Morin Tharr (Destiny)

Morin Tharr was a Jedi Master in both the and New Jedi Orders. A Human male found on Toprawa, Tharr managed to survive the Great Jedi Purge and became a founding member of New Jedi, serving on the restored  as.

Training
Left abandoned at the age of two, Morin Tharr was found on by the on Toprawa and given to the Jedi Order. Tharr was trained at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and inducted into the as a. Passed off by most Jedi Masters, Tharr was eventually taken as an apprentice by Master Rom Staam.

Like Tharr himself, Master Staam was rather headstrong and taciturn. This led to the two of them often arguing while on missions; in one case, their refusal to agree nearly led to the failure of an escort mission and the High Council received complaints from the Galactic Senate. The Council considered reassigning Tharr to another master but Grand Master advocated against this, saying that this apprenticeship was a learning experience for both of them and that they would both turn out the better for it.

Indeed, following the mission, Tharr and his master's relationship began to improve and by the time of Tharr's knighthood, the two of them had grown to have a mutual respect for one another. At the age of the twenty-five, Tharr was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight.

Knight to Master
Upon becoming a Jedi Knight, the Council suggested that Tharr take an apprentice. The Toprawan Jedi declined however, fearing that he would have just as turbulent a relationship with his apprentice as he had with Staam, even though the two had eventually gotten along. After five years of self-searching, as well as some imploring from some of his fellow colleagues, Tharr finally decided to take an apprentice and began teaching the Alderaanian Jedi Xanus Baran.

Despite young Baran's calm and peaceful mindset, which the Council feared would clash with Tharr's more aggressive personality, the two Jedi got along rather well during their time together. The pair often performed missions for the Council in the Outer Rim Territories, and at one point visited Tharr's homeworld of Toprawa.

While on Toprawa, Tharr encountered a woman whom he found out to be his mother. An ex-Antarian Ranger, Ara Shaleen had been seventeen when she had Tharr and claimed that she had lost him while shopping in a plaza. Tharr saw through Shaleen's lie and forced to admit that she had left him simply because she had not the means nor the desire to raise a child. Tharr had nothing but disapproval and pity for his mother and bitterly parted ways with her. Two days after Tharr and Baran departed from Toprawa, Shaleen was found dead in a motel room after an overdose of spice. Tharr felt nothing when he received this news.

Clone Wars and the Purge
In 22 BBY, Baran reached the rank of Jedi Knight and Tharr was promoted to Jedi Master. A few months later, the Clone Wars broke out and Tharr began serving as a Jedi General for the Grand Army of the Republic.

During the Outer Rim Sieges, Tharr was sent to the swamp world of Zegris. When Order 66 was issued, Tharr used the murky landscape to his advantage and evaded his clone troopers, leading them to assume his death. For the next two decades, Tharr hid among the natives of Zegris, posing as one of their priests whom wore all-concealing robes, which prevented the Zegrins from finding out his true species.