Ozai

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### Early Life

Ozai was born to Sozin and his wife Illah. He was born in the industrial and populated Coruscant in 535 BBY. Ozai, unlike his elder brother, Azulon was not force-sensitive and took pride in this fact. He also liked to act as if he was an aristocrat and he had little support for the military and the Hundred Year War, viewing it as meaningless. This did not mean he held compassion for the victims as he was far more racist to the alien races even acting more brutal than his father Sozin when it came to dealing with them.

Instead of going to a military academy like his elder brother, Ozai was educated in the Coruscant University of Politics. He was jealous of Azulon and their relationship was sub-par with the two never even being seen have fun with eachother other than their childhood. He had ambitions to become chancellor and he often argued with his brother about the role and what it meant for people.

At first, his father, Sozin respected and admired Ozai's aristocrat manor and fiery personality, but as the war progressed and Azulon took part in the fighting claiming numerous worlds for the chancellor, he began to prefer Azulon viewing Ozai as weak and spoilt compared to his elder sibling.

### Banishment

As the war progressed, in 500 BBY, Azulon began the infamous siege of Ba Sing Se. Before Azulon left, their father named Azulon has his successor. This enraged Ozai, wanting to be chancellor himself. Scared that he would simply be a spare child, during the first year of the siege, Ozai hired the very powerful bounty hunter, Durge to assassinate his brother. He was very confident the hunter would succeed with Durge having a 100% success rate.

After a few months it was announced that Azulon had reportedly 'died' in his sleep presumably due to stress. Ozai, very pleased with the hunter's success immediately travelled to the senate building and asked his father to revoke Azulon's birthright and appoint him his successor. Unexpectedly, Sozin was absolutely furious at Ozai's request and was disgusted at the thought of betraying his first-born. For retribution he decided to banish Ozai and strip him of his privileges. He would not be allowed to enter Coruscant and would have to live on the wealthy planet of Sereno as Count.

Ozai accepted the punishment and left the next day.

### Later Life

Ozai was only 36 when he was banished and because of this he became quite depressed. Even though he was still given a great amount of power as count of Sereno, he was not allowed to engage with any of his friends back in Coruscant. In 495 BBY, Ozai had his first son, Zuko who was his successor. In 480 BBY, Sozin finally died aged 150. Azulon decided to allow his brother to return for a brief period of time to take part of the memorial but he refused, resenting his father.

Ozai would train his son Zuko in the ways of autocracy and aristocracy in a hope to at least continue a rich lineage as count of Sereno. Azulon died in 468 BBY and Ozai did not come to the memorial service instead sending Zuko as his replacement. Ozai died at the old age of 102 in 433 BBY.

### Legacy

Ozai was originally meant to simply be a spare child until he was banished to Sereno. He would start a long lineage of Sereno royalty for hundreds of years. His known descendants was his son Zuko, Count Gora and Count Dooku who would be the first of their lineage to become a Jedi. Dooku would have a vision of training an apprentice named Qui-Gon Jinn. This vision was sent by Avatar Roku knowing that in order for the Sith to be defeated, Jinn would need to become a Jedi. This was particularly important because Qui-Gon was a direct descendant of Avatar Roku and Dooku a direct descendant of Lord Sozin and the two ancestors had been lifelong friends and traitors to eachother's beliefs.

Dooku would die without an heir and because of this, Ozai's lineage finally came to an end and with Dooku's death it also marked the end of Sozin's bloodline.