Yang-Chen

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## Biography

### Early Life

Yangchen, originally named Yangchen Shan was born in 1215 BBY in Tython as a descendant of Revan and Satele Shan. Her life forever changed at the young age of 7 when the sages informed her that she was the next Avatar. Yangchen was confused and denied it stating that perhaps another member of her rich lineage was the avatar. The sages told her that it was not possible and that her training would begin immediately.

She was trained in the mystical ways of the force and excelled in spiritual learning and understanding. However, her skills with a lightsaber were famously abysmal and even top duelists on Tython deemed her form 4, disgusting. Yangchen pleaded with the sages to scrap her lightsaber lessons completely and dedicate more time to mastering the more spiritual aspects such as the avatar state. Reluctantly, the sages accepted.

By the time she was 17, Yangchen had fully mastered the spiritual qualities of an Avatar and could enter the avatar state at will. She also was able to fully connect to her past lives at quite a young age allowing her to recieve advice from the likes of Satele Shan and Avatar Kuruk.

### Early career as Avatar

Even though the last of the sith (Darth Malgus' empire) was destroyed over 4000 years prior, there was still much disorder and chaos in the galaxy. When she was 20 years old, Yangchen started her journey to explore the galaxy to help as many as she could. She was informed by the sages that her first official mission as the Avatar had been decided. She was sent to the planet of Tienhashi, where the king had sent for her help. Upon her arrival, she was told by the king that the local fortune tellers had predicted a tragedy coming from the sea to befall the city that evening. Believing the fortune, Yangchen waited on a cliff overlooking the water. When past midnight an enormous spirit emerged from the water, she felt overwhelming grief emanating from the spirit and tried to make contact with him. He knocked her down, however, and the two engaged in battle, which would last through the night and leave the city in ruins. At first, Yangchen attempted to use the golden saber but after minutes, the spirit tossed the saber out of her hand. Yangchen then entered the Avatar State as she fought ferociously with the spirit.

As dawn broke, Yangchen finally managed to convince the spirit to tell her who he was and what he wanted. She could not let him exact his revenge on the citizens for "killing" Lady Tienhai, however, so she struck a deal with the General Old Iron spirit, one she promised to maintain for eternity in exchange for a truce with the humans. General Old Iron promised to never take up his armor against humanity, so long as the land remained free of human civilization. In return, Yangchen constructed a statue in Tienhai's memory and established a ritual among her people to visit the site once a year to prove that humankind could preserve and protect nature.

After the battle, Yangchen helped the people of Tienhaishi find new places to live and after consulting with many planets, the migrants were welcome to the cultural capitol of the galaxy, Ba Sing Se. Yangchen was the first and only Avatar to also become a sage. Little is known about how this was done but we do know she took the cultural aspects of being a sage seriously by dawning a sage-mistress robe as well as the honorable arrow tattoo on her forehead symbolizing loyalty to the avatar and spirits.

### Later Life

Yangchen struggled to earn the galaxy-wide respect that her predecessor, Avatar Szeto earned through his countless missions across the galaxy. She went on quite a few more missions around the galaxy but her life was quite quiet and reserved. Yangchen created a tradition that all Avatars should be told of their fate at the age of 16 because she personally saw it as unfair and too much for a mind of an infant to handle, unfairness she witnessed first hand when she was told of being the Avatar at the young age of 7. Combined with the absence of the Sith and Yangchen's efforts around the galaxy, for the first time in galactic history, 'peace' was achieved in 1160 BBY. This galaxy-wide spanning peace would last for almost 500 years with little to no conflict occurring.

Yangchen had numerous children with an unknown spouse and they would continue the Shan lineage. Sometime in her adult life, Kyoshi scrapped the last name of 'Shan' for herself and her descendants for unknown reasons, but it was speculated that she did this to not always be linked to her ancestors such as Satele Shan and Revan.

Because of this peace, Yangchen spent most of her time meditating on Tython earning the reputation of the most spiritually aware Avatar with the exception of the allfather. Because of the peace however, it did not mean Yangchen was not occupied. In 1137 BBY, a group of pirates ravaged the planet of Onderon. Yangchen was sent to deal with them and after an intense battle where Yangchen miraculously walked on water, she used the force to quite violently create a massive wave to engulf and drown the ships. This action was done in the Avatar State where regretfully, she could not consciously control her actions.

Yangchen lived a very long life, most probably because her connection to spiritual understanding was flawless. She lived to the age of 530 and died in 685 BBY peacefully in her sleep. She was reincarnated into one of her descendants, a hot-headed extremely 'aggressive' Avatar called Kyoshi.