Dante Erinith
- "Life...is tough, no matter the path you walk. You have to be tough as beskar to be a real optimist, to look at the bright side despite the garbage piled on you day after day - and you have to be scum to be completely apathetic, to have every redeeming trait of sentient life cleanly exorcised out of you. You have to find the middle ground. It's the best that men like you and I can really do.
We walk that ground every day. A dozen of us fight for a dozen different reasons, against men with drives and goals not entirely unlike our own. Fighting for the sake of fighting, because it's all we know. When we walk into politics or relationships, we mess it up; we're warriors, fighters, not talkers. Some of us try to do good, but more often than not, we have to settle for not making things worse than they already are. We do our best, and we hope it's enough.
Men see my armor, and they know that I am Mandalorian, and they pass me off as a thug, as a brute mercenary who doesn't care about anything but himself. It's us Mandalorians versus the galaxy. Together, we stand alone in a galaxy that despises us, and it lets us know it every chance it can get - and it really weighs down on you after a while. You grow tired. You grow cynical. You just stumble from one battle to another, hoping, waiting for something.
And then, one day, fighting in a war for a reason you don't understand or a cause you don't believe in, on a side you can't say for sure is better than any other, you stumble across a town. Somebody else beat you there. The men are dead. The children are crying. The women are taken.
And then you remember why you picked up a gun in the first place, and you run out to bring those kids' mothers back to them." - — Dante Erinith ~ Year 16
Dante Erinith, otherwise commonly known by the alias of Aegyl Seraf, is one of the only Echani currently operating publicly in the galaxy, if not the only one at all. Ostensibly born and raised on the desolate planet of Rhen Var by an Echani mother and a supposedly Mandalorian father, he adopted both cultures as he grew up, and for a long time struggled to balance the two out as he made his way in the galaxy. Upon becoming of age, he turned his attentions to matters of conflict and battle, rapidly proving himself to be something of a prodigy in that arena.
Raised on stories of the Galactic Empire, however, he took the earliest opportunity he could find to join up with them. While initially facing great difficulty due to his race and a lack of social graces, he eventually joined the Imperial Army, serving in a variety of capacities in the First Imperial Legion for four years. Over this time, however, he came to see what he viewed as the 'true face' of the Empire and became greatly disillusioned, coming to the realisation that the Empire he had grown up believing in was nothing more than a well crafted lie.
Betrayed and finding himself fleeing from the Empire's agents after being dishonourably discharged and declared a traitor, Dante re-examined his loyalties, and over a course of years apparently came to the conclusion that he would never again blindly follow another. From then on, he explored the galaxy with only a few companions and assets to his name, becoming an assassin and mercenary for hire in the less civilised and known areas of space and making a point out of remaining 'just another face', staying away from the affairs of the social elite - an effort that has largely been successful, with there having been precious little confirmed information about him and his activities up to around Year 20.
Early in year 18, however, he was discovered by a previously unknown individual, since revealed to be the infamous Anzati Matriarch Kira Morbus, to be Force Sensitive. A short time later, he declared his abandonment of the Mandalorian culture and instead began to walk the Jedi Path. Sometime around the beginning of Year 19, he was confirmed as being a member of the Jedi Order, in training under Hal Gevant of the Jedi Council. Despite still merely a Padawan at the time and in training, by the time of Year 20 he became considered something of an icon of the Jedi Order among various galactic circles.
This was however not to last. Disagreement with the Council led to a stalling of his advancement in the Order, further catalysed by Dante's continued activity in the galaxy at large, many times overstepping what the Order felt was appropriate for a Jedi Padawan. Dante, in turn, became increasingly critical of what he saw as a passive Jedi Order that refused to make a stand and was content simply to exist. Frustrated with the Jedi Order, and ostracised by a number of its more judgemental or hardline members, Dante ultimately tendered his own exile late in Year 20 as things reached a boiling point, leaving on terms that while were not outright hostile were not entirely friendly either.
Initially finding partnership with Kara DuMonte and the Veilhal Nomads, treachery and betrayal saw both come to an abrupt end, ensuring that Dante's path remained a solitary one. While he has since found a place with the Stryker Military Services as of Year 21, it is understood that his relationship with them is more amicable as opposed to servile; while he performs favours for them, he largely attends to his own affairs, pursuing the life of a Jedi in the galaxy at large.
Biography
Early Life
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Childhood
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Shatter Zero
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In His Footsteps
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One Man of Two Worlds
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Project Bastion
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Facing the Force
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Immortals Broken
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Dereliction of Duty
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Out of His Shadow
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To Be Better
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Hunter without a Hunt
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The Maw Expedition
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Awakening
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Remembering how to Walk
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The First Taste
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Vox Populi
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To be a Jedi
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Broken Bonds
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Light in the Darkness
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Darth Draxes
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White Jedi
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Fire and Ice
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The Road Continues
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Nomads and Wanderers
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The Sharpest Knife
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The Tournament
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Personal Information
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Personality
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Abilities and Powers
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Equipment and Possessions
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Career
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Paramilitary
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