Ki-Adi-Mundi (MissIzzy)

"Famous, they call you, But of course you'd be here, And what do they know? They wouldn't bother knowing That you don't care for fame, Or that you wouldn't even care If you weren't loved at all, As I have too well known."

- Egrit-Ond-Kladi

Ki-Adi-Mundi was a Cerean Jedi Master and High General at the time of the Clone Wars. He hailed from the planet Cerea and, due to the low Cerean birthrate, he was allowed by the Jedi to follow the Cerean custom of polygamous marriage. The decision to allow this was made by his Master, Yoda, shortly after he reached full maturity, and he was married then to the oldest of his four "honor" wives, Egrit-Ond-Kladi, who would bear him three daughters. Over the next fifteen years, he was likewise married to Myra-Min-Shala, Rona-Tarn-Dali, and Fan-Lip-Kamas. Myra-Min would bear him two daughters, and the younger two wives one each.

All four wives and seven daughters were killed in the Battle of Cerea during the Clone Wars. Keeping the Jedi Code in mind, he grieved privately, but then returned to his duties. He also put out an advertisement on Cerea for a new wife as a concession towards doing his duty by his species, but did not truly expect to see it answered. To his surprise, it was, by young Haali-Ola-Edi, who needed to make an altruistic marriage for her own reasons. The two of them were married only a few months before his death, and she bore his final daughter, Enmi-Ola-Mundi.

As a Jedi, he did his best not to get too attached emotionally to any of his wives, though he cared deeply for his entire family. He was more sucessful in this with the later ones than with Egrit-Ond, who was his closest confident during some of the most difficult times in his life, and who eventually came to love him unashamedly. He admitted his affections were strongest for her and Myra-Min, but claimed his love for them to be fraternal. This was certainly true in the case of the latter, but it was the firm belief of his final wife, Haali-Ola-Edi, that he had, in the end, loved Egrit-Ond as much as she had loved him, whether he had ever admitted it to himself or not.

Very shortly after the beginning of the Clone Wars Ki-Adi Mundi experienced a vision of himself lying dead on a metal platform surrounded by snow and battle droids. Convinced he would be killed in the war, he nonetheless determined to do his duty and meet the fate the Force had in store for him. He did, however, take advantage of the vision to warn his first four wives, whom he had always assumed would outlive him, and later Haali-Ola-Edi upon their marriage. Another assumption he had made, of course, that it was the battle droids who had killed him, even though they had only been staring at his body in the vision. Being ready for every other aspect of his death by the time it happened, in the end, only made that it was at the hands on his own clone troops all the more a shock.