Lost Twenty/Legends



"Only twenty Jedi have ever left the Order.''" "''The Lost Twenty. And Count Dooku was the most recent and the most painful. No one likes to talk about it. His leaving was a great loss to the Order."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jocasta Nu

The Lost Twenty, originally known as The Lost, was the name given to the Jedi Masters who had voluntarily resigned their commission and left the Jedi Order over ideological differences.

History
"You're one of the Lost Twenty. Like Dooku.''" "''I am the twenty-first, Master Shryne. Surely you've heard of Anakin Skywalker. The Chosen One."

- Roan Shryne and Darth Vader



One of the earliest members of the Lost Twenty was the Umbaran Jedi Master Phanius, who eventually became Darth Ruin, the first Dark Lord of the Sith in the New Sith Empire. Over time more would leave; twelve by 990 BBY, and ending with the twentieth member, Master Dooku. Leaving the Order in 32 BBY because of a growing disenchantment with the Galactic Senate, Dooku would fall under the tutelage of Darth Sidious and become the next Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Tyranus. Following the dissolution of the Order in 19 BBY, the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker considered himself to be the twenty-first member of this group.

Along with the most venerable Masters, the Lost were remembered in the form of busts in the Jedi Archives; a reminder of the Jedi's greatest failures, though the Jedi did not fault the individuals for leaving, regarding the statues as a reminder that the Jedi were not perfect and that sometimes they might fail to provide what a Jedi might seek out of life. On each bust's pedestal, the great deeds of the Master it commemorated were listed, though it gave no mention of why he or she left the Order.

Sidious later jotted down notes about the Twenty in the Book of Sith under Sorzus Syn's diary section on the First Great Schism, where he mentioned that the Lost Twenty were examples of Jedi who left the Order yet did not become combatants, while expressing his disgust at their philosophies being retained.

The Lost Twenty is indirectly tied to The Clone Wars television series due to one of the main characters of the story, Ashoka Tano, leaving the Jedi Order in the height of the fifth season. Making the Lost Twenty the Lost Twenty One.



Behind the scenes
It is unknown if the Lost comprise the entire history of the Order, or only a specific period of the Order's existence.

According to Pablo Helman on the Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones DVD Commentary, the bronzium busts that are shown in the room during the scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi speaks to Jocasta Nu include busts of himself, George Lucas, Rob Coleman, and John Knoll. It is not known if any of the four were meant to represent any of the Lost Twenty.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Rule of Two
 * Darth Plagueis
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones novel
 * Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones junior novel
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Star Wars: Purge: Seconds to Die
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Scourge
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Scourge