Taria Damsin was a female Jedi Master and Shadow from the colony world Ghaina. A contemporary of fellow Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, she was dying from a disease known as Borotavi syndrome.

Contents 1 History 2 Personality and traits 3 Appearances 3.1 In other languages

HistoryEdit

Taken from her parents at a young age, Taria Damsin was the first and only Jedi her homeworld, Ghaina, ever produced. During her early life at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Damsin had a very close friendship with Obi-Wan Kenobi; one which would carry on over the years despite the missions that would send them to other sides of the galaxy for extended periods of time.

After passing her Jedi Trials and becoming a Jedi Knight Damsin was sent on extended missions away from the Temple. On one such mission to Pamina Prime, having eaten a poisonous mollusk, Damsin was diagnosed with the incurable Borotavi syndrome. Unwilling to be brought down by the terminal illness, Damsin continued to take on missions, though most of her time she was forced to stay at the Temple and take on a teaching role.

During the Clone Wars Damsin did not take on the title of Jedi General and focused on teaching the next generation of Knights. Having run into Master Kenobi on her way to teach an advanced lightsaber class, she asked her old friend to join her in the teaching as her assistant had food poisoning. Agreeing, the two taught the class, though Kenobi constantly fretted over Damsin's supposed over-exertion. Damsin later saw Kenobi off as he left for his secret mission assigned to him by Grand Master Yoda.

During Kenobi's mission, Master Yoda summoned Damsin and Padawan Ahsoka Tano to his personal chambers in order to send them on a mission to Corellia. Following a visit to the Jedi Temple Wardrobe Warehouse to pick suitable disguises, the pair landed in Coronet and made use of the Transit Authority to get to the retirement suburb Visk where their target, Mata Fhernan, resided. Discovering that Fhernan was in fact out to the market in Tiln, the pair made their way to carefully extract the woman and take her back to the Temple. Unbeknownst to Fhernan, an Anzati assassin was tracking her on the orders of Confederate General Lok Durd, who was holding Fhernan's daughter, Bant'ena, captive. Escorting the woman out of the market with some Force-assistance, the Jedi were ambushed by the Anzati but managed to capture him without any harm to Fhernan. During the assault, Damsin's illness caused sharp pains and her blood flowed from her nose and eyes. Though discomforted, she managed to get the woman safely offworld and back to Coruscant.

After being released from the Halls of Healing by Chief Healer Vokara Che Damsin finally revealed her illness to Padawan Tano who, like most of Damsin's fellow Jedi, was ignorant of her fatal disease.

While waiting for Obi-wan and Anakin's return, Taria suggested that Ahsoka help her organize a tournament for some of the younger Padawan's in the temple. Each of them lead a team through the artificial environments of a state of the art training dojo. Fighting against training droids the teams raced to the top of a tower in the center of a mini city replica. Their teams ended up tying.

Personality and traitsEdit

A strong woman, Damsin was thought of as peculiar for a Jedi by many of her peers. Eager to accept a mission and get out of the Temple, she was known to skirt the rules while still acting rationally. Refusing to let her terminal illness slow her down, she would refuse to accept pity from her fellows and preferred to be called Taria to Master Damsin.

AppearancesEdit

• Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth (First appearance)
• Clone Wars Gambit: Siege