Tavion Axmis

Tavion Axmis was a female Human Dark Jedi often seen sporting black leather outfits and Sith tattoos. The apprentice of the Dark Jedi Desann, Tavion traveled with him to find the lost Valley of the Jedi and served alongside him in Hethrir's Empire Reborn. After being defeated by Kyle Katarn and Desann's death, she became the leader of the Disciples of Ragnos cult. She took Alora as her apprentice and set herself upon the task of ressurecting Marka Ragnos.

During Luke Skywalker's search for the cult, she turned Rosh Penin, one of Katarn's apprentices and a student at the Jedi Academy, to the dark side. She, Rosh, and Alora were discovered at Vjun, where they were confronted by Jaden Korr and Katarn. Subsequently on Taspir III, Alora was killed by Korr, and Penin was turned back to the light. Axmis journeyed to Korriban to resurrect the ancient Sith Lord Marka Ragnos. Korr was sent to stop her, and after a fierce duel, she was defeated. In desperation, she let the spirit of Ragnos fill her, and he guided her body in combat. She was killed after Korr defeated Ragnos, as her body could not withstand the ordeal.

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 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 Jan 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 found her. After obeying Kyle and escaping, Tavion lost her master, who was slain by Katarn in the underground of Yavin 4.

Cult leader
"You should have killed me when you had the chance, Katarn. Your pathetic Jedi mercy is a weakness that will cost you your life, and those of your academy's students."

- Tavion Axmis after revealing herself to Kyle Katarn

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, known as the Disciples of Ragnos, sought to resurrect 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. To avoid interference, the energy of he scepter was harnessed to shoot down an arriving shuttle, carrying a load of new Padawans. However, their actions did not go unnoticed. A newly arrived Jedi Padawan known as Jaden Korr made his way to the Temple after being separated from the main group of Jedi on the arriving starship, and spotted her activity, forcing Tavion to knock him out with the energy of the scepter. Despite Korr's 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 return from a mission to Byss, and was captured. Using his fear of being killed by his captors, Tavion 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 castle's force energy 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 arrived, 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 his grasp with the Force, threw it at the ceiling and brought the weakened ceiling down on the Jedi with the Scepter of Ragnos. She then used the ensuing chaos to escape with Rosh in tow.



After neutralizing the cult's activities on Taspir III, Korr killed Alora, and saved Rosh after the former Dark Jedi had sent out a distress call. 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, but 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's 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.

Personality and traits
"Silence, whelp. I will make Kyle Katarn's failure complete. My victory, Rosh's corruption, and now, your death will finally turn him to the dark side."

- Tavion Axmis to Jaden Korr

Tavion was a powerful Dark Jedi with occasional bouts of overconfidence. However, she begged for her life when she was defeated by Katarn. After the death of Desann, Tavion ably led the Disciples of Ragnos, training her apprentice Alora to exhibit her own ruthlessness. However, her overconfidence led to her death: in her duel with Jaden, she tried to use Ragnos' spirit to kill Jaden. She believed his death and Penin's fall to the dark side would make Katarn's efforts a failure, and turn him to the dark side. However, her overconfidence failed her and she died, along with Ragnos' spirit.

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

Notes and references
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