Lady Menal Bathiriat was a Tapani noble of House Mecetti and, in 154 ABY, the head of the secretive Mecrosa Order. Born and raised on the Mecetti capital of Obulette, the daughter of prominent Mecetti nobles, Menal was expected to make a good marriage while her elder brothers carried on the family traditions of military prowess. Instead, she found her way into the Mecrosa and was trained in the arts of combat and assassination, as well as the history of the Sith. When she was twenty-six, her eldest brother was killed in a duel with a rival noble. She challenged her brother's killer, who initially laughed off the comment as the grief of a distraught youth. Menal coldly called him a dishonorable coward and added that she suspected he must have cheated to defeat her brother, which brought an