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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.
Biography
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.[1]
The Qel-Droma family lived on their homeworld of Alderaan, where Lien-Tsai—who had since become a powerful and respected Jedi—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—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, her oldest, Ulic, had discovered the Force on his own, and took to its mastery with considerable zeal. Lien-Tsai feared that in his utter dedication to the Jedi way, Ulic had missed its underlying message, a disposition that was quickly refuted with his recital of the Jedi Code.[1]
Parting
In the years that preceded the onset of the Great Sith War, Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma, now a revered Jedi Master, continued to serve the Jedi Order with distinction. The time was fast-approaching, however, for her sons to begin formal Jedi training, and Qel-Droma still felt that, along with the myriad of distractions to be found on Alderaan, she would be unable to separate maternal instincts from her duty as a responsible and fair teacher. Recognizing her inability to fully detach herself as a mother if she were to train her teenage sons as Jedi, Lien-Tsai arranged for Ulic and Cay to receive Jedi instruction at the praxeum of her friend and fellow Master, Arca Jeth. Qel-Droma was concerned that the older of her sons 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. within a week of her decision, the sons of Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma left for the world of Arkania to begin their Jedi training.[1]
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. The reservations she felt about each one's approach to the Force were dismissed by Ulic and Cay, both of whom were certain of the inaccuracy of her intimations. She constantly reminded Ulic, her eldest, to ignore the relentless bleating of naysayers, as his destiny was far greater than their baseless mutterings. She recognized her first child's headstrong and arrogant demeanor, but refrained from counseling him against the negative impact such personality flaws might have on his progression as a Jedi. She remarked lovingly, however, with regard to her youngest son's "mechanical mind," whenever she witnessed him involved in his greatest passion, mechanics. Both were pushed by Master Lien-Tsai to strive for success despite her fear of the rivalry she thought would develop between them.[1]
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. She is again mentioned 2009 thirteen years later in Wizards of the Coast's Jedi Academy Training Manual, wherein her first name, Lien-Tsai, is revealed.
Sources
- Tales of the Jedi Companion (First mentioned)
- Jedi Academy Training Manual (First identified as Lien-Tsai Qel-Droma)