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A new mentor: Kreia/Darth Traya
"Know that there was once a Darth Traya. And that she cast aside that role, was exiled, and found a new purpose. But there must always be a Darth Traya, one that holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their heart, and will betray in turn." - Darth Traya
Biographical information
Born Unknown. Possibly 4,001 BBY (3966BrS)[1]
Died 3,951 BBY (3916BrS), Malachor V[2]
Physical description
Species Human
Gender Female
Hair color Gray
Eye color Milky white (atrophied)
Black (dark side)
Chronological and political information
Era(s) Old Republic era
Affiliation Galactic Republic
Jedi Order (exiled)
Sith (exiled)
Sith Triumvirate (exiled)
Known apprentices Revan (Jedi Padawan)
Jedi Exile (Informally)
Darth Nihilus (Sith apprentice)
Darth Sion (Sith apprentice)
Preceded by:
Unknown, eventually Revan
Darth Malak as Dark Lord of the Sith
Owner of the Ebon Hawk - 3,951 BBY
Leader of the Sith Triumvirate 3,956 BBY - 3,955 BBY
Succeeded by:
Jedi Exile
Darth Nihilus as Dark Lord of the Sith
Kreia was a female Human Jedi Master during the time before the Mandalorian Wars, and later a Sith Lord under the alias Darth Traya, the Lord of Betrayal. Later in life, after she turned to the dark side, the traits that she had exhibited in her former profession suited her new role as master schemer and Sith Lord. Having been betrayed by both the Jedi and the Sith, she dreamt of revenge not toward both or either group but rather focused her ire toward what she truly felt had destined her for such betrayals: the Force itself.
Her story reached its climax when she found the Jedi Exile, a unique being who had the potential to bring her dream of revenge a step closer to fruition. But this plan came to nothing, as the Exile dueled and killed Darth Traya in the Trayus Academy.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Fall to the dark side
1.3 Teaching on Malachor V
1.4 Kreia and the Jedi Exile
1.4.1 Encounter with the Exile
1.4.2 Finding the Lost Jedi
1.4.3 Endgame
2 Personality and traits
3 Powers and abilities
4 Teachings
5 Behind the scenes
5.1 Portrayal and name
5.2 Alternate ending
5.3 Cut content
5.4 A mysterious past
6 Appearances
7 Sources
8 Notes and references
Biography
Early life
"I was a historian once, gathering the relics of the Jedi, learning the ancient mysteries. Always, there were more questions." - Kreia
Much of Kreia's early life is shrouded in mystery, except for the fact that she worked her way to the rank of Jedi Master and that she trained many students, among them Revan. Her teachings were looked upon with concern by the Jedi Council and by the end of her time with the Jedi Order, they believed all of her students to be failures as they followed Revan into the Mandalorian Wars, fell to the dark side, or abandoned their training.[3]
Fall to the dark side
"All that talk of hatred, manipulation, and standing on your own two feet - sorry, you don't get any more Sith than that." - Atton Rand
It is unknown when exactly Kreia was cast from the Jedi Order, although, judging by certain comments made by Jedi Masters such as Kavar, it was most likely during, if not before, the Mandalorian Wars.[4] According to Kreia, she had been exiled from the Order for her role in training Revan[3]. The Jedi Council blamed Kreia for the war after several of her apprentices were easily seduced by the call of battle, most notably Revan[4]. Consumed by her guilt, she questioned the validity of her beliefs in the philosophy and wondered if this was the reason why Revan had fallen.
She followed Revan's footsteps in history, traveling from planet to planet, searching for an answer that she alone could provide. In her travels, she encountered many of Revan's acquaintances and found fragments of a man far from the dreaded image history would eventually paint of him. Her journey ended on the world of Malachor V, a nexus of dark side energies and part of the ancient Sith Empire. On the surface, she found Revan's former stronghold, Trayus Academy, an ancient dark side Praxeum that contained the deepest and most intimate secrets of the Sith. There she learned of a forgotten legacy of the Sith that lurked in the Unknown Regions for thousands of years. From that moment, she firmly believed that Revan had never "fallen" to the dark side, that a greater cause had come that called for certain actions to be done.[3] From the descent of Jedi Master Kreia into the darkness arose Darth Traya, Dark Lord of Betrayal.[5]
Teaching on Malachor V
"In the end, [Revan] 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
It came the time when Revan was apprehended, stripped of his identity, and sent after his former apprentice. With Malak's defeat, however, memories of his former self came back to haunt him, and he remembered the academy on Malachor.[6] He made for the shattered remains of Malachor V and found Kreia, who completed his training and made him ready to leave the Jedi Order once and for all. Then he left the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 and HK-47 behind, and disappeared from known galaxy.
Continuing the legacy of her student, Darth Traya re-established Trayus Academy to train, convert, and create the new generation of Sith, who would act as a gadfly to the Republic. After some time, she found similar Sith Lords who were interested in rebuilding the deteriorating Sith Order. Darth Nihilus, the Lord of Hunger, and Darth Sion, the Lord of Pain, joined her in the creation of the first Sith Triumvirate. As time passed and the Jedi ran to hide, the Sith Lords' ideals became divergent. Traya and Revan's legacy fell far from Darth Nihilus' destructive hunger and Sion's bitter crusade against the Jedi. A violent argument eventually arose among the three, and as Traya was the odd one out, she was cast aside, beaten and broken. Nihilus afterwards became the Dark Lord of the Sith. Once again, Kreia had been betrayed.[7]
Lost and disheveled, Kreia forsook her Sith identity. She came to regard the Force as an uncaring, insidious god who would control their people to achieve some measure of balance, at the cost of countless lives throughout history.[6] She believed now that this conflict between light and dark would never end, and that the galaxy was doomed to chaos forever. Firm in her belief, she engineered a master plan to eliminate the Force, once and for all.
Kreia and the Jedi Exile
"There is no truth in the Force. But there is truth in you, Exile. And that is why I chose you." - Kreia
Banished, disbanded or in hiding, the Jedi were nearly gone from the galaxy.[8] Kreia had left Malachor with T3-M4 and made return to Republic space aboard the Ebon Hawk seeking the last known Jedi, the Jedi Exile, a General of the Mandalorian Wars who won the Battle of Malachor V by questionable means such as the use of the Mass Shadow Generator, which left a wound in the Force. Beneath layers of hearsay and unconfirmed reports, Kreia had found a means to deafen the galaxy to the Force. She sought to exploit the Exile's talent with Force bonding and create another wound, greater than the one before, whose echoes would travel forever, never reaching their destination.[9]
Encounter with the Exile
"I am your rescuer, as you are mine." - Kreia
At one point, Jedi Master Atris arranged for the Exile's return to the Republic, and exposed her presence in the coreward databases in the hopes of using her as bait for the Sith.[9] On the Hammerhead-class capital ship Harbinger, the Exile was found by an HK-50 Jedi Hunter and drugged into unconsciousness. 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 the Exile arrived safely on Peragus thanks to T3-M4, who was able to get the ship working enough to get to the colony.[10] 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 twined their lives. As they attempted to escape the mining facility, the Sith arrived aboard the Harbinger and Kreia encountered her former protege, Darth Sion. The master and student fought, and Kreia, hardly at her full power, lost her left hand to Sion's lightsaber. The Exile felt the pain of losing the limb as she had done. Kreia used the opportunity to convince the Exile that the bond between them was fatal, that if one of them died, the other would too,[11] forcing the Exile to keep the old woman at her side, although the actual validity of such a claim was questionable. Bound by hands of death, Kreia intruded upon the company of the Exile, but remained vague on her ties to Revan and Malachor V until the end, and since Kreia had the only means of accessing the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer,[12] the Exile had no way of knowing were the ship came from either.
Finding the Lost Jedi
"No game of dejarik can be won without pawns, and this may prove to be a very long game." - Kreia
While the Exile was slowly reconnecting to the Force, Kreia began to shape the Jedi as a new pupil. She taught the Exile to carefully choose between actions, asking the Jedi to view the ethical implications of all quests undertaken, and 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 the Exile grew in power, Kreia watched as the struggling Republic was unknowingly strengthened through the Jedi's search. During these adventures, many people found the company of the Exile, most of them sensitive to the Force; and although many of them were wary of Kreia, she was able to manipulate most of them to do her bidding. Through the ease of which the Exile had "called" upon these companions, the old master had seen the Exile's ability to transmit extreme echoes to those the Jedi was bound with. Using the Exile's power and with the knowledge of Darth Nihilus's condition, Kreia intended to bring her plans into finality.
During her travels with the Exile, Kreia blackmailed Atton Rand after she invaded his mind and discovered what made him fear the Jedi. On Dxun, when the crew of the Ebon Hawk required the assistance of the new Mandalore, she manipulated him into protecting the Exile. When Bao-Dur attempted to get her off the ship, Kreia reminded him of Malachor V, furthering the guilt in his mind. When the group was joined by Mical, also known as the Disciple on Dantooine, Kreia manipulated his mind. Playing tricks on his sight for so long that he was unaware of her presence until she revealed herself to him after he discovered the truth behind her motives and the darkness moving across the galaxy, consuming all life. However, Kreia made it so he would not remember her or what he discovered until the time was right.
While on Nar Shaddaa, Kreia bound the bounty hunter Hanharr to a life-debt after his defeat at the hands of, who Kreia called, the huntress, Mira. Kreia sent Hanharr to Malachor V where if he survived he would become stronger, promising to end the debt he owed her when he killed Mira, although as fate would turn out, Hanharr would be defeated by Mira again on Malachor V.
While on Onderon, Kreia revived Colonel Tobin and made him believe that the Onderon Civil War was still going on and that she served General Vaklu. She knew that Vaklu and Tobin served her former ally, Darth Nihilus, so she fed him false information about a Jedi Enclave on Telos (actually, Atris was the only Jedi on Telos) and she sent him to the Ravager. Tobin acted on this information, which ended up getting Tobin and Nihilus killed over Telos.
By the end of her adventures with the Exile, Kreia had devised a method to kill the Force with what she called "echoes": tragedies that left persistent wounds in the universe, which made the Force difficult and sometimes impossible to hear and use. Her discovery of these "echoes" and her avenue of attack on the Force was made possible entirely by the Exile, who provided the first "echo" that she could study through her actions on the planet of Malachor V. By Kreia's reasoning, people who died of these echoes when they could not bear to voluntarily sever themselves from the Force (as the Exile did) were not strong enough to deserve to live in the first place. Her hatred of the Force was the overriding goal, for in her mind, if she did not kill it, even more lives would be lost in the future.[6]
Endgame
"Know that much may happen here, but above all, do not forget this: you may trust in me. We cradle each others' lives, and what threatens one of us threatens us both. And if you find you cannot trust me, trust in your training - trust in yourself. Never doubt what you have done. All your decisions have brought you to this point." - Kreia's final advice to the Exile
Kreia kills Vrook Lamar, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell with Force Drain as the Exile looks on.Kreia traveled with the Exile, whom she helped search for the Jedi Masters. When the truth was revealed?that the Exile had unconsciously deafened herself to the Force in order to survive, as opposed to being cut off from it by the Jedi Council as the Exile previously believed - Kreia confronted the reassembled Jedi Council in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. As the Jedi Masters - Vrook Lamar, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell - actually tried to strip the Force from the Exile, whom they believed to be a wound in the Force and a danger that could lure the Sith - Kreia drained their connection to the force, killing them, and once again assumed her Sith identity.[4]
She was then led to Jedi Master Atris for judgment by Handmaidens while the Exile laid unconscious. Journeying to the Telos Academy, the reborn Darth Traya revealed that Atris had herself been corrupted and turned to the dark side by the Sith holocrons she gathered, but could not admit it even to herself. Atris embraced the dark side openly, but was soon confronted and defeated by the Exile.[9]
Kreia returned to Malachor V where she intended to sacrifice herself to open up the larger wound in the force in order to destroy it. After their brief duel, Atris told the Exile that such an act would undoubtedly kill the Exile and destroy the Force but she couldn't fathom why Kreia would want to make such a move. However, Kreia would wait for the Exile to come to her for answers and final confrontation.
After the Battle of Telos IV, in which the Exile destroyed Darth Nihilus, the Exile journeyed to Malachor V, where Traya and Sion were hidden in the depths of the Trayus Academy. The Exile confronted the Sith Lords, and eroded Sion's will, releasing him from all his pain in the process. By giving up the pain, and therefore the Force, Sion was finally able to die?but not before warning the Exile that Traya would try to do to her what she had done to Sion himself.
"Save me? You already have - it is enough what you have done, from now into the future." - The redeemed Kreia to the Exile
The Exile found Traya in the core of the academy and bested her, slicing her remaining hand off. Despite so many betrayals, so many deceptions, the Exile forgave Kreia for everything that had happened. Kreia realized that she had been seeking redemption all along and chose to honor the Exile with a final gift; she drew upon the Force that radiated from Malachor V and cast a prediction of the future of the galaxy and that of the Exile's friends. She stood dying from the wounds dealt to her by the Exile, telling her apprentice that she must follow Revan to the Unknown Regions. Before her death, she confessed that she truly loved the Exile - her greatest student, by her own words - as she believed that the Exile had finally proven her ideals were correct. Then, the Exile eased Kreia, who had been like a mother to her, from her sufferings to what she once despised - the Force.[6]
Her body was shortly destroyed afterwards - destroyed along with Malachor when the Mass Shadow Generator was activated for the last time.
Personality and traits
As a person, Darth Traya was self-reliant, manipulative, and constantly wary of the intentions of others.
Traya often remonstrated the Exile for taking away the challenges of others. She argued that indiscriminate compassion weakened the benefactors by disallowing them the mental and physical enrichment that life's challenges inherently procure. Ultimately, she said, such compassion thus weakened the very people it was intended to help, cheapening their experience and leaving them more ill-prepared for dealing with things on their own. In other words, Traya had adopted a "survival of the fittest" philosophy, and encouraged people to struggle in order to learn and to prosper.[13]
After being betrayed by those closest to her, Traya expected the worst from the people around her. As the Exile's circle of companions grew, Traya came to see how these companions could be used for her own ends, and sometimes ensured their loyalty using methods of questionable morality. For example, she read the mind of Atton Rand, learned of his dark history, and used that to blackmail him into the Exile's service.[14] She also tempted the Mandalorian leader, Mandalore Canderous Ordo, with knowledge of Revan's fate in order to ensure that he would not betray the Exile. [15]
A master of manipulation, Traya also used betrayal and deception to achieve her goals. She lied to the Exile at the beginning of their quest, claiming that the Jedi Council had stripped the Force from the Jedi Exile. Traya knew this would lead the Exile to seek out the surviving members of the Jedi Council, in hopes that she, or the Exile, would prove them wrong on their teachings. On Onderon, Traya lied to Colonel Tobin about the existence of many Jedi in a Jedi Academy on Telos,[16] knowing that Tobin would relay this to his true Master, Darth Nihilus, who would not be able to resist the chance to replenish himself and would recklessly assault Telos.[17] This left Nihilus vulnerable to the assault of the Mandalorians and the Exile.
Despite these traits, Traya was not the cruel, cold-hearted manipulator that many had dismissed her as. She had a softer side to her personality that was more apparent when she was around the Jedi Exile. In fact, Traya once expressed that she would go so far as to let the entire galaxy die in order to ensure the life of the Exile, and lived up to her word - during her travels, the Exile was the only person she really cared about, viewing everyone else as expendable. [18]
Though Traya was intelligent and quite powerful in her own right, she also realized that her philosophies would be regarded as fanatical by both the Jedi and the Sith. Because of this, she preferred to fly beneath the radar, often using her own power to shield her identity from other Force-sensitives who might have known her, and could have otherwise detected her. She was not outspoken about her convictions.
An odd trait of Kreia was her habit to rarely refer to any of the Exile's companions by name, calling them by titles. She would refer to Atton Rand as "the fool", Mical as a "tiny Jedi", Brianna as the "servant of Atris", Visas Marr as "the blinded one" or "the seer", Mira as "the huntress", T3-M4, HK-47, and G0-T0 all as "machines", Hanharr as "the beast", and Bao-Dur as "the alien".
Powers and abilities
"I use it as I would use a poison, and in the hopes of understanding it, I will learn the way to kill it. But perhaps these are the excuses of an old woman who has grown to rely on a thing she despises." - Darth Traya on the Force
Kreia was a master of telekinetic lightsaber combat, which allowed her to wield three or more lightsabers in combat, holding each of them aloft with the Force, and having them fight with a will of their own[19]. She was also a master manipulator, having used this skill to maneuver herself into a position of power at the Trayus Academy and, later, trick the Jedi and Sith into revealing themselves, allowing her and her accomplices to destroy them. She also had the Force Fear ability.
Jedi Historian
"One quickly learns that the Jedi code does not give all the answers." - Kreia
Kreia had once been a Jedi historian, and on her way through the path of knowledge the Jedi Code became unfit for her idea of teaching and learning the ways of the Force. She came to realize that the Force defies the simplistic tenets of the Order, that one who is to truly understand would need the contrast, not adherence to a single idea. During this time she would search and gather relics of the Force. On Korriban she indulged in a tour of the tombs and excavation sites in the Valley of the Dark Lords while showing the Exile a profound knowledge of their history, a contempt for ignorance, and a care for truth that survived to her last days.
Healer
"The ability to heal is also the ability to harm. And the inability to heal what is damaged can also bring about harm." - Kreia
In her journey with the Exile, Kreia would go on about her healing talents a lot. She spoke of healing, during a lesson related to skills, as of something she was knowledgeable about. She claimed to be able to heal her own damaged eyes?which were really atrophied from use? yet she refused to do so, as she had the Force Sight ability and regarded her natural sight as a distraction. She could go into a Hibernation Trance that would slow down biological functions and make her appear perfectly dead. She used this ability on the Ebon Hawk when the Harbinger tractor beamed the freighter,[20] and again when the Republic warship fired on it.[21] She also used some variant of this ability on Atton Rand, when she learned of his former allegiance in the Telosian Jedi Academy.[22] She further knew the ability of Breath Control, which made her immune to most poisons, and she taught it to the Exile as well, telepathically, when she was in danger of dying from the toxic fumes of the Jekk'Jekk Tarr, during a meeting with local Exchange boss Visquis on Nar Shaddaa. In the Jekk'Jekk Tarr she would also use her healing powers to revive Hanharr, after he was left for dead by Mira. On Onderon she revived Colonel Tobin after he was slammed by a Drexl larva.
Absence in the Force
"She is difficult to see... she's like a shadow of the Exile." - Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell
Kreia was rather proficient at using Force Cloak to hide her presence from whomever she chose. Her skill with this ability was demonstrated on the Ebon Hawk as she whispered to Mical, making him believe he was hearing things, taunting at Jedi awareness that she thought would never cruise beyond what she allowed. She also used a variation of this ability that enabled her to be seen but remain entirely unnoticed, to cloud the memory of others so they would forget her presence or even her existence. When the Exile came to Kreia about why none of the Jedi Masters they encountered mentioned her, she lied, claiming they perhaps did not remember or care, but was not believed. She described her ability as making herself "very small"[3], a talent she claimed not to use on the Exile, and that was even more effective on the worlds where they traveled, where sensing Force-users was difficult. On Dantooine Jedi Master Vrook would speak of the Sith threat and their ability to mask their presence, but he did not believe that mere Force-cloaking techniques alone would be sufficient to hide the one responsible for what had befallen the Jedi. Eventually the Exile would learn more about this, when Kreia was revealed as one of the Lords of the Sith, Atris explained that much of the reason she succeeded in hiding her dark persona lay actually in the fact that the Force had been stripped from her.
Dark Side
As Darth Traya, she was a master of Force Drain, which she used to kill dozens of Sith Assassins instantaneously and simultaneously. She obliterated the Jedi High Council in the persons of Jedi Masters Vrook Lamar, Kavar, and Zez-Kai Ell by showing them the Force "through the eyes of the Exile", supposedly consuming their connection to the Force in a way similar to that of Darth Nihilus, denying them even the means to become one with the Force. The Exile would later behold them as "worse than lifeless, like an absence in the Force"[4]. From the Trayus Core she was also able to glimpse far into the future, predicting isolated events with incredible accuracy. Traya was able to predict the death of Jango Fett at the hands of Mace Windu nearly 4,000 years later, in a prophecy relating to the fate of the Mandalorians[6]:
"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and, in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi." - Darth Traya
Teachings
"Is this your new Master, exile? If so, then you follow Revan's path. Her teachings will cause you to fall as surely as he did." - Vrook Lamar to the Jedi Exile
Among her allies were Darth Nihilus, and her students, Darth Sion, the Jedi Exile and Revan. Even when she was a Sith, Traya had some notion that neither the light nor dark side of the Force was truly superior to the other. Due to the fact her teachings incorporated light side concepts (she never believed in power or destruction for its own sake), Sion and Nihilus grew weary of her. They betrayed her, stripped her of power, and exiled her.[7] She described her fall from power thus:
"There are dark places in the galaxy where few tread. Ancient centers of learning, of knowledge... But I did not walk alone. To be united by hatred is a... fragile alliance at best. But my will was not law. There were disagreements. Ambition. And hunger for power. There are techniques within the Force against which there is no defense. I was cast down. Stripped of my power. Exiled. I suffered... indignities. And fell into darkness." - Kreia to the Jedi Exile
Darth Traya would refine her beliefs while wandering the galaxy, eventually coming to view the Force as being a sort of uncaring, insidious god that uses the lives of sentients as pawns in a pernicious game of balance. This, she thought, was evidenced by the widespread occurrences of destruction and death that had persistently transpired throughout the Galaxy to that point, many of which could be traced to a conflict between Force-sensitives. Yet, Traya blamed neither the Jedi nor the Sith, but rather, the very thing they had both come to draw and rely upon: the Force itself.
After being exiled from the Jedi Order when she was forced to shoulder the blame for Revan's corruption and again after she was exiled from Malachor V by her Sith students Nihilus and Sion, Darth Traya had experienced betrayals from, and saw the flaws of, both the light and dark sides of the Force. These unique experiences disillusioned her and forced her to refine her ways of thinking.
When she heard about the Jedi Exile, she saw proof that life could exist without the Force, which she saw as disproof of the traditional dogma of both the Sith and Jedi that the Force and life itself were inseparable by nature. This renewed Traya's confidence in her personal beliefs and fueled her desire to learn more of the Exile's personal motivations. By the end of her adventures with the Exile, during which time she went by the name of Kreia, Traya had discovered that certain tragedies can leave wounds in the Force, which sometimes made it difficult to hear and be used. These "echoes," as Traya called them, provided a possible avenue through which it was possible to attack the Force. Her discovery was due in no small part to the Exile, as her experience at Malachor V, where she cut herself off from the Force, created an echo large enough that Traya was able to connect the tragedy to the wound created in the Force. According to Traya, those who had chosen death (or the Jedi who chose the dark side) over a life devoid of the Force were not strong enough to deserve life. Her desire to prevent unnecessary death in the future was the overbearing motivation that cultivated her hatred for the Force.
Despite her loathing of the Force, she still used it; she explained it by comparing herself to one who studies poison. Just as such a person would strive to understand the lethality behind poison, so she strives to understand the particularities of the Force, thereby enabling her to destroy it, perhaps.
Darth Traya envisioned a galaxy that would choose not to acquiesce to the will of the Force. She thought she could achieve this by showing how one could willingly abnegate the Force and eventually become stronger for it, and it was the Exile who was a living testament to this. In her teachings with the Jedi Exile, she emphasized how dependent the Jedi and Sith were on the Force, and how they had become flawed for it. By making the Exile her protege, she hoped her message would resonate with future Force-sensitives so they would choose to use the Force without necessarily bending to either extreme, and certainly not to the point where they would choose death over life without the Force. Ultimately, though, she dreamed of a galaxy lacking of the Force altogether, as it was her belief that the galaxy would be better off that way.
Behind the scenes
During the sequence in the Sith tomb, Kreia uses a blue lightsaber.
On Dxun, Kreia tells Mandalore: "Always in motion is the future." It mirrors what Yoda said in The Empire Strikes Back.
Portrayal and name
Kreia was voiced by Sara Kestelman.
GameSpy declared Kreia the best video game character of 2005. [23]
The name Traya comes directly from the word "betrayal," which holds an obvious relation to the events of her life.
Alternate ending
If the Exile is dark-sided, there is an option to throw her into the Trayus Core. This scene mirrors Palpatine's death.
Cut content
Main article: Cut content from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
In an unused dialogue (and discarded plot events) Kreia revealed that she had been manipulating the mind of Atris for years, and through her orchestrated the Jedi Exile's trial and sentence.
A single alternative line in the "Kreia's Fall" scene from the game revealed that the catalyst for Sion and Nihilus' betrayal was that Kreia decreed that the Jedi Exile was not to be harmed.
The official player's guide to the game showed that Kreia had actual dark side transitions, and that her alignment would change depending on the Exile's alignment and level of influence with her, like the rest of the crew. The decision to remove them and set Kreia's alignment to "true neutral" permanently must have been made late in production.
After Kreia slew the three Jedi masters on Dantooine, if Brianna the handmaiden was not part of the Exile's party, Visas would take Kreia before Nihilus instead of Atris.
Kreia was not always intended to be the only Traya and final boss in the game. Before the content was cut out, the choices the Exile made could have her or Atris become Traya at the end. In that scenario, Kreia sacrifices her life to protect the Jedi Exile from her. The New Essential Chronology introduced even more confusion, as it mistakenly referred to "Darth Kreia" and "Darth Traya" as two separate characters. This error was later addressed by author Dan Wallace [2], but it was too late, as the book was already out. The error was again repeated in the Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force.
After Kreia lost her first hand in the beginning, there are a few errors in her actions and movements while lacking it throughout the rest of the game, such as putting fists on the waist, holding her lightsaber as if there were "two" holding it, and using her Force powers in battle. Also in one of Kreia's flashbacks she is shown without her hand, though she did not lose it until years later.
Elements such as Atris' dark side ending and Kreia's comments near the climax of the game may indicate that the Darth Traya role has a quasi-religious significance within the Sith Order; Count Dooku himself notably remarked that "treachery is the way of the Sith." As such, Sion's and Nihilus's respective titles as Lord of Pain and Lord of Hunger may portray further arcane Sith teaching delved from the Malachor ruins and the Trayus Academy.
The screenshot that shows Kreia with her hood removed was taken with a modified game; while such a scene never takes place in the game, it was supposed to take place during the Rebuilt Enclave scene, when Kreia reveals herself to the three Jedi Masters; however, in the official release, Kreia stays hooded due to a scripting glitch. This has been fixed by The Sith Lords Restoration Project developers.
A mysterious past
There is an ongoing dispute as to whether the Jedi Arren Kae and Kreia are the same person. While available material, cut or not, indicates that it may indeed have been Obsidian Entertainment's original intent, there is no conclusive evidence that could either prove or disprove this theory within Star Wars canon. The main source of cited for this dispute is that at one point in the game Mical the Disciple said that the first and also the last of the many trainers of Revan was Arren Kae, and at another point Kreia said she, Kreia, was the first and last trainer of Revan.
When asked about the relationship between Kreia and Kae, Chris Avellone ambiguously responded "Can't comment, but good catch. Sorry."[24]
Appearances
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Sources
Chronicles of the Old Republic
The New Essential Chronology
Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
"Heritage of the Sith" - Star Wars Insider 88
Notes and references
1.According to Chris Avellone's comments on the Obsidian Entertainment Forum, she is likely to be 50 years old, but also says "like Yoda, who knows", indicating that her true age may still be a mystery.
2.Being the final enemy in The Sith Lords, Kreia dies regardless of the actions the player takes.
3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Sith Lords: Conversations with Kreia.
4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Sith Lords: Rebuilt Jedi Enclave sequence.
5. Chronicles of the Old Republic.
6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Sith Lords: Final conversation with Kreia.
7. 7.0 7.1 The Sith Lords: The "Kreia's fall" cutscene, triggered via dialogue with her.
8. The Sith Lords: Opening crawl.
9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Sith Lords: Final conversation with Atris.
10. The Sith Lords: Peragus holologs.
11. The Sith Lords: Peragus escape sequence.
12. The Sith Lords: Conversation with Kreia after the arrival of Darth Sion on Peragus.
13. The Sith Lords: Encounters with refugees in need on Nar Shaddaa.
14. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Atton Rand during their imprisonment in the Telosian Jedi Academy.
15. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Mandalore, just before the first trip from Dxun to Onderon.
16. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Tobin in the Iziz Royal Palace, after the Exile's victory.
17. The Sith Lords: Conversation with Tobin on the Ravager.
18. According to Chris Avellone, this was by design, to make the player feel special. [1]
19. The Sith Lords: The final fight.
20. The Sith Lords: Logs on the Harbinger reported only dead bodies on the Ebon Hawk.
21. The Sith Lords: The prologue. T3M4 finds Kreia's body which appears to be dead. Medical logs of the Peragus Mining Facility also report her to be dead.
22. The Hibernation Trance can only affect the user, it's not something that may be used upon others.
23. GameSpy Game of the Year 2005
24. StarWarsKnights Interview w/ Chris Avellone
Quotes
Contents
1 Kreia's predictions
1.1 The Exile's followers
1.2 Planets
2 Quotes about Kreia
3 Non-canonical quotes
3.1 Male Exile
3.2 Cut material
"Awaken." - Kreia, telepathically, to Jedi Exile in the Peragus Mining Facility
"Find what you were looking for amongst the dead?" - Kreia to Jedi Exile in the Peragus Mining Facility
"He cannot kill what he cannot see, power has blinded him long ago." - Kreia on Darth Sion
"To have fallen so far and learned nothing - that is your failing." - Kreia to Darth Sion on board the Harbinger
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on studying the potentium instead of just the light side
"Our path brought us here for a reason..." - Kreia on the Ebon Hawk's arrival at Telos IV
"Also, in private, we will be mercifully free from the opinions of imbeciles and fools." - Kreia to Jedi Exile about their companions
"The Jedi Academy on Dantooine is nothing more than a crater that echoes with the ghosts of dead Jedi. And the Jedi Temple on Coruscant lies empty. The waters in the Room of a Thousand Fountains have fallen still, in reverence to the fallen Jedi... and those now lost." - Kreia on the destruction of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine and the Jedi abandoning the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the First Jedi Purge
"Your spirit, as diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you." - Kreia to Atton Rand
"But you will forget that. Your mind is worse than the others, so open, so trusting. Your feelings for her are your weakness." - Kreia to Mical about his feelings for Jedi Exile
"There are dark places in the galaxy where few tread. Ancient centers of learning, of knowledge. But I did not walk alone. To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best. But my will was not law. There were disagreements, ambition? and hunger for power. There are techniques within the Force against which there is no defense. I was cast down, stripped of my power, exiled. I suffered indignities, and fell into darkness." - Kreia on her exile from the Sith Triumvirate
"If you were to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat, you would learn that we are as children playing with toys compared to the prowess of the old Masters." - Kreia on the ancient Sith Lords
"Revan was power. Staring into his eyes was like staring into the heart of the Force. Even then, you could see the Jedi he would slay etched on his soul." - Kreia on Revan
"It would have helped, had he made her understand. But she was always strong-willed, that one, and did not understand war as Revan did." - Kreia on the way Revan left Bastila Shan
"Know that much may happen here, but above all, do not forget this - you may trust in me. We cradle each other's lives, and what threatens one of us, threatens us both. And if you find you cannot trust me, trust in your training. Trust in yourself. Never doubt what you have done. All your decisions have brought you to this point." - Kreia to Jedi Exile as she is about to enter the Jedi Enclave and meet the Jedi Council
Vrook: "You were deafened."
Kreia: "At last, you could hear."
Kavar: "You were broken."
Kreia: "You were whole."
Zez-Kai Ell: "You were blinded."
Kreia: "And at last, you saw." - The Jedi Council and Kreia during their meeting with the Jedi Exile.
"Step away from her!
[Vrook Lamar stands up and runs in her direction, but is Force pushed back again.]
Step away! She has brought truth, and you condemn it? The arrogance! You will not harm her. You will not harm her ever again. As you would pass judgment on her, I have come to pass judgment on you all." - Kreia to the Jedi Masters as they attempt to cut the Jedi Exile off from the Force and she Force Pushes them back
"How could you ever hope to know the threat you face, when you have never walked in the dark places of the galaxy - faced war and death on such a scale. If you had traveled far enough, rather than waiting for the echo to reach you, perhaps you would have seen it for what it was. There is a place in the Galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface, drowns them in the power of the dark side - it corrupts all life. And it feeds on death. Revan knew the power of such places... and the power in making them. They can be used to break the will of others... of Jedi, promising them power, and turning them to the dark side. The Mandalorian Wars were a series of massacres that masked another war, a war of conversion... culminating in a final atrocity that no Jedi could walk away from - save one.
[Looks at the Exile, who is lying, unconscious, on the grass.]
And this is what I sought to understand. How one could turn away from such power, give up the Force ? and still live. But I see what happened now.
[Squats down and looks at the Exile again.]
It is because you were afraid.''" ? Kreia continues to confront the Jedi Masters
"Let me show you?you, who have forever seen the galaxy through the Force. See it through the eyes of the exile." - Kreia just before she attacks the Jedi Masters
"Know that there was once a Darth Traya. And that she cast aside that role, was exiled, and found a new purpose. But there must always be a Darth Traya, one that holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their heart, and will betray in turn." - Kreia to Atris on her Sith name, Darth Traya
"Who I am is not the question. Those are titles, words you cling to as the darkness falls around you. "Sith" is a title, yes, but like you, the title is not who I am. It is not what I believe. For you - it is different." ? Kreia to Atris
"It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it." - Kreia to Atris
"It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"And what is it you think you have accomplished? If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself ? and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards. You stole that struggle from them, cheapened it. If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles. And when they triumph, they will be even stronger for the victory." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You no doubt have many questions. I would be a poor teacher if I did not give you the answers you seek here, now. I never destroyed Atris - she had destroyed herself. I merely stripped away the illusion, and brought her truth. Her teachings could not be allowed to continue. And like Malachor, she was part of your past, unresolved. She needed to be something you could confront - and defeat, one last time. It was part of your training. Part of what was needed to make you complete. She loved you, you know, as one loves a champion. You were all that she could not be." - Kreia to Jedi Exile during their confrontation on Malachor V
"Perhaps you were expecting some surprise, for me to reveal a secret that had eluded you, something that would change your perspective of events, shatter you to your core. There is no great revelation, no great secret. There is only you." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You are greater than any I have ever trained. By killing me here - you have rewarded me more than you can possibly know. And Revan knew that the true war is not against the Republic. It waits for us beyond the Outer Rim. And he has gone to fight it, in his own way. He left the Ebon Hawk and its machines behind, for he knew he would not need them. And, like you, he knew he must leave all loves behind as well, no matter how deeply one cares for them. Because such attachments are not the way of the Jedi, and they would only bring doom to them both in the dark places where he now walks. Perhaps you shall go there with him, and do battle at the end of all things. Instead, I remained here - and now show others the way." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"When I spoke of sight before, there is a similar handicap that tends to occur among those strong in the Force. They neglect their skills. Some believe they no longer need them." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"Skill does not always draw from the Force, but it is a measure of power nonetheless. It can grant knowledge, help steady oneself when one's thoughts are in chaos, or grant enlightenment." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"This wound - it is a physical thing, and will fade with time. It was necessary - some things may only be learned from sacrifice." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"It is all that is left unsaid upon which tragedies are built." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You have failed me. Completely and utterly." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"What do you wish to hear? That I once believed in the code of the Jedi? That I felt the call of the Sith, that perhaps, once, I held the galaxy by its throat? That for every good work that I did, I brought equal harm upon the galaxy? That perhaps the greatest of the Sith Lords knew of evil, they learned from me?" - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"Learn from me, my mistakes, and use that knowledge to become greater than I. That is all I desire. In you all my hopes rest, for the future, for the Force." - Kreia
Kreia's predictions
The Exile's followers
Mandalorians
"Perhaps there will be no new age, Mandalore, no great Mandalorian crusade. Perhaps your people fought their last battle at Malachor V, and you have been dying ever since, a quiet death that will last centuries. And perhaps all that remains will be what I see before me: a man, wounded by a Jedi, encased in a Mandalorian shell, haunted by the thought of being the last of the Mandalorians." - Kreia to Mandalore
"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi." - Kreia predicts the future of the Mandalorians to Jedi Exile
Atton Rand
"Atton is, as always, the fool. And the Force watches out for ones such as him, I feel. As it does for the old such as I." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Atton Rand's future
Canderous Ordo
"Many battles does that one have left in him - as Revan intended. A general needs an army, as he needs those he trusts. And Canderous is a loyal beast, no matter how much he is broken upon Revan's will. But you know this." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Canderous Ordo's future
Brianna
"If she leaves this place, she will leave battle behind her ? in no small part due to your influence. She will take Atris' role as historian, and teach others of the Jedi exile who gave up the Force ? and became stronger for it." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Brianna's future
Mical
"If he leaves this place, he will leave the galaxy behind him. He will sit upon the new Council, reluctantly, as all good men do, and he will not forget the Jedi who had lost the Force, yet showed him the way to reclaim it." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Mical's future
Mira
"She will stop hunting life, and instead, live it. She was not born to be a predator, despite her true father and the life she led within the shadow of Nar Shaddaa. She will miss you and think of you often. You, who awakened her to what life is. She will live - but only for a time. Her death will occur in many years' time on a forgotten planet, saving the lives of others. But it will be her choice, and she will have no regrets." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Mira's future
Visas Marr
"The blinded one shall return to her homeworld, and she shall look upon the surface of that world and perhaps at last see what she was meant to see. Her life has been changed by your meeting, in ways that may not be felt for decades to come." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Visas Marr's future
Planets
"Dantooine shall survive. The community you saved shall be the foundation upon which Dantooine shall be habitable again. They shall drive back the raiders, the Mandalorians, and all that strike at the Outer Rim. The Republic shall again establish their presence there, and shield it with its forces - And Dantooine shall heal, be safe, and its skies free. The ruins of the academy shall remain." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on the future of Dantooine
"Korriban shall be as it always was. A graveyard for the darkest of the Sith Lords, still whispering within their tombs. It shall always be a source of evil, spawning threats throughout the millennia. It, like Malachor, brushes the edges of the empire that waits in the dark. And like Malachor, the Sith have forgotten it - for a time. They will remember. Revan knew this." - Kreia on the future of Korriban
"Nar Shaddaa shall persist as it always has, but there will be a heart to the world where there was nothing before. Where once the lost and disposed were trapped there, now they will struggle and grow. From despair shall come hope." - Kreia on the future of Nar Shaddaa
"Queen Talia shall have a long reign, much good will come of it. She will, as she has, rule wisely and well. Onderon shall remain in the Republic, and the world shall prosper, though its people shall, over time, lose their customs in the ocean of the Republic and become the people of Onderon no longer." - Kreia on the future of Queen Talia and Onderon
"Under the care of the herds of Ithor, the surface of Telos will bloom again, and its golden fields shall again harbor scientists and thinkers. And complacent and peaceful, it shall forget the time that Saul Karath orbited it and brought fire to its skies. But it shall be a homeworld again to others, who will stretch out across the galaxy and bring life." - Kreia on the recovery of Telos at the hands of the Ithorians after the Sith attack led by Saul Karath
Quotes about Kreia
"She's lucky she's a Jedi, or someone would've killed her years ago." - Atton Rand
"Just so you Jedi know, the whole 'cryptic routine' isn't mysterious, it's just irritating. If you really can see the future, you should be at the pazaak table." - Atton Rand
"Then she must be royalty, because she's got to be Queen of the Galaxy to bark out orders like that. Or maybe she's senile. I mean, how old do you think she is? She may have been good-looking once, but it takes some hard living to make creases like that." - Atton Rand
"If she looks good to you, you must have taken a blaster hit when I wasn't looking." - Jedi Exile to Atton Rand
"Good-looking? Are you that desperate?" - Jedi Exile to Atton Rand
"She will destroy you..." - Bao-Dur to Jedi Exile
"You..." - Brianna to Kreia
Non-canonical quotes
Male Exile
The following quotes are included in K.o.t.O.R. 2 but are dependent on the player choosing a male Jedi Exile and are, therefore, non-canonical:
""Never have you wondered what it would mean in the Echani rituals if the two of you sparred and fought - and you won, completely and utterly? If perhaps she would give in, surrender herself to you? Few are the thoughts that can hide in the shadows of your mind, exile, and such passions are not strength, but erosion." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on the Echani, Brianna
Cut material
The following quotes were cut from the final version of the game and are, therefore, non-canonical:
"You... you seem familiar to me." - Atris to Kreia
"And so you wait... as a shadow." - Visas Marr to Kreia
(to Atris) "Atris... I have always been here. Yes, I was here both times when the Exile was brought before you. It is not the first time we have met, Atris. I was here... before." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "I was the one who asked him to be exiled." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "You have gathered Sith holocrons, Sith teachings, from across the Galaxy. It is why you have chosen servants who cannot feel the Force. And most importantly they cannot feel what you have become." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "I have wondered if any of these Holocrons had survived Dantooine. You have taken relics from one destroyed planet, to the devastation of another." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "Such an act marked Telos for destruction. It is why the Sith came here, but the fleet commanders did not know why. It is why Revan ordered its destruction, to mark the beginning of the Jedi civil war. It was a message, that there would be no place for the Jedi to retreat, to hide." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "Yes. Such acts leave their mark on the Galaxy. Their cries travel far where few can hear them. I will not be surprised if Revan left other gifts beneath the surface of the planet. Much can be buried beneath graveyards, that can never be found." (cut)
"Children with lightsabers. But not Jedi, I think... come close. Let me look upon you and see what the Exile's teaching has forged. An assassin, a slayer of her own kin, a blinded slave and a fool." (cut)
"You think your existence under your lord was torture, Miraluka? I will make you see!" (cut)
"It is what we have fought against... for centuries..." (cut)
"I can teach you no longer. I have cut my bond to you, I have no need of you any longer." (cut)
(to Brianna) "(smiles) Yes. At last you see." (cut)
(to Brianna) "I am one of the Sith, it is true... I must answer for my actions... and it is my wish that only Atris hear my answers." (cut)
"And what was Jedi is Sith. And what is Sith is Jedi." (cut)
(to Visas Marr) "Take me to your lord. He will have the strength to do what the council can not." (cut)
Biographical information
Born Unknown. Possibly 4,001 BBY (3966BrS)[1]
Died 3,951 BBY (3916BrS), Malachor V[2]
Physical description
Species Human
Gender Female
Hair color Gray
Eye color Milky white (atrophied)
Black (dark side)
Chronological and political information
Era(s) Old Republic era
Affiliation Galactic Republic
Jedi Order (exiled)
Sith (exiled)
Sith Triumvirate (exiled)
Known apprentices Revan (Jedi Padawan)
Jedi Exile (Informally)
Darth Nihilus (Sith apprentice)
Darth Sion (Sith apprentice)
Preceded by:
Unknown, eventually Revan
Darth Malak as Dark Lord of the Sith
Owner of the Ebon Hawk - 3,951 BBY
Leader of the Sith Triumvirate 3,956 BBY - 3,955 BBY
Succeeded by:
Jedi Exile
Darth Nihilus as Dark Lord of the Sith
Kreia was a female Human Jedi Master during the time before the Mandalorian Wars, and later a Sith Lord under the alias Darth Traya, the Lord of Betrayal. Later in life, after she turned to the dark side, the traits that she had exhibited in her former profession suited her new role as master schemer and Sith Lord. Having been betrayed by both the Jedi and the Sith, she dreamt of revenge not toward both or either group but rather focused her ire toward what she truly felt had destined her for such betrayals: the Force itself.
Her story reached its climax when she found the Jedi Exile, a unique being who had the potential to bring her dream of revenge a step closer to fruition. But this plan came to nothing, as the Exile dueled and killed Darth Traya in the Trayus Academy.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Fall to the dark side
1.3 Teaching on Malachor V
1.4 Kreia and the Jedi Exile
1.4.1 Encounter with the Exile
1.4.2 Finding the Lost Jedi
1.4.3 Endgame
2 Personality and traits
3 Powers and abilities
4 Teachings
5 Behind the scenes
5.1 Portrayal and name
5.2 Alternate ending
5.3 Cut content
5.4 A mysterious past
6 Appearances
7 Sources
8 Notes and references
Biography
Early life
"I was a historian once, gathering the relics of the Jedi, learning the ancient mysteries. Always, there were more questions." - Kreia
Much of Kreia's early life is shrouded in mystery, except for the fact that she worked her way to the rank of Jedi Master and that she trained many students, among them Revan. Her teachings were looked upon with concern by the Jedi Council and by the end of her time with the Jedi Order, they believed all of her students to be failures as they followed Revan into the Mandalorian Wars, fell to the dark side, or abandoned their training.[3]
Fall to the dark side
"All that talk of hatred, manipulation, and standing on your own two feet - sorry, you don't get any more Sith than that." - Atton Rand
It is unknown when exactly Kreia was cast from the Jedi Order, although, judging by certain comments made by Jedi Masters such as Kavar, it was most likely during, if not before, the Mandalorian Wars.[4] According to Kreia, she had been exiled from the Order for her role in training Revan[3]. The Jedi Council blamed Kreia for the war after several of her apprentices were easily seduced by the call of battle, most notably Revan[4]. Consumed by her guilt, she questioned the validity of her beliefs in the philosophy and wondered if this was the reason why Revan had fallen.
She followed Revan's footsteps in history, traveling from planet to planet, searching for an answer that she alone could provide. In her travels, she encountered many of Revan's acquaintances and found fragments of a man far from the dreaded image history would eventually paint of him. Her journey ended on the world of Malachor V, a nexus of dark side energies and part of the ancient Sith Empire. On the surface, she found Revan's former stronghold, Trayus Academy, an ancient dark side Praxeum that contained the deepest and most intimate secrets of the Sith. There she learned of a forgotten legacy of the Sith that lurked in the Unknown Regions for thousands of years. From that moment, she firmly believed that Revan had never "fallen" to the dark side, that a greater cause had come that called for certain actions to be done.[3] From the descent of Jedi Master Kreia into the darkness arose Darth Traya, Dark Lord of Betrayal.[5]
Teaching on Malachor V
"In the end, [Revan] 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
It came the time when Revan was apprehended, stripped of his identity, and sent after his former apprentice. With Malak's defeat, however, memories of his former self came back to haunt him, and he remembered the academy on Malachor.[6] He made for the shattered remains of Malachor V and found Kreia, who completed his training and made him ready to leave the Jedi Order once and for all. Then he left the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 and HK-47 behind, and disappeared from known galaxy.
Continuing the legacy of her student, Darth Traya re-established Trayus Academy to train, convert, and create the new generation of Sith, who would act as a gadfly to the Republic. After some time, she found similar Sith Lords who were interested in rebuilding the deteriorating Sith Order. Darth Nihilus, the Lord of Hunger, and Darth Sion, the Lord of Pain, joined her in the creation of the first Sith Triumvirate. As time passed and the Jedi ran to hide, the Sith Lords' ideals became divergent. Traya and Revan's legacy fell far from Darth Nihilus' destructive hunger and Sion's bitter crusade against the Jedi. A violent argument eventually arose among the three, and as Traya was the odd one out, she was cast aside, beaten and broken. Nihilus afterwards became the Dark Lord of the Sith. Once again, Kreia had been betrayed.[7]
Lost and disheveled, Kreia forsook her Sith identity. She came to regard the Force as an uncaring, insidious god who would control their people to achieve some measure of balance, at the cost of countless lives throughout history.[6] She believed now that this conflict between light and dark would never end, and that the galaxy was doomed to chaos forever. Firm in her belief, she engineered a master plan to eliminate the Force, once and for all.
Kreia and the Jedi Exile
"There is no truth in the Force. But there is truth in you, Exile. And that is why I chose you." - Kreia
Banished, disbanded or in hiding, the Jedi were nearly gone from the galaxy.[8] Kreia had left Malachor with T3-M4 and made return to Republic space aboard the Ebon Hawk seeking the last known Jedi, the Jedi Exile, a General of the Mandalorian Wars who won the Battle of Malachor V by questionable means such as the use of the Mass Shadow Generator, which left a wound in the Force. Beneath layers of hearsay and unconfirmed reports, Kreia had found a means to deafen the galaxy to the Force. She sought to exploit the Exile's talent with Force bonding and create another wound, greater than the one before, whose echoes would travel forever, never reaching their destination.[9]
Encounter with the Exile
"I am your rescuer, as you are mine." - Kreia
At one point, Jedi Master Atris arranged for the Exile's return to the Republic, and exposed her presence in the coreward databases in the hopes of using her as bait for the Sith.[9] On the Hammerhead-class capital ship Harbinger, the Exile was found by an HK-50 Jedi Hunter and drugged into unconsciousness. 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 the Exile arrived safely on Peragus thanks to T3-M4, who was able to get the ship working enough to get to the colony.[10] 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 twined their lives. As they attempted to escape the mining facility, the Sith arrived aboard the Harbinger and Kreia encountered her former protege, Darth Sion. The master and student fought, and Kreia, hardly at her full power, lost her left hand to Sion's lightsaber. The Exile felt the pain of losing the limb as she had done. Kreia used the opportunity to convince the Exile that the bond between them was fatal, that if one of them died, the other would too,[11] forcing the Exile to keep the old woman at her side, although the actual validity of such a claim was questionable. Bound by hands of death, Kreia intruded upon the company of the Exile, but remained vague on her ties to Revan and Malachor V until the end, and since Kreia had the only means of accessing the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer,[12] the Exile had no way of knowing were the ship came from either.
Finding the Lost Jedi
"No game of dejarik can be won without pawns, and this may prove to be a very long game." - Kreia
While the Exile was slowly reconnecting to the Force, Kreia began to shape the Jedi as a new pupil. She taught the Exile to carefully choose between actions, asking the Jedi to view the ethical implications of all quests undertaken, and 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 the Exile grew in power, Kreia watched as the struggling Republic was unknowingly strengthened through the Jedi's search. During these adventures, many people found the company of the Exile, most of them sensitive to the Force; and although many of them were wary of Kreia, she was able to manipulate most of them to do her bidding. Through the ease of which the Exile had "called" upon these companions, the old master had seen the Exile's ability to transmit extreme echoes to those the Jedi was bound with. Using the Exile's power and with the knowledge of Darth Nihilus's condition, Kreia intended to bring her plans into finality.
During her travels with the Exile, Kreia blackmailed Atton Rand after she invaded his mind and discovered what made him fear the Jedi. On Dxun, when the crew of the Ebon Hawk required the assistance of the new Mandalore, she manipulated him into protecting the Exile. When Bao-Dur attempted to get her off the ship, Kreia reminded him of Malachor V, furthering the guilt in his mind. When the group was joined by Mical, also known as the Disciple on Dantooine, Kreia manipulated his mind. Playing tricks on his sight for so long that he was unaware of her presence until she revealed herself to him after he discovered the truth behind her motives and the darkness moving across the galaxy, consuming all life. However, Kreia made it so he would not remember her or what he discovered until the time was right.
While on Nar Shaddaa, Kreia bound the bounty hunter Hanharr to a life-debt after his defeat at the hands of, who Kreia called, the huntress, Mira. Kreia sent Hanharr to Malachor V where if he survived he would become stronger, promising to end the debt he owed her when he killed Mira, although as fate would turn out, Hanharr would be defeated by Mira again on Malachor V.
While on Onderon, Kreia revived Colonel Tobin and made him believe that the Onderon Civil War was still going on and that she served General Vaklu. She knew that Vaklu and Tobin served her former ally, Darth Nihilus, so she fed him false information about a Jedi Enclave on Telos (actually, Atris was the only Jedi on Telos) and she sent him to the Ravager. Tobin acted on this information, which ended up getting Tobin and Nihilus killed over Telos.
By the end of her adventures with the Exile, Kreia had devised a method to kill the Force with what she called "echoes": tragedies that left persistent wounds in the universe, which made the Force difficult and sometimes impossible to hear and use. Her discovery of these "echoes" and her avenue of attack on the Force was made possible entirely by the Exile, who provided the first "echo" that she could study through her actions on the planet of Malachor V. By Kreia's reasoning, people who died of these echoes when they could not bear to voluntarily sever themselves from the Force (as the Exile did) were not strong enough to deserve to live in the first place. Her hatred of the Force was the overriding goal, for in her mind, if she did not kill it, even more lives would be lost in the future.[6]
Endgame
"Know that much may happen here, but above all, do not forget this: you may trust in me. We cradle each others' lives, and what threatens one of us threatens us both. And if you find you cannot trust me, trust in your training - trust in yourself. Never doubt what you have done. All your decisions have brought you to this point." - Kreia's final advice to the Exile
Kreia kills Vrook Lamar, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell with Force Drain as the Exile looks on.Kreia traveled with the Exile, whom she helped search for the Jedi Masters. When the truth was revealed?that the Exile had unconsciously deafened herself to the Force in order to survive, as opposed to being cut off from it by the Jedi Council as the Exile previously believed - Kreia confronted the reassembled Jedi Council in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. As the Jedi Masters - Vrook Lamar, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell - actually tried to strip the Force from the Exile, whom they believed to be a wound in the Force and a danger that could lure the Sith - Kreia drained their connection to the force, killing them, and once again assumed her Sith identity.[4]
She was then led to Jedi Master Atris for judgment by Handmaidens while the Exile laid unconscious. Journeying to the Telos Academy, the reborn Darth Traya revealed that Atris had herself been corrupted and turned to the dark side by the Sith holocrons she gathered, but could not admit it even to herself. Atris embraced the dark side openly, but was soon confronted and defeated by the Exile.[9]
Kreia returned to Malachor V where she intended to sacrifice herself to open up the larger wound in the force in order to destroy it. After their brief duel, Atris told the Exile that such an act would undoubtedly kill the Exile and destroy the Force but she couldn't fathom why Kreia would want to make such a move. However, Kreia would wait for the Exile to come to her for answers and final confrontation.
After the Battle of Telos IV, in which the Exile destroyed Darth Nihilus, the Exile journeyed to Malachor V, where Traya and Sion were hidden in the depths of the Trayus Academy. The Exile confronted the Sith Lords, and eroded Sion's will, releasing him from all his pain in the process. By giving up the pain, and therefore the Force, Sion was finally able to die?but not before warning the Exile that Traya would try to do to her what she had done to Sion himself.
"Save me? You already have - it is enough what you have done, from now into the future." - The redeemed Kreia to the Exile
The Exile found Traya in the core of the academy and bested her, slicing her remaining hand off. Despite so many betrayals, so many deceptions, the Exile forgave Kreia for everything that had happened. Kreia realized that she had been seeking redemption all along and chose to honor the Exile with a final gift; she drew upon the Force that radiated from Malachor V and cast a prediction of the future of the galaxy and that of the Exile's friends. She stood dying from the wounds dealt to her by the Exile, telling her apprentice that she must follow Revan to the Unknown Regions. Before her death, she confessed that she truly loved the Exile - her greatest student, by her own words - as she believed that the Exile had finally proven her ideals were correct. Then, the Exile eased Kreia, who had been like a mother to her, from her sufferings to what she once despised - the Force.[6]
Her body was shortly destroyed afterwards - destroyed along with Malachor when the Mass Shadow Generator was activated for the last time.
Personality and traits
As a person, Darth Traya was self-reliant, manipulative, and constantly wary of the intentions of others.
Traya often remonstrated the Exile for taking away the challenges of others. She argued that indiscriminate compassion weakened the benefactors by disallowing them the mental and physical enrichment that life's challenges inherently procure. Ultimately, she said, such compassion thus weakened the very people it was intended to help, cheapening their experience and leaving them more ill-prepared for dealing with things on their own. In other words, Traya had adopted a "survival of the fittest" philosophy, and encouraged people to struggle in order to learn and to prosper.[13]
After being betrayed by those closest to her, Traya expected the worst from the people around her. As the Exile's circle of companions grew, Traya came to see how these companions could be used for her own ends, and sometimes ensured their loyalty using methods of questionable morality. For example, she read the mind of Atton Rand, learned of his dark history, and used that to blackmail him into the Exile's service.[14] She also tempted the Mandalorian leader, Mandalore Canderous Ordo, with knowledge of Revan's fate in order to ensure that he would not betray the Exile. [15]
A master of manipulation, Traya also used betrayal and deception to achieve her goals. She lied to the Exile at the beginning of their quest, claiming that the Jedi Council had stripped the Force from the Jedi Exile. Traya knew this would lead the Exile to seek out the surviving members of the Jedi Council, in hopes that she, or the Exile, would prove them wrong on their teachings. On Onderon, Traya lied to Colonel Tobin about the existence of many Jedi in a Jedi Academy on Telos,[16] knowing that Tobin would relay this to his true Master, Darth Nihilus, who would not be able to resist the chance to replenish himself and would recklessly assault Telos.[17] This left Nihilus vulnerable to the assault of the Mandalorians and the Exile.
Despite these traits, Traya was not the cruel, cold-hearted manipulator that many had dismissed her as. She had a softer side to her personality that was more apparent when she was around the Jedi Exile. In fact, Traya once expressed that she would go so far as to let the entire galaxy die in order to ensure the life of the Exile, and lived up to her word - during her travels, the Exile was the only person she really cared about, viewing everyone else as expendable. [18]
Though Traya was intelligent and quite powerful in her own right, she also realized that her philosophies would be regarded as fanatical by both the Jedi and the Sith. Because of this, she preferred to fly beneath the radar, often using her own power to shield her identity from other Force-sensitives who might have known her, and could have otherwise detected her. She was not outspoken about her convictions.
An odd trait of Kreia was her habit to rarely refer to any of the Exile's companions by name, calling them by titles. She would refer to Atton Rand as "the fool", Mical as a "tiny Jedi", Brianna as the "servant of Atris", Visas Marr as "the blinded one" or "the seer", Mira as "the huntress", T3-M4, HK-47, and G0-T0 all as "machines", Hanharr as "the beast", and Bao-Dur as "the alien".
Powers and abilities
"I use it as I would use a poison, and in the hopes of understanding it, I will learn the way to kill it. But perhaps these are the excuses of an old woman who has grown to rely on a thing she despises." - Darth Traya on the Force
Kreia was a master of telekinetic lightsaber combat, which allowed her to wield three or more lightsabers in combat, holding each of them aloft with the Force, and having them fight with a will of their own[19]. She was also a master manipulator, having used this skill to maneuver herself into a position of power at the Trayus Academy and, later, trick the Jedi and Sith into revealing themselves, allowing her and her accomplices to destroy them. She also had the Force Fear ability.
Jedi Historian
"One quickly learns that the Jedi code does not give all the answers." - Kreia
Kreia had once been a Jedi historian, and on her way through the path of knowledge the Jedi Code became unfit for her idea of teaching and learning the ways of the Force. She came to realize that the Force defies the simplistic tenets of the Order, that one who is to truly understand would need the contrast, not adherence to a single idea. During this time she would search and gather relics of the Force. On Korriban she indulged in a tour of the tombs and excavation sites in the Valley of the Dark Lords while showing the Exile a profound knowledge of their history, a contempt for ignorance, and a care for truth that survived to her last days.
Healer
"The ability to heal is also the ability to harm. And the inability to heal what is damaged can also bring about harm." - Kreia
In her journey with the Exile, Kreia would go on about her healing talents a lot. She spoke of healing, during a lesson related to skills, as of something she was knowledgeable about. She claimed to be able to heal her own damaged eyes?which were really atrophied from use? yet she refused to do so, as she had the Force Sight ability and regarded her natural sight as a distraction. She could go into a Hibernation Trance that would slow down biological functions and make her appear perfectly dead. She used this ability on the Ebon Hawk when the Harbinger tractor beamed the freighter,[20] and again when the Republic warship fired on it.[21] She also used some variant of this ability on Atton Rand, when she learned of his former allegiance in the Telosian Jedi Academy.[22] She further knew the ability of Breath Control, which made her immune to most poisons, and she taught it to the Exile as well, telepathically, when she was in danger of dying from the toxic fumes of the Jekk'Jekk Tarr, during a meeting with local Exchange boss Visquis on Nar Shaddaa. In the Jekk'Jekk Tarr she would also use her healing powers to revive Hanharr, after he was left for dead by Mira. On Onderon she revived Colonel Tobin after he was slammed by a Drexl larva.
Absence in the Force
"She is difficult to see... she's like a shadow of the Exile." - Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell
Kreia was rather proficient at using Force Cloak to hide her presence from whomever she chose. Her skill with this ability was demonstrated on the Ebon Hawk as she whispered to Mical, making him believe he was hearing things, taunting at Jedi awareness that she thought would never cruise beyond what she allowed. She also used a variation of this ability that enabled her to be seen but remain entirely unnoticed, to cloud the memory of others so they would forget her presence or even her existence. When the Exile came to Kreia about why none of the Jedi Masters they encountered mentioned her, she lied, claiming they perhaps did not remember or care, but was not believed. She described her ability as making herself "very small"[3], a talent she claimed not to use on the Exile, and that was even more effective on the worlds where they traveled, where sensing Force-users was difficult. On Dantooine Jedi Master Vrook would speak of the Sith threat and their ability to mask their presence, but he did not believe that mere Force-cloaking techniques alone would be sufficient to hide the one responsible for what had befallen the Jedi. Eventually the Exile would learn more about this, when Kreia was revealed as one of the Lords of the Sith, Atris explained that much of the reason she succeeded in hiding her dark persona lay actually in the fact that the Force had been stripped from her.
Dark Side
As Darth Traya, she was a master of Force Drain, which she used to kill dozens of Sith Assassins instantaneously and simultaneously. She obliterated the Jedi High Council in the persons of Jedi Masters Vrook Lamar, Kavar, and Zez-Kai Ell by showing them the Force "through the eyes of the Exile", supposedly consuming their connection to the Force in a way similar to that of Darth Nihilus, denying them even the means to become one with the Force. The Exile would later behold them as "worse than lifeless, like an absence in the Force"[4]. From the Trayus Core she was also able to glimpse far into the future, predicting isolated events with incredible accuracy. Traya was able to predict the death of Jango Fett at the hands of Mace Windu nearly 4,000 years later, in a prophecy relating to the fate of the Mandalorians[6]:
"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and, in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi." - Darth Traya
Teachings
"Is this your new Master, exile? If so, then you follow Revan's path. Her teachings will cause you to fall as surely as he did." - Vrook Lamar to the Jedi Exile
Among her allies were Darth Nihilus, and her students, Darth Sion, the Jedi Exile and Revan. Even when she was a Sith, Traya had some notion that neither the light nor dark side of the Force was truly superior to the other. Due to the fact her teachings incorporated light side concepts (she never believed in power or destruction for its own sake), Sion and Nihilus grew weary of her. They betrayed her, stripped her of power, and exiled her.[7] She described her fall from power thus:
"There are dark places in the galaxy where few tread. Ancient centers of learning, of knowledge... But I did not walk alone. To be united by hatred is a... fragile alliance at best. But my will was not law. There were disagreements. Ambition. And hunger for power. There are techniques within the Force against which there is no defense. I was cast down. Stripped of my power. Exiled. I suffered... indignities. And fell into darkness." - Kreia to the Jedi Exile
Darth Traya would refine her beliefs while wandering the galaxy, eventually coming to view the Force as being a sort of uncaring, insidious god that uses the lives of sentients as pawns in a pernicious game of balance. This, she thought, was evidenced by the widespread occurrences of destruction and death that had persistently transpired throughout the Galaxy to that point, many of which could be traced to a conflict between Force-sensitives. Yet, Traya blamed neither the Jedi nor the Sith, but rather, the very thing they had both come to draw and rely upon: the Force itself.
After being exiled from the Jedi Order when she was forced to shoulder the blame for Revan's corruption and again after she was exiled from Malachor V by her Sith students Nihilus and Sion, Darth Traya had experienced betrayals from, and saw the flaws of, both the light and dark sides of the Force. These unique experiences disillusioned her and forced her to refine her ways of thinking.
When she heard about the Jedi Exile, she saw proof that life could exist without the Force, which she saw as disproof of the traditional dogma of both the Sith and Jedi that the Force and life itself were inseparable by nature. This renewed Traya's confidence in her personal beliefs and fueled her desire to learn more of the Exile's personal motivations. By the end of her adventures with the Exile, during which time she went by the name of Kreia, Traya had discovered that certain tragedies can leave wounds in the Force, which sometimes made it difficult to hear and be used. These "echoes," as Traya called them, provided a possible avenue through which it was possible to attack the Force. Her discovery was due in no small part to the Exile, as her experience at Malachor V, where she cut herself off from the Force, created an echo large enough that Traya was able to connect the tragedy to the wound created in the Force. According to Traya, those who had chosen death (or the Jedi who chose the dark side) over a life devoid of the Force were not strong enough to deserve life. Her desire to prevent unnecessary death in the future was the overbearing motivation that cultivated her hatred for the Force.
Despite her loathing of the Force, she still used it; she explained it by comparing herself to one who studies poison. Just as such a person would strive to understand the lethality behind poison, so she strives to understand the particularities of the Force, thereby enabling her to destroy it, perhaps.
Darth Traya envisioned a galaxy that would choose not to acquiesce to the will of the Force. She thought she could achieve this by showing how one could willingly abnegate the Force and eventually become stronger for it, and it was the Exile who was a living testament to this. In her teachings with the Jedi Exile, she emphasized how dependent the Jedi and Sith were on the Force, and how they had become flawed for it. By making the Exile her protege, she hoped her message would resonate with future Force-sensitives so they would choose to use the Force without necessarily bending to either extreme, and certainly not to the point where they would choose death over life without the Force. Ultimately, though, she dreamed of a galaxy lacking of the Force altogether, as it was her belief that the galaxy would be better off that way.
Behind the scenes
During the sequence in the Sith tomb, Kreia uses a blue lightsaber.
On Dxun, Kreia tells Mandalore: "Always in motion is the future." It mirrors what Yoda said in The Empire Strikes Back.
Portrayal and name
Kreia was voiced by Sara Kestelman.
GameSpy declared Kreia the best video game character of 2005. [23]
The name Traya comes directly from the word "betrayal," which holds an obvious relation to the events of her life.
Alternate ending
If the Exile is dark-sided, there is an option to throw her into the Trayus Core. This scene mirrors Palpatine's death.
Cut content
Main article: Cut content from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
In an unused dialogue (and discarded plot events) Kreia revealed that she had been manipulating the mind of Atris for years, and through her orchestrated the Jedi Exile's trial and sentence.
A single alternative line in the "Kreia's Fall" scene from the game revealed that the catalyst for Sion and Nihilus' betrayal was that Kreia decreed that the Jedi Exile was not to be harmed.
The official player's guide to the game showed that Kreia had actual dark side transitions, and that her alignment would change depending on the Exile's alignment and level of influence with her, like the rest of the crew. The decision to remove them and set Kreia's alignment to "true neutral" permanently must have been made late in production.
After Kreia slew the three Jedi masters on Dantooine, if Brianna the handmaiden was not part of the Exile's party, Visas would take Kreia before Nihilus instead of Atris.
Kreia was not always intended to be the only Traya and final boss in the game. Before the content was cut out, the choices the Exile made could have her or Atris become Traya at the end. In that scenario, Kreia sacrifices her life to protect the Jedi Exile from her. The New Essential Chronology introduced even more confusion, as it mistakenly referred to "Darth Kreia" and "Darth Traya" as two separate characters. This error was later addressed by author Dan Wallace [2], but it was too late, as the book was already out. The error was again repeated in the Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force.
After Kreia lost her first hand in the beginning, there are a few errors in her actions and movements while lacking it throughout the rest of the game, such as putting fists on the waist, holding her lightsaber as if there were "two" holding it, and using her Force powers in battle. Also in one of Kreia's flashbacks she is shown without her hand, though she did not lose it until years later.
Elements such as Atris' dark side ending and Kreia's comments near the climax of the game may indicate that the Darth Traya role has a quasi-religious significance within the Sith Order; Count Dooku himself notably remarked that "treachery is the way of the Sith." As such, Sion's and Nihilus's respective titles as Lord of Pain and Lord of Hunger may portray further arcane Sith teaching delved from the Malachor ruins and the Trayus Academy.
The screenshot that shows Kreia with her hood removed was taken with a modified game; while such a scene never takes place in the game, it was supposed to take place during the Rebuilt Enclave scene, when Kreia reveals herself to the three Jedi Masters; however, in the official release, Kreia stays hooded due to a scripting glitch. This has been fixed by The Sith Lords Restoration Project developers.
A mysterious past
There is an ongoing dispute as to whether the Jedi Arren Kae and Kreia are the same person. While available material, cut or not, indicates that it may indeed have been Obsidian Entertainment's original intent, there is no conclusive evidence that could either prove or disprove this theory within Star Wars canon. The main source of cited for this dispute is that at one point in the game Mical the Disciple said that the first and also the last of the many trainers of Revan was Arren Kae, and at another point Kreia said she, Kreia, was the first and last trainer of Revan.
When asked about the relationship between Kreia and Kae, Chris Avellone ambiguously responded "Can't comment, but good catch. Sorry."[24]
Appearances
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Sources
Chronicles of the Old Republic
The New Essential Chronology
Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
"Heritage of the Sith" - Star Wars Insider 88
Notes and references
1.According to Chris Avellone's comments on the Obsidian Entertainment Forum, she is likely to be 50 years old, but also says "like Yoda, who knows", indicating that her true age may still be a mystery.
2.Being the final enemy in The Sith Lords, Kreia dies regardless of the actions the player takes.
3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Sith Lords: Conversations with Kreia.
4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Sith Lords: Rebuilt Jedi Enclave sequence.
5. Chronicles of the Old Republic.
6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Sith Lords: Final conversation with Kreia.
7. 7.0 7.1 The Sith Lords: The "Kreia's fall" cutscene, triggered via dialogue with her.
8. The Sith Lords: Opening crawl.
9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Sith Lords: Final conversation with Atris.
10. The Sith Lords: Peragus holologs.
11. The Sith Lords: Peragus escape sequence.
12. The Sith Lords: Conversation with Kreia after the arrival of Darth Sion on Peragus.
13. The Sith Lords: Encounters with refugees in need on Nar Shaddaa.
14. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Atton Rand during their imprisonment in the Telosian Jedi Academy.
15. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Mandalore, just before the first trip from Dxun to Onderon.
16. The Sith Lords: Kreia's dialogue with Tobin in the Iziz Royal Palace, after the Exile's victory.
17. The Sith Lords: Conversation with Tobin on the Ravager.
18. According to Chris Avellone, this was by design, to make the player feel special. [1]
19. The Sith Lords: The final fight.
20. The Sith Lords: Logs on the Harbinger reported only dead bodies on the Ebon Hawk.
21. The Sith Lords: The prologue. T3M4 finds Kreia's body which appears to be dead. Medical logs of the Peragus Mining Facility also report her to be dead.
22. The Hibernation Trance can only affect the user, it's not something that may be used upon others.
23. GameSpy Game of the Year 2005
24. StarWarsKnights Interview w/ Chris Avellone
Quotes
Contents
1 Kreia's predictions
1.1 The Exile's followers
1.2 Planets
2 Quotes about Kreia
3 Non-canonical quotes
3.1 Male Exile
3.2 Cut material
"Awaken." - Kreia, telepathically, to Jedi Exile in the Peragus Mining Facility
"Find what you were looking for amongst the dead?" - Kreia to Jedi Exile in the Peragus Mining Facility
"He cannot kill what he cannot see, power has blinded him long ago." - Kreia on Darth Sion
"To have fallen so far and learned nothing - that is your failing." - Kreia to Darth Sion on board the Harbinger
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on studying the potentium instead of just the light side
"Our path brought us here for a reason..." - Kreia on the Ebon Hawk's arrival at Telos IV
"Also, in private, we will be mercifully free from the opinions of imbeciles and fools." - Kreia to Jedi Exile about their companions
"The Jedi Academy on Dantooine is nothing more than a crater that echoes with the ghosts of dead Jedi. And the Jedi Temple on Coruscant lies empty. The waters in the Room of a Thousand Fountains have fallen still, in reverence to the fallen Jedi... and those now lost." - Kreia on the destruction of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine and the Jedi abandoning the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the First Jedi Purge
"Your spirit, as diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you." - Kreia to Atton Rand
"But you will forget that. Your mind is worse than the others, so open, so trusting. Your feelings for her are your weakness." - Kreia to Mical about his feelings for Jedi Exile
"There are dark places in the galaxy where few tread. Ancient centers of learning, of knowledge. But I did not walk alone. To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best. But my will was not law. There were disagreements, ambition? and hunger for power. There are techniques within the Force against which there is no defense. I was cast down, stripped of my power, exiled. I suffered indignities, and fell into darkness." - Kreia on her exile from the Sith Triumvirate
"If you were to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat, you would learn that we are as children playing with toys compared to the prowess of the old Masters." - Kreia on the ancient Sith Lords
"Revan was power. Staring into his eyes was like staring into the heart of the Force. Even then, you could see the Jedi he would slay etched on his soul." - Kreia on Revan
"It would have helped, had he made her understand. But she was always strong-willed, that one, and did not understand war as Revan did." - Kreia on the way Revan left Bastila Shan
"Know that much may happen here, but above all, do not forget this - you may trust in me. We cradle each other's lives, and what threatens one of us, threatens us both. And if you find you cannot trust me, trust in your training. Trust in yourself. Never doubt what you have done. All your decisions have brought you to this point." - Kreia to Jedi Exile as she is about to enter the Jedi Enclave and meet the Jedi Council
Vrook: "You were deafened."
Kreia: "At last, you could hear."
Kavar: "You were broken."
Kreia: "You were whole."
Zez-Kai Ell: "You were blinded."
Kreia: "And at last, you saw." - The Jedi Council and Kreia during their meeting with the Jedi Exile.
"Step away from her!
[Vrook Lamar stands up and runs in her direction, but is Force pushed back again.]
Step away! She has brought truth, and you condemn it? The arrogance! You will not harm her. You will not harm her ever again. As you would pass judgment on her, I have come to pass judgment on you all." - Kreia to the Jedi Masters as they attempt to cut the Jedi Exile off from the Force and she Force Pushes them back
"How could you ever hope to know the threat you face, when you have never walked in the dark places of the galaxy - faced war and death on such a scale. If you had traveled far enough, rather than waiting for the echo to reach you, perhaps you would have seen it for what it was. There is a place in the Galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface, drowns them in the power of the dark side - it corrupts all life. And it feeds on death. Revan knew the power of such places... and the power in making them. They can be used to break the will of others... of Jedi, promising them power, and turning them to the dark side. The Mandalorian Wars were a series of massacres that masked another war, a war of conversion... culminating in a final atrocity that no Jedi could walk away from - save one.
[Looks at the Exile, who is lying, unconscious, on the grass.]
And this is what I sought to understand. How one could turn away from such power, give up the Force ? and still live. But I see what happened now.
[Squats down and looks at the Exile again.]
It is because you were afraid.''" ? Kreia continues to confront the Jedi Masters
"Let me show you?you, who have forever seen the galaxy through the Force. See it through the eyes of the exile." - Kreia just before she attacks the Jedi Masters
"Know that there was once a Darth Traya. And that she cast aside that role, was exiled, and found a new purpose. But there must always be a Darth Traya, one that holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their heart, and will betray in turn." - Kreia to Atris on her Sith name, Darth Traya
"Who I am is not the question. Those are titles, words you cling to as the darkness falls around you. "Sith" is a title, yes, but like you, the title is not who I am. It is not what I believe. For you - it is different." ? Kreia to Atris
"It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it." - Kreia to Atris
"It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"And what is it you think you have accomplished? If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself ? and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards. You stole that struggle from them, cheapened it. If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles. And when they triumph, they will be even stronger for the victory." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You no doubt have many questions. I would be a poor teacher if I did not give you the answers you seek here, now. I never destroyed Atris - she had destroyed herself. I merely stripped away the illusion, and brought her truth. Her teachings could not be allowed to continue. And like Malachor, she was part of your past, unresolved. She needed to be something you could confront - and defeat, one last time. It was part of your training. Part of what was needed to make you complete. She loved you, you know, as one loves a champion. You were all that she could not be." - Kreia to Jedi Exile during their confrontation on Malachor V
"Perhaps you were expecting some surprise, for me to reveal a secret that had eluded you, something that would change your perspective of events, shatter you to your core. There is no great revelation, no great secret. There is only you." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You are greater than any I have ever trained. By killing me here - you have rewarded me more than you can possibly know. And Revan knew that the true war is not against the Republic. It waits for us beyond the Outer Rim. And he has gone to fight it, in his own way. He left the Ebon Hawk and its machines behind, for he knew he would not need them. And, like you, he knew he must leave all loves behind as well, no matter how deeply one cares for them. Because such attachments are not the way of the Jedi, and they would only bring doom to them both in the dark places where he now walks. Perhaps you shall go there with him, and do battle at the end of all things. Instead, I remained here - and now show others the way." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"When I spoke of sight before, there is a similar handicap that tends to occur among those strong in the Force. They neglect their skills. Some believe they no longer need them." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"Skill does not always draw from the Force, but it is a measure of power nonetheless. It can grant knowledge, help steady oneself when one's thoughts are in chaos, or grant enlightenment." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"This wound - it is a physical thing, and will fade with time. It was necessary - some things may only be learned from sacrifice." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"It is all that is left unsaid upon which tragedies are built." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"You have failed me. Completely and utterly." - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"What do you wish to hear? That I once believed in the code of the Jedi? That I felt the call of the Sith, that perhaps, once, I held the galaxy by its throat? That for every good work that I did, I brought equal harm upon the galaxy? That perhaps the greatest of the Sith Lords knew of evil, they learned from me?" - Kreia to Jedi Exile
"Learn from me, my mistakes, and use that knowledge to become greater than I. That is all I desire. In you all my hopes rest, for the future, for the Force." - Kreia
Kreia's predictions
The Exile's followers
Mandalorians
"Perhaps there will be no new age, Mandalore, no great Mandalorian crusade. Perhaps your people fought their last battle at Malachor V, and you have been dying ever since, a quiet death that will last centuries. And perhaps all that remains will be what I see before me: a man, wounded by a Jedi, encased in a Mandalorian shell, haunted by the thought of being the last of the Mandalorians." - Kreia to Mandalore
"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi." - Kreia predicts the future of the Mandalorians to Jedi Exile
Atton Rand
"Atton is, as always, the fool. And the Force watches out for ones such as him, I feel. As it does for the old such as I." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Atton Rand's future
Canderous Ordo
"Many battles does that one have left in him - as Revan intended. A general needs an army, as he needs those he trusts. And Canderous is a loyal beast, no matter how much he is broken upon Revan's will. But you know this." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Canderous Ordo's future
Brianna
"If she leaves this place, she will leave battle behind her ? in no small part due to your influence. She will take Atris' role as historian, and teach others of the Jedi exile who gave up the Force ? and became stronger for it." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Brianna's future
Mical
"If he leaves this place, he will leave the galaxy behind him. He will sit upon the new Council, reluctantly, as all good men do, and he will not forget the Jedi who had lost the Force, yet showed him the way to reclaim it." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Mical's future
Mira
"She will stop hunting life, and instead, live it. She was not born to be a predator, despite her true father and the life she led within the shadow of Nar Shaddaa. She will miss you and think of you often. You, who awakened her to what life is. She will live - but only for a time. Her death will occur in many years' time on a forgotten planet, saving the lives of others. But it will be her choice, and she will have no regrets." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Mira's future
Visas Marr
"The blinded one shall return to her homeworld, and she shall look upon the surface of that world and perhaps at last see what she was meant to see. Her life has been changed by your meeting, in ways that may not be felt for decades to come." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on Visas Marr's future
Planets
"Dantooine shall survive. The community you saved shall be the foundation upon which Dantooine shall be habitable again. They shall drive back the raiders, the Mandalorians, and all that strike at the Outer Rim. The Republic shall again establish their presence there, and shield it with its forces - And Dantooine shall heal, be safe, and its skies free. The ruins of the academy shall remain." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on the future of Dantooine
"Korriban shall be as it always was. A graveyard for the darkest of the Sith Lords, still whispering within their tombs. It shall always be a source of evil, spawning threats throughout the millennia. It, like Malachor, brushes the edges of the empire that waits in the dark. And like Malachor, the Sith have forgotten it - for a time. They will remember. Revan knew this." - Kreia on the future of Korriban
"Nar Shaddaa shall persist as it always has, but there will be a heart to the world where there was nothing before. Where once the lost and disposed were trapped there, now they will struggle and grow. From despair shall come hope." - Kreia on the future of Nar Shaddaa
"Queen Talia shall have a long reign, much good will come of it. She will, as she has, rule wisely and well. Onderon shall remain in the Republic, and the world shall prosper, though its people shall, over time, lose their customs in the ocean of the Republic and become the people of Onderon no longer." - Kreia on the future of Queen Talia and Onderon
"Under the care of the herds of Ithor, the surface of Telos will bloom again, and its golden fields shall again harbor scientists and thinkers. And complacent and peaceful, it shall forget the time that Saul Karath orbited it and brought fire to its skies. But it shall be a homeworld again to others, who will stretch out across the galaxy and bring life." - Kreia on the recovery of Telos at the hands of the Ithorians after the Sith attack led by Saul Karath
Quotes about Kreia
"She's lucky she's a Jedi, or someone would've killed her years ago." - Atton Rand
"Just so you Jedi know, the whole 'cryptic routine' isn't mysterious, it's just irritating. If you really can see the future, you should be at the pazaak table." - Atton Rand
"Then she must be royalty, because she's got to be Queen of the Galaxy to bark out orders like that. Or maybe she's senile. I mean, how old do you think she is? She may have been good-looking once, but it takes some hard living to make creases like that." - Atton Rand
"If she looks good to you, you must have taken a blaster hit when I wasn't looking." - Jedi Exile to Atton Rand
"Good-looking? Are you that desperate?" - Jedi Exile to Atton Rand
"She will destroy you..." - Bao-Dur to Jedi Exile
"You..." - Brianna to Kreia
Non-canonical quotes
Male Exile
The following quotes are included in K.o.t.O.R. 2 but are dependent on the player choosing a male Jedi Exile and are, therefore, non-canonical:
""Never have you wondered what it would mean in the Echani rituals if the two of you sparred and fought - and you won, completely and utterly? If perhaps she would give in, surrender herself to you? Few are the thoughts that can hide in the shadows of your mind, exile, and such passions are not strength, but erosion." - Kreia to Jedi Exile on the Echani, Brianna
Cut material
The following quotes were cut from the final version of the game and are, therefore, non-canonical:
"You... you seem familiar to me." - Atris to Kreia
"And so you wait... as a shadow." - Visas Marr to Kreia
(to Atris) "Atris... I have always been here. Yes, I was here both times when the Exile was brought before you. It is not the first time we have met, Atris. I was here... before." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "I was the one who asked him to be exiled." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "You have gathered Sith holocrons, Sith teachings, from across the Galaxy. It is why you have chosen servants who cannot feel the Force. And most importantly they cannot feel what you have become." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "I have wondered if any of these Holocrons had survived Dantooine. You have taken relics from one destroyed planet, to the devastation of another." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "Such an act marked Telos for destruction. It is why the Sith came here, but the fleet commanders did not know why. It is why Revan ordered its destruction, to mark the beginning of the Jedi civil war. It was a message, that there would be no place for the Jedi to retreat, to hide." (cut)
(to Atris, continues) "Yes. Such acts leave their mark on the Galaxy. Their cries travel far where few can hear them. I will not be surprised if Revan left other gifts beneath the surface of the planet. Much can be buried beneath graveyards, that can never be found." (cut)
"Children with lightsabers. But not Jedi, I think... come close. Let me look upon you and see what the Exile's teaching has forged. An assassin, a slayer of her own kin, a blinded slave and a fool." (cut)
"You think your existence under your lord was torture, Miraluka? I will make you see!" (cut)
"It is what we have fought against... for centuries..." (cut)
"I can teach you no longer. I have cut my bond to you, I have no need of you any longer." (cut)
(to Brianna) "(smiles) Yes. At last you see." (cut)
(to Brianna) "I am one of the Sith, it is true... I must answer for my actions... and it is my wish that only Atris hear my answers." (cut)
"And what was Jedi is Sith. And what is Sith is Jedi." (cut)
(to Visas Marr) "Take me to your lord. He will have the strength to do what the council can not." (cut)
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