Thon

Thon was a mysterious and reclusive Tchuukthai Jedi Master. He was the Jedi Watchman of the Stenness system keeping the dark forces at work on Ambria at bay, and this is where the young Nomi Sunrider found him, delivering a box of Adegan crystals which her husband Andur Sunrider was to deliver (but could not as he was killed by criminals).

Biography
At this time Thon was teaching a young humanoid; Oss Wilum the ways of the force, and after Nomi explained to the Jedi her plight and watched as Master Thon rescued his apprentice from the goons of Bogga the Hutt Thon took her and her daughter Vima up as apprentices.

Nomi was a quick learner and was soon taught by Thon to master her skill of battle meditation. After a visit from Tott Doneeta pupil of Jedi Master Arca Jeth who explained about the Naddist Uprising Thon realised that Nomi would be of great use to the Order of the Jedi Knights. During her training he would often take her off into the desert and teach her the ways of the force, trying to convince her that it would be wise of her to start constructing a lightsaber.

In one of these lessons Thon showed Nomi a Holocron in which Master Ood Bnar revealed to her the history of the Jedi. Eventually Thon managed to get Nomi to use a lightsaber (his own) when Bogga's mercernaries attacked him, and he let himself be captured.

'The lightsaber is the weapon of the Jedi, You are a Jedi' he cried, finally convincing his apprentice to use the weapon by telling his apprentice to accept who she really was; a Jedi Knight.

The taciturn Thon refused to acknowledge scientific or curious inquiries into his origins. Even the Jedi did not know his origins as Thon had reputedly arrived on Ossus already trained in the Jedi Arts and taught the assembled Jedi Masters several unknown techniques. Thon responded to such questioning with deep guttural growling and snarling that translated as 'It is better that you do not know - at least not yet."

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Tales of the Jedi: Redemption