Quarmall (Jedi Renaissance)

Quarmall was a male Abyssin Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. A controversial Master, the High Council censored him for taking the entire Bergruutfa Clan as his Padawans. While thought dead when he encountered General Grievous during the war, Master Quarmall survived and was imprisoned on Byss with several other capture Force-sensitives by Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious. Quarmall and the others were eventually rescued in 19 BBY when Master Besher Dan led a strike team to Byss and destroyed the Sith Lord's holdings.

Early career
A Force-sensitive male Abyssin, Quarmall was trained in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order at the Jedi Temple on Corusant. Having been brought to the Temple by a mysterious robed figure, Quarmall's origins were forever a mystery to Curator of Records Lism T'un. Assigning the boy the name Quarmall, a singular name in keeping with Abyssin tradition, the Order placed him into a clan of fellow Initiates so that he could enter into the communal learning structure of the academy. Unlike many species, Abyssin remained children for thirty standard years and therefore progressed at a slower rate then all of his peers. Remaining within the Academy for an extended period, Quarmall was unfazed by the delay and strove to complete his training within a reasonable time frame. Three months past his thirtieth name day, Quarmall was deemed ready to participate in the Temple Apprentice Tournament and was selected for training by the Khil Jedi Master Easym Aleden, a highly regarded swordsmen and a respected scholar. Under Aleden's tutelage, Quarmall felt sure of himself and eager to learn, constructing a green-bladed lightsaber during a Gathering ritual on Ilum.

Due to the Abyssin slow rate of development, Aleden found it necessary to prepare Quarmall for the difficulty he may find in coping with his friends and teachers growing old and dying before he had ever reached adulthood. Indeed Aleden himself would pass into the Force within the twenty-fifth year of Quarmall's apprenticeship. Quarmall's training then fell to Master La-Nens Kroo, a young Cathar Jedi and a member of the Council of Reconciliation. While Master Aleden's training had focused on martial arts and philosophy, Kroo strove to instill in Quarmall a sense of virtue and justice; two guiding principles of the Jedi Path. Kroo saw Quarmall knighted in 150 BBY, and encouraged him to study many paths of wisdom over his long life so as to broaden his mind and hone his skills. Taking Master Kroo's advice, Quarmall decided to train along the path of the Consular and specialize as a healer and a diplomat. His natural abilities at healing his own body did not necessarily transfer well into the art of healing others and so Quarmall began focusing more on his diplomatic abilities. Finding that he was fair at communicating with those species not fairly represented in the Senate or those who were believed to be of primitive intellect, Quarmall worked many long years away from the Temple aiding fledgling governments rise out up to form lasting institutions which promoted civility and unity.

Mastery and the Clone Wars
By the time of the Separatist Crisis which plagued the Republic Senate, Quarmall had declared himself a Master, upon returing to Coruscant in 25 BBY. Partnering with Jedi Stass Allie and Tassida Judrelle to take down a salt smuggling cartel on Arcona, Quarmall and his sister Jedi successfully arrested fifteen smugglers, including cartel kingpin Lojrak Shrag and were deemed heroes by the Cona government. When the Clone Wars erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Master Quarmall took up the rank of General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Residing at the Temple, Quarmall was asked to take over the training of the Bergruufta clan of Jedi Initiates due to the lack of instructors available. Despite the High Council's ban of taking multiple students, Master Quarmall decided to take the Initiates as his Padawans and took them from the Jedi Temple aboard his personal transport, the Free-roaming Nexu. His actions were harshly criticized by the High Council, receiving orders to return the Initiates back to the Temple before they fell into harms way. Docking with a Mon Calamari capital ship, Quarmall and his Padawans were aboard the vessel when it was boarded by General Grievous and an army of B1 battle droids. Quarmall engaged the group of droids in combat but was quickly outnumbered and overpowered before being shot several times. Left for dead, Grievous confiscated the Abyssin's lightsaber, and captured the clan of Padawans. As the ship exploded around him, Master Quarmall's tenacious Abyssin physiology allowed him to survive his wounds and keep himself alive.

In the next weeks, Master Quarmall's body was found among the wreckage by agents of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious who twisted him captured him and took him to the Sith's fortress world of Byss in the Deep Core. Holding Quarmall in a small prison cell, the Dark Side Adepts tortured the Abyssin, ambutating his limbs and allowing them to regenerate before taking more from his body. Before Quarmall could be corrupted to the dark side, Jedi Master Besher Dan led a strike team into the compound and slew the guards, freeing their brother Jedi and all other Force-sensitive prisoners within the facility. Placing him in a hibernation trance, the Togruta Jedi rushed Quarmall back to the Halls of Healing within the Coruscant Temple where Quarmall was able to make a full recovery. Learning that the war was over and the Sith defeated, Quarmall rejoiced and was presented with his old lightsaber by High Council member Obi-Wan Kenobi before being asked to stand before the Council of Judgment for debriefing and assessment. Deeming Quarmall unfit to return to active duty due to his unbalance in the Force and for his taking of the entire Bergruufta clan as his apprentices, the Council ordered Quarmall to meditative retreat on Bogan, the dark moon of Tython so that he might find his balance in the Force. Acquiescing, Quarmall boarded a transport for the moon and arrived to find the ancient surface barren save for a few ruined cities. Finding solace in the ancient place, Quarmall decided that the moon's ruins should once more stand proud if it was to be a meditative retreat and endeavored to construct a new enclave on the moon. Together with some of the other residents of the moon, Quarmall was able to see his mission complete and was released from the moon to rejoin the Order proper on Ossus.