Bant Eerin/Legends

"There's no need to apologize. You saved my life, you know."

- Eerin to Obi-Wan Kenobi

Bant Eerin was a female Mon Calamari Jedi Master and a childhood friend of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. She was also at least passing acquaintances with fellow Padawan Darsha Assant.

Biography


Brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant as a young girl, Bant Eerin befriended fellow Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, whose master, Qui-Gon Jinn was close friends with Eerin's own master, Tahl. Being of the Mon Calamari species, Eerin liked to be around water, and the atmosphere of her quarters at the Temple were always kept misty and humid. In 44 BBY Eerin aided her master and Master Jinn in searching for the culprit behind the series of robberies that were plaguing the Temple. When the stolen items were discovered at the bottom of the pool of water on the Lake Level of the Temple, Jinn asked Eerin to dive down and bring up the crates, due to her ability to hold her breath for extended periods of time. After recovering the objects, Eerin was kidnapped by fellow apprentice Bruck Chun, who had been swayed to the dark side by the mastermind behind the attacks on the Temple, Xanatos. Discovering that she was gone, the Jedi began searching for her; Apprentice Kenobi would find and rescue her from the bottom of the waterfall pool in the Room of a Thousand Fountains before she drowned.

Following the death of Tahl, Eerin's training was turned over to Master Kit Fisto. After passing the Jedi Trials and becoming a Knight Eerin went on to serve the Order, taking solo missions around the galaxy. During the Battle of Geonosis, Eerin flew a starfighter in the space battle that raged above the planet, alongside Master Adi Gallia and Gallia's former Padawan Siri Tachi. Eerin continued to lead troops during the Clone Wars, taking a Padawan and hunting down the Confederate scientist Bitt Panith in the Kashyyyk system. There, she and her Padawan dueled against one of the Separatists' most dangerous agents, Asajj Ventress. At the end of the fighting, Eerin was presumably killed during the Great Jedi Purge. Indeed, Eerin would be one of the Jedi Kenobi wistfully recalled during his exile on Tatooine.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Uncertain Path
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Ties That Bind
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Call to Vengeance
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions
 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Way of the Jedi
 * The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Dooku's Secret Army
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission

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