Darth Andriel

Darth Andriel

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The Angel of Death

Darth Andriel is a cunning man, a strategist, and tactician. He prefers to fight his battles in the realm of the mind, though he is not afraid to display and utilize his power when required. He is a powerful sorcerer, skilled with sith alchemy, sith magic, and various other forms of dark side rituals both ancient and macabre.

"Light falters, stars flicker- grow dim, and one by one they blink out. All things come to an end, and the universe will grow dark, but the Sith will live on.*"*

--- Darth Andriel

## History

Born in the year 5025 BBY, A’an was born as one of few male offspring to a family of sith in the Kissai Caste. His family was part of one of Korriban’s wealthier and more elite tribes, though it was not as well known as some of the others.

Like many other families in his tribe, through generations, his family had produced many powerful priests, gifted with immense power in the dark side of the force. From a young age, A’an was expected to live up to that legacy.

It wouldn’t take long for his family to discover that they’d indeed produced another powerful future-priest for their people, at the young age of 6, his power started to show, and it was frightening to say the least. The young boy would often subconsciously lift and re-arrange objects in his family’s home while he slept. Tantrums would often result in A’an hurdling of objects at his parents or others that had angered him with nothing but the use of his thoughts.

When A’an was 7, an invading minor warlord from a Massassi tribe attempted to invade and conquer his village and enslave his tribe. He was hidden by his parents for sake of safety, he was still too young and fragile to fight. The conflict lasted days as the powerful Kissai were able to fend off the brunt of the attacks, but eventually, A’an’s father fell to the invading enemy, and his mother had to flee with the family’s youngest child. The death of his father and the abandonment by his mother caused feelings to grow and swell within the young boy: passion and fury building his hate and anger beyond safe levels. His raw power coupled with fresh painful emotion drove him to lash out against the Massassi warlord with force lightning, unleashing a powerful blast upon him that fried his body to a crisp and caused his army to fall back to their own territory.

News quickly spread across Korriban of the sith child steeped in the dark side of the force, one so powerful to be able to kill a full-grown brutish Massassi warlord. Information about the child finally reached the Jen’ari of the time, Marka Ragnos, and he was summoned to the Sith Academy on Korriban to be trained in the ways of the sith, to be trained in the use of the force.

It was in the academy that he met Neidna, the lady sith who caught his eye. He was impressed by her- A’an quickly became impressed with her. It was the first time he’d met another Kissai with power similar to his, to top it off, she was female and around his age. A’an had begun to develop a bit of a crush on Neidna, one that he would hold throughout his years at the academy, even beyond that. This was also where A’an was first introduced to the other Kissai male, Nyeklas. He was powerful, like A’an- Nyeklas interested him. In time, A’an developed a respect for the man.

Once his trials were finished at the academy, he was able to remain with Neidna and Nyeklas. He’d been one of the 3 selected to be an apprentice to the Dark Lord himself, however, unlike Neidna, he was not groomed to be the next ruler. This did not stop him from trying to earn the ultimate glory and get into the favor of the Dark Lord. A’an worked tirelessly for days and nights straight to become a skilled and powerful sorcerer and sith alchemist, he ready texts and studied the work of the greatest sith before him. He wanted to become the next great sorcerer like Naga Sadow.

Tragically, A’an was never able to step into the favor of Lord Ragnos, and when the Dark Lord perished, A’an grew colder and continued his training with the same vigor, longing to fill a void inside him, holding a silent hatred for Ragnos. With such gruesome training and so many hours of study done to impress him, Neidna- his love- was always ahead of him.

When Naga Sadow declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith, A’an accompanied his now lover Neidna and their respected friend, now dubbed Darth Vyrassu, on many battles, fighting side by side with them in many decisive battles, securing many victories for the Sith Empire. Disappointed by the betrayal of Gav Daragon and the Sith defeat by the Republic, A’an grew more detached from politics and began to stay in the background of the weakening Empire.

A’an stayed close to his lover, the fire he felt for her gave him fuel and power that he’d never felt possible before meeting Neidna. When they returned to Korriban and learned that Lord Vitiate had barely escaped a republic attack with his life, he followed Neidna to the hidden world of Dromund Kaas and began to assist her in the creation of the Imperial Citadel and began to assist the New Empire as a whole in the construction of the Dromund Kaas Colony.

When Neidna was killed- a part of A’an shattered forever. He’d been out with an Imperial patrol clearing the jungle for settlements when Neidna was called to meet with the Emperor, he wasn’t there to assist her and defend her when she needed it. Having lost the only connection to affection he had left in his life, A’an, now dubbed Darth Andriel, left Dromund Kaas to grieve and to learn. He harnessed his pain and his hatred for the ones who slaughtered his wife. He secluded himself on some of the galaxy’s darkest worlds, meditating, experimenting, learning- honing his skills with the dark side of the force.

Over decades, Darth Andriel learned the methods used by Vitiate to extend his life, he gathered hundreds and thousands of disciples from planets across the galaxy on a backwater planet strong in the dark side and set the ritual in place. He consumed the planet, stripping the living force itself from every molecule of every living thing on the planet, focusing it all into himself. He grew in his power and he extended his life far beyond any reasonable amount.

Darth Andriel remained in hiding for most of the Galaxy’s history up until the time he felt a disturbance in the force wash over him- a flame that he’d not felt in centuries reigniting from across the galaxy. He felt his love return- his wife, a new body perhaps. Younger and certainly not the vibrant red beauty he’d met when he was young, but it was her nonetheless. He returned to the Empire to be by her side, having learned from his solitude that service to an Empire was futile, but for his love- he set aside these beliefs to be with her.

With the news of his wife's disappearance and the rumor of her death at the hands of their childhood friend, Andriel grew silent and departed from the Sith Academy. He quietly left the Empire for the unknown regions in search of his lover, In the end, Andriel was never heard from again. Like the woman he loved, his story ends with obscurity and uncertainty.

## Powers and Abilities

Darth Andriel has the ability to produce massively powerful force pushes and shoves that were powerful enough to send multiple companies of republic troops flying backward, the effects of which included cracking skulls and shattering bones. His telekinetic ability was so strong that he was able to lift and throw objects across rooms while still a baby in his mother's womb, and even more so could he rip dozens of objects from their places and move them as he pleased without even lifting a finger. At a young age, A'an possessed an exceptional knowledge of sith magic, having read much about it in journals that both his mother and father collected. A'an possessed the ability of mind domination, once able to bend an entire legion of Imperial Troops into an extension of his will, doing it to his enemies at times as well, though this was not an on command ability and required preparation time to be done on a large scale. He was extremely skilled with force lightning, able to channel it as a single potent blast or into devastating force storms, as well as any form in between that high and low. Darth Andriel was also known to produce black force lightning that had such high voltage it could fry whatever targets it hits. He once channeled his lightning through a battalion of men, fatally wounding all of them within just a few seconds. As for all abilities he is skilled in- Sith alchemy is one that he has more expertise in than most others who have ever studied the craft. He has practiced it all his life and is considered to be one of the best sith alchemists in the galaxy, only slightly off par with Brontes and about a stone's throw from being on par with Vyrassu and Tenebrae.