Anushah Afsar

Anushah Afsar is a female Thyrsian Jedi Padawan from the Six Sisters, an Echani-dominated system in the Inner Rim. Anushah was the daughter of a prominent Thyrsian mercenary warlord, and her force sensitivity was discovered during a visit to her homeworld by a Jedi Consular at an early age.

Early Life
Clan Afsar was a gathering of accomplished mercenaries and warlords from the planet of Thyrsus, men from Anushah's homeworld who made their living as soldiers of fortune. Her father, Casikan Afsar, was as close to a leader of the aforementioned man as anyone could claim. He led their formations, he signed their contracts, he distributed their pay. Anushah was his twenty-second daughter, born the second child of his favored Echani warbride who had long since lost her original name and was known only as 'Silver', for the shade of her hair that her two daughters and one son would inherit along with their father's darkened skin and pale gold eyes.

It was hard for Anushah to stand out in the desert clanhold of the Afsar, among quite literally countless other warbride daughters all vying for the faintest amount of praise or recognition from their father that they might attain higher status, a good marriage. It was the custom on Thyrsus, unlike every other planet in the Six Sisters, that men did lead the household as they led battle, and thus young Anushah's frequent and often violent protests that she was capable of the same on account of her mother's bloodline were met with both ridicule and discipline.

Still the girl toiled, labored, for that recognition that she so craved, often breaking into fights or instigating as a bully in the hopes that she might be treated as an equal. The chip on her shoulder continued to grow, until that fateful year that a Jedi Consular arrived to negotiate on behalf of the planet Bengali, a satellite state to the Echnanin Matriarchy for a ceasefire on raids until further notice. At the age of eight, Anushah's connection to the force was observed by said Jedi Consular, and after swift negotiations with Warlord Casikan the young Thyrsian would be removed, brought back to Coruscant to train at the temple there. It was said that Casikan was more than agreeable to such a choice- better that the Jedi take a disobedient daughter off of his hands, that was simply one fewer mouth to feed.