Bant Eerin/Legends

"There's no need to apologize. You saved my life, you know."

- Bant to Obi-Wan Kenobi

Bant Eerin was a Mon Calamari Jedi Master and a childhood friend of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Biography
Kit Fisto took Bant as his Padawan after her first master, Tahl, was killed. Being of the Mon Calamari species, Bant liked to be around water, and the atmosphere of her quarters at the Jedi Temple was always kept misty and humid. In 44 BBY Bant was nearly killed by Xanatos, Qui-Gon Jinn's first apprentice who had turned to the dark side. Xanatos ordered his disciple, former Jedi student Bruck Chun, to chain her to the bottom of a pool, but her life was spared due to Obi-Wan's timely intervention.

After Bant became a Knight, Fisto reputedly never took another apprentice, although it seems he took on at least one more during the Clone Wars. During the Battle of Geonosis, Bant flew her Jedi starfighter in the space battle that raged above the planet, alongside Adi Gallia and Adi's former Padawan Siri Tachi. Bant continued to serve the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars, taking a Padawan and hunting down the Confederate scientist Bitt Panith in the Kashyyyk system. There, she and the Padawan dueled against one of the Separatists' most dangerous agents, Asajj Ventress. At the end of the fighting, Bant was presumably killed during the Great Jedi Purge. Indeed, Bant would be one of the Jedi Obi-Wan wistfully recalled during his exile on Tatooine.

Behind the scenes
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Kit Fisto is master to another Mon Calamari Padawan, named Nahdar Vebb.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Uncertain Path
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Ties That Bind
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Call to Vengeance
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions
 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Way of the Jedi
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission

Notes and references
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