Azlin Rell

Azlin Rell was a human male Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order during the High Republic Era. A naturally humble and self-effacing individual, Rell deeply trusted in the Force and cared about undertaking his duties as a Jedi. He was also a longtime friend of the Wookiee Jedi Arkoff, who had once been his master. He was assigned on a service tour of the Outer Rim Territories and the frontier, accompanied by his astromech droid, C-9. During the tour, Rell went on various missions, once visiting the Relik moons.

In 382 BBY, Rell came to the planet Tiikae to assist a trade outpost threatened by a large herd of migrating grass sharks. Finding the task too large for himself and C-9 to handle, he made a distress call which was answered by Jedi Master Zallah Macri and her Padawan, Kevmo Zink. Together, the group was able to successfully divert the creatures. Afterward, Macri and Zink were sent on a search for a stolen Force artifact called the Rod of Seasons, ending up going to investigate the Path of the Open Hand cult on the planet Dalna as a result, while Rell wrote some reports and made some repairs, before planning to return to the Jedi outpost on the moon Jedha. However, while en route, Rell was asked to search for the pair on Dalna as the Jedi had lost contact with them. Rell's search led him to find only the Master and apprentice's mysteriously calcified remains in the Path's compound.

After reporting his discovery on Coruscant, Rell discovered while researching in the Jedi Archives that the Rod of Seasons was connected to the Echo Stone. Rell eventually joined a party of Jedi sent by and containing members of the Jedi High Council to investigate the Path of the Open Hand on Dalna because of the bodies he found and in the aftermath of the Battle of Jedha. However, the Path attacked them and many other Jedi there, sparking a devastating battle known as the Night of Sorrow. During the battle, Rell encountered Nameless creatures deployed by the Path against the Jedi, and was around them to such a degree that he was driven insane and plagued with hallucinations as a result. Once the battle was over, Rell began creating a journal in a crazed frenzy that contained information about the creatures. He was eventually checked in to the Gravan Monastery sanatorium as a result, his journal eventually hidden away by his friend Arkoff. Rell then disappeared and abandoned the Jedi, falling to the dark side of the Force.

Rell reappeared a century and a half later when Grand Master Yoda went in search of him shortly after the Nihil destroyed Starlight Beacon, hoping that his many years of obsessive research on the Nameless could help the order combat the beasts.

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