Damasa Kovani

"If you're suffering, I can help you, though I cannot help myself."

Damasa Kovani was once an Iktotchi Jedi Master who left the Jedi Order eight years prior to the events of the campaign. With his dying breaths, Firith Mobak told the PCs to find her and take the artifact to her, because "she was right about everything" and she would know what to do with it. Whether or not Firith's faith in her was misplaced remains to be seen.

Damasa is considerably shorter than the average adult being in the galaxy, with blue eyes, narrow horns arranged in tight spirals, and skin that has been darkened and wrinkled by nearly a decade spent exposed to sun and salt water. She generally goes barefoot. For a long time her only clothing was an extremely faded and tattered set of Jedi robes, until Vesper Syl'tine sewed new ones for her.

Character Background
From a young age, Damasa's Iktotchi precognitive gifts were uncommonly strong and accurate. She repeatedly foresaw the coming fall of the Jedi Order, but her warnings about it were not often understood or believed. Her master, Sifo-Dyas, encouraged her to develop her skills as a seer. Sifo-Dyas's death seemed to disillusion and discourage Damasa, and she left the Order not long after.

When Damasa became a Jedi Master she took Zernvik Akawoi as her padawan. Damasa was not a very good mentor and frequently neglected Zernvik's training. Later on he would regard her with resentment, and did not maintain contact with her after becoming a Jedi Knight. However, her predictions inspired him to begin his own search for the supposed Sith traitor on the Jedi Council (an effort that did not work out very well for him).

Damasa, Firith, and Lilikai Singan were younglings together in the Jedi Temple, and shared a close friendship spanning decades. For many years they worked together hunting for ancient artifacts on the Rim and bringing them back to the Jedi Archives, which Damasa believed could help forestall the coming darkness. These excursions grew less frequent as the Jedi Council began to reassign Firith and Lilikai to other projects. Firith and Lilikai's obedience to the Council became a source of conflict with Damasa (who was much more skeptical of the Council as an institution), as did Lilikai and Damasa's increasingly different philosophies of the Force. These tensions came to a head when, during an argument, Damasa prophesied that Lilikai was fated to fall to the dark side. Lilikai and Damasa did not speak after this, though Firith maintained limited contact with her. Zernvik theorized that Firith's original plan to have Lilikai take the artifact to Damasa was his attempt to heal the rift between them.

(The source from which most of this was learned: The artifact.)

During the Game
The first thing the PCs learned about Damasa was that there was a bounty posted for her on Nar Shaddaa, dating back 20 years. Korrda the Hutt posted the bounty after Damasa stole an expensive crystal from her. This crystal was later incorporated into the artifact.

When the PCs found Zernvik Akawoi on Zoph, he told them she might be on a planet called Sura Sindo, in wild space, which had been the site of her first mission as a Jedi Knight. Something went badly wrong there, to an extent that Damasa found it difficult to talk about it except in general terms. Zernvik theorized that after Damasa left the Jedi Order, she may have gone back to Sura Sindo to try to set things right.

The PCs eventually confirmed Zernvik's theory by finding Damasa on a deserted island on Sura Sindo, where she had apparently been living alone for the past eight years. Obviously, she was not surprised to hear about the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, but she professed near-total disinterest in having anything to do with whatever came after it. Rather, she was choosing to focus on training Sura Sindo's native sentient species - large cephalopods she called the Sindonese - in the ways of the Force. On her previous visit, she had met the Sindonese and learned that they were all Force-sensitive to some degree, but the Jedi Order chose not to train them for unknown reasons. Damasa had returned there to set this error right. She happily introduced the PCs to her current padawan, Green Coral.

Upon meeting Nawah Masin, Damasa expressed alarm at sensing something that had been done to Nawah in the past, and used an unknown technique to restore Nawah's connection to the Force.

Soundtrack
Damasa's theme song is "Doomsayer" by Seeming:

And will all of the kids who called me crazy Suddenly track down my address and thank me Saying, "Finally I get it, finally I see the light, and you were right"? All you madmen retreating to the mountains You astronomers who keep on counting I know how it feels I know how it feels when only one thing is real All you forgotten halfwits in the attic Finding God as you stare into static I know what it's like when your family cries I know how it feels