Teneniel Djo Teneniel Djo was a member of the Singing Mountain Clan of the Witches of Dathomir who eventually became the Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium . Raised by her grandmother Augwynne Djo after her mother Allaya ' s untimely death , Teneniel was gifted in the use of the Spell of Storm . After living in semi - exile in the desert while searching her dreams and looking for a husband to kidnap , she came across Luke Skywalker and the Hapan Prince Isolder , the latter of whom she eventually married . After Isolder ' s mother Ta ' a Chume stepped down as Queen Mother , Teneniel and Isolder reigned over the Hapes Consortium for approximately seventeen years . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , Teneniel suffered a Force - induced miscarriage that left her semi - catatonic and vulnerable to attacks from many who had deemed her unfit to rule . In 27 ABY , Ta ' a Chume had Teneniel executed , and her daughter Tenel Ka succeeded her as Queen Mother . Biography . Early life . Teneniel Djo was born in to the Singing Mountain Clan of Dathomiri Witches to Allaya Djo , the clan ' s warleader . While Teneniel was still young , Allaya Djo died in battle , and Teneniel was raised by her grandmother Augwynne Djo , the clan ' s leader . Augwynne taught Teneniel the basics of Allyan Magic , and eventually Teneniel became proficient in the use of an ability called the Spell of Storm . This ability would cause massive wind storms or slight breezes , depending on how it was used . Exile . When Teneniel was around sixteen years of age , she caught two of her Initiate sisters using spells from the forbidden Book of Shadows . Enraged at her fellow Initiates for attempting to learn the Dark Spells , she cast the Spell of Storm on them . Although they survived , Teneniel was sentenced to four years of exile in the desert in an effort to atone for her rage . Her exile was not a total banishment , as she was allowed back to visit the clan , but for no more than a week at a time . During her four years of exile , she was drawn to the crash site of the " Chu ' unthor " , and tried many times by many different means to break inside the ancient shipwreck . After a vision revealed that she would find a husband at the crash site , she took shelter nearby and waited . The Hapes / Dathomir incident . Meeting Luke Skywalker and Isolder . In 8 ABY , while tending to the garden she was growing a short distance away , Teneniel sensed a disturbance near the " Chu ' unthor " . When she went to check it out , she happened upon Luke Skywalker and Prince Isolder of Hapes , who had come to Dathomir to search for Han Solo and Leia Organa . She duly captured both men as potential husbands , and although she considered Isolder more attractive , she was drawn to the fact that Luke , a " simple male , " could cast spells without using words and considered him a prize catch . After the two men explained their plight to Teneniel , she agreed to take them to see her grandmother at the Singing Mountain village . The Nightsisters reveal themselves . Along the journey to her village she and Luke were attacked by the Nightsister Ocheron . Teneniel was nearly killed in the encounter by Ocheron ' s Force lightning , though she was saved when Luke decapitated Ocheron and healed her wounds . Since Luke had saved Teneniel ' s life , she no longer had a claim to him as her husband per Dathomiri tradition . After returning to Singing Mountain clan village with Isolder and Luke , she was greeted by her grandmother Augwynne . After introducing Luke and Isolder to the clan , Teneniel claimed Isolder as her husband in front of the whole clan village , stunning him . Leia Organa ( who along with Han Solo was a guest of the clan villagers ) offered to buy him from Teneniel , but Teneniel stated that he wasn ' t for sale yet . Shortly afterward , because the other clan sisters would claim him if she set him free outright , Teneniel gave Isolder his freedom in all but name . Han ' s ship the " Millennium Falcon " was a working ship that the Nightsisters coveted , and they planned to use it in their plot to escape the confines of Dathomir . To prevent them from doing so , the group of Isolder , Teneniel , Leia , Han , Chewbacca and Luke sought out Barukka , a former Nightsister and Teneniel ' s aunt , to get information of how to sneak into the Nightsister - controlled Imperial prison to locate spare parts with which to repair the ship and leave Dathomir . After getting the information from the half - insane former Nightsister , the group then infiltrated the Imperial prison . After locating a suitable ship from which to steal parts , the group was attacked by Nightsisters , and Teneniel was almost killed by Baritha . After being saved by Luke , Teneniel gave into her anger towards Gethzerion and the Nightsisters and unleashed the Spell of Storm . Luke stopped her before she could kill the Nightsisters , and the group escaped the prison . The Battle of Dathomir . The Battle of Dathomir had begun when the group returned to the Singing Mountain clan village . During the battle , Teneniel had again used the Spell of Storm , but this time she succeeded in killing her opponents . As a side effect of unleashing her power in anger , she had acquired a burst blood vessel on her face characteristic of a Nightsister . In an effort to atone for her rage , Teneniel gave part of her life force to a badly wounded Nightsister . After the Battle of Dathomir concluded , all nine of the Dathomiri Witch clans gathered at Singing Mountain clan village for a celebration feast . During the high point of the celebration , Teneniel became the de facto Princess of Dathomir due to the fact that her grandmother was given ownership of Dathomir by Han Solo . Isolder then announced his intention to marry Teneniel , with whom he had fallen in love . Isolder ' s mother Ta ' a Chume protested the union , but after Teneniel threatened her using the Force , the elder woman backed down and allowed the marriage . Queen Mother . Around the time of the birth of her daughter Tenel Ka in 10 ABY , Teneniel became the Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium when Ta ' a Chume abdicated . As Queen Mother , Teneniel kept the Hapes Consortium out of galactic politics for the most part , and consistently rebuffed any help or advice from Ta ' a Chume . Also around this time , due to Teneniel ' s status as the princess of Dathomir , Dathomir was proclaimed the unofficial 64th member planet of the Hapes Consortium . Isolder and Teneniel often disagreed on how Tenel Ka should be raised . Isolder wished for Tenel Ka to be raised as a typical Hapan princess , but Teneniel insisted that Tenel Ka should be allowed to choose her own path . Both parents agreed , however , that Tenel Ka was to be enrolled at Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 as soon as she was old enough . In 22 ABY , Teneniel went on a diplomatic mission to another system with Isolder to negotiate trade agreements . Ta ' a Chume ' s underling Yfra , as part of her plot to take over the Hapan throne , had planted assassins in their entourage to kill them both . Isolder and Teneniel escaped the assassination attempt and returned to Hapes , only to find out that Tenel Ka had lost part of her arm in a lightsaber accident . Teneniel was supportive of Tenel Ka ' s wish to not wear a prosthetic arm , and encouraged her to continue on at the Praxeum if that was what she wanted . Two years later , Teneniel , Isolder and Augwynne Djo would attend Tenel Ka ' s knighting ceremony . With Tenel Ka opting to choose the path of a Jedi Knight and all but forsaking her status as the heir of the Hapes Consortium , the question of succession became a thorny topic between Isolder and Teneniel , putting a strain on their marriage . To resolve it , they conceived another child to act as the heir near the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong War . The Yuuzhan Vong War . The Battle of Fondor . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , Leia Organa Solo went to Hapes to enlist the help of the Consortium and its navy against the invaders . After listening to Organa Solo ' s speech , Teneniel instructed all of the planetary representatives to vote on whether or not to ally with the New Republic in their fight . The result was a tie , and the deciding vote rested on whether Beed Thane or Isolder won a Hapan honor duel . When Isolder proved victorious , the Navy was sent to Fondor to participate in the Battle of Fondor . However , tragedy struck when a beam from Centerpoint Station wiped out most of the Hapan fleet . Due to the Force backlash she suffered from all the deaths , Teneniel miscarried her heir and went into a semi - catatonic state . Some time afterward , she decreed that Hapes would welcome refugees from planets the Yuuzhan Vong had conquered . This proved to be an unwise move , as it now made Hapes , with its navy still weakened from the Battle of Fondor , a target of the Yuuzhan Vong . Ta ' a Chume , who never got along with her daughter - in - law , decided that Teneniel ' s catatonia was a hindrance to the Hapan people and formulated a plot to replace her with Jaina Solo , whom Ta ' a Chume thought could be controlled . She urged Isolder to divorce Teneniel and marry Jaina , or she would take back the throne . Though Isolder had promised to think about it , Ta ' a Chume formed a secret working relationship with the Ni ' Korish to kill Teneniel , but their plots continually failed . Sentenced to death . By 27 ABY , Isolder and Teneniel ' s marriage was near the point of collapse , with talk of Teneniel returning to Dathomir . Shortly after Tenel Ka and the rest of the Myrkr strike team had retreated to Hapes , Tenel Ka visited her mother to pay her respects . Teneniel knew that she did not have much time left on the throne , and gave her daughter an emerald ring , with the express instructions that the next Queen Mother receive it . Tenel Ka took the ring and promised her mother she would deliver the ring as she had asked . Shortly afterwards , Teneniel was visited by Leia Organa Solo , who was dumbfounded at Teneniel ' s condition , both physically and mentally . In her only semi - coherent moment , Teneniel assumed that Isolder had chosen Leia as his new bride and told her that Tenel Ka had the ring . Not knowing what Teneniel was talking about , Leia played along until Teneniel sat at her bedroom window and became unresponsive . Ta ' a Chume , seeing an easy way to get rid of her hated daughter - in - law , arranged for the Ni ' Korish to poison Teneniel and have her replaced with Jaina . Shortly before the Battle of Hapes , the plan to poison Teneniel was executed successfully . However , Ta ' a Chume ' s plan to install Jaina on the throne backfired when , much to the surprise of everyone , Tenel Ka took up her mother ' s crown . Legacy . The ring that Teneniel had given her daughter was actually a holochip containing the location of a rebuilt Hapan fleet , commissioned by Teneniel to replace the fleet lost at Fondor . Tenel Ka placed this fleet under the command of Jagged Fel , and the Hapans successfully repelled the invaders . Personality and traits . Growing up in a village dominated by Force using women , Teneniel was trained in the use of Allyan Magic , the Dathomiri version of the Force , by her grandmother Augwynne Djo . Although she knew a great variety of spells , she showed a particular talent for the Spell of Storm . She was also trained in physical combat , and enjoyed mountain climbing as a pastime . Teneniel was compassionate , as shown when she secretly gave Isolder his freedom to keep him from being claimed by the other clan sisters . She could also be quite persistent , as she still stubbornly tried to get Luke Skywalker to become her mate even though she had no claim to him after he saved her life . She also did not hesitate to use the Force to prove a point , such as using the Force to destroy the blasters of Ta ' a Chume ' s bodyguards before they could shoot her for threatening the Queen Mother . Quick to anger , she had unleashed the Spell of Storm at least three separate times in anger , with the last time giving her a burst blood vessel on her face characteristic of a Nightsister . In an effort to atone for lashing out with her gift yet again , she gave part of her life force to a Nightsister who was wounded by the exhaust of the escaping " Millennium Falcon " . Teneniel also used the Force to cause the exhaust to flow around her and the injured Isolder . After the fallout from the Battle of Fondor , Teneniel became a shell of her former self . She sat alone in her room for long periods of time , neglected most of her duties as Queen Mother , and offered no resistance to Ta ' a Chume ' s plots . However , she was of sound enough mind to order a new Hapan fleet to be built to counter the threat the Yuuzhan Vong posed . Behind the scenes . Origin . Teneniel Djo was created by Dave Wolverton and first appeared in the 1994 novel " The Courtship of Princess Leia " . Mother ' s name . There is some disparity over the name of Teneniel ' s mother . The " Star Wars Encyclopedia " gives Allaya Djo as her mother , while " Cracken ' s Threat Dossier " implies that her mother ' s name may be Kara ' Teel . In the novel " The Courtship of Princess Leia " , it is implied that Teneniel ' s mother is named Allya with the statement " I am Teneniel Djo , a daughter of Allya , and you are my slave ! " . This may or may not be a variant of Allaya Djo . This could however be interpreted to mean ' follower of Allya ' , making the Dathomir Witches ' the Daughters of Allya ' , as would be common in many primitive societies where a direct connection to an important figure provides prestige and tradition . Spell of Storm . Teneniel ' s " Spell of Storm " ability was described as a " Force Storm " in " The Courtship of Princess Leia " , although it bears no resemblance to the existing Force power with that name . Her ability is more in line with the Force power Force Whirlwind . The term " Spell of Storm " comes from her bio in " Cracken ' s Threat Dossier " . Ascension . The exact date of Ta ' a Chume ' s abdication and Teneniel ' s ascent to the throne is unknown ; the placement in this article is conjecture based on the novel " Dark Journey " and the " New Essential Chronology " .