Amara Crendal

Amara Crendal, an Iridian Zabrak female, was a Jedi Padawan from the Jedi Order who, after the Clone Wars, helped supply resources to the rebel movement against the Galactic Empire, before taking part in the battle against the Zorak. Crendal lived a peaceful and happy life with her family until signs of her force-sensitivity caused arguments between her parents, eventually causing her father to abandon the household. Crendal, her mother and her sisters then left to Coruscant, where they struggled to live due to the high cost of life. In 31 BBY, after her mother accidentally lashed out at her, Crendal ran out into the streets was discovered on the planet of Coruscant by Jedi Knight Aloop Tchekaba, who immediately brought her to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to receive Jedi training. Realising that she had already lived a deeply emotional and traumatic life despite her young age, Tchekaba mostly erased Crendal's memories of her previous life, allowing her to pursue her Jedi Training free of attachment. 
Years prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Amara was assigned to be Tchekaba's Padawan learner, and became a very skilled fighter, even if she was burdened by her constant desire to be loved and appreciated by those around her. She formed a strong bond with her master, even if Tchekaba was oblivious to her serious struggles. During the Clone Wars, Crendal started having doubts about her mysteriously blank past, experiencing an identity crisis, and deciding to lead an investigation for truth. On a mission to rescue singer Dahlia from the clutches of Celia the Hutt, Crendal realised that her master had been lying to her. In 19 BBY, she finally discovered the truth, causing her to be both horrified and saddened. She confronted her master, but eventually forgave her, however, she decided to temporarily leave the temple to reconnect with her family. 
Crendal tracked down her sister Kaylynn Crendal, who, after a hostile reunion, recruited her to help save their sibling Dahlia from Celia the Hutt and her allies. However, their initial attempt failed, and they were both trapped in the World Between Worlds, where Crendal finally got the chance to relive her past, as she and her sister put aside their differences. Together, they succeeded in extracting their sister from prison, but discovered that the Hutt was planning an invasion of Coruscant to earn the Hutt Clan's respect. They attempted to stop the invasion, and partly succeeded, as Crendal reunited with her master. However, Order 66 was declared in the midst of the battle, and Tchekaba sacrificed herself to save her Padawan's life, pushing her to safety as Crendal and her sisters escaped to the Mid Rim. 
Tchekaba was killed by Kieran Nerik, Crendal's former friend, causing her to experience immense grief as they relocated to Iridia. However, several months later, they were soon tracked down by Kieran Nerik, now an Inquisitor, and Imperial forces, and were forced to escape. Despite their efforts, Dahlia was recaptured by Celia the Hutt and Azghar, who had now allied with the Inquisitor. Amara and Kaylynn were left alone, and Amara discovered that her sister was planning to turn her over to the authorities as their mother's life was in peril. The two managed to work it through, and trained together before finally confronting their enemies. In a climactic confrontation, Amara killed Kieran, whilst Dahlia managed to break free as the three sisters escaped. Unlocking her former master's holocron, Amara the discovered the existence of a world named Dyran in Wild Space, where a temple containing powerful resources was located, which could help them fight the Empire. She chose to leave her sisters to take on this dangerous quest and become a Jedi Knight in honour of her fallen master.
== Biography ==
=== Childhood ===
In 38 BBY, Amara Crendal was born on the planet Iridia to the Iridian Zabraks Alaric and Elira Crendal. Her early years were peaceful and happy, as her homeworld lived independently from political control and the people lived in solidarity and cooperation. Amara was the second-child of family, and forged a strong bond with her eldest sister Kaylynn, which she felt the most connected to due to their similar interests. Amara also had a very loving relationship with her father Alaric, who taught her key survival skills. However, Alaric was taken away to the planet Feldrona in 32 BBY, before coming back a year later, deeply traumatized and hardened by his experience on the prison planet. As a result, he grew cold and stern towards his daughters, including Amara. By 31 BBY, Amara began exhibiting signs of force sensitivity, using the force for the first time to protect her sisters from a group of bullies. This sparked an argument between Alaric and her mother Elira, as her father argued that they should abandon her to the Jedi Order, terrified of what problems a force-user could cause in their family, whilst Elira categorically refused his demands, seeking to keep and protect their daughter. Eventually, Alaric left the household out of rage, and never came back, leaving Amara, her mother and her sisters alone. A few weeks later, the family moved to Coruscant, as Elira quickly fell in debt and sought for a more lucrative place to live. Several months passed, and the family fell into deep misery, as Elira was almost entirely absent as she had to work to keep the family alive, leaving her daughters to care for each other. Kaylynn was forced to assume a maternal role and take care of her younger sisters, while Amara became emotionally distant, hurt and confused by her father's departure and struggling to understand why it was her fault. 
One night, Elira lashed out at Amara in a drunken state, accusing the child of destroying their family and their lives, yelling at her to get out. Traumatized, Amara conceded, and began haphazardly running into the streets. She was almost run over by a vehicle but used the force in an instinctive act, which was witnessed by Jedi Knight Aloop Tchekaba. Conflicted, Tchekaba struggled whether or not to find Amara's family and ask for their permission to take her away to the Jedi Order, which was considered necessary. Fueled by her personal ambitions to earn recognition and achieve perfection, Tchekaba decided to take her away immediately, taking her in her ship and flying off to the Temple. Elira, awoken from her drunken state, witnessed the ship's departure and screamed for Amara to come back, which the former heard and subsequently began shouting her mother's name. Determined, Tchekaba took the child away nonetheless, but realized that Amara had formed strong attachments, and had had a deeply emotional and turbulent past. After discussing the situation with the Jedi Council, she decided to mostly erase Amara's memories of her childhood in order to allow her to pursue the Jedi Path free of attachments and emotional burdens.
=== Jedi Padawan ===
After Amara woke up from her trance, she was quickly brought into the youngling program. Due to her awakened affinity for the force and advanced age, she progressed through the Initiate program at a faster speed. (approximately 5 years instead of the usual 10) In 26 BBY, she succesfully passed the Initiate Trials, and was chosen by Aloop Tchekaba to be her Jedi Padawan. From 26 BBY to 19 BBY, the two formed a strong bond, as Aloop cared for her padawan, teaching her Form II Makashi which she herself used as a secondary form. However, as Amara matured and became more aware of the world, she grew doubts about her suspiciously blank past before the Order, which contributed to her developing a severe lack of self-confidence. As the Clone Wars waged on, the pair took on numerous missions, but Amara often found ways to evade the most significant assignments, terrified of failing and disappointing her master in the field. 
== Personality and Traits ==
Amara Crendal was an Iridian Zabrak female with dark blond eyes, light skin, a slender build, and dark brown curls. As she grew older, Amara was deeply insecure, image-conscious and overworking, but also empathetic, loyal and dedicated. 
== Powers and abilities ==
=== Lightsaber abilities ===
Amara Crendal was a skilled practitioner of Form II, Makashi, which allowed economy of movement and greater speeds while fighting. Her master Aloop Tchekaba used the form a secondary resort herself, and recognised that it suited Amara perfectly due to its precise, fluid and elegant nature. However, the rapidity of Makashi also meant that Amara's blows often lacked in power, which was often problematic for her when going against opponents who delivered heavy blows. The form's exclusive focus on duelling also meant that Amara wasn't particularly skilled at blaster defection, which Aloop sought to amend by teaching Amara techniques of Form III, Soresu, which the twi'lek was an infamous master of. Amara occasionally adopted a form III stance in certain duels in order to defend herself from strong attacks.
After the rise of the Empire, Amara became a practitioner of Jar'Kai, building a secondary hilt to create a double-bladed lightsaber with two green kyber crystals, which proved useful in duels against multiple opponents. 
=== Force powers ===
Amara had a relatively high midi-chlorian count, estimated to be around 10,000. Gifted with raw Force skill, she was at first only capable of telekinetic feats in instinctive situations, but was able to develop more skills once her training began under the Jedi Order. This included the ablity to sense the thoughts, feelings and intentions of others, as Amara was able to sense her master's unease and deceit when her doubts grew about her past, as well as her sister Kaylynn's inner struggle when faced with the decision to turn Amara over and save her family or keep her sister safe. 
One force-related skill that Amara didn't particularly develop was acrobatic prowess, as her form of dueling, Makashi, was mainly focused on precision and economy of movement. She preferred sparring close to the ground rather than using jumps or other forms of prowess in her technique, very much in contrast with the Jedi Form IV, Ataru. 
== Equipment ==
=== Weapons ===
Amara Crendal wielded a green lightsaber with a silver cylindrical hilt. The hilt was twenty-eight centimetres long, with a gold, rare main hilt which was covered in decorative carvings. She obtained her kyber crystal from the sacred planet of Ilum. After the fall of the Jedi, Amara and her sisters escaped to their homeworld of Iridia, where Amara constructed a second lightsaber hilt using pieces of material from a Zabrak traditional weapon named Zhaboka. She had previously obtained her second kyber crystal from her now deceased master Aloop Tchekaba, who had long urged her to switch to a double-bladed hilt as she thought it would much better fit her fighting style, but Amara had never given in, feeling too insecure to wield a more complex weapon. This new lightsaber continued to serve her until her mission to Dyran in 16 BBY, where she obtained a new double-bladed lightsaber with two orange crystals from the Jedi temple on the planet, a weapon which had once belonged to a Jedi Master from the early days of the Order itself. She used this weapon throughout the rest of her fighting years. In 13 BBY, when she and her sister Kaylynn finally succeeded in exiling the Zorak, but found themselves also confined to a distant galaxy, she decided to leave behind her weapon in a small temple built to commemorate all of her fallen loved ones and friends, and adopted a life of peace alongside her partner Vornak and her sister Kaylynn.
===Attire===
During her time as a padawan, Amara piloted her own customized Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor, a starship commonly used by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. It was considered a smaller vessel when compared to previous models but had superior firepower. The starship sported a dark pink paint job with a white Jedi symbol over the top of it, and was co-piloted by Amara's personal astromech droid, R12. 
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