Lotva Shai

Art by: Mezhan Kwaad.

Basic Stats:

Name: Lotva Shai
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Species: Yuuzhan Vong
Height: 6ft3
Caste: Intendant
Rank: Consul
Affiliation: Yuuzhan Vong (traditionalist)/ Domain Shai

Personality: Shrewd and ruthless, like most of her caste, Lotva Shai distinguished herself through the usual methods for Intendants. Subterfuge and deception - akin to that of the goddess she worships - are her speciality, and she has gone under a number of aliases in order to infiltrate select organizations or larger social networks to divide and manipulate them. Backstabbing (literally) is not beyond her, she would not have attained the rank of consul among her people, without the need to eliminate potential rivals and superiors who sought to prevent it.
All of these traits and more, will have been ingrained in the training she received in her Domain's creche, more being the particularly sadomasochistic attributes of domain Shai, who's ability to use the embrace of pain like your average person might take a bath, and grow to actually like pain along with worshiping it's cleansing and god-given properties. With this in mind, she see's it as not only the will of her people's gods, but her duty to make all others realize this too, especially if they are not accepting of it, as she see's fit.
As a result, she is a very bloody-minded person, who will stand steadfast on many an opinion, subject or situation - fear, she sees as a weakness, and does not tolerate it in any form.
All this makes for a truly severe personality.

History Born to Dranae Shai several years before the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Lotva Shai spent her early life, training as a warrior in her domain's creche. Though the caste of a warrior was her's by birthright, she did not excel as well as her crechemates in her training, and thus - as dictated by true caste society - was placed in the Intendant caste instead.
There she was trained in their own unique forms of diplomacy and deception, with the latter being the mainstay of their 'code' - paying a fitting tribute to the goddess which they worshipped, Yun-Harla, the trickster.

Thankfully, in this caste Lotva Shai progressed well, and was promoted to the basic rank of attendant upon her coming of age. Mere klekkets (two standard infidel months) before the Praetorite Vong's attempts to invade the infidel's galaxy, she attained the rank of executor, by default, having killed her superior after being issued a challenge over a matter of an unmet-quota. As such, she was one of the few tasked with preparing the way for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of worlds in the invasion corridoor, often acting as an inside agent in organizations crucial to securing the worlds/sectors they represented.

By the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war, she had attained the rank of Consul, for her war efforts, but her position was short-lived, as soon thereafter, the occupation of Coruscant was over, and Supreme Overlord Shimrra's forces had been decimated.

Forced into exile with the rest of her people, she traveled to Zonama Sekot, where she was placed in a trial settlement, tasked with pioneering the intergration of the castes with the shamed. The experiment abhorrently failed, with those members of society seizing control of assets that they deemed rightfully theirs, and a large divide forming between those Yuuzhan Vong who believed in the true way, or the old ways of being, and the ways of Sekot.

Lotva Shai alligned herself with an extreme group of individuals known as the 'traditionalists', who clung tightly to the old traditions, and abhor anything remotely un-yuuzhan vong. Steadfast in their convictions, the traditionalists hope to reclaim sekot as their own, and the occupation of the living world, by the Dark Jedi, is their main target of grievance at present.
Fearing neither pain, nor death, Lotva Shai is one of many who will see the job through to the end, their end, if such is Yun-Yuuzhan's wish.