Yennasha
Gamorrean · Vanguard · Level 4
Identity
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Weapons
| Name | Attack | Damage | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●Arg'garok | +7 | 2d6 +4 Slashing | 5 ft |
| ●Blaster Pistol | +3 | 1d10 Energy | 50 ft |
| ●Unarmed Strike | +6 | 1 +4 bludgeoning | — |
Languages
Inventory
- Blaster Pistol · 1 kg
- Arg'garok · 5 kg
- Light Battle Armor · 10 kg
- Medpac II×2 · 0.6 kg
- Syntherope · 2.5 kg
- Glow Rod · 1 kg
- Bedroll · 1 kg
Backstory
Yennasha was born on Gamorr during a period when the Galactic Republic's reach extended even into the rougher edges of the Outer Rim, and the Jedi of the High Republic era cast long shadows of idealism across worlds that had never asked for their light. On Gamorr, such idealism meant little. The clans still warred. The seasons still turned. And the sows still raised daughters for battle. She came from Clan Muush, a minor warband operating in the frozen highland passes of Gamorr's northern territories, where rival clans contested trap-lines and hunting grounds with axes and blood. Yennasha showed early what she would become — at fourteen she broke the wrist of a boar twice her size who had struck her clanmother. At sixteen she survived a three-day winter ambush with a shattered rib and nothing but an arg'garok looted from the attacker's cooling body. That weapon, a heavy Gamorrean battle-axe worn smooth along the haft from years of her grip, remains her most constant companion, more trusted than any sentient she has met. What changed Yennasha's trajectory was not glory or ambition — it was a Republic survey corvette that made an emergency landing near Clan Muush's territory after suffering a reactor fault. The crew, stranded for eleven days, needed protection from neighboring clans who saw opportunity in the disabled ship. Yennasha's clanmother struck a deal. Yennasha, along with two boars, guarded the vessel. The boars were killed on the fourth night. Yennasha was not. The corvette's chief security officer, a grizzled Duros named Vel Shadrak, recognized something in the young sow that went beyond brute endurance — she read the terrain before he did, she moved the wounded crewmember out of a blast corridor before the second ambush hit, and she dressed a deep gash in her own thigh with a crewman's medpac without flinching or instruction. When the corvette departed, Vel Shadrak made an offer through a Gamorrean-speaking labor broker operating out of Ord Mantell. Yennasha left Gamorr at eighteen, speaking nothing but the grunts and low howls of her homeworld's tongue and understanding the Galactic Basic she had absorbed during those eleven days more deeply than anyone around her guessed. Vel Shadrak placed her with a Republic-aligned private security outfit based on Corellia, where she absorbed combat doctrine through demonstration and repetition rather than instruction. Commanders who underestimated her comprehension learned quickly that she already knew the plan before they finished explaining it. She has now operated independently for two years, carrying her arg'garok, and a growing reputation among freight captains and fringe settlements as the kind of protection that does not require much conversation to be worth every credit.
Roleplaying notes
- She does not posture or lunge; she sets her feet and waits, which tends to unnerve opponents more than a snarl would. - Before any engagement she expects, Yennasha runs one thumb along the arg'garok blade and adjusts her armor's left pauldron — always left first — a habit from a clan superstition about uneven armor bringing uneven luck; treat this as a consistent tell that signals she has assessed the situation as dangerous. - She warms to allies who address her directly in Basic rather than talking around her to a translator, and she visibly stiffens toward those who speak slowly or loudly as though she cannot process language.