Who is kreia kotor 2

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By Kyle Gratton Published Apr 07, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Who is Kreia? Kreia seems to be cloaked in mystery, pun intended. I have not seen much speculation on her broad character from much anyone else.

What does she want? What are her motives? Her history? How is she connected to Revan? User Info: TheTurophile.

Thank you SRR Capdown. To add to your answer, I think that Kreia wanted to take that whole "Jedi are flawed" theme one step further. Instead of dismissing them as fools, she gave them a chance to redeem themselves.

Like you said, she wanted to prove to them that it was possibly to survive without a connection to the Force. By accepting that the Exile and all the other Jedi were right to go to war and admitting that the Jedi teachings were fundamentally flawed, the Jedi could prove to Kreia that they weren't beyond saving.

When they didn't, she was so disgusted by their hypocrisy and ignorance that she decided to make them physically see what the Exile had to go through: by cutting them off from the Force.

The symbolic importance of cutting them off from the Force was to "clear their vision" and make them see the Exile's point of view. That is also the reason why, if you went dark side and had killed all the Jedi by the time you come back to the Academy, Kreia rejects the Exile as yet another of her failed students; If you simply killed the Jedi for their foolishness, you would be no better than the same Jedi who exiled you for disobeying their consul and going to war.

That is what the entire story of the game is about, really; judgment, truth, acceptance, redemption, and the dichotomy of good and evil. Btw, Brianna's mother was named Arren Kae, a name which is mentioned by both the Disciple and Kreia; by the Disciple when you talk about his take on the Jedi, and by Kreia when you find out about the owner of the Handmaiden's Jedi robes.

Accepted Answer. What does she want and what are her motives? Surely you felt the righteous anger, the spoken judgments, the lack of forgiveness. You walked her path? Kreia: I was a historian once, gathering the relics of the Jedi, learning the ancient mysteries. Always, there were more questions. One quickly learns that the Jedi code does not give all the answers.

If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single idea. That is why Atris and the others blamed me, sentenced me. They believed me responsible for Revan's fall. You trained Revan? Kreia: You have already asked much I do not wish to speak of this any longer. I had questions about how Revan amassed such a huge force against the Republic. Kreia: [Influence: Success] Have you never asked yourself how Revan took the Republic and Jedi beneath him, how he made them his?

Kreia: [Influence: Success] Have you never asked yourself how Revan took the Republic and Jedi beneath her, how she made them hers? Kreia: [Influence: Failure] A discussion, perhaps, for another time. Because he was a leader? He was a powerful presence - there was little one did not believe when he spoke it with conviction. War makes bonds, it cannot be denied. She was a powerful presence - there was little one did not believe when she spoke it with conviction.

Because she was a leader? Kreia: Ah, but to make officers turn on their own people, to bomb innocent worlds to make pacts And where did these Sith teachings come from? And why did Revan embrace them so strongly? So many questions I do not know, and I do not care. Kreia: Very well, then we shall speak no more of this.

Leave me - I am tired. They came from the Sith empire. I thought teachings of the Sith came from Korriban. Kreia: Oh, did they? No, Revan met no Sith empire, yet he learned their teachings. No, Revan met no Sith empire, yet she learned their teachings. Kreia: Many have mistaken the soldiers beneath Revan, the machines that were constructed, to be the "Sith. Kreia: They are wrong - the Sith is a belief. And what Revan formed was not an empire, but something else - yet how he did it is curious.

And what Revan formed was not an empire, but something else - yet how she did it is curious. Kreia: And I suspect the answer to that question is tied to another - how was Revan able to corrupt so many, so quickly? Do you have any ideas? Kreia: Not a one. But we shall see where our journey takes us, I think. And see how many answers we come across, yes? I've heard enough. Forget this. Did you know Revan? Kreia: [Influence: Success] Perhaps I think it is fair to say that few did.

Kreia: [Influence: Failure] I misspoke before - and I do not wish to choose my words unwisely again. Leave this be. I had some questions about Revan. Kreia: Ah Where did Revan come from? Kreia: Revan had a mother and father, parents, ancestors, like all Jedi do.

And when he awakened to his potential, I was there to see it. But where he was born, where he came from, I do not know Some said that Revan was born in the Outer Regions, beyond the Rim, and that's what called to him during the Mandalorian Wars And when she awakened to her potential, I was there to see it. But where she was born, where she came from, I do not know Some said that Revan was born in the Outer Regions, beyond the Rim, and that's what called to her during the Mandalorian Wars Kreia: It was the call of home.

What else do you know of Revan? Kreia: I know more What caused Revan to fall, to turn on the Republic? Kreia: Fall? Ah, already you presume much. Kreia: You were there at Malachor. Revan's choices were always his own. It was not teaching, or circumstance, or example. It was him. Revan's choices were always her own. It was her. Then what made him turn to the dark side, become a Sith Lord?

But Revan was a monster, a Then what made her turn to the dark side, become a Sith Lord? Kreia: Is that what he was? Or was he always true to himself, no matter what personality he wore? Kreia: Is that what she was? Or was she always true to herself, no matter what personality she wore? Kreia: And there is something that the Council may never understand. That perhaps Revan never fell. The difference between a fall and a sacrifice is sometimes difficult, but I feel that Revan understood that difference, more than anyone knew.

Kreia: The galaxy would have fallen if Revan had not gone to war. Perhaps he became the dark lord out of necessity, to prevent a greater evil. Perhaps she became the dark lord out of necessity, to prevent a greater evil. Kreia: I do not believe the Jedi Council changed Revan, as they claimed. They merely stripped away the surface, and allowed the true self to emerge again - someone who was willing to wage war to save others. But that is my belief, since I knew Revan from long ago You trained him?

You trained her? Were you the one who taught Revan? Kreia: [Influence: Success] He came to me, yes. Both before and after, before Revan knew himself. Kreia: [Influence: Success] She came to me, yes. Both before and after, before Revan knew herself. Kreia: [Influence: Failure] I do not wish to discuss this - sometimes there is such a thing as knowing too much of one's teacher. It generates Kreia: And after, in the times when Revan was coming into his own and learning he was more than he had been told.

At one time, Revan was my Padawan. In times past, long ago. But Revan, when he had learned all he could, had other masters He learned from each. But in the end, he turned back to me.

When he realized there was nothing more to be learned from the Jedi - except how one could leave them forever. Kreia: And after, in the times when Revan was coming into her own and learning she was more than she had been told. But Revan, when she had learned all she could, had other masters She learned from each. But in the end, she turned back to me. When she realized there was nothing more to be learned from the Jedi - except how one could leave them forever.

What was Revan like as a student? Kreia: Revan was power. It was like staring into the heart of the Force. Even then, you could see the Jedi he would slay etched on his soul. Even then, you could see the Jedi she would slay etched on her soul. What do you see when you look at me? Kreia: You are different. When I look at you, it is like staring at the death of the Force. If the council cast you out, how come Atris and none of the Jedi Masters mentioned you?

Kreia: Ignorance It is of no consequence to me, or to them. Are you certain? Kreia: Do not let them discover what makes you what you are before you do, or the consequences for the galaxy will be terrible.

Kreia: Because you learned to live without the Force. And that is something that the galaxy is not ready to accept. Kreia: Am I? Then perhaps you should know And on the worlds where we have encountered these Jedi As I said, it is no consequence to me - or to them. Do you use that technique on me? Kreia: No - but if I did, you would never know, so my words only carry as much worth as you believe them to.

But perhaps you will understand this - that perhaps it is important to me that you see me and my actions, uncloaked. It is important that your judgments, whether be good or bad, stem from seeing me as I truly am. I accept that - and I trust you, Kreia. I still think you're lying to me - and you haven't told me everything.

Kreia: I did not ask you to trust me - only that you listen to what I have to tell you. But thank you. Kreia: Then you are learning quickly. Distrust is an effective shield, and should be carried always.

I have thought more about the destruction of Visas' homeworld. Kreia: And? What do you know of Visas' master? Kreia: He I do not think he knows what you are, not yet. He spared the Miraluka, and that may have been the last shred of feeling that exists within him.

Keep his slave close to you. I suspect there was a reason he spared her Visas is not his slave, not any longer. Kreia: Entertain what illusions you will, I am too tired to argue them with you. He is no longer a man? Do you have any idea why he spared her?

Kreia: One cannot have power of that magnitude that her master possesses and still think and perceive the universe as we do, as most of us do. I had hoped that you would not have to confront him You will have to meet him in battle.

Kreia: Perhaps he is bound to her If so, there may be a death served by hers. Kreia: You must be prepared to sacrifice the blinded one. Perhaps her death will buy you the time you need to deal with her master. I will never do such a thing. Dark Side Points Gained: -4 2. If that is what must be done for victory, then I will do so. Kreia: Then you have a chance.

Without her death, I do not know if he can be stopped. Dark Side Points Gained: -6 3. Perhaps I can convince her to sacrifice herself Kreia: If you have such power, then I would make use of it And I thought I was cold.

Kreia: Oh, you have promise. But wait until you have more years fall upon you, and you will see what a shell your heart will become. How did he destroy her homeworld? Kreia: It is a technique that is almost as old as the Sith themselves It cannot be taught And he used it to kill an entire planet? Kreia: Yes. And he fed upon its destruction - it will sustain him, for a time. I don't understand how he hasn't conquered the galaxy with that kind of power. Kreia: Because it is not something that can ever truly be controlled And it rules him, not the other way around.

It has its own will, its own instincts. How can anyone have that kind of power? Kreia: Power? Do you think so? You would be wrong. There is no strength in the hunger he possesses And it devours him as he devours others - his mere presence kills all around him, slowly, feeding him. He is already dead, it is simply a question of how many he kills before he falls. That kind of power is impossible. How is he able to perform such slaughter? His power is difficult to believe. Kreia: Nothing is impossible with the Force.

It is an energy that flows through all living things. And like energy, it may be harnessed, channeled, and consumed at times. It may even be a substance that can burn and ignite. Do not think of his power as one would a weapon, or one of your warships of the Republic.

It is terrible, but it is still a subtle thing. The sect of assassins that chase you feed on the Force And that is why they - and their techniques - must be wiped out. No one again must experience and learn what her master did. How are they able to drain the Force? Kreia: As much as one may use the Force to bolster the wills and strengths of others, the reverse is possible, though not often used.

Instead of sending one's will through connections in the Force, instead such connections are drawn upon, fed upon, and drained completely. But all life is touched by the Force. Kreia: Then you understand how terrible such a power is. And why it must be ended. It is an empty road to the dark side, and by traveling it, the price is death before one's time.

He is a breach in the Force, capable of consuming the lives of those around him. Sometimes the touch is slow, as it is with his crew. How does he use his power? So he feeds on Force Sensitives? Kreia: It is not something he can direct or focus, much like hunger itself.

He is more of a hole in the Force than a living thing. Force Sensitives and worlds rich in the Force draw him. The Miraluka world was one such place. That is why where the Jedi gather, Jedi will die. He will feel it, unless they mask their presence - but Katarr called out as a beacon to him, and he could not resist it.

And he cares nothing for the Sith or its teachings And when the Jedi are dead, he will feed on the galaxy, the Republic, and eventually, consume the Sith as well. Kreia: There is no future in the empty galaxy he sees. And that is why he must be stopped, the breach must sealed, before his power grows beyond what even we can hope to stop. Why do we have that psychotic Wookiee on board? Kreia: The beast is a lesson in strength. Learn that lesson, then you will understand.

I fail to see what that Kreia: Because he is life at its most primitive. And he represents what happens when civilization comes to primates - the illusion that we are something more than our instincts. Maybe I don't need any more of your teachings. Kreia: Perhaps not. Then you are correct, there is nothing you may learn from the beast - and clearly, I am wrong. And what lesson is to be learned from him? Kreia: The beast's strength is prodigious, and you can learn much from it His life can be a beacon in the dark places of the galaxy where there is no life.

And how am I to learn that lesson? Kreia: Speak with him - discern his nature. Perhaps then, it will become clear. I have learned the lesson of strength from Hanharr. Before Kreia died, she parted with a final gift—seeing through the fabrics of the Force, she told the Exile of her visions of the galaxy's future. Meetra Surik proceeded to destroy the Trayus Academy, bringing an end to its call of darkness before leaving to the Unknown Regions in seach of Kreia's former student, Revan.

Together, they faced the True Sith's Emperor , Vitiate. Although they were killed by the Sith's enforcers, Surik and Revan clung on as spirits before eventually choosing to let go of themselves for the fate of the galaxy; as Force ghosts, they passed on their legacies to the Commander of the Eternal Alliance , an individual whose organization became independent of the Force-based dogma of the Jedi and Sith Orders, uniting people of differing allegiances to forge a new galaxy free of authorities such as Emperors and wars such as the war against Zakuul.

However, such progress was overridden by the time of the Rule of Two , when the galaxy was embroiled in a series of destructive conflicts between light and dark once more. During her time as a member of the Jedi Order , Kreia attempted to uncover the galaxy's mysteries through meditation. Although this atrophied her easily repairable eyesight , Kreia let go of her eyesight as the historian decided that she no longer had use for it.

For decades , Kreia trained many students, constantly challenging their minds with questions regarding the concept of power. Her fellow Jedi , who called her teachings "Kreia's conundrums," viewed them as quaint, whilst Kreia's students were mystified.

One of Kreia's Padawans was a highly gifted Jedi who eventually became known as Revan. However, her teachings were looked upon with concern by the Jedi Council. As what became known as the Mandalorian Wars waged on, Revan, who by then had attained the position of Jedi Knight , [5] came back to Kreia as he found the Jedi teachings lacking, [2] and sought her guidance regarding the Jedi Council, [1] which preached care and caution as it feared the true threat to the galaxy had not yet revealed itself, [5] and its stance of inaction against the Mandalorians.

Subsequent to this, Kreia's former student decided to openly defy the Council, [1] leading other rogue Jedi , including Meetra Surik , to battle the invading Mandalorians. Revan eventually took up the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, building a new Sith Empire of his own to counter the Jedi and the Republic. Kreia believed that Revan had never "fallen" to the dark side, and that he had become the new Sith Lord—the face of the dark side as Darth Revan—and started the Jedi Civil War out of his own volition to prevent a greater evil; that as Revan was the "heart of the Force," [2] a greater cause had come that called for certain actions to be done.

Because of her strong admiration for Surik and her adamant position in not entering the Mandalorian conflict, Atris felt personally betrayed by what she saw as the warring Jedi's rejection of her own beliefs. With the concomitance of discovering that all of Kreia's pupils either fell to the dark side of the Force or abandoned their Jedi training , [2] Atris led the Council in denouncing Kreia and condemning her "freethinking" teachings. Silently withdrawing from the Jedi Order, Kreia began to question her own beliefs as she took those who followed her teachings with her away from the Jedi.

Kreia was eventually drawn to the Force echoes of the Sith world Malachor V , a nexus of dark side energies and part of the ancient Sith Empire. On the surface, Kreia found Darth Revan's former stronghold, the Trayus Academy , an ancient dark side praxeum that contained the deepest and most intimate secrets of the Sith. She encountered Sith assassins left by Revan, but rather than attack the Jedi Master, they presented Kreia with Sith hermetica.

The Sith manuscripts that Kreia read indicated that the truths of the cosmos were not intended for the sane. Kreia believed that the manuscripts' authors were pureblooded descendants of the ancient Sith species. The Sith sorcerers claimed that they had privileged insight into secret realities, arguing that even though the contradictory and aimless nature of existence appeared obvious to all intelligent beings, awareness of the Force exposed this obvious "fact" as a lie, further stating that the Force betrayed Force-sensitives , making them live in a compromised, chaotic universe—to live the lie.

Intent on continuing Revan's legacy, Traya re-established the Trayus Academy to train, convert, and create a generation of "Sith" who would act as a gadfly to the Republic. Because she came to the remnants of Darth Revan's Sith Empire as his former Master, the remaining Sith troopers pledged their fealty to her. She began to hunt for Force-wounds , eventually discovering Darths Sion and Nihilus , who were interested in rebuilding the deteriorating Sith Order.

However, as time passed by, the Sith Lords' ideals became divergent. Traya and Revan's legacy fell far from Darth Nihilus' slavery to hunger and Sion's chaining to his intent on chanelling his pain on to others; his crusade against the Jedi. Traya underestimated her pupils' depravity.

After she taught Nihilus the ability to devour entire worlds, and after Sion started to grow weary of [1] her whispers in his skull and teachings that he deemed to weaken the Sith, [2] the apprentices plotted against her. After casting Traya out of the Sith Order, Sion and Nihilus began an assassination campaign against the Jedi, unaware that they were aiding their former Sith Master.

Traya, who assumed her former identity of Kreia, had left Malachor V and returned to Republic space, [1] [8] masterminding a plot of revenge. Surik helped defeat the Mandalorians during the final battle at Malachor V by ordering the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator , a devastating weapon which left a wound in the Force.

Beneath numerous rumors and unconfirmed reports, Kreia had found a means to deafen the galaxy to the Force. She sought to exploit her former student's talent in Force bonding in order to create another wound, greater than the one before. This wound's echoes would travel forever, never reaching their destination. The Jedi Master Atris arranged for Surik's return to the Republic, and exposed her presence in the coreward databases in the hopes of using her as bait for the Sith.

Kreia found her and took her to the Ebon Hawk , barely escaping a Sith ambush in which Darth Sion nearly destroyed the freighter. Both unconscious, Kreia and Surik arrived safely on Peragus II thanks to T3-M4, who was able to get the ship working well enough to get to the colony. They subconsciously reached out to each other, both strengthening each other in the knowledge that they had survived the void that had befallen them, and eventually formed a Force bond, which seemingly intertwined their lives.

Meetra Surik regained consciousness and attempted to escape the mining facility, discovering and recruiting Kreia and Atton Rand whilst doing so. The Republic warship Harbinger soon arrived, and Kreia provided her insight to Surik that it was under the control of an enemy, one who would not let them go without bloodshed.

Kreia said that the assassins aboard were those who attacked the Ebon Hawk , and they arrived quicker than she expected. Together with Atton Rand, the exile deduced that the docked ship must possess the asteroid orbital drift charts to needed to plot a safe course through the Peragus asteroid field , and the trio boarded the Harbinger to take the codes, desperate to escape death. Once aboard the Harbinger , the trio took to its bridge per Rand's plan, though not before Kreia reprimanded the exile for being distracted at the airlock and thus not being mindful of the present, allowing their enemies to gather while they wasted time.

Fighting their way to the warship's bridge through the occasional Sith assassins, they took the drift charts from the Harbinger ' s navicomputer left. However, the exile stopped by at the quarter she formerly inhabited. Telling Surik to move with haste, Kreia allowed the exile to salvage her possessions before moving on together.

The exile and her companions stopped again at the ship's medical bay, finding a holorecording of a scarred man breaking out of a kolto tank there. Proceeding to the engine deck, Atton Rand had a "bad feeling," and the trio were approached by the scarred man soon after. A Sith Lord, he said he had come to warn the exile that she knew not what path she would walk, and Kreia drew her weapon, telling the exile that this battle was hers alone, and that she was not defenseless.

Before engaging the scarred man, Kreia stated that he could not kill what he could not see, and that power had blinded him long ago, and instructed the exile to run, telling her that she herself would join her shortly. A door sealed between Kreia and the exile, and the scarred man—Darth Sion—confronted his former master. To Kreia, Sion spoke of his sensing that she was faint in the Force, weak, although Kreia retorted that his senses betrayed him. She further told Sion that his failing was to have fallen so far and learnt nothing, yet the Sith Lord placed the failure on his former master.

Sion told Kreia that her cause to seek the Jedi was a lost one, since they were mostly eliminated and whose hopes for survival lay in the exile, but Kreia remained staunch in her position. A duel ensued, and Kreia lost her left hand to Sion's blade.

Because of her bond with Kreia, Surik felt the great pain of losing the limb herself while making her way to the Ebon Hawk alongside Atton Rand and later T3-M4. After joining the exile's party at the Ebon Hawk , Kreia said that either they trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the surrounding asteroid field and thereby escape the Sith forces, or die. As the Harbinger attempted to bring down the Ebon Hawk , it fired upon a nearby asteroid, bringing the field and the Peragus mining colony to flames.

The exile's craft narrowly escaped a fiery doom and managed to jump into hyperspace, drawing past hours ' series of dangers to a close. In the safety of hyperspace, Kreia explained before the crew of the Ebon Hawk that the Republic warship that fired upon them moments ago was the Harbinger , which was originally set for Telos IV but was seized by Sith seeking to hunt down the exile, the last of the Jedi regardless of her status of being exiled; survivors of the Jedi Civil war were Jedi no longer, and they would not help Meetra Surik.

Observing that many roads led to Telos, including theirs as a result of the limited range of the Peragus astrogation charts, and that a series of coincidences led to their meeting at Peragus despite the rarity of true coincidences as a result of the influence of the Force, Kreia then left to the crew quarters, and Atton Rand advised the exile to tend to Kreia, telling her that he sensed great pain rolling off Kreia, and speculating that the elder woman was too proud to show any weakness, especially to her.

Furthermore, Rand told the exile his observation that what she thought mattered much to Kreia, and Kreia wanted herself to be respected by her student. On why she had felt her pain, Kreia replied to Surik that the bond between them could be fatal; if one of them died, the other would too. Bound by the hands of death, Kreia intruded upon the company of Surik, but remained vague on her ties to her former Padawan, Revan.

Surik also had no way of knowing where the ship had come from, since Kreia had the only means of accessing the Ebon Hawk ' s navicomputer. While Surik was slowly reconnecting to the Force, Kreia began to shape the younger woman as her new pupil. She taught Surik to carefully choose between actions, asking the Jedi to view the ethical implications of all quests undertaken.

Kreia seemed to show that the galaxy and its inhabitants' morals were far more complicated than the basic tenets of the light and dark sides of the Force. As Surik grew in power, Kreia watched as the struggling Republic was unknowingly strengthened through the Jedi's search. During these adventures, many people came into the company of Surik, most of them sensitive to the Force. Although they were wary of Kreia, she was able to manipulate most of them to do her bidding.

Because of the ease with which Surik had "called" upon these companions, the old Master had seen Surik's ability to transmit extreme echoes to those the Jedi was bound with. With Meetra Surik's power and with the knowledge of Darth Nihilus' damaged condition, Kreia intended to bring her plans into fruition.

Early in her travels with the Jedi Exile, when the party was beginning to form in the secret Jedi Academy on the planet Telos IV , Kreia probed and invaded Atton Rand's mind, discovering his secrets. She blackmailed Rand, telling him that she would not reveal his secrets to Surik as long as he followed and served the Jedi. Surik set a course for Nar Shaddaa, where Master Ell could be found.

While on the moon of Nal Hutta , Kreia bound the Wookiee bounty hunter Hanharr to a life debt after his defeat at the hands of Mira , whom Kreia called "the huntress. After Surik located Ell and convinced him to return to Dantooine, the Ebon Hawk ' s crew departed Nar Shaddaa, and set a course for the planet Onderon.

When the Ebon Hawk made it to Onderon, they encountered a blockade of the planet. After fending off a group of Onderonian starfighters sent by Colonel Tobin to intercept the Ebon Hawk , Meetra Surik and her crew were forced to crash-land on Onderon's jungle moon Dxun.

After they landed, Kreia reminded the crew that Dxun was where the Mandalorian Wars truly began. They ventured into the Dxun jungle in search for an alternative route to Onderon.