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Original generated catalogue card for Kevmo Zink

Catalogue entryPantoranThe High Republic

Kevmo Zink

The Jedi who fell in love with a cultist, and whose death built the Nihil.

Species
Pantoran
Homeworld
Hosnian Prime
Affiliation
Jedi Order
Rank
Padawan
First appearance
The High Republic: Path of Deceit (Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland, 2022)
Species
Pantoran
Master
Zallah Macri
Died
382 BBY, Dalna

Kevmo Zink is a Pantoran Jedi Padawan, apprenticed to Zallah Macri around 384 BBY. Sent to Dalna to investigate a stolen Force artefact, he meets Marda Ro of the Path of the Open Hand and the two fall for each other across an unbridgeable theological gap: he uses the Force, and her religion holds that using it is violence.

He dies in her arms, turned slowly to stone by the Leveler. She keeps his lightsaber, blames the Jedi rather than her own leadership, and takes the first step towards founding the Nihil. Zink was originally written as a Kiffar and revised into a Pantoran after Cavan Scott created the Kiffar Jedi Vildar Mac for the Marvel comics — the tattoos survived the rewrite.

Catalogue entry. This figure has a verified record here rather than a full write-up — the encyclopedia labels its own depth instead of padding it.

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