Tinté Vos

"You are a deceiving, manipulative murderer&mdash;and you deserve to die!"

- Quinlan Vos

Tinté Vos was the great-aunt of Kiffar Jedi Master Quinlan Vos and ruler of the twin worlds Kiffu and Kiffex during the time of the Galactic Republic.

Biography
Tinté began her career as a Kiffu Guardian, rising in rank to be their leader, while Kiffu and Kiffex were under the more benevolent rule of her brother Sheyf Kurlin Vos. Motivated by greed for power, she sacrificed Pethros and Quian Vos, father and mother of Quinlan Vos, to the Anzati who were on Kiffex to worship "The Dreaming One", Anzati Dark Jedi Volfe Karkko.

She then gave the guardian badges of his parents to young Quinlan, hoping to turn him to the Dark side and mold him into an heir for herself. This enraged Kurlin, who gave the Jedi Watchman; Tholme; permission to take Quinlan to the Jedi Temple for training. In response, Tinté poisoned her brother and assumed his mantle as Sheyf.

Death


Unwilling to bow to Count Dooku's wishes to turn Kiffu and Kiffex into a staging ground for Separatist forces during the Clone Wars, Tinté was killed by Quinlan Vos at Dooku's behest, after being forced to reveal her murder of Quinlan's parents.

In the aftermath of her death, Kiffu and Kiffex were repressed by the Confederacy.

Personality and traits
Like the Onderonian General Vaklu of ancient times, Sheyf Tinté Vos was possessed of extreme nationalist tendencies and beliefs, considering the Republic a cultural melting pot that would only use and exploit Kiffu and Kiffex for its own gain, but failed to see how her two worlds would fare without Republic trade and protection, leading to its fate at the hands of the Confederacy.

However, the planets likely would have been eventually oppressed anyway when the Galactic Empire rose to power. She was heartless, deceitful, and had no remorse, evident by how she refused to apologize to Quinlan after he learned the truth of how his parents died, a refusal that cost her her life.

Behind the scenes
Her name is correctly spelled "Tinté" in Jedi: Count Dooku. However, in both Twilight and Darkness, it is spelled "Tinte".

"Tante" is the French and German word for "aunt", and "Tinte" is also a German word that means "ink".

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic: Twilight
 * Star Wars Republic: Darkness
 * Jedi: Count Dooku
 * Star Wars Republic 63: Striking from the Shadows
 * Star Wars Republic: The Siege of Saleucami

Notes and references
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