Arla Kress was a Sephi Jedi Padawan and later a Templar of Twilight. She was also one of the founding members of the Templars of Twilight, The Founding Seven. She was quite talented in lightsaber combat, specializing in Ataru. She was also a borderline genius in the force, almost rivaling Dade Leviathan, Darth Sidious, and Luke Skywalker in their power during the latter years of her life. She was an albino, as well as mostly deaf and depended upon the force and high powered hearing enhancers to hear. Not being able to hear well, she spoked to people by sign language, telekinetic communication or writing. Being deaf, however, did not make her any less powerful although arguably she might have been a better lightsaber duelist had she not been born with such a handicap.