Vernestra Rwoh

Vernestra Rwoh was a Mirialan female Jedi Master who lived during the High Republic Era. She was also occasionally nicknamed "Vern", although she disliked it. Rwoh was the Padawan of Jedi Master Stellan Gios and she was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight at the age of fifteen, making her the youngest Jedi to achieve that rank in a long time. Inspired by a Force vision, Rwoh wielded a unique purple lightsaber that could elasticize its blade to become a lightwhip. Rwoh was aromantic, focusing on her training, and eventually climbed the ranks of the Jedi Order to become a respected Master.

Several months after being knighted, after turning sixteen, Rwoh's first proper Jedi mission was supervising Avon Starros, an aspiring inventor and the daughter of Senator Ghirra Starros, at the remote outpost Port Haileap. However, when Rwoh and Starros joined a party traveling on the starship Steady Wing to the Starlight Beacon, a new space station, the cruiser was bombed, leaving the two of them, Padawan Imri Cantaros, and a few others stranded on the jungle moon Wevo. After facing members of the pirate organization known as the Nihil, Rwoh took Cantaros on as her Padawan. Rwoh, although young for her rank, was devoted to the ideals of the Jedi Order and wished to help others as best she could.

After helping fight off the carnivorous plant-like Drengir on Starlight Beacon, she and her Padawan continued to fight the Nihil during the Jedi's conflict with the group, including facing them during the Valo Atrocity. She later helped take down the Nihil's Gravity well projector space station called the Gravity's Heart, where she received a mysterious hyperspace path from captive hyperspace savant Mari San Tekka. She also embarked on a mission to free several children captured by the Nihil on the planet Dalna, including Starros.

During the Destruction of Starlight Beacon, Rwoh was on Eiram, where she witnessed its fall to the planet's surface. She learned of her former master's death and assumed Cantaros and Starros perished as well when their bodies were not found. Suffering from grief and losing faith in the Jedi Council, Rwoh became a Wayseeker to follow the will of the Force instead. She returned to fighting to search for Cantaros when Starros came to her for help. After locating Cantaros in the Nihil-controlled space known as the Occlusion Zone, Rwoh knighted him before returning to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and sharing what she learned behind enemy lines.

Eventually, Rwoh would train another apprentice, an individual that would come to be known as "the Stranger," who would abandon the ways of the Jedi and align himself with the Sith. Nearly a century after the fall of Starlight Beacon, Rwoh would direct an investigation attempting the solve a string of Jedi murder cases. Though she would uncover that her former apprentice and his acolyte were behind the Jedi deaths, Rwoh would ultimately blame one of the victims—her friend and fellow Master Sol—for the killing spree in order to protect the Jedi Order's reputation in the eyes of an increasingly scrutinous Galactic Senate.

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