Eeth Koth/Legends

"Eeth's talents were great--as was his heart. He was a great Jedi and a good friend. I loved him then, and love him still."

- Sharad Hett to Ki-Adi-Mundi

Eeth Koth was a Zabrak Jedi Master, and member of the Jedi High Council present when Qui-Gon Jinn presented Anakin Skywalker to the Council.

Biography
Eeth Koth was born in the slums of Nar Shaddaa and orphaned at a young age. The Jedi were his saviors, and, as a result, he dedicated himself totally to the Order. Although Koth was four years old at the time, the Jedi felt he was too strong to leave behind. Eeth was well-respected by his peers, and even participated in the Concordance of Fealty with fellow Master Mace Windu. In 44 BBY, he fought in the Fifth Battle of Qotile.

Eeth was one of ten Jedi that volunteered to travel to Yinchorr with Mace Windu, to bring the Yinchorri to peace. He was teamed up with Adi Gallia, Tsui Choi, and Theen Fida. Their group was dispatched to the planet Yitheeth. Their plan was to act as traders peddling plans for the new T-21 Hyper Particle Exchange Chamber. Eeth noted that he had never heard of such item. Adi had just made it up. Unfortunately for them, the plan went wrong and they were surrounded by a squad of Yinchorri warriors, led by Olmar Grahrk. The Jedi managed to defeat them, and they took Grahrk prisoner. Koth's group picked up the other two taskforces. With the only remaining Consular-class space cruiser, and proceeded to Yinchorr to rescue Master Windu's group. There was a fierce battle which cost the lives of three of the Jedi, including a Council member.

In 27 BBY, during the Ashaar Khorda crisis, Koth personally safeguarded Alderaan.

Eeth Koth participated in the Battle of Geonosis where he fought and survived the initial ambush in the arena. Sadly, as Koth's Republic Gunship was flying into battle, it was brought down by Separatist fire.

Koth's place on the Council was eventually filled by fellow Zabrak Agen Kolar.

Behind the scenes

 * In the initial development of the character, Eeth Koth was to be the leader of the Jedi Council.


 * Eeth Koth was originally slated to return for Attack of the Clones, but when the original actor, Hassani Shapi, was unavailable for filming, Tux Akindoyeni was brought in to play the part. However, Tux's facial characteristics, skintone, makeup and hairstyle were all noticably different from the Hassani version (in particular, Hassani's Koth had noticable lined facial tatoos which Tux's lacked), and so Tux's Eeth Koth was thus deemed an entirely new character: Agen Kolar. Not only did the Kolar character therfore effectively take the place of Koth, Kolar goes on to literally replace Koth on the Jedi Council by assuming his particular seat prior to Revenge of the Sith.


 * In the screenplay of Revenge of the Sith, the name of Eeth Koth is used instead of Agen Kolar's. Because of this Behind-the-scene mistake and his canonical death during the Battle of Geonosis, he does not appear in any post-Attack of the Clones material.




 * Although Koth remained canonically dead after the Battle of Geonosis, a Zabrak Jedi High Council member that appears in two scenes of Star Wars: Clone Wars vol. 2 who is officially credited as Agen Kolar was animated instead with the unmistakable likeness of Eeth Koth. It is unknown if the character was originally intended to be Eeth Koth (in ignorance of his canonical death) and then retroactively credited as Agen Kolar to avoid a continuity problem, or if the Zabrak was always intended to be Kolar and the animators accidently used the wrong reference photographs. Although the character is canonically identified as Agen Kolar, the discrepancy of his appearance has confused some fans into believing that the character actually was Koth, coupled with the fact that Eeth Koth's death has as yet not been depicted or even directly referenced by any in-universe sources. Although some fans cite this would-be (re)appearance as superceeding proof of Koth's survival of Geonosis, his death there remains canon.


 * In the illustrated screenplay of Episode III, Agen Kolar was identified as Eeth Koth when Anakin Skywalker attended his first High Council meeting. All subsequent appearances were correctly identified as Agen Kolar. The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith also mistakenly identified Kolar in several photo captions.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Star Wars: Obi-Wan
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Republic: The Devaronian Version
 * Star Wars Republic: Outlander
 * Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hunt for Aurra Sing
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones