Qimir (The Stranger)
Name: Qimir (The Stranger)
Type: Sith Lord
Species: Human
Homeworld: —
Gender: Male
Born: —
Died: —
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 1.82m
Weight: —
Skin: Light
DEXTERITY 2D+2
Blaster: 6D
Brawling Parry: 4D
Brawling Parry: Martial Arts 8D
Dodge: 6D+2
Lightsaber: 8D+2
Lightsaber: Jar’kai 9D
Lightsaber: Trakata 10D+2
Melee Combat: 4D+1
Melee Parry: 4D
Pick Pocket: 3D+2
Running: 3D
KNOWLEDGE 3D
Alien Species: 5D
Bureaucracy: Republic 4D
Cultures: 5D+2
Languages: 5D
Planetary Systems: 6D
Scholar: Alchemy 5D
Streetwise: 6D+2
Survival: 4D
Tactics: Smuggling 6D
Value: 7D
Willpower: 6D
MECHANICAL 2D+1
Astrogation: 5D
Beast Riding: 3D+2
Communications: 4D
Repulsorlift Operation: 3D+2
Sensors: 4D
Space Transports: 7D
Starfighter Piloting: 6D
Starship Gunnery: 4D+1
Starship Shields: 4D
PERCEPTION 3D
Bargain: 5D
Command: 4D
Con: 6D
Forgery: 5D+2
Gambling: 4D
Hide: 5D
Investigation: 6D
Persuasion: 5D+2
Search: 4D
Sneak: 4D
STRENGTH 3D
Brawling: 6D+2
Brawling: Martial Arts 9D
Climbing/Jumping: 5D
Stamina: 5D
TECHNICAL 2D
Computer Programming/Repair: 3D+2
Droid Programming / Repair: 3D+2
Equipment Repair: 4D
First Aid: 3D
Poisons: 5D
(A) Medicines: 5D
Special Abilities:
Control: 7D+1, Sense: 5D+2, Alter: 8D
Force Powers:
Control: Absorb/Dissipate Energy, Accelerate Healing, Channel Rage, Concentration, Contort/Escape, Control Pain, Emptiness, Enhance Attribute, Heal, Hibernation Trance, Rage, Resist Stun
Sense: Combat Sense, Danger Sense, Force Bond, Guided Attack, Life Detection, Life Sense, Magnify Senses, Sense Force
Alter: Force Blast, Force Push, Telekinesis, Injure/Kill
Control and Sense: Lightsaber Combat
Control and Alter: Aura of Uneasiness, Feed on Dark Side, Force Jump, Force Stasis, Inflict Pain
Control, Sense and Alter: Affect Mind, Control Mind, Projected Fighting, Telekinetic Kill
Sense and Alter: Lesser Force Shield
Force Sensitive: Y
Force Points: 2
Dark Side Points: 6
Character Points: 12
Move: 10
Equipment: Toolkit, comlink, datapad, various trade goods, Sith Cortosis Armor and Helmet (+1D Physical Damage / +5D Energy Damage / Disables a lightsabers if it contacts the armor), Dual Lightsabers (Red) (5D)
Background: The male individual claimed no name and went by the alias “Qimir” in his public life. He was a human Sith Lord active during the High Republic Era. Qimir had a double identity as a former smuggler who claimed to have transported armaments for the Hutt Clan. In time, however, he would shift careers to become a trader and supplier of unusual items. He enjoyed a leisurely life in that new capacity, having survived some of the galaxy’s shadier starports.
At some point after 148 BBY, “Qimir” encountered Mae-ho Aniseya, a witch from Aniseya’s coven, and began training her as his apprentice. He took great care not to reveal his face to her, despite getting acquainted with her as Qimir by pretending to be a fellow follower of the Stranger and causing his apprentice great fear.
“Qimir” gave Mae a mission to kill the four Jedi stationed in her home planet of Brendok, who Mae thought responsible for the apparent death of her sister Verosha Aniseya during an intervention in the coven’s fortress. Qimir specified that one Jedi in particular, Wookiee Jedi Master Kelnacca, should be killed without using any weapon, a test he called “the final lesson” and Mae considered impossible.
After Mae killed the Jedi Master Indara on Ueda, she met with Qimir in his Master persona, who demonstrated his red-bladed lightsaber to her and explained that an Acolyte doesn’t kill with a laser or steel but by killing the Jedi’s dream.
Following this lesson, Qimir followed Mae to a city on the planet Olega, staked out in a store owned by an apothecary to assist her in her plan against Master Torbin stationed in the nearby Jedi temple. After an initial failed attempt to kill Torbin, Mae entered the store and abruptly woke Qimir—who had attempted to wait up the entire previous night for the acolyte but fell asleep after consuming the store’s merchandise—by throwing a mug next to him. Mae explained to Qimir that she had failed to kill Torbin, calling the Jedi “impenetrable.” Qimir suggested finding the Master’s weakness, claiming everyone had a weakness when Mae protested. Instead, he handed Qimir a bag of bunta, asking him to make poison. Qimir claimed Master Torbin needed absolution that only Mae could provide, referring to his toxic concoction. The acolyte then left the building, telling Qimir that it would not bode well for either of them if he informed her master of their plan.
After Mae’s successful second attempt at murdering Torbin, a Jedi Padawan of the nearby temple, he was spotted by Qimir entering the store, noting that he was not the apothecary who ran it. The Jedi sent Verosha Aniseya, Mae’s twin sister, to masquerade as her sister and get a confession from Qimir. The man quickly became skeptical during their conversation but asked if the poison had worked, stating that Mae’s master would be pleased if she managed to kill Torbin without the poison. The Jedi, who were eavesdropping on the conversation, considered Qimir’s question a confession, and just as he revealed that he knew Osha was an imposter, Osha pulled a stun blaster on him, with the Jedi Yord Fandar, Sol, and Jecki Lon entering immediately after to interrogate him.
Sol offered to consider letting Qimir off with only a warning if he cooperated. When asked about his relationship to Mae, the man claimed he was simply her supplier, having started out gunrunning for the Hutts before simply supplying people with “what they need” for the right price. Sol asked about the individual Qimir had mentioned and whether Mae had a master. Qimir denied knowing what was going on aside from the fact that Mae wanted revenge on four Jedi but let the Jedi know that Mae would be returning later that night, as he was holding some items for her.
The Jedi trapped Mae that night, but the acolyte escaped capture. The following morning, she confronted Qimir and threatened to kill him for betraying her to the Jedi. The man offered to make it up to her by getting her out of the city and going to the Outer Rim retreat in Khofar, where the Wookiee Kelnacca, one of the four Jedi Mae was seeking out, lived. The pair traveled to Khofar on the Exile II, landed in the mountains outside the forest where the Wookiee Jedi dwelled, and began their trek with three hours of sunlight remaining.
As the two journeyed through the mountains, Qimir inquired as to how Mae planned to kill Kelnacca without a weapon, as she had failed to do so with Torbin and Master Indara previously. In return, Mae asked Qimir about his relationship with her master, and the man denied having made any deals with the Master, simply stating that he owed him. Mae then asked how her companion felt about her sister after their interaction with Olega. Qimir claimed she seemed in over her head but displayed a fondness for Master Sol.
While in the forest shortly before sunset, and roughly ten minutes’ travel north of Kelnacca’s shelter, Mae opted to stop and rest in preparation for her fight with the Wookiee and began to express doubts that her mission was even possible, much to Qimir’s disapproval. Regardless, the man decides to fetch water as Mae regains her energy. While he was away, Mae decided she no longer needed to kill the Jedi, as her sister was alive, and instead decided to turn herself in. She trapped Qimir and screamed for help to get him to return. The Sith ran into her trap and was hoisted upside down from a tree branch, with Mae then leaving him behind to confess her murders to Kelnacca.
After Mae left him, Qimir freed himself, donned his armor, and killed Kelnacca with his lightsaber, leaving the Wookiee’s body in his domicile. Then, just as a team of several Jedi, including Jedi Master Sol, arrived at the scene hunting Mae, Qimir emerged from the forest and drew his lightsaber against them. The Jedi attempted to run to him, but Qimir pushed them away using the Force. Despite being outnumbered, Qimir would engage the Jedi in single combat. Through unpredictable blade work and his cortosis armor, Qimir managed to kill most of the Jedi search group, including Ithia Paan and another human Jedi, wounding Yord Fandar.
After shrugging off a shot from Osha’s stun blaster, Qimir would attempt to kill Osha before being intercepted by Sol. The two warriors engaged each other in a fierce lightsaber duel before Qimir disengaged to find Mae. After finding Mae subdued by Jecki Lon, Qimir mocked his apprentice by suggesting she could learn from the Padawan’s loyalty. Mae then ran off while Qimir was distracted by Jecki, who attacked him again. Determined to ensure that Mae would not escape to expose him to the Jedi, Qimir attempted to silence Mae before being confronted by Sol and Jecki again.
During the fight, Jecki managed to break Qimir’s cortosis helmet by smashing the hilt of her lightsaber. As the helmet dropped on the ground, distracting Jecki, Qimir pulled out a hidden lightsaber and stabbed Jecki, killing her. With his true identity revealed, Qimir used the Force to pull Mae to himself, holding his lightsaber against her head. Still wishing to save Mae, Sol threw down his lightsaber, demanding to know Qimir’s affiliation. Qimir revealed that he was what the Jedi might call a Sith. When asked what he wanted, Qimir claimed he desired the freedom to wield his power openly without answering the Jedi Order, who claimed that the Sith Order should not exist and that he wanted an apprentice of his own, which he no longer considered Mae to be after her betrayal.
In a surprise attack, Yord returned to the fight, breaking Qimir’s cortosis gauntlet and using a piece of the broken cortosis helmet to disable Qimir’s lightsaber. Despite being without a weapon, the Sith grabbed Yord and broke his neck with his bare hands. Enraged, Sol attacked Qimir, beating him into submission and moving to decapitate the unarmed Sith with his lightsaber, only to be stopped by Osha. Qimir gleefully asked Osha if she still trusted Sol after he displayed aggression. Sol argued that Qimir’s mind was twisted by the dark side, to which Qimir responded that he had accepted his darkness but taunted Sol by asking him what he had done with his own. At this point, Osha discreetly pointed to a group of umbramoths she and Yord had lured to the clearing, prompting Sol to deactivate his lightsaber, claiming that Jedi do not attack unarmed opponents. Qimir scoffed at Sol’s use of the Jedi Code before retrieving his lightsaber and turning it on, unaware that the light attracted the creatures. Osha attached her PIP droid to the Sith’s back to further entice them after turning his torch on, causing the umbramoths to attack Qimir, picking him up and dragging him up into the trees. Qimir eventually freed himself from the creature’s grasp and stumbled upon an unconscious Osha, who Mae had knocked out. Draping his cloak over her, he attended to her wounds.
After healing Osha’s wound with the Force, the Stranger brought her aboard his starship and took her to his shelter on an island, where he let her rest. He then packed his things and ventured out of the shelter to a nearby shallow cove to bathe. As he left, Osha, who had awakened by that point, followed him to the cove, intending to ambush him with one of Mae’s daggers she had retrieved from the shelter. After the Stranger undressed, leaving his lightsaber behind to enter the water, Osha revealed herself and grabbed it, ordering him to stay where he was. The Stranger, however, defied her and exited the water, politely asking to be allowed to put on some clothes as Osha held him at saber point. Osha questioned why he had not killed her, deducing that she was his prisoner, but the Stranger reminded her that she was the one with a weapon. After taunting her for her feelings for her former master, Sol, the Stranger walked away, with Osha following him.
As the two walked back to the shelter, Osha suggested that the Stranger was keeping her as leverage to lure Sol back to him. She then asked the Sith why he spoke as if he were a Jedi, to which he answered that he had been a long time ago. He then pointed to a nearby island where the starship was kept and suggested that Osha either start swimming towards it or wait for the tide to go out, inviting her for dinner. Osha accepted the invitation and joined the Stranger in the shelter, keeping her distance from him.
As the Stranger was cooking dinner, Osha asked him what he meant about her being strong in the Force, as it had been years since she trained, and according to the Jedi, that would cause her skills to fade. The Stranger mused about the Jedi’s narrow-minded views and explained that there was another way to access the Force, tapping into one’s raw emotions, including anger, fear, and desire. Osha pointed out that this was the path to the dark side, to which the Stranger agreed, pointing out that it was “semantics.” Furious, Osha reminded him that he murdered her friends, but the Stranger clarified he merely killed Jedi, who threatened his existence. He then reminded Osha that Yord had arrested her for a crime she did not commit and that Jecki and Sol, whom she had feelings for, would never commit to her, asking her why she chose to be close with people who would only go so far.
Conflicted, Osha stormed out of the shelter, but the Stranger followed her and reminded her that she had stayed on the island to take revenge on him. He then grabbed her hand and placed the lightsaber she held against himself, inviting her to turn it on. Osha refused, stating that the Jedi would not attack the unarmed, but the Stranger reminded her that she was no Jedi. Osha said it was her choice to leave the Order, but the Stranger pushed her, asking whether the Order left her behind, causing Osha to ignite the lightsaber and push him against the wall, shouting that she left the Order because she failed. The Stranger reassured her by placing his hand on hers and revealing that he had also lost everything once, but when one loses everything, it is when they are finally free. Understanding, Osha turned off the lightsaber and followed the Stranger back into the shelter.
As Osha was eating the dinner the Stranger prepared, the Sith repaired his cortosis helmet, which Jecki Lon had damaged during the battle at Khofar. Osha asked if the discussion they had was the same pitch he gave to Mae, but the Stranger admitted he had made a mistake with Osha’s sister, believing she wanted more than revenge, specifying that he wanted something more, “the power of two”. He then pulled up his shirt to wipe his face, revealing a scar on his back. Osha asked where it had came from, the Stranger suggested that it was from someone who stabbed him in the back and thrown him away. When Osha asked if that was his Jedi master, the Stranger stayed silent.
Instead of an answer, the Stranger rapped on his helmet, explaining it was made of cortosis, which, besides protecting lightsabers, also worked as a sensory deprivation headpiece, allowing the wearer to commune alone with the Force. He then picked up his equipment and prepared to leave, inviting Osha to try the helmet. After a long contemplation, Osha ultimately accepted and put the helmet on. As Osha meditated, however, she began to struggle. The Stranger arrived and attempted to help her, outstretching his hand to access her mind. In doing so, he got caught by the effects of Osha’s struggle. Though he fell into a dark trance similar to those used by the witches of Brendok, the Stranger managed to get the helmet off of Osha. She revealed that she had a vision of what she assumed was her sister, killing Sol without the use of a weapon, which the Stranger noted with fervor.
As they walked to the Exile II to confront Mae, Osha asserted that they would go together, as only she knew where her sister was, so the Stranger resolved to see who got to Mae first. Though the Stranger was surprised Osha expected him to act fairly, Osha invoked his expectation for Mae to have held up their deal. The Stranger asked if Osha would ever consider being trained by him, which Osha denied twice, saying she wasn’t her sister. The Stranger agreed, as Mae had made such a deal without thinking. As they departed, the two were unknowingly watched by a figure lurking in the shadows of the Stranger’s cave abode—the Muun Sith Lord Darth Plagueis.
As the Stranger and Osha arrived at Brendok and descended into the atmosphere, the Stranger noted that Osha was back home; Osha shut down the opening to the conversation by disabling his cockpit controls. Osha observed that Mae and Sol were already on the planet, and Sol watched the two land from the surface as the Jedi looked for Mae. As the Stranger and Osha approached the witches’ derelict fortress, Osha explained that the only way in was to climb with the door inoperable. However, the Stranger skillfully floated away, leaving Osha to find a way in alone.
Donning his helmet, the Stranger dug into the fortress’s shadowy catacombs, finding Sol. He thanked Sol for leading him back to Mae and said they made a great team, igniting his lightsaber to attack the Jedi. The two dueled fiercely, fighting their way outside to a bridge, carving the metal barriers with stray saber swings. The two floated down from the bridge, and Sol voiced his determination to destroy the Stranger if necessary. The Stranger, splitting his saber into two, jabbed that Sol would not if “she” got to him first. Though the Stranger continued to battle Sol, the Jedi bested him repeatedly, using his mastery of lightsaber combat to outmaneuver the Sith, disabling him with kicks and calling on the Force to send his dual lightsabers flying away. As the Stranger reassembled his lightsaber and continued their duel, he noticed a Jedi ship descending from afar. Sol was determined the Stranger would now pay for everything he’d done, but the Sith was certain that the Jedi weren’t coming for him. The two continued their duel once more, locking and clashing sabers ferociously, but with a final swing, Sol cut through the hilt of the Stranger’s lightsaber, ending the fight. Breathing heavily, the Stranger accepted defeat, removing his helmet to stare down Sol’s blue blade.
At that moment, Mae ambushed Sol, disarming him and claiming his lightsaber. The Stranger goaded her on, telling her to feel her anger, the source of her pain, and to strike Sol down to complete her journey. Mae refused, however, and was determined to see Sol face justice and admit his crimes to the Jedi Council, the Senate, and the Republic. Sol tried to defend his actions, deliberating on Mae and her sister’s origins. As Sol explained his belief that Mother Aniseya held great power and used the Force to create the twins, the Stranger appeared to grow concerned. The Stranger looked on as Sol admitted to killing Aniseya, which Osha, who had just arrived, witnessed. At this revelation, Osha, in her rage, brought Sol to his knees with a Force choke; Sol tearfully told Mae it was okay, accepting his fate and falling dead at the feet of his former apprentice. Overwhelmed, Osha fell to the ground sobbing, moving the Stranger to comfort her with a touch. Osha reacted violently, igniting Sol’s lightsaber, though before she could take a swing, the blade’s color changed from blue to red, the crystal bleeding from Osha’s powerful emotions.
Suddenly, the Stranger sensed the presence of his former Jedi Master, Vernestra Rwoh, who had just landed on Brendok’s surface with her team of Jedi Knights. The two recognized each other in the Force, and the Stranger, startled, reequipped his helmet and vanished, leaving the Aniseya twins to escape on their own.
As Master Rwoh and the other Jedi entered the courtyard to find Sol’s body, the Stranger watched from the shadows. Rwoh sent the other Jedi away to find Sol’s killer and knelt by the body of the fallen Jedi. Contemplating quietly, Rwoh looked up to where the Stranger was watching just a moment before, only to see nobody there.
The Stranger reunited with Osha and Mae at the bunta tree, where the twins would spend time as youngsters. He greeted them by summoning Sol’s saber from Osha with the Force. Though Osha explained her plan to confess Sol’s actions to the Jedi, the Stranger expressed his bewilderment that Osha would still put faith in the Jedi after everything. He and Mae determined that Osha would have a fate similar to her mother’s if the Jedi had discovered the truth about her power. Knowing that the Stranger likely wanted Mae dead for her failure, Osha offered a deal: to train with the Stranger as an acolyte if Mae were to go free. The Stranger offered to attempt a memory wipe so that Mae could go free while unable to provide the Jedi with information that could lead to her sister or himself. Osha and the Stranger sealed the deal with a handshake as he passed Sol’s saber to her. As the twins tearfully embraced, Osha promised Mae that she would find her, and as they recited their childhood rhyme, the Stranger began to erase Mae’s memories of himself and her sister.
Having forged a new partnership, the Stranger and Osha returned to their island hideout. Gazing upon the world’s churning ocean, the Stranger held Osha’s hand as she clutched Sol’s lightsaber, now bled and claimed as her own.
On Coruscant, Rwoh would meet with a Galactic Senate tribunal, giving a version of the recent events that bore no mention of her former student, framing Sol for the murders done by the Stranger and his acolyte. Later, as Rwoh met with an amnesic Mae, the Jedi Master was determined to make things right and asked for Mae’s help finding her pupil, who had turned to evil.
Appearances: The Acolyte
