Zephata'ru'tor

"You have seen the General in action?''" "''At Nadiem. He killed my Padawan and left me as you see me now."

- Flynn Kybo and B'dard Tone, about Grievous and Zephata'ru'tor

Zephata'ru'tor was a Duinuogwuin Padawan apprenticed to Jedi Master B'dard Tone during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. The Duinuogwin and Master Tone served the Republic during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, but Zephata'ru'tor was killed by the cyborg General Grievous during the Battle of Nadiem.

Biography
A Force-sensitive Duinuogwuin, Zephata'ru'tor belonged to a species of up to 100 meters long flying dragons with the ability to breath fire and survive in vacuum. Zephata'ru'tor was accepted into the Jedi Order and taken as a Padawan learner by the Coway Jedi Master B'dard Tone in the years leading up to the inter-galactic Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

In 22 BBY, six months after the beginning of the Clone Wars on the planet Geonosis, Master and Padawan served in the Battle of Nadiem. When General Grievous, the cyborg commander of the Confederacy, tried to flee from battle after the Republic won, Tone tried to stop the well-known Jedi-killer, but was badly wounded by Grievous. Zephata'ru'tor tried to stop the General from escaping in his Belbullab-22 starfighter, but Grievous killed the Duinuogwin in space over Nadiem.

Behind the scenes
Zephata'ru'tor was first mentioned, although only Tone's Padawan, in Star Wars: General Grievous 1, a comic written by Chuck Dixon and published on March 16, 2005. Abel G. Peña named the Padawan Zephata'ru'tor in Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous, an article published in Star Wars Insider 86. In 2008, the Duinuogwin received an entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: General Grievous 1