#kao-cen darach

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: Anybody else strangely captivated by Kao Cen Darach from that one SWTOR trailer? I don’t know. Seeing him put the hurt on two whole sith lords just makes me wanna corrupt his firm… convictions. I want to throat his dick until he voluntarily leaves the Jedi Order and then swallow his load, is what I’m saying.

[coruscanti-travelguide]

Does anyone else periodically rewatch the SWTOR short films for that sweet, sweet nostalgia? And also to see Darth Malgus looking more and more fucked up with every appearance.

[editsulli]

Some pencil drawings from the past

[vahloksekelle]

Resuscitating my dead feed with an Old Republic wip. This was supposed to be a collection of KOTOR doodles but somehow Kao Cen Darach got in there … and he’s the only one I’ve even bothered to render, anyways, so, he’s gonna stay.

[sabersourcing]

ALL of the Zabrak Jedi: Maul and Eeth Koth's Species

Although Darth Maul is arguably the most famous Force user of the Zabrak species, quite a few prominent Zabrak Jedi exist as well. In fact, one of the founders of the Jedi Order is a Zabrak. Several Jedi Council Members and other powerful Jedi are members of the species as well! A Zabrak is a carnivorous near-human species divided into two subspecies: Iridonian and Dathomirian. A series of small…

[sithfamily]

How Alitara and Rhaenyra become besties?

Rhaenyra: One for marriage - Laeonor Velaryon

Alitara: One for marriage - Darth Malgus

Rhaenyra: One for children - Harwin Strong

Alitara: One for (adopting in Mando way) children - Ven Zallow

Rhaenyra: One for second marriage - Daemon Targaryen

Alitara: One for second marriage - Malavai Quinn

Rhaenyra: One for one night stand - Criston Cole

Alitara: adopted tooka of family just to not let him die - Kao Cenn Darach

Rhaenyra: Are you sure you're not a Targaryen? You even look like one...

Alitara: *sips Saphir tea* Nah, I would know if I was one.

Inspired by comment on YT which won my heart xD

[serenofroses]

Kao Cen Darach and Ven Zallow are alive in my verse, the two escaped with injuries and residing with the surviving Jedi on Odessan.

They might be background characters but the two may show up to assist the Jazz and Tau (especially for Corellia arc), or staying on Odessan to help the twi'lek settlers, travelling to Zakuul to help transport force sensitive younglings who needed to escape from Empire.

[reconstructionlegacy]

Ngani Zho Coerced Custody Of Theron

[Zho] had told the Jedi Council and the leaders of the Republic military that he had sent Satele on a vital mission— something he could not speak of for fear of endangering her life. Given Master Zho’s impeccable reputation, none had questioned him. Now, however, the mission was over. It was time for her to return; the Republic had fought too long without their champion. The Sith Empire’s relentless advance had gone too far. She could no longer ignore the Republic’s need. [...] “You promised you would take him,” Satele said softly, gazing down into the child’s wide, wondering eyes. “I will,” Ngani assured her. “If that’s still what you want.” “What I want has nothing to do with it,” she muttered as she reluctantly handed the child back to her Master. [...] As he took the child from her arms, the moment of greatest joy she would ever know ended.

— Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation

BACKGROUND

Ngani Zho trained, according to Lost Suns (admittedly according to Zho the manipulator), Satele Shan, Syo Bakarn, Jaric Kaedan, and Bela Kiwiiks. Obviously, that is not possible for full Padawans, and Satele was under Kao Cen Darach's mentorship in the first trailer (and then he died), so my theory here is that Zho stepped in to "foster" mentor at least some of these promising young Jedi (and gain influence with them).

WHAT HAPPENED

Zho was somehow trusted by the Council (maybe because he partially trained a third of them). Satele became pregnant, went to Zho for advice, and rather than saying "let's talk to the Council, the normal Jedi support structure, which trusts me," he said "I will cover this up. For you." Like a favour.

He said to the Council that she was on a mission, which put a time limit on the 'plan' ("Always with the plan, aren't you?" Zho asks Theron in Lost Suns). By lying to the Council on her behalf, he made it impossible to go to them for support, or at the least heavily implied to Satele that her pregnancy was somehow wrong or shameful.

By isolating Satele from everyone but himself, and putting a time limit on her seclusion, he arranged for her to have no real choice but to give him custody of Theron. (The scion of a powerful bloodline... and possibly even blackmail material against the future Grand Master.)

Then, having secured the custody of Theron, he proceeded to isolate him as he had isolated Satele, and thoroughly abuse him. This is detailed in Lost Suns, and I will not detail it here; suffice to say it began at the earliest when Theron was five, and Theron's life was endangered by Zho, who abandoned Theron upon realizing he was not Force-sensitive.

(SOME OF) THE AFTERMATH

Years later, when Theron is an SIS officer, under convoluted plot circumstances (that is: the plot of Lost Suns), he reencounters Zho. Zho takes another young person, Teff'ith, under his wing, which Theron is unhappy about. (Teff'ith asks Theron, who has used the term 'childhood trauma' about Zho by this point, and will later elaborate with horrific detail that I, once more, decline to repeat, "Scared of him?". Theron says 'no' - you know, like a liar. Anyway -)

(My theory is that Zho was Star Cabal, Revanite, or both, and wanted complete control of the training of the Blood Of Revan... but fuck knows why he did any of this. Your guess is as good as mine.)

I do think, in the text, Zho's treatment of Theron is framed as abhorrent, especially given the cited and open trauma and abuse. There is also a line in Annihilation about him glaring at Satele in a way that reminds me of Theron's textual panic attack when Satele mentions Zho to him elsewhere in the book. Given this, I think it is an entirely reasonable conclusion, even ignoring the fact that he is baby-stealing Jedi georg, the only Jedi known to have actually stolen a baby, that he mistreated Satele, too.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

At any rate - Ngani Zho coerced Satele into giving him custody of Theron. Theron does not know this, and assumes Satele chose freely to gave him up.

We can't know what her decision would have been, because she didn't truly get to make one. She may have chosen to give Theron up. She may not have. But as it was, as it happened, she did not have a genuine choice.

TL;DR: Tie-in material makes it quite clear that Ngani Zho, the "Master Zho" in one of Theron's combat lines, coerced Satele into giving the infant Theron into his custody. This was terrible for everyone involved, except Zho.

[sepulchuresketchbook]

”You say my mother was a former pupil of Kao Cen Darach…..am I hearing you correctly?”

“Why do you find that so difficult to believe?”

“Do you want to know why I think that? She was ambitious.Far too ambitious for her or me to thrive.”

“Who is your father? Do you have family?”

“She took no lover. I was artificially conceived. As far as I’m concerned my mother was an only child. I don’t think anyone blinked twice at that.”

“I..see. I am sorry.”

“Don’t be. It is what it is. She got what she wanted out of it.”

[mariacallous]

Master Kao Cen Darach could get it

[figgiforever]

Another batch of my OCs. I really got into drawing their portraits.

From left to right:

Mav (daughter of Annada and Kix, Jedi Knight who wears a mandalorian armor, second personal doctor of Tiggi) and Kao Cen (son of Iridia and Dogma, Jedi Knight who wears elements of mandalorian armor, named after Kao Cen Darach)

Lenne Dei'bee Wejj Lan Esheete and Naak Thesse (Tiggi's parents)

Goodway and Madcap (clone pilots from Shadow Squadron, later during Clone Wars they joined Tiggi's squad Ramikadyc as pilots of their spaceship)

My Tiny Taglist:

@mandalorian-general

[anchanted-one]

Legend of Lightning Chapter 82

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43208574/chapters/118856926

Satele also showed a lot more emotion than she normally did; mostly sadness and doubt. She had a deep ocean of sorrow that she just kept repressed most of the time, and was only letting out now because she was temporarily freed from the burden of leadership^ (^Vajra doesn’t know that she’s not Grand Master). On more than one night, she sobbed uncontrollably on Vajra’s shoulder; and each morning, she looked a little better than she had before she’d let out those emotions.

On the flip side, she also laughed much more than she normally did, and more loudly. The first time she had, he, Kira, and Noreth had all stared at each other in shock.

And in the last week of the siege, she started to confide in Vajra—only Vajra—about her true feelings about certain issues, such as the Supreme Chancellor, Senator Saresh—for she had been hounded off Taris by the Empire—Darth Malgus and other Sith, Masters Kao Cen Darach and Orgus Din, and even matters like love, attachment, family, and other issues.

“If I had to go back in time, I would do things differently,” she told him bitterly. “The Jedi way is preferable to the Sith, but I made a mistake thinking it the only way. My ancestors proved it could be done, didn’t they? Revan and Bastila Shan? I wish I’d raised Theron and Jasme, alongside their Father. I wish I could have married him—discreetly—and stayed by his side forever.”

[afolksongs]

[editsulli]

May the 4th be with you!

[vahloksekelle]

update: revan is revaning

[lordeasriel]

STAR WARS THE OLD REPUBLIC CINEMATIC: RETURN The Sith Empire returns to the galaxy and reclaims Korriban.

After a thousand years, Korriban is ours again. Welcome home.