Alkath Verayn

**Alkath Verayn**, also known as the**Twelfth Brother**, was a male Sith Pureblood Inquisitor from Dromund Kaas operating as an Imperial Jedi Hunter.

## Biography

Born on the forgotten Sith world of Dromund Kaas, to a high class family of Sith lineage, Alkath Verayn grew up with little formal Sith training to harness his power. He went through his studies with diligence and explored the ancient ruins frequently. Among his peers, he was unpopular throughout his primary education until he learned how to use his unpopularity to his advantage and excel ahead of his peers without their attention.

Then, after the fall of the Republic, when the Emperor rediscovered Dromund Kaas and founded the Dark Adepts to serve him, Verayn was one of the most promising of his peers to become part of the Imperial Inquisition. Inquisitor Verayn would then be sent on missions to eliminate survivors of Order 66 and recruit new Adepts across the galaxy.

Then, one year before the Battle of Yavin, Verayn would receive his most difficult assignment: recruit or eliminate Jaeson-Araan Cypher, Cipher 46. It proved to be one of his most difficult assignments. Months of tracking and analyzing patterns led him back to Coruscant during a bounty hunt.

## Personality and traits

Verayn was quite softspoken and manipulative; typically using deception to make himself appear weak to others that they underestimate him or gain the trust of those normally considered his enemies. He was heavily analytical as well, judging his target's strengths and abilities until he could devise a method of attack. While a strength, this was also a major flaw, as he had a hard time adjusting to anything outside his attack plan if an opponent did the unexpected. This rarely happened, but when it did, he released his full power at once to overwhelm his target.

## Powers and abilities

Alkath was familiar in all seven Jedi lightsaber forms and used them to his advantage in determining how to best an opponent. However, he was not especially skilled in those forms, only possessing precision and analytical technique in executing them. He did possess skill in Soresu, for defense and giving him time to think, and higher skill in Makashi, using one hand to keep his other hand free to use Force powers. However, those abilities were fairly underdeveloped in comparison to his Force abilities.

### The Force

Alkath Verayn made skilled use in Force Lightning, ranging from quick, painful, debilitating bursts to lethal, excruciating doses.

Telekinesis and Force Pushes and Pulls are strong and precise, able to throw men into walls and others with bone breaking force.

He also trained in Force Stealth, able to keep his Force presence masked with high concentration needed.

Verayn was highly skilled in mental powers and could be potentially devastating if under intense stress. While he could use Mind Trick to manipulate the weak minded easily, he used mental domination in only the most dire and desperate circumstances, not a feat easily called on command. He would cast high amounts of dark side energies into the victim to break through minds of equal or lesser strength, where which he could create the illusion of intense pain (theoretically other sensations, but mostly pain, given the circumstances of the power called forth). The power of this breaking was lost when his stress level dropped, which was typically quickly.

## Equipment

Verayn wore decorated Sith robes of Massassi pattern design in red and lining in dark violet over a black base.

He wore a black mask to protect his face and maintain his focus, molded from pure cortosis, a material that shorts out lightsabers on contact, that holds an intimidating, neutral visage.

### Weaponry

Verayn's lightsaber was of a black curved design with four sharp claws spiking up and around the emitter with a larger spike on the end of hilt.

## Appearances

* "Forces to Reckon With"—*Cipher 46: Challenges of Will*(First appearance)