Character of the Week: Vaela, the Nightsister Who Walked Away

Character of the Week

This week's Character of the Week is a witch who quit the clan. Meet Vaela, a level 5 Nightsister Force Adept on the Force Warrior track — built in the free Character Builder, and a perfect showcase of what the new Dathomir Magick set looks like in the hands of someone who's no longer sure she should be using it.

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The build

📄 Download Vaela's character sheet (PDF) — or load her straight into the builder to tinker, level her up, or print your own sheet.

Vaela is a study in a half-abandoned tradition. Her hands still know the clan's work — the Ichor Blade, a single edge wreathed in ichor that counts as both Slashing and Energy damage, so it bites through whichever resistance a foe lacks; Hex to curse the dangerous one; Shadow Step and Dark Imbuement to flit and harden as the sisters taught her. But layered over it is a Force she was never trained in: a plain, honest Force Push, a Force Stun, the Energy Absorption she worked out herself on a dozen lawless moons. As a Force Warrior she channels it through her strikes — Force Strike dumps an extra 1d8 Force down the ichor blade once a short rest. She's not a tank (AC 13, no armor — Force Warriors wear none), but with Use the Force at +10 and Acrobatics at +8, she reads a room before it turns and is rarely where the blaster bolt expected her to be.

Her story

Vaela was born beneath the crimson moons of Dathomir, into the Windsinger Clan — a smaller sisterhood that claimed the jagged highlands north of the Singing Mountain territory. From childhood she showed an uncommon attunement to the world around her, sensing the pulse of living things through the Force before she had words to name what she felt. Her elders called it a gift, shaped her hands around the Ichor, and taught her to draw the green-glowing magick from Dathomir's soil as all Nightsisters did. For a time, Vaela accepted this.

It was a chance encounter that cracked her certainty open. A wounded traveler — a Miraluka scholar fleeing a collapsed Republic survey expedition — stumbled into the highlands, and against custom, Vaela hid him. Over the weeks she nursed him, he spoke of the Jedi, of academies on distant Ossus, of a Force that was not drawn from swamps and blood-rites but from something vast and impersonal and everywhere at once. The idea settled into her like a splinter she could not remove. She did not leave in anger; she left in silence — taking only her Ichor Blade, the one piece of her heritage she could not abandon, and her energy bow. Nightsisters who depart are simply unmade from memory.

The years since have been solitary and hard, walking the Outer Rim while the Republic's reach was thin and its Jedi stretched between the Sith Empire's wars and brushfire conflicts along contested hyperlanes. She found no teacher; she studied herself, watching Force powers rise from instinct rather than Ichor. By thirty-one she carries no lightsaber and claims no order — only questions, a glowing blade of distilled Dathomir magick she understands better than she once admitted, and the slow, accumulating certainty that the Force is larger than any single people's claim upon it.

Build your own

Vaela took about fifteen minutes in the Character Builder — and you can open her exact build right now to make her your own. Want a witch, a Jedi, a bounty hunter, a clone trooper, anyone? It's free, no signup to start. Build someone you love — they might just be a future Character of the Week.