Jakob Sartori'na-Mevrain

Life

Jakob is an old man, by his standards and by many who know him. He was born into a family with a natural affinity for using the Force. Throughout the generations, much of his family had grown to become great Knight or Masters of the Order on Lorrd. He was given the choice to train with his family or at the Temple. He could almost see that to choose one would mean completely different futures. At the age of five, he began to dream of himself as a young man, at the Temple, but it wasn't him. He was a very influential Jedi, he was strong in the Force, but deciding to turn from his family had cut the connection between them, and while he had many friends and allies, there was a hole where his family had once been, and no amount of friendship could replace such love lost to him. After a few nights he began to dream of another future, one where he had chosen to train with his family. He had become a great Master at the Temple on Lorrd, very powerful and a great leader. He also had an empty heart. Because of his decisions, this future version of himself was alone and empty, and had resentment and a growing hatred in place of happiness and growing love for those around him.

This distraught young Jakob, and he tried a compromise; to train under his grandfather, a Master at the Temple, therefore doing both. Each member in his family was required to add to the Archives of the Mevrain family, eventually creating a great library of information on the Force. His grandfather had focused on secrets and techniques of emotional control, persuasion, and his belief for love in the Order. For this, in a family of traditional Jedi, he became slightly shunned. He was the perfect choice for a Master. His grandfather gladly took Jakob under his wing, taking his as his padawan, and teaching him how to learn from his emotions and the emotions of those around him. Jakob proved to be a very good student, studying with his grandfather and learning from him everything he could. His grandfather was not a patient man, however, and Jakob was often yelled at and criticized for not being able to produce quick results. His grandfather did not share all of the Jedi's beliefs, but he held enough in common to take their side, and help their cause. He himself had grown up in the shadow of an older brother, and had great resentment in his heart, which clouded his judgement. He was growing ill in body and mind as age took his physical body, and the Dark Side ate away at his spiritual one. This was another reason why he had been shunned by his own family, jealousy had a strong hold on him even as a boy.

12 years passed and Jakob had become a young Jedi Knight. He continued to train under his grandfather until the day he died. On the day of his funeral, a woman named Kaethe, another Jedi Knight, came into his life and the two became great friends, and eventually more. They married when Jakob was twenty-two and Kaethe was twenty-one, against the warnings of the Masters at the Temple. Jakob studied from his family's Archive, learning from his Ancestors the secrets that they had learned after years of study, practice, and mistakes. He did not understand all of it, but he picked up on many skills easily, most of which had to do with using the force to influence those around him. One of his relatives had found a way to create a link between two sentient beings, to bring them closer. Jakob told Kaethe of this, and said he would do anything to be as close to her as possible, and to open himself up to her more.

After repeated tries and failures, a weak link was made between them. He improved it after more years, and soon him and his wife were able to share thoughts and feelings that had never been known to either of them. After several more years they had a daughter. They named her Carmen. By the age of three she had been tested and was found to be Force sensitive. Jakob, happy at the news, began to teach her the basic principles of the Force and the Jedi Order. The two grew close, almost as close as Jakob and Kaethe were with their Life Bond. A man could not show his daughter more love or patience. She was a very fast learner, but unlike her father, who favored persuasion and manipulative techniques, she was very proficient at enhancing the abilities of herself and others. They came almost naturally to her. He even began to teach her from the Mevrain Family Archives, but stopped when he caught her using the holocron of a Sith that had been in their family. That was the only time he had ever shown anger towards her.

After nearly twenty-five years of happy marriage, Kaethe began to show signs of an unknown degenerative disease. She began to weaken physically, and Jakob could feel through the Life Bond how much pain she was going through. She, in turn, could feel the worries and sadness inside him. But she could see an anger deep within him. He was angry he could do nothing, it grew stronger as she grew weaker. In Kaethe's final days, she did her best to calm the anger of her love, and it helped, but the fire within him was still strong. She continued to fight the anger within him, to help soothe him in any way she could. In her final hours, she brought her husband close, and made him swear on their love that he would not let his anger rule him after her death. She died the next morning. He disappeared for several days, meditating on his emotions, to bring them under control. He understood it was natural to feel anger and sadness after thirty-four years of marriage, but letting those feelings rule him was why he went away. He appeared back in the Temple nearly a week later, and went to the other Master of the Temple and informed them of his resignation. After days of philosophical speeches and warnings, he left, packing everything he had into his ship and leaving Lorrd and his daughter, who had just taken her first padawan at the age of 29.

With him he also took a small amount of Kaethe's ashes, her lightsaber, and a copy of his family's Archives. He restricted entry of the Original to only him, knowing his daughter would turn to her mother's additions, and possibly the entries of several Dark Siders who, even in Holocron, would corrupt her soul with the promise to let her see her mother once more. She still hasn't forgive him for making the decision for her.

Jakob left Lorrd, not knowing where he was going, but believing the Force would guide him through his Journey to find a purpose.