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"This Allya was a rogue Jedi, the Old Republic did not want to execute her, so the Jedi exiled her, hoping that given time she would turn away from the dark side."

- Luke Skywalker

Allya was a Jedi Knight of the Old Republic. Around 600 BBY she was expelled from the Jedi Order and exiled to a penal colony on Dathomir. Upon encountering the other former exiles, she used the planet's strong life energy to teach the colony's women to master the Force. These women became the Witches of Dathomir and Allya was their founder.

Biography
As a Force-sensitive women, Allya trained with the Jedi Order and eventually obtained the rank of Jedi Knight. But, approximately around 600 BBY she was seduced by evil and became a fallen Jedi. The Jedi Council, who rarely executed offenders, hoped that primitive isolation would force Allya to reflect on her Masters' teachings and return to the light. Since Dathomir, with its savage and rugged forests, had long served as a penal colony for some of the Republic's worst criminals, the Council choose to banish her there.

Upon her arrival at Dathomir, Allya discovered the planet's inhabitants who were the descendants of human warriors and droid engineers incarcerated by the extinct Paecian Empire. In time, Allya used the Force to tame the feral rancors and subjugate the prisoners, as well as any other desperate life forms. and established a matriarchal society with a genetic Force component. This new society filled with clans of female rancor tamers who used totems and incantations to generate their magic became known as the Witches of Dathomir. To govern the Witches, Allya wrote The Book of Law which would continue to govern even long after her death. Allya died when the oldest of her daughters was only sixteen, and thus the Witches of Dathomir never learned that the magic they used was actually the Force. Despite her death, Allya's society and unique culture had survived well into the modern eras.

Legacy
Hundreds of years later, the Hapan Queen Mother Tenel Ka's daughter Allana would be her partial namesake.

Appearances

 * The Courtship of Princess Leia

Notes and references
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