Wayman

Wayman was a Human male Dark Jedi who served the Sith Lord Odion during the New Sith Wars. He was a member of the Novitiates, an elite group of Force-sensitive individuals who served as the vanguard of Odion's Sith Order. Wayman also served as a Claimer who was responsible for infiltrating enemy lines and recruiting other Force-sensitive individuals into Odion's Sith organization. In 1,032 BBY, he went to the foundry world of Tergamenion where he succeeded in recruiting a young woman named "Mercy", who was in reality the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who wanted to infiltrate the Odionate and settle scores with Lord Odion.

Odion's Recruiter
Wayman was a high-ranking follower of Sith Lord Odion's nihilistic philosophy during the Republic Dark Age. He served as a Claimer who recruited individuals that had embraced the end and nothinginess just like his Master. Wayman watched for such individuals even within enemy territory to identify those that wanted to end their lives but on their own terms. Thus, Claimers looked for such people that embraced death as their answer and brought them into the service of Odion. One such mission brought him to Tergamenion, a foundry world within rival Sith Lord Daiman's principality known as the Daimanate. He infiltrated Daiman's Sith troopers corps and rode a speeder bike. Meanwhile, Daiman had obtained intelligence of Wayman's presence but decided not to apprehend him since he wanted to use the latter as part of a greater scheme against his estranged brother Odion. Instead, he struck a deal with Kerra to make contact with Wayman under the disguise on a suicidal factory worker named "Mercy."

As planned, "Mercy" jumped from a high-rise building within Wayman's patrol zone. As planned, she was intercepted in mid-air by Wayman on his speeder bike. Wayman subsequently apprehended her and Kerra pretended to attempt suicide with a blaster, thereby pretending to embrace death and nothingness. Sensing potential in the Force-sensitive young woman, Wayman disarmed "Mercy" and then used her thumb print to alter her records in the worker database to show she was deceased. Wayman succeeded in recruiting "Mercy" by appealing to her alleged desire to avenge the deaths of her family at the hands of Daiman. He offered to train her as a dark side-using Novitiate. As a test of her abilities and enthusiasm, he told her to make her own way to Odion but also gave her a signalling device that she could use when she arrived at her destination. "Mercy" complied and he departed on a speeder bike.

The Prestige of Power
After a brief debriefing with a hologram of Daiman, "Mercy" departed in her Fire Lotus-class starfighter to the Daimanate where she was inducted into the Novitiate and sent on a mission to Skarpos, part of Sith Lord Malakite's realm known as the Menagerie. During the Battle of Skarpos, the Odionate forces sustained heavy casualties when several Novitiates and Thunder Guard members were killed in a tar pit ambush by Malakite's Mutates, individuals subjected to Sith alchemical experiments which twisted their minds and bodies. Wayman interevened when "Mercy's" commanding office Beld Yulan reprimanded her for her unwillingness to die in combat as shown by her efforts to assist a wounded Novitiate acolyte. Wayman intervened by chiding Yulan's suicide wave tactics as a contributing factor to prevailing inexperience among Odion's forces. He defended "Mercy" by expressing he had high hopes for the young woman but counselled her to follow Yulan's orders on future occasions due to his senior position in Odion's hierarchy.

He then informed "Mercy" and the other surviving Novitiates that Lord Odion had reassigned "Mercy's" team for a big assignment to recover the Helm of Ieldis. Wayman ordered Yulan's fleet to meet Odion at his new capital of Jubalene, formerly part of the defeated Bactranate. Yulan commented that he would arrive there but first needed to stop at Vanahame to replenish his arms supplies. "Mercy" then asked Wayman about whether Jubalene had any data centers, feigning enthusiasm for pursuing Odion's teachings. Wayman confirmed an affirmative to her question while praising her devotion. At Tergamenion, he and "Mercy" were present with Odion during a combat duel pitting three Duros bankers against a rancor. The Duros had been duped into adopting Odion's nihilistic teachings and believed that they could embrace death by tackling a fully-grown rancor. With Odion encouraging them "to end the pain," the three bankers entered a berserker rage and attacked the rancor with spears. Ultimately, their efforts proved futile and they were eaten by the beast in the presence of a satisfied Odion who commented that even Lord Bactra's bankers could be used for his own purposes when properly motivated.

Odion also added that he savoured the deaths of individuals who had embraced death willingly, since it strengthened the Dark Side. He also expressed his annoyance towards life energies which glowed through the Light Side of the Force. While other Sith could tolerate it, he tried to block it and saw death as a relief.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 11: Escape, Part 1