Sivter

Description

 * "Every light makes a shadow."
 * — Sivter.

Sivter is an extremely dangerous Master of the Dark Side of the Force. He seeks to plunge the galaxy into chaos and then rebuild it according to his own twisted design. He won't hesitate to do whatever is necessary to achieve his goal.

Highly intelligent and naturally cautious, Sivter won't reveal himself or attack unless he feels he can win. He also is not adverse to fleeing if the situation goes badly for him. This has made him a very perilous and vexing foe to the few that have survived his attacks.

Sivter has secretly formed the Cult of Shadow on the planet Arcanix to help him with his plans.

Appearance
Sivter always wears a hooded cloak that is colored a light-absorbing black. Usually the only feature that people can distinguish about him is his glowing red eyes. Otherwise, he appears as all Defel do - that of a living shadow. Coming from the high gravity world of Af’El, he is naturally muscular. If one could see him in his normal state (i.e. under ultraviolet light), he would appear vaguely lupine.

Sivter doesn't need to wear the special goggles that most Defel do, having long since overcome that handicap through various means.

Force Powers
Sivter has become well-versed in many of the basic and advanced techniques that are common to Jedi, and Darksiders in particular. However, he chooses to focus mainly on aspects of stealth or mind control, relying on combat only as a last resort.

This makes him no less dangerous in a fight though. Sivter is always working on creating new techniques to defeat his enemies. Below are many of Sivter's more unique powers and commonly used powers.

Pain Spike
A massive bolt of pain is suddenly felt in a subject’s brain. This can be debilitating considering who it is used on. People without any mental defenses can be knocked unconscious by the sheer blinding pain they feel. The more protected someone’s mind is, the less effective the pain spike is, but it still can be used as a probing attack or as a distraction while Sivter attempts other, more subtle, mental trickery.

Force Stealth
An ability that Sivter has mastered and uses all of the time. He is able to shield himself from detection through the Force. There are different levels to the stealth depending on how hard he concentrates on remaining hidden. The level he normally keeps it at is sufficient to be undetectable by most Jedi. The most sensitive of Jedi can still faintly detect him at this level and if he wants to remain completely hidden, he has to focus more.

Mind Twist
Another technique that Sivter uses quite frequently to acquire what he desires. The mind twist is generally a series of deeply implanted mental commands telling the subject to do any number of things and making them unable to resist Sivter’s will. The stronger the subject’s willpower, the less effective the mind twist.

Temporary Invisibility
Sivter, as a Defel, is always concerned with stealth. He has mastered his use in the Force in this aspect to such a degree that he can literally vanish from sight. It takes an inordinate amount of power for him to accomplish this, and requires him to appropriately focus before he can even attempt it. This ability is also used mainly for escapes.

Spirit Absorption
A variation of a technique he learned from absorbing the thoughts and powers of an ancient Sith Lord known as Dragon Masque. Sivter was able to discover a way to use this technique to absorb Force spirits and acquire their power and knowledge. Once a spirit is absorbed, Sivter has to successfully fight the will of the spirit before he can use that power and knowledge. If the spirit should win, they would gain control of Sivter’s body. This foreign power that Sivter has absorbed can be exorcised from him if there is a Forcer user who has sufficient power and knowledge to accomplish the task - usually the exorcising is an ability that only Light Side Jedi can employ.

The whole absorption technique is based upon the principle that once Force spirits are without their bodies, they have become one with the Force and thus have no worldly anchor to keep them from being absorbed.

Confined Dark Force Storm
One of Sivter’s most physically devastating techniques and one he has only learned fairly recently. A large, stormy half sphere of darkness will encompass Sivter and anyone unfortunate to be caught in the radius. The inside of the half sphere is almost pitch black and it is supercharged so the Sivter can direct lightning from anywhere in the sphere. It also has the effect of dampening a Jedi’s ability to call on the Light Side of the Force.

The storm is not as large or as destructive as the Force Storms of Palpatine, but Sivter does have greater control over it. The confined storm will dissipate if Sivter does happen to lose control of it, instead of continuing to rage like normal Force Storms.

Darkness
With the understanding that darkness is the absence of light, but light isn't the absence of darkness, Sivter has found a way to create areas of darkness in even the most well-lit areas. The brighter the light, the harder it is for Sivter to create or maintain his artifcial darkness.

History
Sivter knew he was destined for great things early on. Fate had gifted him with a perfect memory, and even more telling, the ability to feel the Force. Force-sensitivity is a statistically rare gift for Defel, and when Sivter learned he had that power, his desire rose to learn as much about the Force as he could. However, with no master around to teach him, Sivter resorted to other methods.

Always a very dedicated individual, Sivter started information raids, using his natural Defel abilities to acquire whatever he could get his hands on. He became a galactic traveler early on, sneaking aboard passenger ships to travel to different worlds in search of new information. By necessity, Sivter’s interests also diverged off into slicing, and, as he learned more about the Sith and their alchemical experiments, Sivter began to explore the world of genetics.

Through sheer dedication and willpower, as well as a lot of trial and error, Sivter was able to teach himself how to wield the Force from careful study and interpretation of the information he gathered. Once he knew the basics, Sivter focused almost exclusively on stealth and mental abilities, forsaking all but the most rudimentary lightsaber training.

He continued to raid and practice for a number of years before he declared himself a Dark Jedi. During his raids, Sivter learned of an ancient Sith planet known as Chisas. It was rumored that on Chisas the ancient Sith had learned how to create droids that could use the Force, but were defeated before the droids could ever enter battle. One of Sivter’s first major goals was to find Chisas and use the droids to take control of the galaxy.

For a long time, Sivter was able to escape from the galaxy’s notice as he searched for Chisas. However, that ended one day when Sivter reached the planet Juoi. A Jedi by the name of Tulsar Leidias managed to thwart Sivter’s attempts to gather information from Juoi time and time again. Sivter appeared to finally give up and leave, but cruel soul that he is, Sivter was only hiding and waiting for his chance to strike. When he did strike, it was at Tulsar’s family. Tulsar and his daughter, Kalja, were out of town at the time, but Tulsar’s wife and son were not as lucky.

From that point on, Tulsar’s single goal in life was to hunt down Sivter and bring him to justice. He left Juoi with Kalja and a Marauder Corvette filled with Juoi’s best and set about a lifelong task of tracking down Sivter. Over the course of years, Tulsar and company had numerous run-ins with Sivter, but the Defel proved to be too slippery to capture and was usually one step ahead of them.

The major turning point in Sivter’s rise to power was when he ran into an ancient Sith Master, known as Dragon Masque, as well as his cult. By this time, Sivter was very close to acquiring the information he needed to find Chisas. Masque and his cult were after an ancient Jedi vault that had a good possibility of holding the location to Chisas. Despite his desire to work alone, Sivter decided to join the cult to accelerate his acquisition of the knowledge. While in the cult, Sivter was able to fill in the gaps that his self-training in the Force had left.

After a series of encounters with Tulsar and his new allies (Devon Vos and his family/friends), Sivter managed to prove himself and rise quickly to become Masque’s right-hand man. Masque, knowing his end was near, and seeing the potential in Sivter, bestowed Sivter with all of his power and knowledge and passed away. Infused with this new power, Sivter stepped up his plans to find the Jedi vault, and used the Jedi to locate it for him.

Even though the Jedi managed to catch on and drive Sivter away by setting the vault’s self-destruct, it was not before Sivter found the information he was looking for. The Jedi followed Sivter to Chisas in a desperate attempt to keep Sivter from producing his new army. The Jedi fought valiantly against Sivter, but his power was too great and one by one they fell. Finally it was Tulsar’s daughter, Kalja, who managed to exorcise Masque’s power from the Defel and severely weaken him from the withdrawal. Sivter managed to escape, destroying the factories on Chisas as he did so.

Sivter went into hiding and deep meditation, discovering a planet that suited him by searching through his archives. While the planet had no real name, Sivter dubbed it Arcanix. Using a combination of his mental trickery as well as the credits and resources he still had access to from his time with Masque’s cult, Sivter had a shady contractor set up facilities for him on the planet so he could continue his research and plans. He declared himself a Master of the Force, but declined to take the title of Sith Lord that had been Masque’s. He was now a hybrid of Dark Jedi techniques and Sith magics, unable to fit into either religion, and in his eyes, greater than both of them.

With Sivter having disappeared, Masque’s dark side cult fell apart as power struggles ripped it to pieces. Sivter for his part, paid little attention to the fate of the cult as he used Masque’s knowledge to increase his own understanding and power in the Force. He soon set out to gather specimens for his experiments in genetic manipulation and Sith alchemy. He quietly began capturing sentient and insentient beings alike, looking for species who had natural abilities that intrigued him. He had a new dream now that Chisas had been taken from him, that of developing a new race of superior beings to rule the galaxy.

In the meantime, Kalja had left Tulsar’s determined hunt to help teach at Devon’s Jedi Praxeum before eventually being elected into the newly formed Jedi Council, and then again onto a seat on the New Republic High Council. Tulsar returned to Juoi and began to teach two new students the ways of the Force.

Seeing an opportunity to get his revenge, Sivter also returned to Juoi, but not before discovering the tomb of a lesser Sith Lord, named Sorij Xor, to try out the spirit absorption technique he had devised. The technique worked and Sivter confronted Tulsar and his students in an attempt to destroy Tulsar, convert his students, and then set about destroying Juoi. He very nearly succeeded, but thanks to Tulsar’s training, and knowledge of Sivter, a group of aliens known as Sages were able to exorcise Xor’s power from Sivter, as Kalja had done back on Chisas. Again weakened by the severe withdrawal, Sivter retreated once more.

He has returned to Arcanix to further study and increase his mastery of the Force. He remains ardent in his thinking that he can be beat, but never defeated. Sivter is never idle and is always up to something, whether it’s growing in power through the Force, expanding his knowledge through research and raids, or coming up with new schemes. Recently he has begun contacting the surviving Dark Side cultists from his time with Masque, in anticipation of forming his own cult. Sivter sees the destruction of Korriban as an enormous Dark Side reservoir that is suddenly without defenses and full of potential.

It is a potential he plans to exploit…

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