Grand Master Mab Bathori, Mistress of the Forest

== REPUTATION: ==
Grand Master Bathor, also known as Mab Bathori the mistress of Batorine, is a reclusive, powerful forest witch that is determined ans seducive. The golden horned Iktotchi knows what she wants and even though she had suffered much trauma in her life she was able to rebuild the Je'daii Order.
== BIOGRAPHY: ==
=== Early life ===
Naboo 124 ABY, Mandulisa Ayami died giving birth to the Iktotchi hybrid. No one knew who the father was, therefore the infant was given to her human grandparents. But when they saw her iktochian features they refused to take her in and send her to an Orphanage just outside of Theed.
No one had bothered to name her, thus the orphanage gave her the Nubian name; ‘Horbé', a name that quickly became ‘Horbé the Horrible', because of her growing horns. Her childhood wasn't easy, not only was she bullied on a daily basis, she was also taken advantage off by one of the older boys at the orphanage. Growing up was frightening and lonely, no one believed her or cared about her.
At age 11, in the year 135 ABY, the young Iktochian Horbé ran away from the orphanage. She found her grandparents only to be told that she wasn’t wanted. For days she roamed the streets of Theed alone, using her force abilities to survive. One day she tried to pickpocket the wrong man, a Corellian mercenary called Álbjørn Valmir. He caught her trying to steal his blaster. Luckily for her it turned out he could use someone with her knowledge of the city to complete his contract. She helped him and in return he decided to take her with him. Albjörn named her Ammot, and taught her all the tricks in the mercenary business.
=== Mercenary life ===
In the year 141 ABY, Valmir started to do business with Acer Knox, a Zeltron business owner from Depatar, The City of Masks. On a regular basis, Knox offered contracts to spy on wealthy and influential clients and rival businesses. Valmir would accept these contracts and send the then 17 year old Ammit to do the job.
A year later, in 142 ABY, the Zeltron Knox offered a bounty contract, it was her first solo mission. She followed her target to Klantooin where she walked right into a trap. After being interrogated by Jellka the Hutt, a rival of Knox, she was to be sold into slavery. Luckily she was rescued by her mentor and partner in crime Valmir.
Her second solo mission, in 143 ABY,  brought her to Csaplar the capital of Csilla. Here the then 19 year old Ammit was supposed to steal a manifest from a Chiss politician. But instead she fell for his charm. The Chiss found out why she was on Csilla, but offered to give her the manifest if she stayed with him the rest of the week. She stayed and even wanted to go back to him after she had delivered the manifest but her mentor, the Corellian Valmir, was against it. Being very loyal to the man who raised and trained her she never returned to Csilla, but a while later she realized she was with child and tried to keep it a secret. When Valmir found out he ordered her to terminate it because the life of a mercenary wasn't the place to raise a child. She refused to kill the child and carried it full term.
In 144 ABY, when they were on Corellia she gave birth to a baby boy and named him Aro. With much reluctance she left her son with the human woman Nerys, wife of a Twi'lek smuggler, who had assisted her during the difficult birth. It was so painful for her that she buried the memory so deep in her mind that she didn't remember it until ten ten years later when she was meditating on the past.
Circa 150 ABY, she was sent to do another job for Acer Knox. The iktochian hybrid was to meet a client of the Zeltron business owner, Jax Heddon a red skinned Chagrian. She was to collect intelligence that he had to offer. What Knox did not tell her, was that Heddon would expect something in return from her. When she refused him, the male Chagrian forced himself on her. When she tried to fight him off, using her force abilities she learned that he as well was force-sensitive and far more powerful than she. Heddon easily overpowered her and had his way with Ammit.
=== Sith life: ===
Later she learned that Jax Heddon, was in fact a Sith Warrior who had trained at the Sith Academy on Korriban. The Iktochian hybrid was drawn to the Academy, eager to learn more about the force. 
Around 152 ABY she decided it was time for her and Valmir to go their separate ways. He dropped her off on Korriban where she joined the academy and found a home at House Vahl. Being an ex mercenary the Iktotchi signed in as an Assassin and worked hard to impress the academy's teachers. She got high marks for her assignments, but for some reason  the Iktotchi didn't feel she belonged and was planning to drop out and leave Korriban. Before she did however, she was approached by a S'kytri knight, Pallas from house Dreadwar who was impressed by her work and offered to train her.  Ammit accepted the offer and became an Apprentice. 
At the start of her apprenticeship, her master told her he wasn't an Assassin like her but a Sorcerer, this made the Iktotchi think and she realized she had signed up as the wrong class. After meditating on it she changed her class and continued her training as an sorcerer's apprentice.
Ammit had been a drug user for some time, she often used hallucinogenic drugs to enhance her meditation. In 154 ABY, during one of those vivid meditations Ammit uncovered the buried memory of her son, Aro. Remembering him was so painful she eventually turned to her Master for guidance. But Pallas forbade her to go look for him, but did offer her a fresh start, to raise Khara, a S'kytri baby girl. The Apprentice accepted the offer and moved to Korriban to raise the child who she layer discovered to be her Master's own sister.
In 155ABY met Terrogate, a Cathar warrior a few years younger than her, who had just signed up for the Academy. The Iktotchi helped him settle, like she did with many other Acolytes, not realizing that they were destined for one another. Eventhough the golden horned Iktotchi had several meaningless flings during that time she had an eye on the large Iron born Cathar. But relationships were forbidden there for she didn't dare to take it further.
As part of her training Ammit had a mission to track down a Missrli Jedi named Frotic Gyr, who was on Taris to find force sensitive children for the Jedi order. There she encountered the Hutt Braiva, who helped her and her Master to locate the Jedi. She defeated him and they took three infants in his possession back to the empire. As a trophy she took his force imbued cane and light shoto.
Before her final trial, the duel against her Master, the Iktochian Apprentice first had to claim the power of the Dark Side nexus that would be present during the fight. This Nexus was created by her master, using the blood of his slaughtered clan/family. She went inside the nexus and fought against her Master's father, by winning this mental duel she was accepted within the dead clan Acherjon, and would be able to claim their power for her fight against her Master and now clan-brother.
Early 156 ABY, Ammit graduated and changed her last name from Mandulis to Bathori. Her graduation was nothing more than a rendezvous on the outskirts of the Academy. She was gifted a golden Khopesh and a Ship by her Master who now was called Darth Skyllan. After the exchange of pleasantries they parted ways and Ammit took her new ship to Prakith where she wanted to settle down. On the mountainous deep core world she claimed an abandoned watch tower in the mountains. 
Now Ammit could finally start her search for her Son. She tracked down the woman who had assisted her during the birth of Aro, to Corellia. In a pawnshop in the Blue sector of Coronet city she spoke to Nerys. There she found out the truth about Valmir. How he realized that she had grown too powerful and difficult to control therefore he let her go to Korriban and had taken her son, now named Kas'Sparr, as his new trainee. In her Rage Ammit killed Nerys and traveled to Darvannis to confront Valmir. There she killed her former mentor and took her son back to Prakith to train him to become a Sith.
Shortly after returning from Darvannis,  Ammit signed up to learn alchemy from Tribune Noxia. Using the blood she had drained from Valmir she alchemized two Sai daggers she had stolen from the pawnshop on Corellia, which she later gifted to her son. 
Having difficulty bonding with Kas'Sparr, Ammit told him the truth about what happened in the past. The Iktotchian hybrid then decided to return to Csilla to find his father, Dra'kris'styion, and ended up killing him in a rage when he told her she meant nothing to him.
Later that same year Ammit was invited for a party on Weyland, and she asked Terrogate to be her companion of teh night. They had been seeing each other for some time now and grown quite fond of one another. the Knight began to have feelings for the Apprentice but tried her best to deny those feelings. During the celebration on Weyland however the couple participated in a Battlelord ritual that not only bonded them by blood to Tribune Noxia and making them Soldiers of Venom, they bonded to each other as well. Their feelings had grown more strong and they could no longer deny or hide them. 
That was not the only thing that had happened during that strange night. The Zabrak Lord, Drakul Xarxes, requested her company as she had approached him a few weeks prior asking him to teach her Dathomirian Bloodmagick. Anything that was requested came with price, and the price to his teachings was her own blood. The Nightfather lured her into the maze where he asked for her blood. Intimidated by the Dread Lord, Ammit accepted and in the darkness of the night he forced  himself on her, drinking her blood directly from her neck. Before losing consciousness he stopped and healed her. The deal was made and shortly after thay night she was invited to Dathomir for her first lessons in magick. 
Later that same year, the sorceress thought about getting herself cyber claws. As she joked about cutting her hands of Lord Cruor dared her to do it. Eventually she asked the Gen'dai himself to take her hands. But instead the Sith Lord forced her to cast her left forearm in gold liquid ultrachrome. The shiny metal became her arm, her flesh and bones were eaten away and all became Ultrachrome. This gift caused her much pain and made core temperature drop permanently. 
Not much later the Iktotchi learned that the dread Lord Nathemus claimed her home world Prakith, forcing Bathori to find a new home as she did not want to stay in Dreadwar territory. Therefore the Iktochian sorceress decided to build a new home on the forested world of Batorine. Upon completion she asked her Catharian lover to stay with her and Terrogate accepted.
It took a while before the sorceress decided to take on her first apprentice. She had her mind set on the Ratattaki Iron Born warrior, Sedenna Salabrox, who accepted her offer. The training went well, her apprentice had much potential but the Ratattaki was framed by another member of the Empire, and old acquaintance, accusing her of crimes she did not commit. She was sentenced to death before Bathori even knew what had happened. The knight pleaded for her apprentice innocence but couldn't safe her from her execution.
Around the same time as her apprentice' execution, Bathori received a brutal punishment herself. Ammit had assisted in building house Syn, a house founded by Tribune Noxia and Lord Voidwalker, with the intention to join this house of Chaos. But by the decree of Emperor Dreadwar himself, she was forbidden to leave house Vahl. Disappointed by this decision the Iktotchi knight went to the Kaas City Cantina to drink away her sorrow, but her response was considered treason. Darth Skyllan, her own Master, the man she saw as the father she had never had, instantly volunteered to make an example out of her. Attacking her from behind in the streets of Dromud Kaas, and forcing her to cut off her own arm, piece by piece and making her watch as they ate it infront of her. 
This event was so traumatic that Ammit lost the will to live. She returned to the abandoned tower on Prakith to die, but her trustworthy droid, K-0R9 called for help. Her partner, Terrogate, travelled to Prakith to save the broken knight from herself. As she lay wounded on her bed, she was exposed to Rhizome Orucytes. This sentient fungi spiecies spread through her body creating a symbiosis between them, causing her to change completely. That dreadful night Ammit died and Mab was born.
=== Exile ===
Her recovery was difficult, not only was she haunted by the brutal punishment she had received, the trauma also caused previous traumatic memories to resurface. With the help of her partner, Terrogate, she managed psychically to recover, mentally took far more time. During one of her paranoid episodes the Iktochi amputated the wings of Khara, her adoptive daughter as she reminded her of her former master.
The sorceress now had to live with only one arm as she wasn’t allowed to replace it. She was forced to adapt to her new life, and learned new abilities that would be more beneficial. She built new lightsabers, and trained hard to become more strong than she ever was but the Iktotchi never fully recovered. She decided to retire from the Empire to live a secluded life on Batorine with her family.
During her Exile the young Echani assassin, Axel Drake, sought her out. The former apprentice of Tribune Noxia asked the one armed witch to take him as an Apprentice. After her last apprentice was executed Ammit felt hesitant to take him on, but eventually agreed to train him.
But the Empire began to crumble, and the conflict started to come closer to home. Kimi Sheiko, a young Pantoran Sith who wished to leave the Empire sought her out for help, thinking that because of her self exile she would be able to help her and several others escape. The forest witch agreed to help and together they set up a plan to smuggle her and the others. Sensing the fall of the Empire was near she decided to send her housecarl with her son and daughter, with the refugees to safety. For nearly two years she did not see her children, trying to keep them safe.
=== The quest for Tython: ===
After the fall of the Empire, in 158ABY Bathori returned to Prakith. With Nathemus gone she could claim the planet for herself. Mab followed Ammit’s dream, and explored the tunnel systems underneath the tower. Here she found remains of an ancient hidden temple, with murals that indicated that the temple was once home to the Je’daii Order. Intrigued by this ancient organisation Bathori searched for more knowledge about them, making it her life quest to find Tython and found a 'New Je'daii Order.'
Bathori discovered Andeddu’s Keep the following year 159 ABY. Knowing that the ancient Sith had a thirst for knowledge like her, she started to search every room in the Keep to find the Sith’s tomb, hoping to discover more clues to find Tython. She successfully located the burial chamber and Andeddu's collection in a cave underneath the Keep. For months she studied every tome and every scroll untill she found the final clue. In the meantime the witch had also began restoring the Keep to is former glory and crowned herself Queen of Prakith.
160 ABY, After having found the final clues to locate Tython the Iktotchi Witch formed the New Je'daii Order, and began rebuilding temples. The new order grew stronger and word of its existence traveled the galaxy. They flourished as more joined the order. 
Early 161 ABY after years of planning, Terrogate managed to capture Mab's former Master, bringing them to Batorine for justice. At first Mab was against it as she still felt loyal. But eventually she saw that they had to close the chapter for good and allowed Terrogate to end their life. The Execution of Darth Skyllan
The same year the Nightsister Valandra came to Tython after intercepting a scrambled message from Grand Master Bathor, that originally was meant for her apprentice Drake. The Sith Nightsister was also in search for a Master and saw this as an opportunity. Mab agreed to train her. 
=== The Battle of Tython: ===
162ABY, the new dark Regime that controlled most of the galaxy began to see the Je'daii as a threat and wanted to conquer Tython. Mab who was now the Grand Master of the New Je'daii order had sensed a disaster coming. She ordered for the evacuation of Tython and send word to everyone she knew to come and help during this battle over Tython.
During the evacuation old ally Kimi Sheiko joined the Je'daii fleet, bringing them important data about the ancient Gree superweapon that the Enemy had aboard their Dreadnaught. Mab knew that they had to start moving before the enemy could fuel the weapon with Dark Matter from Sunspot. Before they left Tython, she 
send her son Kas'sparr with Master Bal Darsten on a mission to get Esbern Greybeard from Kaleth as the rest of the fleet left.
The situation got heated and during the space battle Bathori asked Kimi to take her youngest daughter away from the fight. But before they could leave the system a terrible disaster happened. A damaged x-wing crashed into the transport with dark matter as it was pulled through space by the scorcerers abroad who attempted to fold space. The transport imploded destroying yhe closest ships and creating a tear on space. A swirling wormhole appeared and began to pull every ship in, the Harpy as well.
=== A journey through time: ===
The wormhole wasn't just a tunnel to a different place but to a different time as well. The Harpy exited the wormhole in 1259BBY, only a couple of other ships exited at same location. Seperated from her children and friend and unaware of the fact that they had traveled to the past, Mab ordered for everyone to find their way back to Tython.
== PERSONALITY AND TRAITS ==
Alignment: Chaotic Good, "Rebel"
Thanks to her past Bathori has always been distrustful towards strangers. But once you gained her trust she would be very loyal. She is a Nurturer and therefore is always ready to give back. Any generosity received will be returned threefold.
She use to have a sparkling but slightly nervous personality, caring and easy going until the brutal punishment she received for her obedience. Now has a severe case of post traumatic stress disorder, which causes episodes of extreme paranoia. Bathori now prefers to live a more secluded life.
* Habits: Bathori is flirtatious, which causes her to get into trouble sometimes
* Likes: she has a thirst for knowledge, enjoys studying ancient civilisations and exploring historical sights.
* Dislikes: She detests the Naboo because of her childhood, she dislikes Iktotchi because of her father and she hates S’kytri because of her former Master.
* Fears: losing her children is her biggest fear
* Flaws: her biggest flaw are her insecurities, always thinking she isn’t good enough or incapable of doing things. She missed a lot of opportunities because of that. Also she has difficulty controlling her emotions, causing her to kill in a rage and later regretting it. She still has PTSD, which causes episodes of paranoia
POWERS AND ABILITIES 
Combat Skills
Bathori prefers to stay out of conflict, she is a diplomat  but when the time comes she is a skilled fighter. Originally she is right handed, but after her punishment she was forced to adapt to using her left hand. It was then she mastered Tràkata, twh ability to rapidly deactivate and reactivate in combat. Having crafted her own lightsaber with a strap around hee her wrist she was able to drop her lightsaber in combat and use her ultrachrome claw to deflect or grab her opponent's lightsaber. 
A few years later the Iktotchi witch crafted a cybernetic arm, allowing her to use both hands in combat. From that moment Mab used two self made lightsabers. 
Mab is a proficient marksman due to her years as a mercenary. And has mastered the use of a sniper blaster rifle. 
Force powers
Mab is gifted with the natural Iktotchi abilities of Telepathy and Precognition. Abilities she used ofted as a child but as she grew older she learned she could do more. 
During her training at the Sith Academy on Korriban, Mab began to develop more Seer abilities and even had private lessons from Lord Drakul Xarxes, the Nightfather, in Dathomirian and Sith Blood Magic. Her goal was to become a powerful seer an Oracle for the Sith but after her punishment things changed. 
The Iktotchi no longer wanted to become a seer, and began to develop abilities that helped her adapt to her new life. On Batorine she discovered she had a strong connection to nature allowing her to control the elements through the force.
Other abilities 
Bathori is creative when it comes to solving problems. She is a scholar and spend most of her apprenticeship at the academy archives studying ancient civilisations and cultures. There she learned Ancient Sith and Dathomirian. She is a skilled pilot and mountaineer. 
Ship: Busted Plugga 
Droid: K-0R9
 
 
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