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The clans of the Jedi Order were small groupings of ten to twenty Jedi Initiates that made up the classes of the academy within the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
Overview[]
While clans had existed within the Jedi Order for centuries, it was not until the authoring of The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by Grand Master Fae Coven and a series of other Jedi Masters that each clan was detailed and entered into the Order's canon. An Initiate entered into a clan when they reached age three or, in case of other species, the equivalent in maturity. Each clan was designed to appeal to the traits of its members, while placement of each student fell to the fosterers in the nurseries at the Jedi Temple, who watched the children since infancy. Jedi considered these clans as families, and, since they were colleagues in the Force, viewed their fellow students closer than any brother or sister. The bonds formed in these clans were essential for sustaining the Order. As each clan moved through the academy, it was tended to by an instructor responsible for the primary education of the members of their clan. While the academy taught specialized courses, instructors taught more basic lessons that reinforced the rest of their lessons.[1]
During the Order's history there were many, many clans including but not limited to:
- Bear Clan[1]
- Bergruutfa Clan[1]
- Boma Clan[1]
- Clawmouse Clan[1]
- Dragon Clan[1]
- Heliost Clan[1]
- Katarn Clan[1]
- Savrip Clan[2]
- Soaring Hawkbat Clan[3]
- Squall Clan[1]
- Thranta Clan[1]
- Tra'cor Clan[1]
- Wolf Clan[4]
- Two[5] clans[6] whose names were lost to history
Following the Great Jedi Purge and the Galactic Civil War, Luke Skywalker did not initially form clans as he began to rebuild the Jedi Order. Reflecting that leaving out this stage of instruction might have had something to do with two of his students' fall to the dark side of the Force, he reintroduced the idea with the launching of the Ronto and Veermok Clan following his recovery of a copy of The Jedi Path.[1]
These clans came to include the following:
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones junior novelization (and audiobook)
- Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones 2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Gathering"- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "A Test of Strength"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Bound for Rescue"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "A Necessary Bond"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Wrong Jedi"
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
- Legacy of the Force: Inferno
Non-canon appearances[]
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 30 YOD 7-10: Yoda
- Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 4
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 13
- The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
- Bear Clan in the Databank (original site is defunct)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
- ↑ Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
- ↑ Star Wars: Dark Times: Parallels
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 332 ("Wolf Clan")
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- ↑ Jedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Legacy of the Force: Inferno