Vandar Tokare

"Many of our own pupils are leaving the Jedi order to follow the Sith teachings, we need recruits to stand against Malak!"

- Vandar on Revan becoming a Jedi

Vandar Tokare was a male Jedi Master and member of both the Dantooine Enclave Council and Jedi High Council during the Mandalorian Wars and Jedi Civil War. Master Vandar was of the same species as Yoda, but possessed a different skin tone and spoke in a dialect of Basic with only minimal similarities to that spoken by Yoda and Yaddle.

Biography
In the years leading up to the Mandalorian invasion of the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars, Master Vandar taught many pupils. One of his students was Zayne Carrick. At one point, Vandar had a conversation with Master Vrook Lamar concerning the Jedi Exile. Vrook, who said he'd caught the Exile having a heated argument with his Padawan, asked Vandar what disciplinary action he intended since the Exile's own master refused to do it. Vandar – who believed the Exile to be a natural leader who would remain a Jedi&mdash;cautioned Vrook that it wasn't his concern. Vrook replied that he believed the Exile a mediocre Jedi, with a lust for power that would lead her to the dark side. This conversation was recorded by a protocol droid working at the Dantooine Enclave. Years later, in 3,951 BBY, the Exile would meet this droid in a battered state, and through tinkering with its memory, find the holorecord, which by that time was partially degraded.

By 3,964 BBY, Vandar was the leading Master of the Dantooine Jedi Enclave. When the fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick contacted him and disclosed the details of what occurred during the Padawan Massacre of Taris, Vandar refused to believe that the Jedi Masters from the Taris Academy would kill their own students. Instead, he pondered aloud if Zayne himself may have committed the crime and was unable to recall it correctly, due to the dark side of the Force. Later, while being hunted by both the Republic and the Jedi, Zayne sent his family to Master Vandar for their protection, believing that Vandar was someone whom he could trust. Vandar welcomed Zayne's family to Dantooine and gave Zayne's father a job managing the Jedi Enclave's finances.

Vandar was believed to have seen a vision of a horrible war, in which the galaxy would be placed in darkness, as revealed by Bastila Shan on Taris. It is not known what exactly he saw, but it was this vision that caused the Jedi Council to not act in the Mandalorian Wars. This only led to the jedi knights Revan and Malak to lead a faction of the Jedi Order to fight the Mandalorians, which led to their fall to the dark side.

Having survived Darth Malak's attack on Dantooine, Master Vandar participated in the Battle of Rakata Prime, acting as an adviser alongside Admiral Forn Dodonna. After the battle, it was Vandar who proclaimed Revan to be truly redeemed, thus reinstating his former rank of Jedi Knight and also proclaiming him as the "Prodigal Knight."

He was among the Jedi killed by Darth Nihilus as the Sith Lord used his powers to destroy all life on the planet of Katarr during a secret Jedi conclave.

Behind the scenes
Vandar can also die if the player makes the dark side choice in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Vandar dies along with Admiral Forn Dodonna aboard a Republic capital ship, destroyed by Sith fighters assisted by Bastila Shan's battle meditation.

Vandar is voiced by veteran voice actor Tom Kane, who has done the voice of Yoda in several video games and the mini-series Star Wars: Clone Wars.

Master Vandar is the only known member of his species to have a surname, in contrast to Yoda and Yaddle. He is also the only one shown thus far to speak in accordance with more common-practice Basic (or English) grammar, however this may be due to his growing up with the Jedi, many of whom speak Basic in proper syntax.

His last name is misspelled as Dokar in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Commencement, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 4: Commencement, Part 4
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 12: Reunion, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 24: Knights of Suffering, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Notes and references
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