Krynda Draay

"Eyes of the Jedi."

- Vodo Siosk-Baas

Krynda Draay was a female half-breed Jedi Master of the pre-Ruusan Old Republic. Born to a Human mother and Miraluka father, she was apprenticed to Vodo-Siosk Baas and became a Sage Master. She married Barrison Draay, with whom she had a child, Lucien Draay. After the Great Sith War, she left the Jedi Order, but eventually went on teaching Jedi for thirty years without the supervision of the Jedi Council. She founded a Jedi cabal known as the Jedi Covenant, aimed at preventing the return of the Sith, but she was exposed to the Council by a memeber of one of her Watchcircles who sought to end the repercussions of the Padawan Massacre of Taris.

Early Years
"I want nothing more to do with the Jedi&mdash;or their wars."

- Krynda Draay

Due to her Miraluka heritage, Krynda was born with both sight and Force Sight. She was placed under the tutelage of Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas and trained as a Jedi Consular, eventually achieving the rank of Master. Though she possessed amazing powers of prognostication, when Krynda married a financier-turned-Jedi by the name of Barrison Draay, and became pregnant, her attentions were drawn elsewhere and she failed to see the rise of the Sith under Exar Kun. On the day that Ulic Qel-Droma had his first contact with the dark side of the Force in the Beast Wars, she gave birth to a son, Lucien Draay.

During the Great Sith Wars, a war she could not participate in due to the difficult birth of Lucien, she lost her first mentor, half-sister, fellow Jedi and her husband Barrison. For years she blamed herself for these deaths and stayed into seclusion on Coruscant, spending her days in shame in the Draay estate, though still taking help from her husband's former Padawan and retainer, Haazen, to manage the household. She refused all contact with the Jedi Order, who were hoping she would return to active duty as a seer. Even though her son was an only child and grew up without a father, Krynda was distant from Lucien, leaving him to be brought up mostly under the care of the household droid 9BD and Haazen.

Forming the Covenant
"There are more Jedi loyal to Krynda Draay than you can imagine, Hierogryph."

- Master Xamar to Marn Hierogryph

In 3,993 BBY, Haazen brought to the Draay Estate a young Miraluka girl named Q'Anilia. Krynda sensed something special in the child and agreed to train her. Drawn back into the Jedi Order, she began a secret organization&mdash;the Jedi Covenant&mdash;to prevent the Sith from ever returning again. To this end, Krynda personally set out to train the greatest Consulars of the Order, which she hoped would be strong enough to find the shatterpoint that was to lead to the next Sith outbreak. The Covenant would then take any action necessary to stamp it out immediately. Several Watchcircles were formed, some of them using Jedi foresight even for investment advice, siphoning power to the Draay Trust, which would then lend influence to the Covenant both in the Republic and Jedi Order. They also made use of Shadows to search dangerous Sith artifacts and dispose of them. However, this goal became an obsession, and blinded Krynda to the rise of the dark side through other means until it was too late.



During the training of the Jedi Covenant members, Krynda's relationship with Lucien became unpleasant. Due to Lucien inheriting his fathers traits instead of his mothers, Krynda left him under tutelage of Haazen rather than herself and as such, she became more of a mother towards Q'Anilia than Lucien.

In 3,988 BBY Krynda predicted the coming of the most potent seers her secret sect would ever train; the WatchCircle which would forsee the return of the Sith. Eventually, she would encounter these students:

"This is the finest group of seers I've ever had before me! Raana Tey, Xamar, Q'Anilia--easily the best of their species! And who ever heard of a Feeorin Jedi? But Feln is a natural. It's the group I've foreseen. The ones who'll do what must be done!"

- Krynda Draay on the First WatchCircle

In addition to the four seers she had selected, her own son - Lucien - was chosen to be the Hand, a position that was suggested by Haazen; and was responsible for handling arrangements and protection for the Consulars. Together, these five Jedi made up the "First WatchCircle".

Repercussions of the Padawan Massacre
"I've never seen a grown man call his mother so often."

- Marn Hierogryph on Lucien Draay's frequent contact with Krynda after the massacre

As of 3,964 BBY, Krynda was acting as "associate" and advisor to the First WatchCircle, who by this time were stationed together as Jedi Masters in the Jedi Temple on Taris in order to secretly recover the Muur Talisman, a Sith artifact of great power.

During a joint meditation on the rogue moon, the WatchCircle envisioned the destruction of the Jedi Order and the rule of the Sith. Master Q'Anilia foresaw that some female figure&mdash;presumably Krynda&mdash;would be killed on Coruscant during the First Jedi Purge by a red-suited Sith Lord; though the accuracy of the vision is in doubt. Whilst Krynda did not sanction the Padawan Massacre of Taris, it was carried out at least partly out of the desire to protect her.



After Padawan Zayne Carrick escaped the Masters' grasp and the Taris security force entered the chase, tagging Zayne as a wanted criminal, Lucien Draay, who was Zayne's Master, told Krynda that the intervention of "civil authorities" was "expected". When Lucien and the other members of the Covenant went to visit her on Coruscant, Haazen denied them entrance and later would not tell Lucien where Krynda was. However, weeks later Haazen confirmed that she was indeed upstairs in the Estate; unharmed, alive and well.

More recently, the dying Raana Tey (one of Krynda's numerous apprentices in the Jedi Covenant) asked Zayne Carrick to tell her master, Krynda, that she was "sorry". A statue and memorial was constructed outside the Draay Estate in honor of the fallen Togruta, though it appears that Krynda did not attend the memorial service.

Before being put in stasis, Covenant agent Celeste Morne asked Zayne to find Krynda and tell her what had really happened to his friends, believing she would never allow something like that to happen. Zayne then became determined to find Krynda and put an end to her Covenant.

Hostile takeover
Just prior to Zayne Carricks's arrival and confrontation with the First WatchCircle over the Padawan Massacre, Haazen surprised and horrified them all as he revealed himself as a servant of the dark side. Soon he, not Krynda, was the leader of the Jedi Covenant, pitting the Jedi Knights against one another—true Jedi of the Order vs. the misguided Jedi of the Covenant.

Behind the scenes

 * Before the stand alone issue, Homecoming, Krynda was known only as the "Jedi associate" of the Jedi Covenant on Taris.

Appearances

 * 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 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 24: Knights of Suffering, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 25: Vector, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 27: Vector, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 28: Vector, Part 4
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Exalted
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 31: Turnabout
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 32: Vindication, Part 1