Arden Lyn

Arden Lyn began as a Follower of Palawa and a master of Teräs Käsi during the earliest centuries of the Jedi Order. After traveling to Ossus, she encountered Xendor, whose rejection of the Jedi hierarchy matched her own dissatisfaction with the Order’s increasingly rigid philosophy. She left Ossus with him, helped establish the Legions of Lettow, and became his right hand during the First Great Schism, eventually assuming command after the movement began to collapse under Jedi attacks.

Her war ended on Irkalla, where Jedi Grand Master Awdrysta Pina cornered her after the surviving Legions fled into unknown space. Disarmed during their duel, Lyn used a Kashi Mer talisman to channel her rage and grief strongly enough to shatter Pina’s weapon and drive its fragments into him. Pina answered with morichro, stopping her bodily functions and leaving her preserved in a Force trance for nearly twenty-five thousand years.

In 4 BBY, Imperial Inquisitors accidentally awakened her while investigating her tomb. Lyn nearly destroyed the group, but Grand Inquisitor Laddinare Torbin severed her right arm and delivered her to Palpatine, who replaced it with an ancient droid limb and persuaded her to become an Emperor’s Hand by promising to restore Xendor. After realizing the promise was false, she turned against the Emperor, trained followers of her own, and eventually joined Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin’s attempt to abduct Palpatine during his coup.

Appearance: Arden Lyn has warm tan skin and a tall, athletic, curvaceous build with broad shoulders, a defined waist, full breasts, rounded hips, muscular thighs, and long legs. Her eyes are golden amber beneath dark brows. Her hair is thick, dark brown, and swept back from her forehead in voluminous layered strands, with several sharply flared locks extending behind her head. A deep red scarf wraps closely around her neck. She wears a fitted dark red sleeveless bodice with a low angular neckline, structured vertical seams across the chest and abdomen, and olive-green side panels narrowing along the waist. A dark brown belt circles her hips with a rectangular metal buckle. Her trousers combine olive green and dark red in broad fitted sections, with the green covering most of the outer thighs and the red forming angular panels along the inner legs and hips.

Her right arm is entirely mechanical, beginning beneath a large rounded gunmetal shoulder plate and continuing through a segmented metallic upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand, and fingers. The prosthetic uses dark steel and muted bronze-gray plating with cylindrical joints, overlapping armor bands, articulated knuckles, and individually segmented digits. Her left arm remains uncovered from the shoulder to the hand. Heavy dark brown knee-high boots cover both lower legs, built from multiple horizontal reinforced bands with rounded knee guards, thick shafts, broad soles, and fitted ankle sections.

Personality: Arden is passionate, destructive, proud, and intensely driven by personal loyalty. Her devotion to Xendor survives for millennia and remains powerful enough for Palpatine to exploit immediately after her awakening, while betrayal hardens that devotion into hostility once she understands she has been manipulated. She prefers direct confrontation, studies an opponent for exploitable weaknesses, and treats martial superiority as something that must be proven physically rather than claimed through rank.

Xendor is the defining figure in her life, first as a fellow dissident and later as her lover and commander during the First Great Schism. Awdrysta Pina becomes her ancient Jedi nemesis, while Palpatine becomes both master and betrayer after using the promise of Xendor’s return to secure her service. Laddinare Torbin, Antinnis Tremayne, and Ameesa Darys are the Inquisitors responsible for her reawakening and capture, with Tremayne developing a lasting personal hatred after she maims him. Darth Vader exercises authority over her Imperial work, Demetrius Zaarin later becomes her ally against Palpatine, and Hoar, Thok, and 17786 become students she trains for her own purposes. After the Imperial coup period, Durrei becomes another lover and fellow dark-side adept.

Arden is a master of Teräs Käsi, combining its close-combat techniques with her use of the Force. She can employ Battlemind, Force valor, Force grip, Force push, Force healing, and powerful sonic shock waves, while her skill is sufficient to contend with multiple trained Force-users at once. Her knowledge of Palawan trance disciplines also contributed to her extraordinary survival in suspended animation.

The Kashi Mer talisman greatly amplifies her dark-side power by channeling intense emotion into destructive Force effects. She once used it to break a Jedi Master’s weapon apart at the molecular level and turn the fragments against him, while its proximity later helped restore her body after millennia of suspended existence.

Her severed right arm was replaced with an ancient Juggernaut war-droid prosthetic, giving her additional physical power and an integrated energy weapon capable of firing destructive bolts. Arden also possesses practical technical skill, including repairing equipment and disabling machinery, making her dangerous well beyond hand-to-hand combat alone.