Qyzen Fess Qyzen Fess was a male Trandoshan hunter who allied the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order during the time of the Cold War and the Galactic War . Unlike many of his kind , he did not become a mercenary , but instead chose the traditional path of a big - game hunter , pitting his skills against the deadliest predators the galaxy had to offer . As such , he became a famed hunter and tracker , with his travels taking him from the swamps of Belkadan to the deserts of Tatooine in search of prey . He lost his right eye during one such hunt , and replaced it with a cybernetic prosthesis . Fess bartered his trophies in exchange for supplies and passage to new hunting grounds , and carried few personal possessions . Instead , he kept hold of only his weapons and a tally of his kills that he offered to the Scorekeeper . His hunting trips occasionally brought him into conflict with other sentient beings , including criminals , Mandalorians and even Jedi Masters , with such experiences making him slow to trust outsiders . However , whenever he did make a friend , Qyzen would defend such individuals with his life . Biography . Early life . Qyzen Fess was the son of an unknown Trandoshan big - game hunter who died in the sands of Tatooine while hunting his prey . Unlike many of his fellow Trandoshans , Fess rejected the life of a mercenary and instead chose to honor both his father and the Scorekeeper , the Trandoshan goddess , by choosing the path of a big - game hunter . Fess took great pride in pitting his skills against some of the galaxy ' s most dangerous creatures and racked up a lot of Jagannath points to honor his goddess . His travels had taken him to Tatooine ; Kashyyyk , where he spent three weeks in the Shadowlands and encountered a beast that blocked his infrared vision and cost him his right eye ; and Belkadan , where he met Jedi Master Yuon Par . A Jedi Master ' s friend . Fess became close to Master Par , and he would often travel to the Jedi Temple on Tython to visit his friend . Par ' s friendship with Fess was not universally accepted by the rest of the Jedi Order ; some members even called him a beast and refused to tolerate his presence on the Temple grounds if Par was not at the Temple . During 3641 BBY Fess visited Master Par on Tython at the same moment that Par had received her new Padawan learner , a promising young Jedi Consular who had received the assignment to track down four lost Jedi Holocrons . The Padawan could only recover three of the four recordings ; the fourth was taken by a Force - sensitive Twi ' lek named Nalen Raloch . Through the missing holocron , Raloch had discovered the same secret that the Padawan had uncovered from his investigations : that a man named Rajivari had turned on the newly formed Jedi Order and created a powerful artifact called the Fount of Rajivari . Raloch was slowly being corrupted by the dark side through this discovery and was opposing the Padawan ' s attempts to find the Fount of Rajivari and use it for himself . Willing to help Par and her Padawan stop Raloch from finding and using the Fount , Fess offered to help the Padawan locate Raloch and his followers by scouting a network of caves he had traveled before . It was here tragedy struck for the Trandoshan . Overcome with enemies , Fess was captured and caged by several of Raloch ' s followers . Fess ' s capture meant that his points , kills gathered from his hunting , were lost to him , and this caused him great shame and embarrassment . Fess was rescued by the Padawan , who went to search for Fess after Par expressed concern that Fess had not yet returned from his scouting trip . Impressed by the Padawan ' s ability to empathize about his shame in his capture and lost points , Fess came to believe that the Padawan was the Scorekeeper ' s Herald , a physical avatar of the Scorekeeper herself . Fess pledged his loyalty to the newly dubbed Herald and decided to accompany the Herald in order to start the process of regaining his lost points . The duo tracked down Rajivari ' s fount , which ended up being the Force ghost of Rajivari himself . Rajivari explained that he was the one who corrupted and manipulated Nalen Raloch as his tool to destroy the Jedi Order , and because he deemed Raloch too weak for his purposes , he tried to corrupt the Herald ' s way of viewing the Jedi Order as well . Having gotten the information they needed , the pair eventually confronted and defeated Raloch at the Forge , then returned to the Jedi Temple . For dealing with Raloch ' s threat , Yuon Par swore in her former Padawan as a Jedi Knight in front of the Jedi Council , but promptly fainted . The Dark Plague . Coruscant . While the Jedi Council and the Herald were wondering what caused Par ' s sudden collapse , Fess stated that he knew something was wrong with her , and that she had said she was determined to train one last Padawan before her illness overtook her . The Jedi demanded to know why Fess never divulged this information , and he stated it was because every Jedi except Par and the Herald treated him poorly in the past , and so he had no reason to tell them anything . Par was sent to Coruscant by the Jedi Council to receive medical care and figure out the cause of her illness ; Fess and the Herald were determined to accompany Par on her journey . On Coruscant , Par was turned over to a scientist in the Senate Building for observation . Par began exhibiting strange behavior and delusions , such as coming under the belief that Fess and the Herald had been killed by Flesh Raider s on Tython , her repetition of the phrase " The darkness is coming . . . " and at one point , she even physically attacked Fess and the Herald with her lightsaber . The Herald deduced that the disease was born through the Force , and the scientist instructed the Herald and Fess to embark on a mission to find the three Noetikons : the Noetikon of Science , the Noetikon of Secrets , and the Noetikon of Light . The scientist hoped that the secret to whatever illness Par was suffering could be found inside at least one of the Noetikons . Fess and the Herald tracked down each of the three Noetikons , but individually , they did not have the answer to diagnose Par ' s illness . Fess and the Herald were instructed by the Noetikons to go into the abandoned Jedi Temple and place the three Noetikons on a specially made machine that will link the knowledge between all three in the hopes that it would provide a cure . Fess and the Herald fought through several Imperial troops that were guarding the Temple to reach the machine that would unite the knowledge of the Noetikons . Once placed into the machine , all three Noetikons diagnosed par ' s illness as a dark side mind control technique and instructed the Herald on how to use a force shielding technique to shield those affected from dark side control . The Noetikons warned that the last person who used this technique died ; Fess expressed confidence to the Noetikons in the Herald ' s ability and loyalty to Par . Shortly after the Herald learned the shielding technique , a Sith Lord entered the temple in an attempt to stop the Herald from learning the technique . While he was too late to stop the Herald from learning it , he used Force lightning on the machine housing the Noetikons , destroying it so that no one else could learn the technique . To prevent the knowledge of the shielding technique from leaving the temple , Fess and the Herald were attacked by the Sith Lord and two of his acolytes . The pair emerged victorious and returned to the Senate Building and performed the shielding technique on Par , which drained a lot of life energy out of the Herald . News of Par ' s cure reached the Jedi Temple on Tython , and the Council informed the Herald and Fess that reports had been coming in from Taris of another Jedi Master with similar symptoms to those displayed by Par . During the Eternal Empire ' s Conquest , the Herald went missing . Some time afterward , Qyzen became the leader of the Warstalkers and later joined the Outlander ' s Alliance , dedicated to bringing the Eternal Throne down . Personality and traits . Qyzen Fess was a hunter , tracker , and trapper . He had been hunting prey for years , often going from planet to planet in search of prey . Unlike many other Trandoshans , Fess disliked mercenary work ; this was due to a conflict with his sense of honor . He did not kill weak prey , as he deemed them unworthy of his skill , and did not like strong enemies being left alive . Fess was strictly devoted to his goddess , the Scorekeeper , and viewed the loss of his eye during his encounter with the beast in the Shadowlands as the Scorekeeper ' s lesson in humility and overconfidence ; thus , he chose to remain half - blind for the rest of his life . He felt great shame in having been captured on Tython and losing all his points , and the shame of his capture lingered until he visited his father ' s remains on Tatooine . From the various people he encountered on his travels , not all of them honorable , Fess was hesitant to make friends . Once he found someone he liked and trusted , he was loyal and defended them with his life . Qyzen did bounty hunting for a short time with Braden and Mako . Mako stated that if he hunted criminals and not animals , he would have been a household name . Behind the scenes . Qyzen is the starting companion character for the Jedi Consular class in " " , acquired near the end of the starting experience . Prior to Update 4 . 0 , he functioned as a melee tank . While his official art depicts him holding a gun , in - game he uses a techblade and a shield generator as his weapons . Three phrases of Aurebesh are on Qyzen ' s biography page on the official Old Republic website ; when transliterated , they say " Shadowlands beast , " " Herald of the Scorekeeper " and " Bones in the desert . " " Shadowlands beast " references the creature that took his eye , " Herald of the Scorekeeper " is the title he gives the Jedi Consular player , and " Bones in the desert " is his father ' s bones buried on Tatooine . Another from Mako ' s page directly references Qyzen as " Ran Qyzen , " which refers to how he used to bounty hunt for Braden and Mako .