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- "Vildar, this is Adept Tarna Miak, the Sorcerers of Tund's representative in the Convocation."
- ―Matthea Cathley, introducing Tarna Miak to Vildar Mac
The Sorcerers of Tund were a group[2] associated with the light side of the Force[3] that was founded on[2] the planet[7] Tund.[2] Members of the sorcerers who embraced the dark side of the Force were considered apostates and expelled.[3] Artifacts relating to the dark side portion of the Sorcerers of Tund were stored in the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts, a prohibited section of the Jedi Temple Archives on the planet Coruscant.[4]
History[]
- "And it's not just Sith. Look at this. The Sorcerers of Tund. The Yacombe. Where did all this come from?"
- ―Sifo-Dyas, to Dooku when referring to the many artifacts stored in the Bogan Collection
Tarna Miak, representative of the Sorcerers on the Convocation, uses the Force, much to the horror of Vildar Mac, who survived an attack from an apostate sorcerer.
Around 433 BBY, an apostate Sorcerer of Tund who had switched to the dark side of the Force attacked a village on Kiffex where the future Jedi Master Vildar Mac lived.[3] By 382 BBY,[5] the Sorcerers were one of several Force religions represented on the Convocation of the Force seated on the moon Jedha, alongside such groups as the Jedi Order and the Guardians of the Whills.[8] Their representative was Adept Tarna Miak. When Mac arrived on Jedha, he was horrified to see a Sorcerer of Tund after what he experienced in childhood and confronted the adept, only to learn from Padawan Matthea Cathley he was speaking to a convocation representative.[6]
In 88 BBY,[9] Jedi Initiates Dooku and Sifo-Dyas snuck into the Bogan Collection and saw several artifacts, including at least one that belonged to the Sorcerers of Tund, with the latter wondering what the artifacts' origins were.[4]
Behind the scenes[]
The Sorcerers of Tund were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in the sourcebook Disciples of Harmony, written by John Dunn and James M. Spahn and published for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars: Force and Destiny roleplaying game in 2017.[2] "The Bogan Collection," an entry in the Star Wars Inside Intel article series published on StarWars.com on November 9, 2021, misspelled the group's name as "Sorcerers of Tunds."[10] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Sorcerers of Tund first appeared in the novel Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, the first volume of the Star Wars: The Lando Calrissian Adventures series written by L. Neil Smith and published in 1983.[11] The Sorcerers of Tund were later first pictured in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, a reference book authored by Ryder Windham and published in 2007.[12]
Appearances[]
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Sources[]
- Disciples of Harmony (First mentioned)
Star Wars Inside Intel: The Bogan Collection on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) (as Sorcerers of Tunds)- Star Wars: The High Republic Show: The High Republic at New York Comic Con, Phase II Begins Now, and More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- Sav Malagán Returns and More Concept Art on Star Wars: The High Republic Show on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- The Search for a Deadly Dark Sider Begins in Marvel's Star Wars: The High Republic #2 – Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- Sana Starros Strikes Out on Her Own and More from Marvel's February 2023 Star Wars Comics – Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The High Republic Show: High Republic Phase II Deep Dive, Star Wars Celebration, and More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
- Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The High Republic (2022) 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Disciples of Harmony
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The High Republic (2022) 7
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Dooku: Jedi Lost
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Per the reasoning here, the events of Star Wars: The High Republic Phase II, and therefore The High Republic (2022) 1, occur in 382 BBY. The High Republic (2022) 1 states that Vildar Mac has served the Jedi Order for fifty-one years and was around four years old when he joined the Order, meaning he was around fifty-five years old. Therefore, he must have been born on Kiffex around 437 BBY. As a dark side-aligned Sorcerer of Tund attacked Mac's village when he was four, the attack must have occured around 433 BBY, thereby meaning the sorcerers existed by that year.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The High Republic (2022) 1
- ↑ Star Wars: Complete Vehicles
- ↑ The High Republic: Path of Deceit
- ↑ According to Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Dooku was eighty years old at the time of the First Battle of Geonosis. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the battle in 22 BBY, thus dating Dooku's birth to 102 BBY. The script of Dooku: Jedi Lost states that Dooku was fourteen years old when he snuck into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts and saw an artifact related to the Sorcerers of Tund, placing the event in 88 BBY.
- ↑
Star Wars Inside Intel: The Bogan Collection on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
- ↑ Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force