Tellpah Tellpah was a male Keshiri scholar , and Lost Tribe of Sith slave who accompanied High Lord Edell Vrai during a reconnaissance mission to the continent of Alanciar in 2975 BBY . During that mission , he served aboard Vrai ' s airship " Candra " , which was held aloft by a helium gasbag and powered by two uvak , winged reptilian beasts of burden . Tellpah survived a skirmish with the Alanciari air force which resulted in the destruction of the Tribe ' s three scouting airships and the death of four - fifths of the expedition . After making landfall about a kilometer to the northeast of Point Defiance , Tellpah and the five other survivors led by Vrai climbed a cliff which led to a fortified tower known as Point Defiance . While climbing up , the Human Sith Saber Ulbrick was badly wounded in the thigh by the Alanciari Wardmaster Quarra Thayn , who was defending her lover Jogan Halder with a hand - ballista . After the Sith disarmed the two Alanciari captives , Tellpah informed Vrai that Ulbrick was gravely wounded . Since the young Sith warrior was unable to walk without much pain , Vrai decapitated him so they would not be held back and to avoid the Alanciari taking a live prisoner . Tellpah was then assigned the task of hiding Ulbrick ' s dead body , which was dumped into a deep cistern . He then accompanied Vrai and Thayn into the signal tower , where they searched through Point Defiance ' s library and spotted the Alanciari boat , " Mischance " . The Sith then hijacked this vessel and used it to return to Keshtah Minor with their captive Halder . Tellpah was aboard the " Mischance " when the harvester made its first journey to Keshtah by sailing through the Southern Passage which led to the Sea of Flames , a small sea to the west of Keshtah . Meanwhile , Vrai and Thayn embarked on a ground - based reconnaissance mission of Alanciar . Thus , Tellpah helped contribute to the Sith conquest of Alanciar . In the end , the Sith managed to conquer Alanciar after they used Halder to convince the Alanciari that the Sith did not pose a threat to them . Biography . A Disastrous Expedition . Tellpah was a Keshiri man who served the Lost Tribe of Sith during the Hilts Restoration . As with all Keshiri who lived on the continent of Keshtah Minor , Tellpah was raised to revere and worship the Sith Tribe as the descendants of the Protectors , ancient gods in Keshiri religion . In 2975 BBY , Tellpah served as a scholar and translator during the High Lord Edell Vrai ' s reconnaissance mission to Alanciar . He served aboard Edell ' s flagship " Candra " , which was an airship that was held aloft by a hydrogen gasbag and powered by two uvak s , winged reptilian beasts that were native to the planet Kesh . The other eight crew aboard the " Candra " included Edell ' s lieutenant and pilot Peppin , the thoughtcrier Taymor , five Sith Saber s including Ulbrick and Janns , and another Keshiri scholar . Taymor and the Sith scouting fleet traveled across the Western Sea to Alanciar ' s southeastern peninsula region known as the Six Claws . Shortly after arriving in Alanciar , the Sith airships were attacked by black javelins fired from Alanciari ballista emplacements in the Six Claws and were pursued by the Alanciari air force , which consisted of armed uvak riders . Thus , the Sith had made contact with the Keshiri living on Alanciar but quickly learnt that they had a strong military that was capable of resisting invasion . In fact , the Keshiri geologist Adari Vaal , who had initially worked with the Tribe but later attempted to overthrow them , had fled to Alanciar over two thousand years ago . She succeeded in warning the Alanciari about the threat posed by the Lost Tribe . As a result , the Alanciari developed a highly militarized society based around resisting invasion by the Sith . Tellpah was one of the five Sith crew who survived the " Candra ' s " crash - landing near Point Defiance , a signal station that was situated on the peninsular of Garrow ' s Neck . Unseen , the Sith party had dropped north of Point Defiance while the balloon carried the wrecked gondola farther eastward . After traveling for a kilometer , the Sith party led by its commander Edell Vrai climbed a stony tumbledown which led to Point Defiance . While climbing up the cliff , Ulbrick , one of the Sith expedition members , was wounded in the thigh by glass projectiles from a hand - ballista which had been fired by the Alanciari Wardmaster Quarra Thayn , who was protecting her wounded lover Jogan Halder . During the fighting , Halder had been crushed by the fallen uvak Starboard , who had been tethered to the " Candra " . Meeting the Natives . After a brief but fierce struggle , Peppin and Janns managed to overpower Quarra and take her and her companion prisoner . Quarra revealed that she could speak the same language as the Sith and that the Alanciari had been well prepared for the Sith invasion . Meanwhile , Tellpah attended to Ulbrick ' s wounds and tried to bandage them with a rag . However , Ulbrick ' s right thigh had been badly splintered by multiple glass projectiles and his makeshift bandage was completely saturated in blood . Edell approached Tellpah and asked him about Ulbrick ' s condition before asking the Keshiri what his name was . Tellpah identified himself and informed his captain about Ulbrick ' s deteriorating condition . Due to the bleeding , Ulbrick was unable to continue walking . After Ulbrick admitted that he would be unable to walk , Edell made the brief decision to euthanize Ulbrick by swiftly decapitating him . This was done to send a warning to the captive Quarra that her life would be in danger if she did not cooperate with her captors and to prevent the Alanciari from capturing a Sith prisoner . Tellpah avoided Edell ' s lightsaber stroke but his clothes were stained by the resulting gush of blood from Ulbrick ' s body . Edell then ordered Tellpah to hide the fallen Sith warrior ' s body . After that , Tellpah and his captain Edell rummaged through the belfries of Point Defiance , searching for manuals that could help them operate the fort ' s semaphore machine . Shortly later , the Sith were joined by two more Human warriors who had survived the " Candra ' s " crash - landing . The captive Quarra was shocked to see a Keshiri serving the Sith and quickly realized that he had come from Keshtah , the domain of the Sith . Quarra attempted to encourage Tellpah to mutiny against his master by telling him that the Keshiri in Alanciar were free . However , Tellpah merely looked at her and was unable to comprehend the notion of the Keshiri being the masters of themselves . In response , Edell ordered Tellpah to ignore the Alanciari woman and to resume his job of finding the proper signal to send . With Tellpah being unable to find a way to operate the semaphore machine , Quarra offered to show them how to send the " all - clear " code . However , Edell did not trust her since he feared that she would alert the other Alanciari to their presence . Unable to operate the semaphore machine , Edell smashed the stand containing the signal cylinders against the stone wall , destroying them . Edell and Tellpah then walked out onto the balcony where they spotted a ship in the horizon . This ship turned out to be the Alanciari fishing trawler " Mischance " . While most of the Alanciari harvester fleet usually worked in the coral banks of the Southern Passage , captains that were behind in harvesting their quotas of seafood were known to cut corners by fishing in the Western Sea , which was a restricted military zone that was patrolled by the Shore Guard , the Alanciari coast guard . Edell decided that the six surviving Sith would hijack the harvester and then use it to return to Keshtah . The Sith also brought their two prisoners Quarra and Jogan with them . Prior to their evacuation from Point Defiance , Ulbrick ' s body was dumped into a cistern in an effort to hide it from Alanciari reinforcements who had been dispatched from Garrow ' s Neck . Returning to Keshtah . The Sith party managed to hijack and seize control of the " Mischance " . During that brief but violent skirmish , all of the Keshiri sailors fought to the death . Edell Vrai ' s lieutenant also attempted to interrogate one of the Alanciari sailors but he refused to disclose any information to the Sith prior to his death . The Sith also found that the vessel contained several good maps of the currents in the Southern Passage . Edell and his lieutenant Peppin ten decided to use the " Mischance " to return home to Keshtah and warn the Tribe of the military capabilities of the Alanciari . While the " Mischance " was merely a lowly harvesting vessel , it was larger and more advanced than any of the seagoing vessels which Keshtah had produced . Having accomplished their mission , Edell and Peppin decided to return home with their new acquisitions . However , Edell was unwilling to return home and made up orders claiming that he had to remain behind on Alanciar for a ground - based reconnaissance mission . Later , Tellpah was present when his captain Edell Vrai presented the other captive Quarra Thayn with the offer of serving as his guide on a ground reconnaissance mission into Alanciar ' s interior . Edell wanted to find out more about Alanciar ' s military government , the War Cabinet , in order to provide the Sith Tribe with more intelligence on Alanciar . He told Quarra that the pair would infiltrate Alanciar through Meori Cove in Garrow ' s Neck , which was not under military surveillance . They would then travel to Alanciar ' s capital of Sus ' mintri , which he estimated would take them several days to reach . Edell intended for this reconnaissance mission to last for a maximum of two weeks . Edell also lied to Quarra and claimed that the " Mischance " would remain off the coast of Garrow ' s Neck until they received a signal that he had returned . Quarra was initially unwilling to cooperate until Edell threatened to kill her lover Jogan by throwing him into the ocean . Quarra then suggested that Edell use his own Keshiri slave , Tellpah , for this mission . However , Edell reiterated that he wanted a local guide who knew Alanciar . He also explained that the reason why he had brought Tellpah and the other Keshiri from Keshtah was to spread their religion , which was centered around the Sith " Protectors " . Edell also wanted to learn more about the military capabilities of the Alanciari . Finally , Quarra agreed to assist Edell in return for them untying Jogan from the ship ' s and attending to his wounds . Edell agreed to Quarra ' s demands and ordered Peppin and Tellpah to untie Jogan . After depositing Edell and Quarra at Meori Cove , the " Mischance " returned to Keshtah . Tellpah was presumably aboard the ship during its first transoceanic voyage to Keshtah . Under the leadership of Edell ' s lieutenant Peppin , the " Mischance " navigated through the Southern Passage and sailed into the Sea of Flames . After two weeks of traveling , the " Mischance " arrived on the western coast of Keshtah . After landing , Peppin flew ahead to the Sith capital of Tahv with a copy of the " Keshtah Chronicles " , which the Sith had obtained from Jogan ' s private library . This book was a popular history book which had been written by Adari Vaal following her exile and provided the Sith with invaluable intelligence on what the Alanciari knew about the Sith Tribe . After staging a grand deception operation in Tahv , Hilts and the other Sith High Lords managed to convince Jogan Halder that the Sith were not a threat to Alanciar but were rather the benign Protectors . As a result , the Alanciari submitted to Sith rule . Personality and traits . As with many of the Keshiri who lived on the continent Keshtah , Tellpah had a servile attitude and relationship with the Lost Tribe of Sith , the Human Sith who ruled Kesh . He revered and worshiped the Tribe as the Protectors , benign gods in Keshiri religion who had fought a " Great Battle " against a race of malevolent beings known as the Destructors . As with many of the other Keshtah Keshiri , Tellpah had a lower forehead and a slightly narrower face than the Keshiri living on the continent of Alanciar , who called themselves the Alanciari . His commander High Lord Edell Vrai merely regarded him as a slave whose name did not matter . During the Tribe ' s reconnaissance mission to Alanciar , Tellpah served his Sith masters faithfully and unquestioningly . He was selected for this mission due to his knowledge and expertise in the ancient Keshiri language , which the Tribe speculated was the main language of the Keshiri in Alanciar . However , Tellpah did not need to use his linguistic skills since the Alanciari already spoke the same language as the Sith and Keshiri from Keshtah . When Tellpah first encountered the Alanciari woman Quarra Thayn , he was shocked and unable to comprehend the fact that there were other Keshiri on Alanciar who were not subordinate to the Sith but who ran their own lives . However , Edell silenced Quarra and ordered Tellpah to continue with his work of finding out how to operate Point Defiance ' s semaphore machine . Ultimately , Tellpah ' s loyalty to the Tribe won out over Quarra ' s pleas . Behind the scenes . Tellpah first appeared as a minor non - point - of - view character in John Jackson Miller ' s novella " " , which was first released on July 24 2012 as part of the mass paperback " " . This marks his only known appearance in the Star Wars Expanded Universe .