Eison Gynt

"Possessed by the dark spirit of Naga Sadow, Gynt attacked his former master in broad daylight. The brutal battle between the two was staged with all of the Republic watching. Gynt’s borrowed powers were formidable, but Master Ovair won the day."

- Gnost-Dural

Eison Gynt was a fourth generation Jedi Knight of the Old Republic. In his youth, he was considered as the most promising padawan in the Jedi Order. He was apprenticed to Master Barel Ovair, a secret infiltrator from the Sith Empire. While on a mission to Yavin 4 to explore the tomb of the Sith Lord Naga Sadow, Gynt and Ovair were attacked by Massassi warriors and forced into the depths of the tomb.

Ovair returned alone to Coruscant and claimed that Gynt had been killed. In truth, Gynt had survived, and had been possessed by Sadow's spirit. Gynt arrived on Coruscant several years after the mission, garbed as a Massassi warrior, and attacked his master in broad daylight. Ovair killed him outright, being hailed as a hero by the Galactic Republic for his actions.

Jedi Master Gnost-Dural would later document Gynt's actions, and discover that Ovair was really a Sith infiltrator who used Gynt to subdue Sadow's spirit in order to make the Sith Emperor's plan to invade the Republic easier.

Behind the scenes
Eison Gynt was first introduced in a timeline entry for the Star Wars: The Old Republic video game. In the timeline transcript, Gynt's name is misspelled once as "Eeson Gynt".

Appearances

 * Timeline 7: Peace for the Republic (video)

Eison Gynt