Kreia
Kreia is a female video game character who features in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
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Biography
Kreia was a female Force-sensitive human who was born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. At some point, she came to be inducted into the ranks of the Jedi Order where she rose to the position of Jedi Master. In that time, she served as a historian where she gathered Jedi relics and attempted to learn many ancient mysteries of the galaxy. For decades, Kreia trained many students, constantly challenging their minds with questions regarding the concept of power. Her fellow Jedi, who called her teachings 'Kreia's conundrums', viewed them as quaint, whilst Kreia's students were mystified. One of Kreia's Padawans was a highly gifted Jedi who eventually became known as Revan. However, her teachings were looked upon with concern by the Jedi Council. After Revan left Kreia's tutelage, he sought out other Jedi Masters to continue his education, apprenticing himself to Jedi Masters Zhar Lestin and Dorak.
In 3964 BBY, Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, a group of the Mandalorian warrior culture that originated on the Outer Rim world of Mandalore, attacked the Galactic Republic. As what became known as the Mandalorian Wars waged on, Revan, who by then had attained the position of Jedi Knight, came back to Kreia as he found the Jedi teachings lacking, and sought her guidance regarding the Jedi Council, which preached care and caution as it feared the true threat to the galaxy had not yet revealed itself, and its stance of inaction against the Mandalorians. Subsequent to this, Kreia's former student decided to openly defy the Council, leading other rogue Jedi, including Meetra Surik, to battle the invading Mandalorians.
Revan eventually took up the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, building a new Sith Empire of his own to counter the Jedi and the Republic. Kreia believed that Revan had never 'fallen' to the dark side, and that he had become the new Sith Lord—the face of the dark side as Darth Revan—and started the Jedi Civil War out of his own volition to prevent a greater evil; that as Revan was the 'heart of the Force', a greater cause had come that called for certain actions to be done.
As many of Kreia's students left the Jedi Order and joined the Mandalorian Wars, Kreia's teachings were believed to breed failures by the Jedi Council, including Jedi Master Atris. Because of her strong admiration for Surik and her adamant position in not entering the Mandalorian conflict, Atris felt personally betrayed by what she saw as the warring Jedi's rejection of her own beliefs. With the concomitance of discovering that all of Kreia's pupils either fell to the dark side of the Force or abandoned their Jedi training, Atris led the Council in denouncing Kreia and condemning her 'freethinking' teachings. By the Jedi Council's word, Kreia was exiled from the Jedi Order.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Upon falling to the Dark Side, the bitter Kreia came to take the name of Darth Traya.
She claimed that she used the Force the way one used a poison that in the hope of understanding it she could learn a way of killing it.
Ultimately, her experience in life led to her claiming that her loyalty was only to herself and the galaxy at large.
Despite her loathing of the Force's influence over sentients, she still used it; she explained it by comparing herself to one who would use poison. Just as such a person would strive to understand the lethality behind poison, so she strived to understand the particularities of the Force, thereby enabling her to destroy it; however, she admitted it was possible that that may have really been just an excuse for her having to come to depend on something she hated. Kreia envisioned a galaxy that would choose not to acquiesce to the will of the Force. She thought she could achieve this by showing how one could willingly abnegate the Force and eventually become stronger for it, and it was Meetra Surik who was a living testament to this. In her teachings with Surik, she emphasized how dependent the Jedi and Sith were on the Force, and how they had become flawed for it. By making Surik her protégé, she hoped her message would resonate with future Force-sensitives so they would choose to use the Force without relying on it. Ultimately, though, she dreamed of a galaxy lacking of the Force altogether, as it was her belief that the galaxy would be better off without it imposing its will
Powers and abilities
Kreia was born a powerful Force-sensitive that allowed her to manipulate the Force.
Her eyes came to be atrophied from lack of use in preference of viewing things through the Force as Kreia saw viewing by normal sight as a distraction.
She also knew breath control that made her immune to most gaseous poisons.
Using telekinesis, she was able to use her ability to aid her in lightsaber combat where she was able to wield at least three lightsabers at once. Each were held aloft by the Force and able to fight with a will of their own as per Kreia's command.
Kreia possessed the rare ability to perceive shatterpoints which she described as 'fractures'. In one instance, Kreia was also skilled at predicting the future and foresee distant events.
Notes
- Kreia was created by Chris Avellone where she was voiced by actor Sara Kestelman and featured in the setting of the Star Wars universe.
- The character was introduced in the Star Wars: Legends continuity that was formerly part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
In other media
Video games
- In Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Kreia appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords:
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