Can You Speak to Atris Again

"The noesis of the Sith… and the Jedi, is what I am. It is my attempt to hold on to the by… to attempt and protect the future. […] I tied my life, my decisions to the Jedi. Perchance but in separating myself from the Jedi can I become myself again, learn who I am."

―Atris ^[src]

Atris was a Human being female who served as a Jedi historian, and afterwards as a Jedi Chief and Jedi Council fellow member during the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War. She was deeply committed to the Social club and was a trigger-happy adherent of the Jedi Lawmaking. Just Atris' faith in the righteousness of the Jedi wavered when her personal hero, Meetra Surik, turned her dorsum on the Council to join rogue Knights Revan and Malak and their faction of Jedi during the Mandalorian Wars. Atris chose not to go to war, just this decision left her bitter and conflicted.

When Surik returned to face the Quango'southward judgment after the devastating events of the Battle of Malachor V, Atris was the start to condemn her, suggesting that she had fallen to the dark side merely as Revan had. Over fourth dimension, Atris grew to hate Surik for complicating her black-and-white view of the Jedi, the Sith, and the Force. During the Night Wars, Atris called a undercover Jedi convocation on the Miraluka earth of Katarr in an effort to detect the threat that was stalking the Jedi. She then leaked knowledge of the conclave's existence in the hopes of drawing out the Sith. She succeeded, merely with dire consequences; Darth Nihilus devastated the surface of the planet, wiping out all life on Katarr, including the Jedi gathered there.

However, Atris survived, and she remained in seclusion, surrounding herself with Echani Handmaidens who could not feel the Force. She planned to rebuild the Jedi Order, and established a Jedi Academy in the old irrigation system on Telos IV. Still, she was heavily influenced past the many Sith holocrons she had nerveless in her efforts to find and understand the Sith. The holocrons fed her bitterness, and she slowly and quietly fell to the dark side, consequently becoming the new Darth Traya, the Queen of Betrayal. Per the machinations of her mentor, Kreia, Surik and the new Darth Traya confronted each other over again on Telos, where Surik convinced Atris to plough away from the nighttime side. Atris then remained in the Jedi Academy, waiting to be judged for her actions by the new Jedi Council.

Contents

• ane Biography
  • one.1 Early life
  • i.2 The Mandalorian Wars
  • 1.3 Search for the Exile
  • ane.4 The Nighttime Wars
    • one.4.one Reunion with Meetra Surik
    • 1.four.two Admission and letting go
• 2 Personality and traits
• three Powers and abilities
• 4 Backside the scenes
  • iv.1 Advent
  • 4.2 Alternate choices
  • 4.3 Cut content
• five Appearances
• six Sources
• 7 Notes and references

Biography [ ]

Early life [ ]

Atris, austere custodian of the Jedi Order

After the end of the Smashing Sith War that was started by the Sith Lords Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma, the Jedi historian Atris attempted to revise the broken system of Jedi apprenticeship. She argued that there was little wonder why Kun and Qel-Droma cruel to the dark side of the Force, when the Jedi had liberal instruction practices in place, such as dozens of Padawans training under a single Master, the radical bonds of reciprocal apprenticeship, and Jedi beginning their training in their teens and later. She invoked thousand-year old recommendations first suggested by the Jedi Master Simikarty, lobbying for the restriction of Padawans that a Master could have at one time, and besides limiting the age of Jedi candidates.^[i]

Atris as well advocated prohibiting romantic involvement for Jedi, citing that the Showtime Great Schism had been started by two lovers. She even endorsed adoption of a more ascetic interpretation of the Jedi Code which was favored by the Draethos Jedi Primary Odan-Urr, in retentiveness of his decease at the hands of Exar Kun at the Jedi Academy on Ossus. Her arguments plant powerful purchase amongst the Jedi, and she was appointed to High Council.^[1]

The Mandalorian Wars [ ]

"We all accept our heroes. And when we sentinel them fall, we die inside. She made a choice once… and I did not."

―Atris, to Brianna ^[src]

When the Mandalorian Wars erupted in the year 3964 BBY, the Galactic Republic came to the Jedi for assistance. However, Atris resisted the call to protect the inhabitants of the Outer Rim Territories, instead staunchly defending the council's decision to meditate and reflect before taking activity.^[3]

Atris, sitting on the Jedi High Council in 3963 BBY.

Many Jedi did non empathize how the Council could sit idly while innocents died, and the guild was split when two Jedi Knights named Revan and Malak chose to get to war. Many followed them, including the Jedi Meetra Surik. Atris had held a stiff admiration for Surik, viewing her as something of a hero also as a shut friend. When she and Revan left the Order to join the war, rejecting everything that Atris believed in, Atris felt personally betrayed.^[3] Atris condemned Revan, his followers, and the "freethinking" teachings of his one-time Jedi Main, fellow historian Kreia. Revan's eventual plow to the dark side came as footling surprise to Atris.^[1] Indeed, when Revan met Atris years later asking what happened to Surik, Atris made petty effort to conceal her contempt.^[4]

After the war's end, only one of the Jedi who had followed Revan to war returned to face the council: Meetra Surik.^[2] She stood before them every bit an repeat in the Forcefulness, having cut herself off from information technology later on the terminal battle at Malachor Five. Surik was so defiant, so certain of the rightness of her deportment that she acquired Atris to doubt herself. Atris wanted to punish Surik for this, and became convinced that she had fallen to the dark side along with all of the others who had followed Revan. She felt that exile was too lenient of a punishment for Surik'due south expose, and believed that she would simply join Revan again if she was free. The other Masters warned her to be mindful of her feelings, merely Atris insisted that Surik ought to take died at Malachor Five, considering when she stood earlier them, it was if she was already dead. The Council decided non to tell Surik that she had become a wound in the Force, which was the issue of her actions at Malachor.^[three]

Atris kept Surik's lightsaber after the trial, carrying it with her ever. Even many years after, she insisted that the Quango was correct to be cautious. But deep down, she connected to question the deportment of the Council, Surik, and herself.^[three]

Search for the Exile [ ]

"Still trying to recapture your lost memories?"

―Atris to Revan ^[src]

In 3954 BBY Revan came to the Temple Archives to find out what happened to his trusted Full general Meetra Surik. He accessed the file on Surik and found it defective in information about her whereabouts. Behind him, Atris spoke out, during their chat she revealed that Surik had disconnected herself from the Strength considering of the guilt she carried over her actions during the Mandalorian Wars. Although Revan felt responsible for Surik's fate, he refused to give her the satisfaction of seeing his guilt and grief. She stormed out of the room.^[4]

The Nighttime Wars [ ]

Atris, Mistress of the Athenaeum.

After the death of Darth Malak at the hands of a redeemed Revan,^[five] the Jedi Order's infrastructure was decimated. To make matters worse, some thing was systematically hunting and killing what Jedi there were left. Atris rallied a secret Jedi convocation on Katarr, a colony globe of the Miraluka, where the threat could be assessed and the future of the Society discussed.^[two] Withal, Atris leaked cognition of the session in hopes of drawing out this threat so that information technology could be fought. Unfortunately, she greatly underestimated its strength. The Sith arrived in the course of Darth Nihilus, who proved to exist likewise powerful for the Jedi. Through the Forcefulness, he devoured all life on the planet, including the Jedi and Miraluka (with the unmarried exception of Visas Marr, whom he later took as his apprentice). Atris, having not attended the Conclave, survived, forth with a handful of other Masters who went into hiding.^[6]

Atris took refuge under a polar water ice cap on the planet Telos IV, where she began to build a secret Jedi academy in an old irrigation system. Hither she hid most of the Jedi'south virtually valuable artifacts and resources, including many Sith holocrons.^[ii]

She sought to remedy what she saw every bit a key flaw of the Jedi Order: the lack of any machinery to forbid Jedi from falling to the dark side, and repeatedly wreaking havoc on the galaxy. To that finish, she trained a group of one-half-sisters, especially equipped and trained to resist Force powers and, if necessary, apply their Echani combat skills to subdue wayward Jedi. Atris planned to eventually rebuild the Jedi Gild, but she greatly overestimated her own ability to resist the dark side, becoming corrupted by delving into the forbidden knowledge of her collection of Sith holocrons.^[ii]

Reunion with Meetra Surik [ ]

"I did non expect to see you over again later the day of your sentencing. I thought you had taken the exile'southward path, wandering the galaxy. Nonetheless you accept returned - why?"

―Atris, to Meetra Surik ^[src]

In 3951 BBY, Meetra Surik and her companions landed on Telos 4, having narrowly escaped the devastation of the Peragus Mining Facility at Peragus Two. Upon hearing that the Telos Security Force held an private called the Jedi Exile and her party nether house arrest for their suspected involvement in the explosion of the mining facility, Atris desired to uncover the cause of the explosion, knowing that the consequences of its loss would be tremendous. Therefore, she sent one of her Handmaidens by the name of Brianna, to steal their ship, the Ebon Hawk, besides as T3-M4 who, fortunately for her, was on lath. The transport and droid were dissected for information, though little of value was actually found.^[ii]

A holorecord of Atris at the Jedi Exile's trial.

Upon discovering the loss of her ship, Surik managed to trace the Ebon Militarist to the polar plateau where Atris's university was hidden. Once she found her manner inside, Atris had Surik's companions placed in force cages while the Handmaidens brought Meetra Surik before her to be questioned. Not long before this, Atris had discovered Surik'southward identity, and was surprised at the revelation—she had not expected to run across her once again afterwards the Council sentenced her to Exile.^[2]

At first she hoped that Surik had returned to admit that the Council had been right and to face up up to her crimes, but that was not the case. Surik'due south presence stirred unpleasant feelings which Atris had all just forgotten, and hoped lost. These feelings showed themselves when she accused Meetra Surik of walking the night path, when Atris' words were the ones that sounded biting and resentful. In fact, she was so angry virtually what Surik did that she refused to believe that Surik had meant to help others in the Mandalorian Wars, and said she simply went off for the adventure and the excitement of battle. Atris continued to berate Surik by blaming her for the destruction of Peragus II. She was shocked to learn the Sith were behind it, and even more shocked when she learned the Sith were hunting Meetra Surik. She reluctantly accepted Surik's offer of help in defeating them, and instructed her to gather other Jedi on Dantooine then that action could be taken and a Council could exist had.^[2]

After departing Telos 4, Surik discovered that T3-M4 had downloaded Atris's athenaeum. It seemed that Atris had kept a holo record of her trial, as well as a listing of the remaining Jedi Masters—despite her claim that she was the "last of the Jedi" because T3 had been able to piece into the historian'southward files and copy them, locating the Jedi Masters for Atris's proposed meeting proved easier.^[two]

Admission and letting go [ ]

As Atris sought desperately to understand Surik'south motives, which was office of the reason for her keeping of the holocrons, she clung even more desperately to her perfect view of the Jedi. Yet, in light of Surik's choices, she knew that either she or the Council was wrong. Though she placed Surik in the incorrect, it only made her more than unsettled, as, inwardly, she respected her choice. Information technology built up a force per unit area that finally exploded when Kreia, who had and then revealed her old identity as Darth Traya after she had killed the three Council members Zez-Kai Ell, Kavar, and Vrook Lamar when they reconvened on Dantooine, stripped Atris of her self-denials and allowed her to finally accepting that she was betrayed past her dark persona; Atris embraced herself as Darth Traya,^[7] the Queen of Betrayal,^[viii] and was told past Kreia that Meetra Surik would return to her sanctum on Telos to confront her for the terminal time.^[7]

Later on being informed past an Onderonian colonel named Tobin of the Jedi academy on Telos, who had been in turn informed by Kreia, Darth Nihilus attacked Telos, believing that he could feed on what Jedi were there.^[2]

When Surik, who was searching for Kreia after having been left by the former Sith, returned to the Academy, Darth Traya clashed with her in a lightsaber duel, and was defeated. Surik, still, spared her life. This action was something Traya believed Meetra Surik would never have done. However, information technology led her to forgo the moniker of Darth Traya and for Atris to chose to let go of the Jedi; to be exiled from the Order to find her human self once again.^[2] Atris was held captive in her sanctum until judged by Mical and the new Jedi Council; the disciples of Meetra Surik.^[1]

Personality and traits [ ]

Atris, Jedi Master and Historian.

Atris was extremely dedicated to the Jedi Order, and believed in their righteousness to the point of arrogance and fanaticism. She was impatient with dissenters, and took accusations confronting the Jedi very personally. When many Jedi left the order to follow Revan to state of war, Atris was eager to write them all off every bit traitors and Sith, even Meetra Surik afterward she returned to face up the Council.^[ii]

During the Night Wars, Atris became reclusive, and obsessed with preserving what she could of the Jedi legacy, including the Sith relics which would ultimately lead her down the path to the dark side. She was biting and untrusting, surrounding herself with Echani warriors trained to resist the Force. Though she claimed to be building a Jedi Academy, she made no efforts to bring Force-sensitives to railroad train. In fact, despite knowing the locations of the Jedi Masters Zez-Kai Ell, Vrook Lamar, Kavar, and Lonna Vash, she made no attempt to contact them, and none of them knew that she was notwithstanding alive.^[2]

It was ironic that despite the fact that Atris championed various causes, such every bit the limitation of the amount of Padawans a single Master could have,^[1] or the fact that she attempted to preserve Jedi noesis,^[2] she herself never took a Padawan.^[nine]

Atris wore an all-white variation of the traditional robes of a Jedi historian.^[2]

Powers and abilities [ ]

"All this nerveless cognition, all these teachings of gainsay and the Force - they are mine to command."

―Atris to the Jedi Exile ^[src]

Atris was a very powerful Jedi Master, using powers such as Forcefulness suppression, Droid Disable, and Force stun. After her fall to the dark side, she proved to be as proficient with dark-sided Force powers also, including Forcefulness asphyxiate, Force drain, Strength horror, Force lightning, and Force affliction.^[2] She was also a masterful lightsaber practitioner, using the deadly lightsaber form Juyo.^[1]

Having been a Jedi Watchman, Atris spoke and comprehended several languages, including Bones, Sith, Former Galactic Standard, and the Echani language. She was also an adept negotiator.^[ane]

Behind the scenes [ ]

Concept artwork of Atris contesting Darth Nihilus.

Atris is voiced by Elizabeth Passenger. Withal, Grayness DeLisle, who besides voiced Brianna the Handmaiden, voices Atris during combat.^[two] Her concept fine art was fatigued by Brian Menze, who went on to create her in-game model likewise.^[ten]

"Atris" is an anagram of "Taris," a planet from the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Democracy.^[5] It is besides an anagram of "Trias", who was an important grapheme in Planescape: Torment, some other game in which Chris Avellone was the lead designer. Like Atris, Trias initially appears as a beneficial ally, simply later betrays the actor. Additionally, "atris" is the ablative and dative plural of Latin "ater", "dark, malevolent, obscure".^[source?]

In the Champions of the Force miniature gear up, the Jedi Guardian effigy resembles Atris,^[11] though she is never identified equally a Guardian at any fourth dimension. In fact, she is classified as a Jedi Consular in the game files. In promotional fabric for The Sith Lords, she is represented as the personification of the lite side of the Strength;^[12] an analogue to Darth Nihilus, although the two never collaborate within the game. This is ironic, as Atris has embraced various levels of nighttime side corruption throughout the narrative.^[two]

Though the ending where Atris is explicitly stated to accept become Darth Traya was cut (see below), the Knights of the Old Democracy Ii: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide provides this information.^[8] This is reinforced past the concluding version of the game, where Kreia says this to Atris, who had been overtaken and betrayed by the night side: "But in that location must always be a Darth Traya, 1 that holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their centre, and will betray in turn."^[two]

There is an error in the Knights of the Old Commonwealth Two: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide, which shows a picture of Atris fighting Darth Nihilus in the black robes pictured above.,^[8] which is explicitly stated in a cutting version of The Sith Lords. A misprint in Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide on page 27 says the Handmaiden Brianna; the picture above is Atris and non Brianna.^[13]

Appearance [ ]

Atris' Jedi historian robes are very like in pattern to Jocasta Nu's, another Jedi librarian; the difference beingness that Atris wears white,^[ii] while Nu wears yellow and black.^[fourteen]

Alternate choices [ ]

If the Jedi Exile is set as a male, some discussion with the Echani Handmaiden Brianna reveals that Atris may have harbored feelings for the Exile, and the Exile's determination to exit the Jedi for the Mandalorian Wars was in fact the trigger for her eventual fall to the dark side. This further justifies the bitterness of her attitude when she starting time meets the Exile earlier in the game.^[xv] In cut content, Atris openly confesses these feelings to the Sith holocrons presently after the Exile leaves the university.

With a male Exile, Atris privately orders Brianna to stow away on the Ebon Militarist, presumably to spy on the Exile. And when the other five Handmaidens discover their sis missing, Atris lied to them, proverb that Brianna had willingly left with the Exile for reasons that weren't known to her, making it seem that Brianna had voluntarily renounced her adjuration.^[fifteen]

In addition to stopping Darth Traya and allowing Atris to choose to find her truthful self after their battle, the role player has an opportunity to kill Atris, or to go out her at the mercy of the Sith holocrons.^[16]

Atris'south night-robed model.

Cut content [ ]

In that location is some indication that Atris was originally planned to be the player's political party member at some bespeak, well-nigh probably afterward Kreia's departure for Malachor V. For instance, the name of her appearance set is "Party_NPC_Atris". An unused political party member portrait for Atris is also nowadays in the game files.^[17] Furthermore, she is the near prominent figure in promotional textile for the game, comparable to Bastila Shan in the first game. Bastila was a party fellow member and played a major role in the plot,^[5] whereas Atris' office is relatively small.^[ii]

Should the Jedi Exile be a male, Brianna would not just join the Exile out of belief that Atris may take been incorrect but rather that Atris had personally sent her to watch the Exile and study him and to make certain that he does not contact the Sith.^[17] Originally, Mical, too known equally the Disciple, would not only exist a spy for Admiral Carth Onasi or Admiral Cede but also for Atris. En route to Telos shortly afterward the Exile's confrontation with the Jedi Masters in the Jedi Enclave, the Disciple would contact Atris and inform her of the Sith's pending attack.

When the Exile returned to Dantooine to confront the Jedi Masters at the rebuilt Jedi Enclave, a political party member was to note Atris was not present at the meeting and ask why she was not there. This party member would then figure out that both Atris and Kreia had been corrupted by the dark side.

Atris's portrait from the game files.

Cut content from her dialog with Kreia indicates that Atris's fall involved Kreia making references to Telos, and how twice the choices of the Jedi had marked the planet for devastation, first by Revan as Telos was to host the Jedi and their lore in the avenue of a sudden attack, then by Darth Nihilus because Atris chose to hide in that location.

During Atris' battle with the Exile, at some indicate, she would apply the Exile'south get-go lightsaber confronting her, claiming it is non hers to wield anymore.

Originally, the low-cal side and dark side endings differed from each other more significantly than in the concluding game. One possible ending featured Kreia's redemption and Atris's total shift to the dark side, which culminated in the scene where Atris attacked the player wearing a black robe and claimed that she, not Kreia, was Darth Traya. Her dark side model remained in the PC version of the game and can announced in the primary menu if the CurSithLord option is gear up to ane in swkotor2.ini. An Action Replay mod is needed to view it on the Xbox. You lot may also use the model in the KOTOR/TSL Save Game Editor. If the KOTOR Save Editor is used, the code for her dark side model is Unique_Darth_Traya, indicating she was meant to become the new Darth Traya.

Later on, the dark side model of Atris (see above) was planned to exist put in the terminal game for the confrontation with Atris, just it was removed a few weeks earlier the game was released, with the reason that the presence of the night side model was disruptive the game testers.

Appearances [ ]

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• Knights of the Old Republic 9
• Knights of the Old Republic 29
• The Old Republic: Revan
• The Old Republic: Revan audiobook
• Star Wars: Knights of the Onetime Republic II: The Sith Lords (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: The Former Republic Dare Market (Outfit)

Sources [ ]

• Chronicles of the Sometime Republic (First mentioned)
• Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide
• Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
• The New Essential Chronology (as Darth Traya)
• Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
• Knights of the Old Commonwealth Entrada Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded (Motion-picture show only)

Notes and references [ ]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 i.1 1.2 1.3 1.four 1.5 1.6 1.seven 1.8} Knights of the Former Republic Campaign Guide
2. ↑ ^{ii.00 2.01 two.02 ii.03 ii.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 two.12 2.13 2.xiv 2.fifteen two.sixteen ii.17 2.18 2.nineteen two.20 ii.21 two.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26} Star Wars: Knights of the Former Republic Ii: The Sith Lords
3. ↑ ^{3.0 three.i iii.two 3.iii} Star Wars: Knights of the Old Democracy II: The Sith Lords, Exile's first visit to the Telosian Jedi Academy.
4. ↑ ^{four.0 4.1} The Old Republic: Revan
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.one 5.2} Star Wars: Knights of the Quondam Republic
6. ↑ Chronicles of the Quondam Republic
7. ↑ ^{vii.0 seven.1} Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, When Kreia speaks to Atris while in her meditation chamber.
8. ↑ ^{viii.0 8.i 8.2} Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide
9. ↑ Star Wars: Knights of the Sometime Commonwealth II: The Sith Lords, When Meetra Surik talks to one of the Handmaidens that is not Brianna, that handmaiden mentions this fact.
10. ↑ Atris on Brian Menze'due south profile on DeviantArt (backup link)
11. ↑ Star Wars Miniatures: Champions of the Force
12. ↑ Star Wars: Knights of the Quondam Republic Two: The Sith Lords Images (2005-02-07). GameSpot. Archived from the original.
13. ↑ Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
14. ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} Star Wars: Knights of the Quondam Republic II: The Sith Lords, Not-canon male version.
16. ↑ Star Wars: Knights of the Sometime Republic II: The Sith Lords, Non-canon choices.
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1} Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Dialogue files

The Jedi High Council (3963 BBY)

Vrook Lamar Vandar Tokare Atris Zez-Kai Ell Kavar Lonna Vash Lucien Draay Dorjander Kace

The Jedi High Council (3959 BBY)

Vrook Lamar Atris Zez-Kai Ell Kavar Lonna Vash

Master Librarian of the Jedi Archives
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