Arie Mandel

Arie Mandel was a female Human Force Adept in the Star Wars: Old Republic Campaign. She was a PC played by Shannon.

## Associations

### Relatives

Johma Frari (father - deceased), Amira Mandel (mother - deceased), Shiha Mandel

## Vital Statistics

### Eye Color

Green

Arie’s father was a Jedi by the name of Johma Frari. He fell in love with her mother, Arima Mandel, and they carried on a secret love affair for years, due to the restrictions on Jedi in regards to relationships and marriage. Arima first became pregnant with Arie's older brother Shiha. Arie was born two years later. Both the children kept their mother's name so Johma's relation to them would remain unknown. Their father tried to be around as much as possible, but their mother raised them mostly on her own.

### **Early Life**

Arie and Shiha grew up on Alderaan with their mother. As children they were schooled in the arts - Arie had a particular fondness for painting. She attended school and was quite well liked, a naturally social girl with many friends.

Arie worshiped her older brother, despite the fact that he didn't have much interest in her. She would always follow Shiha around, much to the annoyance of him and his friends. Her skills at sneaking and hiding were honed during those younger years, so she could following him and he wouldn’t see her and yell at her.

When Shiha was seven, he began to show signs of the force, and was taken to become a youngling. Arie was heartbroken. She hasn't seen him since, but last she'd heard from information from her father, he had become a Padawan.

When Arie was eight, she too began to show signs of the force, but tried to keep it hidden because she didn't want to leave her mother like Shiha had. Johma, realizing she was force sensitive, decided to train her himself. It wasn’t a full or formal training, but she did learn enough to be able to begin to control it. The training made her very close to her father, who, until this time in her life had been too absent for her to truly get close to.

Johma was murdered when Arie was 14, and her mother to fell into a deep depression. She stopped functioning and Arie began to take care of her and their home, even taking up odd jobs around town for credits. After nearly a year of this, her mother gave up on life, and Arie came home to find she’d poisoned herself.

Arie swore revenge on the ones who had killed her father and, in turn, her mother.

### **Leaving Alderaan**

Arie, determined to find her brother and have him help her in her mission, managed to purchase passage on a ship, leaving Alderaan and getting to Coruscant, which was the last place she knew Shiha to be. Having only the credits her mother had had upon her death, Arie wound up taking to the streets of the city, hoping she'd be able to come across her brother. She used her skill with the force and her speed to steal from people by pickpocketing and on occasion, breaking into homes, and kept her ears open for any information about her brother and her father’s murderers.

She'd gotten word that her brother may have been on a mission on Kelthas II and had managed to get on the *Kelmer’s Pride* in an attempt to find him.