Sindraxal Karath

**Sindraxal Karath**, known by the diminutive **Sindra**, is a Force-sensitive Zabrak male and one of the most unpredictable and powerful Jedi in the Clone Wars. Formerly the Padawan of Jedi Master Xin Keng, Sindra is known as **The Apprentice of Light** by the Sister Dagger of Hakotei.

His birth name is **Kirandros Thraxx** and he was once a slave to a Nightsister, Aria Dallani, until his escape in 46 BBY with the help of an older slave named Sindraxal Karath. He is also the main protagonist of Volume 0.

## Biography

> "The first thing I remember is the sanguine skies of Dathomir, the cries of the Rancor, and the pain of the whip lashing across my back."
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> -Sindraxal Karath on his past life.
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### Time on Dathomir

Sindra was born Kirandros Thraxx on the planet of Dathomir, as a baby he was stolen from his parents by the Nightsister, Aria Dallani. She tattooed him with the mark of her people before he could even walk, and when he was old enough to walk, she made him do manual labor, and whipped him if he didn't do it fast enough. He was filled with hatred at such a young age, made to clean and mantain her ship, *The Black Raven*, until it was spotless.

That at all changed when the young boy met an older slave, another Zabrak named Sindraxal Karath. Sindraxal refused to be broken in by the Nightsister no matter how mnay times she tried, and young Kirandros revered that in the older man. The two of them were practically inseperable.

One fateful day, Sindraxal came to the young boy and told him of his escape plan as he had been slowly buying off the workers on a supply ship known as the Memory. Hoping to get the two of them smuggled off-world and into a better life.

It worked, only for a couple weeks, when Aria's ship hunted down the Memory and blasted a massive hole in the hull, before boarding the ship. Aria and a contingent of Nightbrothers came through and slaughtered everyone. One of them found Kirandros hiding behind a stack of crates and tried to take him, when the young bot panicked and threw his hands up, throwing the Nightbrother back, and he hit wall with a sickening crunch. The boy did not even make physical contact with the now dead man, he summoned the power of the Force.

Panicking even more, the boy ran off to find Sindraxal. He found the man engaging in a firefight with the Nightbrothers, Sindraxal made to protect him, keeping him away from the hostiles by shooting at them until the two of them got to an escape pod, Sindraxal threw the boy in the pod just as Aria arrived. The last thing Kirandros Thraxx saw of Sindraxal Karath was the man shooting the Nightsister in the gut, right before she cut him down with her crimson lightwhip.

The guns of her ship locked onto his escape pod and blasted it, sending it careening to the planet below.

He awoke sometime later, in a Bacta tank, a Devaronian man standing in front of it. An impassive look on his face.

### A New Identity

> "What's your name, kid?"
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> "Sindraxal Karath."
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> -Xin Keng and Sindra's first meeting.
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The boy introduced himself as his savior, Sindraxal Karath, leaving his old name to die in his memory and his alone.

Despite the boys penchant for emotion and volatile anger, the Jedi Council saw fit to induct Sindra into the ranks of the Jedi Order. His training was mostly a blur of uninteresting things. He eventually got promoted to Padawan under the tutelage of Xin Keng. Master Keng was a just and righteous man, he and the other members of the Order often found themselves disagreeing on ways to approach things. Which led into a similar approach for the impressionable Zabrak.

Many Jedi were afraid Sindra would fall to the dark side due to his intense emotional resosnance, but that could not be further than the truth. Sindra eventually mastered Jar'Kai and became effective with Soresu under the wise teachings of his master. In 32 BBY, the Master and Padawan found a lead on an ancient Sith relic. Master Keng petitioned the Council to let them retrieve it, but it was almost unanimously a no. So the two of them went off anyway, their slicer contact, Canvas, sent them to the planet of Karazak where they outbid everyone there to retrieve the artifact, a Presager dagger.

The two of them took it back to their room for the night and began to study it, when suddenly like fire blazing in the night-time horizon, the dagger lit up with ancient Sith text, which the two Jedi translated. It read as such:

*I am Sister Twin of Hakotei. Hear and heed:*

*The Apprentice of Light shall lose his Crown of Horns*

*To his Shadow, the Apprentice of Darkness.*

*With Sister Hakotei he shall unfold*

*The First Prophecy of Balance from the Crown of Horn's Side,*

*And begin to tip the Scales to the Balancer.*

The two Jedi sat there in confusion, but decided to return to Coruscant come morning, with the dagger in tow. But Sindra couldn't help but think they were missing something. Something important.

### The Prophecy of the Scales

The next day when they woke up and made their way to the ship they had rented to get to Karazak, they were ambushed by people on swoop bikes, Master Keng ordered Sindra to start the engines of the ship and begin take-off while he dealt with the assailants. Xin easily dispatched of the assailants and jumped up to the bay doors right before they shut, but he wasn't alone.

He was followed up, by someone who intended to kill him. Master Keng and his unknown assailant battled for a short time before the other man won, fatally wounding Xin before jumping down from the ship, a fifty foot drop, and surviving.

Sindra ran downstairs to comfort his master, the blood from the Devaronian soaking into his hands and his robes, a coating the dagger at his hip in a thick layer of crimson. The dagger began to burn at his hip while life left Xin's eyes. Only then did more words appear on the cursed weapon, written in the same script, which Sindra had learned how to read long ago. The next piece read as such:

*I am Sister Twin of Hakotei, Hear and heed, Apprentice*

*On the wings of the Golden Nyss's Wayward Children*

*On a String of Yin's Four Pearls*

*With the Blood of the Yin Who Resists The Force*

*The Second Prophecy of Balance unfolds*

*To tip the Scales to the Balancer.*

Numb, Sindra went to the navigation's system and set course for the Golden Nyss Shipyard, in the Yinnchori System. Hoping he would find his answers there.

When he arrived, the Golden Nyss Shipyard was under seige and the Yinnchori were agressing anyone who got even slightly close, so they shot down Sindraxal's ship blasting it through the brig, where he ran into his future best friend, Hel Bim. The two of them escaped with the help of an unusual B1-Series Battle Droid known as Void. Along the way they encounted a kidnapped Human doctor named Jondo Long and a terrified Gungan Padawan named Jub-Jub Meem. The five of them made their way through treacherous electric node traps and droves of Yinnchori soldiers. Until eventually they were able to find Hel's ship, the Steel Condor and make their escape.

On their way off-station, Sindra and Jub-Jub made a call to the Jedi Council to inform them of their status. Grand Master Yoda had a mission for them, he wanted them to find and bring in the Devaronian criminal, Wilmar, who was last spotted on Nal Hutta.

As they flew to Nal Hutta, another inscription revealed itself on the dagger:

*The pulse of Nal Hutta eclipses*

*The Twin Suns, the Apprentice of Light and the Apprentice of Darkness.*

*Around the Apprentice of Light Four Moons revolve*

*The Banished, The Hunted,*

*The Clouded, and The Void*

*Silence one beat of the pulse,*

*And under the moons The Balancer shall arise to take the Scales.*

Sitting alone on the deck of the ship, after finally wrenching the piloting controls from Hel, Sindra sat in thought. Never before had he been so far out of his depth. After this mission he was going to ask the Council to promote him and Jub-Jub to Knight. They were surely getting wrapped up in things that they alone couldn't handle, but the confidence of the promotion would help at least him feel better.

### Nal Hutta

Eventually arriving on world, the group searched high and low for this mysterious "Wilmar" but eventually found nothing. The group eventually holed up in an inn for the night, hoping not to draw attention to themselves. During the night, Sindra had a dream. The dream began with Master Xin Keng coming up to him, luminous, like a force ghost. The apparition asked of the dagger, asking if it was safe. He nodded, his voice failed him as he was overcome with emotion at seeing his Master again, then Keng's form flickered, occasionally showing glimpses of a pale gaunt man.

> "Bring them to me, your companions. I can help them. I have seen it. Together we can bring the Sith'ari into the world."
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> "Why should I trust you? You were trying to bullshit me."
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> "With them we can end the Sith forever and I can leave this prison. And we can bring balancce to the Force. Find me and I will show you the ways of the grey ones."
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> -Sindra and Saraai-Kar Banus Malik.
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Sindra woke up in a cold sweat, and his friends were gone, they had left because in the night they were kidnapped by one of Aria's minions. A Dathomirian witch named Kasidra. Sindra enlisted the help of a local Bounty Hunter, a man named Llock Shan, and together the two of them stopped Kasidra. Though at a terrible price, Void was gone, and Hel, Jub-Jub, and Jondo were lying on the ground, dead.

It was too late for the Gungan and the Human, Sindra could feel it, so he let them pass into the Force, mourning their loss, but he ran over to the body of Hel Bim and poured as much of his life energy as he could into the corpse. The Duros shot up in panic, his now stump of a hand reaching for his blaster pistol, until he realized he was safe.

Sindra paid Llock, and the Zabrak and the Duros left the miserable moon, never to return.

## Personality and Traits

As a Padawan, and even still as a Knight and Master, Sindra was always impulsive and headstrong. He leaned on his emotions to a degree the other Jedi did not agree with. He formed attachments outside of the Order, mainly with his best friend, Hel Bim. But even with all of the possibility of corruption to the dark side, Sindra will never fall. He has seen what that path does to people, he was on the recieving end of it as Kirandros. He is a man of iron willpower.

He is brave, and when push comes to shove, if you have Sindraxal Karath with you, you can count on him to do the best he can to get everyone out of there alive. The Jedi also dislike his cavelier behaviour and foolish jokes.

After the journey to Nal Hutta and his subsequent return, Sindra gained a wisdom beyond his years. Becoming a lot more thoughtful, although still impulsive. He is also not one to really care about ceromonial things, a very pragmatic outlook on life. Previously described as "curiosity that could kill a krayt dragon" and seems to be in a never-ending search for knowledge.

## Powers and Abilities

Although his training was technically incomplete, he is still a master lightsaber duelist. He is the master of the Jar'Kai variant of Form VIII in Jedi Order. Also due to the insistence of his master, he learned a few other forms as well. Most notably Soresu and Ataru. He usually fell back of Jar'Kai in a combat environment though.

Suprisingly powerful in the Force, Sindra was a juggernaut in force-sensitive spaces. One of the very few Jedi willing and capable enough to master dark sided abilities and not let it hinder their judgement. One of his signature attacks is conjuring Force Lightning through his feet as he jumps over people, electrocuting them. He calls it the "Thunder Kick".

He is also an expert pilot, one of the best in the Order, probably only second to Anakin Skywalker. Additionally due to the study that Master Keng made him endure, he can also read, write, and speak 11 different languages. When he is in combat, he has the unique ability to simultaneously shut off all of his emotions and embrace all of them, causing a paradoxical raw power.