I've had this son since 2013 and this is the first time I really sat down to make a proper reference sheet for him 💀 I'm also working on a tattoo breakdown but that'll come later and I'll just update this post when I get around to that.
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It's been a hot minute but I'm back to playing SWTOR??
Also after nearly 11 years of playing Yuned'rar (he was created sometime in July 2013) I finally gave him a few in-game changes:
Changed him to BT2 from BT1 because he's uhhhh supposed to be tall lmao!!
Gave him the Talon-esque tattoos because those closer--at least visually and thematically--to the tattoos that I draw for him
Gave him a NEW MAIN OUTFIT because he's been wearing the same thing as his default thing since Shadow of Revan 💀💀💀 (he's not loosing that look, it's just not his main one now)
Changed him to a gods-damned DPS because he's been suffering this entire decade as a TANK for some unknown reason???????
Anyway!! This is how he looked just before the updates (not the best screenshot because I don't tag things well and I refuse to dig that far back into my blog at this point)
Nothing's changing with his artwork, but I will probably try to make a damn reference for him soon
This is a rewrite of Yuned’rar’s history leading up to modern-day in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Characters that belong to friends are noted in the footnotes when said characters come up; if no note is written, then the characters belong to me.
Childhood
Ryloth
Yuned’rar — who was born Yuned’racor — was the youngest of four children. His parents were Jela’ven, a former Jedi, and Poy’racor, the daughter of a governor. He has two older brothers, Chee’racor and Inun’racor (1), and an older sister, Aola’racor (2). The family lived fairly comfortably on Ryloth given Poy’racor’s family’s status.
Everything changed one day when a Sith and Imperial officers scouted their neighbourhood for Force-sensitive children. Upon discovering their family, and attempting negotiations to take their daughter away for training, the somewhat routine mission turned south rather quickly. A fight broke out and ended in the loss of both parents. Aola’racor was captured by the Sith while the other children managed to escape briefly.
In the ruckus, Inun’racor and Yuned’rar were separated from their older brother and picked up by Chakt’alar, a Twi’lek slave-trader. The brothers were sold to different owners with Inun’racor eventually ending up on Dantooine and Yuned’rar on Tatooine.
Tatooine — Part I
Chakt’alar ended up selling, or lending, little Yuned’rar — who at this time was just going by the name Yuned — to Bentar La’aso, a Bothan droid repairman in the trading town of Mos Emos on Tatooine. Yuned’rar actually had a fairly normal childhood under Bentar’s care and guidance. He learned how to repair and build droids, and even made friends with a small pack of Rattataki younglings.
Adolescence
Tatooine — Part II
That is, of course, when the slave-trader wasn’t coming by to pluck the boy off the planet for his own personal gains. Eventually, Chakt’alar resold Yuned’rar to his Hutt boss, placing him with a job in his pleasure palace. In his teens, Yuned’rar was pressured to become a performer.
Yuned’rar increasingly caused problems for the staff and clients with his outbursts and generally bad behaviour. The Hutt, now tired of Chakt’alar’s antics and the feral Twi’lek he brought in, arranged to sell the teen to some Imperial officers who frequented his establishment.
Korriban
The Imperial officer gladly took the Twi’lek off the Hutt’s hands and brought him, along with a handful of other slaves, to Korriban to join the archaeological dig sites around the Sith Academy. It wasn’t long before the continued abuse made Yuned’rar lash out at his new keepers, though this time was markedly different. He shot a bolt of lightning at the officers — not enough to properly injure them, but more than enough to grab their attention.
Yuned’rar was taken out of the dig sites and evaluated by Sith instructors, after which he was given a simple Initiate’s uniform, a bed in a dormitory room, and a training sabre. His lessons started immediately.
Unlike on Tatooine, Yuned’rar had a very hard time making friends or allies at the academy, likely a combination his status as a former slave and an alien, as well as his poor handle of Galactic Basic, having spoken mostly Huttese all his life.
There was however one Initiate who did take kindly to him and, after a time, became the family he sorely needed: a young Rutian Twi’lek named Shiri’rar. She was a couple of years older than Yuned’rar and protected him much like a big sister would. Shiri’rar helped Yuned’rar learn Basic, and they often sparred and studied together. So close was their bond that she began calling him Yuned’rar, which he enjoyed and adopted the name.
The pair would, however, be separated after they completed their trials with Shiri’rar returning home to Kaas City to continue her training with her father, and Yuned’rar being rather quickly chosen as an apprentice by Lord Minq, who was a middle-aged Mirialan.
Dromund Kaas — Part I
The Master
Lord Minq’s headquarters were housed in the jungles of Dromund Kaas outside of the city where she could remain fairly unbothered by other Sith and their shenanigans. Her own greed-filled and paranoid shenanigans were much more important and Yuned’rar, a rather vicious apprentice, was to be moulded as her weapon of choice.
While it’s likely that she could have taken the time to train her apprentice to obey her, Lord Minq proved to be too impatient to temper the Twi’lek and turned to Sith rituals instead. She spent a week working Yuned’rar over with a curse to break his mind and force him to bend to her. Unbeknownst to her, the ritual she was using was missing a key tablet, so while the curse technically worked, it was meant to lessen and wear off within a few days — it did not. It became stuck in a loop, bombarding Yuned’rar with nightmarish visions and whispers.
Lord Minq didn’t seem to mind that her apprentice was being tormented and decided to mark his official apprenticeship with traditional Sith tattoos. Once again, Yuned’rar had no say in it and was forced to submit. He was then sent on a series of missions to retrieve artefacts for his Master and to, on occasion, kill whoever owned what she deemed to be her possessions.
It was not Yuned’rar plan to kill his Master, but that is what ended up happening. She ventured out with him on a mission to an old ruin, where she wanted to steal relics and see the site herself. On this mission, Lord Minq pushed Yuned’rar a little too far and, whether it was his explosive power alone or a combination of that and the raging Kaas storm, his Master perished after being crushed by the collapsing ruins.
Yuned’rar abandoned her body in the jungles, returned to her headquarters to gather his few belongings, and fled to the city to find Shiri’rar.
The Family -- Part I
Shiri’rar’s family — well, her father Gidela’rar at least — welcomed Yuned’rar with open arms and set up a room for him in their home. Her mother, Kriy’rar, was distant and off having an affair with the Sith Alchemist, and known basement creeper, Kosha’ayele (3). She mysteriously vanished after a few months.
Gidela’rar took Yuned’rar under his wing as an unofficial apprentice to help him with his combat training and, especially, controlling the Force as his internal anger and turmoil made him rather volatile. The training and better overall environment did help and Yuned’rar grew into a pretty confident young Sith with a budding interest in archaeology and art.
Adult
Dromund Kaas — Part II
With Yuned’rar’s master gone and his training furthered by Gidela’rar, he was eventually promoted to Sith Lord and took on the name Lord Araneolus, which he continues to use in official Imperial business.
At some point, Yuned’rar was also finally able to rid himself of the botched ritual curse that his incompetent Master had placed on him. Darth Bi’ev (4), an old eccentric Sith, offered his aid, likely more so for his own interest, but either way, the Twi’lek was grateful.
The Lovers
As a young, still troubled adult, Yuned’rar met a surprisingly friendly Rattataki Sith Diplomat by the name of Yxaxajj (5). They complimented each other on their tattoos and Yuned’rar managed to open up surprisingly easily. He was still rather uncomfortable with strangers but Yxaxajj respected his space. Soon after he gifted Yuned’rar a gonk droid that he had fixed up.
Their friendship slowly grew into romance, which honestly caught Yuned’rar off guard when he realised his own feelings. They married a year or so later. They had a semi-open relationship and Yxaxajj’s friend Rasejj (6), a Mandalorian Rattataki, was often invited.
The Family -- Part II
Having not known his birth family or his background at all, Yuned’rar set out to see if he could find any information at all. It took some time but he managed to find old records on possible leads. This lead him to discover his older sister, who was now known as Lord La Vao. She was cunning and mainly interested in seeking and amassing power. Yuned’rar dropped that connection as soon as he figured that out.
Before that, however, he did get some information on their family. He travelled to Ryloth for the first time since being taken from his homeworld, found his childhood home, his parents’ graves, and eventually his eldest brother, Chee’racor, who had decided for his own safety not to pursue training in the Force and was instead an actor in the local theatre.
After learning of their Jedi connections via their late father, Yuned’rar felt out through the Force and managed, just barely, to reach out to his other brother, who was a Jedi going under the name Zelada’afa. They secretly met on Nar Shaddaa, and continue to meet, catch up, and discuss various Jedi and Sith teachings.
Tatooine — Part III
We’re now caught up to modern-day! Yuned’rar and his partners — with Rasejj now officially married to him and Yxaxajj as well — now mainly live on Tatooine a couple of hours away from his childhood town of Mos Emos. They found an abandoned property and renovated it, turning it into a small trading post and stopover for travellers with a handful of guest rooms available and a small cantina.
Yuned’rar is still a Sith Lord on the records but ideologically he considers himself a neutral Force-user, studying both Jedi and Sith artefacts and relics in private. He works at the Mos Emos Culture and History museum as an historical linguist and often accompanies teams to dig sites as both an archaeologist and guard. He continues to make irregular visits back to Dromund Kaas to keep appearances.
The trio has a growing menagerie of pets, mainly native Tatooine species, like their two rancors, and now, baby rancors. Yuned’rar has a beloved cat named L’oyan, and he also keeps at least a half-dozen exotic spiders.
Sometime recently he also, somewhat informally, took an Apprentice on, a former Zabrak slave that his partners had rescued from the harsh Tatooine desert while they were out. Though Yuned’rar did start his initial training in the Force and helped him learn meditation, Zavejj — who had adopted a name similar to his rescuers out of respect — yearned to go to Korriban and learn the ways of the Sith.
1. He goes by Zelada’afa nowadays.
2. She was renamed Onila’vao by the Sith and refers to herself as Lord La Vao.
3. His Master had died two decades ago and he’s just been…..pretending that he’s alive. He finally came out with the fact, however, and promoted himself all in one stride in a surprisingly sneaky, but unsurprisingly slimy, manoeuvre. He now goes by Darth Velenis.
4. Belongs to @calleo .
5. Also belongs to @calleo .
6. Belongs to @rashkah .
7. Belongs to his player.
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I haven't been drawing too much but I'm starting to get back into it outside of work. Here are some things!
A first sketch of my green drake. Still not 100% on how I want them to look but that's a start.
Kwiata! She's a sweet demmer innkeeper in the village of Usirvândel.
One day I'll be happy with Enna's look. I hunted around a little bit for some references for aesthetics and vibes.
Some more doodles to figure out demmer. I'm going to go back to the more rodenty guinea pig nose because the humanoid one is......maybe a little uncanny. Also it makes them slide too much into a regular dwarf look and I don't want that.
