She Who Greedily Devours: The Legend of Rishi's Terror
Among the Rishii, the gentle avian sentients of the Outer Rim world Rishi, legends often pass through generations as cautionary tales. But no tale has spread with as much fear and urgency as that of “She Who Greedily Devours.” Spoken in hushed tones and whispered around campfires, this monstrous entity has become more than myth—a living terror etched into the very soul of the Rishii people.
The predator in question is none other than a kell dragon, a creature of myth in its own right. Kell dragons are rare across the galaxy, and those who have seen one speak of their ferocity, size, and voracious appetite. But this kell dragon is unlike any other. Larger, stronger, and far more cunning, she dwarfs even the most fearsome of her kind. To the Rishii who have seen her and survived—an extraordinarily small group—she is no ordinary beast but a force of nature: She Who Greedily Devours.
Her origins are as tragic as they are bizarre. Hatched on a distant world and affectionately named “Kellie” by her first owners—smugglers from a newly established chapter of the Corellian Run Scoundrels—her early days were marked by playful innocence. The scoundrels kept her as a mascot, a curiosity to boost morale among their ranks. Yet, as all creatures do, Kellie grew. And grew. Her appetite soon outpaced her charm, and the realization came quickly: a full-grown kell dragon is a creature that no scoundrel—no matter how resourceful—can afford to keep.
Desperation led the Scoundrels' leader to a cruel solution. Kellie was unceremoniously dumped into an automated garbage scow orbiting Rishi, a vessel laden with irradiated industrial refuse, toxic waste, and the refuse of untold civilizations. For days—perhaps weeks—she devoured everything in her path. The toxic cocktail of decay and radiation twisted her physiology, mutating her into something far more monstrous than any kell dragon that had ever existed. Her scales hardened like durasteel, her eyes glowed with a baleful light, and her already insatiable hunger became an all-consuming need.
When the garbage scow malfunctioned and crashed onto Rishi’s shores, She Who Greedily Devours was unleashed. From the shadows of jagged cliffs and dense jungle thickets, she emerged, a titanic predator whose growls sent tremors through the earth. Her hunger seemed endless, though curiously, she did not kill for sustenance alone. The bodies of her prey—Rishii and fauna alike—were often left untouched, a chilling testament to the violent joy of the hunt. The Rishii, a peace-loving people unused to such horrors, watched helplessly as entire villages were abandoned and nests destroyed.
Even the hardened pirates of Rishi’s skies and shores—those who laughed in the face of blaster fire and Imperial warships—began to regard her with terror. Raiders who ventured too close to her domain never returned, their screams lost to the jungle's shadows. Sailors spoke of Kellie’s unmistakable silhouette moving across cliffs at dusk, her eyes burning like twin suns, a warning to those who dared intrude on her hunting grounds.
The name “She Who Greedily Devours” was born from these harrowing encounters. To the Rishii, she is both monster and myth, a punishment visited upon their world by forces unknown. Yet even among their despair, there are whispers of strange anomalies: the ruins of her scow, half-buried in jungle overgrowth, still emit a faint, unnatural glow. Some believe the radiation did more than mutate Kellie; it bound her to something greater, something inexplicably tied to the living Force.
Now, her story serves as both a warning and a mystery. Adventurers who travel to Rishi in search of fortune and fame often speak of “the beast in the jungle,” a prize too tempting for hunters to resist. But few are prepared for what awaits them—a predator of legend, her origins shaped by cruelty, her hunger driven by something far more primal and sinister than mere instinct.
To the Rishii, she is eternal: the nightmare in the shadows, the hiss of scales in the underbrush, the roar that echoes across moonlit cliffs. She Who Greedily Devours remains a haunting testament to what happens when the natural order is warped beyond recognition—a predator born of folly, thriving in chaos.
“Kellie”, as she was once affectionately known, arrived on Rishi as the hatchling mascot of a new Outer Rim chapter of the Corellian Run Scoundrels. Soon these smugglers found that as Kellie quickly grew so did her appetite, making her cost-prohibitive as a pet. Fearing the prospect of bankruptcy, the Scoundrels’ leader callously dumped Kellie into a garbage scow where the kell dragon gorged herself on irradiated refuse for days, likely accounting for both her intimidating stature and surly disposition.
(Codex Text - Star Wars the Old Republic / SWTOR)
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