Raana Tey

"My, you do dance with the dark side, don't you?"

- Lucien Draay

Raana Tey was a female Togruta and one of the five Jedi Masters implicated in the Padawan Massacre of Taris. Raana maintained a reputation among the Jedi Order as being "wild" and "edgy" due to her individualism in combat, in no small part caused by her Togruta background. However, Raana Tey was a victim of nightmares and headaches as a result of her natural Force sensitivity. Only after coming under the tutelage of Jedi Master Krynda Draay was she able to cope with these terrors.

Dedicated, Raana Tey became a Sage Master and member of the First WatchCircle of the Jedi Covenant. Raana Tey became the teacher of a Falleen girl named Kamlin. However, the WatchCircle's devotion to preventing the rise of the Sith again led to a vision of a Sith Lord, and so the members struck down each of their own Padawans during their Knighting ceremony with the exception of Zayne Carrick, on whom the Covenant would lay blame for the murders, resulting in a galaxy-wide chase. Due to murdering her own apprentice, Raana Tey's sanity began to erode as her headaches and nightmares turned for the worse and the WatchCircle she had grown to depend on for support was dissolved by the Jedi High Council.

Raana would work to find Zayne and his companions relentlessly as she hired bounty hunters and turned old friends against the fugitive Padawan. It wouldn't be until the siege on Taris by Mandalorians that she'd finally confront him once again. Though forced to work with him by the resistance that had risen up against the Mandalorians, she became overwhelmed and attacked Zayne inside the Jedi Tower. She fought Zayne to a standstill before she was stabbed in the back by Shel Jelavan and finally killed when the Tower exploded.

Rise of the Jedi Covenant
"This is the finest group of seers I've ever had before me! Raana Tey, Xamar, Q'Anilia&mdash;easily the best of their species!"

- Krynda Draay

As a child, Raana Tey experienced nightmares and severe traumatic headaches. Doctors on her homeworld of Shili were baffled and unable to lessen the pain. However, a passing Jedi on the planet discovered the young girl. The Jedi suspected that Raana's nightmares were actually Force Visions. Subsequently, Raana was sent to Coruscant for medical treatment with the assistance of Jedi Master Krynda Draay. What the Jedi suspected turned to be true, and Krynda took it upon herself to help the young Togruta and was in desperate need of help who was at risk of losing her life.

Krynda arranged for therapy sessions with her other students in order to help her regulate her thoughts and cope with day-to-day life. Raana Tey was eternally grateful to Master Krynda, and devoted herself to her cause. Krynda's cause was that of preventing the rise of the Sith in the galaxy again after the Great Sith War. Raana Tey became one of the greatest seers in the Jedi Order and the youngest member to be part of the First WatchCircle.

The WatchCircle became an integral part of Raana Tey's life. The members of the circle&mdash;seers Q'Anilia, Feln, Xamar, and the WatchCircle's "hand," Lucien Draay, gave support to her mental state to the point where Raana Tey relied on them almost completely. The WatchCircle always stayed together and posted at the same places across the Galaxy &mdash; a fact which baffled Master Vrook Lamar on the Jedi High Council, members of which had no knowledge of Krynda's secret organization.

Though reliant on others, Raana Tey developed herself as an individual albeit a wild and aggressive one, using her wariness to give her an edge over her opponents. However, despite these traits, Raana was still second to Lucien, Krynda's son, in terms of combat, with Lucien beating her during practice sessions&mdash;sessions which Krynda reluctantly allowed. Tey had once overheard a vision from Krynda after she and Q'Anilia shared a vision themselves. This vision was about The Prophecy of the Five where there would five individuals who would stand in the different alignments of the Force.

The Jedi Covenant's visions
"I'm back on Taris. Something's wrong. The temple! Mandalorians? And Sith! No, it's&mdash;"

- Raana Tey

Raana Tey and the other Circle members became assigned to the still non-aligned planet of Taris where each of them took a Padawan learner. A Falleen girl named Kamlin became Tey's student. In 3,964 BBY, while each of their students went through their trials on Taris' rogue moon, a place where the Force flowed freely, the Covenant sat in meditation together to see the future that lay before them. Raana Tey envisioned herself on Taris while Mandalorians and Sith invaded and then herself struck down from behind by an individual wielding a lightsaber. Each other member envisioned similar events all committed by an being in a red space suit: the same suits that their Padawans were using during their trials. Terrified by these visions, Raana suggested that they kill the Padawans immediately. However, after discussing this new threat, the Covenant returned to Taris with their Padawans as if nothing had happened, though Raana and her fellow Masters began to scheme behind the scenes to destroy the shatterpoint of the events they foresaw.

Lucien contacted Krynda and her retainer as well as his master, Haazen, on the visions. Though instructed otherwise, Lucien arranged for the group to murder each of their own Padawans during their Knighting ceremony and then lay blame on Q'Anilia's beloved student and the best of the class, Shad Jelavan. However, the students recognized something was amiss as the Covenant agreed to Knight the inept student Zayne Carrick. The group attempted to cover their tracks and hide their true intentions, claiming that Zayne had a special connection to the Force that would arise in time. Their students didn't refused to believe them, and before Zayne Carrick could arrive, the Covenant was forced to strike down their students. With all four slain, Zayne arrived to witness the group of Masters standing over each of their dead Padawans with their sabers drawn.

A pursuit began as Zayne made his escape. Zayne was able to make it back to his speeder with the arrested con artist, Marn Hierogryph. As he attempted to make his way out the Jedi Tower, Raana Tey continued to pursue them, though she only managed to slice away Hierogryph's pod as he hopped onto the back of the speeder. The chase then took to the sky as Tey, along with Lucien, Feln, and Xamar, chased Zayne and Hierogryph and through a nearby school. The pair evaded capture as Tey interrogated students about the direction that the two criminals had taken.

Though Zayne had escaped, the Covenant arranged for the Taris Civil Authorities to find him. Using the Force, Tey and the seers foresaw Zayne and Gryph head into the Undercity of Taris. The group followed, though all they found were hordes of rakghouls and Gamorrean slavers. Q'Anilia rationalized that since the involvement of Marn Hierogryph, their senses had been clouded, and the accuracy of their visions regarding Zayne was becoming unclear. However, the Civil Authorities discovered the pair in the Lower City headed towards refugee camps outside Machineville.

With Constable Sowrs and her forces in tow, the Covenant invaded the place known as Junk Junction. This alerted two of its residents, whom Zayne and Gryph had just met up with, to restart the systems of an old junk hauler known as The Last Resort. While Raana attempted to gain entrance to the hauler, she failed and was forced to let the hauler take off. Zayne and Marn Hierogryph once again evaded capture and this time took on two more companions, Arkanian off-shoots known only as Camper and Jarael.

With the criminals hiding out in the asteroid field around Taris, bounties were placed on Zayne's head after Lucien failed to capture him on the Rogue Moon. The bounty hunter Valius Ying managed to "capture" Zayne and return him to Taris, where Raana Tey and her fellow Masters awaited to pass sentence on him. When brought before them, Zayne revealed everything that he had discovered, including their visions. Lucien retold the story of what had happened at the Knighting ceremony, and as he was about to end Zayne's life, the power in the Tower ceased and an explosion was heard. At first, Raana speculated that a bomb had gone off but in reality, the Tower had been hit with blaster fire. Suddenly, a red-suited individual wielding a lightsaber crashed through the glass ceiling. While the Covenant believed that this was the Sith Lord that they had seen, this individual was actually the Arkanian girl Jarael. While Raana and the others rushed for their sabers, Zayne hurled their weapons from the tower. Jarael and Zayne then escaped the tower and then Taris along with Camper and Gryph aboard the Last Resort, beginning a long chase around the galaxy to end the Sith threat.

Three weeks after the incident, riots began in the Lower City, and the Jedi could no longer preserve order with the constable's family taken captive and the Senator, Goravvus, missing. While Raana wished to stay on Taris to preserve the peace, Lucien disagreed and knew that they must take their leave. At that moment, Q'Anilia arrived with an important holographic message from Zayne. The message stated that he had his own vision as well. Each of the Masters would be hunted down until one of them confessed and cleared his name. This message terrified Raana, and the nightmares that she'd coped with grew worse.

Dissolving the WatchCircle
"No! Master, you can't&mdash;" "That's enough! If we're going to have a Jedi Council at all, then somebody, somewhere, is going to do what it tells them!"

- Raana Tey and Vrook Lamar, upon dissolving the WatchCircle

With Taris left to its own, Raana Tey and her fellow Circle members were recalled to Coruscant to meet with the Jedi High Council. However, the group made a stop at the Draay Estate to meet with Krynda over the matter of Zayne Carrick. Unfortunately, Krynda refused to see any guests, and they were denied entrance into her home. Lucien, disgruntled at his mother's refusal to see them, then threatened to send Raana, or "the wild one," over to monitor the Republic security forces' progress if they did not act quickly in the search of Zayne.

Soon afterwards, the Covenant met with Jedi High Council in the Jedi Temple. While speaking with the Council, four holographic displays of the Padawans that were slain stood before them. Vrook Lamar lectured the five over their failures as instructors and as protectors, recalling the wisdom of Master Vandar Tokare.

Despite Vrook's lectures, Vandar continued to blame himself for the deaths of the Padawans, as he should have regarded the Masters' reluctance to take the Padawans as their students in the first place. Lucien requested that he and the others be allowed to lead the search for Zayne Carrick. Vrook was still not impressed and denied the request. Vrook ordered them to be reassigned and separated to different postings. Raana protested this order, but Vrook dismissed them. While leaving the Temple, Raana passionately criticized the Council over their lectures of neutrality.

For some time, Raana had been working on a project of her own, one that would lure Zayne Carrick. When Tey handed the project over to Lucien, he commented that she did indeed "dance with the dark side." This was of little concern, however, as he approved the plan provided she did not make it known that they were involved.

Raana's project involved using the Draay Trust, a company started by Lucien's deceased father, to become involved in a consortium with other companies such as Czerka and Adascorp. The consortium then bought out a bank on Zayne Carrick's homeworld of Phaeda using Arvan Carrick, Zayne's father, to draw him out. While collecting Zayne on Phaeda would arouse too much attention, it was arranged for Arvan to be transferred to the world of Telerath. Raana hired bounty hunters to watch Arvan and see if he made contact with Zayne. These bounty hunters, however, were not of the caliber desired. Del and Dob Moomo, or simply the Moomo Brothers, interpreted Raana's direct orders as they pleased and kidnapped Arvan instead.

The two returned to their ship and contacted Tey about their captive. Tey became infuriated with the two and ordered them to stay awake and not to do anything while she consulted the other Covenant members for an alternate plan. Later that night, Tey contacted the Moomo Brothers and informed them that they couldn't allow for Arvan to leave. Tey's and the Covenant's solution would be to meet up with the Brothers in orbit around Telerath and finally deal with Arvan once and for all. While relating the plans to Del, unknown to her, Zayne Carrick had already come to Telerath and discovered that his father had been captured, but also listened in on her conversation, putting Tey at the top of his list of Covenant members to hunt down.

The final assignment
"I see him every time I close my eyes. It's why I took this assignment."

- Raana Tey, to Shel Jelavan



A mission for the Chancellor
At this time, Raana was on a special assignment, attached to the Supreme Chancellor. The Chancellor requested that she be assigned to find Taris' missing Senator in order to get testimony regarding Jervo Thalien and Lhosan Industries. This assignment became a difficult task, as her nightmares grew worse without the support of her fellow Circle members, and the nightmares also made her nearly useless as a seer. She became unable to sleep, and the wariness she once possessed

Though given medication by doctors, one such nightmare occurred while on a fast space liner en route to Taris. In the nightmare, Raana was a young Togruta on Taris during a Mandalorian and Sith invasion. She entered the Jedi Temple, and apologized to the Masters for her tardiness. Inside, what she found were not Masters but rather the students she and the others had murdered, standing over the bodies clad in the red environmental suit she had foreseen. While the young Togruta claimed that they had abandoned it, the dead Padawans claimed that they never left it. Zayne was among the Padawans, and reminded her of his vision&mdash;the one who confesses lives. The Padawans Gharn and Oojoh seized Raana as they brought her closer to a body which she tearfully screamed that she didn't want to see. Zayne removed the helmet and told her that she might see someone she knew.

The nightmare ended, and while a droid on the space liner requested that Raana ask the ship's doctor for an increase in dosage, she refused and knew that the only way to end her nightmares was to kill Zayne. But not only Zayne was in her sights. She also vowed to hunt down Jarael, the "white-haired witch", who had rescued him.

Mandalorians and "Sith"
On Taris, the Mandalorians, led by Cassus Fett, had already besieged the planet. Raana managed to locate the missing Senator, as Goravvus was leading the Taris Resistance. Allying herself with them, Raana Tey managed to meet up with the sister of one of the deceased Padawans, Shel Jelavan. Prior to leaving Taris, Raana and the other Masters had removed the lightsaber crystals from the Padawans' lightsabers and had them sent to their families as remembrance. Tey had been the one to give Shel the crystal that she held dearly around her neck, the crystal Shel still held onto when Raana gave her a mission. The mission would be to find Zayne Carrick and to extract revenge on him for murdering her brother, Shad Jelavan.

Fortune would have it that Zayne would come to Taris and ally himself with the Hidden Bek gang in the Lower City. The Hidden Beks, with Zayne in tow, came to the Resistance headquarters to ally themselves with them. Almost instantly, Shel emerged from the crowd that had gathered to see the visitors. While Zayne was delighted to see Shel, Shel pulled out a blaster and shot Zayne. Tey herself emerged from the crowd as well and drew her lightsaber. While the blast stunned him only due to the briefcase he carried, Shel had Zayne at her mercy. Tey ordered Shel to finish Zayne off.

However, Zayne had been accompanied by not only the Hidden Beks but Marn Hierogryph and Del Moomo, one of the bounty hunters Tey had hired on Telerath. While Del wanted the bounty for his own, Raana became enraged and attacked him. Before she was able to harm to the Ithorian, Gadon Thek and his Hidden Bek gang members raised their weapons and ordered her to back off. The Resistance forces did the same towards Gadon. Senator Goravvus emerged and asked Raana to stand down, believing that Beks and Zayne meant no harm. Raana protested under the grounds that they were both criminals. Gadon Thek made Goravvus an offer of help when he revealed Constable Sowrs's children, Nahk and Tallie. Gadon informed the Senator that Zayne had found them. Raana continued to protest the acceptance of Zayne into the resistance, believing him to be a Sith. Raana Tey reluctantly agreed to work with Zayne though she still had her own plans to carry out.

Marn Hierogryph, also employed to search for the Senator, contacted his employer, Jervo Thalien on Coruscant. Before Goravvus and Jervo could discuss the matters of the shady dealings they had in the past, Goravvus was seized by Del Moomo, attempting to claim the bounty Jervo had actually placed on Goravvus. Raana Tey sprung into action and attacked Del again. Goravvus was flung into the Jedi and Del took to attacking her directly. While the two fought each other with merely their fists, Jervo activated a bomb that had been placed inside the communicator. Instantly, Raana and Del ceased their fighting as the bomb was about to explode. However, the communicator had been damaged when Shel shot Zayne and failed to detonate. Raana attempted to see what had happened but confessed to the Senator that she knew nothing anything about it. Del Moomo on the other hand knew that it was an MM-40 Thermal Charge and the blaster shot had overloaded the connection. Goravvus ended the communication and the rest of their dealings with Jervo there.

Later, Raana overheard Zayne, Shel and Gryph arguing over the Padawan Massacre. Raana Tey entered into their conversation and told them that she couldn't have killed Shad Jelavan. While Zayne agreed with her there, he knew that she had actually killed Kamlin. Raana told Shel that he was simply using the Dark Side to persuade her to his side. Zayne shot back quickly with the knowledge he had acquired from Lucien while at Omonoth regarding Raana's insomnia. Shel became frustrated at both of them and stormed out, wishing she never met any of them. Goravvus, Gadon and Sowrs then entered and informed Raana of Cassus Fett's usage of the Jedi Tower as his command center. Raana suspected that Goravvus wished to involve her in military activities against him and informed the Senator that the Jedi were not involved in the war and that she would not be part of military action.

Goravvus and the Resistance quickly put a plan into action to make a move against Cassus Fett in the Tower. While the Resistance at first simply wanted to use explosives on the Tower, Zayne intervened and factored in any prisoners or people living near in the area near by. Goravvus agreed and asked Raana for ways to sneak into the Tower in order to properly reconnoiter the situation and confirm that only Mandalorians would be caught in an explosion. Goravvus requested for Tey to show them the way, but Raana still refused to disobey the Jedi. Zayne and Shel volunteered for the job instead. Tey knew she could use the opportunity to end Zayne and volunteered herself to protect Shel against Zayne and Mandalorians, still believing him to be the same incompetent Padawan from his training.

Prophecy fulfilled
"No, you will set loose the destruction! My only hope is that I'm not too late &mdash; that you haven't done it already!"

- Raana Tey, to Zayne Carrick

Raana took Shel aside and told her of the plan&mdash;and of her weakening condition. Raana felt that she would soon die by Carrick's blade, which caused her to insist on Shel's promise to finish the fugitive Padawan should she fall. Raana detailed the processes of reinstalling Shad's lightsaber crystal, the weapon she would use to execute Zayne. Though Zayne and Shel entered the tower with the use of the Mandalorian armor, Raana Tey entered through a shaft from below. Raana Tey entered the tower as Shel opened up the grate from inside a storage room. Tey knew that Shel had the chance to eliminate Zayne but did not take it. Raana rushed off to find Zayne and finish her mission. She managed to find him in the Council chambers and confront him. Zayne became aware of Tey's insanity as she lunged at him to destroy the one who would bring the Sith. While Zayne skills with a lightsaber had improved since the chase had begun, he was still unable to match that of Raana Tey's fierce and wild combat moves. Utilizing a jetpack, Zayne attempted to avoid Raana though she still managed to disarm him of his lightsaber, forcing him to use a blaster pistol. Frantic, Zayne begged Tey to remember her teachings. Tey became enraged further by this and threw Zayne into the glass ceiling, sending glass shards into her face, and disabling his jetpack. Zayne was disarmed and at Raana's mercy. Picking up Zayne's lost saber, she informed him of the Prophecy of the Five right before she raised her sabers. The moment she was about to deal the killing blow to Carrick, Shel pierced a lightsaber through her back, forcing the Togruta to collapse.

Marn Hierogryph and Gadon Thek arrived to rescue Shel and Zayne. As they tried to escape, Raana managed to climb back to her feet, though dying, she attempted to stop them by leaping onto the roof and ending Zayne. Even after everything that had happened, Zayne still offered his hand to Raana to rescue her and bring her to the healer back at the Resistance base. Raana finally saw his kindness and attempted to escape. However, her hand had become stuck. She attempted to use her saber to cut herself free though Gryph mistook her for attacking Zayne and blew the charges set in the Tower. Raana, realizing her coming demise, told Zayne to tell Krynda that she was sorry. The tower blew as Zayne and Shel escaped, ending Raana Tey. Her death was immediately sensed by Lucien and Q'Anilia, though Q'Anilia was more concerned that Zayne now knew of their master and the mastermind behind the Padawan Massacre of Taris.

On Coruscant, a statue and memorial was constructed outside the Draay Estate in honor for the fallen Togruta. Lucien, Q'Anilia, Feln and Xamar attended the memorial service, though it was interrupted by a vision of the Muur Talisman.

Personality and traits
"Would you really send over Raana Tey?" "Only if I wanted to start a war with the Republic."

- Q'Anilia and Lucien Draay, concerning Raana Tey

Among the Jedi Order, Raana Tey was widely known to be a wild and fierce combatant but also possessing a rigid and bad attitude, distancing herself away from the Padawans of her fellow Circle members, whom they'd joke about rhyming Raana Tey with runaway. Due to her aggressive nature, Lucien opted to not send her on diplomatic missions or on missions that required care and patience.

Despite the fact that she was quick to become passionate and enraged, she was devoted to the Jedi Covenant's cause. Still, she sometimes had her doubts in regards to the measures the Covenant would take in bringing their plans to fruition. She felt a tremendous amount of guilt in murdering her Padawan, Kamlin, and in framing Zayne Carrick for it. This was in no small part due to her nightmares that grew worse since the Padawan Massacre. As the nightmares continued, she even began to fear Zayne Carrick exacting his revenge on her, which only pushed Raana further into desiring Zayne's demise, as well as that of his companion, Jarael. Her loss of sanity due to the Massacre ultimately resulted in her death as she viciously attacked Zayne during his return in the Jedi Tower. Believing she was going to end the Sith threat, she was careless and was unaware that Shel Jelavan had entered and stabbed her in the back with her brother's lightsaber. Even though this did not kill her immediately, it did wound her mortally. However, Raana Tey's anger was great enough that it reanimated her body and enabled her to continue to pursue Zayne for a short while. As the Tower exploded under them, Raana realized that Zayne was not evil or of the Sith, and begged her master Krynda for forgiveness.

Powers and abilities
"You're the one who thinks you're such a great seer. So prove it. Open your eyes."

- Zayne Carrick, in one of Raana Tey's nightmares.

Before even beginning training as a Jedi, as a child, Raana possessed runaway Force visions which caused her a great deal of pain in the form of nightmares and traumatic headaches. Upon being sent to the Jedi for treatment, she was "cured" by Master Krynda Draay whom she would also train as Jedi, forming together the First WatchCircle of the Jedi Covenant. Krynda regarded Raana the best of the Togruta, along with the other members also being the best of their species. Raana was able to see far into the future, and though the details (like any Force Vision) were not completely clear, she was able to see her future death on Taris at the hands of a Sith Lord. Unfortunately, due to her murdering Kamlin, her nightmares returned and caused sleep deprivation, making her useless as a seer. Even then, with her sanity eroded and after having a lightsaber pierce through her body, her strength in the Force kept her alive and reanimated her for a short while until explosives finally ended her life.

Even as a seer, Raana Tey was still a proficient and vicious combatant. Due to her Togruta nature, she became a "wild" individual of the WatchCircle, making her aggressive against her opponents as well as feared by those she chased. On the WatchCircle, she may have only been second in terms of combat to leader, Lucien Draay as he was able to best her and the other members during lightsaber training as Padawans on Coruscant. To gain an upper hand against her opponents, she used her foresight abilities and thus knew when and where to strike. But as her health eroded with the nightmares, this became lost to her.

Behind the scenes
Raana Tey was created by writer John Jackson Miller for the Knights of the Old Republic comic series, first appearing in the first storyarc, Commencement, drawn by Brian Ching. At first appearing to be more of a supporting character during Commencement, in the Reunion story, drawn by both Brian Ching and Harvey Tolibao, she stood apart from her fellow masters as she became the only one, besides main antagonist Lucien Draay, to appear in the series without the support of her fellow Jedi Masters. Tey finally became the main antagonist for Zayne Carrick in the Knights of Suffering storyline, drawn by Dustin Weaver, with Lucien receiving only a single panel in the final issue of the arc after Tey apparently dies.

In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 5: Commencement, Part 5, Raana is colored as having brown eyes. However, in every issue following this, she is colored as having blue eyes although in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 12: Reunion, Part 2, the sclera part of her eyes are black while the iris remains blue.

Artist Brian Ching described Raana Tey as being the Wolverine of the Jedi Covenant, the one that kills first and can go berserk at any moment. He also commented that he wanted to draw her "growling" and "sniffing" at some point in the comic series.

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 20: Daze of Hate, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Knights of Suffering
 * Galactic Republic Defense Ministry Daily Brief KD0092
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 25: Vector, Part 1