From a very young age, Taelros had an active imagination, always thinking up new stories and trying to gain accolades and awards. He won some awards and failed to gain others throughout his early career, but he always pressed on. He came to be fascinated by the Great Schism of thousands of years earlier, when a Sith Lady briefly controlled the galaxy under the rule of a Sith Empire some decades after the Jedi Civil War. Many historical details of the war had been lost to the ages, which made it all the more fascinating to the adolescent young Taelros. He wanted to fill in the blanks for himself, and so he began formulating ideas for an epic story about the war. For years, however, nothing came of them aside from a contest in his schooling where his story beat out a persistent rival to win