Kadroo Long-Lake
Kadroo Long-Lake
| {Age} |14
| {Species} |Ewok
| {Gender} |Male
| {Force Sensitive/Alignment} |No
| Role on Ship |Shaman
| {Appearance} |Standing at about a meter tall, Kadroo looks like most other Ewoks, which is to say he looks like a small teddy bear come to life. With a flat face sporting a dog like nose, and two large, curious brown eyes. His fur is a russet brown that covers most of his body, aside from the white fur of his face and ears, blackish brown colored skin of his hands and fingers. He can almost always be seen to wear his long black ewok hood and woven belt. Attached to his belt is his obsidian ritual axe, the ornate handle held loosely by a loop on the side of the woven clothing. Held tightly in his hands will always be his spear, prepared for combat with the sharp end or poking new things with the butt end of the weapon.
| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} |-Shaman Black Leather Hood: A black leather hood given to Kadroo signifying his status as a shaman apprentice. Until he gains his skull, he is not a “true” shaman.
-Shaman woven Black Leather cord belt: A leather cord belt with various pouches hanging off it with different herbs in them. A loop is on the right side of the belt for holding his ritual axe.
-Stone tipped wooden spear: A wooden spear crafted by the Long Lake tribe. This one is especially fitted to make spear fishing easy, with the tip made of a long thorn from a fallen tree. This thorn, despite being made of wood, is almost as hard as durasteel, and will not break easily, even when used against armor. Kadroo will almost always be seen holding this item.
-Obsidian Ritual Axe: An axe made of volcanic glass given to Kadroo as a ritual tool. It is carved with depictions of ewok shamans performing various rituals. It is kept on Kadroo by him slipping it into the loop on his leather cord belt.
| {Physical Abilities} |Natural Engineer!: Ewoks have a particular aptitude for designing simple traps that have been improved over their collective existence. On their homeworld they often take easily gained materials, such as fallen trees or vines to create things like large nets or logs that smash into the sides of creatures. Kadroo has knowledge of these things, as all Ewoks in a village are expected to be able to do their part.
Mini-Wookie!: Often described as a miniature wookie for their natural strength, a single Ewok is capable of overpowering a combat trained human. Kadroo is no different than the rest of his race, easily capable of such a feat.
| {Limitations} |Primitive Life Form: Despite the natural advantages provided to Kadroo, he is still a primitive life form. His race is still collectively stuck in the stone age. This means that while he knows ewokese, he knows no other languages, including the common tongue that most spacefarers know. Additionally, he has no knowledge of the workings of blasters, or how explosives work.
Superstitious: It is fair to say that the Ewoks of Endor are a fairly superstitious lot, their primitive technology and nature meaning that they often turn to the divine for answers. As a Shaman, Kadroo was responsible for communing with the spirits of his planet, and he believes that these spirit gods are the reason why he was whisked away into space. He will go out of his way to appease these spirits, and may easily mistake a common act or occurrence for the wrath or anger of his spirit gods.
Naturally Short: Ewoks, as a race, are small, hence the term “mini wookie”. Being about the size of a toddler, Kadroo is a bit short to reach many things. This is up to and including: Tall counter tops, certain light switches, high cabinets, and the tops of coat racks. It can be a bit of a hassle for Kadroo at times.
| {Personality} |A curious and seemingly content creature, with a childish demeanor, Kadroo holds an innate curiosity for everything he is surrounded with. He spends little time secluded, far more interested in experiencing any and all he can.
| {Place of Origin} |Kadroo originates from the forest moon of Endor. He grew up as a member of the Long Lake Tribe. As an adolescent, much like most of the Ewok children in their tribes, he was fawned over by the entire village. It was soon discovered that the sapling of his spirit tree (the tree planted at his birth) was in fact a dark ebony color, an auspicious sign to the ewoks that he was strongly connected to the spirits of their home. As a wokling, he was taught the various stories and mythos surrounding the forest and the Ewok way of life, and when he took especially keen interest in the stories of the gods, it was decided that he would mentor underneath the shaman of the village after he gained his hood during the Festival of the Hood, and became an adult. Two years later, Kadroo earned his hood, made of black leather to signify his transition to Shaman apprentice, and began his studies as a shaman.
| {Background} |Kadroo studied long and hard underneath the Shaman who was mentoring him, learning the various rituals and ways that the Shamans of Ewoks communed with the spirits. For a long time he learned the ways of the shamans. He distinguished himself during this time as a very adventurous young Ewok, constantly participating in the Tribal Games, and breaking his leg on two separate occasions while playing “Tree-jumping”. It was ten years after gaining his hood that at the feast after the Tribal Games Kadroo was allowed to lead the whole tribe in the “Dark Sacrifice”, a ritual involving the killing of a victim, and then the tossing of herbs onto a fire to introduce a hallucinogenic effect to those present, allowing them to supposedly commune with the spirits. They had caught several outsiders (the name they had for non-indigenous life forms on the planet). These ones were dressed uniformly in a striking white color of armor that they had never seen before, and the hunting party of the Long Lake village had easily overpowered the three life forms in a midnight raid. Tied up, the creatures were brought forward to the fire of the dark sacrifice. Kadroo was the one to draw the ritual axe across the throat of each of the strange outsiders they had found dressed in white armor, stripping the creatures of their helmets, proclaiming them sacred artifacts sent by the spirits. The visions that the tribe saw was especially vivid and lasted all night (possibly due to the fact that Kadroo added too many herbs to the fire) and the whole tribe considered it a sign that, although he had not completed his training, his power as a shaman was already great.
A year after the celebrations, just before the next yearly festival, he went with his shaman master Noot, on a thirty day journey to commune with the spirits of the forest in a way only shaman could. This journey included the smoking of plenty of the hallucinogenic herbs that were typically only used in the dark sacrifices, and Kadroo was filled with visions of the strange outsiders who had been sacrificed in the last ritual. Noot considered this a sign from the spirits that Kadroo was ready to take his shaman skull. When he returned, it was quickly announced to the whole village that Kadroo would soon become the new shaman of the village.
The final step was for Kadroo to take his own lonesome spirit journey over the course of thirty days to commune with the spirits. When he returned, he would be awarded with his own skull, prepared by the chief of the village, and Noot would step down as the shaman. Kadroo left with a pouch full of herbs, a pipe, his spear, and his ritual axe. He traveled for seven days before reaching the place that had been revealed to him by the visions. It was a small camp inhabited by the outsider who had been killed in the previous ritual, though these ones were not wearing any sort of uniform armor like the ones that had been caught at the lake. Those white armor wearing ones had been devils revealed to the village according to Noot, enemies of the great spirits that should be sacrificed. Noot had interpreted his visions of the outsiders though, these ones were physical manifestations of the tree spirits. The group of spirits immediately stirred upon sighting Kadroo walk out of the tree line surrounding the camp, and it seemed they did not understand ewokese, which Kadroo found odd, as they were supposed to be the spirits of the trees. The spirits surrounded and spoke animatedly to one another in some sort of godly tongue (what others would have identified as galactic basic) and the offering of his most valued possession, his shaman pipe, seemed to interest them greatly. They took it and examined the pipe, while Kadroo stood tall with pride. Of course they had recognized his great craftmanship, and were now discussing just how it was that they would return the gift, as was proper. Perhaps it would be great wisdom or long life that they bestowed upon Kadroo. The gifts of the spirits were always intangible, after all. Instead, he felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, and all went black.
When he awoke, it was within a cage made of a material that was both shiny and hard as rock. Clearly some sort of magic made by the spirits, perhaps a test of his shamanistic wisdom. His pipe was gone, however, his spear and axe was in the cage. A large device with several strange symbols on it was recognizable as the object of the puzzle, and Kadroo spent his time over the course of several days trying to decipher the puzzle that the spirits had left him. That day, when he slept, a small plate and cup made of the same hard, shiny stone appeared in his cell filled with food and water. Kadroo was amazed to find that this plate and cup, magical as they were, would replenish themselves every time he slept. Thus Kadroo stayed fed and watered throughout the trip that seemed to last for days at a time. Occasionally, the spirits would come to visit him, likely to check upon his progress with the puzzle, and as was polite Kadroo would always bow and listen to them speak, although he did not understand the godly tongue they used. As the days turned into weeks, Kadroo found himself still examining the puzzle, and everytime he slept, the hold of the ship seemed to fill with more and more exoctic looking creatures in cages, some looking plainly like animals. It was unfortunate, Kadroo though, that they would waste time on these other creatures. It was clear that they were too stupid to understand the puzzles presented to them on their cages, no better than the animals that his tribe would hunt near the Long Lake.
After two weeks spent in the cage, Kadroo awoke to find the cage transported out of the room that it was placed in, carried by two of the spirits. He was taken out of what he realized was a vessel of the spirits and taken below, placed upon a large platform that was apparently some sort of mooring for the vessel. Spirits were milling about all over the place, moving from vessel to vessel, unloading large hard stone cubes. The place they were in was strange and cold, but his fur protected him well enough from the bite of it. As was typical Kadroo set to work on the puzzle. This time however the Ewok was successful in the task given to him by the spirits. The door to the cage opened with a hiss, sliding to the side, and after gathering up his weapons, Kadroo set off. He wandered for about two days in the port, getting food from plates in places that were clearly left for him. After a while of exploring this port however, he decided to check out some of the wonderful vessels that the great spirits were clearly using. One strange looking ship in particular reminding Kadroo of a fish from the long lake his village got it’s name from. Through the use of an empty hard stone box, Kadroo managed to boost himself up to the door of the ship, and open it with a little difficulty. Ever curious, the ewok entered the vessel of the spirits.
