Kei-yon Sarda

"'It was a chance to provide some fun and games, for being one of us means a life fraught with risks capable of shattering the cosmos.'"Kei-yon Sarda is a forgotten hero of the Pre-Oden Vector times. Stationed as the Sun Watcher of the Tek'rit Sector, he was one of the few to understand the risks posed by the most ancient manipulators of the Force.

In fact, he would give his life at the start of the Oden Vector Crisis to seal and protect his city from the rest of the plague alongside his first apprentice. Judging from his reactions to questions from the party, it seems that, like many other civilizations and groups, the Sunborn were essentially wiped out during the initial stages of the outbreak. Were it not for Ood-Rada's survival, the Sunborn may well have died with them.

Background
At some point in his life, he was selected for training by the Sunborn, eventually rising to the position of Sun Watcher himself for a whole sector following the presumed death of his Master.

Tasked with protecting the ancient seals, he often journeyed the galaxy to maintain them - steadily growing more powerful each time he did so.

At some point he took on a female apprentice, who became a pseudo-priest among their community, helping to lead prayers in the name of the Sunborn.

Having faced and defeated ancient evils, it would be the Oden Vector that finally claimed his life.. Leading his city in reverence, an unknown ship crashed within the settlement, claiming many lives and wounding countless more. Soon reports came of infections, and it was too late before the city began to tear itself apart - the civilians mutating horrifically while still alive before turning on their friends and family in a cannibalistic fury. One of these even tried to kill Kei-yon in his sleep, only for the Sunborn to escape.

He and his apprentice then survived for an unknown period of time, until finally they were overwhelmed by the hordes of mutated civilians. In one last act of sacrifice, they sealed the city away under the sands, where it remained for 600 years.

Involvement
He met the players close to 600 years after his passing, as Kar-kooda journeyed the now ruined city in search of answers to his dreams. The group pressed through the town, avoiding contact with the now feral and insane descendants of the natives. Solving the final puzzle to the temple, they found the inner murals that depicted some of the earliest struggles of the galaxy. With the group hastily scrawling away at the ancient designs to catalogue them for posterity, Kar-kooda viewed the gigantic mural that adorned the back wall of the Temple.

On the wall, he saw: Upon spotting the Holocron upon the dais, he began to instinctively play the "Hymn of the Soladeri" that he had found earlier. Immediately, the Holocron danced to life, beams of light shooting forth to form a delicate and detailed web of some unknown section of the galaxy. As the group marvelled at this in confusion, Kei-yon himself stepped forth and spoke.
 * A four-eyed and loose-jawed creature of darkness keeping watch.
 * A five-armed individual pressing five orbs against barriers that contained indescribable monstrosities.
 * Among them two figures they had seen depictions of within Kei-yon's house.
 * A Watcher casting light on the darkness to help seal them away.
 * A crowd of onlookers.

Over the next several minutes, the group bombarded him with questions - what was he, what are those things in the mural, what is the Force, and for Kar-kooda, whether it would bring him the strength to protect those he cared for. Kei-yon answered all that he could - explaining the nature of the Cosmic Living Force and his purpose to maintain the seals that hold the Darkborn, children of the Dark, once sealed away by 'The First'. He explained that he was one of many once upon a time, part of the Sunborn, and that when he died the group nearly died with him as a result of the Oden Crisis.

Trivia

 * He is currently the oldest person the group has met, though he's cheating a little bit by talking from beyond the grave.
 * His old robes are now worn by his likely successor - Kar-kooda.
 * Old items of his found by the Party:
 * Holocron (taken by Kar-kooda)
 * Contains two different maps, one presumably showing the location of the seals that need to be maintained.
 * Journal (taken by Kar-kooda)
 * Contained detailed notes on crystals and their colour designations
 * Four Statuettes (taken by Vale)
 * Depicting Arca Jeth and three other figures apparently central to the beliefs of the Sunborn for their "dedication to understanding balance".
 * Orange-Gold Robes (taken by Kar-kooda)
 * His Sunborn robes.
 * 1,000 Credits (taken by Vale)
 * R0-49 (assigned to Kar-kooda)
 * His old protocol droid he tasked with finding his successor.