Darth Traya

Kreia (c. 4,025 BBY - 3,951 BBY) was a Jedi Master during the time before the Mandalorian Wars. After one of her former apprentices, Revan, turned to the Dark Side, she was exiled from the Order and consumed by guilt. Kreia wondered if it had been her teachings that had led to Revan's fall. She travelled to Malachor V, which she sensed as Revan's last location and, corrupted by the dark side, embraced the secrets of the Sith.

Early Life
Kreia's past is largely a mystery. It is known that she worked her way up to the rank of Jedi Master and that she trained many students, such as Revan.

Fall to the Dark Side
At the close of the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi who participated were called back to Coruscant so that they might answer for their transgressions. Only one returned, and he was exiled as punishment. The Council blamed Kreia for the war, claiming that her 'grey' disposition had corrupted Revan and all her other padawans, as well.

Kreia was exiled, and, after the Jedi Civil War ended, went in search of a possible reason for Revan's betrayal of the Republic. She eventually found her way to Malachor V, and there discovered the Trayus Academy that held some part in corrupting Revan.

She, too, fell to the temptations of the Dark Side, and from that moment on, she firmly believed that Revan never 'fell', rather that he was freed. She presumably learnt of the old Sith Empire in much the same way that Revan did, and thus she realised the cause for Revan's 'betrayal'; the protection of the galaxy.

The new Darth Traya continued Revan's Sith legacy, training students at the ancient Academy. There she trained assassins gifted in the ability to covertly destroy the Jedi. She also recruited two others to be her apprentices. They became Darth Nihilus, Lord of hunger, and Darth Sion, Lord of pain.

Soon, her apprentices began to tire of her 'grey' views, just as the Jedi had. They cast her down, breaking her connection the Force. Yet Kreia was able to survive.

Kreia and the Jedi Exile
Kreia soon found herself unconscious in the company of a wounded Jedi Exile. They subconsciously reached out to each other, both strengthening each other in the void they felt in losing the Force. This forged a strong bond between the two.

Shortly after, as Kreia and the Exile attempted to escape Peragus II, Kreia encountered her former protégé, Darth Sion. The two fought, and Kreia lost her hand to Sion. The Exile felt the same pain as she did, and the two realised that their link could well be fatal.

Kreia began to shape the Exile in to a new pupil, and together they fought back against the Sith as they attempted to bring an end to the Jedi. Unbeknownst to the Exile, however, Kreia had a further design. Using the Exile's power as a 'wound in the Force', Kreia intended to bring about the death of the Force, granting true free will to the denizens of the galaxy. Kreia had come to regard the Force as an uncaring, insidious god. She noted the tremendous loss of life throughout history, and far into the future, during the many battles between the Jedi and the Sith, but Kreia blamed neither the Jedi nor the Sith but rather the very thing they both drew upon and were practically defined by- the Force.

By the end of her adventures with the Exile, Traya had devised a method to kill the Force with "echoes" (her term) - tragedies that leave persistent wounds in the universe that made the Force difficult (sometimes impossible) to hear and be used. Her discovery of these "echoes", and her avenue of attack on the Force was due entirely to the Exile; he provided the first 'echo' that she could study by his actions on the planet of Malachor V, and he turned the echoes by his survival from mere curiosity into being a viable mechanism for destroying the Force. By Kreia's reasoning, people who died of these echoes when they could not bear to voluntarily sever themselves from the Force (like the Exile did to save his life), were not strong enough to deserve to live in the first place. Her hatred of the Force was her overriding goal for in her mind, due to her conviction that if she did not kill it, even more would die in the future.

Abilities
Darth Traya had the (possibly unique) ability to wield three or more lightsabers in combat, holding each of them aloft with the Force, and having them fight with a will of their own.

Kreia's eyes appeared damaged, but in reality were simply atrophied from disuse. It was within her Force ability to have repaired her eyesight, yet she refused to do so, having a superior ability to "see" through the Force and regarding her natural sight as a distraction.

Kreia had once been a historian of the Jedi, but realized early on that the Code of the Jedi did not answer all the questions she posed. She was also a master manipulator, having used this skill to maneuver herself into a position of power at the Trayus Academy and, later, trick the Jedi and Sith into revealing themselves, allowing her or others to destroy them.

Traya was also able to glimpse far into the future, predicting isolated events with incredible accuracy; she was able to predict the death of Jango Fett at the hands of Mace Windu 4,000 years later.

Behind the Scenes
There is an ongoing dispute as to whether the Jedi Kae and Kreia are the same person. Evidence in the game indicates that both Kea and Kreia were both Revan's first and last master. Additionally, Kae was also exiled from the Order, and their names bear a distinct similarity.

Conversely, cut sound files from the game indicate that Master Kae was originally intended to accompany Lonna Vash to Korriban. Whether this is proof that they are seperate entities, or merely evidence of early sidequest (possibly related to Kreia not leaving the Ebon Hawk) is unknown.

Like Darth Sidious and Darth Vader, Darth Traya's name suggests another word: betrayal.

Appearances

 * Knights of the Old Republic II