Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma

Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma was an Alderaanian Jedi Master of great repute who served the Galactic Republic in the years preceding the Great Sith War. The mother of Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma, Master Lien-Tsai believed herself incapable of separating personal feeling of Jedi responsibility from those of parenthood, and sent her sons to be trained at the academy of the Arkanian Jedi Master Arca Jeth.

Jedi parent
Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma was an Alderaanian female whose Force sensitivity saw her accepted into the Jedi Order. During her career as a Knight of the Galactic Republic, Qel-Droma gave birth to her eldest son, whom she named Ulic. Several years later, she bore another, and named him Cay; in both children, Lien-Tsai sensed, as it was with her, great potential to manipulate the Force.

The Qel-Droma family lived on their homeworld of Alderaan, where Lien-Tsai&mdash;who had since become a powerful and respected Jedi&mdash;involved herself in affairs of the Order while her Force-sensitive children chose to pursue other endeavors as they sought to carve niches of their own. Nevertheless, she still found time to rear her children, and taught them well in all aspects of life and the universe&mdash;all except the Force. While she did impart rudimentary instruction in the ways of the mystical energy field that surrounded and bound all living things, Qel-Droma feared that when the time for formal Jedi training came, she would be unable to separate maternal instincts from her duty as a responsible and fair teacher. That time soon approached, and Qel-Droma, now a Jedi Master herself, still held reservations about the detachment that was necessary if she were to train her teenage sons as Jedi. Rather than attempt and fail, Lien-Tsai arranged for Ulic and Cay to receive Jedi instruction at the praxeum of her friend and fellow Master, Arca Jeth. Master Qel-Droma was concerned that the older of the brothers would outshine the younger, thus forming a deep-seated rivalry between them. Her fears were assuaged by Cay, who assured his mother that nothing in the galaxy could rend his close relationship with Ulic asunder.

Personality and traits
Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma was a well-known and respected Jedi Master, one of such acclaim that many felt her two Force-sensitive children would only achieve a modicum of her renown should they also choose the Jedi path. Despite such criticisms, Master Qel-Droma remained a loving and strict mother who encouraged and maintained a close relationship with her boys. She constantly reminded Ulic, her eldest, to ignore the relentless bleating of naysayers, as his destiny was far greater than their baseless predictions. She recognized her first child's headstrong and arrogant demeanor, and counseled him against such personality flaws lest they have negative effects on his progression as a Jedi. She remarked lovingly, however, whenever she witnessed her youngest involved in his greatest passion, mechanics.

Behind the scenes
The mother of Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma was first mentioned in in the Tales of the Jedi Companion, a sourcebook for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game published by West End Games in August of 1996, wherein she receives no personal entry, but is instead mentioned several times in the sections dedicated to her sons, respectively.