<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/07/Alien_snp_Trandoshan.jpg)</div><strong>Trask</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AAxDZ17ZWWQ_NgjCp2JwkLwJ5WnTuft6_MXhF_VQFBE/edit?usp=sharing) (Work in Progress)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Nal'ra Kezzek Thog</div><div class="spoiler_body">   Nal'ra Kezzek Thog--The (Hunting) Lodge of the Ultimate Talon--began as a loose alliance of Trandoshan hunter-warriors who sought to maximize their standing with the Scorekeeper by hunting the most dangerous prey in the galaxy--the Jedi themselves--and destroying them in hand to hand combat.<br/><br/>   Over several centuries they formalized their fighting styles and traditions into an extremely lethal combination of martial arts.  They taught rifles, bows, and melee weapons, but put their strongest emphasis on unarmed combat.  <br/><br/>   In the 5th century BBY, a powerful huntsman named Thalog—after the destruction of his uncle's slaver consortium—declared Jedi Knight (and later master) Lida Kree—a many greats aunt of Seska Kree—to be his prey.  They fought six times.  Each battle was more epic.  Each time, Lida was ultimately victorious.  <br/><br/>   Each time, Lida spared Thalog.  <br/><br/>   Though he was outraged at how Lida's defeats were destroying his standing with the Scorekeeper, Thalog increasingly found that his pursuit of Lida somehow completed him.  Thoughts of the togruta girl's silky skin, petite body, and lithe grace haunted his dreams with xenophliac lust.  <br/><br/>   In their seventh battle—a running pursuit through a great city into a wildlife preserve that lasted over five hours—Thalog was finally victorious.  Then, rather than deliver the killing blow, Thalog lifted the defeated jedi into a passionate embrace, nibbling possessively on her throat, ravishing her body 'til they both found themselves screaming in satisfaction more times than they could count.  <br/><br/>   Both were extremely confused by the passion they shared, but neither could deny it.  Lida permitted Thalog to collar her so as to explore this strange alchemy of love, this strange passion that somehow was transmuting violence into compassion.  <br/><br/>   Over the coming years, Lida reshaped first Thalog, and then Kezzek Thog.  Growing together, Thalog turned his wrath against Lida's enemies—those fallen beyond redemption to the Dark Side of the Force.  But they also introduced—at least to Kezzek Thog's teachings—that a hunt did not need to end in death to be successful.  Indeed, the Scorekeeper might—in specific situations—actually find greater honor in the challenge of bringing an enemy back alive.  <br/><br/>   At first, those who spread these teachings were considered somewhat deviant, but in the centuries after Thalog's death and Lida's return to the Jedi, they merged a bit roughly with the tradition of the Hunt for Slaves, and seamlessly with the growing ways of the Bounty Hunter.  <br/><br/>   Though the Jedi Council were hesitant to work with such people, Kezzek Thog huntsman on more than one occasion in the coming centuries would find mutual cause with the Jedi, and it was only after the apparent utter defeat of the Sith that they fell fully out of favor and began to regularly hunt Jedi once more.  <br/><br/>   Trask's most esteemed mentor in the Lodge, Brogh, could boast of personally slaying two jedi in the service of the Separatist Movement, who believed that the Senate had become a pawn to the Sith.  <br/></div></div>