Name: Tabaet
Class: Jedi Consular (to become Shadow)
Reason for joining: I know Thyn’eah from a now defunct Imperial guild and he convinced me to check you out.
Time zone: GMT
Bio:
Tabaet and her twin sister Khelana were born with a powerful connection to the Force and were brought to the Jedi Temple on Tython at the age of five. Both sisters displayed remarkable proficiency with lightsabers, but Tabaet embraced the Jedi teachings in a way that Khelana could not accept.
As they progressed in their training, Tabaet surpassed her sister’s skill in swordplay, but Khelana developed a far greater sensitivity to the flow of the Force. Unable to recognize her gift for what it was, Khelana grew resentful of her sister’s prowess. Over the following years, she spent many hours training her lightsaber techniques, sometimes with one weapon, sometimes two, constantly striving to best Tabaet. But, as Khelana’s skills improved, so did Tabaet’s. Khelana grew irritated and eventually furious, focusing her rage and determination into her training.
Tabaet feared the path that her sister was taking, but Khelana drew strength from her anger and refused to accept the inner serenity that better suited a Jedi of her spiritual power. During one training session, Tabaet knocked Khelana’s left-hand saber from her grasp but, blinded by rage, Khelana instinctively bared the claws of her now free hand and lashed out at her sister’s face, leaving three long gashes on her cheek.
Eventually, when the sisters were fifteen, Khelana surrendered completely to her hatred of her sister and the Jedi Order in general, and killed another Padawan with barely a thought. Shocked by her sister’s lack of remorse as much as anything else, Tabaet turned her in to the Jedi Council, who ruled that Khelana was to be stripped of her connection to the Force and banished from the Order.
As Khelana was escorted to the shuttle that would return her to Cathar, she growled at Tabaet, blaming her for everything that had happened. The accusation stung Tabaet, partly because she could not understand how Khelana could have fallen so far, but also, more importantly, because she feared there was an element of truth behind her sister’s words…
