Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: 'Canon' Info on Teras Kasi?
Shin_Shodei
Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:33 pm
#14
and i'm pretty sure teras kasi wasn't working for the darkside. There veiws was more towards teh darkside. just becouse 1 person used there skills for the empire doesn't mean they all was darkside. Jedi and Dark Jedi both learned some teras kasi. heh
atone48732
Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:58 pm
#15
First of all veg I was not saying it was
I just said that Lucasarts did have to give the A-ok to go ahead with the project(which means it is somewhat starwarzy) but I didn't claim it was canon
Leonae
Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:04 pm
#16
Where is it written that the TKAs are the watchers of the jedi? I haven't found anything to this extent and suspect some fan wrote a piece of fiction where this was stated.
Vodo-Kai
Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:46 pm
#17
This isn't "Canon" info because I don't know where the person who made the website got the info but it's enjoyable non the less and I would like to belive the information.
Message Edited by Vodo-Kai on 03-23-2004 05:04 PM
Vodo-Kai
Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:53 pm
#18
Although not they quite as all-powerful and versatile as the Jedi arts, the practitioners of Teräs Käsi are formidable in their own ways.
There is one basic fundamental difference between the two schools. Instead of drawing on the Force for power, Teräs Käsi users draw on the power from inside themselves. By using the power from within, they are able to have more control and fewer restraints. Since practitioners of Teräs Käsi draw from what is inside, they become what they are. Unlike the Jedi, since the Force surrounds and penetrates all life - which has good and evil, so there are light and dark sides of the Force.
A master of Teräs Käsi must be able to command their own bodies in addition to learning the external arts. As such they are able to ignore pain, control disease and poisons within themselves, focus on injured areas and accelerating their own healing, and summon great strength to release it in one blow. The Teräs Käsi are also exceptionally attuned to the ebb and flow of the Force - if not actually out and out Jedi material. This attuned nature of the Teräs Käsi not only allows them to be aware of Jedi and Force Users, but also makes them exceptionally resistant to uses of the Force.
Mastery of the teachings of Teräs Käsi also imparts one additional benefit - a long life span. Not immortality - no matter how long you live, how far you run, you can't escape the hand of death forever. However, a master of Teräs Käsi can live several hundred years - and many of the order often do so.
Operating in secret, even beyond the notice most Jedi (it is unknown if the Jedi Council knew or suspected of the existence of the group) the Teräs Käsi have set up a network of temples and training facilities. These facilities are scattered throughout the galaxy, often hidden in plain site - small monasteries and temples are the order's natural appearance.
With this network, they watch the Jedi. Mostly they are unneeded, but when one steps out of line, the Teräs Käsi are there.
Occasionally there are beings able to cross over between the two groups, masters both versed in the Jedi arts and the ways of Teräs Käsi. These individuals are extremely rare, however. Although it may seem a conflict of interests - the watcher in the very order they watch - but what better place to monitor and observe than from within.
Vodo-Kai
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:09 pm
#19
Shin_Shodei wrote:
I believe it is said somewhere that the Luke Skywalker went the the teras kasi to ask them to help him reform the jedi council. but they refused him.
Thanks to Arden Lynn's attempt on his life, Luke Skywalker is fully aware of the existence of the Teräs Käsi order. He may not know all of the details, but he has put together enough to know that the Teräs Käsi could be invaluable on rebuilding the Jedi Knights. Their perspective on the original order of Jedi Knights, plus their unique insight to the ways of the Force could be very useful indeed. As such, Master Skywalker is actively seeking the order and it's members.
The Teräs Käsi, however are not eager for this contact. They realize that the Anakin/Vader paradigm had finally done more than tip the balance of power between light and dark. It had freed the Jedi Knights of the protocol, rituals and methods that had suffocated them and slowly rendered the order less and less effective. To impart the old knowledge and old ways upon the new order would be to unnecessarily shackle them. They must learn their own way - right or wrong.
Vodo-Kai
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:10 pm
#20
Shin_Shodei wrote:
http://www.geocities.com/ksw_gh/char_joclad01 i didn't know Joclad Danva was a tears kasi... wow
Occasionally there are beings able to cross over between the two groups, masters both versed in the Jedi arts and the ways of Teräs Käsi. These individuals are extremely rare, however. Although it may seem a conflict of interests - the watcher in the very order they watch - but what better place to monitor and observe than from within.
Vodo-Kai
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:14 pm
#21
Teräs Käsi
I donno, that website seems to have some pretty good info... it backs up almost everything most of you guys have mentioned. I still wish I knew where he got his info. Good stuff non the less.
atone48732
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:36 pm
#22
I think I posted this previously but according to the Darth Maul book maul claims that Jedi Master Bondara is trained in at least some TEras Kasi(probably not a master) But has some training cause of his fighting style and ability
Tal-N
Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:12 pm
#23
Hmm.... I have to say that the background of a beat em up game that pits iconic charcters against each other is not exactly something I would base any faith upon. I am not sure if one can even consider that part of the EU. I might check out how shadow of the empire mentions Teras Kasi. The Pike sisters, however, were mercenaries iirc, not members of an order, and not jedi watchers.
Everything made by Lucas Arts or authorised by the Lucas Arts/Film company is canon. That is why Kyle Katarn appears on the official starwars.com databank along with the darktroopers and such even though they have only ever appeared in games and never part of the EU or the films.
The Pike sisters were indeed mercs, however in the source book it explains in more detail about thier background. Guri also makes a few statements about where they are from.
Naele
Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:27 pm
#24
That is incorrect. Only the movies, novels, radio dramas, and certain comic books are considered cannon. Games, RPGs, etc are not cannon
Tal-N wrote:
Everything made by Lucas Arts or authorised by the Lucas Arts/Film company is canon. That is why Kyle Katarn appears on the official starwars.com databank along with the darktroopers and such even though they have only ever appeared in games and never part of the EU or the films.
The Pike sisters were indeed mercs, however in the source book it explains in more detail about thier background. Guri also makes a few statements about where they are from.
Tal-N
Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:56 pm
#25
Depends on your definition of canon (it's not cannon you fool) essentially if you want true canon information then everything and anything which Lucas Art or Lucas Film authorized is official. To say that what the owners of the SW licence allow to be said about the SW fiction is false is not only arrogant but also foolish. Who are we to decide what we should and should not accept as official, only they can determine if something of true of the fiction or not. The path to truth is always acceptance of everything.
Besides given your judgement why does Kyle Katarn get a significant entry into the offiicial SW.com databank when he only appeared in the games. That alone shows that a game is a canon source of official SW information.
D1g1tal
Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:44 pm
#26
Unfortunately, TKA has no Canon info,just a tinypart of George Lucas' original story.
Check out TKO's site.
http://www.teraskasi.net/about_tk.html
Message Edited by D1g1tal on 03-24-2004 03:29 PM