Rorwoorr stands at almost two and a half metres tall, he has green eyes and has long hair of a light/dark brown. While Wookiees typically don't wear clothing, being out in society he has adapted to wearing clothing. He wears a variation of Jedi Temple armour that was designed specifically for his size and stature, since traditional armour wouldn't fit him.
Rorwoorr is calm and collected. Yes, he wasn't always this way, like most Wookiees as a young pup he struggled with his temper and controlling his inhabitations. His Master, an Ithorian named Ghlano, taught him how to be patient and how to restrain himself. That when his mind was calm and at peace, then he was one with the Force.
There is a joy to life underneath that all Wookiees share, a wonder in the living world and a connection to living things. Despite his species being long-lived he attempts to inject enough joy to live everyday as if its his last. To make his life, matter.
Born on Kashyyyk, when his force sensitivity was discovered at a very young age he was sent to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to learn the ways of the Force and to become a Jedi, as was the norm at the time.
Rorwoorrs life in the temple as a Youngling was nothing extraordinary, for the time that he lived. Long before the Clone Wars or Knightfall. A time of peace and prosperity throughout the Galaxy. He passed his initiate trials, and was chosen as the apprentice to an Ithorian Jedi Knight named Ghlano. Ghlano was predominately a traveling healer. As they roamed from one world to the next, Ghlano taught the young Wookiee patience and understanding. The young and impulsive Wookiee often sought to resolve issues at the end of a lightsaber where possible.
Ghlano taught him the diplomatic approach to resolving issues, though seeing the stigma and issues that the young Wookiee faced took the pup to Kashyyyk around his thirteenth birthday for his Test of Ascension. The Young Jedi was taken to the Shadow Lands, his master would keep the young Wookiees lightsaber.
He went to the Shadowlands with other pups of similar age, though through his own impatience and unwillingness to remain with those less
skilled than himself he became separated and lost. Over the course of the next month Ghlano remained outside the Shadowlands meditating waiting for his apprentice to resurface.
Rorwoorr learned a lesson in humility when a pup younger and smaller than himself found the young Jedi and helped lead him to a stream to get water. Proving that strength and wisdom came in various shapes and sizes.
He learned a lesson in courage when a predator attacked their makeshift camp, and he was the only one brave enough to stand up and defend the weakest among them as the faster of the pups fled.
He learned a lesson in compassion when he was wounded, and those who he had helped helped him in turn. Bandaging up his leg, and caring for him as best they could.
The Jedi that emerged, was not the same one who left. When he met again with his Master he asked for his lightsaber, and much to everyones surprise the young Wookiee took it and limped back into the Shadowlands. Some tried to stop him, however Ghlano shook his head and told them this was something he had to do. So the Ithorian returned to his meditation. Another week went by, as Rorwoorr gathered the materials he needed, scavenging scrap and gathering bark of the brylark tree he constructed an attachment for his lightsaber turning it into a pike to assist his walking.
When he re-emerged he told his master that he was ready to become his apprentice once more, and after some words of thanks the two left Kashyyyk with a stronger bond. The Young Jedi more sure on his position, and his role as a Jedi.
The two continued their travels for many years, dealing with various 'humanitarian' crises all over the Galaxy, from an outbreak of disease on Jakku to a ship crashing on Lothal. After facing a particularly vile Pirate Lord in the Vergasso Asteroid belt Ghlano felt it was time for his apprentice to leave his tutelage. They returned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, where Rorwoorr was brought before the Jedi Council, upon their agreement he was brought to the lower levels of the temple, and the trials began.
His trial of Skill he passed with ease, various training droids set up against him. Using all the elements around him at his disposal, and his knowledge of droids he dispatched them with precision and ease. Remembering to center himself and breathe afterward. With the council satisfied he was sent deeper. Here he relieved a moment from his past, his trial of Courage. He was once again a young Padawan facing down a Katarn. Unarmed, in the defence of others.
While he retained the same injury as he had gained that day, which still pained him to this day, he was victorious. His trial of courage was complete, as was his Trial of the Flesh.
When he rounded a corner, he found himself in a large dark room. In the center of which his master sat before him. Rorwoorr never had a chance to say anything before a dark fog came down. A blaster bolt came out of nowhere, it took him a second to bring his lightsaber up to block the incoming bolt. Then there was a second, and a third from different angles. Something moved in the shadow, he could see it. He sprung forward jabbing his saber into the fog, but before he could make contact with anything something tall, strong, and
heavy carreered into the side of him knocking the wind out. Rolling with the punch he groaned in frustration and pain. Standing up straight, there was a large figure before him.
It roared at him, and he realized that he was facing himself. The battle was vicious, ferocious, and wild. Rorwoorr could feel his primal nature trying to rise to the situation, he had never fought a foe with a similar power to himself. While he fought fair, his other self fought dirty. Targetting his poor leg, bit, clawed, and grabbed at him. The harder they fought, the more aggressive Rorwoorr became. The more powerful his foe appeared to become. In a moment of inspiration, he realized that in fighting as hard and aggressively as he was he was only becoming that which he was fighting.
Raising his lightsaber to block the incoming strike he disabled it instead and dropped the blade. His foe dissolved before him, and Ghlano appeared briefly for a second. His Aura was cheerful, before he disappeared again and Rorwoorr found himself surrounded by the Jedi Council. Having passed his Trial of Self and Insight he was now, a Jedi Knight.
Rorwoorrs first few years as a Jedi Knight were uneventful, with some humanitarian missions with his former master. Some issues with smugglers. His first Jedi Padawan was a Twi'lek called Gerark Bou. Gerark was an impulsive young Jedi, much like Rorwoorr had been back in his childhood. The two butted heads on a number of occasions, Rorwoorr had become laid back as he had become an adult. His people were long-lived. Every day was important, but rushing as he had learned only led to suffering.
As Gerark became older, and more skilled Rorwoorr took a leaf out of his Masters playbook. In order to learn his place as a Jedi, Gerark had to learn about his peoples place and their history. Much the same as how Rorwoorr was put through trials on Kashyyyk, Gerark was taken to Ryloth. In the forest, Rorwoorr meditated in a ruined temple while Gerark was sent into the forest to try and find his way. It was difficult, Rorwoorr had to admit. His job as Gerarks master was to train him and prepare him for his life as a Jedi, to protect him and keep him safe. Rorwoorr was going to have to learn to let him go, to trust in his Padawan, and to trust in his training.
Gerark returned, with a sense of self. A new outlook on his role in life, but before Rorwoorr could do anything two starfighters came careering down from the sky firing at the ground. Rorwoorr jumped into action, stretching out his hand. Communing with the trees, the canopy over their heads grew together and thicker preventing them from being seen. Clipping his lightsaber onto his back, the two of them ran away together to try and get back to the Jedi Shuttle. When they arrived at the shuttle, it was lifting into the air. The two of them attempted to stop the shuttle with the Force but failed, leaving them abandoned in the middle of the forest.
Rorwoorr was known for spending large periods of time away from the temple. So despite their delay in return, the Jedi Council wasn't going to send someone to get them for a long time. After a month of traversing through the forest, they finally started to approach civilization in the form a small town. This was when they were ambushed, by Zyggerian slavers. While their empire was smaller than it used to be, they had heard of the Wookiee Jedi meditating on Ryloth and felt it too great an opportunity to pass up. The battle was fierce, but with Gerark tired and fatigued he couldn't keep up.
Rorwoorr surrendered himself, to save his Padawan. Shipped offworld with a shock collar strapped around his neck. He never really knew where he was for the longest time, he was in some form of mining facility. At times, he tried to resist the training of his new 'owners', but whenever he did they took out their frustration on the other slaves. He became a prize for the slavers, their favorite toy. He was ostracised by the other slaves, who dared not to get close to him for fear of turning themselves into targets. It was here he began to feel the ebb and flow of the Force, and how it interacted with the weather and the natural world. While he never gave up hope of rescue, he had to be realistic. He started to create small winds inside the mine, nothing noticeable beyond a draft. Then he started to create pockets of condensation, or warm spots.
When the time was right, one night he focused on the collar around his neck and its inner workings. Filling it with water from the surrounding air, causes it to short-circuit and fall off. The tired guards in the middle of the night weren't prepared for the two-and-a-half-meter tall, Force-Weilding Wookiee to lead an uprising. The facility fell, and Rorwoorr returned to the Republic and to a Padawan who had since become a Jedi Knight.
It would be years until Rorwoorr would leave the temple again. While his body healed, beyond the old injury, it took his mind longer. Every good deed he performed, came the expectancy of pain or suffering. With the help of his master, Ghlano, Gerark his former apprentice and others within the order he eventually began to feel whole once more. Going out into the Galaxy once again as the Jedi that he had once been. There always remained something with him though, even to this day those who had known him before his ordeal say there is a slightly different air about him. A willingness to do things, no matter the cost. It's not so much about impulse, its about not causing delay.
Things were reasonably peaceful for a time, pangs started to echo throughout the galaxy preceding the Clone Wars. The Separatist movement gained traction, then just as Rorwoorr took on a new Padawan - a Zabrak named Ishtil, war erupted.
Rorwoorr did what he could during the Clone Wars, he tried to instill in Ishtil the same lessons that his master had once taught him, how the Force existed in every living being. How everyone in the Galaxy deserved to be treated with respect, to be treated fairly. Yet these lessons were often hard to teach during the height of war. Gerark had died very early on in the war, having recently taken on his own apprentice who was also killed. Rorwoorr carried the grief of their sacrifice with them in the knowledge that their sacrifice would not be in vain. Meanwhile Ishtil seemed to see a hopelessness too it, his views starting to lean to be more in line with the great Anakin Skywalker. That the Jedi in order to be victorious in this war, had to change.
Fearing what the war may have been doing to the young Jedi Rorwoorr had them reassigned to a medical frigate. A fact that later saved their lives during Knightfall. They both, like Jedi throughout the Galaxy, felt the pain and suffering. They lived through the chaos as GAR High Command tried to re-establish some semblance of what was before. When the call came to regroup on Mandalore they joined with the rest of the fleet, bringing what wounded they could. When plans were laid in motion for a counter attack, Rorwoorr refused and instead set a course for Coruscant with various relief efforts. Ishtil abandoned his master however, heeding the call of the new-found Emperor and the Jedi Ki-Ai Mundi. Rorwoorr tried to dissuade him, though he failed. Rorwoorr would spend the next
two years on Coruscant, helping all he could. Millions, if not Billions injured or killed in the wake of the devastating attack.
When it became apparent that there were local gangs hoarding medical supplies, Rorwoorr went on the offensive. Taking the fight to them. It was during one of these raids that he came across what would one day become his home, the
Lone Wolf. A small band of raiders had been using it as a mobile base to conduct raids throughout the lower city. The security forces didn't have the manpower to deal with even a ship of its pitiful size or its complement of repurposed Vulture Droids that clung to the hull. Many gave up without a fight, there still existed a fear of what the CIS had done here. Devastation like no-one had ever done to the galactic capital before. The battle was fierce, Rorwoorr fought with what little local forces he had gathered, mainly former clones or security forces. During the battle a starfighter crashed into a nearby building, when everyone was evacuated there remained a young blonde girl left all by herself.
When the dust settled, and the ship was Rorwoorrs he felt a level of responsibility for the child. No living family could be found, so with them all suspected dead he took her in and headed for Mandalore. He would work with the Council of Mercy for a period of time in their efforts to restore life for Mandalore, and once the girl who became known as Kaura Omi-Ren grew older and showed aptitude for the Force he offered her the choice to come with him, and be his apprentice.
For the first few years off her training they remained largely within Mandalorian Space aboard the
Lone Wolf only periodically leaving to head down to the surface of Mandalore or one of Mandalores other planets in order to offer some form of aid or another. As Kaura grew, as did her inquisitive nature. Rorwoorr raised her on tales of the Jedi Order off old, the one he had known ever so briefly before the lead up to The Clone Wars. As Kaura grew, so did her interest for learning. As did Rorwoorrs longing for the past.
He took her to Jedha, the shrine on Anoat, Vrogas Vas, Takodana and . He even took her to the ruins of Coruscant. This is where they learned of her unique ability of Psychometry. When they journeyed to her old home and she picked up an old item of clothing and a memory erupted in her mind casting her back to her childhood. Rorwoorr coached her through it as well as he could, though when pirates attacked shortly after Kaura still a novice unleashed an alarming attack upon them.
De-escalating Rorwoorr told her it was time for a test. At the Lothal Jedi temple.
What transpired within Rorwoorr does not know, and the few times Kaura told him he told her it is between her and the Force. He meditated outside the chamber, and after seven hours she re-emerged with a lightsaber crystal in hand. That is all he needed to know. She elected to construct a pike, much like her master before her. The two of them then spent the next, many years, traveling the Galaxy.
There was times where they pushed into territory they maybe shouldn't have, as they tracked down various lost Jedi Temples. Rorwoorr himself aimed specifically to try and find out what happened to many Jedi after the events of Knightfall. Some, it turned out, took to lives much like his own. Nomadic Jedi who wandered individual systems and planets in order to do what they could. Some had even settled down.
Others had been killed. Whether by Pirates, Brigands, CIS or any other possible party. Gathering what they could, finding any form of possession once held by the Jedi Rorwoorr and Kaura would return it to Mandalore so that anyone surviving the fallen Jedi could mourn their friend, pupil, or mentor.
In later years Kaura took a more pro-active role in their missions. Rorwoorr used what little input he had in order in order to get Kaura an X-Wing, when things started to get more complicated on their missions. Now, they return to Mandalore so that Kaura can visit the council as Rorwoorr believes she is ready to become a Knight
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