Thame Cerulian Thame Cerulian was a famed Human male Corellian Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order as a Consular towards the end of the Golden Age of the Old Republic and trained the famed and future Sith Lord , Count Dooku . Biography . A male Human , Thame Cerulian was brought to the Coruscant Jedi Temple as an infant and sorted into the Thranta Clan as a Jedi Initiate , receiving his early lessons from Grand Master Yoda himself . In approximately 115 BBY , Cerulian was given a copy of " " , a guidebook to life in the Jedi Order . Making several notations in its pages , Cerulian aspired to master the theory of Control abilities , something he believed his contemporaries glossed over . He also believed that he would be a master at the Soresu lightsaber form . Always inquisitive and sometimes playful with his comments , Cerulian boasted that he could challenge and win a competition of smashball between himself and Jedi High Council member , Master Omo Bouri , with the use of the a Five - point defense . His apprentice Dooku later stated in the book that Thame knew little about smashball . When Cerulian passed the Initiate Trials and graduated from the Jedi academy , he was selected by the esteemed Jedi Master Unskette as a Padawan . Proud to wear the robes of a Padawan alongside his master , Cerulian followed Unskette around the galaxy , practicing to master the third form of lightsaber combat on the way . During their travels , Cerulian and Unskette encountered three chain - sickle wielding assassins on Filve , and were barely able to escape alive . Later , the pair wound up on Orto where they encountered a Force - sensitive child worthy of entering the Order . Because the child ' s parents refused to turn the infant over , even throwing stones at them , the Jedi referred the case to the High Council . At some point late in his apprenticeship , after having run into a Matukai adept , Cerulian help to broker peace with the Colicoids of Colla IV ; a feat he thought worthy of counting as part of his Jedi Trials . When Cerulian had learned all that he could from Master Unskette , he was set to take the Trials at the Temple in the year 103 BBY . While some of his peers failed to complete the tasks assigned , such as Rouggle and Half - Moonsing , Cerulian made it through each test and was knighted by Grand Master Yoda . Upon ascending to knighthood Cerulian was presented with a special Jedi Credit , a gift given to all Corellian Jedi . He stored it in his copy of " The Jedi Path " for safe keeping . As a Knight , Cerulian became extremely interested in the dark side of the Force and the study of ancient Sith holocrons . As a researcher , Cerulian had access to a number of texts and forbidden documents housed within the Jedi Archives . Cerulian was eventually made a Master and appointed to sit on the Jedi High Council , giving him access to the Holocron Vaults of the Archives . Convinced that the Sith would eventually return , Cerulian intended to learn everything he could so as to be prepared to face them . In 89 BBY , Cerulian was impressed by the Initiate Dooku and chose him as his Padawan . Before they could formally meet and begin their partnership , Cerulian was called away on an important mission and departed the Temple . While he was gone , Dooku and his peer , Lorian Nod infiltrated Cerulian ' s quarters and rifled through his collection of texts on the Sith . Fascinated , Nod was encouraged to break into the Temple ' s Vaults and steal the Dark Holocron . Discovering this , the Council expelled Nod for lying and blaming Dooku for the theft . Cerulian returned and the apprenticeship of Dooku began ; lasting until around 82 BBY . Having given Dooku his copy of " The Jedi Path " , Dooku annotated the text , stating that Cerulian lacked knowledge of the fundamentals of being a Jedi . Personality and traits . Cerulian was confident and sure of himself , as was evident in his comments that he wrote in the Jedi Path book . Cerulian also believed that he could teach much of his own skills to a Padawan , but his own apprentice believed he lacked the fundamentals of training . Powers and abilities . Upon becoming the Padawan to Jedi Master Unskette , Cerulian focused on the third form of lightsaber combat . Cerulian was also adept at meditation , often meditating in a room in the Reconciliation Quarters .