Ven'oh Lehstrun

"...As my master before told me, the true Jedi is the one who puts himself - and the traditions of the order above all."

**VEN'OH LEHSTRUN,** is a force sensitive Miraluka male whom was a venerated Jedi Master whom was notable for his traditionalist, often extreme beliefs. Experienced in most regards, Ven'oh had decades of experience as a jedi under his belt, serving an active role as a peacekeeper throughout the galaxy before and during the clone wars, Ven'oh was well-known; more so for his unorthodox method of training padawans, operations, and his reluctance to engage in an active role throughout the order

## Ven'oh Lehstrun

* Vagabond
* Rebel
* New Jedi Order

### Affiliation

* Jedi Order
* Alliance to Restore the Republic
* New Jedi Order

### Occupation

PRE GCW: N/A, vagabond working various odd jobs.
GCW: Rebel

POST GCW: Jedi Instructor

## Appearances

### Appears in

Light Times: A Star Wars Story

Born a heir of the Lehnstrun Kingdom on the planet on the feudal planet of Arhan VI, Ven'oh would see himself the youngest amongst his siblings, trained to be the lead of the military, Ven'ohs training would ultimately prove fruitless as the rival Worhen kingdom and contracted raider tribes would ultimately put an end to his kingdom. Brought to a nearby republic expedition to hopefully bring them into the war, Ven'oh was medically tested to ensure his health - only to find his force-sensitivity.

Brought onto the jedi order, he was a bright pupil with a strong future - only for the aged Naisir Jysonvai to take him as his padawan; trained with older traditions and pushed to the extreme, Ven'oh was developed into a perfect mirror of his master - a stone cold jedi with his only focus on others.

Ven'oh would take up multiple padawans within his time training - and would soon serve within the Clone wars with his final apprentice Alevan Nesorna; facing trauma and having decades of his traditional beliefs challenged - the resulting training for Alevan resulted in a brutal, often physically exhausting training for Alevan. Nesorna would attempt to gain the attention and appraise of his master - time and time again. Only for Ven'oh to attempt to remain true to his beliefs; by attempting to mold Nesorna into his own image. His traditionalist beliefs and values did not work for Nesorna, and it only resulted in the already traumatized child being pushed over the edge.

This would ultimately bring Alevan closer and closer to the dark side - before culminating in Alevan's fall to the inquisitorius; becoming the violent, hedonistic **Eleventh Brother.** Utterly horrified by his young padawans fall to the dark side - and facing the only thing he had dedicated his life to; Ven'oh would become a drifter, a vagabond with only a bottle of alcohol as his friends.

Regaining himself through the help of various former jedi, and the learning that the rebels and jedi were still alive - by 5 BBY Ven'oh would enlist with various cells; before joining with the mainstream Alliance to Restore the Republic in 3 BBY. Now a rebel, and using his skillset and teaching to assist the rebels, Ven'oh would become a vaunted, and relatively heroic figure to a minority of groups within the Rebel Alliance.

He would ultimately survive the Galactic Civil War, and the now old - out of his prime Ven'oh would move to the NJO to train the next generation of jedi. This time, with his own beliefs - and with Skywalkers image of the jedi.

## ***OF NOBILITY AND WARFARE***

Born to the planet of Arhan VI, Ven’oh was born into a noble class of ruling monarchs in the world of Arhan. Long before his birth, the planet had been the final destination for a mass exodus of Miraluka peoples, the reasoning for which was lost to his time. The miraluka inhabiting Arhan VI had regressed into an isolationist fuedal-type government; any form of space-craft attempting to enter or leave the planet.

For 500 years, their uneasy peace was maintained - no foreign threats would enter their humble planet; although the threats would be purely domestic. Warring kingdoms and various raider tribes would prove a worrisome problem to the kingdoms of Arhan VI. The plateau of Jeansun - a large red desert with sprawling cliffs. Here, the Lehstrun kingdom sat.

A miniscule, the Lehstrun kingdom was where Ven’oh was born. Born amongst the noble Lehstruns, he was the youngest male in a line of 5 children. As such, Ven’ohs life was kept easy - his parents deeming him as a fall-back in case of their teachings with any of the older males. This would never come to fruition - as their plans for their children were thrown onto their heads. The northern Wohren kingdom, alongside paid raider tribes, had assaulted the kingdom in an unexpected surprise attack.

Not to mention, recent republic expeditionary incursions had made landfall next to the Wosun Heights, the crashing kingdoms mixed with the brutal, and grim raider attacks resulted in a deadly combination. The Lehstrun kingdom stood no chance against the warbands of the Wohrens and northern raider groups.

For long, the Lehstrun kingdom had weakened itself with the affairs of attempting to push the republic off-world, the resulting assaults against technologically advanced, heavily entrenched soldiers resulted in failure, after failure. And eventually, the grinding assaults made it so the Lehstruns were in a weakened state for even a minor kingdom like the Wohrens to demolish them.

Ven’oh was scooped up by the Lehnstrun family’s servants, he was brought out with massive hordes of refugees; all of whom scattered in multiple directions. After tedious bickering between the two, they eventually agreed to retreat to their former enemy - seeking to use the technology  that the republic was using for their own benefit.

What their initial manipulative beliefs had been were immediately squandered by Republic judicial forces that immediately arrested the small group; they were, however; provided quarters and subjected to medical testing. Leading the expedition to Arhan VI was Jedi Knight Mykove Lyancar, a y unknown jedi knight at the time. Mykove would run blood testing on Ven’oh, and would come to find that his high midichlorian count would provide a solid use for the Jedi Order.

Thus, to the behest of Mykove; and the horror of the Lehstruns servants - Ven’oh would be transported back to coruscant.

**And so, the legendary jedi’s life would start here.**

## ***STRONG BEGINNINGS***

Ven’oh was brought to Coruscant and quickly inducted into the ranks of the Jedi Order. Throughout his training he was known to adapt fairly well to the culture and assimilated into the order as quickly as he entered - Ven’oh was easily sociable and his removal from his life before the age of 3 allowed him to easily adapt.

As he grew older; his natural ability in the force began to become more attuned - and Ven’oh displayed a noticeable quirk in his force power; he was naturally able to tap into “nodes” and collections of force power around specific areas attuned to large amounts of midichlorians - this natural ability to see the past has since been lost in the imperial era. As with most of his attunement to the force. Though this is slowly regained

Ven’oh however, had easily adjusted to other bounds of force power - and he was noticeably gifted with senses; though this was not as attuned as his Psychometry was; it is attuned enough to the point where he can safely use it.

As ven’oh grew older, his bright - easily molded personality was identified in his pre-teens by Jedi Master Kolhen Jysonvai, a stoic; and fervent traditionalist within the Jedi Order. Upon passing his youngling trials, and building his own lightsaber - Kolhen approached the young Ven’oh, and quickly folded him under his wing.

### **TRADITIONALISM AND A PADAWAN**

Jysonvai was a brutal, but effective Jedi Master - Ven’oh found his days of rebellious and fun youth turned into days of arduous training; marching through valleys - battling dangerous creatures in the wild, all alongside some of the oldest Jedi Order traditions were beaten down into Ven’oh. To Jysonvai, Ven’oh was another Jedi padawan that needed to be a perfect vision of the Jedi Order’s true values. Jysonvai did this by entirely isolating him from the main order and fully training him in his old ways.

To Jysonvais extremist, traditionalist ways - it was breaking Ven’oh down and rebuilding him into what his vision, and his masters before him vision was of a true jedi: A tall, stoic, and emotionless peacekeeper with little attachments - and nothing to prevent him or her of falling to the Dark Side.

To the scarred, and paranoid masters that had trained Jysonvai and the people before them; any form of emotional attachment, nor any form of breaking off of tradition was the truest treason - a way to open the doors to a chance of falling.

And no chance was ever good.

As such, ven’ohs training was representative of that - he had spent long hours moving from planet to planet, meditating and going through each trial one by one. But none of it was easy, and to Jysonvai; he had to push ven’oh to his absolute limits. It wasn’t a true test of person if Ven'oh wasn’t absolutely shattered.

After a long decade and a half long training; Ven’oh was knighted at the direct end of it - having become a mirror of Jysonvai, a traditionalist peacekeeper that was ready to serve the Jedi Order; at all costs.

**And so, he became a knight.**

## ***CHANGING TIDES - ENTER: JEDI KNIGHT LEHNSTRUN***

Becoming a member of the Jedi Knights was easy and for a solid decade, it was an easy life of pure peace. although the coming tides of an ever changing galaxy was affecting him in averse ways; the once peaceful galaxy was spurred on the frontlines with war with the Naboo Crisis at 32 BBY; and amongst this time he began to train his second padawan under his command - Ven’oh taught a mirialan girl, Syvena Yohun everything that Jysonvai had taught him.

At first, it was difficult; becoming a teacher was not easy for the still young Ven’oh, but as he grew older and he grew confidence in himself - he was able to teach his padawan everything he had been taught, and had experienced in his days as a knight.

Eventually, through years of struggling through an ever increasingly hostile world, Ven’oh and Syvena found themselves going through struggling communities - raids of pirates and raiders, and being pushed to their limits in the outer rim. Throughout all of this, he tried to administer Jyonvai’s training and general values - alongside his own developed values.

The result was a strong jedi knight whom was a mixture between the two, she had been forced to learn for herself; and had found her way with the help of Ven’oh, and alongside her training and peers. Ven’oh was proud to see the fruits of his labour pay off, as each trial he administered was passed with fervent success. Skill was her holding off a pirate assault whilst remaining on her toes,

Courage was of her protecting a community of merchants from a gang of junkies; driven by spice - even when she could’ve escaped. Flesh was her losing a limb as a result of this trial; but keeping to herself and defending the merchants, and ven’oh - even when it pushed her to her limits.

Ven’oh proved to be much too difficult, and much too demanding of his padawans - a common issue that he had adapted from his master; This wasn’t the same time as it was peace and training to keep a thousand year tradition up. To ven’oh, it was the only way he knew. And through each year, each training - his values started to shift; his mindset breaking as the traditionalist values shattered. **No, this can’t be right - this was how the jedi was meant to be.**

And spirit was entering a cave on Arhan VI, the same cave ven’oh had faced - and she came out; the same resolve, and the same strength as before. Ven’oh was proud, and the two elevated themselves up - Syvena became a knight; whilst Ven’oh, now much older and experienced - and having learnt, was considered for the position of master. Upon the entrance of 23 BBY, he took up a young Alevan Nesorna under his command.

**And the results would haunt him.**

## ***ENTER: THE CLONE WARS - JEDI MASTER LEHSTRUN***

After a year of training Alevan, the Clone Wars would shortly begin - with the Confederacy of Independent Systems being declared by the former jedi Count Dooku. Horrified by the resurgence of the Sith under the CIS, and seeking to participate in his part to eliminate the separatist threat; Ven’oh and Alevan were quickly enlisted into the Grand Army of the Republic. Ven’oh would become a Jedi General - later a High General Jedi, and Alevan would become a Jedi Commander. The legion they were assigned was the 22nd Cavalry Legion.

The 22nd Cavalry was a legion primarily tasked with Air Assault and Airborne operations; as such, it was an extremely light and mobile strike force within the Republic’s army. As such, it was described by Vice Admiral Mohan Gaven as the “..shortsword of the republic.”

The 22nd Cavalry saw combative actions on the Southern and Northern areas of the Galaxy, very few operations - unless called for, were in the main Eastern portions of the galaxy. The 22nd cavalry saw an extensive and unknown service career - despite their solid success ratings, they weren’t in the public spotlight.

As the war progressed and Ven’oh continually found a solid balance in training Alevan, and leading on the front - his actions at OPERATION: STEEL SHADOW, in which, during an assault on a CIS industrial world known as Myconza V - Ven’oh held Alevan back from giving in to his hatred, leading an offensive at the same time - and organizing a full evacuation for civilian populations.

The after-math of the battle saw alevan scolded heavily and reprimanded by Ven’oh; mixed with general exhaustion. The war itself was changing him, and Ven’oh found his traditional values being dissolved as he saw the true realities of the galaxy - and his already extensive history of training padawans had left a mark in him.

As time passed on, Ven’oh focused more on building a genuine bond - trying to play the role as a father to Alevan; whilst he attempted to make amends for his wrongs. Ven’oh had focused extensively into the traditionalist values - in an attempt to change Alevan into an image of himself; after all - it was what he was trained to do, right? This was all for the greater good.

It was far little too late - by the time Ven’oh achieved the rank of Jedi Master in 20 BBY due to his values as a jedi; and his experience with training padawans - the once bright and prepared Jedi Knight had turned into a tired old man. Fighting to protect Alevan, fighting to end the war once and for all. All this bloodshed, and for what?

Ven’oh could barely understand; his mindset was broken into two - his general conditioning to be “pure and traditionalist” was fighting with his modernist views. *The real world wasn’t fairy tales and thousand year old traditions*. Ven’oh knew that, but he kept fighting - and kept trying to hold desperately to his old beliefs.

He managed to rebound.. And eventually his modernist values shined again - he would form his own path; try to mold the jedi, and his future padawans into an image that **he had chosen**.  For all his life, there had been those that were chosen for him - but it was far, far too late.

**Nesorna had already fallen.**

## ***FALLEN ORDER***

Upon moving to a mountainous planet in order to finally get Alevan prepared for his initiation- OPERATION KNIGHTFALL had already begun; Ven’oh and Alevan quickly witnessed the fall of the republic - clones of the 22nd hunted them down, blaster fire filling the forests they sprinted in; Ven’oh ran and ran, his senses and his body berated by the horror and the heaviness he felt - a disturbance in the force as thousands of jedi were killed in the galaxy. As he exited the forest, he found himself without alevan - and in the middle of a plain open field;

I’m sorry, Nesorna. He called out in his mind - his body limping himself forward; the once powerful Ven’oh had degraded into nothing more than a distraught, mentally destroyed man. Why did this have to happen?

Everything he knew, gone in an instance - and everything he held onto; destroyed, what was traditionalism? Should he truly keep true with his beliefs? Ven’oh drifted towards a local town, quickly smuggling himself onto a transport aircraft - He didn’t know where it went, nor did it matter.

With his tattered robes and long cloak; he used Force Stealth and masked his presence Before eventually deciding to distance himself away from the force, and who he used to be. - Ven’oh was lost. What did he do now?

And thus began the life of a vagabond, drifting from place to place - aimless of what he was meant to be doing. The only comfort was bottles of alcohol and various other substances that he took.

But light isn't so easily snuffed out...

## ***REBOUND***

With the help of former Jedi like him, and the realization and encouragement of independent rebels - Ven'oh would enlist with various odd rebel cells; bouncing from one to another, before eventually joining with the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Now a freedom fighter, Ven'oh would see himself on the frontlines once more - fighting against the Galactic Empire; with a diverse people, and other jedis support - Ven'ohs extremist views were demolished within the process; as he built himself up again, and as he built his culture and people up again; Ven'oh came to realize his mistakes. In 2 ABY - Ven'oh would officially disconnect himself temporarily from the Rebel Alliance, seeking to make amends with Alevan and attempt to get him back from the darkness he had fallen into.

Alevan and Ven'oh would engage in duels on multiple occasions - Ven'oh himself hounding the much older, exhausted, and depressed Alevan; through dozens of battles, through the worst conflicts - Alevan had, after Lord Vader and Emperor Palpatine were promptly snuffed out; disappeared from the public and left the galaxy's image all together. Ven'oh had planted seeds of doubt, and those seeds had blossomed upon the fall of the empire.

Though ven'oh would go on to teach a new generation of Jedi - he still holds his own stance that Alevan is out there; perhaps finding the light, and rebounding in his own way. *But who really knows?*

## ***Personality and Traits***

"Everything I could've hoped for, he is a direct copy of our values." - Naisir Jysonvai

Whilst a quiet, reserved and excited kid in his youth, he was known for his extroverted and active personality. Ven'oh was always the forefront of games and activities with his friends, but upon being taken as the padawan of Naisir Jysonvai; Ven'oh himself would quickly form to Naisirs trainings; the general bond of a master-padawan training, and a genuine connection between the two easily made ven'oh willing to learn and take in information from Naisir. What ven'oh had lacked with Alevan was a genuine paternal figurehead Naisir took - and Ven'oh quickly came to emulate his master in every way, from values; to the way he talked slow and loud.

Ven'oh would quickly became a direct copy of Naisir - the once excited and reserved kid had turned into a stoic, quiet, and rather stone cold jedi whos only focused was the values of the Jedi. Selflessness and service towards the people, Ven'oh would quickly find success in training further padawans - although through years of training apprentices of various backgrounds, of various personalities had taken a toll on him. Ven'oh quickly found himself questioning himself in an era so wrought with change; Jysonvai was long gone, and Ven'oh himself would find his values challenged by his previous padawans.

This would worsen come the clone wars - and the rebellious youth that his newfound padawan, Alevan Nesorna was; Ven'oh quickly found himself desperately clinging to the only beliefs he had ever known. And his instilment and training of Alevan was a pure representation of the confusion and horror he was facing; disorganized, messy, and full of uncertainty.

This would only worsen come the worsening state of the grim war - and by the time Ven'oh had finally broken out of his rut and accepted that it was time to move on; Nesorna had already fallen, and the Empire had already rose over the ashes of the Republic.

Broken, lost, and utterly distraught at the sight of Nesorna falling to the dark side - Ven'oh himself would become a husk of alcoholism and depression; through the dark times, he drifted from planet to planet, evading imperial patrols and drowning his sorrows in various bars around the galaxy. Ven'oh himself mostly cut himself off from the force, believing his own failures in protecting Nesorna and his failure to stop the Empire was a grievous crime he could never recover from.

Though through talks with other jedi, and the realization that the resistance - a chance for the republic he once knew becoming realized, Ven'oh budged and joined up with various rebel cells to fight the Empire; seeking to right his wrongs, and the newly reformed Ven'oh truly fighting for his *own values* had entered the world stage.

His personality remains much of the same, with Ven'oh focused on individualism, he himself is known to be warm, inviting - and an emulation of his younger self; extroverted and generally easily sociable. His teachings focus on this, and Ven'oh himself had finally broken the extremist traditionalism he had once fallen prey to.

As an off-shoot of the mainstream Miraluka; Ven'oh and the Arhan VI miraluka have different biological structures in their brains. With Arhan VI being a very temperate, high pressure environment, and animals directly evolving to move through the perception of Force Sight; Miralukas on Arhan VI have developed sensory chemical receptors that can sense animals and various other environmental fauna within their area. Whilst powerful, the receptors are known to be overtly sensitive - and are able to sense chemicals within animals and vehicles. The oversensitivity is easily able to overwhelm the sense of the Miraluka. A burning vehicle would mean that an Arhan VI miraluka would smell the burning fuel, the oil, and various other chemical properties.

## ***Powers and Abilities***

"His skills with a lightsaber are much to be desired, but his promise in the force is astonishing." - Naisir Jysonvai

### ***Lightsaber Abilities***

Although not a gifted duelist by any means - Ven'oh had adapted his lightsaber usage to Form III, with his lack of prowess in Lightsaber duels - his focus with lightsabers is to keep a solid defense, and then use his force prowess to disable or kill any hostiles that he is engaging. Through his stoic personality, and his relative ability to keep calm under pressure. Ven'oh has been able to keep up solid defenses with lightsaber combat

### ***Force Ability***

A gifted force user in all manners, Ven'ohs high midichlorian would allow for him to have a distinctive and potent connection towards the force, Ven'oh would find himself highly attuned towards the force, noticably one of his quirks is force powers affecting mental aptitudes of the force. This has allowed ven'oh to use force stealth to hide his presence or disguise himself to those with low midichlorian counts, this has also allowed him to provide fairly potent levels of mindtrick. Although these mental abilities are strong, this does not work on those with strong mental profiles, iron will, or high midichlorian counts. Though he can attempt influence, this requires great exertion - and can knock him out at points.

Mixed with telekinetic abilities, Ven'oh has found himself able to be an intermediate in the fields of telekinesis - which has allowed him basic force shield abilities and general telekinesis. Whilst powerful, this is not as potent as others with more stronger connections; and Ven'oh can not lift anything above what he can normally lift. Though he has been able to influence the environment with telekinesis - this can often overexert himself.

Ven'oh also has force sense - as most if not all other force sensitives do; allowing him to sense emotions and the presence of other force sensitives. He often uses his force sense in conjunction with his force sight to keep a close eye around his surroundings.

Whilst potent in his abilities, ven'oh is constrained by his knowledge and general quirks - though he is attempting to learn more. Perhaps he will learn more in his journey?

FORCE ABILITIES:

**ALTER ENVIRONMENT**

**FORCE GENERATION**

**FORCE SIGHT**

**MIND TRICK**

**MINOR ABILITIES IN SHATTERPOINT**

**FORCE STEALTH**

**TELEKINESIS**

**TUTAMINIS**