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{{Infobox character
| name        = Kreia<br>{{small|Darth Traya}}
| image       = Kreia.png
| alt         = An elderly woman, Kreia, stands, wearing earth-tone robes. The top half of her face, along with her eyes, are covered by dark brown hood, part of another robe worn over her clothes. A braid of hair comes down from each side of her face, and her left hand is missing.
| caption     = Kreia as she appears in ''The Sith Lords''
| series      = [[Star Wars]]
| first       = ''[[Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]'' (2004)
| creator     = [[Chris Avellone]]
| voice       = [[Sara Kestelman]]
| designer       = Brian Menze
| title       = Darth Traya
}}
'''Kreia''' is a character and [[Party (role-playing games)|party member]] in [[Obsidian Entertainment]]'s video game ''[[Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]''. She is a blind [[Force-sensitive]] who forms a "bond" with the player character, the Jedi Exile, through [[the Force]]. Kreia sets herself up as the Exile's mentor, and rejects the divide of the light and dark side of [[the Force]], as well as the [[predestination]] the Force entails. By the game's end, it is revealed she is the [[Sith Lord]] '''Darth Traya''' and is planning on destroying the Force, and she becomes the final [[Boss (video gaming)|boss]] of ''The Sith Lords''. Kreia makes no more appearances in ''Star Wars'' fiction, though a miniature by [[Wizards of the Coast]] was released in August 2008, and she appears as an obtainable character in ''[[Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes]]''.

Written by [[Chris Avellone]], the character was created as a sounding board for the game's theme of the role of the [[Jedi]] and the nature of the Force, and was heavily influenced by ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''{{'}}s [[Ravel Puzzlewell]]. She served both to test the player and to act as a mouthpiece for any questions Avellone thought should be asked about the ''Star Wars'' universe. [[Sara Kestelman]] voiced the character, with Kreia's casting being considered the most important of all the characters. Her name references [[Princess Leia]] of the [[Original trilogy (Star Wars)|original ''Star Wars'' trilogy]], while her character design draws both on [[Palpatine]]'s hood and [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]'s robes.

She was positively received, and is often pointed to as the highlight of ''The Sith Lords''. Praise went to the questions and dialogue she provided, as well as her voice acting. The character has appeared in numerous "top lists", often commending her as a ''Star Wars'' character. Attention was drawn to one moment where Kreia lectures about the dangers of [[Charity (practice)|charity]]. Despite this, Avellone felt he failed in creating a "sympathetic" Sith Lord, though he has called her one of his favorite characters in the game.

==Conception and creation==
The first draft of the game placed a figurehead similar to Kreia as the leader of matriarchs ruling [[List of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic characters#Brianna|the Handmaiden]]'s world, which the player was sent to free.<ref name="Questions"/> This draft was made before Obsidian had played the [[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|first game]], and after they had played it the draft was discarded. However, some of Kreia's characteristics were salvaged, though little else was.<ref name="Questions"/>

In the game proper, Kreia was written by [[Chris Avellone]],<ref name="Bad sign"/> who was also lead designer of ''The Sith Lords'' and created most of the party.<ref name="Wrap Report"/> Avellone was initially unsure about working on ''[[Star Wars]]'' but after beginning became more "excited" about it.<ref name="RPS Interview"/> Avellone decided to attempt to create a sympathetic [[Sith Lord]].<ref name="Pavlos 1"/> The character was highly influenced by [[Ravel Puzzlewell]], a ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' character which Avellone also wrote, and was intended to tell stories with her he had been unable to do in ''Torment''.<ref name="Ravel"/><ref name="Devon"/> Avellone felt it would be "cool" to be in a party with Ravel.<ref name="GamesTM"/> Despite Ravel's influence, the ''Star Wars'' setting and its elements resulted in Kreia changing heavily.<ref name="RPS Interview"/>

A multi-page biography was created for narrative reference, art and audio.<ref name="Asks"/> When making characters, Avellone prefers to focus on their role in the story, their name, their visual signature (discussed with the concept artist), and in Kreia's case the character's ability to serve as his voice.<ref name="Lightspeed"/> Her name is inspired by [[Princess Leia]] of the original ''Star Wars'' films, and serves a similar role as ally, but Kreia has darker past demonstrated by a harsher prefix.<ref name="Lightspeed"/> Her visuals, meanwhile, combine elements of both "the wise mentor" like [[Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan]]'s robes and dark side elements like [[Palpatine]]'s hood.<ref name="Lightspeed"/> Brian Menze, lead [[concept artist]] and modeller for the characters, designed Kreia.<ref name="Menze"/>

Narratively, Kreia had several roles in ''The Sith Lords'', acting as a party member, a [[Foil (literature)|foil]], and a "sounding board" for the theme of the game, which concerned the Jedi's role and the Force's nature in a living galaxy.<ref name="Lightspeed"/> As an extension of Avellone's voice, Kreia became his way of expressing all his problems with the Force. Despite her view of the Force, it was important to avoid causing continuity problems with the rest of the ''Star Wars'' series, and her views were presented within the context of the original Force in the ''Star Wars'' world.<ref name="Lightspeed"/> Kreia is intended to test the player on the basic philosophical issues of the ''Star Wars'' universe.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/> She is rude and dismissive to everyone but the player character, something intended to help make the player feel special.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/>

[[File:Sara Kestelman Breath of Fresh Air.jpg|upright|thumb|left|alt=Image of Sara Kestelman performing ''A Breath of Fresh Air''|[[Sara Kestelman]] provided Kreia's voice.]]
English actress [[Sara Kestelman]] voiced the character in the game.<ref name="Approval"/> In voice directors Will Beckman and Darragh O'Farrell's "Designer Diary", the character was considered the most critical character to cast, though a challenging one as few games cast women of her age group. Obsidian worked hard in finding Kreia's voice, which had to match with her model without being "witchy or grating" due to her lengthy amount of dialogue.<ref name="Diary"/>

Developers tried to give each companion a unique ability to make them distinct from any other companion.<ref name="Sequel Interview"/> Originally, throughout ''The Sith Lords'' Kreia would be seen through cutscenes recruiting certain characters such as [[Hanharr]] to side with her and seducing them to the dark side, though her exact purpose was not made overt. At the end of the game, they would then be used as "[[cannon fodder]]" before the fight with her began. Ultimately, this was cut.<ref name="RPS Interview"/>

===Character===
Kreia is shown as an elderly blind woman, whose eyes have atrophied from lack of use in preference of viewing things through the Force, viewing normal sight as a distraction.<ref name="Sight" group="TSL"/> Dialogue in ''The Sith Lords'' establishes her past as a Jedi historian and one of the teachers of [[Revan]], who became a Sith Lord and was the player character of [[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|the first game]], and how her teachings were blamed for his fall.<ref name="Historian" group="TSL"/><ref name="Revan" group="TSL"/> ''The Sith Lords'' reveals she has trained two Sith antagonists of the game, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus, before they cast her out. She is initially depicted in earth-brown hooded Jedi robes with empty white eyes, though after the revelation of her identity as Darth Traya, both a Sith and a being of betrayal, both her robes and eyes are changed to black, and her skin becomes paler.

[[File:Chris Avellone.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Image of Chris Avellone|"She was questioning everything about the ''Star Wars'' universe that I thought should be questioned."—Chris Avellone, writer of the character]]
Kreia was the personification of Avellone's frustrations with the concept of the Force.<ref name="Devon"/> He called her "one redeeming feature" her love of the player character, and what they represent: a way of destroying the Force and its predestination in favor of giving freedom to the galaxy.<ref name="Devon"/> She shuns the light-side and the dark-side divide of the Force,<ref name="Bad sign"/> as well as blanket good and evil, favoring choices that emphasise personal strength for the player.<ref name="Talk Dirty"/> ''[[The A.V. Club]]''{{'}}s Julie Muncy described her philosophy as "a pessimistic and borderline-[[Ayn Rand|Randian]] way of thinking focused on the importance of power and strife".<ref name="Approval"/>

She is initially presented as an ally and a teacher,<ref name="Bad sign"/> and acts a mentor from the start of the game.<ref name="Talk Dirty"/> Alexander Gambotto-Burke of ''[[Eurogamer]]'' commented that she has a "genuine, albeit twisted maternal" love for the player, her student.<ref name="Bad sign"/> In contrast to [[Darth Malak]], the clear villain of the first game, Avellone called Kreia neither "necessarily good or evil"; instead, she merely wants the Exile to grow as a person.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/> Kreia is deliberately complicated in her goals and motivations, giving the character a feel of mystery.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/> [[IGN]]'s Hilary Goldstein noted this mystery, commenting both on her seemingly dark motives and yet how she appears as the player's "staunchest defender and a true protector".<ref name="Meet Your Team"/>

==Appearances==
===In ''The Sith Lords''===
{{See also|Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords}}
The game was first released in December 2004, on [[Xbox]], marking the character's debut. Kreia initially seems dead when introduced, but after the player character, an exile of the [[Jedi Order]], enters the morgue of the mining station they've woken in, she begins conversation. She informs the player that while they slept they both formed a Force bond, tying the Exile and Kreia together. It is revealed that Kreia and the Exile both came in aboard the Ebon Hawk after the Exile's original ship was attacked by the Sith and the Exile rescued while unconscious. During their escape, Kreia encounters Darth Sion and loses her hand during the battle, which in turn causes the Exile tremendous pain due to their bond. After she rejoins the party and they escape the station on the Ebon Hawk, Kreia then appoints herself the Exile's "teacher".

Kreia serves as a party member throughout the game, and may interject at certain points of it to offer her perspective. Depending on each decision the player makes, Kreia may gain or lose "Influence", which measures how much "trust, confidence, or control" the player has with a party member.<ref name="Talk Dirty"/> Unlike other party members, Kreia's alignment is not affected by the player's Influence level with her and is instead set at neutral, though Influence will unlock new conversations with her. In gameplay, she may only equip one hand, and is a "Jedi Consular", focused on using the game's Force powers. Having her in the party grants the player extra experience, and any Force effects the player character or Kreia use on themselves will also affect the other.

After the player finds all the in-hiding Jedi Masters, Kreia will retake her mantle as a Sith Lord. If the player does not kill the Jedi, she will intervene when they attempt to cut the Exile off from the Force, draining the Jedi of the Force herself and killing them. If the player chooses to kill the Jedi, she will renounce the Exile.<ref name="Stay" group="TSL"/> Either way, she will leave, and the player must hunt her to Malachor V, the site of such great atrocities and death that they caused a wound in the Force. Kreia seemingly plans on creating another wound in the Force there, deafening all to the Force and causing its "death", as well as potentially killing all those touched by it.<ref name="Plan" group="TSL"/><ref name="Death" group="TSL"/> The player faces Kreia, now "Darth Traya", as the final boss, and after she is defeated she offers to describe the future she foresees before dying.

===Later appearances===
The character would make no more future appearances in ''Star Wars'' fiction. However, Kreia is mentioned in several ''Star Wars'' [[reference book]]s, such as ''Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force'' and the second volume of ''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia''. In addition, [[Wizards of the Coast]] created a miniature for the character, along with other characters in the ''Knights of the Old Republic'' series, which was released August 19, 2008.<ref name="Minis"/> In February 2018, Darth Traya and select other ''Sith Lords'' characters were announced as playable characters and [[Raid (gaming)|raid]] [[Boss (gaming)#Superboss|bosses]] for the mobile game ''[[Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/galaxy-of-heroes/news/road-ahead-february-2018 |title=Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - The Road Ahead |date=February 8, 2018 |publisher=Galaxy of Heroes official website |access-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-date=March 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305063736/https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/galaxy-of-heroes/news/road-ahead-february-2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Reception==
Kreia has been positively received. Alexander Gambotto-Burke, for ''Eurogamer'', considered Kreia to be the greatest villain in video gaming, praising her dialogue, Kestelman's "intelligent and subtle" voice-acting, and the way she forced the player into making choices and considering their decisions.<ref name="Bad sign"/> IGN's Hilary Goldstein offered similar praise to her dialogue.<ref name="Meet Your Team"/> When looking at morality in games, [[Gamasutra]]'s Katherine Cross noted how Kreia's comments affected her more than many of the dark-side/light-side choices in the game.<ref name="Moral Code"/> Her "practical" philosophy was also complimented by [[Kotaku]]'s Phil Owen, who noted its ties to reality over the traditional moral extremes of the Sith and the Jedi.<ref name="Better"/> ''Eurogamer''{{'}}s Richard Cobbett considered her the most "famous" of ''The Sith Lords''{{'}} subversion of ''Star Wars'' and the first ''Knights of the Old Republic'', commenting "Whether you agree or think she's crazy, she's a fresh breath of air for the series, and easily one of the best RPG characters ever."<ref name="Returning"/>

The character is often considered ''The Sith Lords''{{'}} greatest or most important character. Julie Muncy of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' said she was the greatest part of the game and called her the game's most "captivating" character, which she credited to her "cold charisma". Muncy found herself genuinely changing her character based on her opinions, overly caring about how Kreia viewed her character.<ref name="Approval"/> Similarly, ''[[PC Gamer]]'' credited Kreia with ''The Sith Lords''{{'}}s success, calling her "clearly haunted, bitter, manipulative, and yet ''right'' in so many ways". By looking at the ''Star Wars'' world through the view of her philosophy, they felt Obsidian made "the most thoughtful take on ''Star Wars'' we'll ever get".<ref name="Best games"/> Robert Purchese, writing for ''[[Eurogamer]]'', called her "the strongest and most memorable character" in the game, praising her writing and how she embodied ''The Sith Lords''{{'}}s gray areas.<ref name="Fear"/> Allen Rausch of [[GameSpy]] described her as the game's most compelling character, commending Kreia for her challenges to his choices and noting how one example, concerning the importance of lightsabers, changed his view of the game.<ref name="Spy review"/>

The character has appeared in numerous lists, often reflecting her good reception as a ''Star Wars'' character. [[IGN]] placed her at 81 in "The Top 100 ''Star Wars'' Characters", noting her crypticness.<ref name="Top 100"/> She, along with the other Sith Lords in the game, came second-place in a modified list of the best ''Star Wars'' villains, based on reader requests for characters left out of the original list.<ref name="Fan Favorites"/> The Lords of both the first and second ''Knights of the Old Republic'' were similarly grouped as some of gaming's best ''Star Wars'' characters by Joe Juba of ''[[Game Informer]]'', calling most of them "cooler and better developed" than the Sith Lords in the actual ''Star Wars'' films.<ref name="Gaming's"/> The character was ranked seventh among ''Game Informer''{{'}}s "Top Ten Female Villains in Video Games" by Liz Lanier, saying that "Kreia is one of the few female Sith Lords of the ''Star Wars'' universe, but she represents women of the dark side relatively ruthlessly."<ref name="Female"/> The "struggle" against her was called one of "25 greatest ''Star Wars'' moments in Xbox history" by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell writing for [[GamesRadar]], who called her reveal of her agenda "compelling" despite being exposition.<ref name="Moments"/>

Not all reception of the character was positive. Adam Rosenburg of [[UGO Networks]] listed Kreia as one of the worst [[Star Wars expanded universe|''Star Wars'' expanded universe]] characters, considering her at the center of ''Knights of the Old Republic II''{{'}}s "stupidity" and criticizing her Sith name.<ref name="Worst"/> Gamasutra's Christopher Buecheler, the "Resident Cynic", found Kreia's comments "a bit trite and condescending". Buecheler also faulted how gaining Influence with Kreia was essential in understanding the main plot of the game.<ref name="Eulogy"/>

<!--{{Quote box |width=23.8em |align=left |quote="The Force binds all things. The slightest push, the smallest touch, sends echoes throughout life. Even an act of kindness may have more severe repercussions than you know or can see. By giving him something has not earned, perhaps all you have helped him become is a target. Seeing another elevated often brings the eyes of others who suffer. And perhaps in the end, all you have wrought is more pain. And that is my lesson to you. Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clenched fist." | source=— Example Kreia dialogue}}-->
In a moment described as "(in)famous" by Cross,<ref name="Moral Code"/> on Nar Shaddaa the player may give a beggar money or leave him; if he is given the money, Kreia shows how he is made a target of and attacked, and if he is refused Kreia reveals he attacks others. Owen called this moment the crystallization of the game's gray areas.<ref name="Better"/> Anthony Brock of Gamers Hell noted how it led to him passionately arguing with a game character, complimenting Obsidian for how involved he felt.<ref name="Hell"/> Cobbett similarly highlighted the moment when praising the character.<ref name="Returning"/> Buecheler, however, criticized the scene for using an unlikely chance event to make its point.<ref name="Eulogy"/>

Kreia won "Best Character" in GameSpy's 2005 game of the year awards. They called her a "deeply unpleasant, highly disturbing, and incredibly hateful person", but also "easily the most intriguing, complicated, enigmatic, well-designed and nuanced character in a video game [in 2005]".<ref name="GotY"/> She was also nominated for [[GameSpot]]'s 2004 "Best New Character" award,<ref name="Spot Nominees"/> though lost to "[[The Boss (Metal Gear)|The Boss]]" in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''.<ref name="Spot Winner"/>

===Avellone retrospective===
Avellone has said he felt he failed in creating a sympathetic Sith Lord, recalling buglists by QA testers referring to her as "that crusty annoying lady," and he considered the ending's explanations of her motivations more "hamfisted" than sympathetic.<ref name="Pavlos 1"/> However, in an interview with [[1UP.com]] he called Kreia, along with the Handmaiden, his favorite character after [[T3-M4]], citing the mystery surrounding her.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/> He called his favorite "unexpected turn" in the game the revelation of Kreia being neither fully good nor evil.<ref name="Afterthoughts"/> In another interview, this time with ''Star Wars'' fansite EU Cantina, he called his favorite character either Kreia or T3, and called her scene where she explains her relationship with the Force one of his favorites in the game.<ref name="EU Cantina"/>

==Analysis==
{{Quote box |width=22.4em |align=right |quote="Sometimes you face a situation with no good options, where tokenistic acts of morality may have unforeseen consequences. It's an interesting case where the restriction of player choice paradoxically opens up an exploratory space for the player." | source= — "Moral Code: Learning from 'Lawful Good' in roleplaying games", Katherine Cross<ref name="Moral Code"/>}}
Alexander Gambotto-Burke felt the character was a presentation of Avellone's criticisms of the ''Star Wars'' mythos and the morality presented in most post-[[Richard Garriott|Garriott]] video games, and called her "a tutorial, an incentive to explore moral avenues you might have otherwise ignored". Gambotto-Burke considered her not purely evil, and felt even at the end of the game "you can't help but see her as a flawed visionary".<ref name="Bad sign"/> GameSpot considered her point to be for the player to move on from "self-defeating" nihilism and realize "the act of choice ''is'' what gives form and pattern to the universe".<ref name="GotY"/>

In her piece analysing game morality, Katherine Cross highlighted the beggar scene on Nar Shaddaa. Cross noted how it illustrated Kreia's morality, shed doubt on "tokenist" moral acts, and highlighted the player's own powerlessness.<ref name="Moral Code"/> Hilary Goldstein noted how her philosophical points questioned the roles of the Jedi and the Sith.<ref name="Meet Your Team"/>
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==See also==
*[[Blindness in literature]]
* [[Will to power]]
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==References==
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<ref name="Death" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Atris defeated |quote='''Atris''': She seeks the death of all Jedi, all Sith... and the death of the Force. It is madness, it is impossible - but she believes you are the key.}}</ref>

<ref name="Historian" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Talking to Kreia |quote='''Exile''': You walked her path? / '''Kreia''': I was a historian, gathering the relics of the Jedi, learning the ancient mysteries. Always, there were more questions. One quickly learns that the Jedi Code does not give all the answers. If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single idea. That is why Atris and the others blamed me, sentenced me. They believed me responsible for Revan's fall.}}</ref>

<ref name="Plan" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Atris defeated |quote='''Exile''': What does this have to do with Kreia? / '''Atris''': Now she seeks to create another echo, a wound in the Force, greater than the one before - greater than the one you caused. It will deafen all touched by the Force, until no life is left. You were strong enough to withstand it once - but few have your strength in such matters, especially if they are unprepared.}}</ref>

<ref name="Revan" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Talking to Kreia |quote='''Exile''': You trained him? / '''Kreia''': He came to me, yes. Both before and after, before Revan knew himself. And after, in the times was coming into his own and learning he was more than he had been told. At one time, Revan was my Padawan. In times past, long ago.}}</ref>

<ref name="Sight" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Talking to Kreia |quote='''Exile''': What's wrong with your eyes? / '''Kreia''': There is nothing wrong with my sight, if that is your question. I see all that I need, though the seeing of things flesh and blood has failed me some time ago. They were distractions only. / '''Exile''': There might be a way to heal your sight. / '''Kreia''': There is nothing wrong with my eyes - they have simply atrophied from use. They are adequate to distinguish shapes, silhouettes. If need be, I could heal them, restore my sight, but sight can prove a distraction. When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door. But that is a lesson for another time. You must learn to see crude matter for what it is before the veil is lifted.}}</ref>

<ref name="Stay" group="TSL">{{cite video game |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |developer=Obsidian Entertainment |scene=Jedi Masters killed |level=Rebuilt Jedi Enclave |quote='''Kreia''': To have the Jedi Masters brought low by such a failure, there is no victory in that. You have not heard a thing I have taught, and for all I have said, you have never learned to listen. [...] You were my last hope, the only one who could change what is to come. And now you have left me nothing. I shall teach you no longer. Our bond remains, but that is all. Stay here and die, apprentice, among the wreckage of all that remains of the Jedi. It is a fitting grave until the Sith come to end you... to end everything. And as you lie here, I pray you will listen... and finally awaken.}}</ref>
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<ref name="Eulogy">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespy.com/articles/592/592496p1.html |title=The Resident Cynic - Eulogy to a Flawed Developer |author=Christopher Buecheler |date=March 1, 2005 |website=Gamasutra |access-date=August 4, 2015 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125230416/http://www.gamespy.com/articles/592/592496p1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Fan Favorites">{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2008/04/25/top-star-wars-villains-fan-favorites?page=4 |title=Top Star Wars Villains: Fan Favorites |author=Jesse Schedeen |date=April 25, 2008 |website=IGN |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213151559/http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/04/25/top-star-wars-villains-fan-favorites?page=4 |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Fear">{{cite web |url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-31-fear-is-the-path-to-the-dark-side |title=Fear is the path to the dark side |author=Robert Purchese |date=July 31, 2013 |website=[[Eurogamer]] |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622005325/http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-31-fear-is-the-path-to-the-dark-side |archive-date=June 22, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Female">{{cite magazine |title=Top Ten Female Villains |author=Liz Lanier |date=November 2013 |magazine=Game Informer |page=24}}</ref>

<ref name="GamesTM">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/chris-avellone-a-man-of-many-words/3/ |title=Chris Avellone: A Man Of Many Words |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=n.d. |work=[[GamesTM]] |access-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-date=March 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325101611/http://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/chris-avellone-a-man-of-many-words/3/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Gaming's">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/12/22/gaming-s-best-and-worst-star-wars-characters.aspx?PostPageIndex=2&PageIndex=5 |title=Gaming's Best And Worst Star Wars Characters |author=Joe Juba |date=December 22, 2011 |magazine=Game Informer |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510034444/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/12/22/gaming-s-best-and-worst-star-wars-characters.aspx?PostPageIndex=2&PageIndex=5 |archive-date=May 10, 2015 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="GotY">{{cite web |url=http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index23.html |title=GameSpy's Game of the Year 2005 |publisher=GameSpy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728191546/http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index23.html |archive-date=July 28, 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hell">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamershell.com/pc/star_wars_kotor_2/review.html |title=Star Wars Kotor 2 Review |author=Anthony Brock |publisher=Gamers Hell |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721181500/http://www.gamershell.com/pc/star_wars_kotor_2/review.html |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Lightspeed">{{cite journal |url=http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/feature-interview-chris-avellone-game-designer-fallout-new-vegas/ |title=Interview: Chris Avellone, Game Designer, ''Fallout: New Vegas'' |author=Matt London |date=November 2010 |journal=[[Lightspeed Magazine]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717120917/http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/feature-interview-chris-avellone-game-designer-fallout-new-vegas/ |archive-date=July 17, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Meet Your Team">{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2004/12/01/kotor-2-meet-your-team |title=KOTOR 2: Meet Your Team |author=Hilary Goldstein |date=November 30, 2004 |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717001822/http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/12/01/kotor-2-meet-your-team |archive-date=July 17, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Menze">{{cite web |url=http://brenze.deviantart.com/art/Kreia-147112966 |title=RE: Kreia |author=Brian Menze |publisher=[[DeviantArt]] |date=January 27, 2012 |access-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-date=April 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414054643/http://brenze.deviantart.com/art/Kreia-147112966 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Minis">{{cite web|url=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/KOTORminis |title=''Knights of the Old Republic'' |publisher=Wizards of the Coast |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601194827/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars%2Farticle%2FKOTORminis |archive-date=June 1, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="Moments">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamesradar.com/25-greatest-star-wars-moments-xbox-history/ |title=The 25 greatest Star Wars moments in Xbox history |author=Edwin Evans-Thirlwell |date=June 3, 2015 |publisher=GamesRadar |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306090233/http://www.gamesradar.com/25-greatest-star-wars-moments-xbox-history/ |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Moral Code">{{cite web |url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/moral-code-learning-from-lawful-good-in-roleplaying-games |title=Moral Code: Learning from 'Lawful Good' in roleplaying games |author=Katherine Cross |date=May 29, 2015 |website=[[Gamasutra]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601024229/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244599/Moral_Code_Learning_from_Lawful_Good_in_roleplaying_games.php |archive-date=June 1, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Pavlos 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.starwarsknights.com/fullstory.php?id=641 |title=Chris Avellone interview (part 1) |author=Pavlos |date=February 23, 2009 |publisher=StarWarsKnights.com |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430035924/http://www.starwarsknights.com/fullstory.php?id=641 |archive-date=April 30, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name="Questions">{{cite web |url=http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/1/entry-120-kotor-ii-questions/ |title=Kotor II Questions |author=Chris Avellone |date=October 14, 2009 |publisher=Obsidian Forum Community |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227103512/http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/1/entry-120-kotor-ii-questions/ |archive-date=February 27, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Ravel">{{cite web |url=http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=1&showentry=91 |title=Un-Ravel-ling Torment. |author=Chris Avellone |date=September 21, 2007 |publisher=Obsidian Forum Community |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103140727/http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=1&showentry=91 |archive-date=November 3, 2015 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="Returning">{{cite web |url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-29-now-its-got-steam-workshop-support-knights-of-the-old-republic-is-worth-returning-to |title=Now it's got Steam Workshop support, is Knights of the Old Republic 2 worth returning to? |author=Richard Cobbett |date=July 29, 2015 |website=Eurogamer |access-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731211451/http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-29-now-its-got-steam-workshop-support-knights-of-the-old-republic-is-worth-returning-to |archive-date=July 31, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="RPS Interview">{{cite web |url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/04/obsidians-avellone-on-torment-kotor-2-alpha-protocol/ |title=Obsidian's Avellone On Torment, KOTOR 2, Alpha Protocol |author=Nathan Grayson |date=April 4, 2013 |publisher=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]] |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523035104/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/04/obsidians-avellone-on-torment-kotor-2-alpha-protocol/ |archive-date=May 23, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Sequel Interview">{{cite web |url=http://rpgvaultarchive.ign.com/articles/556/556465p2.html |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Sequel Interview |date=October 12, 2004 |work=RPG Vault |publisher=[[IGN]] |access-date=March 1, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306150236/http://rpgvaultarchive.ign.com/articles/556/556465p2.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Spot Nominees">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2004/day2f_23.html |title=Best New Character |work=GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2004 |publisher=GameSpot |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041224214657/http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2004/day2f_23.html |archive-date=December 24, 2004}}</ref>

<ref name="Spot Winner">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2004/day2w_24.html |title=Best New Character Winner |work=GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2004 |publisher=GameSpot |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041228225850/http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2004/day2w_24.html |archive-date=December 28, 2004}}</ref>

<ref name="Spy review">{{cite web |url=http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-2/585574p1.html |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |author=Allen Rausch |date=February 4, 2005 |publisher=GameSpy |access-date=July 19, 2015 |archive-date=February 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207002625/http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-2/585574p1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Talk Dirty">{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2004/11/30/kotor-ii-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influence-people |title=KOTOR II: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People |author=Hilary Goldstein |date=November 29, 2004 |website=[[IGN]] |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130063304/http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/11/30/kotor-ii-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influence-people |archive-date=November 30, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Top 100">{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/star-wars-characters/81.html |title=Top 100 Star Wars Characters |website=IGN |access-date=June 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310055610/http://uk.ign.com/star-wars-characters/81.html |archive-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="Worst">{{cite web |url=http://www.ugo.com/games/star-wars-expanded-universe-characters-worst-kreia |title=The Worst Star Wars Expanded Universe Characters |author=Adam Rosenburg |date=December 6, 2008 |publisher=UGO Networks |access-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216073414/http://www.ugo.com/games/star-wars-expanded-universe-characters-worst-kreia |archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="Wrap Report">{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2004/12/24/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-wrap-report-part-1 |title=Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Wrap Report, Part 1 |date=December 23, 2004 |website=[[IGN]] |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182111/https://uk.ign.com/articles/2004/12/24/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-wrap-report-part-1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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