Sell Jennil

Sell Jennil, born Sell Madierre, was a native of Naboo and the mother of Jedi Master Oné Madierre, as well as two more children.

Service to the Lanlins(69 BBY to 48 BBY)
At the early age of six, Sell Madierre was sent away from her parents to live with the Lanlin family, swearing an oath of loyalty to Rola Lanlin, which like that of a handmaiden demanded a high, but not absolute, level of obeidience, one that Rola Lanlin would test, when in 49 BBY, she would hatch a scheme to create a Force-sensitive child and raise her to have mental powers surpassing those of a Jedi. Her husband Detter agreed to it, though he warned her against hoping that Sell would provide them with a second child, as they could not command her to, and at fourteen years of age, she was considered a legal adult on Naboo, but below the age of consent on Coruscant, so it was unlikely any Jedi would sleep with her(it should be noted that due to the faster maturation rate of the Naboo subspecies of human that in physical maturity and emotional behavior, Sell was closer to 16/17 than 14).

Rola took them both to Coruscant nonetheless, and liaised with Master Dooku. He introduced the family to his former padawan, Master Qui-Gon Jinn, and Master Jinn introduced them to his padawan, Xanatos. Sell would eventually engage in a two week affair with Xanatos which in retrospect she would term "less than healthy." She would, however, always insist that while they delibrately did not use birth control, she did not have the affair out of any sense of duty, but purely because she wanted to. He would confide to her his growing doubts and anger with his Master, and his attitude would alarm her.

The affair would end when Xanatos was sent off with his Master to his home planet of Telos. The day after his departure, already believing she might be pregnant, Sell overheard conversation between Rola and Detter Lanlin which would make her realize just what kind of life awaited her child by Xanatos at their hands, and decided that she would rather her child be a Jedi, but that she would have to take special measures to keep her out of Rola Lanlin's hands.

Brief Phase of Motherhood
She had not said anything about being pregnant to Xanatos, for fear that it would cause him to make a decision he would later regret. Not trusting Master Jinn to be able to deal with his apprentice objectively, and not liking Master Dooku, she sought out his Master, Master Yoda. After he used the Force to confirm her pregnancy, she left it to him to decide what to tell Xanatos, but explained that the Lanlins would attempt to convince the Order that neither of the children were to be given to the Jedi, and that he was not to believe them, but she was giving consent for her own. Though he pressed her for her and their motives, Sell saw the revealing of them as a betrayal of her oath, and kept silent, though it was very difficult for her to do so. She noted about the meeting that while the Lanlins had called her an adult when they found it convenient, with the possible exception of Xanatos Yoda was the first person to ever address her as one.

On returning to Naboo and reluctantly letting the Lanlins know of the pregnancy (Rola's had already been confirmed), Sell got a surprise message from Xanatos. He had left the Jedi, and invited her to come join him, offering a life of wealth and power for her and their child. Something about him, however, now terrified Sell, and she turned him down, and then lied and claimed she was not pregnant. He appeared to have believed her, and in all likelihood never knew of his daughter's existance.

When Rola Lanlin gave birth, two Jedi came, and were promptly turned away, and informed not to come back when Sell gave birth. One of them, however, secretly met with Sell, who assured her that her own mind was not changed. She stayed on the planet for three more weeks, having instructed Sell to contact her when she went into labor. Sell did so, and gave birth with her present. Again she was pressed to reveal what was going on, and again she kept silent. Though at first she attempted to not even look at her daughter, on the Jedi's urging she named her Oné Madierre, nursed her once, and watched dry-eyed as the Jedi departed with her.

As Rola Lanlin certainly had no authority over any children of her maidservant, Sell technically had not broken her oath. But the trust between them was gone even so, and Rola released Sell from all aspects of her oath except that of secret-keeping, leaving Sell unable to tell the authorities of even the abuse of the baby Coté Lanlin she had witnessed already. She was all too happy to leave the Lanlins and find work elsewhere.

Adult Life(48 BBY to 25 ABY)
Sell moved serveral provinces away from the Lanlins' seat of power and there found work. She saw Xanatos' name on the holonet several times and was saddened when she heard of his violent death, but emotionally she had moved past him, and in 38 BBY she married Haito Jennil and had two more children with him. Keeping to her oath, she told him only that she had born a Jedi's child and given her up, without giving details.

She would eventually meet her oldest daughter during the Clone Wars, when the second Separatist attack on the planet would bring her there. They were introduced by none other than Coté Lanlin, who had shared a close relationship at one time with Oné's padawan, and tracked Sell down in hopes of causing emotional turmoil for them both. She was not sucessful; mother and daughter were happy to see each other once. She would also be present at Oné's funeral on Naboo after the end of the war, also done by the arrangements of a now more altruistic Coté, who would also present Sell with her daughter's lightsaber. Sell would keep it for the rest of her life; her children would afterwards donate it to the Naboo Museum of the Old Republic in Oshina. Sell died of natural causes on the eve of the Yuzhaan Vong invasion.