Order of the Whills

"The ability to defy oblivion can be achieved, but only for oneself. It was accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. It is a state acquired through compassion, not greed."

- Qui-Gon Jinn

The ancient Order of the Whills was a high order of beings that dwelled within the Ashlan Expanse on the mythical world of Ashlan Four. A deeply spiritual and possibly part-divine race, the Whills were the keepers of an ancient manuscript called the Journal of the Whills that chronicled the history of the galaxy. The Whills were led by a chief, who supposedly took orders from Yahweh, the Jedi Bendu God, and was overseen by the deeply spiritual Shaman of the Whills, a man called Ussej Padric Bac who rose to a partial divine status forty years after the end of the devestating Great Territorial War.

With the help of the wisest of the Whills, Ussej was able to discover the secret of eternal consciousness and passed the knowledge on to a Jedi Master called Qui-Gon Jinn, who in turn passed it on to Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Anakin Skywalker, the pre-ordained Chosen One, allowing the legacy of the Order of the Whills to continue within the realm of the known galaxy.

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[[Image:Gandalf the Grey.jpg|thumb|left|The Skywalker, just before his death.}} "You and your descendants will go out among the stars and find a race of great wisdom called the Whills."

- The Skywalker

The first mentioning of the Whills came from the mouth of The Skywalker on the day he died. He had grown sicker as the day went on, but his family remained by his side to nurse him through his final moments. He told them that they and their descendants would go out among the stars and find a race of great wisdom called the Whills. They would accept their destiny and follow the Jedi Bendu to dwell in the light of the Ashlan Nebula. On the fourth planet, he said, they would record their continuing story. The Whills would tell the story of the Jedi Bendu and a great Republic which would last for thousands of generations. Every race of the Republic would share its story. It would be their common heritage. Just before he passed on, he told them that the Whills would be sustained by their task and that when the shadow of the Bogan fell upon them, the Ashla would not desert them, and in the time of greatest despair their would come a savior, and he would be known as the Son of the Suns.