Handmaiden Sisters

The Handmaiden Sisters were the six daughters of the Echani General Yusanis. After the Jedi Civil War, they served as handmaidens to Jedi Master Atris in a secret Jedi Academy on Telos IV. They trained extensively in a variety of combat styles employing close-quarter weaponry and unarmed combat, and they were all highly skilled in the renowned martial art of the Echani and its advanced forms. Their weapon of choice was a quarterstaff which could collapse into its handgrip; Brianna, the youngest sister, kept one such weapon which once belonged to her father.

The eldest five were seemingly identical, as Echani children born of the same parents were usually indistinguishable to non-Echani; the sixth and youngest of them, however, bore the face of her mother, Jedi Master Arren Kae. When Kae was exiled from the Jedi Order and joined Revan in the Mandalorian Wars, their father followed, betraying a person to whom he owed his allegiance. The shame he brought upon his daughters for the sake of his feelings for Kae, who also betrayed her oaths, was cause for them to run down their little sister, often commenting that things such as betrayal run in the blood, and that she took after her mother. Although Brianna swore not to follow their path, she still honored her parents, and would carry their legacy, donning Kae's Jedi apparel for training and wielding her father's weapon.

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