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Kreia is an important character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, featured in the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. In the game she was voiced by Sara Kestelman. Kreia is the first main character that the player, in the role of the Exile Jedi, encounters, and she plays a major role in the game's story, acting as the master and the mentor to the Exile Jedi. A former Jedi Master and one of the few survivors of the Jedi Civil War and she survived its aftermath when Sith Assassin legions, and Darth Sion were chasing the running Jedi, you can read more in those articles. Kreia is secretive and manipulative, and her true history and motivations remain a mystery throughout most of the game. As part of Gamespy's 2005 Game of the Year awards, Kreia received the award for "Best Character".

In the course of the game, it is eventually revealed that Kreia is Darth Traya, a Sith Lord. She takes the name after being exiled from the Jedi Order, or as Kreia says the Jedi betrayed her. That is the origin of her Sith name: Dark Lord of Betrayal. Darth Traya is one of the Sith Triumvirate, that the title of the game refers to (the others are Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion). Prior to her fall from grace, she had taught Revan in the Jedi ways, she was his Master! Kreia is consumed by guilt after the Jedi Civil War, wondering if her teachings and principles had infested Revan, so Kreia was responsible for what Revan has done, and for his fall. After she had to leave the Jedi Order, she traveled to Malachor V, which she sensed as Revan's last location, and she wanted to find out where her apprentice had gone. Kreia discovered an academy on Malachor V known as the Trayus Academy, apparently an ancient Sith ruin. She mixed with the Sith, trying to nose out the secrets of the Sith. But just like her ex-pupil, she neither was able to resist the awful and destructive Dark Powers, and she was embraced by the Dark Side.

Later she find allies in Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion, who arrived later, they were her students. They didn't want to search-and-rescue Revan anymore, but to search-and-destroy those running Jedi, who survived the Jedi Civil War. They were longing to capture Exile the best of all, so they have tried everything to find him, sending dozens of Sith Assassin legions after him. But all of those legions were failed to kill him, and came back in shame. But the other Jedis were found, and were eliminated by the Sith Triumvirate, gaining large power amongst the Sith. However, the Sith alliance between Traya, Nihilus, and Sion was fragile, and could not last forever. Sion and Nihilus betrayed Darth Traya in the core of the Trayus Academy, they attacked her, took her Sith position, stripped her of power, and exile her. Once again, Kreia had been betrayed. Lost Kreia forsook her Sith identity. She came to regard the Force as an uncaring, insidious thing that doesn't care the people, seems to be just running till it can achieve balance, even at the cost of countless lives throughout history. She believed now that this conflict between light side and dark side would never end, and that the galaxy was doomed to chaos forever. Firm in her belief, she engineered a master plan to eliminate the Force, once and for all. She sought to exploit the Exile's talent in Force bonding and to create another wound, greater than the one before, the echoes of which would travel forever, never reaching their destination. So Kreia also wished to find the Exile, but this time she didn't wished his death, but his help. Sion and his assassin legions chased Kreia after she had acquired possession of the Ebon Hawk. The Ebon Hawk reached its destination, the Republic warship Harbinger, and called for help against Sion's warship. Exile served as a soldier on the Harbinger at that time. Sion's assassins attacked Republic ship, and overran the Harbinger's crew. Kreia managed to find what she was looking for on the Harbinger - the Jedi Exile, who was a soldier on the Harbinger during his exile, but now he has injured in the fights againts the assassins. Kreia managed to get the Exile to the Ebon Hawk and escaped towards Peragus, however the ship severely damaged. Sion and Nihilus continued their search by sending assassins after the two - Exile and Kreia.

The Ebon Hawk, nearly destroyed, docked at the Peragus Mining Facility for much needed repairs. However, it didn't take long before Sion and the Harbinger found them and docked in the facility. Sion lead an elite team of Sith Assassins after Kreia and the Exile. Kreia immediately sensed his arrival and informed the Exile that they must leave at once. However, Kreia and the Exile, along with ex-assassin for the Sith-turned smuggler Atton Rand, had to sneak through the Harbinger to make their way into the Ebon Hawk's hangar bay while being pursued by Sion's assassins. While running, Sion waited for them in the lower levels of the ship, as Darth Vader waited for Obi wan Kenobi. Kreia allowed for the Exile and Atton to escape while she faced off with her ex-apprentice Sion. Darth Sion exchanged taunts with Kreia, (you are weak... - now I am the master...) who was hiding in the shadows. Kreia approached Sion from behind with a vibrosword, but he quickly swung round and cut her left hand off with his lightsaber. Kreia was luckier than Kenobi was, for a reason Sion spared Kreia and allowed her to escape, though wounded, Kreia managed to board the Ebon Hawk as it was about to lift off, and they escaped with the Ebon Hawk.

As the Exile's circle of companions grew, and some new members joined the fleeing team, Exile was not only influenced by Kreia's manipulations, but the friends' opinion. Kreia was very jealous of every single new team member, and hated all of them. Kreia was kept calling them by ironic titles. She referred to Atton Rand as "the fool", Visas Marr as "the blinded one" or "the seer", Bao-Dur as "the alien", Brianna as the "servant of Atris", Mira as "the huntress", Hanharr as "the beast", and T3-M4, HK-47, and GO-TO were all just "machines". Whoever played with a female Exile those met Mical the Disciple, Kreia simply called him as the "tiny Jedi". ("Interesting", but for some reason Kreia hasn't titled herself as a "wicked old Sith witch"...) All of these were said and done for a single purpose, Kreia wanted to monopolize Exile, and to use him for her own ends. She constantly kept moralizing Exile with her ethical and moral false doctrines. She wanted to create such a dependence when Exile makes his decisions by her instructions and follows her lead, so Exile is going to carry out Kreia's intentions. If Exile dared to decide something alone, Kreia revealed herself to him in his mind in a kind of telepathic way, and expressed her disapproval, blaming the Exile, awaking his remorse. She does that even in the most insignificant things, too. For example which is better, if you give money for the beggars, or if you refuse and send them away? Interesting, but NONE of these will satisfy Kreia! You can try both versions, none will be good for her! If you give, she rebukes you, saying because of your charity money this beggar will be a potential target for the poorer other beggars, and really, Kreia gives you a vision when an other beggar attacks "your" beggar and takes his money. But if you reload, and do what previously Kreia told, and you send away the beggar, she will give a new vision showing my beggar is so hungry and poor that he must steal other beggar's money, and you'll see a new telepathic video, when "your" beggar is the aggressor, and it is ALL BECAUSE OF YOU... Well, that is not too easy with Kreia. If you dare to call back, she will be aggrieved, and you will loose influence with her, she won't tell you things, and she won't open some videos, and conversations. So you gotta be careful with this, not only the Light Side-Dark Side, Negative influence points-Positive influence points have to be controlled, but you also need to be careful with your connection with Kreia in KotOR2. Why? Because Kreia teaches you not only for the Dark things. Because of your Force-Bond those Force Powers, what Kreia activates for her, also has an effect for the Exile! This is a great advantage, because you can choose other Force Powers for your Exile, than Kreia has, so if you activate yours, and Kreia activates hers you'll have all of them on you, and this trick will make your Exile Jedi very strong in the first half of the game!

Having Kreia around has an other advantage: she can tune the "your name" crystal for you! If you level up, remove the "your name" crystal from your lightsaber, and show it for the old lady. She will tune it for you, which will give very valuable bonuses for your Exile Jedi, great Strength, Dexterity, Charisma, or other kind of attribute bonuses! For example my NJM lightsaber looks like this, you can check the screenshot.

Kreia taught the breath control for Exile, which I have already mentioned in the articles that were studied the Force Powers. Also, Kreia taught the Exile to examine and learn the chased, found, and slaughtered Jedi master's lightsaber forms! WHAT?! What I am talking about? Kreia was not only the master of betrayal, she was also the master of manipulation. She manipulated everybody from the background to do her bidding, like the senator then chancellor Palpatine. She didn't like the a raw compulsion, maybe because sha was terribly beaten up by Darth Nihilus, and mainly Darth Sion, when she was betrayed. She preferred to have the dirty work done by others. That is why she needed the strong Exile. That is why she kept teacing him, kept training him, and that is why she kept a tight hold. She intended the Exile Jedi to be her executioner on the Force Sensitives, and even on the Force, itself!

She lied to the Exile at the beginning of their quest, claiming that the Jedi Council was responsable for his exile, and Jedi stripped the Force from the Exile. Kreia's instigation has one aim while she traveled with the Exile, she helped him just to search the remaining Jedi Masters, and to eliminate them all. If Kreia manages to direct the Exile to the Dark Side, she can sit back, and she can just watch the Exile as he hunts down the Jedi masters one after the other, and kills them all. If the Exile stays on the Light Side, Kreia azt will suggest the Exile to meet the Jedi Masters at Dantooine to talk over the past friendly. But while the Exile talks with the Jedi in the courtyard of the rebuilt academy, Kreia lured behind them and drained their connection to the Force, killing them like Nihilus drained the Force on Visas' home world, on Katarr.
Kreia has partially mentioned this method during her journey with the Exile. She has mentioned some "echoes", that are imprints in the Force, these help to navigate and guide the Force Sensitives, since every single location and every living being have an imprint, or as she says an echo in the Force. But Kreia won't be pleased after killing just the Force Sensitives. She planned to eliminate the Force itself! She planned to leave certain tragedies and to leave permanent wounds in the Force, which sometimes make it difficult or even impossible to hear and be used. The tragedy of Malachor V gave her the idea, as the first "echos" was provided after the Mass Shadow Generator was started by Bao-Dur and the Exile Jedi. By Kreia's reasoning, people who died of these echoes when they could not bear to voluntarily sever themselves from the Force (as the Exile did) were not strong enough to deserve to live. And since that was very likely that not too much people are able to sever themselves from the Force, it seemed even more lives would be lost in the future because of Kreia's hatred.

After Kreia saw Masters and the Exile to collapse, and to die at Dantooine, she went back to the Ebon Hawk parking in the airport. Atton asked her where was Exile, and as an answer Kreia almost killed then left there the "fool", and took hostage the Handmaiden, "Atris' servant", so she could infiltrate in to the Telos academy, which has an access code that was known by the Handmaiden. When she arrived there, Kreia visited Atris, and "washed her mind", too, infested her with her dark doctrines, and Kreia set the Mistress of the Telos Ice Palace against Exile, who were right behind the tail of Kreia, chasing her to save Handmaiden. Then she returned Malachor, killed ten Sith Assassins who remained loyal to Darth Sion with a single hand movement, (and some more for extra safety), and retook the command from Sion , changing her identity back the Sith master Darth Traya. Then she organized her defence, sending Sith Assassin and Dark Jedi groups into each and every room of the Trayus Academy, ordering Darth Sion in front of her room to guard there till the Exile arrives. After those she went down into the Core of the Trayus Academy to meditate a bit.

Exile didn't kept her waiting. Soon arrived at Malachor, defeated those many Sith Assassins, then confronted the Sith Lord Darth Sion, and eroded his will in Kreia and in the Dark Side, till he could defeat him too. Finally he could stand face to face with his ex-master, Kreia. There were no more masks, no more lies, there stood in her black robe, with white hair the last living member of the Sith triumvirate (as Nihilus and Sion were previously liquidated), Darth Traya. It was the time of the final battle. After a short conversation they ignited their sabers. And not only one! Darth Traya threw three violet lightsabers in the air, holding each of them aloft with the Force, and having them fight with telekinetic Force Powers, so attacking the Exile Jedi with 3 fast moving lightsabers. Exile managed to destroy them in a long and pitched battle, making the three violet lightsabers inoperative, and a bit tired, and bleeding now he could face off the Dark Lord of the Sith, Traya. It was the same important like Anakin and Obi-wan's fight, and it was the same way, too. It has to be decided if the Light shines the world, or the cloud of the Dark Side shrouds everything. It was high time to decide if the Master or the Apprentice is the better. They knew each other in and out , but finally the heroic gigantic duel was won by the Exile Jedi. The injured Sith lady admitted she was overwhelmed, answered a few questions for Exile , and predicted the future of the team members and the worlds, and after that she felt (or the Dark Side Exile threw her) into a deep abyss, demonstrating with the way of her death the similarity between Palpatine and Kreia-Traya.