- "My name is Vika Faer, and this is my brother, Velya. Our grandmother knew Ro."
- ―Vika Faer
The Faers were a family of Evereni who lived during the High Republic Era. The family had several members, including a female member and their grandchildren Vika and Velya Faer. At some point no earlier than 379 BBY, Vika and Velya met the Evereni pirate leader Marda Ro during her hunt for other Evereni. During their stay with Ro, Vika killed the pirate's assistant Alirya, which caused Ro to shoot Vika in retaliation. Afterward, Ro convinced Vika's brother to join her. Ro later chronicled her encounter with the Faers in messages she recorded for her descendants, which her great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to by 252 BBY.
Description[]
- "[Faer] means 'to know.'"
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
The Faers were a family of Evereni whose name meant "to know" in the Evereni's language, as the species named its families for actions. They owned at least two ships. One ship housed several of the family's members[1] by some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[2] and the other ship belonged to the twins Vika and Velya Faer.[1]
History[]
- "Be my guests for a while. I've been looking for you."
- ―Marda Ro, to Vika and Velya Faer
Vika and Velya Faer met Marda Ro (pictured).
The Faers were active during the High Republic Era with a female member of the family maintaining a list of Evereni names going back to[1] at least 500 BBY[3] by some point no earlier than 379 BBY.[2] By around 397 BBY,[4] they had at least two grandchildren, the siblings Vika and Velya Faer, who had grown up together. While most of the other six Faers alive[1] by the point no earlier than 379 BBY[2] lived on one ship together, Vika and Velya had their own ship.[1]
At that time,[2] the siblings were intercepted by Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil[5]—during her[6] search for other Evereni. The two Faers then met with Ro in the throne hall of her ship, the Gaze Electric. Ro had grown up isolated from her people, so the siblings told her more about the Evereni and about their own family. During the siblings' time with Ro, her assistant Alirya stabbed Vika from behind with a dagger in an attempt to kill her to protect Alirya's place by Ro's side. Vika reacted by killing Alirya but was, in turn, shot by Ro for her action. While Velya was enraged by his sister's death, Ro calmed him down and convinced him to stay with her.[1]
Later, Ro discussed her encounter with the Faers in a recording she made for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[7] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the entries where Faers were mentioned.[6] In 228 BBY,[8] while listening to the journal again, Ro recalled that the journal's contents chronicled his great-great-grandmother's hunt for Evereni, including the Faer twins.[6]
Members[]
- "There are six other Faers spread in the galaxy, most of them together on a three-hundred-year-old ship."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
A female individual was a Faer, as were their twin grandchildren Vika and Velya Faer.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[2] six members of the family other than the twins were alive.[1]
Family tree[]
| A grandmother[1] ♀ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vika Faer[1] ♀ | Velya Faer[1] ♂ | Six family members[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Behind the scenes[]
- "I realized, as I was building the story, that it would be just much more dynamic for there to be two of them."
- ―Tessa Gratton, discussing the creation of Vika Faer
Faers were created for "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," published in Tales of Light and Life (cover pictured).
The Faers appeared in flashbacks in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[1] In an interview, Gratton revealed that[5] they[9] find the lack of naming conventions in Star Wars frustrating, which led to her deciding to give Evereni a naming convention as one of the first parts of the story he created.[5]
Gratton initially planned on having Marda Ro meet two Evereni, one of whom rejects her, while the other embraces her.[5] In the final story, those ended up being the elder Evereni "Isren" and Velya Faer respectively.[1] However, while building the story, they realized that it would be much more dynamic for there to be a pair of Evereni with a duality similar to the one that Ro had with her[5] cousin[1] Yana Ro, which led her to create Vika Faer, a process he described as complicated.[5]
Appearances[]
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First appearance) (In flashback(s))
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 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. Marda Ro met the Faers after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met them no earlier than 379 BBY.
- ↑ "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" established that the list contained names of Evereni from before their exodus from their homeworld of Everon, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 500 BBY.
- ↑ The High Republic: Path of Deceit states that members of the Path of the Open Hand receive full membership at the age of fifteen, and also mentions that Marda Ro recently became a full member. As Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates the events of Path of Deceit to 382 BBY, Ro must have been born around 397 BBY. "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes Vika and Velya Faer are older than her, therefore they must have been born by around 397 BBY.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6
Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force: A Star Wars Podcast YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year.
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates Starlight Beacon's destruction to 230 BBY. The implementation of the Guardian Protocols, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places in 229 BBY, took place one week after Starlight Beacon's fall according to The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force takes place one year and six weeks after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY.
- ↑
Tessa Gratton (@tessagratton) on Twitter: "she/he/they" (backup link)