Waru

"Waru, help us! Waru heal my child, hear my egg-sister, protect my hearth-friends from the curse laid upon us!"

- The throng of supplicants appeal to Waru

Waru was a being from another dimension--possibly Otherspace--who came through due to a combination of the disturbances in the Force generated by a crystallizing star and by Hethrir's torturing of his prisoners. He was blob-shaped and covered in golden scales, but when the scales were exposed, there was an appearance of raw flesh that oozed.

Hethrir made a deal with Waru: He would help him back to his dimension if Waru would help him obtain complete mastery of the Force. Waru agreed, and Hethrir began sacrificing selected prisoners to Waru.

Waru could heal people by feeding them some of the Force energy he had collected from previous victims. But to replace that energy, he had to kill again. Soon, the fact that Waru could heal people by absorbing them into him spread, and had given birth to a cult. Waru had made it appear that the failure to heal some people was either an accidents or that the person being healed did not believe in him enough.

After battling Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo for the infant Anakin Solo, Waru gave up hope of creating a portal back to his galaxy, and vanished, pulling hethrir into his energy field.

Appearances

 * The Crystal Star
 * Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur