{{Eras|reb|new|njo|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Force Disciple
|image= [[File:Avituseye.png|250px]]
|firstname= Avitus
|lastname= Oligard
|homeworld= [[Coratua]]
|birth= {{Birthyear_and_Age|BBY|5}}
|species= [[starwars:Human|Human]]
|gender= Male
|hair= White
|eyes= Blue
|height= 1.83 m / 6'0" 
|weight=  68.04 kg / 150 lbs
|allies=
*Rath Oligard
*Arraris Varken
*Chelsie Crimson
|profession=Chief Counsel
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation=
*[[The Collective]]
*[[Krath|Krath Order]] (formerly)
|masters=Unknown
}} 

{{Quote|Rath...unite them. You must unite them. This, all this? You can use this, and only you. You are the one these people need, you could free them, avenge them...liberate them. All of them. Don't you see? I see it. I see '''all of it.''' You could do so much, cousin, but only if you take the responsibility.|Avitus Oligard}}

'''Avitus Oligard''' is a [[Prophet]], unflinchingly loyal to his only remaining blood, Rath Oligard, and [[The Collective|the Collective]] that Rath leads. While once a member of the [[Krath Order]] of the Dark Brotherhood, he is now the Chief Counsel of [[The Collective: Liberation Front|the Liberation Front]] and the closest, most secret confidant Rath keeps.

==Physical Description==

[[File:Avitushalfbody.png|250px|thumb|left|Avitus]]
Avitus, in older holos from younger days when his family was whole, might be confused for a direct sibling of his cousin, Rath. Both shared bright auburn hair and bright blue eyes, a healthy flush to their freckled skin and fit, active bodies. Now, however, any resemblance is almost completely lost after years of experimentation on Avitus' part, both as a direct result of rituals performed on himself with the Force and the corrupting affect of the Dark Side.

Avitus Oligard's gaunt, utterly emaciated figure leaves him with a weak, stooped spine and little muscle beneath his pale corpse-white skin. Combined with sunken eye sockets and hallowed cheeks, he could easily be mistaken for an Umbaran. His eyes are an eerie, faded shade of ice blue, accentuated by perpetual dark lines from a lack of restful sleep. In stark contrast to his cousin's neat, still-bright hair, Avitus' white mop of hair falls messily and without purpose around his narrow, angular face and long nose.

His body is a canvas for self-inflicted scars. Faint red streaks line the undersides of his forearms and the inside of his thighs, with scattered burn marks marks and scraggly patches of discolored synthflesh littering his limbs and torso. He hides his form deep in an oversized, black cloak and dresses in dark synthweave body armor, like a ghost of who he was meant to be.


==Personality==

Avitus has always been intelligent and cunning, but by no means were these natural qualities; he is a hard worker and ruthlessly self-taught, driving himself through rigorous study in the pursuit of knowledge and secrets. His curiosity and quiet but powerful ambition have always had him seeking more, and so he often withdrew into his studying, lonesome except for the company of his dear cousin, Rath, who would drag him along into trouble and adventure - drag being a loose term, as where Rath went, Avitus would always follow. Rath was the people-person between the two, and everyone always loved him; and Avitus always loved Rath. Despite his introversion and tendency towards independence, Avitus was never particularly awkward nor anti-social, merely more wont to spend his energy for such things more carefully. He tends to observe people and events around him at length before interacting with them, always dissecting the world and assessing it, exploring it, before determining a best course for navigation.

In the time before the fall of the Krath Order and the loss of Rath's family, Avitus was more prone to bouts of secret, fierce cleverness, quipping and smiling with his nieces and sister-in-law, taunting Rath, sassing apprentices in the Shadow Academy, and sharing stories of the deep mysteries he delved into. He loved being an uncle, and he showed great, quiet affection for his family and for his work. Afterwards, however, upon joining Rath's crusade against the Brotherhood and becoming the Collective's Hand, Avitus withered like a flower cut. His experiments had caused him physical regression, but the hatred around and within him for the very thing he was deteriorated him mentally and emotionally. He began to loathe and fear himself, hurting himself and hating the eyes staring back from the mirror, wishing to rip away his own skin if only he could flee from it. He no longer jokes, no longer stares with anything but blankness or a frown when not deadly-focused. Nevertheless, if there was ever one absolute to Avitus, it was his adoration and loyalty to his cousin, brother, and lifelong best friend. Avitus would do anything for Rath, no matter how much he eventually came to hate himself, placing what little remained of his self-worth in his usefulness to his cousin's cause. Avitus is notably more "there" when he can help Rath and when the Collective succeeds, and notably more disassociated and traumatized when the Collective's messages roars too loudly in his ears and he cannot reconcile the pure wrath and hatred that spews from his cousin's mouth with the firm hand clasping his shoulder in support.

==Biographical History==

===Early Life===

Avitus Oligard was born an only child on the planet of [[Coratua]] in 5 BBY. He was a small but curious child, always adventurous and unafraid, just like his best friend and cousin, Rath. The children of two brothers, the boys were like brothers themselves, never much minding their own respective lack of siblings when they had one another. Their uncles and families were close enough that they lived in the same city, and the boys grew up in their own world as pirates and smugglers, warriors and poets, agents and Jedi, whatever they wished to play. Though their homeworld had no native species, inhabited mainly by colonizers and, later, rife with the criminal presence of pirates seeking riches from the planet's metals and droid factories, the two boys had a stable and happy childhood, their people prosperous off droid production and lumber from the planet's many forests and relatively autonomous.

The duo eventually became a trio when they made another friend, the daughter of merchants who moved to Coratua. Her name was Elizabeth Oolaway, a fellow Human, and she immediately took the boys' interest when Avitus admitted to having a dream of her before she arrived. Rath and Avitus decided to introduce themselves to the dream girl, and found that Elizabeth was not only real but quite kind and fiery, adding to their adventures. She played pirate and sorcerer just as easily as either boy did, and both Rath and Avitus fell hard for her charms. They three became fast friends, always found together. 

As they grew older, however, it became evident that not all of their childhood fantasies had, indeed, been so fantastical. Avitus was discovered to have powers, like the very Jedi they'd once mimicked. At first the cousins paid little heed to the revelation outside of personal use - toying with Avitus moving small objects or creating little images or sounds. It was their secret, shared only with Elizabeth, though Avitus never revealed to her his original dream about her; nor the dreams he'd continued to have of the trio since they all met. Instead they stayed quiet as their teenage years progressed, Avitus having more and more dreams he kept to himself and using more and more tricks to help the trio along.

The catalyst for change was when a Dark-Side practitioner visiting their planet took an interest in Avitus and recruited him as an apprentice, beginning to train him in the arts of the Dark Side and wooing the young boy with the promise of secret knowledge and incomparable power. Avitus was uneasy at first, slightly hesitant, but some jealous part of him saw an opportunity in the offer. Rath and Elizabeth would surely have a future together, he could see it; and he didn't even need the Force to show him visions of as much. They were simply so close. He could only hope to have a place in the life they would make, and if not, then he would need something for himself. He reasoned that once he was gone, and had gained power, perhaps they would miss him and want him to return, to stay.

The identity of Avitus' master was perhaps the closest secret he ever kept, not even telling Rath until decades later. The mysterious Force-User went only by the title - legitimate or not - of Darth Delayne, and was well-studied and a powerful member of what Avitus would learn was the [[Krath Order]]. Unknown to either Oligard, his master had visited in the first place as the [[Dark Brotherhood]] had taken an interest in the [[Coratua system]] where they all lived, due to the growing presence of pirates being a risk of drawing attention from the [[starwars:New Republic|New Republic]] that the Brotherhood would not want. Sparklypants and his fellows had come as conquerors, and quietly swept up Cortua's government and resources. That Delayne had found an apprentice along the way was but a bonus.

All this, however, would not be learned by the cousins until many years and many tragedies later. At the time, there was only Avitus bidding his family and Rath and Elizabeth goodbye, accepting the opportunity to "study abroad" in some secret location in a nearby star system, [[Antei system|Antei]].


===The Brotherhood===

Avitus was taken to [[Antei]] by his master and inducted as an Initiate into the Krath ranks of the Brotherhood. He applied himself diligently, taking quickly to the more mystical arts that his teacher offered him than the the more physically domineering ones championed by the likes of the [[Obelisk|Obelisk Order]] or the tactician's advances of the [[Sith Order|Sith]]. Tactical thinking - or planning and leading, at least - had always been more Rath's area, while Avitus was happier to follow and support his cousin with his perceptions. And such was the way of Avitus' thoughts; always going back to his cousin. Even as he studied, he would communicate back home.

Soon, however, it became redundant. One day, Rath himself arrived on Antei, shocking Avitus and yet not shocking him at all. Avitus had told Rath everything of the Brotherhood, even betraying the confidence to which he was sworn, as he told Rath everything, and it was really no surprise that his elder cousin would uproot and come to join him in his new life - in ''their'' new life, as they were brothers.

Rath found a place as a mundane in the Brotherhood by enlisting in its naval ranks. He started as an enlisted crewman, and eventually moved into the bottom of the officer class as an ensign. But Avitus didn't merely get the company of his cousin; Elizabeth had insisted on coming as well, working in droid engineering as she had learned to do so on Coratua. Together again - with Avitus glad to see his friends hadn't just wanted him to come back but had missed him enough to join him - the trio focused on their separate tasks. Life was not easy in the Brotherhood. Elizabeth often stayed behind making war machines while Rath was sent into battles amongst the Iron Navy, while Avitus went as a fully fledged Apprentice and later Dark Jedi when his master disappeared, trained on Antei and at the mysterious [[Shadow Academy]] on [[Lyspair]]. The Brotherhood was a cutthroat place of [[20 ABY to 29 ABY|many battles]], with civil wars and Great Jedi Wars and conflicts between their own systems and clans as well as with outside forces. Both cousins grew scarred, older and wiser and stronger, and a little less forgiving. But they all still held one another close.

Rath and Elizabeth eventually married, with Avitus himself performing the ceremony. They immediately started their new family, having their first daughter and naming the girl Avimiy, after her uncle and godfather, less than a year later. Avitus was thrilled and enamored immediately with being an "uncle,"" and, secretly, hoped the babe or any future children might be Force-Sensitive, like him, so that he could pass on all that he had taught himself. 

The couple would go on to have two more children over the course of the next several years. The second, Blanmel, was born two years after the first. The youngest, Isabella, was born a year after that. Avitus loved all three girls dearly, and treated them as if his own children, raising them nearly as much as did their parents, the trio all sharing a home when the girls were young. As they grew out of their toddler years, Avitus departed again for Lyspair, though his visits were frequent as his studies allowed. When Rath began to rise in command ranks among the officers of the Iron Navy, promoted to a captaincy, the family began following, living the more vagrant life of a military household. Avitus, meanwhile, had grown very powerful as a Krath, and held the sway to operate independently in his studies as he liked. He delved into shadowy places even Rath knew nothing of, as he never would have understood even if Avitus told him. Prophecy, alchemy, and longevity all interested Avitus, and he studied them at great length, dreaming of one day discovering a way to gift the ability of the Force to both Rath and Elizabeth, so that they might know power like he did. In the meantime, the best he could do was its inverse, mastering how to remove the Force-abilities of others. Rath was eventually made a Fleet Admiral and moved Elizabeth and his family to a colony project in Wild Space where the Brotherhood was exploring new planets, and Avitus gained the title of an [[EL1|Adept]]. The children grew in their new home.

Things went on as peacefully as they ever could in the constantly-warring Brotherhood. Until, abruptly, they did not.

===Loss and The Liberation Front===

{{Quote|Where are the girls? I can't see them anymore, I can't sense- Rath, WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?"
::''"Gone. They're all gone.|Avitus and Rath Oligard after the assault of XL374}}

Everything went wrong for the Oligards in 29 ABY when [[Tenth Great Jedi War|war broke out]] between the Jedi of one of the Brotherhood's then-[[House|Houses]] and the other Clans, hungering for a battle like the Sith Wars of old. Rath was the Brotherhood's chief strategic planner, stationed aboard ''the Grievance'' for the duration of the war, while Avitus was far away from the front on Lyspair, deep in meditation, scrying for the outcome of the battle and any weaknesses the Jedi possessed. Rath would soon learn, however, that the battling Jedi and Sith had moved to fields he had not predicted, including the worst possible for the cousins: XL374, the colony planet on which Elizabeth and the girls lived.

Rath rushed to his home as soon as he could, and found he was too late when he arrived, even as the Force-Users still fought across the planet. It was in that moment that Avitus felt several losses in the Force, not only those of his sister and nieces but, truly, of his brother as well. The man Rath was died that day with his family, and what emerged was a shell of a man burning for vengeance.

Avitus left Lyspair immediately and went to his cousin's side, even knowing what he would find. All he could feel was grief and loathing; but not in the same manner Rath did. Rath burned with hate for the Brotherhood, but Avitus smoldered with hate for himself. It was his fault the family had ever discovered or joined the group, his fault they had stayed, and now his fault, the fault of ''"his kind"'', as Rath put it, that they died.

Lost and broken, Rath and Avitus left the graves of their loved ones behind, declared Killed in Action, and wandered the galaxy together to learn more about the people that had taken so much from them. Avitus finally told Rath everything of his master, and they eventually learned why the Brotherhood had originally come to their homeworld. It was just more condemning evidence; the Brotherhood only served to take and destroy, caring nothing for the collateral damage it caused, mindlessly hungering. It was a blight and a cancer, and Rath grew more and more incensed each day.

The cousins found, in their travels around Brotherhood-adjacent spaces, that they were not alone in their pain. Others from their home system had suffered because of the Brotherhood's actions. Others still, like the [[Antares System]], had been wiped out entirely so that the Brotherhood could lay claim to their graves and take the land for themselves. Countless people and civilizations had been lost to the blind arrogance and ambition of the Force-Users. The hate grew stronger, and it held not only the cousins together, but began to attract those others as well.

One day, after dreaming of a great and terrible vision, Avitus suggested that Rath use the support of the people that had begun following them as a force to use against the Brotherhood and people like them, to stop them, to defeat them. Rath listened closely to his cousin, as he always had, and decided that he was right. Avitus had seen it, and so it would be: they would eliminate every trace of the Force-Users and free the universe. Unbeknownst to the Grand Master and his Council at the time, the Oligards quietly began to usurp power and followers across the galaxy.

But not all was well for Avitus. As their newly born Liberation Front grew, and grew, and eventually became a pillar, one of three, of [[The Collective]], Avitus grew worse and worse, both physically and otherwise. As fiercely as Rath's hatred still burned, Avitus' still dragged him down, shame and grief anchors around his neck, boulders on his back. He held the weight of all the worlds, knowing how much Rath relied on him and his visions, even as he hid what ad who he truly was from everyone around them, growing not only ashamed of himself but afraid for his life, as those supporting Rath and murderous towards Force-Users grew more and more vocal and powerful and present. Even if Rath protected him, assured him, and defended him, Avitus knew better. He could see it as well as he always had, as clear as any Force-vision: Rath hated him, blamed him, underneath it all, and Avitus was on borrowed time until he ceased being useful to the cause.

Avitus never feared his cousin, however. He loved him too greatly. He only came further to hate himself, hoping, secretly and fervently, for the day to come when his existence could end and he, like the universe, could be free of the Force. Until such a time, Avitus is sworn to the Liberation Front, to the Collective, and, always, to his cousin.


===Abilities===

Avitus is a [[Prophet]] and former member of the Krath Order, extremely strong in the more mystic aspects of the Force and studied in Force Powers both offensive, defensive, and manipulative. While physically weak, he is a master of [[Force Powers|Suppression]] and has always had an affinity for predicting the future and interpreting visions from the Force. His ability in [[Force Powers|Farsight]] is second almost to none, and his knowledge of the Force, the Krath Arts, and the connection between the Force and Force-Users themselves is impressive. He learned to speak several languages in order to advance the Collective's goals, and though he never mastered any lightsaber form under his more sorcery-inclined master, he himself is a master of [[Force Powers|Concealment]] and more mundane deception. His incredible perception and intelligence are his defining assets, and what truly make the master underneath the inborn gift of the Force.

[[Category:NPCs]]