Guardian of Mount Tantiss
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The Guardian of Mount Tantiss was a Dark Jedi assigned by Emperor Palpatine to guard his storehouse at Mount Tantiss.
Some years before Grand Admiral Thrawn arrived on Wayland, the Guardian and the insane clone Joruus C'baoth fought one another and the Guardian was killed. His body lay in a crypt in C'baoth's palace surrounded by candles, one for every person who came to visit him after his death, all of whom (except Thrawn, Pellaeon, and Rukh) were subsequently killed by C'baoth.
[edit] Behind the scenes
There is some debate over whether C'baoth was indeed the original Guardian, or if he in fact killed him. Although the inhabitants of Wayland remembered a battle between two powerful Force users, they were also all under the mental control of the insane Jedi Master, whose account was only substantiated by the coffin within a crypt that Grand Admiral Thrawn and Captain Pellaeon were taken to. The pair assumed this crypt to hold the body of the original Guardian, but nothing substantiates this assumption other than the mad clone's statements. The Dark Force Rising Sourcebook and the Databank also say that all evidence indicates that Joruus was the sole guardian. C'baoth in his insanity could have been fighting a version of himself and felt he killed that side. Possibly this was the core Jedi personality the original had, but this is all idle speculation without evidence beyond what C'baoth said.
[edit] Appearances
- Heir to the Empire (First mentioned)
- Dark Force Rising (Mentioned only)
- The Last Command (Mentioned only)
