Ood Bnar

Ood Bnar was a Neti Jedi Master.

Biography


Bnar survived the apocalyptic catastrophe on Ossus, the ancient center of Jedi learning, when the world was battered by the intense radiation of a stellar nova in a nearby system. Up to that day he had been a vaunted scholar of the order with a unique insight into the nature of Sith teachings, and had created a number of holocrons that were to be used by other Jedi Masters, among them Master Vodo-Siosk Baas.

Bnar was only a thousand years old &mdash; young by Neti standards &mdash; when he recorded his prophecies in a holocron. This holocron would be used by Nomi Sunrider in 4,000 BBY. He instructed several Jedi, like Shaela Nuur, who would eventually inherit his Solari crystal. Though not much of a fighter by nature, he was unwilling to yield to plundering Sith forces.

Millennia later, Ood Bnar was inadvertently discovered by Luke Skywalker when the Jedi Master visited the ruined planet during the conflict between the Galactic Empire and the New Republic. The venerable tree-like shape of the Jedi Master was firmly rooted into the ground over a deposit of hundreds of lightsabers. Alas, he could not share his wisdom with the New Jedi Order, as he died defending the small group of Jedi from Executor Sedriss, an evil pawn of the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Sedriss had approached the meditating Master, thinking him a dead tree. The ancient Jedi Master awoke, grappled with him and, by calling down energy from the planet itself, disintegrated both of them. However, he left a descendant behind.



Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Shadows and Light
 * Dark Empire II