Tahiri Veila

Member of the Knights of Ren
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**Tahiri Veila** a Jedi in the New Jedi Order, who was trained by Tionne Solusar. She would later become manipulated by the Dark Side, and became a Knight of Ren, and later a Sith apprentice of Darth Krayt.

## Biography

### Origins

**Tahiri Veila** was born on the planet Tatooine to the moisture farmers Tryst and Cassa Veila. After the death of her parents, Veila was left as a orphan who would be taken in by one of Tusken Raider tribes, and thus she was raised as one of the Sand People. About 20 years after the battle of Yavin, the wandering Jedi Master Tionne Solusar who discovered that Veila was Force-Sensitive and saw fit to take her away from the Sand People so that she may have a better life. Tionne then decided to train Tahiri as a Jedi to keep Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order alive. Tionne spent months training Tahiri in the ways of the Jedi and after this was done, Tionne told Tahiri that her skills would be needed when the Grand Master would call upon them to unite and fight the wrath of the First Order.

### Captured and Turned to the Dark Side

Tahiri then got work as a Bounty Hunter and used her new Force-Abilities to increase her output, despite Tionne's warnings. Unfortunately her Force Sensitivity would get the attention of the First Order who sought to recruit her into the Knights of Ren. Fearing what they might do if they discover she is a Jedi, Tahiri ran and attempted to escape. However she was intercepted by Kylo Ren who suspected that she was so skilled with the force because she was trained by a Jedi. Kylo Ren then took Tahiri to Snoke who would interrogated Tahiri and despite the amount of physical harm she sustained she wouldn't reveal what she knew. Snoke used his mind manipulation abilities to force Tahiri to reveal what she knew. After Tahiri told everything she knew, Snoke determined that despite her being a Jedi-Trainee, she couldn't lead them to any others who were in hiding. Having reached another dead end to finding Luke Skywalker, Snoke and Kylo Ren chose to mold Tahiri into one of their Knights of Ren. After tempting her to embrace it, Tahiri used the Dark-Side to escape her predicament and from that moment on was manipulated by Snoke and Kylo Ren to serve the First Order as **Riina Ren**.

### Change of Perspective

Riina then spent the next several years serving the First Order as well as the other Knights of Ren. Although during one of her assignments, Snoke and Kylo Ren lost contact with her and it appeared that she simply vanished. Despite attempts to locate her, Snoke had his sights set on other goals and let Riina's loss slide as a inconvenience. In reality however, Riina Ren was incapacitated and brought to the Sith colony on Moraband, where she would be shown the truth about who she was and what she could become. The Sith leader Darth Krayt, ordered his subjects to bring him Riina because he believed that she could be a great ally. By the time Riina woke up she was restrained by Darth Krayt, who then told Riina that he was attempting to liberate her, and tried to convince Riina that she was being manipulated. To ensure she would see the truth, Krayt used the force to have Riina look through her memories closely. Upon looking at her service to the First Order, she saw that from the beginning she was manipulated into serving the Dark Side.

Having realized that she was being manipulated into becoming the very thing she was trained to destroy, Riina was broken. Krayt then offered to give Riina the opportunity to claim vengeance on Snoke for molding her into a disposable tool, and if she would join his Sith, pledge her loyalty to Krayt, and treat her fellow Sith like her kin, then he would never betray her. To make certain that she was loyal to him, Darth Krayt sent Riina to inform Snoke that she was leaving the Knights of her own free will. But when Snoke heard this from Riina personally, he ordered several of his Knights to kill her. However with even the small amount of training she acquired from the Sith, Riina managed to overcome the Knights and escape the Supreme Leader's base. Upon her return and observing proof that she had in fact left the First Order, Krayt was proud of Riina and gave her the new name **Darth Riina**.

## Powers and Abilities

**The Force:** After becoming a Knight of Ren, Veila's abilities as a Force-Wielder were enhanced by the dark side of the Force. Her aggression in combat increased, as demonstrated in her duels against Jedi adversary's. Veila's conversion also benefited her with new Force abilities that were generated by dark side-related emotions, such as hatred and anger. Though she succeeded at wielding the Sith signature attack known as Force Lightning, her control over her new dark powers was not fully developed.

As a combatant, Tahiri Veila was strong enough to tolerate a significant amount of physical pain while remaining capable at continuing a fight. She demonstrated her ability to absorb pain without losing consciousness.

### Abilities

* **Lightsaber Skills:** As a trained Jedi, Tahiri Veila is skilled in lightsaber combat. When necessary, Veila combined her swordsmanship with hand-to-hand combat skills, which she demonstrated during the Second Galactic Civil War.