Current Character Sheet for Aneurin Cynewulf

There is a dark secret to Aneurin's longevity, and why he spent centuries at a time in exile on the world of Rhen Var. A wraith lurks at his core, one entombed within his very essence. In the final days of the Hundred-Years Darkness, Aneurin volunteered to have his body ritually altered to end a monstrous threat. He became a living prison for the spirit of Lord Tycherus, a powerful Dark Jedi who had escaped death repeatedly through Essence Transfer.

While Aneurin hoped a peaceful end would drag Tycherus into the Force with him, an unintended side effect of the imprisonment rendered him ageless. Unable to destroy the spirit, he has spent centuries resisting Tycherus' whispers, and maintaining his imprisonment by his own power in the Force. This has left him with little more than a trick of his own power to call upon, effectively rendering him mundane.

A knight from ancient days, Aneurin was there at the dawn of the Jedi. Raised and knighted during the Hundred-Year Darkness, Aneurin's saga is one of bloody victories, massacres, and unnumbered atrocities across a thousand battlefields. Although seeking to be anything that the Jedi Order required, rarely was he given the opportunity to carry out the duties of diplomat or healer, and was shaped into the role of a warrior. In the final days of that war, Aneurin would disappear after accepting his role in ending the threat of Tycherus. In scattered reports across centuries, a figure matching Aneurin's description would reappear multiple times across the millennia when war touched Rhen Var. Yet it would only be the threat posed by the Children of Mortis which would draw him out of hiding and into the wider galaxy once more.

As a result of his long life, Aneurin has survived events which are considered ancient history by most. Even a concerted effort to remain isolated has nevertheless drawn him into multiple conflicts over the ages, either by answering the call or when his chosen home became a new battlefront during one of many wars. This grants him a wellspring of knowledge to call upon, from lost texts to personal stories of ages long gone. Even so, it has led to an an undeniable edge of cynicism when speaking of greater events. He has seen too many old mistakes repeated, lessons misunderstood, or major turning points in history scoffed at as legends. While Aneurin fights for any good that is left to the galaxy, he fully believes that there is more lost than will ever be recovered.

The Jedi Order as Aneurin knew them are long dead. Even prior to Palpatine's purges, they faded from history with the Army of Light and the reformations which followed. Their current incarnation consists of individuals he can respect and even can find some common ground with, but has long accepted that they are ultimately as alien to him as any Mandalorian. With few lessons unrelated to warfare to pass on, and fewer still which would be accepted by the modern Jedi, he follows them more out of respect for past comrades than true kinship. It is that loyalty to what was which anchors him in a chaotic world, and keeps him fighting against a rising tide of darkness.

To Aneurin, all but a handful of weapons are simple tools to be used and then discarded when they are no longer useful. The form that they take does not sway his view, be they blaster, blade, explosive, or slugthrower; each has their limit and all that matters is ultimately their effectiveness. Because of this, Aneurin's fighting style is built upon depriving his foe of their weapons and turning them against them. While putting faith in his own Athletics and martial skills to carry out such attacks, the critical flaw in such a style is a reliance upon having a weapon to claim and being able to get close enough to take it.

Without the gift of the Force, Aneurin Cynewulf has trained rigorously with a wide range of melee weaponry and technology to better handle opponents that are able to harness the mythical power. Aneurin Cynewulf has been conditioned to fight against foes that are Force-sensitive and are able to compensate against fighting an adversary wielding something as deadly as a lightsaber. While this adaptive combat training makes him lethal in close quarters combat against any kind of threat, they are still at the mercy of a long ranged fighter, assailant or Force user that prefers to attack the mind instead of the body.