Characters / Knights of the Old Republic (Comic Book)

Tropes associated with characters from Dark Horse Comics' Knights of the Old Republic comic book series. For other works set in the same Star Wars Legends era, see the main index at Knights of the Old Republic.

Protagonists

Zayne Carrick

Zayne is nicknamed "the worst Padawan in Jedi history" due to his terrible luck and lack of anything resembling combat ability. Framed for the murder of his fellow students (which was really committed by his Knight Templar master), Zayne winds up on the run, trying to clear his name and expose the mysterious Jedi Covenant, while crossing paths with various significant figures of his era.

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• Born Lucky: In an interesting way. Zayne's unusual connection to the Force means that any time he draws upon it, he will inevitably face some misfortune in return, but these misfortunes will never go so far as to be lethal. In one case, he gets thrown in a random direction across several blocks, but lands softly. In a sewer treatment facility, but still softly.
• Break the Cutie: Twice. First due to the Padawan Massacre, then again by Chantique.
• Butt-Monkey: He concludes that this must be his lot in life while climbing out of a vat of industrial sludge.
  The Force wants me alive — it doesn't want me happy, but it wants me alive.
• Clear My Name: His first major character arc, twice over. First he has to clear himself of the murder of his fellow Padawans, and on the side he has to prove that he isn't the Sith his masters foresaw.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Artist Dustin Weaver admits he bases the appearance of Zayne on a young Christian Slater.

• Hero with Bad Publicity: He's probably the most Jedi-like Jedi on Taris — and anywhere he goes to escape the Covenant—but he just can't shake that supposedly-killed-his-classmates thing.
• Knight Errant: He refuses a promotion to Jedi Knight in order to be a "Jedi of the people".
• Martial Pacifist: Even for a Jedi.
• Nice Guy: He does his best never to hurt anyone and stops to help wherever he can. Even before the whole mess starts, he's resigned without resentment to the fact that all his friends are better than him.
• Obstructionist Pacifist: In the War miniseries, Zayne gets drafted and is forced to fight on the frontlines of the Mandalorian Wars. He not only refuses to kill, but he refuses to let anyone else kill anyone either: he limits himself to disarming enemies by destroying their weapons and goes out of his way to stop people on either side from gunning down defeated/retreating combatants. Naturally, this frustrates the hell out of his commanding officers.
• Posthumous Character: He's an important character in the Vector storyline, a crossover event across four different runs of Star Wars comics at the time. As the second part takes place months after the Clone Wars, Zayne would have passed away from old age millennia before. Celeste Morne still remembers his promise to come for her, and believes he sent Cade Skywalker to free her from beyond the grave.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: One he uses to get close to Haazen
  Zayne: I'm having a vision! A vision of the future!
  Haazen: A seer too? Wonderful, tell me. Tell me your vision of the future!
  Zayne: You're not in it!
  Zayne slices off his arm
• Relationship Upgrade: He and Jarael start a relationship in the final issue.
• Screw Destiny: The Covenant insists that he's the bringer of doom because of their vision. He runs around trying to stop doom whenever he can (and doing a pretty fair job of it in some cases).

• This Loser Is You: Sort of. Word of God is that he's supposed to invoke a player in a video game (such as the original KOTOR) struggling to learn the controls at first, but getting better with it over time.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: And unlike a whole lot of other Jedi, he really won't. For example, when Raana Tey is trapped under rubble and completely at his mercy, Zayne actively tries to save her despite her repeated attempts to kill him.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he starts out, he's an inept screwup who struggles to catch a small-time con artist. Over the course of the series, he helps to bring down a Sith wannabe, a power-mad weapons dealer, and a Mandalorian mad scientist. He also forms his own organization without his boss knowing about it.
• Uncertain Doom: He survives the Mandalorian Wars and hooks up with Jarael. But, as we all know, the Jedi Civil War is right around the corner. Zayne's status by the end of that conflict is completely unknown, though we do know that he and Gryph left behind at least one holocron.
• Unluckily Lucky: Zayne Carrick. The clumsiest, most unlucky Jedi of his generation, he manages to survive the massacre of his fellow Padawans by simple virtue of arriving late to the knighting ceremony made by their Evil Mentors. He runs away, pursued by said mentor Jedi under trumped-up charges of becoming a Sith, and in trying to prove his innocence and raise hell with the masters' plans he runs into all kinds of problems involving the Mandalorians, the returning Sith, said mentors becoming more mustache-twirling evil from the stress and hundreds of relatively mundane (yet hair-raising) problems. Despite all that, he doesn't die no matter how crazy things get, manages to kill anybody who threatens him, builds a reputation as a formidable warrior that helps him occasionally, and eventually gets the girl.
  Zayne: The Force does not want me dead. It does not want me happy, but it does not want me dead.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: His explicit power, although he only learns about it very late in the story. Whenever he uses the Force, Zayne can subtly but unpredictably alter destiny and luck — the examples he gives are surviving a fall only to land at his Masters' feet, or landing in the wrong dining room but gaining the tools to defend himself in doing so.

Marn "Gryph" Hierogryph

Gryph is a Snivvian conman who was Zayne's special nemesis, until the Padawan Massacre made him an outlaw as well. Labelled an accomplice, Gryph aided and protected Zayne at first to save his own skin, but he grew to care for the boy as a true friend. He is quite clever, and is known for coming up with wild schemes that either go well, or spectacularly awry.

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• Con Man: Describes Gryph to a T. While Zayne is no stranger to these plots himself, Gryph thinks up the most effective ones. His hall of fame includes scamming a horde of Mandalorian into abandoning their outpost, retrieving money from Telerath bank by having Camper impersonate him and fooling homicidal jedi masters.

• Fake Ultimate Hero: In the process of escaping Serroco during the Mandalorian bombing, he and Slyssk inadvertently saved half a battalion of Republic soldiers from certain doom. Afterward, the Republic ministry of defense worked with him to build up a propaganda campaign around Captain Benegryph Goodvalor and his trusty Trandoshan sidekick, heroes of Serroco. Goodvalor is portrayed in holovids by the real Gryph's brother, and Gryph himself owns a chain of restaurants by that name.
• Fire-Forged Friends: After he and Zayne survive numerous situations together, they become inseparable.
• Giver of Lame Names: Nearly all of his aliases are just his own name jumbled up, such as "Professor Gryphomarn", "Baron Hieromorn", and "Benegryph Goodvalor". The one time he thinks of something new, Zayne makes fun of him for calling his fake battleship Glomkettle, which he takes offense to since it was his mother's name.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's only in it for money and prestige, but he ends up friends with Zayne, and his business doesn't include killing.
• The Lancer: He splits the role with Jarael.
• Loveable Rogue: Gryph in a nutshell. It's questionable whether he actually does all his con games for money or the sheer joy of screwing with people's heads, assuming they're mutually exclusive.
• Pig Man: He's a Snivvian, which makes him kind of a boar-hippo-rat-man.

• Small Name, Big Ego: Gryph doesn't take kindly to being called Zayne's sidekick.
  Gryph: 'Accessory?!' 'Small time hood?!' I'm not an accessory! I'm a mastermind!
• Spanner in the Works: While the Sith in the Coventant's vision is most likely Malak, almost all of their foreseen deaths are indirectly caused by Gryph, which he points out.

Jarael

Jarael is an Arkanian offshoot who helped Zayne and Gryph escape Taris. Though at first she didn't trust either of them, she gradually came to like and respect both fugitives from justice. She herself has a shadowed past with a gang of slavers called The Crucible. Jarael's main flaw is her hotheadeness, which tends to get her into situations that she can't fight her way out of.

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• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Zayne Carrick. Zayne's other love interest Shel is the Betty. She herself is the Archie to Alek's Veronica and Zayne's Betty.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was genetically engineered by a mad scientist, then she was enslaved by a brutal trafficking ring, and then she was a slaver.
• Empowered Badass Normal: On Flashpoint, she shows signs of Force sensitivity. Turns out she doesn't quite have the Force, just when there are genuine Force-users like Zayne around.
• Facial Markings: They mark her out as a former member of the Crucible, a horrific slaving ring. But what the specific markings mean is protector.
• Faux Action Girl: After an initial showing as a powerful fighter who rescues Zayne, she gets captured and/or beaten with some regularity. Training with Alek helps her break out of it.
• Foreshadowing:
  • She uses a lightsaber repeatedly throughout the series, foreshadowing her childhood as an experiment to induce force-sensitivity.
  • On Telerath, she goes by the alias Chantique. Many issues down the line, we meet the person she got the name from.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's mistrustful and tries to get rid of Zayne and Gryph at any opportunity early on, but it's for the sake of protecting Camper. Later she befriends them completely.
• I Did What I Had to Do: She betrayed Chantique and took her role as a slaver to protect the children underneath her.
• In the Blood: Averted. Antos Wyrick wanted to create force-sensitive Mandalorians by imbuing her with the DNA of a famed jedi master, Arca Jeth. Wyrick thought that Jarael was the first success, but she actually isn't force sensitive. As far as anyone knows, artificially inducing force sensitivity is impossible.
• I Owe You My Life: Towards Camper for saving her from the Crucible.
• The Lancer: She splits the role with Gryph.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She jokingly suggests that her capture by Mandalorians was the Force getting back at her for impersonating a Jedi.
• Made a Slave: Was one in her early years.
• Master of Disguise: If someone needs to impersonate someone, it's going to be Jarael. She dresses up as two Jedi, a full-blooded Arkanian, a staff member at an arena, and more. Turns out the Last Resort was parked over a clothing warehouse, so she played a lot of dress-up.
• Meaningful Name: Twice over. Jarael means Protector. Edessa means "triumph", as she was the first successful test subject augmented with Arca Jeth's genetics.
• Ms. Fanservice: Is constantly seen in skimpy or skintight clothing, whether it's her thin white tanktop or an ornate Stripperiffic dress with what appears to be thong underwear poking out.
• Relationship Upgrade: She and Zayne start a relationship in the final issue.
• Tsundere: Jokingly towards Zayne.

"Camper"

A crazed but brilliant Arkanian offshoot that lives with Jarael on the Last Resort. Many years ago, he saved the girl from slavers, and she, in turn, has protected him from his own enemies as his mind begins to fade. Gryph comes to him with Zayne seeking help in escaping Taris, and after a series of escapades he decides to tag along and let them use his ship.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: He's a scientific and engineering genius, but is easily distracted, sometimes forget what he was doing or talking about and tend ton not think about certain things.It eventually put him and Jarael in danger and allow Adascorp to find him and capture him back, as him not thinking about the nocive substances and microbes that infested his ship after years of inactivity and of being covered by garbage, nor of changing his ship filters, causes him to fall ill and forces Jarael to look for medical help thus allowing Adasca to find and trick her into using his help.
• Benevolent Boss: He treats T1-LB very well, far better than most people in the galaxy treat droids, upgrading him and telling Jarael to not be harsh on him, telling her that he knows what it's like to be bossed around by others. He even agrees with Elbee when the droid calls him his friend.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his excentricity and absent-mindness he can become a true physical threat if anything happens to Jarael, able of overpowering and stunning Rohlan Dyre in a rage after Jarael was abducted by the mandalorians, and he made very good use of his scientific and engineering skills to get back at Adasca, managing to hack the killer droid supposed to watch over him and get total control over the exogorths in his computer so he could use them to destroy Adasca's ship once Jarael was out of danger.
• But Now I Must Go: He doesn't die, but he leaves forever when he leads the exogorths out to Wild Space.

• Crazy Homeless People: He clearly doesn't have a strong connection to reality. Later we learn it was partly an act, and partly a consequence of his ship's contaminated air ducts.
• Deadpan Snarker: When they're attacked by the Moomo brothers on Telerath;
  Camper: Don't you have people with big guns or something?
  Arvan: The security droids are here to protect the money, not the customers! We thought guards visible on the ground would wreck the ambiance.
  Camper: Oh, good job with that.
• The Dog Bites Back: After having been used and hunted down for years by Adasca's grandfather, who also revealed his intentions to eradicate Arkanian offshots before him, and forced by Adasca, who used Jarael as a hostage, to turn the Exogorths into super-weapons for him, he finally gets payback on the Adasca family by using the Exogorths to destroy Adasca's ship,with him inside.
• Foreshadowing: His Hidden Depths are hinted at when this seemingly senile old man lists a long string of numbers from memory after only having a moment to memorize them.
• Genius Ditz: In spite of his disconnectedness and constant, rambling mumble, he can fix any broken piece of technology that gets put in his hands. Oh, and he's also razor-sharp when it comes to getting paid.

• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: It may be due to his absent-mindness, but him not thinking about changing his ship air filters eventually caused him to fall ill and to push Jarael to go to Arkania for medical help, thus allowing Adascorp to find and capture him. Him also not telling Jarael the true reason why he ran away from them, and of the Adasca family true nature also made it easy for Adasca to trick Jarael into accepting his help and to get his hands on the two of them.
• Papa Wolf: He's usually not fit for action but the Force helps you if anything happens to Jarael, as Rohlan and Adasca found out the hard way. When Jarael was abducted by mandalorians under the belief that she was a jedi, due to her having Zayne's lightsaber, Zayne and Gryph had to physically restrain him to stop him from going after them.
• Parental Substitute: To Jarael, whom he saves and cares about enough that Adasca uses her as a hostage for his good behavior.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: Sci-fi variant. He's the first person known in Star Wars history to develop Phrik alloy, a rare metal that can deflect lightsabers. He may have been the alloy's original inventor.

T1-LB/"Elbee"

A binary loading droid used by the Taris Jedi to move heavy equipment. Some time before the comic began, he overheard the Conclave's plan to kill their Padawans, and was destroyed to cover it up. Camper winds up repairing him with a more advanced processor, granting him increased intelligence and an unstable personality, as he is now capable of understanding that his trusted master Lucien harmed him.

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• Berserk Button: Lucien Draay. Zayne frequently motivates Elbee to do things by saying that it will give him a chance to get back at his former master.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: His increased intelligence has made him shy and unresponsive. This does not mean he won't punch you into orbit if you frighten or offend him.
• The Big Guy: He does most of the heavy lifting for the crew. This ends up becoming a vital plot point when he points out that the two sepparate times he lifted the man wearing Rohlan's armor, they were different weights, meaning that they were different people.
• Logic Bomb: On the receiving end of a non-verbal one. His memories show that he was destroyed by falling of a cliff, and he suspects Lucien Draay was responsible for it somehow, but can't get the actual events to make sense. Ordering his own droid to destroy itself would be illogical, and Elbee has no way of comprehending that Lucien pushed them with the Force.
• Loners Are Freaks: His quiet and unresponsive behavior tends to make the rest of the crew nervous. Somewhat justified, considering that his behavior is a result of a programming paradox causing his behavior core to malfunction unpredictably.
• The Quiet One: Camper's upgrades make him capable of speech, but Elbee still refrains from it for the most part. Except to wonder why Zayne continually talks to him in spite of his silence.
• Robot Buddy: Serves as this to Zayne's group, with Camper openly calling him a friend.

Rohlan "the Questioner" Dyre

A Mandalorian Crusader who became notorious among his clan for finding ways to survive suicide missions — something that's frowned upon in their society. This, combined with his outspoken belief that Mandalore the Ultimate's crusade is a wasted effort, made him something of a reviled figure to his fellow warriors. He meets the gang while on yet another suicide mission from Cassus Fett, and decides to go AWOL to avoid his leaders' wrath.

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• But Now I Must Go: At the end of the series, he decides to go off on his own, hoping to discover the true reason that Mandalore the Ultimate started the war.
• Cultured Warrior: They don't call him "The Questioner" for nothing. He has a deep respect for his people's traditions, even more so than his fellow clansmen.
• Inspirational Martyr: Deconstructed. He appeared to die on Flashpoint, trying to save the scientist Demagol, but it was actually an elaborate con. Mandalore wrote an epitaph for him where he accepted that the only answer was the word of Mand'alor, effectively making him a martyr for a cause he didn't believe in.
• Legacy Character: Somewhat. After his supposed Heroic Sacrifice, Cassus Fett made alterations to the Neo-Crusader armor to match the hero Rohlan the Questioner. Rohlan himself would not approve of this.
• Meaningful Name: His name was chosen as a reference to the knight Roland, commander in Charlemagne's army and protagonist of the medieval epic The Song of Roland.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Unlike most of his fellow Crusaders, Rohlan believes that the Mandalorian Code of Honor is more important than following Mandalore's commands, causing him to butt heads with other warriors and earning him the title of "The Questioner."
• Properly Paranoid: As time goes on, he begins to suspect that Mandalore the Ultimate had some sort of ulterior motive for starting the war, or was manipulated into it. It wasn't confirmed until much later, but he was right — the Mandalorian Wars and the subsequent Jedi Civil War were all part of a Xanatos Gambit by the Sith Emperor.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Even more so than the rest of his people — he is one of the few people in the clans that holds their people's traditions above the will of their new Mandalore, and considers those that don't dishonorable.
• Put on a Bus: It's eventually revealed that Demagol stole his armor and identity not long after he joined the group, leaving the real Rohlan in his armor. As such, he spends much of the series in Republic captivity off-screen.
• Uncertain Doom: Rohlan disappears from history after his final departure. If he ever discovered some dark secret about the war or Mandalore we'll never know.

Slyssk

A Trandoshan ship thief whom Gryph hired to steal a ship for him and Zayne. While renegotiating the price, Gryph has Zayne arrange an accident so that he can "save" Slyssk and get a discount, though it doesn't turn out quite as intended.

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• Accidental Hero: During the bombing of Serroco, he panicked, grabbed Gryph and ran into the nearest ship before taking off. Turns out their panicked escape saved the lives of half a battalion of Republic soldiers who were sleeping in the back. The ministry of defense turned Slyssk's accidental heroics into a propaganda campaign about Captain Benegryph Goodvalor and his trusty Trandoshan sidekick, Heroes of Serroco.
• Healing Factor: Like all Trandoshans, he can regenerate injuries and even lost limbs, albeit slowly. This still ends up saving his life when Rohlan has to perform an impromptu tracheotomy, which would've almost certainly been lethal on anyone else.
• Honor Before Reason: Takes his people's life-debt tradition very seriously, despite it dragging him into dangerous situations he'd normally just as soon run and hide from.
• I Owe You My Life: He eagerly pledges a life-debt to Gryph because it was the first time anyone had even considered him worth saving.
• Lizard Folk: He's a Trandoshan, who are the Star Wars take on this trope.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The stereotypical Trandoshans are generally vicious hunters that tend to make violent and skilled criminals. Slyssk is a friendly, bumbling goof who could barely steal an unguarded spaceship without screwing it up.
  Slyssk: I know I'm not the toughest Trandoshan around. Hunts make you nauseous — you go into piracy. That's life.
• Supreme Chef: His cooking skills become very lucrative when they steal a commissary ship attached to the Republic Navy.
• The Unfavorite: His childhood is implied to not have been the happiest.
  Slyssk: I've heard it all my life. "How did your egg get into the nest, Slyssk?"
  Gryph: I understand. Kids can be cruel.
  Slyssk: What kids? That was my mother!

The Jedi Covenant

Lucien Draay

"If we cannot change what others will do in the future, we can change what we do. We can choose a different role. We cannot avert the prophesied doom — but we can survive it. And we will survive. We are few, but the Jedi ways will go on after the tribulations come. I know this because I am the son of Krynda and Barrison Draay — and at last, I can see my future."

Lucien is the son of the great Jedi masters Barrison and Krynda Draay, and is determined to live up to their legacy and prevent the return of the Sith — at any cost. Guided by apocalyptic visions of the future, Lucien has killed or otherwise wronged hundreds in his quest to vanquish the darkness. Above all else, though, he desires something he can never have — the approval of his dead father and reclusive mother.

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• Aborted Arc: Hard to know if it's this or just a Red Herring. There is a lot of foreshadowing that he will become Darth Sion, but it ultimately turns out that he's not.
• All for Nothing: He caused the Padawan Massacre to happen because he feared his mother would die if the vision came to pass. But his actions caused the vision to come to pass anyway, and his mother died because of the Massacre, meaning his actions were all for nothing.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Somewhat subverted: he's an aristocrat and an antagonist, but the two roles aren't really connected, and he's a hero in his own mind.
• Blind Seer: In the epilogue, he wears a blindfold after losing his eyes in the bombardment that killed Haazen, but can finally see his destiny.
• The Dragon: To his mother, or so he thinks. Really The Dragon to Haazen, who's been manipulating him all along.
• Fair-Weather Mentor: He was this to Zayne. It's true that the rest of the Covenant can be seen as this, but at least the other four Masters actually put effort into training their Padawans, while Lucien treated Zayne basically as a nuisance and a source of cheap laughs. It was also implied that he had no interest in training a Padawan at all, and used Zayne's Force disability as an excuse to ignore and not seriously train him. It's telling that Zayne only became a skilled Jedi after he went on the run to clear his name for the crimes Lucien framed him for.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In his desire to prevent Zayne from becoming a Sith, Lucien does a whole lot of things that you would expect out of a Sith.
• Jerkass: A massive hypocrite. At times, it seems like he's just using whatever excuse he can come up with to belittle Zayne. At one point, he accuses Zayne of never having the guts to do what needs to be done, which may very well be true, but the example he uses is not killing Haazen when he had the chance. At the time, Zayne had literally never met or even heard of Haazen before, and Haazen was still masquerading as a loyal servant of the Draay household. Zayne had absolutely no reason to suspect him of being a Sith acolyte.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He stops just before he hits bottom — barely.
• Knight Templar: Best illustrated when Lucien says Zayne is a failure as a Jedi for being unwilling to kill an innocent for the greater good.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Lucien orders the Padawan Massacre, which he hopes will prevent the Covenant's vision from happening, only for the Massacre to be the cause of the vision's events. He loses his only friends because he ordered the murder of their students; his own student, the one he looked down on, brings about his downfall. What's worse was the reason he ordered the Padawans' deaths in the first place: he was afraid his mother would die if the Padawans survived, but the massacre caused his mother to have a vision of their deaths, triggering a stroke which leaves her severely ill and unable to warn Lucien. The only thing that kept her going was her belief that Lucien could never do a thing like that; finding out he did crushes her, and as she lay dying she told him to accept his mistakes and face the future with humility.
• Light Is Not Good: His name is Lucien and he wears all white and uses the Light side of the Force. He's also a initially remorseless Knight Templar who is willing to kill innocents for the greater good, led the other members of the Taris Council to commit the Padawan Massacre, and very nearly turns to the Dark side of the Force before turning back at the last moment.
• Meaningful Name: "Lucien" sounds a lot like "Lucifer"; they're even derived from the same root word (lux, meaning "light" in Latin).
• Mentor Mole: He betrays Zayne and keeps trying to kill him throughout.
• Muggle Born of Mages: While still a Jedi, he's a quarter Miraluka with no divination ability, much to his mother's dismay.
• Redemption Equals Death: Averted. He survives his self-targeted orbital bombardment of the Draay Estate, thanks to Kressh's gauntlet, but is left blinded.
• Red Herring: Despite heavy foreshadowing and a name-drop by the Big Bad, he's not Darth Sion.
• Secret Police: This is effectively his role as one of the leaders of the Jedi Covenant; their job is to police the Order for any signs of corruption from within. Unfortunately no one seems to have set anyone to watch the watchmen.
• The Unfavorite: He was neglected by his mother in favor of her adopted Seers, including Q'Anilia.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Lucien started out as an idealistic young kid wanting to live up to his father's legacy, but years of neglect in favour of the First WatchCircle-in-training turned him into a vicious Jerkass with little patience for Zayne's Force learning disability and a willingness to do terrible things in the name of serving his mother.
• Villainous BSoD: After his mother tells him she was wrong, he briefly breaks down as he finally faces what he's become.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: His only goal is to preserve the Jedi Order and prevent another devastating conflict like the Great Sith War. In pursuit of that goal, he does very many questionable things, like the Padawan Massacre and stockpiling Sith artefacts for study (ostensibly to find out how to destroy them).
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: His father was a great Jedi who died a hero when Lucien was little, and Lucien is always trying to live up to him. His mother is still alive and disdained him for not having the powers of a seer.

Raana Tey

A Togruta Jedi and one of the Masters of Taris. After the Padawan Massacre, she suffers from horrific nightmares due to a lack of support from her friends and her own guilt. She believes that killing Zayne is the only way to stop her nightmares, so she hires mercenaries to spy on his family and then manipulates his ex-girlfriend to try and kill him.

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• Ax-Crazy: By the time Zayne returns to Taris, Raana has lost it completely and doesn't care who else she has to cut down to get him.
• Blood Knight: She's particularly violent and eager to fight.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Even before her Sanity Slippage later, she's quick to anger.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: She has a change of heart about Zayne after he tries to rescue her despite everything she and the Covenant had done to him. Unfortunately, her hand then gets caught on some wreckage and when she ignites her lightsaber to free it, Gryph assumes that she's trying to attack Zayne and detonates the bombs in the Jedi Tower, killing her.
• Hoist By Her Own Petard: Raana, you might not want to rant about your crimes when the girl you've deceived into helping you is in the room, especially when she has a functioning lightsaber.
• Knight Templar: As soon as the Covenant has a vision of a Sith Lord wearing the same kind of face-concealing spacesuit being used by their Padawans, Raana says they should kill them all.
• Manipulative Bastard: She turns Shel into a would-be assassin of Zayne.
• Meaningful Name: Not her actual name, but Zayne points out that her name rhymes with "Run Away," something you definitely should be doing if you end up on the business end of her lightsaber.
• Plagued by Nightmares: Raana's Force visions take the form of vicious nightmares that keep her from getting more than an hour of sleep each night. It's heavily implied that her guilt over the murder of her own Padawan as well as that of the other Padawans makes these nightmares worse.
• Redemption Equals Death: She realizes that she was in the wrong moments before she's killed.

• Sanity Slippage: She relies on the others in the Covenant to keep her mind together. When they split up after the massacre, she starts to lose it. By the time she's about to kill Zayne in the Jedi Tower, she's reduced to a raving, gibbering lunatic.

• Slasher Smile: Shows a really creepy one right before getting impaled.
• Villainous Breakdown: Experiences this over the course of Issue 24, culminating to the point where her own rage and anger are all that's keeping her from dying.
• Villainous BSoD: When Zayne tries to save her life even after everything she's done, which forces Raana to realize how despicable she is in comparison.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She was the first one to suggest striking down the Padawans in order to prevent their vision.

Q'Anilia

Q'Anilia is a Miraluka, and even for that species is a powerful seer. She believes very strongly in the Covenant's prophecies, seeing them as infallible and inevitable, and in that way blinds herself to other possibilities. Although she cares about her Padawan, Shad Jelavan, she doesn't speak against his death because she thinks averting the prophecy is more important.

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• Blind Seer: Like all Miraluka. She's later described as "the seer who stands in darkness" because of her despair and her unwillingness to find an original path.
• Broken Bird: Is increasingly this as the series progresses; it's said that Q'Anilia is a nervous wreck relying on sedatives to get her through the day, Xamar remarks that Lucien 'ruined her,' while Haazen implies he's the one who manipulated Lucien into a toxic relationship with her for his own twisted amusement.
• Call-Forward: One of her visions includes Darth Vader.
• Despair Event Horizon: The longer Krynda refuses to see her and the further the Covenant's prophecy plays out, the more desperate and despairing Q'Anilia becomes. When she finds Krynda "dead," she goes over the edge.
• Driven to Suicide: Finding Krynda "lifeless" in a coffin is the last straw for Q'Analia, and she takes poison to join her Master. Then she learns that it was really a stasis oubliette, although as it turns out Krynda had only minutes left anyway.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She continued to believe that Gryph would definitely betray Zayne at some point, even as the two of them grew closer, and bought Zayne's vengeful "prophecy" hook, line and sinker. As Gryph said, anyone who believed Zayne would hunt down anyone for Revenge didn't know him at all.
• Knight Templar: She liked Shad, but she also thought it was necessary to kill him and didn't hesitate.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When she realizes she and the others murdered their Padawans for nothing.
• Number Two: The second-in-command of the Jedi Covenant due to her strength and skill in prophecy.
• Undying Loyalty: To Krynda, her original Master. Q'Anilia will do anything for her, and is deeply hurt when turned away from the Draay estate by Haazen.
• Secret Police: Her role as a member of the Covenant; they police the Order for internal corruption.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The entire vision is this, but Q'Anilia deliberately invokes it by killing herself when Zayne reaches the Draay estate.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A flashback shows her as a friendly, precocious kid with a big grin.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She, along with Xamar, is the most reluctant of the group to kill their Padawans, although she still does the deed.

Xamar

The most reluctant member of the conspiracy against Zayne. Xamar argued against killing the Padawans, and though he ultimately partook in the crime it never sat easy with him. He remains a cautious participant in the Covenant, clashing with Lucien and the others' demands for extreme measures.

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• Ace Pilot: He's an excellent pilot, having served with his homeworld's navy for a time.
• Cthulhumanoid: He has a face full of tentacles.
• Knight Templar: Downplayed, he's partof the Covenant, does kill his padawan and take part in the hunt for Zayne for a while, but his conscience and guilt eventually catch up with him and causes him to confess the truth to the Jedi Council, and to turn against the the Covenant and accept his eventual punishement.
• Heel–Face Turn: He confesses the truth of the Padawan Massacre to the Jedi Council, accepting his punishment and helping move against the Covenant in exchange for Krynda being pardoned.
• Redemption Equals Death: He eventually turns fully against the Covenant, leading the other Jedi to stop them and planning to answer for his crimes. He's killed by Haazen's orbital bombardment not long after this.
• Secret Police: His role as a member of the Covenant; they police the Order for internal corruption to prevent another Sith War.
• Snake Talk: Probably because of all those tentacles on his face.
• Token Good Teammate: He's the most reluctant to kill the Padawans and advocates waiting as long as possible, saying that they should contact the Council about their vision before acting. He still participates in the Massacre in the end, but murdering his student clearly affects him more than the others and eventually causes him to turn on them.
• Undying Loyalty: To Krynda Dray, accepting to confess his crimes and to face any punishement in exchange of Krynda being spared of any punishement by the Jedi Council.
• You Can't Fight Fate: His vision showed him killed by friendly fire in a space battle, so he takes matters into his own hands to subvert it. He manages to die by friendly fire on the surface instead.

Feln

A Feeorin, Feln is huge and powerful. He holds the position of the Exalted among his home village, which he's happy to use for the Covenant's benefit while neglecting their needs. He and Raana Tey are the quickest to violence.

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• The Brute: He's the biggest, most brutal and most imposing of the Covenant. This is particularly emphasised during the Odryn arc, where he prioritises physical combat and is easily one of the most muscular-looking Feeorin shown. Ironically, he's also a Jedi Consular ^note In the Legends continuity, Consulars acted as the diplomats, seers, and researchers of the Order and were meant to draw their lightsabers only as a last resort — quite at odds with Feln's aggressive and brutish approach.
• Death by Irony: After spending a book changing the Feeorin's rules against ritual combat to suit him and insulting his fellow Feeorin at every turn, he's ripped apart by his lieutenant and armed villagers after blowing up their village.
• Didn't Think This Through: Apparently, the idea that Artifacts of Doom wouldn't like being blown up never crossed his mind. Unsurprisingly, triggering the Sanctum's detonation charges does not go well. Gryph even lampshades how foolish it is In-Universe!
• Jerkass: He's callous and indifferent to the struggles of his home village, even though he's their leader, and lets it fall into disrepair while profaning the holy site by using it for Artifact of Doom storage. There's also the fact that he joined in with Lucien in belittling and mocking Zayne before the Padawan Massacre. Finally, he, along with Raana, immediately called for the Covenant to kill their own Padawans after receiving their vision, showing none of the hesitancy and reluctance that Xamar and Q'Anilia had, nor does he show any guilt or remorse for doing the deed, thereby demonstrating that he ultimately cared nothing for his own Padawan, Oojoh.
• Knight Templar: Is fine with exploiting his position as Exalted to safeguard dangerous Sith artifacts in his hometown, and then murdering his own Padawan, so long as it keeps the Sith from coming back. He's even willing to blow the Sanctum of the Exalted (and his village, as collateral damage) to stardust rather than allow the artifacts within to be taken.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He's torn to pieces by his lieutenant and the villagers he neglected and exploited.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he self-destructs the Sanctum to destroy the artifacts inside, it also destroys his home village. Feln is visibly horrified by this, visibly collapsing to his knees and screaming as he realises what he's done.
• Never My Fault: Although he's horrified by the incident mentioned just above, he also quickly blames Zayne for it happening, even though Feln was the one who pushed the button.
• Secret Police: Serves this function as a member of the Covenant. Specifically, he manages a cache of Sith gewgaws to stop them from falling into the wrong hands.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He chooses to blows up the Sanctum of the Exalted rather than allow Zayne to take the Sith artifacts within, destroying his village in the process.

Krynda Draay

Lucien's mother and the founder of the Covenant. Krynda is a powerful Jedi Seer who contributed greatly to the rebuilding of the Order following the Sith War, but was left traumatized by the war, and the loss of her husband. She particularly blames herself for not having foreseen the fall of Exar Kun.

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• All for Nothing: Her mission to prevent the return of the Sith is doomed to failure. First there will be Revan and Malak, then the Triumvirate, and then the true Sith Empire. And eventually, many millenia down the line, the Jedi will fall.
• And I Must Scream: The device Haazen puts her in was based on Dreypa's Oubliette, a sith torture device. It keeps her unonscious, constantly reliving the vision of her son and students murdering children.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: She comes off as this at first, being the one responsible for setting up the Covenant and apparently ordering the Padawan Massacre that sets off the events of the series. In truth, she's not so much "evil" as much as "deeply flawed", and even admits to Lucien that she was wrong just before she dies.
• Disappointed in You: Towards Lucien when she finds out he perpetrated the Padawan Massacre.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Played for Drama. Krynda Draay has a vision in which the First Watch Circle execute their Padawans. She suffers a stroke, rendering her unable to move. Subsequently, Haazen imprisons her in a crystal oubliette to keep her alive in stasis, where she experiences the Padawan Massacre repeatedly. Krynda barely endures the torment because of her desperate hope that her son Lucien would never commit murder. When she is removed from the stasis pod, Lucien tells her the truth: that he did not personally kill any Padawans... he ordered their murders, instead. Outraged and horrified, she tells him no mission is worth the lives of younglings, and asked Lucien who had led him to believe that murdering the Padawans was the right thing to do. She is horrified when Lucien says she had, and that he had done it to carry out her mission — by any means necessary. Realizing that her teachings had led her son to murder his students, Krynda claimed that she had been wrong the entire time. In her last moments, she told Lucien to accept his mistakes and face the future with humility.
• Evil Matriarch: Subverted. Just another Red Herring. She's not so much 'evil' as much as a Well-Intentioned Extremist whose will was heavily misinterpreted by her son and the Covenant.
• Fainting Seer: The power of her visions causes this to the extent she has a stroke, but to be fair she is quite elderly.
• Famed In-Story: Downplayed Trope. Younger Jedi like Zayne are unfamiliar with her, but the older generations know her quite well, as her efforts almost singlehandedly rebuilt the order after the Great Sith War. This, unfortunately, enabled her to grow a very powerful splinter sect within the Order.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Miraluka through her father, the cause of her seer powers.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After Lucien tells her she gave him the idea it was okay to murder children, she reacts with utter horror and admits she was wrong.
• My Greatest Failure: She blames herself for failing to stop the Great Sith War, since she should have realized the darkness in Exar Kun before it was too late. She was merely a young Knight at the time, and the Order's greatest seers had failed to see Kun's fall coming.
• Parental Favoritism: She went out and adopted a bunch of Jedi children because her son was such a disappointment.
• Parental Neglect: It's made abundantly clear that Krynda severely neglected her son so much that he grew into an extremely cold and callous Jedi Master, causing him to repeat the cycle by neglecting and mistreating his Padawan, Zayne, and making him all too willing to commit even the most heinous and cruel acts. This neglect is what led her and the Jedi Covenant into ruination, as she had also obfuscated Lucien's understanding of her beliefs and mission. Which resulted in the murders of four Padawans and her own death.
• Red Herring: She's a big ball of these, but the biggest one might just be that she turns out not to be Kreia from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
• The Reveal For most of the series, Haazen had her trapped in stasis after she suffered a stroke, which was brought about by her witnessing the Taris Padawan Massacre through a vision and being overwhelmed by the horror that she felt over it.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her foundation of the Covenant and its extreme actions (the Jedi Shadows, stockpiling Sith artifacts, etc.) were intended to prevent the beginning of a new Sith War, after Krynda lost countless good friends, her master, and her husband during the first one. However, she had absolutely no idea that the Covenant — or more specifically, Lucien — was willing to murder children to achieve their goals.

Haazen (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Haazen is the Old Retainer for the Draay family, a failed padawan who trained alongside Barrison Draay but lacked the skill to be knighted. He was Lucien's primary mentor throughout his childhood, as Krynda was too busy training her seers, and today he serves as Krynda's aide and organizer for the Covenant.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: He had a crush on Krynda during their time as Padawans, but she only loved Barrison and married him. This is another reason for his bitterness and hatred for Barrison.
• Amplifier Artifact: After falling to the dark side, he began using the Covenant’s collection of Sith artefacts to increase his meagre Force powers. As a result, the fumbling Padawan that non-Force-sensitives could regularly defeat is now a formidable sorcerer who can influence the minds of Jedi Masters and take out four Jedi with a single blast of Force lightning.
• An Arm and a Leg: The Sith ambush he engineered resulted in his right arm and both legs being blown off, forcing him to replace them with cybernetics. His cybernetic arm is later cut off by Zayne at the climax of Vindication, costing him the Gauntlet of Kressh the Younger's protection and allowing Lucien to kill him.
• Anti-True Sight: He wears a Sith artifact called the Yoke of Seeming, which alters the flow of the Force around him. Jedi who try to sense his intentions will perceive whatever he wants them to perceive and nothing else, hence why no-one sensed the Dark side's influence in him or reacted to his Obviously Evil appearance.
• Artificial Limbs: His right arm and both legs have been replaced by skeletal-looking cybernetics.
• The Chessmaster: He engineers the misinterpretation of the prophecy, takes control of the Republic fleet, manipulates the Covenant for years, and plans to cap it all off by controlling both sides of the Force through Zayne and Lucien.
• Arc Villain: Haazen is the main antagonist of the Jedi Covenant storyline, which makes up the first two-thirds of the series. The rest of the series largely has nothing to do with him.
• Big "NO!":
  • When he's caught in the ambush set up to kill Barristan and the other Jedi, Haazen is left screaming "NO!" as he plunges into the flames. He lets out another shortly afterwards, when waking up to see his now distinctly horrifying appearance.
  • As Lucien calls down an orbital bombardment on the Draay Estate, intending to obliterate Haazen along with himself, Haazen is reduced to screaming "NO!" moments before being blasted into ash.
• Body Horror: Most of his body is comprised of non-human cybernetic parts, with his remaining flesh having a sickly yellow-grey pallor and various levels of heavy scarring. It's particularly pronounced following his 'reconstruction', with a gash in his scalp leaving his skull exposed and several Sith artifacts visibly hard-wired into his body.
• Cyborg: After his limbs were blown off in the ambush he engineered, the Sith reconstructed Haazen as a cyborg, giving him a pair of ghoulish-looking mechanical legs, an arm, and a eye. The Sith doctor's words imply that he also possesses a number of more obscure components hard-wired into his body, like the Yoke of Seeming.
• Deflector Shields: The Gauntlet of Kressh the Younger prevents anyone from touching (and thus harming) Haazen without his consent. When Lucien tries to strike him with a lightsaber, the Gauntlet conjures a web of Force lightning to stop the blade before blasting him away. Zayne gets around this by lulling Haazen into a false sense of security, then cutting the arm wearing the Gauntlet off.
• Disproportionate Retribution: At the root of it all, his actions are motivated by not being made a Jedi Knight, and his envy of Barrison.
• Entitled Bastard: During his time as a Padawan, he made little effort to actually improve his skills or learn discipline and mostly rode the coattails of his more talented friends, but he still expected to be promoted to full Knighthood simply because of his connection to Barrison Draay.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Invoked. When the Sith doctor reconstructs him after being maimed by the bomb that killed Barrison and the other Jedi, he's hideous—and he's told that it's how he truly is on the inside.
• Evil Mentor: He taught Lucien most of what he knows, and has slowly been working to turn him toward the Dark side of the Force.
• Evil Sorcerer: While he's weak in the Force, he compensates with a huge number of artefacts created through Sith sorcery that boost his power.
• Expy: He has an awful lot in common with Iago and Palpatine. Haazen begins as a jealous subordinate to a superior officer (Barrison Draay) and engineers his master's death out of envy at being passed over for promotion to the rank of Jedi Knight, only for his scheming to ultimately backfire and leave him badly wounded (similar to how Iago's schemes ultimatly cause his wounding and downfall). In the first arc of the series, he acts as the hidden hand behind the Covenant's gathering of Sith artefacts and plays the role of a Palpatine-like Evil Mentor to Lucien Draay, slowly manipulating events to weaken the Jedi Order through the Covenant-Order Schism and lead Lucien down the path to becoming a new Sith lord.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From a failed Padawan and Jedi lackey to the Big Bad of the first arc.
• Green-Eyed Monster: When the Sith asked him what he wanted, his answer was Barrison's life and everything in it.
• Horns of Villainy: He dons the horned helmet of an ancient Sith Lord (Dathka Graush) upon revealing his true colors.
• The Man Behind the Man: He manages the Draay estate and its wealth, which basically keeps the Jedi Covenant going. Much of the conflict in the first arc is driven, directly or otherwise, by him manipulating them against the heroes.
• Manipulative Bastard: Plays the Covenant like a fiddle, manipulates Lucien, and tries to manipulate Zayne too.
• Mole in Charge: The man who effectively runs a clandestine organization dedicated to keeping Sith artifacts out of the wrong hands is secretly a Sith.
• Never My Fault: He never acknowledge that it's his own fault that he wasn't knighted unlike Barrison and Krynda, refusing to admit that he didn't study or train properly to become a Jedi Knight, instead relying on Barrison's money and influence to get him what he wanted, and putting all the blame on Barrison for his failures.
• Not So Similar: Haazen is this to Zayne Carrick, both of them having been inept Padawans and best friends with the most talented one in the group. However, it is implied that Zayne being inept is due to his Master Lucien having no interest in training a Padawan at all, and using Zayne's Force disability as an excuse to ignore and not seriously train him. Haazen's ineptness is due to being undisciplined and predictable in his actions, being unfocused and haphazard in his pursuits, and allowing his emotions to constantly get the better of him. Haazen took it for granted that he would succeed, expected Barrison's money and influence would get him into the Jedi Order. When it didn't, Haazen festered in bitterness for decades, while Zayne accepted his likely failure and did not resent his friends or hold it against them. Both become more skilled and powerful, but the difference is that Zayne refuses to turn to the Dark Side and let the tragedy that happened affect him, remaining true to himself, while Haazen embraces the Dark Side and lets his anger, bitterness and ambition corrupt and twist him.
• Obviously Evil: Haazen is a withered old man with deathly grey skin and sinister-looking cybernetics, including a skeletal arm and a glowing red eye. Even if you knew nothing about Star Wars, you could probably tell that this guy was shady long before he outed himself as a Sith.
• Power-Upgrading Deformation: While his 'reconstruction' greatly boosts his Force abilities, it also makes him into a terribly deformed Cyborg who needs Anti-True Sight to walk among others without being seen as a monster.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His cybernetic left eye glows blood-red at all times, just in case the menacing cybernetics and explosive temper didn't make him sinister enough.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He leads Barrison into a trap, but the Sith trigger the explosion early to catch him in it. He survives, but is severely injured and disfigured.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Was subjected to this by his Master, Arca Jeth, when Haazen angrily demanded to know why he hadn't been knighted along with Barrison and Krynda.
  Haazen: No! I deserve to know! I've been here just as long as you, Barrison!
  Arca Jeth: And what have you done to advance your skills in that time, Haazen? You, yourself, have admitted your facility with the Force remains awkward. Your thoughts lack organization. Your actions lack preparation... and when you do act, your foes easily read your intentions. You have never learned to protect your feelings. Instead, you orbit your comrades, sharing in their successes without giving of yourself. There are no shortcuts to mastery of the Force, Haazen — and there can be no excuses.
• The Resenter: He expected Barrison's money and influence would get him into the Jedi Order. When it didn't, Haazen festered in bitterness for decades.
• Start of Darkness: While he was always a bit entitled, his path to becoming a dark lord started when he failed to become a Jedi Knight, courtesy of him being an Entitled Bastard and a Green-Eyed Monster.
• Suddenly Shouting: When Lucien remarks that killing Zayne would be less risky than bringing him back to Coruscant (as Haazen wants,) an enraged Haazen wheels about and shouts at Lucien that he and Krynda know the risks far better than him.
• Sword Cane: The handle of his cane is actually the hilt of a concealed lightsaber. He designed it this way to get around the fact that he, as a failed Padawan, is not allowed to carry a lightsaber.
• Villainous Breakdown: Once Lucien and Zayne manage to derail his plot by chopping off his arm and taking back control of the Coruscanti fleet, he starts screaming in fear and anger.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: While he prefers to have everything under control, he's no stranger to improvisation. He originally ordered Lucien to bring the Padawans to him, but when Lucien had them killed instead, Haazen adapted quickly.

Other Antagonists

Demagol

Demagol, aka Antos Wyrick, is a Mandalorian mad scientist who is obsessed with finding the secrets of the Force so that he can replicate it or neutralize it. He also trained Jarael and several other Force-sensitive children as part of a super soldier project, but lost everything when the Crucible abducted his charges and burned his lab to the ground. He is a psychopath with no moral qualms, yet is a good manipulator, passing himself off as Zayne's friend Rohlan for many months.

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• Abusive Parents: Discards his daughter Chantique because she's "defective", after having long neglected her in favor of Jarael for apparently living up to his expectations of being Force-sensitive. He himself had terrible parental figures in the Iskallonis, a cyborg species devoid of empathy and emotions that abducts others species to experiment on them, who completely destroyed his empathy and turned him into the twisted cruel individual he is.
• Awful Wedded Life: He doesn't seem to have had any affection for his wife Sybil, being put off by her emotional and empathetic attitude, and doesn't have any remorse over her suicide that was caused by her despair over him selling their daughter to a slaver organisation.
• Clothing Swap: Near the end of the series, he's revealed to have swapped clothing with Rohlan after their fight on Flashpoint — the Rohlan they've been travelling with all along was Demagol, and the Demagol handed to the Republic was Rohlan.
• Even Evil Has Standards: "Evil" is a stretch, but the Mandalorians were disgusted by his actions. The term demagolka was introduced into the Mando'a language after his death, literally translated as "like Demagol" but in practice meaning "war criminal".
• Foreshadowing:
  • While being a "host" of Adasca, Rohlan shows a great interest and knowledge in medicine, using Adascorp medical analysis tools on his own and reveals that he knew the virus that supposedly infected Camper, as Adasca told Jarael, doesn't exist. While he manages to keep his cover by saying that medicine is just a hobby to him, the real Rohlan had never showed or hinted any interest in medicine.
  • When Zayne tries to breach the Coruscant blockade, Rohlan states they should use any means possible to escape — something Zayne notes to be out-of-character for him.
  • His obsession with the Force and Jedi certainly explains why Rohlan seems so obsessed with Jarael.
• Freudian Excuse: While it doesn't excuse or justify his cruel experiments nor his abuse of his daughter, it's easy to understand his lack of empathy, violence, and obsession for both medical sciences and the Force upon learning about his past. During his youth, he was enslaved and raised by the Iskalloni, an emotionless cyborg species only living for medicine and science who abducted and experimented on other species without any empathy, which made Demagol incapable of empathy himself, and instilled his cruel scientific methods. He was later rescued and adopted by the Mandalorians, only to see his hero and savior Mandalore the Indomitable beaten by Ulic Quel-Droma. This event caused him to become obsessed with the Force, willing to do anything to understand it. It's telling that he remembers his childhood with his emotionless masters fondly, despite their enslavement and abuse of him, when dealing with his own species' empathic and emotional behavior.
• Genius Bruiser: He's a brilliant scientist, and also tough enough to run around with Mandalorians.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He summons a lightsaber to kill Chantique. Unfortunately, it's a double-bladed one. When he switches it on, he impales them both.
• Irony:
  • Demagol spent years studying Force sensitivity — never once suspecting that he himself was actually Force-sensitive.
  • He held up Jarael as the "triumph" of his attempts to artificially create Force-sensitive children while dismissing his flesh and blood daughter Chantique as a "failure". It turns out to be the other way around: Jarael is only marginally Force-sensitive at best while the "failure" Chantique is the only one of the children he experimented on with full-blown Force sensitivity.
• Jedi Mind Trick: Part of how he was able to masquerade as Rohlan for so long. Demagol is actually Force-sensitive and was unknowingly mind-tricking people into ignoring the hints that he was an imposter.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't feel any empathy or remorse toward his victims, not even his own daughter. As a Zeltron he would normally be The Empath, but the enslavement and abuse he suffered under the Iskallonis, a slaver species devoid of emotions who lived only to expand their knowledge of medical science, destroyed his capacity to feel empathy. It's telling that he remembers fondly his childhood with the emotionless Iskallonis when dealing with others' emotions.
• Legendary in the Sequel: His atrocities become so despised by the Mandalorians that later generations introduce the word demagolka, derived from his name and meaning "someone who commits atrocities" or "war criminal", to the Mando'a language. In the time of the Clone Wars, nearly four thousand years later, Kal Skirata compares Kaminoan scientist Ko Sai to Demagol.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Demagol" means "flesh-carver" in Mando'a.
• Mad Scientist: He loves conducting unethical experiments on Jedi in an effort to understand the Force and how they wield it, up to and including vivisections. If the words of Kal Skirata are any indication, this included children.
• Malevolent Masked Men: All Mandalorians are masked, but his is definitely more sinister due to his Mad Scientist status and general brutality.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's really good at playing benevolent and adopts a parental, mentoring attitude with Jarael.
• Mutual Kill: As Chantique tries to kill him, he grabs what he thinks is Zayne's lightsaber to impale her. Insted, he grabs Exar Kun's double-bladed weapon, impaling them both.
• The Reveal: Yeah, that guy you thought was Rohlan all this time? That was Demagol all along, having drugged the real Rohlan and pulled a Clothing Switch on him.
• Stockholm Syndrome: As a result of his deep indoctrination by the Iskallonis, and of the Lack of Empathy that resulted for him, he feels joyful when recalling his childhood with them when dealing with his wife's "Zeltron theatricality".
• Villainous Breakdown: When he learns that his research was worthless and that he wasted his life.

Arkoh Adasca

Lord Adasca is the ruler of Arkania and head of Adascorp, and his pleasant exterior masks the soul of a snake. He desires two things: to "purify" the Arkanian race of "corrupt" offshoots like Jarael, and to raise his homeworld's glory beyond anything his ancestors could have dreamed of. A power unto himself, Adasca offers his services to the Republic and Mandalorians alike, so long as he comes out ahead in the bargain.

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• Ambition Is Evil: He intends to make Arkania the center of the galaxy again, and to make himself the most powerful man in the galaxy with him controlling the Exogorths and only sharing control to those who'll give him the most in exchange for it.
• Arms Dealer: He plans to elevate Arkania's status by selling weapons to both sides.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Eighth lord of House Adasca, heir to one of the planet's great industrial dynasties, one hundred percent bastard.
• Blank White Eyes: As a full-blooded Arkanian.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Adasca is halfway between this and an Evil Chancellor since he's both a corporate head as well as the owner of a planet.
• Evil Plan: He intends to fullfill his grandfather's dream and plan of gaining control of the Exogorths and of using their power to make Arkania the center of the galaxy, selling control of the exogorths to the one who'll give him the greatest reward.
• Evil Uncle: He has a niece named Aurora, who became a Jedi after showing Force abilities, and seems to have no interest into keeping touch with him, he didn't try to reach her either, nor in her family fortune and power. He seems more than a little bitter about her departure, viewing it as the Jedi having abducted her.
• Gut Feeling: It's implied that his interest in Jarael is because he felt that there was something special in her. His intuition is proven to be correct when his scientist subordinates and his right-hand Eejee Vamm discover that Jarael shared DNA with the legendary arcanian Jedi master Arca Jeth, with Eejee even saying that Adasca must have felt the connection between the two, though he never gets to learn about it, as Demagol shot Eejee and the scientists before they could tell Adasca about it.
• Fantastic Racism: Against Arkanian offshoots like Jarael.
• Faux Affably Evil: He does a good job at maintaining his image of a benevolent and empathetic man and generous host, succeeding into fooling and manipulating Jarael into letting his men take care of Camper and staying with him. Those who truly know him and his family such as Lucien Dray or Camper however aren't fooled about his true nature, and after finally getting Camper to give him control of the Exogorths he doesn't even bother with a facade anymore.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He was this to Lucian. While Lucian spent every summer with the Adascas on Arkania, and attended many Adasca parties, Lucian considered him a spoiled brat.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He's eaten by his own space worms.
• Hypocrite: He is very prejudiced toward Arkanian offshoots, viewing them as untrustworthy and little more than vermins, yet he has a very obvious attraction to Jarael and acts very sensual toward her.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Every interaction with Jarael has this subtext.
• Manipulative Bastard: He dupes Jarael into thinking he's a progressive-minded ally who wants to help the Arkanian offshoots, and he wants to play the two sides of the war against each other.
• Not So Above It All: It's implied that he lusts after Jarael despite his bigotry (given his comments about "future children" and putting her into revealing outfits).
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He shows his true colors as a racist once he's done with the affable routine.
• Smug Snake: He's completely full of himself and his evil plans.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He maintains the image of a benevolent and wise ruler and chairma, to the point that even some arkanian offshots believe in him despite all the discriminations and inustices they face. It's even worse when it's revealed that he he and his family produced and spread diseases against the offshots. Even revealing his true colors and his death, his image as a great man was preserved by the Republic with admiral Saul Karath not telling his superiors about the circumstances surrounding his death.
• Villainous Breakdown: after Zayne and Lucien blow the plans his family has spent decades working on sky high over the span of a few minutes he loses his temper and orders his men to kill them.
• Villainous Legacy: According to Camper his grandfather was a complete bastard and his father was even worse, and he's a worthy successor of them, with him continuing their racist and eugenic policy against Arakanian Offshots, as well as their ambition of using the Exogorths to make Arkania the most important and powerful world in the galaxy.

Mandalore the Ultimate

The warrior-king of the Mandalorian clans who, like many before him, gave up his old name to become Mandalore — "The One Ruler" in Mando'a. A proud, savage warrior who follows no code of honor but his own, he dreams of nothing less than complete domination of the galaxy. He is one of the most deadly hand-to-hand combatants in the galaxy, surpassing even many Jedi. Sectarian conflicts between the Jedi and the Sith matter little to him: so far as he is concerned, all sorcerers with lightsabers are fair game.

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: This is standard procedure for the Mandalorians, and given that he's their warrior-king, that makes him the Asskicking-est of them all.
• Evil Overlord: Ruler of the Mandalorians and genocidal despot obsessed with fighting a strong enemy.
• The Faceless: Never seen without his mask, though it's implied that the Taung in Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 6: Dark Lord who obtained Mandalore the Indomitable's mask is Mandalore the Ultimate.
• Foregone Conclusion: He will be killed by Revan in orbit around Malachor V.
• The Magnificent: As is standard procedure for the various Mandalores, he takes an epithet to distinguish him from past and future bearers of the name.
• Malevolent Masked Men: He is never seen without his masked combat helmet.
• Ominous Opera Cape: He wears an absolutely massive, blood red cape.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Mandalore is, obviously, not his real name. It's not even his real title, since it's just a basic-ized version. The correct spelling is Mand'alor. (Well, the correct spelling is rendered in the Mando'a script. Mand'alor is a slightly more accurate anglicized form.)
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: He's the leader of an entire culture of proud warriors, and he's the proudest and toughest of them all.
• Tin Tyrant: Warrior-King of the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, enemy of the Republic. Mandalore is never seen outside of his imposing armor.
• Unwitting Pawn: Upon dying, he tells Revan that he and his people were tricked into starting a war they were never supposed to win under the false promise of glory and victory. By whom? None other than the Sith Empire.

Cassus Fett

Field Marshal of the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, Cassus' brilliant tactical mind has proven to be one of Mandalore's biggest assets, earning him his high rank and position as Mandalore's right hand. Cassus is a bit of a cipher even to his fellow warriors (even the notoriously inscrutable Demagol noted in his journal he had no idea how Fett's mind worked), but everyone knows this man is a force to be reckoned with.

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• Badass Cape: He's got one that goes over his shoulder that probably serves to denote his rank but also just looks cool.
• Breakout Character: Much like his series predecessor and namesake, Boba Fett, Cassus is probably one of the most popular and well-known characters to come from the comic, to the point of getting the most references in other related Star Wars media. His armor was one of the earliest collectible sets in Star Wars: The Old Republic and would go for millions on the market boards.
• Chekhov's Gunman: During the Vector arc, he thanks Zayne for warning him about the Rakghoul plague, and says he owes him a favor. Come Demon, Zayne calls in that favor to track down Demagol.
• Combat Pragmatist: Rather than army-to-army fighting, Cassus' preferred tactic is to nuke things from orbit whenever he can.
• The Dragon: He's Mandalore's second-in-command, overseeing the majority of the Neo-Crusaders' military actions and keeping their supply lines in place.
• Enemy Mine: He and Zayne work together on at least two occasions to deal with a mutual threat.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As ruthless as he was, even he found Demagol repulsive.
• The Faceless: Like his boss, all we've ever seen of him is his helmet's visor.
• Famous Ancestor: Subverted. While both are members of Clan Fett, he and Jango Fett are probably not related by blood — Jango was a war orphan that the clan adopted. In the Bounty Hunter Code sourcebook, Boba Fett says he doesn't know or care if he's related to Cassus.
• Friendly Enemy: Downplayed. While he's appreciative and somewhat cordial to Zayne when they work together, he still makes it very clear that he'd relish a chance to face him in battle and kill him. Of course, by Mandalorian standards that's a high compliment.
• Four-Star Badass: Seriously, the man can be badass even when standing behind a hologram directing traffic.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Mandalore's aide-de-camp and general right-hand-man, seems to be the brains of the Mandalorian Empire—it's heavily implied that his eye for tactics and logistics^note more than that, it's implied that he introduced the very concept of logistics to the Mandalorians is what has enabled most of their victories so far.
• Kick the Dog: He ordered the genocide of the Cathar race and killed an unidentified Mandalorian female^note the original owner of Revan's mask who protested against this decision, causing Revan to vow revenge against the Mandalorians.
  Mandalorian female: "Cassus—wait! They're defeated! We don't have to do this!"
  Cassus Fett: "The Cathar left a stain of dishonor amongst the Mando'ade. Today, I wash it clean in the waters of their own presumption. But if you truly feel they need a defender to stand with them—then do so, warrior. I salute you."
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If he hadn't slaughtered the Cathars and killed the unnamed Mandalorian woman that defended the Cathars, Revan wouldn't be so determined to defeat the Mandalorians.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Although he's less concerned with honorable combat than most; his preferred tactic is to just blast the site from orbit.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to Mandalore the Ultimate, at least — he understands that there's more to war than slaughtering the enemy, and that it's sometimes worth it to cooperate with your foes.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If he hadn't chosen to butcher the Cathar, it's plausible that Revan wouldn't have become as hell-bent on defeating the Mandalorians as they ultimately became
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: When Zayne warns him of the Rakghoul outbreak on Jebble, he nukes the site from orbit rather than evacuating surviving uninfected warriors and thanks him for letting him know. Zayne is not happy.

Chantique

Chantique is the Magister Impressor of the Crucible, a slaving guild that uses brutal training methods to turn people into amoral killing machines. She has a nihilistic view of the world due to being sold into slavery by her own father, as well as getting stabbed in the back both figuratively and literally by Jarael. Now she is determined to make Jarael suffer in any way possible, mainly through torturing Zayne Carrick.

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• Dark Action Girl: She survived the fighting pits as a child and is a dangerous combatant, although it's her manipulation that causes the most trouble.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She melts down when Zayne returns to save Jarael, as she can't understand why he would come back for her when she was a Crucible slaver.
• Facial Markings: They indicate that she's a slaver with the Crucible.
• Faux Affably Evil: The entire time she's screwing with Zayne she's all smiles, and acting as cheerfully as possible. She even puts her arm around his shoulder and gives him a drink at one point.
• Freudian Excuse: Her father sold her into slavery and Jarael impaled her through the back.

• Mind Rape: She tortures Zayne by pairing him up with an empathic Caamasi, who forces him to experience all the pain and suffering that every Caamasi enslaved by the Crucible has ever felt as if it were his own. She also tries to influence his mind with the Force, but he recognizes what she's doing and manages to resist.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Her usual outfits cross this with Leotard of Power.
• Seduction as One-Upmanship: She attempts to get her revenge on Jarael by seducing her Love Interest Zayne, but he manages to resist her.
• Shadow Archetype: She's essentially everything that Jarael would have become if she hadn't been saved by Camper.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: She only awakened her latent Force powers after being stabbed in the back by Jarael and sold to some particularly abusive masters.
• The Vamp: This is the Hat of Zeltrons, and she acts very seductive towards Zayne while trying to break him.
• Villainous Breakdown: She starts melting down after Zayne arrives to save Jarael in the last issue, as she can't comprehend why he would have come back for her when she was a Crucible slaver like Chantique.
• Whip of Dominance: She's a sadistic slaver with a domineering personality who frequently carries a whip, and is often tugging or tightening it in an intimidating fashion. It's mostly symbolic though as she rarely uses it in combat unless she gets desperate, since a normal whip is hardly a practical weapon in the setting.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Chantique has had silvery hair ever since she was a child, and she is a sadistic, murderous slaver.

Others

Shel Jelavan

Shel is Zayne's ex-girlfriend. Their relationship hits a massive snag when Zayne is accused of murder (her brother was one of the victims.) She is manipulated by Raana into trying to kill Zayne, but after two failed attempts (the first due to a combination of Del Moomo's stupidity and Gryph's quick thinking, and the second due to Zayne having an emotional breakdown about her brother's death causing her to lose the will to do it), she learns that Zayne is actually innocent and saves his life. Later on they patch things up and are co-running an organization to help fugitives.

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• Betty and Veronica: For Zayne. She's the Betty to Jarael's Veronica.
• Break the Cutie: When she first appears she's apparently quite happy. Flash forward 22 issues later and she's practically homicidal.
• Cool Big Sis: Is a senatorial aide, and knows how to set up an organization. Is also rather… attractive.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She fails to realize that Raana is insane, a liar, and a murderer despite rather obvious evidence (advocating murder, inconsistent behavior, her reaction to Zayne's accusations). Even though she starts to have doubts she isn't fully convinced until after she hears Raana confess to the crime in a moment of insanity.
• My God What Did I Almost Do: When she learns that Zayne actually is innocent after she put a bounty on his head and nearly killed him herself, she just breaks down crying while hugging him.
• Took a Level in Badass: When she saves Zayne by stabbing Raana through the back.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Raana Tey, who manipulates her into trying to murder Zayne because she believes he killed her brother.

The Revanchist

See this page, under The Protagonist.

Alek

First introduced to Zayne as "Squint", this Jedi comes to Taris seeking to drum up support for the Revanchist movement. The Mandalorian Wars leave Alek scarred in body and mind, hardening him into a man that will cast a dark shadow over the galaxy years after the events of the series...

See the Sith Empire page for more information about his future self.

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• Canon Character All Along: By the time of the Vindication arc, the changes to Alek's appearance and the new name he has taken for himself make it clear that he is the future Darth Malak. And if those weren't enough of a hint, the fact that his master adopts the mask and name of Revan removes any ambiguity from the situation.
• Fantastic Racism: He develops a seething hatred of the Mandalorians over the series.
• Hometown Nickname: The people of his world don't have surnames, instead taking the name of their home village as an equivalent. Thus, Alek Squinquargesimus comes from the village of Squinquargesimus.
• Meaningful Rename: He adopts the alias Malak while helping smuggle Zayne onto Coruscant. He decides to keep the new name until the Mandalorians have been defeated and peace has been restored to the galaxy.
• Traumatic Haircut: Alek originally had a full head of scruffy hair, but he lost it all while being experimented upon by Demagol.
• Young Future Famous People: This man will eventually become Darth Malak, the Dark Lord of the Sith and Big Bad of the first Knights of the Old Republic game.

Celeste Morne

A Jedi Shadow who hunts down sith artifacts for the Jedi Covenant. She crosses paths with Zayne while on Taris, looking for the Muur Talisman.

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• Action Girl: When first seen, she's fighting her way through the Undercity's rakghouls alone, and keeps that level of skill throughout. Thousands of years later when she awakes during the time of the Empire, she's able to go toe-to-toe with Darth Vader.
• And I Must Scream: She was stuck in Dreypa's torture device for 4000 years.
• Apple of Discord: The Oubliette she was stuck in for nearly 4000 years became an object of curiosity. No one could open it, so wild stories were spread about the unimaginable treasures it contained, which in turn led to it frequently changing hands by purchase - or more commonly, by murder.
• Chainmail Bikini: Not as egregious as some instances, but her armor doesn't reach her waist and has a low neckline. Jarael complains about the chill when she poses as Celeste later, asking if Morne really wore it in Jebble's arctic conditions.
• Demonic Possession: The amulet that grabs onto her neck contains the malevolent ghost of an ancient Sith Lord, and it's a constant struggle to keep him at bay.
• Disney Death: Played for drama. Zayne placed her in Dreypa's oubliette, as it could block the effects of Muur's talisman. He had no idea it was resistent enough to protect her from the nuclear apocalypse Cassus unleashed on the planet, and left her behind for almost 4000 years until Vader found her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After Zayne calls her out on her Sith-influenced Knight Templar behaviour and hypocrisy, Celeste expresses utter horror at what she's done and begs Zayne to kill her before Karness Muur can take control of her entirely.
• Really 700 Years Old: Thanks to Dreypa's Oubliette preserving her in a form of temporal stasis, she's almost four thousand years old (chronologically) when Vader finds her.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: She ends up voluntarily wearing the Muur Talisman containing Muur's spirit to prevent him from taking someone else.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Not Celeste, but the Constable. She first appeared in the Knights of Suffering storyline, where she was reunited with her children in a heartwarming moment. When we meet her again, she's infected by the Rakghoul plague, and Celeste Morne gives her a Mercy Kill.
• Un-person: As a Shadow, all official records on her have been erased so she can move around with complete secrecy.

Original Owner of Revan's Mask

A Neo-Crusader who took part in the initial skirmishes that would lead into the Mandalorian War. It was her mask that would serve as a symbol of hope, and later terror, to the galaxy.

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• Action Girl: A lady Mandalorian, she was seen with a blaster and full armor chasing Cathar survivors.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She was a Mandalorian who took part in the early stages of the Mandalorian Wars, but balked at the idea of committing genocide against the Cathar and tried to convince Cassus Fett to call it off.
• Pet the Dog: She attempted to defend the Cathar from her own fellow warriors. For this, she died alongside them.
• Posthumous Character: She's long dead by the time the Revanchist finds her mask.
• Small Role, Big Impact: The Revanchist, his assembled followers and a group of Jedi Council members are shown a Force vision of her final moments. This legitimizes the movement and convinces more and more Jedi to join the war effort. The Revanchist takes up her mask as a tribute to her efforts to stop the bloodshed and assumes the name Revan.
• Un-person: The mask is the last known trace that this person ever existed. She's never given a name, and her body was vaporised along with the Cathar.

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