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Name: The Legend of The Aen Dûra:Lirae and Varn
Type: A curated collection of manuscripts, recovered records, and fragmented holocrons referencing the myth of the Aen Dûra.
Credits: NA
Consolidation Thread
Description: A rare and fragmented compilation of ancient sources detailing the myth of the Aen Dûra a dual manifestation of death that appears across Jedi, Sith, and other Force-sensitive cultures. Descriptions vary, but all accounts reference two beings:
Lirae, the Pale One a serene, distant entity who offers a calm, painless passage into death.
Varn, the Shadow Beast a relentless, spectral predator who hunts those who resist their end.
The Aen Dûra is not tied to any known species or timeline, appearing across vastly different civilizations and force philosophies. Strikingly, every record ends abruptly often with the final entry being written just before the author's unexplained disappearance or death. Some believe simply seeking knowledge of the Aen Dûra draws its gaze.
Basic Information
Author(s): Multiple unknown authors Jedi archivists, Sith lorekeepers, fringe scholars, and even Force heretics.
Related Parties: Jedi Order, Sith Orders, the Je’daii, and independent Force sensitive sects.
Publication: The earliest known mention dates to Pre Republic Je’daii texts, preserved only in fragments and translated into Proto Basic centuries later. Some suspect older records exist, but were lost or deliberately erased.
Historical Information
The earliest surviving mention of the Aen Dûra originates from Je’daii stone tablets discovered on Tython, dating back thousands of years. These tablets describe an entity known as “The Twin Ends” or “The Final Two” spectral figures said to come and collect the breath of the dying.
Among the Sith of Korriban, the Aen Dûra is invoked in ancient funerary rituals, feared as a rival to the Rule of Power. In contrast, Jedi texts describe Lirae as a spirit of balance, while Varn is portrayed as a harbinger of fear a test for those unwilling to face their end.
One of the most infamous modern references comes from Master Ubral Vynn, who vanished mid mission during the Battle of Alderaan.
His final transmission, recorded in his personal hololog, simply stated:
“She has come for me.”
Attempts to study the Aen Dûra have been sporadic, often ending in disappearance, insanity, or unexplained accidents.
Several relevant entries in the Jedi Archives have been sealed or redacted by the Council, citing concerns “for the stability of the Order.”
More recently, fragments of a holocron uncovered on Jedha by members of the Hidden Path depict a masked figure closely resembling Varn.
Whispers among Force sects now claim the Aen Dûra may walk again as the Force itself tilts toward imbalance.
Etymology
Surprisingly, across multiple civilizations and linguistic evolutions, the etymology of the Aen Dûra remains remarkably consistent.
Aen Dûra
Lirae (The Pale One)
Varn (The Shadow Beast)
Manifestation Accounts
As the myth of the Aen Dûra spread across cultures, a strange consistency emerged in the way the two entities were described. Witnesses reported a sense of duality not just in behavior, but in form, with details growing clearer over centuries of scattered records. Most striking of all is t their masks: the hunter wears the hunted, and the gentle wears the face of the beast.
Lirae The Pale One:
“It was not fear I felt. It was surrender. She stood at the edge of my vision woolen, weightless yet I could not stop looking at her mask.”
Archivist Olmen Rae, last log before death, 231 BTC
Appearance:
Lirae’s body takes the form of a spectral, sheep like creature, tall and graceful, moving with the slow elegance of a drifting cloud. Her wool flows like smoke, semi-transparent, flickering in and out of the physical world. Her hooves never seem to touch the ground.
The most jarring feature is her mask a hand carved, dark wood effigy of a snarling hound, its teeth bared in frozen motion. Despite its ferocity, the mask never moves, creating a dissonance between the terror it evokes and the serenity of her presence.
In moments of intervention or passage, Lirae manifests a bow carved of ancient Uneti bark, glowing faintly with Force energy. The bow lacks a string instead, when she draws it, arrows form midair, conjured from raw Force essence. These arrows are rumored to not pierce flesh, but instead sever the soul’s tether, allowing the dying to pass peacefully or be marked to be hunted by Varn.
Witnesses have described the arrows as threads of starlight, silver and blue, unraveling into mist upon release. Some even claim those struck by her arrows smile in their final breath.
Behavior:
Its speculated Lirae appears at the moment of natural death, offering quiet release. Her gaze is described as all accepting, and those in her presence often report feeling the pain of their wounds vanish, their fear forgotten. She does not speak unless spoken to and even then, rarely.
Voice:
Described as calm, hollow and feminine, like distant thunder beneath the ocean. Her words are few, often no more than a phrase: “You may rest now.”
Scholarly Symbolic Inversion:
The predator’s mask atop a sheep-like body represents death as a mercy, a predator cloaked in gentleness the face of fear brought by a being of peace.
Varn The Shadow Beast:
“It wore a sheep’s mask. Crude. Carved like a child’s toy grinning, blank. It was worse than fangs.”
Sith war priest Kheras Val, recovered from fractured holocron
Appearance:
Varn manifests as a lupine entity, long limbed and spectral, hunched with twitching muscle and bursts of sickly light erupting from beneath matted fur. His claws scratch against reality itself when he moves. But most haunting is his mask a simple sheep’s face, smooth, emotionless, painted in faded white.
Unlike Lirae’s mask, Varn’s has no aggression, and that absence is what unsettles most. Its emptiness mocks those who see him, as if death is not a threat but a certainty.
Behavior:
Varn is always in motion, drawn to those who fight to escape death Force sensitives clinging to life, dark alchemists who extend their age, or warriors who deny the end. He hunts them, and once marked, they find no escape.
Voice:
Unnatural a low murmur layered with echo, like many mouths speaking in failed unison. His words are usually few and mocking: “Run.” or “Not yet. But soon.”
Scholarly Symbolic Inversion:
The sheep’s mask upon a beast’s body signifies death as a betrayal the gentle face hides the violent, inevitable truth beneath. A hunter that wears the face of innocence.
The Twin Ends Together:
On the rare occasions where both Lirae and Varn manifest, the world around them slows, and colors bleed away. In these moments, those who witness them speak of feeling weighed by decision of a path splitting in two: surrender or struggle, peace or fear. The masks are said to turn toward the soul, not the body, judging something deeper than the physical.
No being, Force sensitive or not, who has seen both and lived, has ever remained unchanged.
Name: The Legend of The Aen Dûra:Lirae and Varn
Type: A curated collection of manuscripts, recovered records, and fragmented holocrons referencing the myth of the Aen Dûra.
Credits: NA
Consolidation Thread
Description: A rare and fragmented compilation of ancient sources detailing the myth of the Aen Dûra a dual manifestation of death that appears across Jedi, Sith, and other Force-sensitive cultures. Descriptions vary, but all accounts reference two beings:
Lirae, the Pale One a serene, distant entity who offers a calm, painless passage into death.
Varn, the Shadow Beast a relentless, spectral predator who hunts those who resist their end.
The Aen Dûra is not tied to any known species or timeline, appearing across vastly different civilizations and force philosophies. Strikingly, every record ends abruptly often with the final entry being written just before the author's unexplained disappearance or death. Some believe simply seeking knowledge of the Aen Dûra draws its gaze.
Basic Information
Author(s): Multiple unknown authors Jedi archivists, Sith lorekeepers, fringe scholars, and even Force heretics.
Related Parties: Jedi Order, Sith Orders, the Je’daii, and independent Force sensitive sects.
Publication: The earliest known mention dates to Pre Republic Je’daii texts, preserved only in fragments and translated into Proto Basic centuries later. Some suspect older records exist, but were lost or deliberately erased.
Historical Information
The earliest surviving mention of the Aen Dûra originates from Je’daii stone tablets discovered on Tython, dating back thousands of years. These tablets describe an entity known as “The Twin Ends” or “The Final Two” spectral figures said to come and collect the breath of the dying.
Among the Sith of Korriban, the Aen Dûra is invoked in ancient funerary rituals, feared as a rival to the Rule of Power. In contrast, Jedi texts describe Lirae as a spirit of balance, while Varn is portrayed as a harbinger of fear a test for those unwilling to face their end.
One of the most infamous modern references comes from Master Ubral Vynn, who vanished mid mission during the Battle of Alderaan.
His final transmission, recorded in his personal hololog, simply stated:
“She has come for me.”
Attempts to study the Aen Dûra have been sporadic, often ending in disappearance, insanity, or unexplained accidents.
Several relevant entries in the Jedi Archives have been sealed or redacted by the Council, citing concerns “for the stability of the Order.”
More recently, fragments of a holocron uncovered on Jedha by members of the Hidden Path depict a masked figure closely resembling Varn.
Whispers among Force sects now claim the Aen Dûra may walk again as the Force itself tilts toward imbalance.
Etymology
Surprisingly, across multiple civilizations and linguistic evolutions, the etymology of the Aen Dûra remains remarkably consistent.
Aen Dûra
- Origin: Believed to stem from ancient Je’daii Proto Tongue, which possible influenced High Sith ceremonial dialects.
- “Aen” Loosely translates to “twin,” “dual,” or “as one in two” in Proto Je’daii glyphs.
- “Dûra” Interpreted variably as “end,” “path,” or “breathless passage,” depending on the cultural lens.
- Scholarly Consensus:The phrase “Aen Dûra” likely translates to “The Twin Ends” or “The Final Two” .Some fringe Force cults interpret it as “The Final Balance.”
Lirae (The Pale One)
- Origin: Possibly derived from the ancient Zhell dialect or early Jedi poetic scripture.
- Interpretation: Commonly translates to “soft light,” “lullaby,” or “the final breath that does not hurt.”
- In rare Tythonic texts, Lirae is referred to as “Lirae’tahl” She Who Unbinds.
Varn (The Shadow Beast)
- Origin: Appears in corrupted High Sith fragments and dark side chants that predate the Old Republic.
- Meaning:
- No single direct translation exists. However, recurring glyphs associate “Varn” with “rage,” “hunt,” and “the devourer.”
- In one Sith dialect, “Varn” is synonymous with “the one who runs” or “he who gives chase.”
Manifestation Accounts
As the myth of the Aen Dûra spread across cultures, a strange consistency emerged in the way the two entities were described. Witnesses reported a sense of duality not just in behavior, but in form, with details growing clearer over centuries of scattered records. Most striking of all is t their masks: the hunter wears the hunted, and the gentle wears the face of the beast.
Lirae The Pale One:
“It was not fear I felt. It was surrender. She stood at the edge of my vision woolen, weightless yet I could not stop looking at her mask.”
Archivist Olmen Rae, last log before death, 231 BTC
Appearance:
Lirae’s body takes the form of a spectral, sheep like creature, tall and graceful, moving with the slow elegance of a drifting cloud. Her wool flows like smoke, semi-transparent, flickering in and out of the physical world. Her hooves never seem to touch the ground.
The most jarring feature is her mask a hand carved, dark wood effigy of a snarling hound, its teeth bared in frozen motion. Despite its ferocity, the mask never moves, creating a dissonance between the terror it evokes and the serenity of her presence.
In moments of intervention or passage, Lirae manifests a bow carved of ancient Uneti bark, glowing faintly with Force energy. The bow lacks a string instead, when she draws it, arrows form midair, conjured from raw Force essence. These arrows are rumored to not pierce flesh, but instead sever the soul’s tether, allowing the dying to pass peacefully or be marked to be hunted by Varn.
Witnesses have described the arrows as threads of starlight, silver and blue, unraveling into mist upon release. Some even claim those struck by her arrows smile in their final breath.
Behavior:
Its speculated Lirae appears at the moment of natural death, offering quiet release. Her gaze is described as all accepting, and those in her presence often report feeling the pain of their wounds vanish, their fear forgotten. She does not speak unless spoken to and even then, rarely.
Voice:
Described as calm, hollow and feminine, like distant thunder beneath the ocean. Her words are few, often no more than a phrase: “You may rest now.”
Scholarly Symbolic Inversion:
The predator’s mask atop a sheep-like body represents death as a mercy, a predator cloaked in gentleness the face of fear brought by a being of peace.
Varn The Shadow Beast:
“It wore a sheep’s mask. Crude. Carved like a child’s toy grinning, blank. It was worse than fangs.”
Sith war priest Kheras Val, recovered from fractured holocron
Appearance:
Varn manifests as a lupine entity, long limbed and spectral, hunched with twitching muscle and bursts of sickly light erupting from beneath matted fur. His claws scratch against reality itself when he moves. But most haunting is his mask a simple sheep’s face, smooth, emotionless, painted in faded white.
Unlike Lirae’s mask, Varn’s has no aggression, and that absence is what unsettles most. Its emptiness mocks those who see him, as if death is not a threat but a certainty.
Behavior:
Varn is always in motion, drawn to those who fight to escape death Force sensitives clinging to life, dark alchemists who extend their age, or warriors who deny the end. He hunts them, and once marked, they find no escape.
Voice:
Unnatural a low murmur layered with echo, like many mouths speaking in failed unison. His words are usually few and mocking: “Run.” or “Not yet. But soon.”
Scholarly Symbolic Inversion:
The sheep’s mask upon a beast’s body signifies death as a betrayal the gentle face hides the violent, inevitable truth beneath. A hunter that wears the face of innocence.
The Twin Ends Together:
On the rare occasions where both Lirae and Varn manifest, the world around them slows, and colors bleed away. In these moments, those who witness them speak of feeling weighed by decision of a path splitting in two: surrender or struggle, peace or fear. The masks are said to turn toward the soul, not the body, judging something deeper than the physical.
No being, Force sensitive or not, who has seen both and lived, has ever remained unchanged.
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