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Grand Master (Jedi Renaissance)

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Secret, shall I tell you? Grand Master of Jedi Order am I. Won this job in a raffle I did, think you? 'How did you know, how did you know, Master Yoda?' Master Yoda knows these things. His job it is.
—Yoda to Tallisibeth Enwandung-Esterhazy

Grand Master was a title used in the Jedi Order to denote the recognized head of the Order. While separate from the title Master of the Order, which was used to describe the elected leader of the High Council, the positions were often filled by the same being.

History[]

The title of Grand Master had existed within the Jedi Order for much of its history, representing the elected head of the entire Order. Appointment of a Grand Master was reserved to the High Council, with a unanimous vote needed to install the Order's leader. Bestowed only upon the Order's greatest and wisest of all Masters, it was not unheard of for several Masters to hold the title, forming elite guilds before the Ruusan Reformations of the Galactic Republic.

When Supreme Chancellor Contispex was arrested at the end of the conflict in 10,966 BBY, the High Council elected to place their star diplomat, Master Biel Ductavis at the helm of both the Republic and the Order. As the newly made Grand Master, the Human Jedi Master strove to purge all remaining influence of the Pius Dea adherents from the halls of the Senate and hunt down remaining cathedral ships which had survived the Renunciates' attacks.

The tragedy of Vrook Lamar[]

If we're going to have a Jedi Council at all, then somebody, somewhere, is going to do what it tells them!
—Grand Master Vrook Lamar, to the Masters of the Taris Academy.

Many in the Order questioned the appointment of Vrook Lamar as the new Grand Master in 3,964 BBY. Strong in the Force and a powerful duelist, Lamar's temper was well known and before his appointment to the High Council he preferred to live and work alone. However, Lamar's popularity among a majority of the High Council secured him the title and his reluctance to take on the role assured the other Masters that he was the right choice. Reporting to Coruscant to take up his seat, Lamar was not willing to hear the pleas of the Jedi Revan for intervention in the Mandalorian Wars, citing the Order's own problems as reason enough not to interfere. Lamar hoped to make his career as Grand Master one of reform, rebuilding and reflection and the threat of a schism within his first year on the job made his interactions with any and all Revanchist Jedi terse at best. With the Council still reeling from the horrible massacre of four of its students on Taris, Lamar shutdown the academy there and ordered the five Masters to separate posts, exasperated that out of the few number of Jedi being trained, a handful died within their vary own academy. When one of those Masters, Lucien Draay, ascended to the High Council to replace the Revanchist Dojander Kace, Lamar took his suspicions to Master of the Order Vandar Tokare and the two began to investigate Draay and his former colleagues dealings. Uncovering a secret cabal within the Order itself, Lamar led an attack on the Draay Estate to arrest the reclusive Master Kryndra Draay and her son, Master Lucien Draay. When the Republic fleet opened fire on the estate, Lamar was forced into a retreat and returned to the High Council tower to find it sacked and raided. While shaken by the numerous problems which plagued the Order while he was at the helm, Lamar's determination did not waver and in the aftermath of the Covenant's destruction, Lamar turned his attentions once more to the other schismatics plaguing the Order's stability. Approaching Revan on Cathar, Lamar ordered his group to disband and leave their obsessions with the Mandalorians in the past. It wasn't until a vision of the death wrought by the Mandalorians against the Cathar people that Lamar and the High Council agreed to sanction the Revanchists actions; even with this proof Lamar did not look kindly upon the group and those who joined them. Disgusted with the failed politics of Coruscant and the way the war ended on Malachor V, Lamar left Coruscant after passing judgment on the sole Revanchist to return for judgment, Meetra Surik.

Residing on Dantooine at the secret enclave there, Lamar continued his criticism of Revan when he returned as a Sith Lord and unleashed a new war on the Republic. Lambasting those on the Council who supported Revan, he took Revan's return as a sign from the Force that he was right. Ordering the Sith to be captured, he dispatched Bastila Shan to see Revan brought to Dantooine for judgment. Once before them, it was apparent that Revan had no memory of his former self and the High Council agreed to train him as a Jedi once again, despite Lamar's protests. When the Sith Lord Darth Malak attacked the Enclave after Revan's departure, Lamar was able to escape alongside several members of the High Council and a group of Padawans. When members of the Council called for a Conclave on Katarr, Lamar denounced the idea for drawing Jedi into one large group and warned as many Jedi as he cold contact that the gathering a foolish notion. From afar Lamar felt the death of his colleagues as the Sith Lord Darth Nihilus destroyed the conclave and its participants including his old friend Master Tokare. Returning to the ruins of the enclave on Dantooine, he began to rebuild it during his exile before he allowed himself to be captured by a band of mercenaries on Dantooine to deter them from attacking the nearby settlement of Khoonda. When exiled Jedi Meetra Surik heard of the Grand Master's capture, she went to the mercenary base in the near by crystal cave, not knowing of Lamar's plan. After she slew his captors and released him, he bitterly criticized her and explained the situation. Both of them rushed back to Khoonda to help defend it. Lamar left to attack the mercenary camp, and returned in time to help Surik finish Azkul and his remaining mercenaries. Although Lamar's attitude towards Surik had grown more benevolent following her heroism in the battle, he did not allow his feelings to alter his judgment when the newly established Council convened to pass judgment on her once more. Lamar and his fellow Masters, Kavar and Zez-Kai Ell, decided that Surik was too grave of a threat to the galaxy and, therefore, decided to permanently strip her of her connection to the Force. While attempting to carry out their sentence, Lamar and the other two Council members were attacked by Master Kreia, a Jedi Master who had turned once more to the dark side and resumed the mantle of Darth Traya. Using the full might of her power, she drained the Jedi Masters of their Force-sensitivity, killing them.

Great Galactic Wars[]

Satele Shan, guardian of the Republic, whose words inspired armies. My students had fought separately, on the Ash Plains of Lenico and in the asteroid-hives of Gelpog the Tyrant. They fought twenty thousand years of evil, incarnate in the Sith Emperor and his servants. They never faltered. Of all my students, it was Satele who made me the most proud.
—Master Ngani Zho, on Satele Shan and his other former students

The Kel Dor Graal Zym was appointed by the High Council as Grand Master in 3,688 BBY. A charismatic leader in his younger years, Zym wielded a blue lightsaber of a Guardian and was considered well versed in lightsaber combat. Under his leadership, the High Council successfully petitioned the Senate to dispatch a joint taskforce of Jedi and Republic Navy ships to end the Kanz Disorders and restore peace to that sector of the galaxy. Led by Jedi Mari-Elan Nora, the Kanz Sector was rid of its slavers and the Jedi Archives reflected Zym's leadership in historical accounts of the conflict. When the Sith Empire returned from their long absence from known space, Zym's High Council was caught offguard and was unable to respond quickly as attacks on Republic space broke out in 3,681 BBY. As the Great Galactic War dragged on for over a two decades, the High Council attempted to end the fighting by calling a peace summit on Alderaan in 3,653 BBY. While Zym wished to lead the negotiations, the High Council demanded he take to the solitude of space to sit out the negotiations and avoid the politicking of Coruscant for the duration. Unbeknownst to those involved, the Sith would launch an assault on Coruscant, destroying the Jedi Temple, assassinating the Chancellor, and forcing the ambassadors on Alderaan to sign a treaty to liberate the capitol. Determined to see the treaty held up so that peace could resume and the Jedi could regroup and heal, Zym ordered all Jedi to oversee Republic troops withdrawal and return to Coruscant immediately. Seeking the guidance of interim Chancellor Am-Ris, Zym learned that the Senate would not fund the reconstruction of the Temple and that the Order would need to find a new home. After their meeting, Zym received a message from someone saying he had information about the attack on the Republic ship the Envoy, and to meet them at the ruins of the Jedi Temple. When Zym got there, he found Gin Lesl, the captain of the Envoy, but Braden, the prisoner Jedi Master Dar'Nala had helped escape, shot her for getting him wounded on Dantooine. He then told Zym that he had a message to pass on from Dar'Nala, but Zym tried to arrest him for his shooting of the captain. Braden attacked Zym, killing him, and the Grand Master's opportunity of finding out that the Sith Lord Baras was behind the attack on the Envoy was wasted. Zym's death caused a power vacuum in the Order that was filled by his successor Satele Shan two years later.

Satele Shan, the descendant of the famed Jedi Revan and Bastila Shan, was credited with rediscovering the Order's ancestral homeworld while still a Knight and was quickly appointed to the High Council as Jedi rallied around her for her discovery. Together with the Council, Shan argued that the Order should build their new headquarters deep within the Deep Core far from the Empire and the Republic and heal themselves through meditation and quiet reflection. The youngest Jedi to hold the position, Shan received the appointment with humility and vowed to lead the Order through the turbulence of the Cold War. As the relocation proved successful, Shan encouraged the growing number of Knights to take on Padawans and seek out other Force-sensitives who could be brought into the Order. As lost knowledge was recovered from the ancient Je'daii Temple of Kaleth, Shan's rebuilt High Council had access to knowledge long thought lost by past Grand Masters. Incorporating these teachings into the curriculum taught to the Jedi, Shan helped infuse the Order with a respect for the past and a mind for moving forward. Weathering the storm of the Empire's collapse and the strength of the Republic, Shan died in 3,618 BBY, leaving the duty of tracking down the remaining Sith in the hands of Caretaker of First Knowledge,



Several millennia later, Master Fae Coven held the title, leading reforms within the Order as it moved away from its militant position it held throughout the Old and New Sith Wars. During the Republic's Golden Age, Coven authored the Temple guidebook, The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, with the help of some of the leading Masters of the era. Master Coven served a long term, even meeting her eventual successor, Yoda.

List of Grand Masters[]

  • Biel Ductavis - Human (10,966 BBY—) (Supreme Chancellor)
  • Otta Cinn - Twi'lek (5,010 BBY—4,980 BBY)
  • Memit Nadill - (4,980 BBY—4,952 BBY)
  • Zerrid Odai - Cathar (4,952 BBY—4,918 BBY)
  • Baraga Barrezz - Meri (4,918 BBY—4,877 BBY)
  • Helrun Dol - Thisspiasian (4,877 BBY—4,652 BBY)
  • Odan-Urr - Draethos (4,652 BBY—3,996 BBY)
  • Nomi Da'Boda - Human (3,994 BBY—3,976 BBY)
  • Darin-Vel-Aath - Cerean (3,976 BBY—3,964 BBY)
  • Vrook Lamar - Human (3,964 BBY—3,951 BBY)
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