Xylan Graf

For other uses, see Graf and Xylan (disambiguation).

"I care about a few—a very, very few—people's lives. And I care about the Graf legacy and money. It's impossible to make money under the Nihil. Only take it. With blasters and threats. I prefer to make my money through the application of bureaucracy."

―Xylan Graf^[5]

Xylan Graf was a human male physicist and member of the Graf family who lived during the time of the High Republic Era. He was present alongside the hauler Sylvestri Yarrow on the capital planet Coruscant. Yarrow considered Graf highly attractive, but did not like his personality.^[2]

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Behind the scenes[]

"And then after I started writing, I was like, 'She doesn't like him. She doesn't like him at all. And I don't particularly like him.'"

―Justina Ireland, on Sylvestri Yarrow and Xylan Graf^[6]

Xylan Graf first appeared in the novel The High Republic: Out of the Shadows, written by Justina Ireland^[2] and published on July 27, 2021^[7] as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia initiative's Phase I.^[8] Graf was first pictured in an episode of Star Wars: The High Republic Show on September 15, 2021,^[9] with art designed by MinJi Yoon.^[10]

In the first draft of Out of the Shadows, Ireland expected Sylvestri Yarrow to be in a love triangle that included her ex-girlfriend, Jordanna Sparkburn, and Graf. After beginning to write, however, Ireland determined that neither Yarrow nor herself particularly liked Graf, and dropped the idea halfway through the first draft.^[6] Ireland described most of Graf's outfits as an homage to Prince and Jem and the Holograms.^[11]