Donarius Kaivalt

Donarius Kaivalt was a male  who lived during the. A champion of the Order and a hero to the, his untimely death at the in 1,466 BBY was widely regarded as a catastrophe by the entire.

Biography
Born on, capital of , in 1,505 BBY, Donarius was the scion of a noble family, but his Force-sensitivity led his parents to surrender him to the Jedi Order. He excelled as a student at the on ; his instructors considered him an adept pupil, and he was chosen to be a Padawan at age twelve. In the field he made his mark fighting the Sith; he was briefly captured in 1,487 BBY, but overcame the temptations of the Sith Lord Efel Deen, resisted the dark side, and escaped back to the Republic. Kaivalt was Knighted in 1,485 BBY at age twenty.

As a full Knight, Kaivalt chose to serve as a, although many Jedi, civilians, and occasionally even defeated enemies remarked on his thoughtful and kindly nature. He was involved in many major Jedi operations, including the Extinguishing of the Five Flames, the Usrek Uprising, the three-week Battle of, and the Would-Be King's Crusade. He was a staunch defender of Tybalt Valorum during the Year of the False Chancellor. Many notable Sith Lords fell to his blade, including Efel Deen, Rasti Culaikin, and Lothario Gaazad, the "Madman of Mandalore".

Kaivalt was proud of his Tapani heritage, and actively encouraged the Tapani sector's relatively new commitment to the Republic. He made frequent trips home and was instrumental in getting a dozen of his fellow House Pelagia members admitted to the Order, along with several Force-sensitive commoners. He was knighted by of House Pelagia along with his Jedi Knighthood to give him the social standing needed to move within the Tapani sector and conduct his business. Kaivalt chose to take a Tapani Padawan of his own, a fellow noble who was a distant cousin. He married in his early thirties and had two children, both of whom became Jedi.

Kaivalt was made a Jedi Master in 1,470 BBY, shortly after his apprentice passed the. Still a relatively young man with a passion for aiding the downtrodden and seeking out the galaxy's trouble spots to make a difference, he took on a second Padawan—another Tapani, but this time a commoner.

As the Sith pushed the Republic war effort toward a climactic engagement, Kaivalt and his Padawans—former and current—answered the call to fight at. There all three acquitted themselves well, though Kaivalt distinguished himself yet again by leading several sallies against Sith positions and saving two separate brigades from devastation by the intervention of his powers and pure force of personality. He held the rearguard while the Jedi retreated, but when the Jedi was killed, the retreat became a rout. In the confusion of the battle, Kaivalt became separated from many of his allies, though his apprentice remained with him as several Sith Lords and Dark Jedi descended upon them. Both men fell in battle, though they sold their lives for the price of half a dozen Sith.

Kaivalt's death was one of many calamities inflicted on the Republic by the Mizra catastrophe. The Tapani sector was outraged by his fall; Kaivalt's death was a formative influence for the following generation of Pelagia Jedi, some of whom abandoned the Republic at large to become the first s, defending the Tapani sector against the Sith. The Sith desecrated the corpses of Kaivalt and his apprentice; though many Sith celebrated the ruination of their enemy, this profanation had the unintended effect of leading Sith Lord Kansa Rocca to renounce the dark side, defect to the Republic, and join the light side. He returned Kaivalt's lightsaber to the Jedi Temple, whence it was returned to Pelagon as a relic for the Pelagia Jedi.

Appearances

 * A Certain Point of View