The Envoy
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- "One day…one day I'll pluck every one of your feathers and tickle you with them!"
- ―Lord Farfalla[src]
The Envoy was a winged female Jedi in the service of Valenthyne Farfalla during the Ruusan campaign against the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness. The charismatic Farfalla had departed Ruusan to recruit more Jedi to join Lord Hoth's Army of Light. He returned to the planet with 300 Knights, including the Envoy, only to find Hoth resentful of the long absence. When a stalemate occurred between the two Jedi, the Envoy used her own initiative to present an apology to Hoth, thus restoring the relationship between the two parties. She then fought in a number of battles on Ruusan, which eventually saw the defeat of the Brotherhood.
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[edit] Biography
The Envoy was a Jedi of a winged species during the years of the Republic Dark Age. She was one of 300 Jedi Knights recruited by the charismatic Valenthyne Farfalla to join Lord Hoth's forces on Ruusan,[1] a planet in the Teraab sector of the Mid Rim.[2] Lord Hoth had assembled a large force of Jedi known as the Army of Light, and was engaged in a drawn out campaign against the forces of the Brotherhood of Darkness.[1] Reaching a stalemate, Lord Farfalla had volunteered to recruit more Jedi Knights to aid their Army.[3]
The Envoy and the other Knights were part of a flotilla, containing a number of Republic gunships spearheaded by the Fairwind.[3] Together, they defeated the treacherous Lahzar, before returning to the Ruusan system,[1] where they were faced with a Sith blockade.[3] The Knights were able to rescue the Army of Light from Sith speeders by making a daring salvo from the Fairwind. However, they received a hostile reception from Lord Hoth who was still bitter about his many losses against the Sith. He blamed Farfalla for arriving too late, a complaint deriving from his long rivalry and dislike of Farfalla.[1]
This led to a stalemate between the two parties, with both the Jedi Lords refusing each other's help. Seeing that Lord Hoth's forces were walking into a trap and that her Lord was too stubborn to help, the Envoy took matters into her own hands. Flying to the Army of Light, she claimed to bring a message from Lord Farfalla. Along with military information gathered on Hoth's forces, she brought an "apology" from Farfalla.[1] Hoth himself had received a vision of his close friend Petja the night prior, and awoke determined to repair his rift with Farfalla.[4] Hoth received the apology, believing it to be sincere, and reciprocated.[1]
Returning to their flagship, the Envoy delivered Hoth's apology. Farfalla temporarily believed it, before, much amused, seeing through it. Nevertheless, he engaged the Sith forces, overwhelming them in the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, while Hoth went to engage Lord Kaan in a cave system. When Lord Kaan unleashed his thought bomb, wiping out Lord Hoth's forces, the Envoy survived, having retreated with the rest of the Knights from the range of the bomb.[1]
[edit] Personality and traits
The Envoy was a female of a species with both humanoid and avian characteristics. Her upper limbs were feathered wings, fully capable of flying—her primary form of locomotion. Her lower limbs were also avian and were able to grasp and manipulate items. The Envoy was very agile, able to pluck arrows out of the air, as occurred when Petja accidentally shot at her. The Envoy had two small horns on her forehead, with long flame-red hair.[1]
The Envoy typically wore a gold earring in her pointed humanoid ears and wore a tunic colored in the red and gold livery common among Farfalla's forces. Like a number of the Jedi of her era, the Envoy utilized more conventional weaponry than the traditional Jedi lightsaber, instead wielding a short sword.[1]
The Envoy was on good personal terms with Farfalla, and had initiative enough to seek a solution to the stalemate between Farfalla and Hoth, without seeking permission from her Lord.[1]
[edit] Behind the scenes
The Envoy was created for the Dark Horse comic Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith, appearing in issues #5 and #6. The comic, pencilled by Ramón F. Bachs, was released in 2001. However, she went unnamed in both these issues. The Envoy again appeared in the first two Darth Bane novels written by Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction and Rule of Two. In Path of Destruction, Karpyshyn rewrote some of the events depicted in Jedi vs. Sith, although none of the scenes involving the Envoy's role directly contradicted the comic, instead adding in Hoth's personal revelation prior to his encounter with the Envoy.
The Envoy resembles a harpy, a creature from Greek mythology. Many of the species in Jedi vs. Sith appeared to be based on mythological creatures, including satyrs and cyclopes.
[edit] Appearances
- Jedi vs. Sith (First appearance)
- Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two
