Misha Quor-Din (Jedi Renaissance)

Misha Quor-Din was a female Human Jedi Knight who served the the Jedi Order during the Golden Age of the Jedi. Realizing her talent for ice sculpting at Bodhi, Quor-Din decided to live primarily at the Temple on Ilum where she meditated deep within the Temple's icy meditation rooms, slowly carving a massive sculpture high above her on the cliff tops from the ice forming there.

Early career
A Force-sensitive Human from Dinlo, Misha Quor-Din was a student at the experimental Academy on the planet Almas. Trained in the ways of the Force there, Quor-Din's upbringing was essentially the same as those Jedi raised on Coruscant; the difference being that she was trained alongside older beings who were brought into the Order at different ages then the highly restricted academy on the capital world of the Galactic Republic. After graduating from the academy at sixteen standard years of age, Quor-Din attached herself to Academy battlemaster Kirlocca who would serve as her mentor for the next several years of her training. In 32 BBY, Quor-Din and a group of other students went on an expedition led by Kirlocca into the Almas wasteland as part of a meditative retreat to construct their lightsbers. While on the retreat however, some of the Jedi fell under the influence of the dark side of the Force and attacked the venerated Wookiee Jedi. Quor-Din and the rest of the Jedi tried to defend Kirlocca, but were driven back by their deranged opponents. Fleeing the fight as the crazed Jedi students attacked with their finished lightsabers, she was captured in the nearby forests by a group of dark side cultists known as the Believers.

Imprisoned and drugged, Quor-Din was taken to the nearby Sith fortress deep within the wastelands. The prisoner of Garvin Delquist, a researcher at the city of Forard research station who had been given dark side powers by a Sith amulet, Quor-Din became the object of his desires as he held her within a containment field deep within the fortress. Rejecting his advances and demanding her freedom, Delquist refused but was overwhelmed when Master Lanius Qel-Bertuk led a task force to free Quor-Din and arrest Delquist. Freed, Quor-Din returned to the Academy and was elevated to the rank of Jedi Knight the following year. Taking missions from the Almas Jedi Council, Quor-Din remained largely within the Cularin system as she preferred to help within a small scope and provide for the system all that she could. By the time of the Clone Wars, Quor-Din invoked the Right of Denial when the High Council on Coruscant ordered all Jedi to take up arms against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Feeling that war did nothing to uphold the morals and ethics practiced by the Order, Quor-Din turned in her lightsaber and built a new one for herself using components available to her at the academy and imbuing it with a green crystal. Remaining within the system throughout the conflict, Quor-Din rushed to the aid of the academy when the Dark Jedi Garth Ezzar launched an attack on the Jedi. Driving the droid forces back, Quor-Din watched on as Ezzar was struck down and the Jedi were victorious.

Jedi Renaissance
When the Clone Wars came to an abrupt end, Quor-Din was suspicious of the High Council's call to all Jedi to attend the Conclave on Coruscant. When the Academy Council acquiesced to the High Council's demands, Quor-Din traveled to the Coruscant Jedi Temple for the first time. Amazed by its size, Quor-Din and her fellow Almas Jedi filled out the back corner of the Great Hall where newly appointed Grand Master Tomac Moorcé made his first appearance and speech. Shocked that he wanted to reopen academies on Ossus and Tython, Quor Din was moved by the appeal for growth and self-reflection. Appearing before the Council of Judgment within a week of the Conclave, Quor-Din's duty record was analyzed and she was asked to reflect on her career and inform the Council of her strengths and weaknesses. When asked by Master Coleman Kcaj where the Force would take her in aiding the Order rebuild, her initial response was back to Almas. However, the Council informed her the academy was to remain closed for a time and reopened as a chapter house as the Order concentrated its training on Ossus. Shocked and angered, Quor-Din regained her composure and decided to undergo training at the Temple of the Arts, Bodhi, on Tython as it opened.

Departing Coruscant, Quor-Din traveled directly to Masara continent on Tython to evaluate the conditions of the foundations of the ancient Temple. As crews arrived to begin the rebuilding of the Temple of the Arts, Quor-Din began to explore the surrounding forest and coastline cataloging the shells and plant life she found along the way. Living out of a small cottage along the sea, Quor-Din marveled at the speed of the construction and was quick to introduce herself to the Temple Master upon her arrival. A slender woman by the name of Thracia Cho Leem, Quor-Din was eager to assist in any way in the preparation of the academy.