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Chuundar

Knights of the Old Republic 1


Chuundar is a playable character from the Knights of the Old Republic 1. Chundaar was a Wookiee, the son of Freyyr, and the older brother of Zaalbar. Chuundar was born on the Wookiee homeworld called Kashyyyk. His home village is called Rwookrrorro. He lived there happily with his father Freyyr who was the chief of the Wookiees, and his younger brother, zaalbar_brotherZaalbar, till the Czerka Corporation has appeared on their planet, and started to hunt down the wookies, or to capture them to sell into slavery. The peaceful family life was dramatically changed when Chuundar became an agent of the Czerka Corporation, selling his people to the slavers and eroding the ways of the Wookiee culture. zaalbar_clawUnable to stand this, Zaalbar attacked Chuundar with his claws, violating what was at zaalbar_clawsthat time Wookiee tradition. He is sadly telling it to Revan in the illustration right now that is a shame, as the claws are equipments for the zaalbar_madclawwookies, not weapons. Whoever use them for fight will be outcasted from the wookie society, and the elders, the wise man, or the chief will freyyr_fiairol_beszeldecide his fate. For his act Zaalbar was branded "mad claw" and exiled from Kashyyyk by his father, who believed rather Chuundar then Zaalbar and sent his younger son into exile.

Zaalbar finally found himself on the distant planet of Taris, where he befriended and accompanied a young Twi'lek girl named Mission Vao. Zaalbar's strength and fearsomeness allowed Mission to survive in the harsh society of the Lower City of Taris. The two often hanged in the Lower City Cantina, where zaalbar says i have not eaten my food yetZaalbar liked eating delicious foods. In the meantime, Mission sometimes had some affairs with other patrons, therefore Zaalbar had to interrupt his lunch to portion out some punches, which made him angry. And believe me, there is a worst thing then an angry wookie, a hungry angry wookie. zaalbar_freeAlso, they sometimes went to play into the Undercity Sewers, where they were searching for "treasures". One day, Zaalbar was caught by Gamorrean slavers. Mission escaped the sewers, just in time to find Revan, who was heading to the sewers during his quest of liberating Bastila Shan and escaping Taris. Revan freed Zaalbar, and in turn the Wookiee offered him a life-debt.

Zaalbar followed Revan from that minute - until Revan landed in the forests of Kashyyyk, seeking an ancient Star Map. Revan and his companions were all taken to Chuundar upon entrance into the Wookiee City, where Zaalbar was imprisoned for his crime in the past. Fellow wookies hated Zaalbar some wookies hate zaalbarfor what he had done with his claws. For example this one says Zaalbar he despises and hates Zaalbar, titles him a "brother-murderer", and does not even wants to see him from now. The wookie people follow and trust Chuundar, however he lied for them, and lied even for his father. He claimed his father crazy, and took his title, sending his father down, into the Shadowlands. Revan was tasked with killing the exiled "madclaw" Wookiee who was Freyyr, the father of Zaalbar and Chuundar. Freyyr was too late to find the truth in Zaalbar's accusations of Chuundar selling his fellow Wookies as slaves, and he is full of conscience and pain. He couldn't help Zaalbar, he sent him into exile, despite he was innocent. It is too late now for him, elevator_to_shadowlandfeels he cannot make the things right, and he is living as a wild hermit deep down in the dark Shadowlands. The elder wookie is getting really insane because of his pain, and after Revan came down to meet him with this elevator and found him - Freyyr attacked them!
At this point the player can choose to either spare Zaalbar's father, help lead a revolt against the slavers and free the Wookiees, or you can kill him, further ensuring the slavery of the Wookiee people and leave with the gratitude of Chuundar. If the player helps Freyyr revolt, the elder wookie gives him the quest to find the sword of Bacca. kashyyyk_beastBacca was a legendary wookie hero, who once found a wrecked spaceship, and crafted a sword from the wreckage. This sword became the symbol of the wookie independence, and the symbol of the power of the wookie chiefs. If they could find that, Freyyr could challenge his own son for the title, and could prevent selling other wookies into slavery. Revan and his companions found and killed the beast, who had the sword broken in its flash. So with the Bacca sword Freyyr went back up to Rwookrrorro, and started to collect allies. Many wookie joined him after knowing the truth, and seeing the rorworrBacca sword, however there remained plenty of wookies loyal to Chuundar. It comes to light that Rorworr, the famous wookie scout was sided with the Czerka, and helped their activity at G5-623, as the Czerka called Kashyyyk. They agreed to trade healthy wookie slaves into weaponry, but Jaarak followed Rorwoor, and killed him to prevent the business. So Jaarak was loyal to Freyyr, also Woorwill, a young wookie, who was ironically the best friend of Rorworr - the traitor. Worrroznor, the Guard of the Law, a wise man of the tribe also sided with the good guys, and many other wookies, gorwookenwho were fed up to be a slave, an animal, a prey for the Czerka. But there were followers of Chuundar, too. He had guards in his throne room, spies all around, and even Gorwooken, the wookie who escorted Revan down with the lift to the Shadowlands, was Chuundar's man. So when Revan wanted to use the lift to come back atop of to the tall trees Gorwooken attacked them with 2-3 other wookies to prevent them aiding the Freyyrists. So Revan, Jolee Bindo, and Juhani had to kill them all, and to operate the elevator by themselves to reach the upper areas. zaalbar_chuundar_freeyrA Wookie Civil War seemed inevitable. By the time Revan reached the throne room, the two freyyr_vs_chuundarsides had been arguing there. There were not peaceful solution, however both Zaalbar, and Revan tried to calm down the wookie leaders, there was no way to prevent the fight. Father attacks son, and brother a brother. It was a sad, and awful slaughter - no matter how many wookies helped zaalbar_forgivesChuundar, and even those Czerka zaalbar_vs_czerkaguard in his room, they could not stand the attack of Zaalbar and Freyyr, two raging strong wookie, Revan, Juhani, and Jolee, 3 powerful Jedis, and those Freyyrist loyal wookies. freyyr_sends_messengersThey were all killed. Zaalbar helped to clear the wookie village from the Czerka soldiers. After the battle, the Zaalbar zaalbar_bacca_swordfamily was reunited, when Zaalbar forgave his father for sending him into exile innocent. Freyyr offered his son to stay with him, and rule the wookies wisely, and to protect the wookie villages from the chuundar_vs_freyyrexpected counterattack of the Czerka, sending out messengers to the neighboring villages. But Zaalbar refused, he had to stay with Revan, as he had a life dept for him. While the wookies had to fight the freedom chuundar_wookieof all wookies against the Czerka, Zaalbar had to fight for all mankind against the Sith by the side of Revan. His father was rewarded him with the sword of Bacca, and let his (now) only son to stay with Revan, and to make peace for the chuundar_ryykbladeUniverse. (If the Dark Sided player sides with Chuundar, Zaalbar will loudly demand Bacca's sword, and Chuundar will chuundar_kashyyyk_villagegive it to him, as getting rid of the ancient relic will help consolidate his power. If Revan turns to the Dark Side, Revan can ask Zaalbar to slay his long time friend Mission, thus proving his life debt is chuundar_vuki_torzsfonokstronger than any single life. He will try to avenge Mission's death on the Star Forge against Bastila and Revan, but he is killed by them in the process. I told it for a more complex view, but let's forget these awful things, and concentrate on the Light Side version, because that is the canonical one.)

Zaalbar helped Revan truly during his quest, never questioning his decisions, following him in the biggest fights. This strong kotor1_zalbaar_desktop"wookie is a nightmare even without his bowcaster, or his Bacca sword, even bare handed he is a formidable opponent. He gave some huge punches during their trip, these Tusken raiders could tell... :D He has been awarded by the Republic in the end, as the saviors of the Galaxy. I wonder where was his medal pinned. I bet on his red suspenders. :) It is unknown what became of Zaalbar after the departure of Revan to the Unknown Regions; it is possible he may have followed Revan there, to continue paying off his life debt but since it is said that Revan left everyone behind it is more likely he may have returned to Rwookrrorro to become a wookie chieftain.

Funny things:

chuundar_vuki_hatulrolWhen the throne room battle has been erupted, the two wookies went to fight Chuundar, while my Jedis supported them with Force Powers. Juhani was assigned to cover them from the left, Jolee from the front, while my Revan from the right. We made a synchronous Force Wave (which is a strong Force Push) in the same time. wookie_flight_on_tourist_classJust look at this illustration, the air is still waving, the lightsaber looks distorted, even the walls looks curved. It was a huge Force Wave, some enemies died immediately. Look at the background! There is a Chuundar loyalist wookie, he was flying through the room, falling on his neck his legs up in the air, felt under that wooden bench. I think if the walls wouldn't have been there, he would have flown out this area, and down into the Shadowlands. :D

kinraths look like bugs from starship troopersThere are Kinraths on the wooden passages all around the village. These zaalbar_viper_kinrathanimals are like the bugs from Starship troopers, ain't them? When Revan, T3-M4, and Zaalbar was ambushed by a group of Kinraths, Zaalbar dealt a Viper Kinrath a mortal blow, a so huge one that the animal died immediately, and bounced back in the air with its legs up.



 

Take a look at my custom Chuundar figure!

 

Custom Chuundar front

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Custom Chuundar from the back

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Custom Chuundar from the side

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written by: Norbert Rostas 2012.04.22. the figure was made years before

 

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