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Acolytes of the Beyond
"Vader lives. And so do you. Tell everyone the Acolytes are coming, doll."
— Kiza
A group of Dark Side devotees who first appeared shortly after the Battle of Endor. They venerated the Sith and focused on collecting Sith artifacts.
In General
- Cool Mask: Many members wear masks, though they must be earned.
- Laser Blade: Though they initially destroyed the Sith lightsabers they found to "return" them to their dead owners, the most esteemed members began keeping for themselves.
- Pragmatic Villainy: They are initially nonviolent, peacefully purchasing Sith artifacts. However, they soon become violent and start stealing them.
- Religion of Evil: They worship the Dark Side of the Force though none of them are Force-sensitive themselves. They mostly seem to be worshipping Vader and spout out that "Vader lives."
Yupe Tashu
Yupe Tashu
See his entry on the Imperial Court page.
Kiza
Kiza
Species: Pantoran
Homeworld: Corellia
Appearances: Life Debt | Empire's End | Shadow of the Sith
"This is a revolution. This is the revenge of the darkness. This is oblivion."
A Pantoran from Coronet City on Corellia who joined the Acolytes and rose to become their leader, being granted power through an assortment of Sith artifacts.
- Ax-Crazy: After being given Viceroy Exim's mask, Kiza goes more than a little crazy, including blacking out before the assault and coming to in the middle of it as she is killing New Republic soldiers.
- Cool Mask: She's given a mask made of Thunderbolt Iron that once belonged to Viceroy Exim Panshard.
- Death of Personality: By the time she resurfaces in Shadow of the Sith, prolonged exposure to Exim's mask has pretty much crushed all of Kiza's personality, to the extent she can barely remember even the merest fragment about herself.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Blue-skinned, since she's a Pantoran.
- Laser Blade: Initially she wields a standard red lightsaber, but later in life she takes up the uniquely-curved lightsaber of Darth Noctyss.
- Last-Second Chance: Luke tries offering her one, but by that point Kiza's too far gone.
- No One Could Survive That!: In between Empire's End and Shadow of the Sith, she and Korbus fought. It ended with Kiza apparently dying, but Korbus was never convinced.
- People Puppets: After she dies, Exim hijacks her body for a while.
- Reluctant Warrior: She's initially unsure of herself and reluctant to go into battle. The mask removes all her doubts.
- Sinister Scythe: In Shadow of the Sith she wields the lightsaber of Darth Noctyss, a legendary lightsaber with a blade curved into the shape of a scythe. Even Luke Skywalker believed it was only a myth until he saw it with his own eyes.
- Street Urchin: Her background. Her resentment towards upper-class Corellians fueled her anger and made her a prime candidate for the Acolytes.
- Unskilled, but Strong: She has the mask and a lightsaber but barely knows how to use them.
Remi
Remi
Species: Human
Homeworld: Corellia
Appearances: Life Debt | Empire's End
A male Corellian and an Acolyte of the Beyond.
- Friends with Benefits: He and Kiza are far from being friends, but they are sometimes lovers.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He objects when Tashu gives Kiza a sacred mask rather than him. As punishment for questioning his decision, Tashu takes Remi's lightsaber and gives it to Kiza. He attacks her during a raid on a New Republic outpost on Devaron and is killed.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: An alias given to him by the Acolytes is "Oblivion". When Detective Erno asks Remi for his name, he says it is Oblivion, then he later cuts off one of Erno's arms.
Other members
The Ascendant
A cult that was said to have worshipped the Sith and was obsessed with replicating the power of the Force through the use of technology. They were eventually wiped out by the Sith, who regarded them as heretical, but numerous artifacts that they created were left scattered across the galaxy alongside rumors of the Spark Eternal, a device that could completely imbue one with the power of the Force.
- Clarke's Third Law: They are not Force-sensitive but developed technology that could imitate the Force.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: In truth, they did not worship the Sith but fought them. Their technology was meant to give people who did not have Force-sensitivity a way to fight back against users of the dark side.
Miril (Spoilers for Doctor Aphra)
Miril
Species: Chada-Fan
Appearances: Doctor Aphra
The founder and leader of the Ascendant. She was the first to wear the Spark Eternal and her consciousness was uploaded into it upon her death.
- Brain Uploading: Upon her death a copy of her consciousness was saved into the Spark Eternal.
- Flight: She is capable of this within the memory box of the Spark Eternal.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: While reliving one of her memories, Miril notably doesn't curse when something bad happens but instead says "ah, beans".
- Heroic Sacrifice: When the Ascendant's headquarters was raided by the Sith, all of her fellow Ascendant were slaughtered. Although she managed to kill many of her attackers, when they had her cornered Miril stabbed herself in the chest through the Spark Eternal, unleashing its energy and annihilating the remaining Sith, preventing them from claiming the Spark Eternal for themselves.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: She has spent the centuries since she died living in her memories, typically amongst her fellow Ascendant in their hidden sanctum on Bar'leth. Miril tries to convince Aphra not to attempt to escape the Spark Eternal but remain with her inside the memories, claiming that everyone there is alive and happy.Aphra: Miril, this isn't real. They're dead.Miril: And? So are you.Aphra: Not yet.
- Oh, Crap!: She is very freaked out when she learns that the Spark prototype she built had developed its own consciousness, noting that she had calculated that as being extremely unlikely.Miril: At least, I thought it'd be much more statistically unlikely.
Spark Eternal (Spoilers for Doctor Aphra)
Spark Eternal
Species: Artificial Intelligence
Homeworld: Bar'leth
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | Dark Droids
A prototype built by the Ascendant, it was not yet complete when the Sith wiped out the cult and remained hidden away in its tomb for centuries. It was eventually unlocked by the archeologist Doctor Chelli Aphra, who it murdered, resurrected, and then possessed.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It was built initially to unify body and mind on an intuitive level to give beings a faster reaction time and the ability to utilize the Ascendant's technology without issue. Unfortunately, it's a bit more murderous and decided to have ambitions of its own after gaining awareness following centuries of isolation, which include taking over the bodies of its hosts. However, one of its goals is to still defeat the Sith in memory of its creators. After getting excised from Doctor Aphra, it merges with a droid locked away in the Fermata Cage, turns into a virus known as the "Scourge", and starts spreading itself to multiple droids.
- Arc Villain: After getting excised from Doctor Aphra, it becomes the main antagonist of the Dark Droids comic-crossover arc when it merges with a disc sealed in the Fermata Cage and becomes widely-spreading droid-infecting virus known as the "Scourge".
- Big Bad Ensemble: Shares the role with Ronen Tagge and Crimson Dawn starting in Issue 22 of Doctor Aphra's second run.
- Bullying a Dragon: As the Scourge, it gets the idea of trying to possess Darth Vader of all people.
- Cool Sword: Creates and wields the Null Blade, a piece of Ascendant tech that Miril never completed that is refined with cortosis ore to shut off lightsaber blades upon contact.
- Faux Affably Evil: It acts polite towards those it interacts with, but quickly turns to torture and threats if not given what it wants.
- Healing Factor: It generates energy which it can utilize to accelerate its host body's healing process, being able to repair blaster wounds in a matter of seconds.
- Meatsack Robot: As part of the Scourge's plans to possess organic, it experiments with droids and organics by grafting organic body parts onto droids. It mentions having taken inspiration from Fyzen Gor.
- Mechanical Abomination: After becoming the Scourge, it becomes even more powerful than it was as the Spark Eternal. It not only starts possessing droids, it eventually moves on to cyborgs in the hope of eventually possessing purely organic life. It eventually finds a way to possess pure organics and even connects to the Force for a brief moment, only to be thwarted by Ajax Sigma.
- Morality Pet: It does care for its creator and the Ascendant, sadly remarking to Aphra about how brave Miril was before she died and that they deserved better. This is likely why the Spark Eternal has done nothing about Miril's mind continuing to live within it. It also grows fond of Kho Phon Farrus and decides against killing them, and instead fills them in on some secrets Crimson Dawn plots and wishes Kho well.
Ghes
Ghes
Species: Trandoshan
Homeworld:
Appearances: Doctor Aphra
An Ascendant Record Keeper.
- Drama Queen: Tries to make Ascendant documents mysterious and exciting so more people will want to read it
- The Nicknamer: Tries to give everything grandiose nicknames to make the Ascendant seem more interesting. He proposes Inventor Prime, Hope of Our Future, Living Circuit, and Lady Spark for Miril, all of which she refuses.
Ilith
Ilith
Species: Twi'lek
Homeworld:
Appearances: Doctor Aphra
A former Ascendant Left Hand.
- The Heretic: Ghes calls him this.
- Knight Templar: Willing to torture Sith, which is what causes his group's split with Miril's.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: Leads a splinter group of Ascendant heretics.
B'omarr Order
Appearances: Return of the Jedi
An order of monks who believe in cutting themselves off from all physical sensation to enhance their minds. The most enlightened monks have their still-living brains removed from their bodies and placed in jars.
In General
- And I Must Scream: Sometimes brains are removed from bodies before they are truly enlightened, causing them to psychically scream.
- Brain in a Jar: What happens to the most enlightened monks.
- Spider Tank: When the enlightened monks need to move around, their brain jars are attached to spider-like droids.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Jabba's Palace was originally their monastery. Jabba moved in and took over but the Monks didn't leave. Unlike most cases of this trope, Jabba actually allowed the monks to stay as he enjoyed their gruesome appearance.
Church of the Force
An organization of Force worshippers whose ideals closely followed those of the Jedi. They were headquartered in the Temple of the Kyber on Jedha alongside the Disciples and Guardians of the Whills. During the reign of the Empire, the Church of the Force was driven underground and hunted, although they gained many adherents who resisted the Empire's tyranny. They are not Force-sensitive but worship the Force and seek to uphold Jedi ideals. Thirty years after the battle of Endor, an enclave of the Church of the Force lived in a village on Jakku.
In General
- Hero-Worshipper: The Church of the Force venerates the Jedi.
- Sacred Scripture: They revere the Journal of the Whills.
- War for Fun and Profit: One of the Church's big concerns. Members of the Church of the Force prefer to build their own weapons rather than let weapons manufacturers profit off violence.
Circa 382 BBY
Kilan T'Dara
Representative Kilan T'Dara
Species: Ayrou
A member of the Church of the Force who sat on the Convocation of the Force, a group of representatives from several major religions that helped to govern the Holy City of Jedha during the High Republic Era. T'Dara served as the Convocation's leader.
- Authority in Name Only: While supposedly the leader of the Convocation, she can barely keep things civil between members and petitioners at most meetings, with her attempts to calm things typically falling on deaf ears.
- Humanoid Alien: She is an Ayrou, a humanoid species which can have purple skin and green hair.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After a bombing at the Temple of the Kyber, T'Dara decides to claim a buildup of gas caused an explosion at the Temple to keep things calm in an already tense Jedha City. Unfortunately, the Herald of the Path of the Open Hand overhears this plan and uses this information to help incite a riot against the Convocation's leadership.
Circa 5 ABY
Christophsis Pilgrimage
Christophsis Pilgrimage
Appearances: Empire's End
A group of Church members who travel to Christophsis to return kyber crystals that were stolen by the Empire. They include MA-B0 "Mabo", a cargo lifter droid; Addar, a human; Jumon, an Iakaru; Madrammagath, an Elomin; and Uggorda, a Duros.
- Actual Pacifist: Jumon refuses to kill the Kyaddaks that hunt his group as they are creatures of the Force as well. He is also displeased to learn that Addar brought a blaster into a sacred place.
- Culturally Religious: Addar's mother helped found the Church but he does not believe in it himself and doubts the usefulness of their mission.
- Easy Evangelism: When Addar expresses doubts about the usefulness of their mission, Jumon plays him a holovid of preacher Brin Izisca (which Addar has already seen) thinking it will make things clear. It doesn't.
- Religious Robot: Mabo is a full-fledged member of the Church.
- Super-Strength: Mabo is a cargo lifter droid, so he carries the crate of kyber crystals.
- Vision Quest: The pilgrims embark on their mission because of a vision that Jumon received. However, he admits he was drunk at the time.
Circa 34 ABY
Village of Tuanul
Tuanul
See their section on the Jakku page.
Gallius Rax
Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax
See his entry on the Imperial Navy page.
The Crèche
See their section on the Planets and Races page.
Elders of the Path
A religious group during the High Republic era that shunned interaction with the Force in any way. In General
- Anti-Magical Faction: Being descended from the Path of the Open Hand, they strongly believe that the Force should only be appreciated from a distance, which puts them at odds with the Jedi Order. Unfortunately, this also means Force-sensitives born within their society, such as Zeen Mrala, are forced to repress their abilities.
- Heel–Faith Turn: While many of them have been raised to persecute the Jedi and other Force users, some such as Barbatash (who ironically, had the rank of Elder even during the Path of the Open Hand's heyday) have come to appreciate them more after they saved the Elders from being destroyed by the fallout of the Great Disaster on Trymant IV.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: Inverted and downplayed. The Elders used to be a rank in the Path of the Open Hand that was used to denote senior members. However, with their disdain for the Mother's usurpation of power, and the Path of the Closed Fist sub-faction bringing ruin to their cause, the Elders broke ranks from the overall cult at the Battle of Dalna. What resulted was the Elders forming their own descendant religion that still followed the principles of not touching the Force and persecuting those who used it, just without the worst excesses of the Mother's rule (although that didn't stop them from having a few zealots in their ranks, like Krix Kamerat).
Tromak
Elder Tromak
Species: Gran
Appearances: Path of Deceit | The Battle of Jedha | The High Republic Adventures (2022) | Path of Vengeance | The High Republic Adventures (2021)
An Elder of the Path leading a convent on Trymant IV.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When Trymant IV is threatened by fallout from the Great Disaster, Marchion Ro tries to bring him and only him aboard the Squall Spider while leaving the rest of his people to die, as he's one of the only people who knows where to find the Leveler control rods.
- Cryptic Background Reference: Apparently, he and Yoda had met when he was child on Dalna, suggesting Yoda had a hand in getting Tromak to defect from the Path of the Open Hand and flee with the Elders at the Battle of Dalna.
- Everybody Has Standards:
- When the Mother tried to make him and the Path's other youngest children plant explosives around their compound during the Battle of Dalna, he got scared and ran away.
- Tromak was in cahoots with the Nihil for an unknown reason and left his people to die in the Great Disaster, though he demanded that the Nihil guarding him don't hurt Zeen and Krix because they're children. When the situation escalates, he manages to take Krix with him in the chaos. However, it was apparently because he was trying to protect his people, hoping the Nihil would spare them if he gave the Nihil what they wanted.
- Long-Lived: He was only a child in Path of Deceit, which means he's over 150 years old at the time of the Great Disaster.
- Old Shame: Given that the Elders of the Path had locked away the Leveler control rods and their prior connections to the Path of the Open Hand, it's suggested that he is ashamed of what the latter had used the Nameless for in the past.
- Uncertain Doom: He was last seen with Yoda being shot down in orbit over Vrant Tarnum. While Yoda later returned in the company of Azlin Rell, Tromak was not with him and has not been mentioned since.
Barbatash
Elder Barbatash
Formerly an Elder in the Path of the Open Hand, Barbatash defected with some of the other Elders during the Night of Sorrow.
- Berserk Button: He tries to give Maz Kanata's pirate gang a serious thrashing after Therm Scissorpunch unwittingly makes a young Tromak cry when he cuts the head off a flower he was offering with his pincers.
- Extra Eyes: He's got four of them.
- Heel–Faith Turn: While he was raised to persecute Force users thanks to his prior upbringing, he gained a newfound appreciation for the Jedi after they saved the Elders on Trymant IV.
- Long-Lived: He already had the rank of Elder when he was in the Path of the Open Hand, so he's incredibly old by the time of the Great Disaster.
- Mr. Exposition: He reveals in Race to Crashpoint Tower that the Nihil are a splinter faction of the Path.
Other members
- Zeen Mrala on the High Republic Era Jedi page.
- Krix Kamerat on the Nihil page.
Fallanassi
Appearances: The High Republic (2022)
A religious order adept in using the Force, which they called the "White Current", to create illusions.
In General
- Astral Projection: One of their most notable uses of the Force is to project images of themselves anywhere in the galaxy. However, this required the user to pour their essence into the Cosmic Force, which can kill them if overused.
- Canon Immigrant: The Fallanassi were first introduced in the Legends novel trilogy, Black Fleet Crisis. They were recanonized as the source for Luke Skywalker's Astral Projection ability in The Last Jedi. The Fallanassi themselves would later appear in The High Republic multimedia project as one of the many Force faiths at the Convocation on Jedha.
- Master of Illusion: They mostly use the Force for creating illusions.
Gretta
Gretta
Species: Human
Homeworld: Jedha
Appearances: Marvel's Star Wars
One of the last surviving Fallanassi, Gretta hides on the planet Christophsis, keeping an eye out for Jedi or other Force adherents who come to the planet seeking kyber. She met Luke Skywalker when he came searching for a new kyber crystal after his previous one was damaged and malfunctioning.
- Badass Normal: Mentions that her family line has not been Force-sensitive for a long time and that her skills all come from training.
- Benevolent Conspiracy: Part of one that is made up of believers in the Force who talk on dark channels of the Holonet and seek to protect Jedi and others being hunted by the Empire. Luke Skywalker, being the last known Jedi and fighting as part of the Rebellion, is a big topic of conversation for them and why Gretta recognized and was able to save him on Christophsis.
- Doomed Homeworld: She is from Jedha and wanted revenge against the crew of the Death Star for killing her family and destroying her planet. Her aid to Luke is in part thanks for him destroying the Death Star and avenging those killed by it.
- Good Is Not Soft: Guns down an entire bar full of people on Christophsis, causing Luke to immediately assume she is hostile. Gretta then explains to him they were all members of a group that captured and turned in those who came seeking Kyber crystals to the Empire. Luke is horrified even after the explanation, and Gretta notes that she had to kill them because she knew he wouldn't.
- Guns Akimbo: Wields two blaster pistols and is a highly accurate and fast shooter with them.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Even as Luke condemns her for killing everyone in the bar without giving them a chance to surrender, Gretta remains steadfast in her conviction that they needed to die.Luke: I never asked you to kill these people.Gretta: And you never would. That's why I had to do it.
- Ms. Exposition: When Luke comes to Christophsis seeking a new kyber crystal, Gretta explains to him about the locals claiming bounties on anyone asking about kyber, the Empire's rounding up any experts on them, and Dr. Cuata's survival. She also passes onto Luke the Fallanassi's lore on how to cleanse kyber crystals, as she cannot perform the ritual herself due lacking a connection to the Force.
- Put on a Bus: After helping Luke acquire a new kyber crystal, Gretta tells him she considers her debt to him for avenging her family repaid and decides to depart Christophsis, unsure of where she would go next, instead of returning to the Rebellion with him.
- Sole Survivor: The rest of her family was killed four years prior to her meeting Luke, with it being implied that they died on Jedha when the Death Star was tested there.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Cuata for not warning Luke of the fluctuations in the Force while his mind was within a kyber crystal, which could have killed him. Gretta immediately informs Luke when he emerges from the meditation and cautions him not to tell Cuata any of what he learned.
- World of Technicolor Hair: Has green hair, which is natural amongst some humans in the galaxy far far away.
Jedha clergy
Miscellaneous religious organizations that were present on Jedha.See their section on the Jedha page.
Jedi Order
See their own page here.
Ordu Aspectu
A splinter group of the ancient Jedi Order that is the subject of historical debate. Some historians and archeologists argue that they loathed violence and sought to grant immortal life to all beings of the galaxy, while others believe that were violent wielders of the dark side who sought immortality for themselves. They supposedly met their end at the fabled Citadel of Rur in a battle against the Jedi Order. Rur
Rur
Living Rur
Eternal Rur
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | The Screaming Citadelnote
"My present research was to create a copy of my intellect, preserving my knowledge for all time."
Said to be the leader of the Ordu Aspectu, Rur either vanished along with the Citadel of Rur in an attempt to grant immortal life to all living creatures or perished in an attempt to sacrifice the lives of Jedi and his own followers to claim eternal life for himself.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: His Legends version looked zombie-like, but here, he looks like a regular guy with long-hair and an electrical spirit in a crystal.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Eternal Rur is ultimately an AI made from the memories of Rur, but lacking any humanity and compassion the original may have had.
- Always a Bigger Fish: What can stop a technopathic crystal with the mind of an insane Jedi? Darth Vader.
- Ambiguous Situation: His crystal looks very similar to a kyber crystal—in fact, a common color of kyber crystals that are too large to be used for lightsabers is green.
- Blatant Lies: Eternal Rur claims that his body was possessed by an "evil ghost". Aphra's reaction shows that she's not buying it.
- Brain Uploading: Aphra and her father discover his corpse in the core computer room of the Citadel of Rur. After activating it, an image of Rur appears demanding to know what year it is and activates a droid body, declaring that he has left his shell behind and become "Eternal Rur".
- Canon Immigrant: He initially appeared in one of the original Marvel Star Wars comics from the Legends continuity as the last Shaman of the Order of the Terrible Glare.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Eternal Rur seems to truly believe it is the original Rur, but it is not. The real Rur copied his intellect, inadvertantly creating a mad artificial intelligence, and died soon after.
- Evil Counterpart:
Word of God states that the actual Rur died long ago, thus implying that the entity Aphra interacts with is just a ghost in the machine. - Gone Horribly Right: If Word of God is to be trusted, Rur did succeed in copying his knowledge. That knowledge, unfortunately, believed itself to be Rur, and attempted to kill the "evil ghost" that had "taken over" his body.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Rur, or the "evil ghost", died heroically to stop Eternal Rur.
- Immortality Seeker: Turns out he sought it for himself (or at least to copy his intellect), not all beings as Aphra's father had hoped. Rur was at least partially successful, but the process resulted in a mad force-entity believing itself to be the true Rur, while his body was inhabited by an evil ghost.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Curiously, in The Screaming Citadel arc Eternal Rur appears to be docile and provides wise advice for Aphra to be selfless, in stark contrast to all its other appearances where it’s basically the Terminator.
- Sanity Slippage: He was apparently already a bit unhinged before he was uploaded, but when he finds out that he's missed a millennium at the minimum by the time he is reactivated, he freaks out about how all his ambitions have been ruined and takes his anger out on the people who reawakened him since he can't take it out on his long-dead enemies now.
- Time Abyss: His time was when the Domacion Accord was still used as the calendar, and Aphra states the last time it was used was a thousand years ago — before the Old Republic (that is, the Republic before it was reformed into the Galactic Republic) was founded.
Path of the Open Hand
See their section on the Path of the Open Hand page.
Sith Order
See their section on The Sith Order page.
Sorcerers of Tund
A cult of Force users from the planet Tund who called the Force the Unity. 150 years before the Great Disaster, they were one of many Force faiths that had a seat as part of the Convocation on Jedha. In General
- Adaptational Heroism: In Legends, the Sorcerers were a cult of Dark siders descended from the Sith who were often insane manipulators. In canon, there are no indications of them being related to the Sith, they view the Force as a unified whole and exile those who embrace only the Dark side as apostates.
- Canon Immigrant: While their namesake planet was canonized by being mentioned as Ben Quadinaros' homeworld in The Phantom Menace, the Sorcerers originated in the Legends novel The Lando Calrissian Adventures, which predated that film by 16 years. The Sorcerers were recanonized not only by being mentioned in Dooku: Jedi Lost, they would appear in the flesh as part of The High Republic multimedia project.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Despite not being Dark Force users, their reputation isn't great and they are often associated with the Dark side. In the High Republic Era, this was partly due to a massacre on Kiffex perpetrated by an exiled Sorcerer apostate.
Tarna Miak
Adept Tarna Miak
Species: Human
Appearances: The High Republic (2022) | The Battle of Jedha
The Sorcerers' representative on the Convocation of the Force on Jedha during the High Republic era.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite the Sorcerers' storied reputation as Dark Force users (and Vildar's initial troubled reaction to him due to past trauma with an apostate Sorcerer), Tarna is just as dedicated to upholding the peace on Jedha as the rest of the Convocation. When the Path of the Open Hand sews discord in the streets of Jedha, he and Vildar work together to put a stop to it.
- Playing with Fire: His use of the Force allows him to manipulate fire.
- Superdickery: The cover Issue 5 of The High Republic (2022) seems to play him up as villain. However, the previous issue shows that he and the Jedi are going mad from being in the presence of the Great Leveler, and that only lasts for a few minutes before they come to their senses.
