<strong>Torven Kar</strong><br/>Player's name: Vandren<br/>Age: 52 (looks mid-30s)<br/>Race: Human, Deneban<br/>Gender: Male<br/>Alignment: Light side<br/>Status/Position in the temple: Jedi Knight / Guardian / Instructor<br/>Force Powers/ Skills:<br/>- Shii-Cho, Makashi, Shien/Djem-So, Niman (Adept in all)<br/>- Soresu, Jar’Kai (Master, Favours Jar’Kai)<br/>- Unarmed Combat (Master)<br/>- Melee Weapons (Adept)<br/>- Pilot (Learning)<br/>- Cook (Adept)<br/>- Battle Meditation (Master)<br/>- Burst of Speed (Master)<br/>- Energy Resistance (Adept)<br/>- Enhance Ability (Adept)<br/>- Force Sense (Adept)<br/>- Force Push/Pull, Saber Throw (Adept)<br/>- Telekinesis (Adept)<br/>- Battlemind (Learning)<br/>- Empathy (Learning)<br/>- Persuasion (Learning)<br/><br/>Description: Torven is the archetypal new Jedi.  He is about 5’11” with a wiry build full of long, slim muscles.  While he looks fairly young, his blue eyes hold a wealth of experience beyond his appearance.  Since joining the Jedi, Torven has grown out his hair so that it now hangs to his shoulders in a neat trimmed cut.  Usually he wears it in a short braid or ponytail.  He still remains clean shaven, however.  That part of his early life he hasn’t put behind him.  As a borderline traditionalist, Torven mixes current Jedi fashion, wearing a jumpsuit under his outer, brown, Jedi robe (he doesn’t wear the inner off-white one).  His belt always holds his twin blue lightsabers and he is said to have several other devices concealed in the folds of his outer robe, a holdover from his youth.<br/><br/>Background: Born on Deneba, Torven didn’t live there particularly long.  He was placed in indentured servitude at eight, in order for his impoverished family to eat.  The league that took his service contract happened to be a collection of gladiatorial promoters.  They put Torven to service almost immediately, learning various martial forms - armed and unarmed.  He proved to have an aptitude for this sort of learning and life.  His first professional bout came seven years later.  By eighteen, he’d won a particular reputation in the underground arena circuit.  And he’d made his temporary owners a considerable amount of money.  This situation was working out reasonably well until thirty-one years ago, when one of Torven’s bouts was witnessed by a Jedi Investigator.  The Jedi noticed that Torven was apparently Force Sensitive and already seemed to have knowledge of a few powers (burst of speed and a variant of Makashi that he’d developed with vibroswords).  Soon the Jedi sprung Torven from his servitude, which was up in a few months anyway.  He offered the young man skills, ability, and a life he’d only imagined as a very young child.  Not only that but he offered, eventually, a chance to teach his skills to others.  Torven worked with that master for a few years as a padawan until he was eventually raised to full Jedi status.  Because of his minor problems with controlling his emotions, Torven has yet to rise to master standing, nor is it likely that he ever will.  However, he is content.  Over the last two decades and more, he has studied with a holocron and helped to reconstruct several lightsaber styles that were believed to have been lost in the early days of the Empire.  Not only that, but he’s found that he enjoys teaching the more combative Jedi arts to apprentices.  One of his last missions led him to discovering and freeing the Twi’lek slavegirl who became his apprentice and eventual colleague at the Temple, Isulura.  The two have, since then, found that they have a strong bond.  While Torven has no skill in telepathy, he finds that he is able to contact her from time to time, usually only when one or the other is in great need.  And she seems to have an easier time contacting him with the power.<br/><br/>Personality: Torven is very driven and militant in his outlook.  He is a man of action, rather than one of introspection and debate.  This combination is the biggest reason he is not likely to advance to master rank.  It is also the reason he has mostly learned the more physical Force powers.  While he enjoyed the few years that he traveled around the Republic with his master, he has also enjoyed life at the Temple.  Still, he sometimes misses being sent out on missions with a clear objective in mind.  Since it has been several years since his last field assignment, Torven doubts that he’ll ever be sent out on another one unless a war breaks out.<br/><br/>Weaknesses:<br/>Militant - normally not a weakness, per se, but among the Jedi . . .<br/>Passions - sometimes lets his emotions get the best of him, though he’s managed to hide this from the other masters<br/><br/>Limits: Site Rules, Male-Male