Tavion Axmis

"Spare me your self-righteous pity, Katarn!"

- Tavion Axmis to Kyle Katarn

Tavion Axmis was an overconfident, obedient Human Dark Jedi covered in Sith tattoos and wearing black leather outfits. She was a deadly warrior with a swift style.

Desann's apprentice
"Where's your master, apprentice?"

- Kyle Katarn to Tavion Axmis



Originally an Empire Youth under Lord Hethrir, Tavion was selected by Desann to be his personal apprentice. Together, the two conceived a devious scheme to discover the location of the Valley of the Jedi. During the Battle of Artus Prime, Desann and Tavion intercepted Jan Ors, the partner of former Jedi Kyle Katarn and one of the only two people to know the location of the Valley. Tavion managed to capture her and bring her aboard their shuttle. Katarn showed up to rescue his partner, only to be quickly defeated by Desann. Out of Kyle's line of sight, Tavion activated her lightsaber and killed Jan, or so it seemed to the former Jedi. Desann spared Kyle and boarded his shuttle, leaving the planet with Tavion.

However, they did not leave the system. When Kyle left in the Raven's Claw, he instantly went to the Valley of the Jedi to regain his former Force-sensitivity, with the intention of using it to exact revenge on Jan's killers. Desann and Tavion followed him there, succeeding in their plan to discover the Valley's location. Soon after, Tavion and Desann brought the presumed-dead Jan Ors to Admiral Galak Fyyar's flagship, the Doomgiver. After building up a deadly new force known as the Reborn, Tavion left her master's side to oversee Imperial Remnant forces on Bespin, smuggling cortosis for making the shadowtroopers.



While on Bespin, Tavion confronted Kyle Katarn. She taunted him, announcing that they had followed him to the Valley, and congratulated him for beginning the "era of Desann". After an intense duel on one of Cloud City's landing platforms, Tavion was overcome by Kyle's superiority with a lightsaber. Kyle held Tavion aloft with the Force over the platform's edge. Tavion begged for her life, telling Kyle that "his woman" was alive onboard the Doomgiver, which was docked at a base in the Lenico Belt. Kyle spared her, commanding her to get away before Desann finds her and punishes her in the way he sees fit. Tavion obeyed and fled.

Soon after, her master Desann was slain by Katarn in the underground of Yavin 4.

Cult leader
After Desann's death, Tavion took on an eager and sadistic apprentice: the red-skinned Twi'lek female Alora. Tavion then found a merchant on Commenor with an ancient artifact known as the Scepter of Ragnos. After acquiring the scepter, she killed him. With the Scepter, she drained areas of the galaxy strong with the Force and empowered her new followers, and inviting the Reborn who survived the Empire Reborn campaign to join her, renamed as New Reborn. Her cult was known as the Disciples of Ragnos, with the goal of resurrecting the ancient Dark Lord of the Sith known as Marka Ragnos.



Eventually Tavion made a bold move on Yavin 4. Alora was deployed to infiltrate the Jedi Academy to access Luke Skywalker's private record of the locations of Force nexuses, while Tavion and the Kothos Twins drained the Force energy at the Massassi Temple. However, their actions did not go unnoticed. A newly arrived Jedi Padawan known as Jaden Korr spotted her activity, and Tavion knocked out Korr with the energy of the scepter. Despite the intervention, Tavion and her forces escaped Yavin 4 safely with the valuable data.

Soon, Luke Skywalker dispatched the Jedi to areas of strong Force energy in an attempt to intercept the cult. One of the students, Rosh Penin, did not make it back from a mission to Byss. Rosh Penin was captured, and Tavion had successfully turned him to the dark side.

Tavion and Rosh's destination was Vjun, the location of Darth Vader's Bast Castle. They were attempting to drain the place when Jaden Korr arrived on the scene, surprised to see his lost friend. Tavion remained in the shadows as the two dueled. When Rosh was defeated and Jaden's master Kyle Katarn showed up, Tavion revealed herself. She refused to give up her new apprentice and commanded Katarn to save his pity because of the shame he caused her on Bespin. Tavion ripped Jaden's lightsaber from him with the Force, bringing the ceiling down on the Jedi. She then used the ensuing chaos to escape with Rosh in tow.



After neutralizing the cult's activities on Taspir III&mdash;killing Alora and saving Rosh, after the former Dark Jedi had sent out a distress call&mdash;Jaden went to Korriban to stop Tavion from resurrecting Marka Ragnos. This effort by him and a team of Jedi began an epic battle between them and the Disciples of Ragnos. Jaden managed to make his way to Ragnos's tomb and confront Tavion.

Tavion was once again defeated. However, she refused to cower like she did before Katarn. She took the Scepter of Ragnos and released all of the Scepter's remaining energy into the ancient Sith Lord's remains. Ragnos's spirit rose, infusing his strength into Tavion's body, and so another duel began with Tavion drawing Ragnos' Sith sword. Despite Tavion fighting with enhanced dark side abilities, the scepter was eventually destroyed by Jaden, and Ragnos's spirit was forced to flee back into his tomb, killing Tavion. With that, all the energy Tavion had stolen was returned to its proper place in the galaxy.

Tavion's homeworld
Although there is no clear evidence, it is possible that Tavion might have been one of the Nightsisters: dark side witches from Dathomir, some of whom escaped the remote world despite its Imperial blockade. Nightsisters participated in the Zann Consortium's criminal enterprises and later helped to create the Shadow Academy. Both Tavion's style of clothing and her facial tattoo could be marks of a possible Dathomiri ancestry. Also, according to the Jedi Outcast website, Luke Skywalker heard rumors of her when on a recruitment mission to Dathomir.

Trivia

 * Tavion was voiced by Kath Soucie in Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.
 * In Jedi Academy, if Jaden chooses the dark side during the confrontation with Rosh and Alora, then Tavion will not attempt to resurrect Ragnos but instead give in and let Jaden kill her.
 * Although her last name is never stated in the games, Axmis is the surname written in the Holocron continuity database.

Appearances

 * N.R.I. Reports
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy