Master Oak

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Contents 1 Description: 2 Class/Skills/Attributes: 2.1 Equipment/Apparel: 3 Character: 3.1 Appearances in Fiction: 3.2 Personality: 3.3 Relationships: 3.4 Beliefs: 3.5 Goals and Ambitions: 3.6 Quotes/Mottos: 3.7 Theme(s): 4 History: 4.1 Back story: 4.2 Dramatis personæ: 4.3 Author's Notes:

Description:

Height: 5'll/Hair Color:Brown/Eye Color:Brown/

Class/Skills/Attributes:

A powerful Force user and proficient in using Ataru, although Cyrus is right handed he prefers to wield his lightsaber with both hands.

Equipment/Apparel:

Cyrus is most often seen wearing a dark brown Jedi cloak with intricate swirls stitched into the cuffs. Cyrus tends to forgo armor as it restricts his Ataru style of combat. 

Character:

Despite having a sharp demeanor, Cyrus Oak will not hesitate to help those in need.

Appearances in Fiction:

(work in progress)

Personality:

While he can lead Cyrus Oak prefers to merely observe and follow orders. Cyrus also shows great empathy towards the middle class and out right contempt towards the wealthy.Cyrus is willing to defend the Republic until his dying breath if need be to stop the tyranny of the Sith Empire.

Relationships:

Cyrus has a mother and father but is too ashamed to ever see them again after killing his older brother.

Beliefs:

Cyrus is a steadfast supporter of the Republic and democracy. "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Goals and Ambitions:

Cyrus has many ambitions, most important of all is to drive the Sith back into deep space.

Quotes/Mottos:

"If the force has a will, it is only in the sense that the sea has a will. To believe anything else is hopeless speculation."

"The drive to seek power at any cost, that is the dark side, that is what it means to be Sith."

Theme(s):

Love Theme from the Mass Effect Soundtrack

History:

Back story:

Cyrus Oak is a rather obscure Jedi Consular. Born on Mandalore, Cyrus was known as a mix blood in other words not of pure warrior descent. This caused him to be alienated from the rest of his people at an early age, even after being taken from Mandalore by the Jedi Order. Cyrus suffered immense home sickness as was common, but in time they faded into the back of his mind, his mother, father and older brother, all faded into obscurity.

As Cyrus was trained he showed a remarkable affinity with the Jedi Archives. It was not uncommon to find his nose buried in records during his spare time. As a result, Cyrus progressed faster intellectually than any of his fellow padawans. Not that Cyrus wasn’t skilled in combat, he was very skilled in Form 4 Ataru. Cyrus was also known to use Form 2, Makashi on occasion. While lightsaber combat was important to Cyrus, understanding of the Force and its uses consumed much of his interest.

At the age of fourteen Cyrus was taken under the tutelage of Jedi Master Arix Zorander. The Jedi Council had hoped the young padawan might curb Arix's harsh criticisms of the Republic and Jedi Council, they instead made sure it would be passed down onto Cyrus. Despite being discontent with the Jedi Council and Republic Arix was steadfast in its defense. After five years of hard training Cyrus was ready for the trials. The trial of courage however proved almost too much of a challenge for Cyrus.

The Jedi Council dispatched young Cyrus into the outer rim, to stop what was believed to be a Jedi killer. After a long search Cyrus found the suspect, a Mandalorian vibro blade master. Cyrus was forced to fight with everything he possessed, employing Ataru like never before. However Cyrus was not as physically conditioned as the Mandalorian, and he tired. Cyrus's lightsaber grew heavy, limbs folding under the powerful swings of his enemy’s vibro blades. In the end it was the rain that saved him, Cyrus desperately used the force to shape the falling drops into icy needles which killed the Mandalorian almost instantly. This strange use of the Force could not be replicated ever again in Cyrus's lifetime however. What had been a lost battle, became a victory.

Trudging through the wet mud of Dxun Cyrus fell to his knees alongside the Mandalorian, and removed the Jedi Killer's helmet. Cyrus jumped backwards with a scream of horror and shame as he looked upon his older brother, killed by his own hand. Cyrus buried him on Dxun, taking only his helmet and vibro blades as proof of his success. The Jedi Council saw this as a trial of the flesh, trial of courage and a trial of skill. That left only one trial, the trial of the spirit.

Notification of his prior successes of the previous three trials brought Cyrus no happiness, instead he remained withdrawn. Arix stayed at his side for many days trying to draw the cloak of despair from his padawan's shoulders but to no avail. Finally, against his better judgment, Arix led Cyrus into the deep swamps of the Dagobah system to face the final trial. Still healing from his wounds, both physical and emotional, Cyrus was sent to face the mirror unarmed.

Cyrus tripped and stumbled his way deep beneath the canopy of trees until he came to a stop, too tired and world weary to continue. Eyelids impossibly heavy, Cyrus closed his eyes and slipped into slumber. The dream descended quickly seizing Cyrus in a vice like grip, squeezing the air from his chest as he was forced to watch his future. The scenes were fleeting, images of himself fighting Sith, watching one of his Order being cremated while he sat alongside his fellow Jedi, a beautiful young woman kissing his cheek telling him not to worry, himself wounded and her nursing him affectionately, time passes and she is still by his side they are perhaps thirty, then he sees a cataclysm hindering on his choice. To attempt to save the one he loves, and fail, at the cost of thousands of innocents. Or leave her to die alone but saving many lives.

Cyrus tried to wrench free from the dream, but he was helpless. Cyrus watched with insurmountable pain as she dies at the hands of the Sith, her cries of pain tearing his heart. Mercifully the scene passed showing Cyrus decades older sitting on the Jedi Council, wrinkles scour his face extensively while his gaze holds fathomless sorrow. The ancient Cyrus seems to see through the dream to his younger self, saying in an old voice with an iron that bellied his age he whispered "No matter the pain, it is better to have loved than not at all...never forget that." Cyrus awoke from the dream with a start, cold sweat making his Jedi garb stick to him uncomfortably.

Shaking his head to dislodge the images still plaguing his mind, Cyrus climbed out of the deeps of Dagobah looking haunted. Seeing his padawan emerge from the swamp on the verge of collapse, Arix quickly went to his side and putting his arm around his waist helped him towards the transport shuttle. Upon his return to Coruscant Cyrus was knighted, with his first assignment being a stern order to rest and meditate. Because of the events prior, Cyrus looked much older than he really was giving him an air of authority that no one his age would otherwise have. Cyrus Oak is famous for his indomitable strength and courage, that he perhaps never would have attained were it not for the Jedi Council knowingly setting him against his older brother during the trial of courage three years prior. When Cyrus was told the truth of that engagement years later Cyrus was recorded to have actually thanked the Jedi Council. When TOR(MMO) begins, Cyrus is twenty six years old, or as he likes to say twenty six years young.

--Master Oak 15:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Dramatis personæ:

Jedi Master Arix Zorander and Tor Oak (Cyrus's older brother)

Author's Notes:

The top most image and the light saber schematic were both drawn by myself. The colored image of Oak lunging was drawn by JediBattleMaster of SWTOR.com, it was inked and colored by Virama of SWTOR.com.