History Characters / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Ordering the mining droids to kill [[SmugSnake Coorta]], though his mockery of Coorta's death was a bit much.

!!!'''Homeworld:''' Duros

* WomenAreWiser: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, she's the only Council member who gets caught by the Sith and is killed by them. On the other hand, from what little we see of her, she appears to be one of the more understanding Council members concerning the Exile, especially when compared to Atris and Vrook. [[spoiler:As she's not with the male members of the Council when they decide to cut the Exile out of the Force out of paranoia, we don't know if she'd have supported them or not.]]

** Averted in cut content. There is one Gand who does have a name, Ossluk Noslee, making him the only Gand in the nest to have earned one (whereas all the other ones explicitly don't have names and just refer to themselves as "[[ADogNamedDog the Gand]]"). The fact that he has both a first name ''and'' a surname indicates that he's exceptionally accomplished. Ossluk, however, does not like to throw it out in the open, as Gand culture frowns on taking pride in oneself, and requests the Exile not tell anyone his name. The only artifact of his existence in the released game is Ossluk's gloves, which is one of many randomly-generated items.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Among the few Gand in the Jekk'Jekk Tarr that do speak, they do not refer to themselves with any first-person pronouns, only calling themselves "the Gand". According to the [[CutContent cut]] "Naming of the Gand" side quest and other ''Legends'' lore, Gand have to ''earn'' their names and the right to use first-person pronouns. Ossluk, apparently the only one in his nest to have earned both, does not like to show this out in the open, as Gand culture emphasizes humility and saying his name would make him look arrogant.

** Most of the Gand aren't interested in talking to the Exile, so most of the characterization they get is what Vossk gives them, and even that is an optional conversation, and the few Gand that do speak are very humble, yet avoidant.

** She also prides herself on being the last survivor of the Jedi, even though [[spoiler:she was the one who caused the Order to be destroyed by the Sith Triumvirate in the first place. Even worse, she has zero regrets about it, believing that they deserved it.]] When the Exile reveals to her the existence of the remaining Jedi Council, she outright [[spoiler:proposes the Exile to join forces to destroy them.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite her insufferably HolierThanThou demeanor, [[spoiler:she becomes pitable after you defeat her, as it only highlights that all she ever believed in, both as a Jedi and as a fallen Jedi, has been destroyed by her own flaws. Especially if you don't punish her in a Light Side run: she's utterly confused at your mercy, discovering that, for all her purported moral superiority, she wouldn't have been merciful enough to do the same in your place.]]

* BrokenPedestal: The Exile was her hero before deserting the Jedi Order for the Mandalorian Wars along with Revan. [[spoiler:However, it turns out Atris was herself on that pedestal, too - it was also her own inability to follow the Exile to the war which shattered her. Just as with a male Exile, these feelings eventually aided in her fall.]] Applies to [[the entire Jedi Order as well, who have, in her mind, failed to live up to her [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white standards]].]]

* CantTakeCriticism: Atris does not take any criticism of her [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white beliefs]] well. She also does not react well to personal experiences that challenge her beliefs.

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:She denies having become more jaded, instead claiming she only started seeing things more clearly, but it's obvious Revan and Malak's schism annihilated her worldview of the Jedi.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:She surrenders to the Sith holocrons, and eventually Kreia's advice, in order to find the strength to lure and wipe out the Sith Triumvirate. Naturally, it backfires, with Atris falling into the Dark Side (or rather stopping pretending it was not the case) and trying to kill the only Jedi knight who could stop them.]]

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:Sparing her after their duel reveals Atris' actions were inspired by the Exile's own decision to do what they felt they had to do and leave for the Mandalorian Wars, something Atris couldn't bring herself to do. But where the Exile's initiative led to the defeat of the Mandalorians and the salvation of the Republic, Atris' led to the destruction of the Jedi Order and an entire planet.]]

* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Regardless of how much she wants to paint them as a noble crusade, her actions and plans are all essentially a literal vanity project. She's called out on it by Kreia, naturally.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Atris gets a lot of things wrong in regards to the Exile's involvement in the Mandalorian Wars, her claim that the resistance offered by Revan's followers against the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]] encouraged the latter to fight harder has some merit. The Exile can naturally note that Atris didn't have a better solution for the conflicto herself, but there are also dialogue options agreeing with her in this.

** As far as she is concerned, any Force Sensitive who doesn't meet her very strict definition of "Jedi" is a Sith, and the Handmaidens are meant as a lethal failsafe against any Jedi who falls. [[spoiler:This moral absolutism is part of why she fell to the Dark Side.]]

* MissedTheCall: [[spoiler:She wanted to follow her admired Exile to Revan's crusade in the Mandalorian Wars, but didn't dare to challenge the Jedi Council herself. Even worse, she ''also'' failed to act when Revan returned as a Sith and caused the Jedi Civil War. Atris was eventualy left with so much regret that she swore to herself not to stay idle again... which, given her beliefs and state of mind, was not a good thing.]]

* RepressionNeverEndsWell: Atris admired the Exile as an ideal Jedi knight, so she took it badly when the Exile shattered this image by joining the Revanite crusade. [[spoiler:Still, it turns out Atris was internally eager to abandon everything and follow the Exile to the Mandalorian Wars, but she refrained due to her obsessive adherence to the Jedi orthodoxy, and the resultant cognitive dissonance caused a breakdown on her that only found a way out against the Jedi Order itself, whom Atris blamed for causing the crusade in the first place.]] With the revelation that [[spoiler:the Exile's example moved her to finally act against the Order, it is implied Atris' villainy is fueled by her basically overcompensating for having lacked the bravery to act back when it would have been the right time to.]]

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Which you find out if you try to kill him.

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite her insufferably HolierThanThou demeanor, [[spoiler:she becomes pitable after you defeat her, as it only highlights that all she ever believed in, both as a Jedi and as a fallen Jedi, has been destroyed by her own flaws. Especially if you don't punish her in a Light Side run: she's utterly confused at your mercy, still seeing herself as your moral superior yet knowing she wouldn't have been merciful enough to do the same in your place.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Her "authority" is self-titled, but she proves near the end of the game that she has the combat skills requisite to the title Jedi Master.

* BrokenPedestal: Her view of the female Exile, describing her as having been her hero before the Mandalorian Wars. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that she was herself on that pedestal, too - and that it was her inability to follow the Exile to the war which shattered her. Just as with a male Exile, these feelings eventually aided in her fall. Applies to the entire Jedi Order as well, who have, in her mind, failed to live up to her [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white standards]].]]

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Hers is a subverted example because she denies having become more jaded, instead claiming she only started seeing things more clearly, but it's obvious Revan and Malak's schism annihilated her worldview of the Jedi.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler:Of every Jedi master in the franchise, if not the entire concept of Jedi knights. Atris is esentially what happens when the Jedi's noble ideals and dualistic beliefs are adopted by someone too inflexible and mentally fragile (and [[RepressionNeverEndsWell too insincere with herself]]) to handle the various ordeals and pressures that might come with them.]] She is also deconstruction of [[spoiler:the CallToAdventure, as Atris failed to follow hers not once, but twice, and the resultant regret pushed her further into the abyss.]]

** Claims to be the only true Jedi left, but she isn't. The only thing that lends credibility to her claim is having an incredibly narrow definition of what a Jedi is, but this is equally invalid for her as well because [[spoiler:she has unknowingly fallen to the Dark Side.]] Even a light sided Exile, who's most probably a Gray Jedi, is closer to a true Jedi than Atris is.

* ItsPersonal: It can be felt her relationship with the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War is less related to Revan and more to the Exile, whom Atris idolized before the Revanite crusade revealed their views on authority and hierarchy were not compatible. Kreia surely believes the Exile is the only who can change Atris' worldview. [[spoiler:Really, possibly her entire beef comes from this -- Atris preaches the Order was fundamentally flawed for having harbored and allowed the schism, but it's unknown if she would have taken it to the extreme had the schism not given her such a heartache.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Atris gets a lot of things wrong in regards to the Exile's involvement in the Mandalorian Wars, her claim that the resistance offered by Revan's followers against the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]] encouraged them to fight harder has some merit.

* LoonyFan: The Exile used to be Atris' ideal hero within the Jedi Order, but judging by the Exile's dialogue options towards Atris, which go from civil disagreement to outright disdain, it's apparent they never thought as highly of Atris as she did of them. If anything, Atris might have represented for the Exile everything which was seen as wrong in the Order by those who followed Revan: arrogance, indifference to the suffering of others, and complete inability to self-criticize. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that she secretly supported the Exile's rebellion all the time, which was the seed of her own insurgence, only through methods the Exile would have never approved. Atris was basically fated to never understand what she admired.]]

* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Often formulated for herself, for additional drama and irony. She accuses the Exile of betraying the Jedi tenets and surrendering to violence, all while being herself a perpetual and very visible pit of anger, this being also the first thing the Jedi warn against. Even worse, her idea of how an ideal Jedi Order should is uncannily similar to what Revan did during the Mandalorian Wars, which she supposedly abhors. Being surrounded by cultic sycophants who know little about the Jedi Code probably didn't help, but it's all but stated Atris always had this gigantic lack of self-awareness.

* RepressionNeverEndsWell: Atris admired the Exile as an ideal Jedi knight, but she took it very badly when the Exile shattered this image by joining the Revanite crusade. [[spoiler:Internally eager to abandon everything and follow the Exile to the Mandalorian Wars, she refrained due to her obsessive adherence to the Jedi orthodoxy, and the resultant cognitive dissonance caused a breakdown that found its only way out against the Jedi Order itself, whom Atris blamed for causing the crusade in the first place.]] With the revelation that [[spoiler:the Exile's example moved her to finally act against the Order, it is implied Atris' villainy is fueled by her basically overcompensating for having lacked the bravery to act back when it would have been the right time to.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and the Exile were apparently in relatively friendly terms before Meetra ran off to join Revan; Atris took it as a personal betrayal and began to hate her friend.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Which you find out if you try to kill him.

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[[caption-width-right:850:'"They have mastered a dance of death. Very beautiful, very dangerous."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:850:'"They have mastered a dance of death. Very beautiful, very dangerous."'']]

-->''"They have mastered a dance of death. Very beautiful, very dangerous."''

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Said to be one of the greatest Jedi Guardians.

* ForWantOfANail: The Mandalorians often wonder how their war with the Republic had turned out if it was Kavar had been leading the Jedi that resisted their invasion rather than Revan.

%%* DarkIsNotEvil: He may look like a generic baddie. Dressed in dark? Check. Dark facial features? Check. Deep, [[CreepyMonotone creepy voice?]] Check. [[CombatPragmatist Questionable methods?]] Check. [[GoodAllAlong Genuinely protects the local community?]] Check! %%checklist word cruft%%

* WeHaveReserves: Has no qualms about using his men as CannonFodder during the assault on Khoonda.

* DarkIsNotEvil: He may look like a generic baddie. Dressed in dark? Check. Dark facial features? Check. [[GutturalGrowler Deep]], [[CreepyMonotone creepy voice?]] Check. [[CombatPragmatist Questionable methods?]] Check. [[GoodAllAlong Genuinely protects the local community?]] Check!

[[caption-width-right:200:''"We should have told him/her the truth. A Jedi deserves to know."'']]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle (English)

* PosthumousCharacter: She's only seen alive in a single flashback, and is quite dead by the time the Exile makes it to Korriban.

[[caption-width-right:200:''"We take responsibility, Atris, not cast blame."'']]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In the holorecord of the Exile's trial, Vash defends them against Atris' assertions of them having fallen to the Dark Side and feels the Council should have told them the truth of what happened to them at Malachor V. In the cut content, she's rather friendly with the Exile and will attempt to convince them to renounce the Dark Side if they want to kill her.

* WomenAreWiser: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, she's the only Council member who gets caught by the Sith and gets killed. On the other hand, from what little we see of her, she appears to be one of the more understanding Council members concerning the Exile, especially when compared to Atris and Vrook. [[spoiler:As she's not with the male members of the Council when they decide to cut the Exile out of the Force out of paranoia, we don't know if she'd have supported them or not.]]

* BrokenAce: She styles herself as an exemplary Jedi master and scholar, although her disagreeements with the Exile in Telos show she is also a very angry, frustrated woman, rather the opposite to how a Jedi should be. [[spoiler:Not to mention she's also a terrorist and a cult leader.]]

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Between her idea of the Jedi Order, perfect and flawless, and the actual Order, which was not only flawed, but also populated by plenty of people willing to challenge its code and hierarchy. Eventually chose with former, with catastrophic consequences.]] In a more personal light, it turns out [[spoiler:she actually desired to chose the ''latter'', only she couldn't bring herself to do it.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler:Of every Jedi master in the franchise, if not the entire concept of Jedi knights. Atris is esentially what happens when the Jedi's noble ideals and dualistic beliefs are adopted by someone too inflexible and mentally fragile (and too insincere with herself) to handle the various ordeals and pressures that might come with them.]]

* DrunkWithPower: Being disconnected from the rest of the surviving Jedi Council and left free to handle and cultivate her own academy haven't done wonders for Atris' personality. She claims to be the last of the Jedi and the projected creator of a new Order, and doesn't like it when someone disputes it. [[spoiler:With the addendum of being also in the Dark Side.]]

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: [[spoiler:There is nothing she can blame for corrupting her, other than her own issues and reckless ambitions. Kreia only makes her realize she fell into the Dark Side a long time ago.]]

* LoonyFan: The Exile used to be Atris' ideal hero within the Jedi Order, but judging by the Exile's dialogue options towards Atris, which go from civil disagreement to outright disdain, it's apparent they never thought as highly of Atris as she did of them. If anything, Atris might precisely represent for the Exile everything which was seen as wrong in the Order by those who followed Revan: arrogance, indifference to the suffering of others, and complete inability to self-criticize. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that she secretly supported the Exile's rebellion all the time, which was the seed of her own insurgence, only to a level the Exile would have never approved. Atris was basically fated to never understand what she admired.]]

* MilesGloriosus: Attests herself to be the "Last of the Jedi", [[spoiler:despite the '''monumental''' amount of bullshit that one can easily discern from her.]]

* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Often formulated for herself, for additional drama and irony. She accuses the Exile of betraying the Jedi tenets and surrendering to violence, all while being herself a perpetual and very visible pit of anger, this being also the first thing the Jedi warn against. Being surrounded by cultic sycophants who know little about the Jedi Code probably didn't help, but it's all but stated she always had this lack of self-awareness.

** It turns out that her idea of reforming the Jedi Order to better adapt to new times and demands was right -- the lack of this measure bites the Order in the arse both in present time and in the times of the Clone Wars (and many other points of the EU). It's just that she believes [[spoiler:the difference between Jedi and Sith is of no importance.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite her insufferably HolierThanThou demeanor, [[spoiler:she becomes pitable after you defeat her, as it only highlights that all she ever believed in, both as a Jedi and as a fallen Jedi, has been destroyed. Especially if you don't punish her in a Light Side run: she's utterly confused at your mercy, still seeing herself as your moral superior yet knowing she wouldn't have been merciful enough to do the same in your place.]]

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:What she enforces is a garbled form of the goals of the Jedi Order. It's just she is too unstable and too deep into the Dark Side to do anything good with them.]]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler:For someone bent on glorifying the Jedi Order and destroying the Sith, she ends up voluntarily destroying the former and pledging herself to the latter's knowledge.]]

* BeYourself: [[spoiler:A perverse variation. After her fall to the dark side, she describes it as merely having learned to "listen to herself, to the galaxy".]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:Atris fell in love with the male Exile, who was so outspokenly independent as Atris secretly was. Not being able to act on her true feelings and follow the Exile to the Mandalorian Wars broke her.]]

* BloodbathVillainOrigin: [[spoiler:Atris may have been a jerkass beforehand, but the moment in which she arranged for the Jedi conclave in Katarr to be ravaged by Nihilus was when she lost it.]]

* BrokenPedestal: Her view of the female Exile, describing her as having been her hero before the Mandalorian Wars. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that she was herself on that pedestal, too - and that it was her inability to follow the Exile to the war shattered herself. Just as with a male Exile, these feelings eventually aided in her fall. Applies to the entire Jedi Order as well, who have, in her mind, failed to live up to her [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white standards]].]]

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Between her idea of the Jedi Order, imperturbable and flawless, and the actual Order, which was flawed, politically diverse and populated by characters willing to challenge its hierarchy. Eventually chose with former, with catastrophic consequences.]] In a more personal light, it turns out [[spoiler:she actually desired to chose the ''latter'', only she couldn't bring herself to do it.]]

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Hers is a subverted example because she denies having become more jaded, instead claiming she only started seeing things more clearly, but it's clear Revan and Malak's schism annihilated her worldview of the Jedi.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:She surrenders to the Sith holocrons, and eventually Kreia's advice, in order to find the strength to lure and wipe out the Sith Triumvirate. Naturally, it backfires, with Atris falling into the Dark Side (or perhaps stopping trying to pretend it was not the case) and trying to kill the only Jedi who could stop them.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler:Of every Jedi master in the franchise, if not the entire concept of Jedi knights. Atris is esentially what happens when the Jedi's noble ideals and dualistic beliefs are adopted by someone too inflexible, mentally fragile and insincere with herself to handle the various ordeals and pressures that might come with them.]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:Sparing her after their duel reveals Atris' actions were inspired by the Exile's decision to do what they felt they had to do and leave for the Mandalorian Wars, something Atris couldn't bring herself to do. But where the Exile's initiative led to the defeat of the Mandalorians and the salvation of the Republic, Atris' led to the destruction of the Jedi Order and an entire planet.]]
* DrunkWithPower: Being disconnected from the rest of the surviving Jedi Council and left free to handle and cultivate her own academy haven't made wonders for Atris' personality. She claims to be the last of the Jedi and the projected creator of a new Order, and doesn't like it when someone disputes it. [[spoiler:With the addendum of being also in the Dark Side.]]
* EnlightenedAntagonist: [[spoiler:She has studied both Jedi and Sith holocrons, and surely has elevated ideas and aspirations about how should the Jedi, the Sith and the galaxy should be - it's rather that they are all grievously flawed, if not completely and disastrously wrong.]]

* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Regardless of how much she wants to paint them as a noble crusade, her actions and plans are all essentially a vanity project. She's called out on it by Kreia, naturally.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The recording of the Exile's trial imply Atris was not exactly popular in the Jedi Council, and when one speaks to her it's not hard to see why.

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: [[spoiler:There is nobody she can blame of corrupting her, other than her own issues and reckless ambitions. Kreia only makes her realize she fell into the Dark Side a long time ago.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:From her point of view, everything she did was the best and most virtuous option. A merciful Exile can agree that sometimes it looks like this before you find yourself utterly lost.]]

-->'''Atris''': When the Sith are destroyed, then I shall rebuild the Jedi Order again. They shall have none of the weaknesses of before, they shall be strong, willing to take battle to any who oppose them and weaken the Republic.

* LoonyFan: The Exile used to be Atris' ideal hero within the Jedi Order, but judging by the Exile's dialogue options towards Atris, which go from civil disagreement to outright disdain, it's apparent they never thought as highly of Atris as she did of them. If anything, Atris might precisely represent for the Exile everything which was seen as wrong in the Order by those who followed Revan: arrogance, indifference to the suffering of others, and complete inability to self-criticize. [[spoiler:The it turns out that she secretly supported the Exile's rebellion all the time, which was the seed of her own insurgence, only to a level the Exile would have never approved. Atris was basically fated to never understand what she admired.]]

** It turns out that her idea of a more proactive Jedi Order was right, and the lack of this measure bites the Order in the arse both in present time and in the times of the Clone Wars (and many other moments of the EU). It's just that she believes [[spoiler:the difference between Jedi and Sith is of no importance.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She was Force-manipulated by Kreia into pushing for the Exile's expulsion from the Jedi Order. She only realizes she was acting on Kreia's intentions when the latter visits her in Telos, in the cut content.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and the Exile were apparently good friends before Meetra ran off to join Revan; Atris took it as a personal betrayal and began to hate her friend.

* BreakTheHaughty: You may contradict nearly every self-righteous statement of hers during your first encounter. She doesn't take it well.
* BrokenPedestal: Her view of the female Exile, describing her as having been her hero before the Mandalorian Wars. [[spoiler:Just as with a male Exile, these feelings eventually aided in her fall. For Atris, this trope also applies to the entire Jedi Order as well, who have, in her mind, failed to live up to her [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white standards]].]]

* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. She's called out on it by Kreia, naturally.

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:Seems to be this at first...]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:A Light-Side Exile can extract some repentance from her after beating her.]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: During the Exile's trial, Atris denounced Kreia's teachings as a malicious attack on the Jedi Code that caused Revan and her other students to fall to the dark side. Whether this is true or not is debatable, but Atris was definitely right about [[spoiler:Kreia becoming a Sith bent on proving the failure of the Code.]]