Sunday, July 1, 2012

A Menagerie of Followers

In his travels as both a rising Sith Lord and as head of the Dark Council, Xhulon gathered a wide variety of disciples. The first was Khem Val, a millennia old assassin bound in his servitude via a trial by combat.  The next to follow were the pirate Andronikus Revel, the wayward Padawan Ashara Zavros and the deadly Kaleesh warrior Xalek (zay-lek). While the others warned against personal attachment, Xhulon could not help but become attracted to Ashara throughout his travels. She was the first woman, not to mention a Togruta that called his scarred, crimson horned face, "beautiful". Her pure soul helped him find peace in the line between darkness and light and feel compassion in his heart after years of oppression and discrimination as a slave. In return, Xhulon trained her until her skill and power had increased ten thousandfold and eventually asked for her hand in marriage...