Master & Apprentice
The partnership the films took for granted, finally shown being built.
Topic
103 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
The partnership the films took for granted, finally shown being built.
A publishing initiative disguised as a disaster novel, and mostly the better for it.
The fair, the fireworks, and the moment the Nihil stop being a nuisance.
Phase II opens a hundred and fifty years earlier, with a war nobody in Phase I mentioned.
Six Dreadnaughts, fifty thousand colonists, and one Chiss commander with a decision to make.
The Jedi start arguing about what they are for, which is the series in miniature.
Who is involved
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
The Council’s line into Republic intelligence, killed twice in two continuities.
One of the four Masters who walked into Palpatine’s office, and the first of them to fall.
The apprentice who quit — the only major Jedi who leaves the Order and is proved right.
Trained half the Jedi in the story, and his death started the war that killed the rest.
The Jedi who hears the Force as music, and conducts other Jedi like an orchestra.
A humble frontier Jedi in Phase II who becomes a broken oracle 150 years later.
Obi-Wan’s oldest friend at the Temple, and one of the few Jedi Apprentice names canon kept.
The Jedi the Barash Vow is named after — and the sister Porter Engle chose.
The padawan who bombed the Jedi Temple, framed her friend, and made the best argument against the Order anyone in the fiction has made.
The Republic’s single most valuable weapon, and a twenty-something who has been told so since childhood.
The apprentice the era keeps taking things from — and the reader’s way into it.
Died rather than open a holocron listing every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy.
The Temple bully who grew into a traitor, and died at thirteen for a man who never valued him.
A Wookiee Jedi whose defining trait is that he feels other people’s pain before they do.
Found the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy — and decided nobody should have it.
Kept believing in his brother long past the point of evidence, and was killed for it.
Broke under torture, gave up her own padawan, and cut herself off from the Force rather than risk it again.
The Jedi who taught the Order to fight, killed on the Temple steps by his best student’s student.
Scholar, mystic, and the Jedi the era uses to ask whether the Order deserves its own members.
A Council seat that spent years being called the wrong name.
Took the Council seat left empty by Yarael Poof, and lasted one scene.
A detective who became a fighter pilot who became a Jedi, in roughly that order and reluctantly each time.
One of the four padawans of Jedi Quest, and the one the series was willing to kill.
A silent Council seat in 1999; two decades later, the master who dies so Kanan Jarrus can live.
A Zabrak Master out of the Nar Shaddaa slums, and the Jedi Grievous kept alive on camera.
A brilliant improviser who keeps reaching past the edge of what the Order permits.
An archaeologist Jedi who hid the Order’s future inside a puzzle only his own padawan could open.
A metre tall, one eye short, and the most openly aggressive Master in the chamber.
Taught the Force by a man who never finished learning it — and the only Jedi who ever removed himself from the board on purpose.
The padawan who was better than Anakin Skywalker at everything, and left the Order anyway.
One of the Temple friends, and a reminder that most Jedi were never main characters.
The droid who has taught every Jedi in twenty-five thousand years how to build a lightsaber.
An empath apprenticed to a Knight barely older than he is.
Inherited a grieving Padawan who did not believe his master was dead — and was right.
A Lasat Jedi General who died in a corridor so his padawan could reach an escape pod.
Six lines of dialogue that diagnose the entire Order: if it is not in the Archives, it does not exist.
A Jedi who walked out of the Order decades ago and would rather you did not ask about it.
A refugee sold into slavery, freed by Revan, and later hunting him without knowing it.
Survived the Clone Wars, the Purge, and roughly 150 years of Legends history in a very large hat.
A padawan who never finished his training, teaching a student he is not qualified to teach.
The Marvel run’s lead: a Knight who is measurably good and cannot be told so.
The host of a children’s game show who turned out, three years later, to be the Jedi who saved Grogu.
The Jedi who fell in love with a cultist, and whose death built the Nihil.
The one Council member who reached the screen from a comic — and the one the films never bothered to explain.
The only Jedi in the prequels who looks like he is enjoying himself.
Killed in the first issue so that the series could be about what his son did next.
The Lord of Betrayal — a teacher whose whole curriculum is that you should stop needing teachers.
The mercenary who stole the Death Star plans — in the version of the story we had before Rogue One.
Considered one of the Order’s finest teachers, and used to demonstrate what the Nihil do to Jedi.
The farm boy the whole shelf is built around — and the character the two continuities disagree about most.
The Padawan who keeps the other two out of trouble, and who fell for a girl the Order could not place.
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
Cut herself off from the Force at Malachor V, and spent a whole game finding out what that means.
Kit Fisto’s former padawan, promoted by a war and killed by it in the same episode.
Widowed into the Jedi Order, and the first great woman the Expanded Universe wrote.
The Order’s most dutiful son, which is exactly the problem the books keep poking at.
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
The serpentine Master in the corner — royalty, in the Legends telling, who gave it up for the Order.
A Wayseeker: a Jedi who has formally told the Council she will decide her own missions.
Thon’s apprentice, and one of the Jedi Exar Kun took alive.
A background mask in the films; in the Clone Wars, the Jedi the clones actually liked.
A Jedi General who spent clone lives deliberately, hoping the waste would get him noticed by Dooku.
The Blade of Bardotta: three centuries old, cooks for the outpost, and is the deadliest person in it.
Left on Maz Kanata’s doorstep, raised into the Order, and almost never speaks.
The Jedi who kept being right in ways the Council found inconvenient.
A Jedi tracker who reads objects for memories, sent undercover into the dark side and left there too long.
The Padawan who would rather be in the Archives, sent to the frontier against his will.
The Old Republic’s defining figure — a hero, a conqueror, and an amnesiac, in an order you get to choose.
A scavenger who chose her own surname — and the newest character with the whole saga resting on her.
The quietest Master in the Jedi Quest books, and the one the padawans watched most closely.
The Council’s pilot, from a moon whose people see the future and rarely mention it.
Grand Master of the Jedi Order, descended from Revan and Bastila Shan, and the face of a losing war.
Twin purple lightsabers, a Kyuzo war shield, and a Padawan spell running with Maz Kanata’s pirates.
The Jedi assigned to Kamino — which is to say, the Jedi who watched the trap being manufactured.
A name dropped once in 2002 that turned out to be the load-bearing beam of the whole prequel plot.
A Legends love interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2000, quietly restored to canon in 2022.
A Jedi Master losing the Force and hiding it, in the best sustained tragedy the era wrote.
Adi Gallia’s kinswoman, a Council healer, and one of the Order 66 deaths the film actually shows.
The face of the Order at its most confident — and the cost of being the person everyone trusts.
A Jedi whose entire arc is about a temper she cannot train out of herself.
Blinded on Melida/Daan, and the reason Qui-Gon Jinn is the way he is.
An elderly Jedi who solves a crime by walking slowly and listening to people.
Bond-twins sharing one mind across any distance, and the first openly trans non-binary Jedi in canon.
A four-legged, armour-plated Jedi Master who trained a woman who would not carry a lightsaber.
Enslaved as a child, freed by a Jedi, and drawn with the first curved lightsaber hilt in Star Wars.
Volunteered to infiltrate the dark side, and the plan worked exactly as badly as you would expect.
The most argued-about character in Legends: teacher, torturer, Sith, or none of the above.
Knighted at fifteen, and the only High Republic Jedi the screen has met so far.
Learned the Force from the man who destroyed her mother’s Order.
Trained Exar Kun, saw exactly what was coming, and was killed by it anyway.
A background puppet in 1999 who has since been given four centuries of life and a murder.
The long-necked Master of Council chamber legend, gone between films without a scene.
Nine hundred years of institutional memory, and the man who presided over the collapse.
Ran the Port Haileap outpost, and walked her Padawan into the first Nameless.
The worst Padawan on Taris, framed for the murder of his entire class.
From the database
A Jedi Master and a shipload of surviving Padawans hidden on a refugee world, in the Dark Times arc that is about children rather than soldiers.