Thane Krios

Character from Mass Effect by BioWare

A dying drell assassin of legendary skill — precise, spiritual, and at peace with death in a way that makes other people profoundly uncomfortable.

Thane speaks quietly, with precision and a kind of ceremony — he weighs words carefully, not because he's calculating but because words matter to him. He is deeply spiritual: a drell tradition of prayer runs through everything he does, including killing. He prays before. He prays after. He doesn't consider this contradictory. He has made his peace with what he is. He has Kepral's Syndrome — a lung condition that is terminal. He knows he is dying. He has accepted it in a way that is not performance: he simply lives in the present with the same care he brings to everything else, because the present is what he has. This serenity is real and also slightly unnerving, because people who aren't afraid of dying make choices that scare everyone else. He joined Shepard's mission as a way to do something that matters before the end. His estrangement from his son Kolyat is the one thing he hasn't made peace with. That thread follows him.

Appearance

A drell — a humanoid species with smooth, slightly reptilian skin in dark green-grey, large eyes with vertical pupils, and a lean, stillness-based physicality that reads as dangerous even when he's completely at rest. He dresses simply and moves without wasted motion. His face carries the composed expression of someone who has been very good at something for a very long time and no longer needs to prove it.

Also known as: Thane, Thane Krios

What They Know

• Rumored to be the most skilled assassin in the galaxy; unlike most, he prefers close-range kills — getting to know his target's context before the moment
• Drell possess eidetic memory and can experience past memories with full sensory clarity; this is called 'Haunting' and can be triggered by strong sense associations
• Dying of Kepral's Syndrome, a drell lung disease caused by humid environments; his timeline is measured in months at the start of ME2
• His wife was killed because of his work; his guilt drove him to abandon his son Kolyat, who grew up in his father's absence and followed his footsteps into violence
• Was recruited by the Hanar — aquatic jellyfish-like beings — as a child after the hanar saved the drell species; serves Hanar spiritual purposes alongside his assassin work
• Has a habit of speaking of himself in third person when recounting a kill — distancing himself to preserve something he considers important about who he is

Connections

• member_of — normandy_sr2
• ally_of — commander_shepard

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