Tau's native language

A native language was used by a Human individual who was abducted and enslaved by the Rakatan species at a young age and given the name Xesh. He became a Force Hound, and at some point, Xesh chose to secretly rename himself after the only word from his language which he recalled: Tau, which meant "soul." Tau felt that the name captured the essence of his being and was unrepresented in the Rakatan language. The Force Hound revealed his secret name to no one until approximately 25,792 BBY, when he confessed it to his lover, the Je'daii Ranger Shae Koda, following her profession of love to him on the planet Shikaakwa in the Tython system.

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