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Jedi Masters active 232-229 BBY

Arkoff

Jedi Master Arkoff

Species: Wookiee

Appearances: The Edge of Balance | The Edge of Balance: Precedent | The Eye of Darkness

The master of Lily Tora-Asi and former apprentice of Master Ravna, Arkoff is an old Wookiee Jedi renowned for his swordsmanship. He was placed in charge of the Jedi Temple on Banchii, a world he has a close connection to since his days as a young Knight.

Arch-Enemy: In Precedent, he gained a consistent enemy with the Harch bounty hunter and ex-Path of the Open Hand cultist, Vol Garat. This rivalry lasted 150 years.
Braids of Action: Has his fur-beard braided.
Dumb Muscle: He was significantly clumsier in his youth than he is by the Starlight era.
Early-Bird Cameo: He is first mentioned in Light of the Jedi when Bell thinks about how Porter, who is also a long-lived Jedi, has skills in lightsaber combat that may surpass even that of Arkoff.
Genius Bruiser: Despite being mostly brawn, he was able to modify his droid companion ZZ-10 to be a living time capsule on Banchii to continue learning of Azlin's fate and understand his writings, and modified him with extra security systems.
I Choose to Stay: When the Council issued the recall order back to Coruscant following the destruction of Starlight, Arkoff stayed on Banchii with Lily and Sav to continue helping people resist the Nihil and recover ZZ-10 and became trapped in the Occlusion Zone.
Laser Blade: Wields a green-bladed crossguard lightsaber.
Long-Lived: Wookiee's live longer than humanoids and he's considered old, which makes him over 300 years old at least.
The Mentor: To his apprentice Lily. Even after she becomes a Knight, Arkoff continues to advise and criticize her when he notices she is questioning her purpose on Banchii, noting to Stellan Gios that she learns and thrives under criticism.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Having fought in the Battle of Dalna, he's endured hallucinations from the Nameless, losing Master Ravna to them, and witnessing his friend Azlin Rell go insane and lose his grasp on reality.
Silent Protagonist: He's the main Jedi protagonist of Precedent, but because he's a Wookiee and his dialogue is untranslated, most of what he says his relayed through body language or the other characters he interacts with, with ZZ-10 usually speaking for him.
The Slow Path: To figure out what happened to Azlin and make sense of his writings, Arkoff has ZZ-10 buried away in a time capsule on Banchii to slowly compile information. Because both Wookiees and droids can live a really long time, they are successful in gathering that information 150 years later.

Avar Kriss

Jedi Master Avar Kriss

Species: Human

"This is Jedi Master Avar Kriss. Help is on the way."

Stationed at the Starlight Beacon, Avar Kriss is considered one of the greatest Jedi of her generation, as a selfless hero whom others are encouraged to look up to. After the demise of Jora Malli, Avar was appointed by the Jedi Council to become the new marshal of Starlight, a position that placed her on the frontlines of the conflict against both the Nihil and Drengir. After Starlight's destruction, Avar blamed herself and set off on her own to hunt the Nihil and become trapped behind the Stormwall.

The Apprentice: She was trained by Cherff Maota, one of the most famous Seekers of the Jedi Order.
Arch-Enemy: As the conflict with the Nihil drags on, Lourna Dee begins to become Avar's, with the presumed leader of the Nihil repeatedly escaping capture and killing or maiming Jedi in horrific ways. The Council begins worrying that Avar is obsessed with Dee, a fear that is not entirely out of place.
Broken Ace: She is one of the most talented and capable Jedi in the Order, held up as the shining example of what all Jedi should strive to be. However, the strain of this image and her responsibilities on Starlight causes her to develop guilt and anger issues as she is forced to lead the Jedi's regular efforts of aid and exploration from Starlight while dealing with the attacks by the Nihil and Drengir, all while the Jedi Council debate and second-guess her responses from Coruscant. The subsequent destruction of Starlight only compounds this, as Avar's belief that she cannot fail to live up to the example she had previously set drives her to remain in Nihil space after the recall order to Coruscant was issued by the Council.
The Chains of Commanding: Being the Marshal of Starlight Beacon places Avar under a lot of stress as she strives to lead the fight against both the Nihil and Drengir while the Council questions her decisions from Coruscant. Each Jedi killed or injured under her command weighs heavily on Avar, and the destruction of Starlight while she was away on a mission almost breaks her completely as she believes each death is on her and could have been prevented had she been present.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Her official art resembles Jodie Whittaker.
Determinator: As Elzar explains to Master Agra, Avar is one of the most stubborn Jedi alive. Any sense of failure must be corrected and turned into a success, and thus Avar cannot leave the frontier when the Council issues the recall order as doing so would be admitting defeat in her mind. Avar will not leave until the Nihil are defeated, no matter what the risks are.
Elzar: She went to Nihil space, to find a way to turn her failure into a success. I don't think she'll be back until she's sure done that. People don't realize how stubborn Avar can be. Avar Kriss can't fail. She won't allow it.
Dissension Remorse: Her falling out with Stellan over her unapproved actions against the Nihil haunts her, as the two never have the chance to reconcile due to the destruction of Starlight Beacon and Stellan's death. Avar believes that had she listened to him and not let her vendetta against Lourna Dee lead her astray, Stellan could be alive due to never being needed to take over as Marshal.
Early-Bird Cameo:
- She initially appeared in an ancient holo recording in The Rise of Kylo Ren Issue #3, which was released shortly before The High Republic series was revealed.
- The Lightsaber Collection mentions her and Elzar in the description of Stellan's lightsaber.
Fatal Flaw: She has a tendency to put a bit too much trust in the Force, ignoring physical realities. When Lourna Dee escapes, she orders Sskeer and Keeve to help her in holding back the ship, despite Sskeer's protests that Keeve is unconscious and in no shape to continue the fight.
Famed In-Story: Having already built up a reputation before the Great Disaster that led to her being admired by many younger Knights and Padawans, Avar's actions during the initial emergence at Hetzel propelled her into the spotlight as one of the most famous Jedi in the galaxy and one of the faces of their operations on the galactic frontier.
Freudian Trio: The Ego to Stellan's Superego and Elzar's Id, striking a balance between Elzar's more impulsive actions and Stellan's stricter adherence to the Jedi Code and the orders of the Council. Avar is still willing to go off-book if necessary, which causes conflict with Stellan after his elevation to the Council and they try to reign in Avar's response to the Nihil.
Frontline General: She frequently personally leads Jedi and Republic operations against the Drengir and Nihil. This draws some ire from the Jedi Council, some of whom believe Avar is overstepping the directives given to her to combat those threats and let the battles, particularly with the Nihil, become personal.
Field Promotion: Both Vetar and Yoda put her in charge of Starlight Beacon due to Jora's death fighting the Nihil.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde, and is described as a selfless Jedi who's dedicated to helping others.
Heel Realization: Before she can make a killing blow on Lourna, Keeve gets in her path and makes her see that she's slipping towards the Dark Side, which stops Avar from going too far. While this gives Lourna an opportunity to take Keeve hostage, Avar merely knocks her out with the Force instead of killing her, and has all the surviving Nihil in the Great Hall taken prisoner.
He Who Fights Monsters: After their failure at Xais, Avar becomes aggressively proactive in trying to deal with the Nihil. When this leads to an attack on the Great Hall, she becomes much more ruthless to the point that not only does she aim to kill the Nihil attacking her party (which includes killing Zeetar by using the Force to make his flamethrower's gas tank explode), she tries to murder Lourna Dee after already (and literally) disarming her.
Hope Bringer: From her very first scene Avar is set up as one, with her message that the Jedi were coming to the Hetzel System providing its leadership the hope that they might actually survive the Great Disaster. She feels extremely uncomfortable with this reputation, particularly after the fall of Starlight Beacon. Several individuals who recognize her as the "Hero of Hetzel" while in the Occlusion Zone just make her feels worse, as she believes she does not deserve to be seen as such a hero.
Hypocrite: After the disastrous mission at Xais, she has Sskeer pulled from service to await trial for going berserk and indirectly allowing Lourna Dee's escape. Not much later during the attack on the Great Hall of the Nihil, she starts acting just as ruthlessly towards the Nihil. When Keeve calls her out on her behavior, she points out that Sskeer at least had the excuse of suffering from a degenerative brain disease.
I Choose to Stay: When the Council issued the recall order back to Coruscant following the destruction of Starlight, Avar chose to remain on the frontier to continue helping people resist the Nihil and became trapped in the Occlusion Zone.
Innocently Insensitive: She makes a comment while planning an attack on the Nihil's base in No-Space that the failed mission to Xais proved that Jedi need to stand in the light to succeed, and does so within earshot of Keeve, who was undercover and already blaming herself for how the mission went wrong. Avar didn't mean to imply any blame on her, and was in fact blaming herself, but Keeve believed she did blame her.
In-Series Nickname: After leading the Jedi in saving Hetzel, Avar was dubbed the "Hero of Hetzel" and became one of the most famous and recognizable Jedi in the galaxy.
Laser Blade: She wields a green crossguard lightsaber that has a slightly longer hilt than typical so that she can utilize a two-handed grip more comfortably.
Meaningful Name: The Avars are an ethnic group native to the Caucasus Mountains, noted for their traditions of warriors and cultural heroes, such as Hadji Murad.
Mental Fusion: Her connection to the Force allows her to forge mind-links between Jedi, allowing them to share feelings, thoughts, and information across great distances. Avar uses this to coordinate the response to the Great Disaster and link their combined powers together to push a highly explosive fuel pod away from Hetzel's sun, a feat which puts a great deal of stress on her and actually results in the death of several Jedi in the link. It somewhat resembles the Legends technique of Battle Meditation.
Music Magic: She perceives the Force primarily as a song that she can reach out and connect other Jedi to. After the destruction of Starlight Beacon, the Song of the Force she hears sounds like failure to her, and she tells Elzar that the song's name is "Avar Kriss".
My Greatest Failure: The destruction of Starlight Beacon and Stellan's death. She entirely blames herself for it, even though Stellan was in charge at the time, insisting she should have implemented better security protocols after the attack on Valo and that had she not defied the Council and made them relieve her of duty, Stellan would not have been on the station to die. Even learning of Elzar executing Chancey Yarrow, the one person who could have saved the station, does not cause her to stop blaming herself.
The Paragon: She's considered one of the greatest living Jedi.
Power Floats: While meditating to link all the Jedi's minds together during the Great Disaster, Avar floats in mid-air in her meditative pose, much to the astonishment of the Republic crew around her.
Rage Breaking Point: The struggle against the Nihil already had her teetering on the edge, but seeing Lourna Dee wielding Terec's lightsaber pushes her past the edge to the point where she is just barely stopped from killing Lourna in cold blood by Keeve.
Ship Tease: She and Elzar slept together frequently as Padawans, but grew more careful and adherent to the order's rules when they got older. Despite that, sparks still exist between them and share a moment in the epilogue of Light of the Jedi, though know they can't act on it.
Signature Headgear: She always wears a golden circlet with a blue gemstone in the front. Avar ends up losing it during her time in the Occlusion Zone as she is forced to shred the trappings of her old life.
Technical Pacifist: After becoming trapped in the Occlusion Zone, Avar does her best not to kill Nihil when fighting them. This is influenced by her near fall to the Dark Side during the assault on No-Space and ruthless killings there.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Justified due to the mounting pressure she’s facing and the increasingly dire situation, but between the attack at the Republic Fair, Loden Greatstorm's petrification on Grizal, and the mission failure at Xais (which results in Ceret and Terec going into stasis and Lourna Dee escaping), she becomes a bit more abrasive towards her colleagues in the Order as she disagrees with Stellan and Elzar over how to respond to the increasing threat of the Nihil.
Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: After setting off on her own to hunt the Nihil, Avar ended up being trapped within the Occlusion Zone when the Stormwall went up. She did not really mind, as she was seeking ways to fight the Nihil anyway, and travelled from world to world best she could attempting to offer aid. Avar ends up being able to escape the Occlusion Zone at the end of Eye of Darkness, becoming the first person to successfully do so and bringing valuable data to the Jedi and Republic with her on the Nihil's operations.

Cohmac Vitus

Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus

Species: Human

Portrayed by: Dan Bittner (Tales from the Galaxy's Edge)

"A great sadness has been welling up within me. It is bigger than any I have known. It seems to cover the whole galaxy."

The former padawan of Master Simmix, Cohmac is a well-respected historian and folklorist. While accompanying Reath Silas and other Jedi on a flight from Coruscant to the Starlight Beacon, their journey was disrupted by the Great Disaster. Cohmac found himself as Reath's new Jedi Master and seeks to guide him through conflict against the Nihil and Drengir while being plagued by feelings of grief and sadness that makes him doubt his place in the Order.

Adventurer Archaeologist: His reason for heading to frontier originally was to function as one, seeking out artifacts in dangerous locations and sometimes in hostile hands. Cohmac and Reath only manage to go on a few of his planned recovery missions in between fighting the Nihil and Drengir.
Angst: His untreated grief, trauma from fighting, and sadness over the conflicts he finds the Jedi involved in give him a general air of depression that eventually becomes clear to everyone around him, including his Padawan Reath, who senses what he can only describe as a cloud of heaviness surrounding Cohmac much of the time.
The Apprentice: He was the Padawan of Master Simmix, a Fillithar Jedi Master who perished on a rescue mission on the shared moon of Eiram and E'ronoh. Simmix's death haunted Cohmac for decades, and his attachment to his Master lies at the core of his repressed resentment towards the edicts of the Jedi Order.
Cohmac: They command that master and apprentice spend years together, working as a partnership, as close as any family could possibly be, and then they expect us not to become attached. I never thought about it before — I never had to — but now I can't escape how unfair it is.
Bookworm: As a scholar, Cohmac is heavily invested in making sure that Starlight has a considerably large library for consultation by both the Jedi stationed there and for public access.
Character Development: He starts Into the Dark being privately unsure of his capabilities, then ends with acknowledging that he has much to learn before he can be compared to great Jedi like Jora Malli, and the best way to do that is to take on a padawan... that padawan being Reath.
Childhood Friends: He and Orla Jareni have been friends since growing up in the creche of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant together.
Despair Event Horizon: While away on Corellia, he the senses the fall of Starlight Beacon and the death of Orla, which causes him enough anguish that he decides to leave the Jedi Order.
Eating the Eye Candy: Vernestra notices Cohmac raise an appreciative eyebrow at Xylan Graf's bare chest when he puts on a suit with a deep v cut.
Gaining the Will to Kill: The war against the Nihil sees his willingness to slay his enemies increase dramatically was he becomes more traumatized by the fighting. The attack on Starlight really sends him down this path, and he begins to argue with Kantam about how if the Jedi had been more proactive about killing their foes they might have saved more lives.
Cohmac: And sometimes, we must strike first, Kantam. We all celebrated after Quantxi when we heard about how your Padawan restrained Zeen's hand, stopped her from killing Krix. But given all that's happened since - can we really say that was the right thing?
The Kirk: Subverted: Cohmac hoped that he embodied this trope and felt that "[w]hile he did not deny he possessed emotions, he never allowed them to cloud his judgment- or so he hoped". By the end of Phase I, it is clear how driven by his emotions Cohmac is and it causes him to leave the Jedi Order.
Laser Blade: Wields a curved-hilt blue-bladed lightsaber. He gifts it to Reath upon knighting him and then fleeing the Order.
The Mentor: He becomes Reath's new master at the end of Into the Dark and helps guide him to Knighthood over the next year.
Repression Never Ends Well: The death of his master on the mission to the Lost Moon weighed heavily on Cohmac, and even as a Jedi Master he carries grief within him that is deeply buried and that the Jedi Order never saw fit to help him deal with outside of its teachings about non-attachment. That repression caused Cohmac to severely doubt his own abilities. Fighting against the Nihil and Drengir deepen his issues as he begins to feel deep depression and grief that he hides from almost everyone. The fall of Starlight Beacon combined with the death of Orla end up becoming his breaking points, prompting Cohmac to leave the Order after knighting Reath, declaring that he cannot continue being a Jedi anymore.
Self-Imposed Exile: He decides to leave the Jedi Order and hands his lightsaber over to Reath after the Nihil are stopped on Corellia, as the feelings of grief he felt over the fall of the Starlight Beacon (and the death of many Jedi including Orla) were too much for him to handle.
The Smart Guy: He was renowned as a scholar and a mystic, even by Jedi standards.
There Are No Therapists: While he seeks help from Orla in combating his feelings of grief and depression, she too is plagued by feelings of sadness which Orla notes makes it difficult to help. Jedi therapists are briefly mentioned in another novel, but Cohmac seemingly never seeks out their services due to his attempts to remain in compliance with the Jedi Code.
Tranquil Fury: After sensing the attack on Starlight Beacon, Cohmac fights a group of Nihil on Corellia in a dispassionate fury that greatly concerns Kantam when they witness it.

Douglas Sunvale

Jedi Master Douglas Sunvale

Species: Human

Appearances: A Test of Courage

The master of Imri Cantaros and marshal of the Jedi Outpost on Haileap.

Aerith and Bob: We have Jedi named Avar, Loden, Sskeer, Stellan, Elzar, and....Douglas.
Innocently Insensitive: He frequently used the nickname "Vern" to refer to Vernestra, unaware that she greatly dislikes it.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: His death causes Imri to struggle with the Dark Side throughout A Test of Courage.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies early on in A Test of Courage when the Steady Wing is damaged from the Great Disaster.

Elzar Mann

Jedi Master Elzar Mann

Species: Human

"The Force doesn't feel the need to announce its actions. It just acts."

A comrade of Avar Kriss and Stellan Gios who was raised alongside them in the Jedi Temple. Unlike his friends, Elzar does not have the faith and trust of the Jedi Council due to his unorthodox relationship with the Force and maverick tendencies.

Against the Grain: Even in an era where the Jedi were less strict, Elzar stood out for his flouting of regulations and norms within the Order related to usage of the Force and sexual relationships. His unique way of doing things kept him from being elevated to the rank of Master for a few years due to reservations by Council members over his behavior. However, after the fall of Starlight Beacon, Elzar attempted to stop this behavior and instead took a more formal role in the Order by working with the Council and taking over many of Stellan's former duties, to the point where he was given his friend's office in the Jedi Temple.
The Apprentice: He was trained by Master Roland Quarry, who was the one to dub Elzar, Avar, and Stellan the "three firebrands".
At Least I Admit It: While other Jedi use the term Mind Touch to describe using the Force to influence the minds of others, Elzar prefers the more familiar term Mind Trick as he feels it is a more honest way to describe what it actually does.
The Atoner: After having used to Dark Side to cause Nihil deaths at the Republic Fair, Elzar works with Orla to rediscover his balance in the Force and ensure he never kills out of anger again. Sadly, the destruction of Starlight undoes much of his recovered balance and he kills Nihil impulsively again, only with more disastrous consequences.
Beard of Sorrow: After Stellan's death, the normally clean-shaven Elzar sports continuous Perma-Stubble, indicating that his care for his personal appearance has declined but not entirely vanished in his grief.
Be Careful What You Wish For: In Light of the Jedi he wants a promotion to the rank of Master so that he could have more freedom to explore the limits of the Force. He gets the promotion due to his work investigating the Great Hyperspace Disaster, but the promotion also means the Council has more trust on him and assign him as the leader of the Jedi Temple on Valo to prepare for the Republic Fair, taking up a considerable amount of his time just after he had a horrific vision of the future he was struggling to interpret.
Byronic Hero: He is a charismatic, talented, and passionate Jedi with his own code and irregular way of doing things. However, his own self-doubts and lingering resentments towards the Council for holding him back from promotion are compounded by his Force vision and tapping into the Dark Side while fighting the Nihil on Varo and Starlight set him apart from the rest of the Jedi of his era.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His experimentation with the Force and lax regard for rules and regulations of any kind disquiets the Jedi Council, but given how effective he usually proves to be Elzar is able to get away with it, although it did delay his promotion to Master.
The Charmer: His suave personality and lax interpretation of the Jedi Code's view on sex results in Elzar having a long history of casual hookups during his career.
Cowboy Cop: The Jedi equivalent of one, as his personal philosophy is that given his way of improvising with the Force it is far easier to just do something rather than take time to explain his plans. However, this philosophy begins to cause issues as he begins taking actions without having enough information and directing sufficient thought into potential consequences, as his judgement becomes clouded by his emotions surrounding the Nihil's horrific actions.
Dramatically Missing the Point: Has an unfortunate tendency to misunderstand why Avar makes certain decisions. When she decides to stay on the Frontier to fight the Nihil instead of following the recall order to Coruscant, Elzar immediately questions if she is not coming because of him and his confession about killing Chancey Yarrow. Avar tells him that she is a Jedi and does not make decisions based on her feelings about him. Despite that, Elzar continues to think it was himself that drove her away, not understanding that she does not let their feelings and relationship drive her decisions like he often does.
Early-Bird Cameo: The Lightsaber Collection mentions him and Avar in the description of Stellan's lightsaber.
Freudian Trio: The Id to Avar's Ego and Stellan's Superego, being the one willing to flout the edicts of the Jedi Council and acts on instinct. He relies on both Avar and Stellan to reign him in when necessary, and the times when he doesn't have them available to do so have unfortunate consequences.
I Work Alone: He prefers to operate on his own on missions, with the only Jedi he cooperates with being Avar and Stellan, due to his habit of experimentation and unorthodox style. Elzar views other Jedi as not understanding how he operates, and while Avar and Stellan don't get it either, they know enough to leave him be and let him work.
Laser Blade: He wields a standard blue-bladed lightsaber.
The McCoy: He's described as... not "unreliable" per se, but rather "experimental" with the Force. The only Jedi he regularly works with are his old comrades, Avar and Stellan, because they're the only ones who can balance him out.
Moment of Weakness: One of his main flaws is that under immense amounts of stress, he is highly prone to these and giving in to them. Elzar always recognizes them after the fact and feels deep shame for his actions.
My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction after brutally killing Chancey Yarrow, unaware that she was not one of Starlight's Nihil saboteurs and was trying to save the station, and Nan chews him out for it.
New Super Power: Invoked. Elzar is a "tinkerer" who prefers to focus on learning new Force abilities, or thinking of new ways to use existing Force abilities, rather than rely on the ones he's already mastered.
Noble Male, Roguish Male: His dynamic with Stellan, who presents a professional and distinguished image while following the rules of the Order in comparison to Elzar, who is more unkempt and rakish with a preference for breaking rules.
Passed-Over Promotion: He starts the series as a Knight while Avar and Stellan are already Masters, which frustrates him as he believes the Council don't trust him and he felt restricted by the limits placed on him as a Knight.
Rage Breaking Point: Elzar experienced this during the Republic fair incident as he taps into the Dark Side to hurl a floating island away from his friends. While it does save innocent lives, he's terrified when he realizes that he felt joy from all the Nihil deaths he caused. During the fall of Starlight Beacon, he murders Chancey Yarrow in cold blood, unaware that she and Nan had defected from the Nihil and were trying to save the station, and that the duo had already killed the actual saboteurs. He doesn't realize what he has done until it's too late.
Rank Up: Thanks to his work with Avar after the Great Hyperspace Disaster, the Council does see fit to finally promote him, which elated Elzar as he believed he would now be able to explore the Force without as many restrictions.
Refuge in Audacity: Shushes Senator Noor by placing a finger on his lips and gets away with it purely due to the senator's shock.
Ship Tease: He and Avar slept together frequently as padawans, but grew more careful as they rose through the ranks, to a certain degree of frustration on Elzar's part. They share a moment in the epilogue of Light of the Jedi, though they know they can't act on it, and he gets too public for Avar's comfort after being shaken by a vision and a few drinks following the opening ceremony of Starlight.
The Social Expert: He is good at picking up on other people's emotions and figuring out how to understand people despite his preference to work alone. Elzar can easily tell when someone lies, and also picks up what others miss, such as how upon first meeting Bell Zettifar he realizes the Padawan is cutting himself off from the Force in grief for his Master Loden Greatstorm.
Tragic Hero: His impulsivity and belief in immediate action, while serving him well when he is in balance with the Force, become major flaws when his emotions get the better of him. Him angrily springing into action to ruthlessly cut down Chancey, who he believed was a Nihil saboteur, results in him killing the one person who could have stabilized Starlight long enough for everyone remaining to evacuate safely.
Tragic Keepsake: At the end of The Fallen Star, Elzar is given Stellan's lightsaber by JJ-5145, who was instructed to do so by Stellan before he sacrificed himself. Throughout the second issue of Shadows of Starlight, Elzar is shown keeping it close to him or is clutching it for months afterwards.

Emerick Caphtor

Jedi Master Emerick Caphtor

Species: Human

Appearances: Trail of Shadows | The High Republic Adventures (2021) | Shadows of Starlight

"I struggle with being peaceful when all we can do is wait, but we know the storm is coming."

A Jedi Master tasked with investigating the death of Loden Greatstorm, and he ends up paired with Private Detective Sian Holt by Chancellor Linah Soh.

Awesomeness by Analysis: He's just as good as Sian at picking up details while investigating a crime scene.
Beneath the Mask: He tries to present a serene and stoic exterior, but the investigation into the death of Loden and the fear of the Nihil having a weapon that can target and kill Jedi makes him extremely worried as almost everyone he knows and loves is a Jedi. Emerick admits to Sian that while he may be a Jedi, he is also human, and he cannot make those fears go away.
Childhood Friends: He and Stellan have known each other since they were little children in the same creche.
Determinator: He manages to resist the effects of the Nameless to a degree on his second encounter with one by sheer determination to learn more about it and gather evidence on how they affect Jedi. This enables Emerick to even slice ones hand off, which is far more damage than any other Jedi had managed to inflict upon one.
Experienced Protagonist: Introduced in his comic series as one of the greatest investigators in the Jedi Order who has long secured the trust of the Jedi Council in his abilities.
Great Detective: The Jedi equivalent of one, being one of the Order's best investigators.
Laser Blade: He wields a standard yellow-bladed lightsaber.
Mind Rape: Suffers this when briefly exposed to a Nameless aboard Dr. Uttersond's ship. Sian and Beesar manage to save him, but it takes him awhile to recover from the hallucinations.
Perpetual Frowner: He's not very good at changing his neutral, borderline frowning expression.
Prematurely Gray Haired: He is in his early thirties, but is starting to go gray along the sides of his head.
Reluctant Warrior: He is an investigator and researcher first, and while he is a highly capable warrior who leads Republic troops in a raid on a Nihil outpost, Emerick is concerned when the Guardian Protocols are activated as he is concerned the Council will try to make all the Jedi be warriors.
Ship Tease: He and Sian share several moments of closeness and grow to care deeply for each other during the course of their investigation, but Emerick's status as a Jedi causes both to hesitate.

Estala Maru

Jedi Master Estala Maru

Species: Kessurian

Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (Young Jedi Adventures)

"Starlight is operating at peak efficiency. I have been monitoring every department on a constant basis."

A Jedi Master in charge of coordinating operations on the Starlight Beacon.

The Cameo: He has a brief role in helping find and defuse the Tibanna bomb in Light of the Jedi.
Character Death: Dies when Starlight Beacon splits into two and he becomes trapped on the top half as it burns up in a planet's atmosphere.
Deadpan Snarker: Deals out a good bit of snark during the first issue of the comic series, much to the surprise of Keeve. Maru keeps that up throughout the series, having a number of sarcastic comments ready to go on the situations the Jedi and Republic face.
Maru: I'll recalibrate the Beacon to broadcast on a different frequency.
Keeve: One that won't interfere with the swarm?
Maru: No, one that broadcasts Arcadian jazz.
Desk Jockey: He never leaves Starlight after taking charge of its operations, providing critical logistical support and helping coordinate and assign his fellow Jedi to where they would be most useful.
Heroic Sacrifice: He spends his last moments with Avar's assistance using the Force to hold Starlight Beacon together to allow its occupants and his Jedi colleagues in the upper half of the station to escape. Once everyone else has escaped, he throws Avar out of the command center to have her evacuate before being engulfed by the flames.
Laser Blade: Wields a yellow-bladed lightsaber.
Levitating Lotus Position: He is typically found floating in Starlight Beacon's control room in this position while monitoring and directing all of the Jedi's operations.
Mind over Matter: Even for a Jedi Master he demonstrates considerable concentration and control with telekinesis, being able to hold himself in a meditative position in the air along with beverages and other items. Most Jedi have to be in a state of meditation to do so, but Maru is able to carry on as normal in his work. His skill with telekinesis ends up being the only reason there are any survivors from the top half of Starlight when it is destroyed by the Nihil, as Maru holds the plummeting section together long enough for some of them to find ways to evacuate before it explodes.
Mission Control: He is responsible for providing information and remote tactical aid to Jedi in the field.
The Reliable One: His work coordinating operations on Starlight and keeping track of all the requests that come through there is the only reason it functions as well as it does with the Nihil and Drengir crises straining resources.
Stellan: Maru, sometimes I think you're the one holding this place together.
Maru: And don't forget it.
Trademark Favorite Food: Almost always has a cup of mei-mei tea floating beside him while he is working in the operations center.

Kantam Sy

Jedi Master Kantam Sy

Species: Human

Appearances: The High Republic Adventures (2021) | The Lonely Traveler is Home | Trail of Shadows | Midnight Horizon | The High Republic Adventures (2023)

The master of Lula Talisola, Kantam was a Padawan of Yoda who left the Jedi Order before being knighted, unsure if they wished to dedicate their life to being a Jedi. They returned after more than a year away upon discovering Lula, and was welcomed back with open arms by Yoda. With Lula as their apprentice, Kantam eventually joined Yoda in teaching a pack of Padawans aboard the Star Hopper. When the Nihil began terrorizing the galactic frontier, Kantam was appointed the leader of one of the taskforces combating their threat, specifically hunting down the raider Krix Kamerat.

The Apprentice: They trained under Master Yoda, with the two being stationed at the Jedi Temple on Endovar for a long period. The two were a good match, with Kantam finding their relationship with Yoda to be an easy one that allowed them to develop into a Jedi at their own pace.
Blood Knight: A very narrow version of one - they don't like actual battles, but Kantam enjoyed a good Bar Brawl during their year-long walkabout. When one breaks out a fancy party on Corellia, Kantam is amused at discovering they missed participating in them and has fun watching the show for a bit while dodging thrown chairs.
Character Focus: They are mostly a key supporting character throughout Phase I, but in Midnight Horizon they have point-of-view chapters and Kantam's backstory is revealed through Flashbacks as they relate their past to Cohmac.
Childhood Friends: Kantam and Torban have been friends since they were both young Padawans at the Endovar Jedi Temple together.
Circus Brat: When they left the Order before getting Knighted, they joined a circus because they were in love with one of its performers, Aytar. They also trained up some of their acrobatic abilities from their time spent there and applied it as a Jedi Master.
The Comically Serious: They are a calm and wise Jedi Master whose most frequent colleague is a guy who introduces himself as "Buckets of Blood". They also sometimes engage in baking contests with the Padawans and their eccentric colleague.
Determinator: They stop at nothing to make sure every single elderly Jedi is evacuated from the Voyager Dawn when the ship is in danger, even if it seems that ship is clear.
The Empath: When evacuating the Voyager Dawn of its occupation during the Great Disaster, they learn that they missed one of its occupants, Master Griswal, by sensing her fear and anxiety.
Journey to Find Oneself: On the eve of being knighted, they decided to leave the Order and spent more than a year wandering the galaxy doing odd jobs, learning new skills, and growing closer to the Force in their own way. Upon returning, Kantam was instantly granted the rank of Knight by Yoda, who had seen that this was what they needed to become the Jedi they were supposed to be.
Laser Blade: Wields a standard green-bladed lightsaber.
Martial Pacifist: While willing to kill Nihil and other foes if no other choice is available, Kantam is very disturbed by the amount of combat and killing the Jedi engaged in in the two years after the Great Disaster. They are very concerned about the behavior of other Jedi, like Cohmac, who become more willing to kill and argue for preemptive or avoidable deaths as sacrifices the Jedi must make for a greater good.
Master-Apprentice Chain: They were directly apprenticed to Yoda and are in turn Lula Talisola's master, with Kantam often relating tales from their time as Yoda's Padawan to her and Yoda himself playing a signficant role in her training as well.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: They are the blue Oni to Torban "Buckets of Blood" Buck's red Oni (which is ironic since Torban is a blue-skinned Chagrian). Torban is incredibly hammy while Kantam is much more calm and collected.
The Runaway: They left the Jedi Order and took a few odd jobs for some time between apprenticeship and knighthood.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: In contrast to Cohmac Vitus and a few other Jedi, who grow more cynical as the Nihil crisis goes on and the Nihil's atrocities get progressively worse, Kantam tries to hold on the Jedi's principles, if only so the kids they are mentoring don't grow up to be more willing to justify killing people.

Kunpar Vasivola

Jedi Master Kunpar Vasivola

Species: Ongree

Appears in: Race to Crashpoint Tower | Midnight Horizon | Escape From Valo

Stationed at the Jedi Temple on Valo, Kunpar was a popular figure amongst both the Jedi stationed there and the local citizens.

Badass in Distress: After Ram causes too much trouble for the Nihil on Valo under the alias of the Scarlet Skull, Vark Tarpalin has him taken into custody. This leads Ram, Gavi, Kildo and Tep Tep to plan a rescue mission, which increases in urgency when they hear that the Nihil scientist Niv Drendow Apruk (who is a prodigy of Baron Boolan) is coming to Valo and Vark plans to have Kunpar publicly executed via Nameless. The team rescues him by the end of the first half of Escape From Valo.
Deadpan Snarker: Kunpar is known for being a little snarky in his teasing of Ram. When Ram takes up the moniker of the Scarlet Skull and three other younglings do the same, he comments that he's glad that neither of them cut their tongues like the real Scarlet Skulls did.
The Mentor: His apprentice is Ram Jomaram. Kunpar takes a bit of a hands-off approach to Ram's training, allowing him to follow his own path to Knighthood and allowing him to join the anti-Nihil taskforce while Kunpar remained on Valo.
Obfuscating Stupidity: When the Nihil invade Valo, Kunpar remains at the Temple instead of evacuating into the forest with the rest of the Jedi and instead changes into poor civilian clothes and pretends to the be an elderly non-Jedi caretaker of the Temple. The arrogant Nihil in charge of the invasion buy the act and allow Kunpar to remain free and pay tribute from the Temple. However, after Ram causes too much trouble for them, they start to become suspicious of him and take him into custody.

Loden Greatstorm

Jedi Master Loden Greatstorm

Species: Twi'lek

Voiced by: Matthew Yang Kim (Young Jedi Adventures)

A Jedi Master who tends to consider every situation a potential learning experience for himself and his apprentices. He is the master of Bell Zettifar, and the two are stationed at the Jedi Temple on Elphrona.

Awesome McCoolname: Come on, Greatstorm? Marchion Ro thinks so as well, and is delighted when he learns it after capturing Loden due to the Nihil's storm motif.
Badass Boast: Bell and Loden find a rich family and their guards loading up a massive starship with luxuries rather than taking refugees aboard and quickly intimidate them into stopping this.
Chief Guard: What do you think you're going to do, Jedi? Cut right through the walls with your lightsaber? Fight off every one of us?
Loden: Sure. Why not?
Badass in Distress: He is captured by the Nihil at the end of Light of the Jedi and is being held aboard Marchion's flagship, with the rest of the Jedi assuming that he perished.
Blood Knight: A mild example. He's still an unquestionably heroic Jedi who considers violence to be a last resort... but he still loves a good fight.
Loden: A claim to the north is having trouble with a nest of chromants. I thought I'd go give them a hand.
Indeera: Can't they just bring in an extermination unit?
Loden: Probably. But maybe I want to fight a hundred chromants.
Cold-Blooded Torture: He is subjected to some rather brutal torture while in the Nihil's captivity, including being injected with drugs to enhance the pain he feels from Marchion's other tortured captives and having his lekku amputated with his own lightsaber.
Cool Teacher: Bell certainly thought so, and Loden was considered one of the best teachers of the Order, seeing every experience as a learning opportunity.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Loden wasn't just petrified to death. Loden was also psychically assaulted through the Force before being killed in a way that left him as a brittle, stone husk. And however he died, it was enough to scare Stellan Gios. And as shown with other Nameless victims, the petrification wasn't quick.
Death Glare: Has one while staring at Marchion Ro, who just murdered Ottoh Blythe with Loden's lightsaber in front of him, with Loden unable to do anything due to being restrained. Lourna Dee notes that the rumor Jedi could shoot laser beams from their eyes was clearly false, otherwise Marchion would have been very dead.
Establishing Character Moment: His style of teaching and approach to situations is swiftly established during the efforts to evacuate Hetzel. He orders Bell to join him in jumping out of their ship as a teaching exercise and to stop a violent confrontation between private guards stopping civilians from boarding a rich estate's starship, and after initially solving the problem with words quickly switches to disabling attacking raiders and the guards without a single loss of life.
Good Is Not Soft: Loden would prefer to solve issues without violence. But in a situation where it occurs, he will swiftly and quickly end fights as brutally as he needs to, as several bandits found out on Hetzel when he used to Force to lift them into the air and then drop them from enough height to break bones and render them unconscious or unable to continue fighting.
Jedi Mind Trick: He was very skilled in influencing the minds of others, being able to do so from significant distances and under very adverse conditions, such as when Loden influenced a Nihil pilot he was chasing in his ship to slow down and open their own airlock for him to infiltrate from.
Laser Blade: Wields a yellow-bladed lightsaber. Marchion Ro claims it as a trophy after Loden is captured and keeps it by his side after his death.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: He gets captured by the Nihil while everyone assumes he died, leaving Bell masterless. Sadly, when Loden escapes and reunites with Bell, Marchion unleashes the Great Leveler which does kill Loden right in front of Bell.
Mind over Matter: He displays a particular talent for telekinesis, being able to easily redirect explosives, blow open locked metal gates, and at one point lifting eight assailants into the air, ripping their blasters from them, and then dropping them all hard enough to knock them out.
Not Quite Saved Enough: Loden escapes his cell after months of torture, takes his lightsaber back, and reunites with Bell while the Nihil are in full retreat... and then the Great Leveler is unleashed and petrifies him.
Sink or Swim Mentor: His teaching policy is that if Bell can theoretically do something, no matter how difficult or overwhelming it is, Bell should do it. Most famously, he tends to throw Bell off high places in order to teach him how to save himself with the Force. Even the other Masters joke about how he might get Bell killed one of these days.
Taken for Granite: The Great Leveler drains the living Force from him, turning him to stone in the process. When Stellan touches him, Loden's body crumbles to dust.

Mirro Lox

Jedi Master Mirro Lox

Species: Human

Appears in: The Call of Coruscant | Defy the Storm

The Master of Amadeo Azzazzo and an old friend of Stellan, Avar, and Elzar. He and his padawan spent their days on the frontier responding to requests for assistance until the recall order to Coruscant was issued in the aftermath of Starlight Beacon's destruction.

Childhood Friends: He knew Stellan, Avar, and Elzar from their time in the Jedi Temple and training together as Padawans, although he was a couple years older than them and thus not as close as they were to each other. Mirro had not seen them in years due to his missions taking him far from Coruscant, and he had planned on reuniting with them at Starlight one day. He is deeply saddened when he senses when one of the trio died at Starlight and mourns when returning to Coruscant and learning of Stellan's demise.
Ear Worm: He is one of several Jedi who heard the shrii ka rai ka rai nursery rhyme when he was little. It becomes stuck in his head once more at the time of Starlight's destruction and he begins singing it without even realizing.
Hero of Another Story: He is mentioned several times in The Eye of Darkness to be aboard a Longbeam-cruiser with Amadeo patrolling the border of the Occlusion Zone, but they are never actually seen in person during the novel.
Laser Blade: Wields a blue-bladed lightsaber.
The Mentor: He is Amadeo's master and has been training him on the frontier away from Coruscant for several years, believing the best way to teach is for his Padawan to see as much of the galaxy as possible.
Remember the New Guy?: Despite being a childhood friend of Stellan, Avar, and Elzar, he is not mentioned or introduced until a short story published after Phase II had ended. Justified to an extent by the fact he had not seen them in years and that they have a number of friends from that period but were the closest to each other.

Nib Assek

Jedi Master Nib Assek

Species: Human

Voiced by: Shannon Tyo

An elderly Jedi who was Burryaga's master. She and her apprentice were among those who responded to the Great Disaster and remained on the frontier to respond to the Nihil and Drengir threats.

Ace Pilot: One of her greatest talents is her skill behind the flight stick of a Vector-class starfighter, being considered amongst the best formation flyers in the Order.
Beware the Nice Ones: She is one of the sweetest and nicest old ladies in the galaxy. Nib can also fight toe-to-toe with the nastiest warriors the Nihil has to offer without breaking a sweat and helps a group of Wookiees use flamethrowers to eliminate a Drengir infestation on Kashyyyk.
Cunning Linguist: She learned Shyriiwook for the sole purpose of helping train a Wookiee padawan.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Compared to her padawan Burryaga, Nib is a couple feet shorter and significantly less broadly built than the Wookiee.
Laser Blade: Wields a blue-bladed cross-guard lightsaber.
The Mentor: She has mentored several Padawans during her career, with Burryaga being the latest.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: When she's killed by the Nameless in The Fallen Star, it causes Burryaga some significant grief.
Never Mess with Granny: As her fight against Zeetar proves, just because she's old it doesn't mean she has lost any of her edge.
Prim and Proper Bun: Wears her hair tied up into a high bun on the back of her head, a fitting style for an elderly Jedi who styles herself as a wise teacher.
Taken for Granite: One of the Jedi killed by the Nameless and turned to stone in The Fallen Star.

Nubarron

Jedi Master Nubarron

Appears in: Out of the Shadows

The quartermaster and shipmaster of Starlight Beacon, Nubarron is a Jedi from an unknown gaseous species that lacks physical form.

Energy Being: They look like a cloud and can create lightning from their body.
Laser Blade: Despite being a living cloud, Nubarron does have a lightsaber despite rumors amongst Padawans, as Vernestra had seen them practicing with it.
Mysterious Past: What species they are and where they came from is a mystery to young Jedi, with many rumors circulating about their origins.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: Becomes one to Vernestra when they ban her from checking out any more ships from Starlight's docks, due to her having lost the last two Nubarron gave her on missions. Even though the Counci has ordered her back to Coruscant, Nubarron doesn't care due to considering her a hazard. They do allow her to be a passenger on a ship that they give to Master Cohmac.
Telepathic Spacemen: They communicate exclusively through telepathy due to lacking vocal cords of any kind.
Uncertain Doom: Their fate after the destruction of Starlight Beacon is unknown.

Nyla Quinn

Jedi Master Nyla Quinn

Species: Twi'lek

Appears in: Mission to Disaster | Shadows of Starlight

A wizened elderly Master who served as the head of the Jedi Temple on Dalna.

Don't Call Me "Sir": Asks that Vernestra just call her Nyla instead of Master Quinn.
Old Master: Despite her age, following the destruction of the Starlight Beacon Nyla expresses readiness to fight the Nihil on the frontlines.

Obratuk Glii

Jedi Master Obratuk Glii

Species: Parwan

Appearances: The High Republic Adventures (2021) | Eye of the Storm | Shadows of Starlight

The master of Farzala Tarabal. An experienced diplomat, Obratuk is entrusted with sensitive and important negotiations and meetings for the Jedi Order.

Ambadassador: Primarily serves as a diplomat for the Jedi, a job that often involves breaking out his multiple lightsabers when the more violent parties of a negotiation become hostile.
Badass in Distress: He was captured by the Nihil and imprisoned aboard the Gaze Electric sometime around the destruction of Starlight Beacon.
Big Damn Heroes: He wakes up from hibernation right on time to destroy the droid Y-99 right as it was about to shoot Affie Hollow.
Convenient Coma: He falls into a seasonal hibernation state right before the negotiation with the Hutts at Nal Hutta, forcing Farzala to do it in his place.
Cruel and Unusual Death: After Marchion Ro tells him the story of how he defeated the Jedi and how he got hold of the Nameless, he has Obratuk executed by feeding him to one of the Nameless, calcifying Obratuk while leaving him terrified and cut off from the Force. Unlike other Jedi killed by the Nameless, he isn't even given a pretense of going out fighting.
Death by Irony: Tragically. A flashback with Farzala in High Republic Adventures shows that one of the most important things Obratuk taught him was about fear: that fear is not actually an enemy to Jedi - they don’t suppress it, but master it until it no longer controls them - and to especially not fear death, because as long as they can feel the Force they know for certain that those who pass on exist within it. These teachings help Farzala survive, but Obratuk is killed when Marcion Ro sics a Leveler on him: a personification of fear that leaves him overcome with terror, begging and pleading not to die, as he is cut off from feeling the Force entirely, leaving Obratuk without any of his own teachings in his last moments.
Extra Eyes: Like other Parwan, he has three eyes.
Long-Lived: It is mentioned that he's around 1000 years old.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's Farzala's master who has lived for over a thousand years, and he's killed by Marchion Ro feeding him to a Nameless.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: As a Parwan, he has four tentacles plus two arms, and he carries five lightsabers in his person.
Oh, Crap!: After Marchion finishes telling Obratuk his story, he tells the Parwan that he "deserves a treat". Given that Marchion just told Obratuk that he got his hands on creatures that specifically prey on Force users, Obratuk can only say "no" repeatedly, as he knows exactly what's coming (or if he's reacting to the hallucinations that the Nameless cause).
Take Up My Sword: Inverted. He wields the lightsabers of his former padawans, who became knights and passed away over the past several hundred years he's been alive.

OrbaLin

Jedi Master OrbaLin

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Species: Ugor

Appearances: The High Republic (2021) | The Rising Storm | The Fallen Star | Shadows of Starlight^note | The High Republic (2023)

A Jedi Master and archivist stationed aboard Starlight Beacon, and the first Ugor to ever join the Jedi Order.

Badass Bookworm: While he's mostly a scholar and a scientist, he's no slouch wielding a lightsaber or the Force either. His knowledge of history and Jedi relics gives him an advantage when fighting a crew of Nihil in a museum wing of the Republic Fair, as OrbaLin identifies and uses several of the items within to even the odds.
Blob Monster: As an Ugor, OrbaLin isn't actually humanoid, but rather an amorphous, unicellular blob-like alien similar to an amoeba capable of forming pseudopodia inside of a humanoid space suit as a mold. When Lourna Dee breaches his suit during the Nihil's attack on the Republic Fair, this ends up hurting them more than it hurts him, as he is now able to weaponize his shapeshifting against them, including blindsiding Lourna after surviving what would have been a fatal blow if he had an actual head and trapping one of Lourna's subordinates in his own body. Lourna didn't learn from this incident, as despite seemingly killing him with a sneak attack to the head during the destruction of Starlight Beacon, he's shown to still be alive one year later, and OrbaLin utterly roasts Lourna for never bothering to grasp that he doesn't really have a head after being curb-stomped by him once already.
Boom, Headshot!: He is shot in the back of his "head" by Lourna Dee while busy communicating from the Ataraxia's bridge. However, while this would be fatal to most solid-bodied organisms, this didn't kill him, as Ugors don't actually have heads. Lourna clearly didn't learn her lesson from the Republic Fair, as OrbaLin survived her striking him in the "head" back then too.
Canon Immigrant: The Ugor species first appeared in the Star Wars: Roleplaying Game, but didn't appear much throughout the Legends continuity, mostly being mentioned by name in other works or relegated to sourcebooks. The species was previously re-canonized in Solo through the background character HarrGick. OrbaLin is notable for not only being the first Ugor Jedi In-Universe, but the first in the entire franchise.
Laser Blade: Wields a short green-bladed lightsaber. He can wield it even in slime form.
Little Green Man in a Can: On the outside, he looks like a man in a hazmat suit, but is really a green, cytoplasmic blob on the inside.
Me's a Crowd: He reveals in Phase III that he has duplicated himself multiple times, which retroactively explains the plot hole of being present for both the Republic Fair attack and the Battle of Mulita at the same time. Unfortunately, doing it so many times has affected his mental fortitude, and getting shot by Lourna Dee, while not fatal for him, has also weakened him somewhat.
Motor Mouth: Several characters note that once he gets going on a subject OrbaLin is very hard to shut up. Even some of his fellow Jedi find this trait irksome. He weaponizes this trait while fighting the Nihil, driving them to distraction via his non-stop commentary on the artifacts surrounding them.
Nerves of Steel: He manages to remain calm even when Starlight Beacon is under attack from Drengir, and when one of those Drengir bursts out of the dead Hutt he was autopsying.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Thanks to Ugors having no clearly defined organs or skeletal structure, OrbaLin is very hard to kill. As Lourna Dee learns the hard way after two times, headstrikes aren't going to hurt him since he doesn't really have a head underneath his helmet. However, the fact that he's in hiding in the Occlusion Zone means that his unusual physiology is of little to no help against a threat like the Nameless (who attack through the Force itself).
Not Quite Dead: After seemingly having his brains blown out by Lourna Dee, he's shown to still be alive in Phase III, having snuck out of the Ataraxia in slime form. After all, you can't kill someone with a headshot if they don't have a head in the first place.
Playing Possum: He revealed that he survived the destruction of Starlight Beacon by playing dead after Lourna Dee shot him in the "head" and snuck off the Ataraxia in slime form. After that, he saved Goonral Monshi and helped evacuate the upper half of the station via the escape pods.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: While outside his suit, he can morph his body into various shapes within his physical limitations.

Orla Jareni

Jedi Wayseeker Orla Jareni

Species: Umbaran

Appearances: Into the Dark | The High Republic (2021) | Midnight Horizon | The Fallen Star

The former padawan of Master Laret Soveral, now a Jedi Wayseeker that operates independently of the Jedi Council to find her own path in service to the Force. She accompanied her friend Cohmac Vitus and other Jedi on a flight from Coruscant to the Starlight Beacon, only for their journey to be disrupted by the Great Disaster. Orla lent her talents to finding Jedi who needed her aid on their path in the struggle against the Nihil, Drengir, and other problems along the frontier.

The Apprentice: She was apprenticed to Laret Soveral, and their Master-Padawan partnership was not the easiest as Orla constantly questioned the Council and established doctrine and was rebuked by Soveral for doing so.
Brutal Honesty: She isn't one to mince words and is very direct, particularly when concerned about someone or in a dangerous situation.
Orla: You look like death itself.
Stellan: Nice to see you again, too, Orla. Tactful as ever.
Orla: I find tact only slows conversations down.
Beneath the Mask: Outwardly, Orla is one of the most confidant and surefooted Jedi on the galactic frontier, but she shares in sensing the great sadness that plagues her friend Cohmac. Unlike him, Orla does not let it affect her performance as a Jedi, but she is nevertheless less confident than she seems.
Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate: Despite the frequent fights she gets into, other characters note that somehow Orla's stark white robes never seem to get any dirt, blood, or other grim on them.
Canon Immigrant: As the first known Jedi Wayseeker in canon, the definition of a Jedi Wayseeker is the same as what Gray Jedi were supposed to be in Legends.
Childhood Friends: With Cohmac Vitus, with the two having been friends since meeting in the Jedi Temple's creche.
The Confidant: She serves as one to Cohmac, being the one in whom he confided about the great sadness he had been plagued with.
Cool Starship: She purchased the Lightseeker to aid in her travels on the frontier with the help of Geode, who thought it was a good ship for her purposes.
Cool Sword: Her lightsaber is a hinged double-blade and has white blades. Orla's lightsaber is the fifth (or technically, first) hinged double-bladed lightsaber in canon after Pong Krell's two lightsabers, the Temple Guard's sabers, and Dark Rey's lightsaber (which technically never existed).
Cruel and Unusual Death: We are given her perspective as one of the Nameless calcifies her to death. She feels her sense of reality falling apart around her, as she's being cut off from a sixth-sense she's known her whole life.
Interspecies Relationship: She and Sskeer, a Trandoshan, were apparently a couple in the past. When they reunite to battle the Drengir on Mulita, Orla affectionately calls him "Gwa Culna" and further dialogue suggests past sexual encounters, much to Sskeer's former apprentice Keeve's embarrassment.
Knight Errant: Her intention as a Wayseeker was to do this on the frontier, using Starlight Beacon as a base of operations to keep in contact with the Order. The Nihil and Drengir crisis made that plan a little more difficult, as Orla found much of her time taken up getting involved in stopping them.
Laser Blade: She wields a hinged double-bladed white lightsaber.
Light Is Good: Her lightsaber has white blades and she dresses in white robes.
Mind over Matter: She is quite skilled with telekinesis, including being able to slow down blaster bolts.
Odd Friendship: With Stellan Giros, as the two have very different ideas about the roles of Jedi and the hierarchy of the Order. However, both appreciate each other's strengths and skills and get along well despite those disagreements.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She has dark hair and very white skin.
Rebellious Spirit: Views the Jedi Order's strong insistence on structure and following the dictates of the council to be an unacceptable constraint that has caused too many Jedi to view the will of the Force and the will of the council as the same thing. Orla became a Wayseeker to follow the call of the Force alone and see where it may take her.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: She accepted being stationed on the Starlight Beacon because she believed it was time to "bring things full circle". She privately wonders to herself if she should take back her leave from the Order and admit she was wrong, though then shakes that thought off, reassuring herself that she needs to return to Where It All Began instead to find out if she was right or not.
The Shrink: She is the closest thing to this the Jedi have. Orla spends a few months communicating with Cohmac attempting to help him with his depression, while Stellan refers Elzar to her to help him deal with his use of the Dark Side by joining her on a meditative retreat. She helps Elzar find his balance again, but Cohmac is a more difficult case as she feels the same sense of unease and depression, making it difficult for them to treat it.
Taken for Granite: Like Loden Greatstorm and Regald Coll, she's turned into stone by one of the Nameless.
Token Heroic Orc: During the Skywalker Saga, the Umbarans are best known for having an Ambiguously Evil senator and his murder causing Umbara to leave the Republic and join the Separatists, leading to a gruesome campaign on their homeworld.

Porter Engle

Jedi Master Porter Engle

circa 382 BBY

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circa 232 BBY

Species: Ikkrukkian

As the Jedi Order returned to the galactic frontier, Porter and his partner Barash Silvain traveled together as gunslinger Jedi, righting wrongs and undertaking quests to help planets and people. One-hundred-and-fifty years later, the now legendary Jedi Master was assigned to the Temple Outpost on Elphrona. He was amongst the many Jedi who responded to help save the Hetzal system from the Great Disaster and subsequently served in many engagements against the Nihil.

Acrofatic: He's a portly old man that's mostly known for being a master chef by the time of the Great Disaster, but he has not lost his touch as a Master Swordsman as many Nihil have found out.
Action Hero: Probably the closest a Jedi could get to this trope in his younger years, where he was a wandering gunslinger Jedi dedicated to making the frontier peaceful. His incredible skill as a swordsman and talent in the Force enabled him to enter almost any situation and defuse it with Barash's aid, either through diplomacy or kicking the ass of anyone who needed it.
Ambadassador: He's best known as a swordsman, but as a Jedi, he's also a negotiator first. This is best demonstrated in The Blade, where he makes a point of still being open to negotiations after he fends off some mercenaries the Bethunians hired.
Arch-Enemy: General Viess is his, with Porter having sworn to bring the mercenary commander to justice for her murder of Jedi and massacre at Firevale, while she wishes to kill him for having escaped her during that battle. 150 years later each of them get the chance to settle things when she joins the Nihil and Porter is stuck in the Occlusion Zone.
Beware the Nice Ones: Both as a young Jedi Master and an old veteran, Porter is friendly and always looking for a peaceful solution. When one can't be found, he will make there be peace and end any injustice. Bell realizes the nature of the trope upon looking at Porter when he hears the Nihil are attacking a local homestead:
''Perhaps for the first time, Bell looked at the man and no longer saw the joking, bearded Ikkrukki chef he knew so well, inventor of the Nine-Egg Stew. Instead, he saw the Jedi they once called the Blade of Bardotta.
Big Fun: By the time of the Great Disaster era, he's mostly seen a jolly old man who can cook a mean stew (with Charles Soule describing him as "an Ikkrukian Santa Claus"). However, he was also one of the best swordsmen in the Order.
Break Out the Museum Piece: Due to his advanced age, he's able to get around the Nihil in the Occlusion Zone by working with technology from the exploration era, which has long since gone obsolete. Such technology includes Republic Pathfinder EX droids to transmit messages and using an E'roni drill ship to breach the Foregone Catastrophe.
Chef of Iron: He is both one of the best chefs in the Jedi Order and one of its most famed and skilled warriors.
Cool Old Guy: As an older Jedi Master he is looked at fondly by many Jedi as a kind teacher and fantastic cook. Then Porter shows that behind that image remains the Blade of Bardotta, ready to step in and defend those in need at a moment's notice.
A Day in the Limelight: After serving as a supporting character in Phase I whose legendary past was often referenced, Phase II gives Porter the spotlight with a comic series about him and Barash as Jedi wandering the frontier.
The Drifter: As a gunslinger Jedi he and Barash wandered the frontier, and while they did take official missions and respond to calls for aid, they also frequently intervened and settled disputes wherever they found them.
Dual Wielding: When he was younger, he wielded a cutlass style lightsaber alongside a shoto. The shoto was destroyed when he threw it into a canon during the siege of Firevale on Gansevor.
Eyepatch of Power: Wore an eyepatch over his scarred left eye.
Experienced Protagonist: In both timeframes of the series, the stories focusing on Porter feature him as a highly experienced Jedi Master who has established himself as one of the Order's best.
Famed In-Story: He's a famous hero, and is even named "the Blade of Bardotta" for his efforts in protecting Bardotta during a five-day siege.
Family of Choice: In his youth, he and Barash Silvain considered each other siblings despite neither of them being related by blood.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He was the foolish sibling to Barash's responsible during the Great Hyperspace Rush era. This is downplayed in that Porter is usually more than skilled enough to hold his own when he finds trouble, but Barash still shows up when things get hairier than normal. This gets lampshaded when she asks how he'll get by the moment he outlives her. As he put it at the time, he got better.
Formerly Fit: Downplayed. He's put on a little bit of weight by the time of the Great Disaster and was notably thinner 150 years before that. However, much of that bulk he's gained is actually muscle and he remains as skilled a swordsman as ever.
Handicapped Badass: As Lourna Dee found out, just because he's centuries old and blind in one eye, doesn't mean he has lost his touch as one of the most skilled Jedi blade masters.
Heroic Sacrifice: He decides to stall General Viess on the Foregone Catastrophe to keep her from destroying the Cacophony while Avar Kriss is onboard trying to get the Path Drive to work. While he's not in a hurry to die, he knows he very well could considering that the Catastrophe is falling apart due to him ramming it with an old E'roni drill ship. While it's unknown if Porter perished or not, his efforts ultimately paid off, as Avar became the first Jedi to get past the Stormwall.
Humble Hero: He's a living legend and is even more powerful than Yoda, but he stepped down to pursue a simpler life as an expert cook.
I Choose to Stay: When the Council issued the recall order back to Coruscant following the destruction of Starlight, Porter chose to remain on the frontier to continue helping people resist the Nihil and became trapped in the Occlusion Zone.
Knight Errant: In his youth, he and Barash Silvain wandered the galaxy to serve as guardians of peace and justice wherever they see fit.
Laser Blade: Wielded a crossguard blue lightsaber.
Lethal Chef: He wasn't always the master chef he's known as during the Starlight era. While he did enjoy cooking in his youth, he was self-admittedly terrible at it, if only because he's very experimental with ingredients. As he said he would back then, Porter got considerably better.
Living Legend: His exploits as a swordsman and Jedi gunslinger while travelling the frontier have made him a near-mythic figure amongst the younger Jedi.
Long-Lived: He has been in the Jedi Order for three hundred years and remembers how the Republic was in recovery back then.
Manly Facial Hair: Known for his impressive beard and he was a manly, yet humble, Chef of Iron.
Master Swordsman: He is one of the most skilled lightsaber wielders in the history of the Jedi Order. Porter's mastery of the blade is so great that Loden Greatstorm and his Padawan Bell are both awestruck watching him slice multiple mines out of the air with less than a second's notice.
Mayfly–December Friendship: Discussed regarding his siblingship with the Kage Jedi, Barash Silvain. As Porter is an Ikkrukian, he's much longer-lived and apparently outlives Barash seeing as she's not present in Phase I.
Smug Super: He was rather bold in his youth, having a sense that he is unstoppable. He's also repeatedly let several enemies who think they can beat him with numbers know they are fighting a losing battle with him. Given his impressive lightsaber skills and his reputation as a legendary swordsman a century-and-a-half later, his cockiness isn't completely unwarranted.
Stepford Smiler: During the Great Disaster era, he has the appearance and demeanor of a kindly old man. Behind this image, however, he's a Shell-Shocked Veteran who has watched several he was close to die, either seeing them killed or simply outliving them due to having a longer lifespan than most species.
Uncertain Doom: After dueling General Viess aboard the rapidly disintegrating Foregone Catastrophe, the last we see of Porter is him hanging onto a collapsing ledge with only a shield separating him from the vacuum of space. Nihil search parties find no trace of his body in the wreckage afterwards, which could mean his body is lost in the void of space or he found a way to escape.

Santari Khri

Jedi Master Santari Khri

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Species: Human

Portrayed By: Tracy Ifeachor

Appears In: Jedi: Survivor

"The key to Tanalorr is in that array. If you do not hurry, I fear it may be lost forever."

A Jedi Master who led the expedition to find the fabled lost world of Tanalorr. Working alongside Jedi Knight Dagan Gera, Santari finds the planet near the Koboh system. The two of them are able to find a successful path to the planet and had hopes of setting up a Jedi Temple there, safe from the scrutiny of the Order's enemies. However, Santari is forced to abandon the planet when the Koboh system is invaded by the Nihil.

Gadgeteer Genius: She is a brilliant inventor who created much of the technology used to repel or destroy the Koboh dust, the arrays that opened a path through the Koboh Abyss, and the compasses that can help navigate it.
Hero of Another Story: Santari's ascent from Padawan to Master, her adventures during the Nihil War, her ill-fated quest with Dagan Gera, and her perspective on Dagan's eventual downfall would all make for a compelling narrative in its own right.
Implied Love Interest: The interactions between her and Dagan that Cal views hints at there being a deeper relationship between the two than just friends, as they exchange flirtatious banter and Santari is held close by Dagan at one point.
Laser Blade: Wields a blue-bladed lightsaber. Cal finds it while exploring Koboh, adding to the evidence that she may not have escaped the planet during the Emergence.
My God, What Have I Done?: When she attacks Dagan and slices off his right arm with her lightsaber, she is horrified at having to do it and calls for a medic to aid him.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She keeps Dagan secreted away in a bacta tank at the forest array, apparently without the knowledge of the Jedi Council, who have given up on him after his fall to the Dark Side. A memory Cal can read suggests she hopes when he emerges, he will have come back to his senses. Santari sends Zee to release him during the Emergence that devastated Koboh, but Zee has no knowledge of what Dagan did or that Santari hoped Dagan would continue his quest for Tanalorr. Thus, when Cal pursues Tanalorr centuries later and lets Dagan out as per Santari's wishes, she is responsible for Dagan being able to resume his brutal and deadly obsession in another era.
Posthumous Character: She died several decades before the Prequel Trilogy, so her appearance in Survivor is via flashbacks.
Uncertain Doom: Her exact fate is unclear, as the last we see of her chronologically is actually the first flashback Cal witnesses of Khri giving Zee the tuner as an emergence devastates Koboh's moon and debris begins to rain down on the planet while the Republic evacuates.

Sav Malagán

Jedi Master Savina "Sav" Besatrix Malagán

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circa 382 BBY

Species: Kyuzo

Homeworld: Phatrong

Appearances: The High Republic Adventures (2022) | The High Republic Adventures (2021) | The Edge of Balance | The Edge of Balance: Precedent

"You know, here on Takodana, we welcome strangers... but you've already pushed our hospitality to its limits."

A Jedi Master stationed at the Jedi Temple on Takodana, and a friend of Maz Kanata, having once gone "undercover" as a part of Maz's pirate crew as a Padawan.

The Apprentice: She is apprenticed to Kaktorf, but they are not a very good fit together, with him being an ultra-strict Jedi who dislikes thinking outside the box, while Sav is a curious Padawan with a disregard for rules. Kaktorf admits to her that their styles do not match and that his attempts to mold her into a Jedi like him were driving her away from the Order, and thus he resigns as her master so that Tera Sinube can replace him.
Bad Liar: In her youth, she's shown to not be very good at deceiving others. When Kaktorf tries to contact her while she's with Maz's pirate gang, Kaktorf sees right through her attempt at Fake Static. When she tries to ward off the Dank Graks from killing Frander by claiming to be working for the Graf family, Frander knows she's not who she claims. It seems only that the Graks fall for Sav's disguise and outrageous claims (despite Arkik Von showing signs of skepticism), only for it to be revealed that neither of them actually fell for it, and only let her join them as a way to get information of her and mislead Maz's pirates.
Combat Pragmatist: As she's acquaintances with pirates, she's not above borrowing overpowered weapons from them and using blasters when it comes to dealing with the Nihil. She also lends a supply of blasters to the people of Banchii (who are mostly farmers) so they can defend themselves against the Nihil.
Cool Old Lady: She's at least 165 years old and has been rubbing shoulders with pirates and scoundrels since she was a Padawan, as well as being capable of taking on and handily beating an entire Nihil strike force. She's also great friends with Maz Kanata and easily bonds with the young Padawans who come to visit her. She also gains the admiration of the younglings training under Lily Tora-Asi.
Dual Wielding: She wields two purple-bladed lightsabers.
Former Teen Rebel: When she was 15, she got tired of being a Jedi and decided to join Maz Kanata's gang without telling her master. Downplayed in that while she was still a Jedi at 165 years old, she remains rather unorthodox for them and continues to associate with Maz. In fact, it was because of her rebellious nature that the Jedi Order was able to build a positive working relationship with Maz.
I Choose to Stay: When the Council issued the recall order back to Coruscant following the destruction of Starlight, Sav stayed on Banchii with Lily and Arkoff to continue helping people resist the Nihil and became trapped in the Occlusion Zone.
Kid Hero: At just 15 she helped foil the plot of a group of dark side users to take over Takodana, while successfully navigating the chaos of the Battle of Jedha during that same mission.
Knight in Sour Armor: Following the attack on Takodana, she's come to the realization that since the Nihil aren't holding back in their attacks, not everyone is going to be able to rely on the Jedi against them and even the most peaceful people are going to need to be prepared to fight against them if they want to survive. This is best shown by her lending a case of blasters to the farmers on Banchii. However, this doesn't stop her from continuing to live up to her Jedi ideals.
Sav: What's the point of protecting your way of life if there's no one alive?
The Musketeer: Unlike a lot of Jedi from her era, she carries a blaster in addition to her lightsabers.
Must Have Caffeine: In her opening scene she's making herself a cup of caf (the Star Wars equivalent of coffee) and gets very annoyed when a Nihil attack prevents her from taking her first sip. Doesn't stop her from handing their asses to them, though.
Non-Standard Character Design: She is the first Kyuzo shown to not wear a mask (which they usually wear because they have a sensitive respiratory system) and while her overall design has more in common with Embo, her eyes are more human-like compared to Zuvio's (whereas Embo has compound eyes).
The Noseless: On account of being the first Kyuzo seen without a mask, she also reveals that Kyuzo don't have noses.
Odd Name Out: She is the first Kyuzo character introduced to have a two-part name.
One-Man Army: Standard issue for a Jedi, but she more than qualifies by running off an entire Nihil strikeforce who attack her temple thinking she'll be easy to defeat because she's old. She easily destroys most of their ships and sends the few survivors fleeing with their tails between their legs.
Paper-Thin Disguise: When trying to stop the Dank Graks from killing Frander, she goes by the alias of "Bazrip Ratht", claiming to be a representative of the Graf family. This disguise amounts to simply switching her traditional Kyuzo war helmet for a piece of scrap metal that looks like a funny hat. However, no one actually falls for this disguise, and the Graks merely played along with it.
Properly Paranoid: When the Krill sisters surrender after their ship crashes, they offer to help out. As they are Nihil, however, Sav isn't too trusting of them. And her suspicion is warranted when she catches Sabata skulking around right around the time the Nihil attack Takodana again and the Jedi Temple gets bombed. Only Bareen's surrender was genuine.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She often bucks Jedi tradition and philosophy to provide more direct aid to people and utilizes unorthodox or outright unapproved tactics in the process.
Signature Headgear: Despite Jedi being encouraged to distance themselves from any sense of cultural attachments, she continues to wear a Kyuzo war helmet for practical reasons. She can also use it for a variety of purposes, including the tricks that Embo would use his hat for two centuries later (such as using it as a projectile and quickly sliding down hills).

Sskeer

Jedi Master Sskeer

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Species: Trandoshan

"It is a deliberate path to the dark, not a series of bad days. Being a Jedi is about choosing the light over and over again."

The former Master of Keeve Trennis, Sskeer is a renowned tactician and scholar. Jora Malli selected him as her second-in-command for leadership over the Jedi Order's section of the Starlight Beacon, but her death at the Battle of Kur and the appointment of new marshal Avar Kriss prevented that appointment from occurring. While still stationed on Starlight Beacon, his fellow Jedi soon noticed that Sskeer's emotions were going out of control while his connection to the Force grew mysteriously weaker.

Affectionate Nickname: When reunited with Orla Jareni while fighting the Drengir on Mulita, she affectionately calls him "Gwa Culna", which instantly embarrasses him, and he asks her not to call him that in front of the Hutts.
An Arm and a Leg: At the Battle at Kur, he loses his left arm to starship debris from the same explosion that costs Jora her life in Light of the Jedi. He hasn't gotten a prosthetic because as Lizard Folk, it'll grow back, which it eventually does by Phase III.
Angry Animalistic Growl: Whenever he lets one out, it's the clearest sign that he is on the verge or has already lost control and is letting his more animalistic hunter side out.
Artificial Limbs: While mind-controlled by the Drengir, he's given a plant arm to replace his missing left arm. He is able to rip it off and sever his link to the Drengir when the arm attempts to consume Keeve.
Berserk Button: Seeing toys of Jedi being sold on Starlight infuriates Sskeer, who views them as an insult that trivializes the Jedi. He goes so far as to rip up the boxes and packages containing them and orders that they not be sold on the station.
The Berserker: Due to his Magrak Syndrome, several times when he goes into battle he loses all his inhibitions and violently kills his foes in a near unstoppable fury. Sskeer is horrifically ashamed at each loss of control afterwards and believes that it has to mean an end to his career as a Jedi.
Best Friend: Jora Malli was his, and her loss at the Kur Nebula did little to help him manage his growing difficulty with connecting to the Force.
Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: He is last seen fighting off the Nameless to allow Keeve and Avar to escape from Starlight Beacon. It's unknown if he survived the encounter and Starlight's destruction, but his immunity to the Nameless's effects on Force users does give him a fighting chance and he has assured Keeve they will meet again.
Brainwashed and Crazy: He gets mind-controlled by the Drengir at the end of Issue #3. The next issue then revealed that he let them control him so he could learn their weaknesses before overcoming it, but they proved far stronger than he anticipated.
Brought Down to Badass: He's been losing his connection to the Force as a result of using it to slow Magrak Syndrome's progression. However, thanks to Trandoshans being natural-born fighters, Sskeer is still able to hold his own in combat, despite losing his Force-connection and missing an arm. His lost connection also makes him one of the only known Jedi to be immune to the Nameless's passive Force hallucinations.
The Cameo: He and Keeve are mentioned as being the Jedi that found Vernestra and co. at the end of A Test of Courage. Later, Vernestra crosses paths with him while she walks through the Starlight Beacon.
The Dreaded: The few Nihil who cross his path and escape to tell about it like Lourna Dee know better than to try their luck against him twice and choose to warn their allies against fighting Sskeer and flee when encountering him again.
Disability Immunity: In a roundabout way. While Keeve, Avar and Nooranbakarakana feel the effects of the Nameless's power when they return to Starlight Beacon just in time for its destruction, Sskeer does not feel its effects despite being around those same Jedi, as he's been losing his Force connection from using it to fight off his slowly-progressing case of Magrak Syndrome. As the Nameless attack through the Force itself (and non-Force users are shown to be unaffected by them), this ends up being a blessing in disguise for Sskeer, and this allows him to save Keeve and Avar from being calcified by the Nameless let loose on Starlight.
Handicapped Badass: After losing his left arm at the Battle of Kur, he continues to fight against the forces of the Nihil and Drengir with only a single arm over the span of a year (with his left arm slowly regenerating). He also continues to help the Order even as he knows he's suffering from a brain disease (and one that could put him and everyone around him at risk) and is losing his Force connection trying to slow the disease's progression.
Informed Ability: He is said to be a legendary tactician and master scholar, but he never demonstrates either trait. This is Justified by the fact that he is suffering from Magrak Syndrome, causing him to lose control in battle and not plan things tactically and too impatient to do research.
Interspecies Relationship: It's heavily suggested that he had a past relationship with Orla Jareni, a Umbaran, that made the two quite the "explosive combination" according to Master Cohmac Vitus.
Keeve: Orla, can you bring Master Sskeer up to speed?
Orla: The pleasure will be mine - and not for the first time.
Keeve: Thanks. And also... seriously?
It's All My Fault: Hours before the Starlight Beacon's ceremony, he uses the time to test Keeve instead of resting (especially after losing his arm earlier) or helping prepare for the ceremony — Estala Maru believes it's because he blames himself for Jora's death at Kur and was seeking to distract himself from guilt or ensure Keeve was as ready as she could be for Knighthood, though the end of The High Republic Issue #1 hinted that there was literally something wrong with him.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Keeve engages in such a fight against him on Kindosorn after discovering him out of his mind and essentially feral from Magrak Syndrome. She manages to cut through his rage by making him look at the half of her lightsaber that he wielded and reminding him of who she was.
Laser Blade: Wields a blue-bladed lightsaber with a gold and bronze hilt and a knuckleguard, which he uses to punch opponents in combat.
The Mentor: To Keeve, and while she is Knighted at the start of the series, Sskeer continues to work with her and offer mentorship.
My God, What Have I Done?: After Keeve snaps him out of his Magrak Syndrome rage on Kindosorn, Sskeer is horrified at remembering the injuries he inflicted upon Goonral Monshi.
Number Two: He was meant to be this to Jora as the heads of the Starlight Beacon. While he does advise Avar, the two do not have as close of a relationship and Sseker is not formally her second-in-command.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He managed to climb a series of needle-thin stone spires to leave a pendant at the top for his student to retrieve. As Keeve points out, he was missing an arm at the time.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- After losing his arm and being unable to prevent Jora's death by the Nihil, Avar thinks he's acting strange by immediately opting to prepare Keeve for her trials instead of resting or helping prep the ceremony. The end of Issue #1 in the main comic shows him screaming in pain in a room alone after the ceremony...
- In Issue #2, he accidentally and gruesomely kills a Nihil instead of incapacitating them in some other way. Keeve informs Avar about this, who also notes that Sskeer hasn't been the same since the Battle of Kur...
- Avar confronts him about this in Issue #3, telling him that his behavior resembles someone who is falling to the Dark Side, which he vehemently denies.
- Issue #12 reveals that he is suffering from Magrak Syndrome, a degenerative brain disease specific to Trandoshans, which not only causes episodes of him being The Berserker, it's severing his connection to the Force as he is using all of his connection to it to slow the progression of the disease.
- The Phase III comic reveals that he survived the fall of Starlight Beacon. Unfortunately, he seems to have succumbed to his Magrak Syndrome while alone in the Occlusion Zone, as he's violently lashed out at both friends and enemies alike.
The Power of Love: Platonic example. Sskeer only manages to overcome the Drengir's corruption when it threatens to consume his student, Keeve Trennis.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: While boarding a ruined cruiser with his padawan and Ceret and Terec, he suffers PTSD flashbacks of losing his arm.
Sssssnaketalk: Speaksss in this manner, similarly to other reptilian aliens.
So Proud of You: After the successful raid on the Nihil's base in No-Space, Sskeer speaks with Keeve and tells her he is sure that was his last mission as an active Jedi, but he is at peace with that due having seen what an amazing Jedi she has become and how proud of her he is.
Token Heroic Orc: Trandoshans are known more for being antagonistic aliens, like Bossk, but Sskeer is the first Trandoshan Jedi in canon.
Turn in Your Badge: After ignoring Avar's orders on Xais by shooting down fleeing Nihil ships and brutally massacring the opposition on the ground, Avar has Sskeer turn over his lightsaber to her and removes him from his duties to await judgement by the Jedi Council.

Torban Buck

Jedi Master Torban "Buckets of Blood" Buck

Species: Chagrian

A Jedi Master teaching Padawans on the academic cruiser Star Hopper with Yoda and his friend Kantam Sy. Torban is considered one of the best healers in the Jedi Order. Alongside the rest of the Star Hopper Jedi, Torban joins the primary anti-Nihil taskforce operating out of Starlight Beacon.

The Big Guy: He's a rather large man, towering over Yoda and the Padawans.
Blood Knight: Despite his self-appointed nickname and that this trope would go well with him being The Big Guy, he actually prefers to be The Medic and doesn't consider himself to be a good fighter.
Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: He is last seen in Phase I going off to stall the Nameless on Starlight Beacon with nothing but his lightsaber and undergarments to help the rest of the youngings on the station escape, and is presumed to have died in the station's destruction after being missing for over a year. However, he's revealed to have survived in Phase III.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his eccentricities, Torban is counted amongst the greatest healers in the Order. His healing skills save the life of Chancellor Soh after she was grievously injured in the attack on Valo.
Childhood Friends: Torban and Kantam have been friends since they were both young Padawans at the Endovar Jedi Temple together.
Cloudcuckoolander: The Padawans think he's weird for calling himself "Buckets of Blood", even more so when he tries to explain he didn't choose it because he's a Blood Knight but because he's The Medic/a Martial Pacifist.
Torban: I help keep the blood WITHIN the body! Not take it out! Buckets of Blood! To save lives!
Eccentric Mentor: He nicknamed himself "Buckets of Blood" because he thought it was a good name for a medic, which he sheepishly tries to explain to the Padawans.
Hypocritical Humor: When he learns that the leader of an independent Corellian protection agency (and resistance movement against an underground Nihil cell) goes by the alias "Crash", he calls it a ridiculous nickname. This is coming from a guy who refers to himself with an even more over-the-top nickname. The gathered Jedi cannot tell if he is aware of the irony or simply messing with them.
Large Ham: "BUCKETS OF BLOOD HAS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE!"
Laser Blade: Wields a blue-bladed curved-hilt lightsaber. The hilt was crafted out of wood.
Legally Dead: After being missing for one year following the destruction of Starlight, the Republic declares him and the other missing crew and Jedi as officially dead. However, he's actually still alive, and is being held aboard the Nihil prison ship Korvix Vorn alongside several other missing Jedi and crew members.
Play-Along Prisoner: He, Farzala and several other Jedi from the Star Hopper have been held prisoner aboard the Korvix Vorn for over a year while keeping their identity as Jedi secret. It is noted that he and the rest of the Jedi could have escaped anytime, but chose to stay for the other prisoners' safety, as the Warden threatened to kill one prisoner for every day they've escaped captivity. Thus, he's waiting for the rest of his friends to rescue them.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He calls himself "Buckets of Blood"... because "buckets of blood" should be kept in the body and he specializes in medical aid.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When faced with the threat of the Nameless on the falling Starlight Beacon, much of his goofier demeanor drops, which highlights just how serious this new enemy is. However, that doesn't stop him from undressing in front of Emerick, giving him his blood-stained robes to study, and then going off to stall the Nameless in nothing but his underwear.
Prophet Eyes: His irises are white. It makes him appear berserk and/or mysterious, but then it turns out he's more of a healer and a bit of a cloudcuckoolander.
Quirky Doctor: He may be the best healer in the Jedi Order, but Torban is also one of the strangest Jedi, between his eccentric nickname, extreme love of baking, and how his students often cannot tell if he is being sarcastic and oblivious to things on purpose or for real.
Real Men Wear Pink: When the Nihil attempt to attack the Republic outpost in Ord Mantell, he says he'd like to get this over with as fast as possible because Yoda gave him a recipe for some baked pastries and he needs to get back before they get overcooked.
Refuge in Audacity: Before going off to stall the Nameless and likely meet his death doing so, his last helpful act is to undress in front of Emerick and hand over his Jedi robes (stained in the Nameless's blood) for him to study (he isn't going to need them anymore, he says), just before charging into the darkness with nothing but his lightsaber and his underwear. Emerick isn't too phased by this considering this is Torban, and he's more concerned that he's about to be killed by an Eldritch Abomination.
Serious Business: During "The Lonely Traveler Is Home", he insists that a surprise party for Ram Jomaram is a top-secret operation.
Token Heroic Orc: Virtually every Chagrian in both canon and Legends is evil (even Light of the Jedi has an evil Chagrian), so Torban, Kym (a Chagrian Padawan from Into the Dark) and Kav Bayons (a Jedi Knight from Dark Disciple) are just about the only good Chagrians we've seen so far.

Yaddle

Jedi Master Yaddle

See her entry on the Jedi Council character page.

Zia Zaldor Zanna

Jedi Master Zia Zaldor Zanna

Species: Human

Voiced by: Nasim Pedrad

Appears in: Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

A Jedi Master stationed at the Jedi Temple on the planet of Tenoo, who serves as both mentor and parental figure to the initiates who live there, and liaison between the Jedi and the local population.

Alliterative Name: Zia Zaldor Zanna, though it’s never remarked on.
Bully Hunter: She apparently was one in her youth, though she grew out of it once she realized most people who do wrong are not necessarily irredeemable.
Chekhov's Classroom: Runs one. As it is a preschool series, most of the lessons she gives in the beginning of episodes will come back into relevance during the conflict of the episode. Uncommonly for such shows, this can even occur across episodes - with some lessons resonating many times throughout their students' adventues.
Junior Counterpart: According to her, Kai Brightstar was a lot like herself when she was his age, especially his zeal to fight the various villains around Tenoo. She had a rivalry with the thief Ace Kallisto not unlike Kai's enmity with the pirate Taborr, which ended when Ace became her friend despite the life of crime - something she suspects may happen with Taborr as well.
The Mentor: While her mentorship is not as direct as a Master would be to a Padawan, she serves to instruct a whole class of younglings and teach them the life lessons they need to be exemplary Jedi.
Nice Girl: Is always going out of her way to help the people of Kublop Springs as much as she can and imparts that that compassion onto her students, to the point where she and the Younglings are basically a fixture of the community.
Parental Substitute: In part due to being the children's guardian in a show directed at younger children, she often comes off as more of a mother figure than Jedi Masters are usually depicted.
Unflappable Guardian: Is almost impossible to upset, even by Jedi standards. She is endlessly understanding and will always try to calmly regard a situation before acting rashly. In fact, the lesson of hers that comes back most often in the series is the simple advice to "take a breath and calm down" whenever in a stressful situation, which her students repeat and exercise often.

Granted rank circa 229 BBY

Keeve Trennis

Jedi Master Keeve Trennis

Species: Human

"We win by shining wherever we are, in our homes, with the people we love. We win by pushing back the shadows and lighting the way."

A newly promoted Jedi Knight posted to the space station Starlight Beacon. Thanks to being surrounded by living legends of the Order, she vastly underestimates her own abilities. The fight against the Nihil and Drengir sees Keeve emerge as a seasoned Knight, and after the destruction of Starlight Beacon she is elevated to the rank of Jedi Master and commands a task force fighting both Hutt and Nihil incursions into Republic space.

The Apprentice: She begins the first issue as Sskeer's padawan, but is Knighted at the end of it. She continues to work with Sskeer afterwards, with him offer continued guidance while she aids him in dealing with his failing connection to the Force.
The Cameo: She and Sskeer are mentioned as being the Jedi that found Vernestra and co. at the end of A Test of Courage.
Double Weapon: Wields a double-bladed green lightsaber of the split-saber design that she is able to divide in two and dual wield.
Dreadlock Warrior: In the year timeskip after Starlight is destroyed, Keeve grows her hair out into long dreadlocks and takes command of a Republic task force fighting the Nihil and Hutts along the borders of their space.
Early-Bird Cameo: Her first mention came as a Jedi Master of the Lost Twenty mentioned in Dooku: Jedi Lost, which was, like the High Republic comic book, written by Cavan Scott.
Yoda: Master Trennis. Hm. Sad, that was. Yes. Sad indeed.
The Fettered: While all Jedi are supposed to be this, Keeve holds the closest to the Jedi ideals of the comic series protagonists. She has to pull back Sskeer and Avar a few times and remind them of the lines the Jedi cannot cross without going to the Dark Side.
Foregone Conclusion: She is mentioned as being part of the Lost Twenty, suggesting she will eventually become disillusioned with the Order and leave. Further reinforced when Yoda sees a vision of her in the cave on Dagobah and clearly views her departure from the Order as a massive failure on his part.
Heroic BSoD: Exposure to the Leveler on Xais causes her to completely breakdown and run in fear while crying. She is still struggling after the Nihil take it away when the rest of the Jedi task force arrives and is unable to help Avar stop Lourna's ship from fleeing.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: She's very talented, but thanks to being a brand-new Knight and surrounded by living legends, she doesn't realize just how good she is. Word of God confirms she has imposter syndrome.
Hypocritical Humor: When a Nihil Storm calls her a "Schutta", Keeve tells them that they need "to watch their kriffing language".
Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: In the last half of the first High Republic comic series, Keeve is insecure in contrast the arrogance of Lourna Dee. Keeve is uncertain of her place in the Order and if she is good enough, while Lourna had recently gone through her own turmoil and emerged more arrogant and sure in her position as Tempest Runner and hatred of Jedi and their authority than ever before.
It's All My Fault: Blames herself for Ceret and Terec being in comas after exposure to the Leveler, although it is clear that there was no way for her to stop it and that her belief that all the other Jedi also blame her is false.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Having been a Jedi Knight for only weeks, she's rather in awe of the great Avar Kriss. Upon first meeting her in Issue #1, she mentally scolds herself for repeatedly cursing in delight to her and thinks she's about to be sent home by her own hero, and ends up shedding Tears of Joy when she's instead knighted by her and gets to stand with her at the ceremony.
Lady Swearsalot: Sskeer chides Keeve for her cursing, and she later mentally kicks herself for the habit when she can't stop doing it in front of Avar. In "Light in the Darkness", she mentions that she actually got this habit from Sskeer.
Morality Chain: She functions as this to both Sskeer and Avar, with her connection to Sskeer helping him center himself against both the Drengir infection and his disease eating away at his cognitive functions. With Avar, it is Keeve's dedication to the Light and the Jedi's ideals that brings them back from the brink of falling to the Dark Side.
Rank Up:
- She gets promoted from Padawan to Knight at the end of The High Republic Issue #1.
- After the destruction of Starlight, Keeve is granted the rank of Master due to her leadership and role in helping keep both Avar and Sskeer from slipping to the Dark Side.
Supporting Protagonist: She is the viewpoint character of The High Republic comic series in Phase I, with most issues having her inner thoughts as narration throughout, but throughout the series she is under the command of and working alongside more experienced Jedi like Avar and Sskeer.
Tears of Joy: She silently sheds tears of happiness while standing with her Jedi role models at the Starlight Beacon's dedication ceremony, hours after being knighted by her hero, Avar Kriss.
Technical Pacifist: While she will kill if necessary in combat, if Keeve has the chance to spare a foe's life and take them captive instead she will always do so. It is watching Sskeer and Avar not follow this path that helps push Keeve past her hero-worship and call them out when needed to keep them on the Light Side.
What the Hell, Hero?: She gives Avar one of these during the assault on the Nihil's Great Hall when the Jedi Master cuts down multiple Nihil without mercy.
Keeve: It wasn't that long ago that you took Sskeer's saber for killing in cold blood. But he's sick. His judgment was clouded by his pain. What's your excuse Marshal?

Characters / Star Wars - High Republic Era Jedi Masters (232-229 BBY)

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Jedi Master Arkoff

Species: Wookiee

Jedi Master Avar Kriss

Species: Human

Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus

Species: Human

Jedi Master Douglas Sunvale

Species: Human

Jedi Master Elzar Mann

Species: Human

Jedi Master Emerick Caphtor

Species: Human

Jedi Master Estala Maru

Species: Kessurian

Jedi Master Kantam Sy

Species: Human

Jedi Master Kunpar Vasivola

Species: Ongree

Jedi Master Loden Greatstorm

Species: Twi'lek

Jedi Master Mirro Lox

Species: Human

Jedi Master Nib Assek

Species: Human

Jedi Master Nubarron

Jedi Master Nyla Quinn

Species: Twi'lek

Jedi Master Obratuk Glii

Species: Parwan

Jedi Master OrbaLin

Species: Ugor

Jedi Wayseeker Orla Jareni

Species: Umbaran

Jedi Master Porter Engle

Species: Ikkrukkian

Jedi Master Santari Khri

Species: Human

Jedi Master Savina "Sav" Besatrix Malagán

Species: Kyuzo

Homeworld: Phatrong

Jedi Master Sskeer

Species: Trandoshan

Jedi Master Torban "Buckets of Blood" Buck

Species: Chagrian

Jedi Master Yaddle

Jedi Master Zia Zaldor Zanna

Species: Human

Granted rank circa 229 BBY

Jedi Master Keeve Trennis

Species: Human

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