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"We five are part of a sacred trust, Zayne. A Jedi Covenant - to stand watch and make certain that [a Sith War] never happens again."

- Q'Anilia

The Jedi Covenant was a secret organization of Jedi headquartered on Coruscant in the time of the Old Sith Wars. It was established after the end of the Great Sith War by Krynda Draay, who felt that it was her failing for not sensing the fall of Exar Kun to the dark side. The Covenant's goal was to use Jedi Consulars as Shadows to search for a shatterpoint that might lead to the resurrection of the Sith, and then take any action necessary to prevent that. The Covenant hated the Sith with a passion, which in itself was an aberration of the Jedi Code. They believed that had such an organization existed before the Sith War, they could have recognized the threat posed by Exar Kun when he was still a Jedi.

History
The existence and motives of the Covenant remained unknown to many Jedi Masters. Not even the membership of the Dantooine Enclave Council and Jedi High Council knew of its existence. However, it had allies in high places. The fact that the four Consulars were stationed together was an oddity of the Order at the time.



The five Masters of the Jedi Tower&mdash;Feln, Q'Anilia, Raana Tey, Xamar, and Krynda's son Lucien&mdash;were members within the Covenant known as First WatchCircle. The first four were among the greatest Consulars of the Jedi Order, and were apparently the premier prognosticators of the Covenant while Lucien served as its "hand." A group known as "Watchcircle Vodo" was also part of the Covenant to some degree.

Krynda, being its founder, was also a member of the Covenant. She outranked the Taris Masters in the Covenant structure and was its apparent leader. She had been active in it since the end of the Great Sith War, and had personally trained many, if not all of its greatest Consulars. However, her obsession blinded her to the true threat when it eventually developed.



There were no lengths that the Covenant would not go in order to prevent the rise of the Sith. The Covenant's Coruscant leadership sanctioned the Padawan Massacre of Taris after the Tarisian Jedi Masters had a vision of the destruction wrought by Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War and the First Jedi Purge. It appeared to be carried out by a Sith Lord in a red environmental suit, which might have served as a symbol that one of their Padawans would fall to the dark side, considering they were all wearing that same suit at the time the visions took place.

The Padawan Massacre of Taris was carried out, but allowed one Padawan to escape. Much to their surprise Lucien's own Padawan, Zayne Carrick, was the only one to survive and escape. After being captured by the bounty hunter Valius Ying, Zayne was returned to the Jedi Tower. But again he escaped his fate with the help of Jarael who had disguised herself as the Sith Lord from the masters' visions. As a result, riots broke out on Taris and the Covenant's presence forced to relocate to Coruscant due to their failure to capture Zayne. But they did not leave before Zayne sent a message to the five masters. Zayne assured them that he would hunt down each of them, only sparing the one who confessed and cleared his name of the atrocity they committed. He also told them that if he did indeed bring about the Jedi Order's demise, they were to remember that it began with them.

The members of the Covenant returned to Coruscant and attempted to meet with their leader and associate, Krynda Draay, but were denied entrance. Later, they met with the Jedi High Council. Vrook Lamar ordered that they be separated due to the events that had transpired on Taris, although the Council did not know of the masters' specific acts.

During their separate missions, several Covenant members were experiencing visions of very terrible events: Q'Anilia sensing the many deaths on Serroco, Raana having nightmares of Zayne's possible revenge, and Lucien being betrayed and captured by his old friend, Arkoh Adasca, whom reunited him with Zayne on Omonoth. Zayne later escaped back to Taris after Adasca was killed by his family's own creation.

When Zayne returns to Taris, Raana had beat him to the punch and ordered Shad Jelavan's younger sister, Shel, to kill Zayne. However, the Taris Resistance needed everyone to help drive the Mandalorians away from the planet, even fugitives like Zayne. Raana disagreed with having a "future Sith" as a comrade.

Raana was the first of the Covenant to die, having been caught in the explosion of the Jedi Tower on Taris.

Failure
Despite the Covenant's attempt, the Sith returned when the Jedi Knights Revan and Alek Squinquargesimus turned to the dark side and founded a new Sith Empire.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 12: Reunion, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 16: Nights of Anger, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 18: Nights of Anger, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Daze of Hate
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Knights of Suffering
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Vector