Eegharien Raddiuem

Eegharien's Green Sabre with a longer blade for exclusive form III.

**Eegharien Raddiuem** is a Force-sensitive Mon Calamari male Padawan in the Jedi Order. One of three apprentices to Master **Velzal Arcturious**, Eegharien seeks to become a Temple Guard on either Kamino or his homeworld of Mon Cala, or to guard and catalog the grand libraries at Kamino and or Coruscant. While rather quiet, Eegharien is a timid practitioner of the force and does not wish to rely on his saber in any situation.

## Background

Raised in the Mon Calamari city of Nystullum, Eegharien was a defensive and shy child. The icy north meant there was plenty of space for Eegharien to hide. When he was very young most of his life was in the shadow of his older siblings, bred for the nobility of Mon Calamari as they were cousins to the King’s children, thus first in line outside of the royal family. But in fact, this only made Eegharien more aloof to his family and reality.

Eegharien began his education at a young age due to his family's lineage. Equipped with military history and tactics, Eegharien was poised to be a war councilor for the Mon Calamari high command. However, Eegharien was still very young at this point and still shied away from such responsibilities. Soon his family began to realize the unreliability of their youngest son and left him alone allowing him to sulk in peace on the city ships. When a Jedi Master from the New Order came to Mon Cala in search of a force sensitive child, the family put all of their children forward for examination, except Eegharien. When the Jedi Master could not find the boy who matched her description she left to contact the Jedi Temple on Kamino to confirm. When the Master returned to re-check again she could not find Eegharien, the force sensitive. Eegharien himself was not familiar with his own powers for the lack of kinetic abilities.

A few years later, when Eegharien was twelve he was assigned to the war council of the Mon Calamari as a subordinate officer to the Master Strategist Keliem Thadduen. While the Mon Calamari engaged the Zhan Remnant Eegharien learned their combative ways with the Third Republic. Finally, upon a war council meeting, they were joined by Grand Master Velzal Arcturious from the Jedi Order who identified him as force sensitive. Admiral Thadduen recognized the fact that several years ago a Jedi Master came to Mon Cala in search of a force sensitive child whom she did not find. After the war council, Velzal took him back to Kamino for training.

Being advanced in age, Eegharien was given special instruction with an older group of younglings and a younger group of Padawans by Masters Tano, Sillik and Dungkal. In only a few years he was deigned to become a Padawan and hopefully catch up with the rest of the Padawans. Because of proximity, he was assigned to Velzal, of whom he already had several apprentices to take care of.

Being one of many, Eegharien felt slow and less successful than his other Padawans, however, Master Arcturious saw something in him to spend many extra hours and thus days with the man only a few years his younger to help excel his skills.

On a particular mission to assist the people of Ryloth from the Zhan Remnant, Eegharien and Master Arcturious went to a village on the outskirts in an attempt to resupply people there. The Zhan had reinforced the village and the duo ended up having to skirmish with the group while fleeing through the village. Arcturious sent Eegharien to report to the group and to retreat. For the first time in his life, he denied the order and kept with his Master through it all. Even struggling after taking a few blaster shots he followed his mentor still, until they snuck their way into the Zhan command centre and captured the command chain. When the Third Republic forces came, Master Arcturious expressed his disappointment with Eegharien not following his order, but his skill in maintaining his composure through the pain and combat.

As simple as it was, this gave Eegharien enough courage to continue, asking his mentor to train him in his style instead of the progressive combat tree that he was learning. Master Velzal began his training in the Third Form Soresu.

Although Master Arcturious took him on many missions, Eegharien enjoyed temple life significantly more than exploring the galaxy and began additional training as a temple guard and library guardian.