Larraine Anima Renui was born on Tatooine to a Jedi Knight and his ex-Jedi wife. Lara grew up without hardly knowing her father or older brother, Jamar Renui, who was a Jedi Padawan. After the Great Jedi Purge, when Obi-Wan Kenobi moved to Tatooine, Lara met Obi-Wan, and the two forged a friendship. When Lara's mother was killed in a stormtrooper raid, Obi-Wan took Lara in, and soon grew aware of the girl's attentiveness to the ways of the Force, though Lara had no idea of her power. He told her, and she agreed to become a Jedi.