Kyrith Th'zylen

Authored by Katy Darrah

Character Biography

Born in 2369, the very first years of Kyrith’s life were fairly normal. However, before his fifth birthday, him and his older brother, Eran, were the only living members of their clan due to collapses in some pf the tunnels connecting the cities. For over a decade the collapses were considered accidental, until evidence was discovered that showed they were rigged to collapse via explosives.

Eran, being 10 years older than Kyrith, was forced to raise his younger brother, as the only living members of their clan. When Kyrith was 15, Eran left him to join the Imperial Guard, and for the most part, the next five years produced no contact between the brothers.

When he was 20, Kyrith also joined the Imperial Guard and, eventually, regained contact with his brother, and the two fought side-by-side for 5 years, until Eran was killed. The attack was from their fellow Andorians, and the attackers used the Ushaan-tor to make it appear as though Eran died in an Ushaan duel. In the attack, in an effort to protect his brother, Kyrith’s leg was severely injured, having had several tendons cut, and multiple other deep wounds left across his body.

The attackers left the two for dead, however, Kyrith would gather a vial of Eran’s blood, intending to use it as evidence of his brother’s murder. No one would listen to him. His brother died fighting an Ushaan, that was that. Fed up with the ignorance of the crime committed, Kyrith quit the Guard, and traveled to Earth to enroll in Starfleet Academy, intending to distance himself from his previous life.

During his academy years, it was noted that Kyrith, contrary to his species’ normal attitude, was very closed off, and did little to no socializing, opting to take meals alone, and asked few, if any, questions in class, which showed in his work, often getting many questions wrong, or getting confused on various concepts. He did eventually graduate, and took to wearing his brother’s blood on a cord around his neck, as a reminder of why he is doing this.