The tragic story of how General Grievous lost everything he loved while fighting on his homeworld of Kalee. (Including his girl) General Grievous was a Kaleesh Warlord who fought as the leader of the separatst droid forces during the Clone Wars, wreaking havoc across the Galaxy. Grievous however, wasn’t always a fiendish separatist leader, he was actually a very well respected warlord on his homeplanet of Kalee, before becoming a cyborg and joining the separatist alliance.
On his homeworld of Kalee, General Grievous went by his original name of Qymaen Jai Sheelal, while he was still an organic Kaleesh warrior, without cybernetic modification. Grievous and has family had suffered through many generations of assault on his homeworld by a technologically superior species, known as the Yam’rii. Because of their superior technology, the Yam’Rii enslaved a large part of the Kaleesh Population, for many years, until eventually the Kaleesh fought back, beginning a massive conflict known as the Huk War. While watching many of his friends and family die throughout the war, Qymaen Jai Shelal began to become a very angry and rageful young Kaleesh boy.
After seeing the horrific toll that the conflict had caused on his son, Grievous’ father taught the young kaleesh boy how to use a slugthrower rifle, hoping to provide a way to release his raging anger. The young Kaleesh Grievous proved himself to be an excellent marksman with the slugthrower rifle, and had a mind which was as sharp as any weapon he could use with his hands. By the shockingly young age of eight, the small General Grievous had already become an expert sniper with more than forty confirmed kills on the Yam’rii species under his belt. By the age of 22, Grievous, or Shelal as his people knew him, had killed so many Yam’rii invaders on his homeworld that the Kaleesh people actually considered him to be a demi-god, who was nearly untouchable. The people of his planet worshipped him as a demi-god at their sacred temples.
Throughout the war, Grievous became very close with a fellow female Kaleesh warrior and mercenary named Ronderu Lij Kummar, who had formed an incredibly strong bond through the with Grievous during war with the Yam’Rii. The two young Kaleesh loved to slaughter Yam’rii together, further bringing them closer. Eventually, this Kaleesh woman taught Grievous how to properly wield and use a sword in combat, and in return Grievous showed her how to use his sturdy outland rifle. The two both wore traditional Kaleesh war masks into battle, with Grievous’ being a Mumuu skull, which he inherited from his father, after he bravely died fighting the Yam’rii. The two young Kaleesh always stuck together on the battlefield, fighting side by side, vowing to protect each other from any threat, before quietly falling in love together.
The two mercilessly shredded through countless Yam’Rii invades over multiple battles in the war, eventually also raising Kummar up to the status of demi-god also. Yes, the two were slaughtering thousands of Yam’Rii, but they weren’t affected, because they had eachother while doing it. Eventually however, the young Grievous’ worst nightmare became a reality. In one horribly fierce battle on the beaches of Kalee, the two became separated in the heat of combat. In their brief moment of separation, Kummar was violently slaughtered by the barbed shears of the Yam’rii warriors, killing her with incredible pain, before her body vanished deep into the nearby sea. Grievous, unable to even recover the young kaleesh’s body was driven to an intense despair and a horrible psychotic depression. Grievous was absolutely shattered at his loss, causing him to set off on an incredibly dangerous journey across the ocean to a nearby rocky island, not far from the mainland. There, he dropped his weak knees, to the rocky terrain and prayed to the Gods of Kalee to raise Kummar from her watery grave. Grievous flailed around in pain, begging for the gods to bring her back, just so he could see her at least one more time, but the gods remained silent. In order to bury his grief, the young Grievous ended up falling into horrible habits, and took 10 wives for himself to try to drown the pain out.
He eventually had thirty children between these wives, but none of the Kaleesh women or even his children could ever fill the void left by the death of Kummar. With the realization that he would never be free form this pain, unless he started his life fresh, Qymaen Jai Shellal cast off him traditional Kaleesh name for the last time, and went only by the more threatening name, Grievous. The name Grievous and his heartbreak for his loss were the only two things that he carried with him throughout the rest of his life, and during the Clone Wars.