the life essence from younglings, and would rather choose death over doing so. She views the minds of younglings as something precious and innocent, meant to be protected. As an Anzat, Velira has never fed on a youngling, but has hunted down other members of her species if she uncovered that they were found guilty of such a crime.
Quality Over Quantity
Due to years of exercising self control, while Velira is still prone to the traditional soup cravings as an Anzat, she is typically able to cope with those sensations without the need to impulsively feed. This allows her to be much more selective when it comes to her prey, as needed. Velira will typically opt to go after those with what she deems as stronger minds, if she is able to. Additionally, she feels that they have more of a fair chance of defending themselves, and so it reduces her guilt in doing so. The added benefit feeding on those with stronger minds or those who are stronger in the Force, is that the one meal can sustain Velira for much longer, as opposed to the equivalent of having quick snacks. If she is severely limited in her options, only then will she not act on this particular belief.
Acts of Mercy
Velira will not readily kill those that she feeds from, unless she uncovers that they are criminals, or under specific circumstances. Those specific circumstances sometimes arise from her patients that she oversees as a medic. If they are deemed beyond saving, or ask to be finally relieved of their suffering, only then will Velira feed from them until they pass away. She goes extra lengths to ensure that the procedure is quick and as painless as possible, certainly more painless than what is they may already have been experiencing.
Feeding Responsibly
In most circumstances, Velira go the extra length to aide her "meal" through the experience to the best of her abilities. Her proboscises are silky and precise in nature. Her knowledge as a medic and in different body systems allow her to mark specific areas of the brain to feed from, to limit the amount of harm caused. Additionally, she will typically only feed with one proboscis, while the other one is readily administering bacta fluid to the brain to help with replenishment and promote healing. She will do her best to take only what she needs, and not feed in excess. Even more so, if deemed necessary, Velira may oftentimes use the Force to alter the memories of those who she feeds on in a way so that they have no recollection of the experience, and can move forwards with their lives.
Relationships:
Sirra Werd'la
Velira first met Sirra within her stay in Clan Odan Urr, where the two worked together to investigate the whereabouts of Sirra's brother, Celevon. Though Sirra was mistrusting of Velira, the two's abilities complimented one another for the sake of investigating and reaching a successful conclusion. Eventually, Sirra and Velira by chance worked together yet again, on a second mission aiding to capture several targets.
Trivia:
- Velira's facial references are based on the likeness of both Anne Hathaway and Megan Fox.
- She has the equivalent of a British accent, layered with a Romanian one. In actuality, one is from her home world of Anzat, combined with that of a Core World accent that she later picked up during her extended time spent there.
- The likeness of Velira's voice is based on Jessica Brown Findlay
- Velira’s droid, named Spyder, is loosely inspired by Thing from the Addams Family
- Velira learned how to play a B’omarr pipe organ, by feeding on the soup of the B’omarr monks of Tatooine, who were known for leaving their brains in jars once reaching enlightenment. How could she say no to free food?