Nautolan

Aquatic ancestry is an important part of Nautolan biology, but it does not confine them to underwater settlements or occupations. A Nautolan can make a home among air-breathing neighbors without treating life ashore as an exceptional adaptation.

Glee Anselm is a predominantly aquatic world situated away from the major hyperlanes. SWTOR describes relatively limited outside visitation, leaving much of its homeworld society unfamiliar to the wider galaxy.

Supplementary Legends references place Glee Anselm in the Mid Rim and identify the land-dwelling Anselmi as another native people. Their presence adds context to the homeworld without establishing a single shared culture or a particular political relationship during the SWTOR era.

Nautolans have a humanoid body structure, large dark eyes, and numerous flexible head-tresses. Supplementary Legends descriptions include green skin with darker mottling and eyes adapted to dim conditions.

Their amphibious physiology supports breathing underwater and in air. They are capable swimmers, although experience, health, equipment, and environmental hazards still matter when undertaking difficult underwater work.

The head-tresses detect chemical signals, including pheromones associated with emotional states. This sensitivity is particularly effective underwater. Perceiving a reaction does not automatically reveal its cause: agitation might accompany fear, anger, embarrassment, or an unrelated concern.

In roleplay, establish what sensory information is available with the other participant. Chemical perception can support an observation or question without deciding another character’s thoughts, motives, honesty, or response.

Lifespan & Aging

Nautila is the traditional Nautolan language. Its underwater communication combines sound with pheromonal signals, making the aquatic environment important to conveying its full meaning. Communication in air loses that channel.

Basic provides a practical language for interstellar communication, while Anselmian connects speakers with Glee Anselm’s other native people. A character’s fluency should follow their household, education, and actual contact with other speakers. An offworld Nautolan might understand family expressions without being comfortable holding a conversation in Nautila.

The available SWTOR account gives little detail about Nautolan homeworld institutions and customs. It does not establish a universal religion, household structure, rite of passage, or set of social obligations.

For an individual background, make cultural influences specific. A family might attach importance to a familiar gathering place, a shared occupation, education, or maintaining contact across long journeys. These details become meaningful through the people who teach and practice them.

A Nautolan’s position in galactic society depends on citizenship, residence, profession, and personal history. Employment, family commitments, displacement, or opportunity can connect a character to institutions whose wider politics they support, question, or rarely encounter directly.

Galactic Republic

Nautolans fought alongside the Galactic Republic after the Sith Empire’s return. SWTOR also records concern among some Nautolans that involvement would bring unnecessary suffering to their people.

That history allows both commitment and disagreement. A veteran, civilian aid worker, reluctant recruit, or opponent of military escalation may understand the same conflict differently. Republic connections need not imply military service or Jedi membership.

Sith Empire

The Sith Empire has a history of privileging Humans and Sith Purebloods while discriminating against and enslaving other populations. Later military recruitment expanded opportunities for alien subjects, although resistance and prejudice persisted.

Veeroa Denz provides a specific Nautolan example of Imperial coercion. Enslaved and Force-sensitive, she was compelled into acolyte training on Korriban. She subsequently escaped during Zakuul’s assault and sought a new life on Nar Shaddaa.

Her experience establishes one possible history, not a requirement for Imperial Nautolans. For another character, identify the household, employer, patron, institution, or personal conviction that explains their place within Imperial society.

Nautolans can be Force-sensitive. SWTOR’s species codex associates the existence of Nautolan Jedi with an apparent affinity for the Force, but provides no frequency sufficient to conclude that most Nautolans possess such abilities.

Leeha Narezz offers an example within the Jedi Order whose interests extend beyond combat: her technological work emphasizes helping vulnerable people. Veeroa Denz’s forced training illustrates a very different encounter with the Sith Order.

Begin with a particular life. Decide which aspects of aquatic biology, homeworld connections, and galactic history the character actually encountered, then give those experiences people, places, and consequences.

• Who raised them, and what did that household teach them about being Nautolan?

• What connects them to Glee Anselm: personal memories, living relatives, inherited stories, curiosity, or little at all?

• How familiar are they with underwater living, travel, and conversation?

• Which languages can they use comfortably, and when do gaps in fluency matter?

• Who chose their name, and does it carry a family connection or personal history?

• How do they interpret chemical cues, and when have they misunderstood what they perceived?

• Which employer, community, government, or institution has most affected their opportunities?

• If Force-sensitive, how were they discovered, and what choices accompanied their training?

• What present responsibility, unresolved relationship, or practical need gives another character a reason to meet them?