Relya Voranis

**Relya Voranis** is a Jedi Padawan, training under the Twi'lek Jedi Knight Sienna Mersu.

## Biography

### Before the Temple

She was born on the remote Outer Rim planet of Scarif in the 990th year after the fall of the Old Republic and the reformation of the Galactic Republic, to a pair of relatively wealthy farmers. Her mother, Meara Voranis, acted as the leader of their local village at the time of Relya's birth, whilst her father Jand was responsible for the farming of their crops.

Born on a planet far beyond the Republic's borders, one that did not even send a Senator to Coruscant, it was never expected that Relya would leave Scarif, at most filling the position of her mother or father. Yet it was only a year after her birth when she saw her father dropping something, and reached out to stop it from hitting the ground. Her mother knew that she could not be raised properly on Scarif, and so established communications with a nearby Republic base to inform them of her daughter's force sensitivity.

Within a week, a Jedi Knight had arrived to collect his new charge and bring her to the Jedi Temple to be brought up and trained with other younglings.

### Initiate

Since her arrival at the temple and her introduction into Boma Clan, Relya has been taught the skills a young force-sensitive needs to know. How to control her powers, how to use them to help and to hinder, and how to fight with both the force and a lightsaber.

As her time as a youngling comes to an end, Relya and the Boma Clan are brought by Yoda, Grand Master of the Jedi Order to Ilum, to undergo the Gathering and construct their very own lightsabers. On her journey through the Crystal Cave, she would encounter her crystal held atop a pillar of ice in the centre of a room with two exits - attempting to push and pull with the Force on the crystal. After nothing budged it beyond a small amount, she left through the other exit to try and find another solution. At the end of the tunnel, she found a great chamber - in which her fellow initiate, Andra Kess was climbing a wall, falling as she held her crystal. Relya dashed forward to catch her, and saved her with the Force and her own strength. Knowing what she had to do, she asked the other girl to help her climb the pillar with her crystal. As she suspected, it worked, and she came into possession of her own crystal. In their short time together, Relya realised she liked Andra more than she liked most of her fellow initiates - yet after saying she was glad for her help, Andra told her she didn't want to be helped again.

Dejected, yet still excited to build her lightsaber, Relya left the caves and headed to the Crucible where Professor Huyang and the Initiates waited. She constructed her own saber, made of quadanium with bronzium inlays running through like veins, and when she lit it, it glowed a sky blue.

In the great Initiate Trials, with the Boma, Clawmouse, and Hawkbat clans, Relya found herself performing well. She placed eighth in the Philosophy trial, knowing her Jedi Code and her duties well, along with more advanced ideas. In the Athletics trial, she did not perform quite as well - falling within the latter half of the initiates of three clans. Yet with the Force, she excelled - fourth, out of every single competitor, she knew she would place well in the end. Her performance in the Lightsaber Tournament was impressive too, coming eleventh out of around fifty fighters. In the end, she had placed third, and one of the Order's most promising young knights, Sienna Mersu chose her as her Padawan.