#keilakh ceigrymh

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Well I finally completed all eight main character story arcs in SWTOR. Whew. What a ride.

I gotta say I’m pretty damn attached to the Sith Inquisitor, Sith Warrior, and Imperial Agent stories. They’re damn good.

The Sith Inquisitor was my first playthrough, and has everything I ever wanted in a Sith Lord - tiny, gleefully destructive, yet fiercely defensive of anything and anyone he cares about (which is a lot). He even has the violent, intensely loyal subordinate whose devotion is either thinly veiled intent at erotica or homicide and there’s no telling which it is at any given moment. Mm. Yes. Exactly what I signed up for.

The Sith Warrior is an absolutely lovely story arc that I had a blast playing through, but since I’m so very smitten with Char’s Evren as the canonical Sith Warrior, I kept having it in my head throughout the entire time that Darth Baras must have had another apprentice out there (my character), wandering around doing secondary, slightly-less-galaxy-shattering-important things instead. I... had no idea how much I would end up loving both Vette and Quinn, they’ve managed to make the top 30 of my favourite Star Wars characters in general, not just in swtor. That’s a feat. XD

The Agent storyline is stressful and upsetting, but it’s also very good and that’s a combination that made me become extremely protective of my poor agent. He only gets Good Things now, and I’ll probably end up writing a little story for him just to give him some nice endings. Mostly involving my agent and Transman!Hunter and better closure for their little cat-and-mouse game.

I liked playing through the Jedi Knight storyline too, despite beating my head against a wall every five seconds due to the dizzying amount of stupidity. My knight is a relentlessly adorable cream puff without a violent or mean-spirited bone in his body, so that made him... challenging to play, being as I avoided him killing anyone at all costs. It also made it challenging for him to get Scourge’s approval, so there was a lot of gift-giving going on, lol. That’s ok considering how intensely I ship them ahahahahaaaaaa (long-suffering sigh).

The Jedi Councilor arc is one I really need to play twice, because my councilor is a horrible, horrible man at the same time he is an exemplary Jedi. He’s practically the opposite of my knight, killing anyone and everyone who crosses him. It’d be interesting to see a playthrough that DOESN’T involve slaughtering the masses. He had a storyline all his own before I ever plunked him in swtor, but he fit the councilor arc so well I actually tweaked a few things in his tale to make it fit better. XD

The smuggler storyline was... entirely forgettable, but my character is cute (and is also in stories I’ve outlined but haven’t finished or posted), and I liked some of the characters you meet along the way.

The Bounty Hunter arc was also bordering on forgettable, but it was also a rollicking good time so I can’t really say it was bad. I liked a lot of the characters you meet (mmmm, Darth Tormen.), and the bounty hunter’s mentor is absolutely charming (honestly any time I hear a southern accent in Star Wars, no matter how badly done, I still clap my hands and feel represented, lol). My bounty hunter is actually my Jedi Councilor’s older sister, so that makes everything more interesting from my pov, ahaha.

The Republic Soldier storyline made me want to strangle the commanding officer every step of the way, and I was furious that I never got to shove my foot down her throat at the end but... oh well. Even though my canon soldier character is Basrel from Opening Dialogue, I still wasn’t terribly attached to what happened in the soldier’s storyline.

I have more characters than these, but these eight are my first completed playthroughs for each arc. \o/ I have yet to completely play through anything past the Hutt Cartel and the Revan expansions too, so that’ll be another ride once I get there.

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The only thing I want from SWTOR is for my tiny Sith Inquisitor and his Khem Val to be happy together forever

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I was out of town over the past few days and in my down-time I worked on some backstory for Keilakh Ceigrimh, my main in SWTOR.

He’s not entirely human - one of his parents was Lorrdian and the other was Argazdan. I don’t know how “canon” the old Han Solo novels are anymore but written in them was a massive clusterfuck of a disaster called the Kanz Disorders. Basically a few hundred years before the SWTOR timeline the Argazdan species (green-skinned, white-haired near-humans with heavy green bags under their eyes) invaded the other worlds of their local sector and enslaved the residents, including the human Lorrdians. The Lorrdians were forbidden to speak on pain of death, so they made a really subtle gesture-and-body language called kinetic communication to get by.

So anyway. Keilakh. I’ve only just gotten off of Korriban in game and I haven’t gotten very far with the official storyline yet so I don’t know if there’s other tidbits about the Sith Inquisitor’s past that will pop up that might counter what I’m coming up with, but for now I’m basing Keilakh’s story on what we find out in-game. So in-game the Sith Inquisitor is a slave that’s been pulled from the ranks because they showed promise for becoming a Sith. I’ve taken that and kept true to it for Keilakh’s backstory, but with a little more detail. He was born to an Argazdan master and a Lorrdian slave, and since that would have been a blight on the Argazdan house that he came from if it became public knowledge, Keilakh was sold off to the Sith Empire when he was seven years old. He was stuck as a slave on Korriban for ten or fifteen years before someone noticed he was sensitive to the Force, and that’s when the events of the in-game Sith Inquisitor storyline start to happen.

Obviously he gets his slightly greenish skin tone and greenish bags under his eyes from his Argazdan parent, and the red hair and freckles from his Lorrdian one. The pattern in his freckles is entirely natural, it’s just one of the results of the mixing of alien genes.

I can’t decide if he’s 17 or 22, because I’m real hazy on how much time passes between the beginning of SWTOR and the “end”. But either way he’s pretty damn young. Since the first seven years of his life were spent on Lorrdia he had time enough to learn kinetic communication, so he’s very good at reading many people’s body language. But Sith masters allow their slaves to talk, so in Keilakh’s mind they’re already far better than Argazdan masters. He tends to be deferential and respectful of Sith who are clearly in some position of authority, because even though he was freed when he became a Sith apprentice he still has a lot of old mental and emotional baggage from being a slave. In his mind until he gets more powerful than them, they are literally his masters.

Since he has a newfound power now, he tends to flaunt it and revel in it frequently. He can be terse and short with people and often barks commands if he knows people have to listen to him. But being who he is with his background, he still tends to treat slaves or weaker beings kindly and with basic decency and respect. But no mistake, he doesn’t actually care about them, and will drop them like a hot potato if there’s some benefit for himself. He’s morally neutral about torture, murder, blackmail, manipulation, etc. If things of that nature can get him something he wants he’s not above using them, although he is a strangely habitual truth-teller - he rarely lies, and when he does he usually has to have a very good reason to do so.

So that’s all I’ve got so far. I’m only at level 19 in the game and only just got off of Korriban with the charming and delightful Khem Val (please tell me I get to keep him, I love him so much he’s adorable) so I guess we’ll see where Keilakh ends up from there. So far I’m really enjoying this game. \o/

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I didn’t like how I made my first swtor character because apparently modeling them after my existing fanfic characters is an exercise in dialogue-frustration, so I made this charming little teenage asshole instead

When in doubt, make him tiny, freckled, pasty, and a redhead