- "They know Evereni called Espri—"to have"—and Rad—"to laugh.""
- ―Marda Ro in her journal, regarding Vika and Velya Faer
Marda Ro (pictured), mentioned Rad in her journal.
The Rad were a group of Evereni whose name meant "to laugh" in their species' language. The Evereni siblings Vika and Velya Faer were familiar with the Rad and knew Evereni with the name.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[2] the Faer siblings met the Evereni[1] founder of a pirate group who would eventually become the Nihil[3]—Marda Ro. Ro, desiring to learn more about[1] her[4] species, asked them to tell her about the Evereni. Vika and Velya obliged and told her, among other things, of the Rad.[1]
Later, Ro made a recording for her descendants and mentioned the Rad as one of the things she learned from the Faers.[1] By 252 BBY,[5] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where the Rad were mentioned.[4]
Behind the scenes[]
The Rad were mentioned 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,[3] he[6] revealed the naming convention for the Evereni was one of the first parts she created. Gratton's motivation for creating the naming convention came from their frustration at the absence of naming conventions in Star Wars.[3]
Appearances[]
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑ The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death aboard 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2
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)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑
Tessa Gratton (@tessagratton) on Twitter: "she/he/they" (backup link)