Oh dear, I have so many OCs... brace for tl;dr.
TharlennisMy Morrowind character, with whom I've played through the game at least twice, since new mods I want to play keep coming out. Since she's the first one I ever completed the Main Quest on, I think of her as my 'Nerevarine' character, so a bit of her past/concept is dictated by the game, not me. These aspects of her are highlighted in
brown. Also, her companion mentioned a couple paragraphs in is a mod, and not my creation by any means.
As far as Tharlennis knows, she was born in Cheydinhal, Cyrodiil - her earliest memories are of stealing food to survive, helped along by a Dunmer boy named Rahnas she'll always think of as a surrogate brother. Once old enough to understand it, she started learning magic and alchemy from books stolen out of the Mages' Guildhall, which eventually led to her arrest.
After being imprisoned much longer than she should have, she was shipped off to Morrowind without properly being told why until after she arrived: she was to be a spy. As a cover identity, she started taking odd jobs for one of the local Great Houses (Telvanni), who also assigned her to spy - on the Mages' Guild.
Along the way, she met a native Ashlander named Julan Kaushibael, with his own personal quest that coincidentally mirrored hers - in fact he mistakenly believed he was the reincarnated legendary hero Indoril Nerevar, while in fact
Tharlennis was. Naturally, there were some screaming arguments when this discovered, as well as when he found Tharlennis was working as an Imperial spy, but they managed to stay friends - and eventually the loneliness of what they were in together brought them to be more intimate than that. Cue the love triangle with Tharlennis's patron in House Telvanni, Master Aryon, more screaming arguments, Julan temporarily leaving, and Tharlennis feeling exceptionally foolish about the whole thing, since she saw Julan as a friend-with-benefits while Julan genuinely loved her. However, she and Julan eventually buried the hatchet and went back to their joint Epic Quest, and after a while Tharlennis legitimately fell in love with him... I'm still not sure how I'm going to resolve this.
Anyway, she's the Nerevarine, she's a collector of artifacts, she's a Telvanni noble (eventually), and she's secretly working to abolish slavery. The last bit is interesting: almost any Telvanni with the money for it has at least one slave, with their belief that if they can hold onto it/him, it's rightfully theirs. Tharlennis shares this belief, but only applied to inanimate objects. She, like other Telvanni, places great value in personal freedom, only in her, the freedom to own and control another sentient being is overridden by the freedom of others to do whatever the hell they want, as long as it's not detrimental to *me*. In other Telvanni, the priorities are reversed. Other Telvanni also don't know who it is that's been sneaking in and freeing their slaves, since Tharlennis letting it be publicly known that she is an abolitionist would be political suicide.
Maraz Vax, Sorani Tillin, and Loctho PeyloStar Wars fanfic characters, set several years after Knights of the Old Republic II, but not too many years. Sorani is the hero, Loctho is the comic relief, and Maraz is antagonistic but not actually The Villain until the very end.
Sorani's an expelled Padawan deemed unfit for service until she straightens herself out: her master had mysteriously vanished, and no other Jedi would take her, deeming her too restless, stubborn, and impatient. She took it in stride, built herself a new pair of lightsabers after turning her old ones in to the Council, and moved in with Loctho, who ran a small business repairing things for people while fighting an undeserved reputation for unreliability due to her repairs often being incomprehensible to anyone but her. Both of them took jobs on an independent courier ship (Sorani security, Loctho mechanic), and on Nar Shaddaa, Sorani re-met Maraz, whom she hadn't seen in perhaps a decade... and who was most certainly not the determined beacon of light she remembered him as.
Maraz had indeed once been a very promising young Jedi, but shortly after he was Knighted he got hit with a massive Disturbance In The Force. He arrived at its source just in time to see his home planet in flames at the hands of a Sith, whom he would not have been able to defeat even had he not been blinded by rage and despair. He was floored in a single blow, and at that point could not help but give up - on everything. He laughed in a fit of hysteria which saved his life: rather than simply kill him, Darth Fernus took him as a servant, and spent the next few years demeaning him and working him to exhaustion, further cementing Maraz as Irrevocably Darksided. Maraz got sick of this maltreatment and attempted to murder Fernus - and as far as he knew, he succeeded. As this was before the Rule of Two, he then enrolled in a Sith academy to train as an assassin. This lasted long enough for him to become an instructor favorite and garner the jealousy and hatred of a female fellow student, who slept with him and used this fact to run him out of the Academy in disgrace - thus, an irrational hatred of all Sith, ever, and desire to murder each and every one of them brutally, particularly the girl who cost him the title of Darth Cubus. He became little more than a wild beast, and truly despicable.
Sorani mistook his personal hatred of Sith to be a vestige of the desire to do good, and set about bringing him back to who she once admired, working with him through concepts of forgiveness (even after the attempted rape of Loctho), kindness (which he was incapable of understanding), and a firm but fair hand (whose leniency he exploited). She utterly failed to realize, despite what almost everyone around her insisted, that the universe would be better off if he were simply killed, but the stubbornness that prevented her from being a proper Jedi also prevented her from listening to them. In the end, she killed him in self defense, realizing what an idiot she'd been the entire time and at the same time mourning the man she remembered.
Take note that Maraz is not, and never has been, Sorani's love interest. Her admiration was strictly platonic, and her love interest is a character belonging to a friend of mine.
More later.
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