Ilia Orpin

Ilia Orpin was a female Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order as a historian and the gatekeeper of a Jedi holocron. Providing an extensive account of the Order's history and origins, Orpin's greatest work was titled the "Revan Mythologies." Many of the stories contained in the mythologies tell tales of a reptilian species the Rakata, and how their Infinite Empire came to dominate the galaxy through the use of exotic machinery and hyperspace-capable ships that employed the Force as a power source. Jedi heroes in the Revan Mythologies often discover Rakatan devices of immense power, and were forced to choose between destroying the devices or being corrupted by their power. In the wake of the rise of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of the Jedi, Orpin's work was oft dismissed by scholars as myth and legends. These scholars believed that the mythologies were an updated derivative reworking of the Qel-Droma Epics to better acculturate Jedi younglings of the day.

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