Orielle Kitai Orielle Kitai , known as Ori by her friends , was a Force - sensitive female Human , born around 3985 BBY into the Lost Tribe of Sith during its isolation on the Wild Space planet Kesh . Orielle eventually became an influential Sith Saber , and , following the election of Grand Lord Lillia Venn in 3961 BBY , Orielle ' s mother , Candra Kitai , was promoted to High Lord . While many believed Candra might become the next Grand Lord , the dreams of the Kitai family were cut short on Donellan ' s Day in 3960 BBY , when uvak wrangler Campion Dey , who represented the Kitais in the holiday ' s rake - riding competition , suddenly attacked Grand Lord Venn . Dey was killed , however , and the Kitais , suspected of intrigue against the Grand Lord , were made slaves . Orielle fled to the farm of her friend Jelph Marrian , where she stayed for several days , plotting a way to reinstate her and her mother ' s former positions within the Tribe . When she discovered that Marrian was actually a Jedi from the Galactic Republic and was hiding a starship on his farm , she attempted to use that information to gain political leverage over Venn . When Orielle ' s mother betrayed her , however , the Grand Lord and several accompanying Sith discovered the starship . Venn attempted to use the vessel to escape Kesh , but she and her entourage were killed when the ship ' s proton torpedoes detonated as a result of a booby - trap set by the Jedi . Orielle and Marrian , resolving to forget the Sith and the Jedi , lived the remainder of their lives in secrecy in the Takara Mountains . Biography . Early life . The Force - sensitive daughter of Candra Kitai , the Human Orielle Kitai — known as " Ori " to her friends , but never to Keshiri slaves — was born around 3985 BBY on the Wild Space planet Kesh . Born into the Lost Tribe of Sith , Orielle joined their ranks as a Sith Tyro and , on the second day of her training , experienced a Force vision of a star falling from the sky , setting her and everything in sight aflame . When a dying Orielle asked the star why it had destroyed her home , the star replied , " Because you thought me a friend . " Orielle passed the trials of apprenticeship and became a Sith Saber by 3960 BBY . She acquired her own uvak , a flying beast of burden native to the world , which she named Shyn . As a Sith Saber , one of Orielle ' s duties was , along with her apprentices , to patrol the capital city of Tahv ' s complex aqueduct system , which Orielle came to know from memory . She and her mother , Candra , who had become a High Lord in 3961 BBY after the election of Grand Lord Lillia Venn , lived at Starfall , a country estate south of Tahv , with several slaves . As the second most powerful individual in the Tribe , neutral in the political feud between the Red and Gold factions of the Tribe , Orielle ' s mother was considered a likely candidate for Grand Lord upon the death of Venn ; and Orielle , as her daughter , was slated to lead the Sith Sabers in the future . Orielle frequently visited Jelph of Marisota , a Human slave . Orielle had discovered the man after following a Keshiri florist , whom she sensed was lying to her when she questioned him on the origin of his plants , to Jelph ' s farm along the Marisota River near the Takara Mountains south of Tahv . Jelph made his living selling flowers and , during the Tribe ' s holidays , sold many to Orielle , who had grown to admire him . The day before Donellan ' s Day in 3960 BBY , Jelph gave to her an uvak harness fitted with stretched waterskins , which would make the transport of her frequent purchases easier . Orielle purchased several dalsa flower s from him , which she used the next day to decorate her mother ' s private viewing box in the Korsinata stadium , where a gladiatorial competition called rake - riding , fought by uvak wrangler s , took place . As Orielle and her mother took their seats in the Korsinata , the uvak wranglers , including the Kitai family ' s own representative , Campion Dey , entered the stadium . While Ori believed Dey would perform well , her mother told her he was as good as dead . Before the competition could begin , however , Dey ' s uvak — which , as all uvaks bred for rake - riding had their wings clipped , should have been flightless — flew into the air as Dey , standing in the saddle , activated his lightsaber . Ready to defend herself and her mother if necessary , Orielle activated her own lightsaber and jumped atop the railing of her mother ' s viewing box . However , Dey ' s uvak flew instead toward Grand Lord Venn , in her own luxury compartment in the upper portions of the stadium . Before the uvak could reach her , Venn unleashed a storm of Force lightning , sending the uvak and its rider into the lower seating of the stadium as the Sith Sabers Sawj and Flen Luzo , rivals to Orielle ' s potential leadership of the Sabers , leapt toward Dey , lightsabers in hand . Knowing that the Kitais , as the sponsors of Campion Dey , would be blamed for the attack , Candra sent her daughter back to Starfall to tell their slaves that she would not be coming home that night . As Orielle returned to the estate two hours later , she was reminded of her childhood Force vision when she saw her mother ' s Keshiri slaves carrying her and her mother ' s possessions out of the house and burning them in a bonfire . Candra ' s caretaker , an elderly Keshiri , revealed that the burning of her possessions had been ordered by Grand Lord Venn just two hours earlier . Suspecting a trap set by Venn and the Luzos to reveal the Kitais ' guilt , Orielle decided to return to Tahv , where she believed her mother would already have revealed the true mastermind behind the assassination attempt . However , as she was mounting her uvak , her mother ' s caretaker called her " Ori , " a name reserved only for Orielle ' s friends , and never for Keshiri slaves . At that moment , Orielle realized the truth : she and her mother had been condemned to slavery . Slavery . After journeying back to Tahv , where she learned that her mother was still alive and in the clutches of Grand Lord Venn , Orielle Kitai — now stripped of her surname , as all slaves on the planet were — fled to Jelph ' s farm . She stayed for several days in the care of the farmer and kept her uvak , a luxury forbidden to slaves , hidden in Jelph ' s composting barn , which had once served as a stable . As she learned the ways of a slave , simultaneously plotting her return to power , she eventually became comfortable enough to tell Jelph the details of her family ' s fall from grace , although she was still disgusted by the thought of slavery . Her relationship with the farmer became more intimate over the next few days ; however , it came to a halt when Jelph announced that he had to leave for a day to visit his customers , as the autumn growing season was approaching . Though she pleaded , feeling that she could not live without him , Orielle was unable to convince Jelph to stay . As Jelph left , Orielle remained behind , tending to the traps that Jelph kept near the forested mountains in the hopes of catching edible rodents . After returning to the farm from clearing the traps , she found her uvak , Shyn , dead on the floor of the barn , its life ended by the blade of a lightsaber . The Luzo brothers emerged and , before Orielle could attack them with her own lightsaber , produced two scrolls , tossing them at her feet . Orielle read the scrolls , which stated that her mother had plotted with the High Lords of the Red and Gold factions to assassinate Grand Lord Venn . Her mother had signed both scrolls , which also stated that Candra , now Venn ' s slave , pledged her eternal loyalty to the Grand Lord . The Luzo brothers confiscated Orielle ' s lightsaber , gave her a shovel symbolic of her new life as a slave , and returned to Tahv . Infuriated at her condemnation to the life of a slave , Orielle lost her temper . Using the shovel given to her by the Luzo brothers and her telekinetic power in the Force , she destroyed what little there was to destroy on Jelph ' s farm . She ravaged everything in sight until , after swinging the shovel into a massive composting pile , she struck something metal . Digging through the muck , she uncovered an " Aurek " - class tactical strikefighter buried beneath it , and realized that Jelph was actually a Jedi from the Galactic Republic . Knowing how valuable a working starship would be to the Tribe , which had been isolated on Kesh for more than a thousand years , she realized the vessel was her way out of slavery and back into the Tribe . Orielle fled the farm , running through the night and into the next day to an uvak exhibit in Tahv that she called " the zoo , " where her mother had been forced to shovel uvak manure for the two weeks since the assassination attempt . Disabling a guard and stealing his lightsaber , Orielle found her mother , still wearing her ceremonial gown from Donellan ' s Day . She told her mother about the vessel she had found , and asked how she could use it to their advantage . Candra told her to contact the architect Gadin Badolfa , a friend of the Kitai family . Through Badolfa , she could contact four High Lords from the former Red and Gold factions , which had been dissolved after the assassination attempt , and invite them to the farm to see the ship for themselves . Orielle contacted Badolfa , who agreed to deliver the messages — which were to reveal nothing about the ship , but to disclose that the matter was important — to the High Lords . Badolfa assured Orielle that the High Lords could help her free her mother from Venn ' s clutches , which Orielle realized was more important than restoring their former positions in the Tribe . Badolfa , before departing to deliver the messages , warned Orielle that Venn had rewarded the Luzo brothers for their loyalty by elevating them to the position of Sith Lord . Leaving the Tribe . Orielle visited Tahv ' s aqueduct system — which she had memorized during her time as a Sith Saber — where she hoped she could lure an aerial sentry to her , incapacitate him , and steal his uvak to return to Jelph ' s farm . However , Jelph — who was in actuality Jelph Marrian , a former Shadow from the Jedi Covenant dedicated to preventing the return of the Sith — had followed her from his farm , and had also gone into the aqueduct system . Orielle attacked Marrian and dueled him before losing her stolen lightsaber in the water . Marrian convinced her to trust him and kissed her before she told him that she had already invited the High Lords to his farm to discuss a matter of importance . The two stole an uvak and flew back to the farm , where they hoped they could use Marrian ' s starship to escape the planet . However , as the four High Lords were already on their way , Orielle believed that she would have to give them something of importance in order to satisfy them . Marrian suggested giving them the four blasters he had hidden , as there were no other working blasters on the planet . Upon arriving at the farm , Marrian hid out of sight while Orielle recovered the blasters and called out to the High Lords . However , she was instead confronted by Grand Lord Lillia Venn and the Lords Luzo . While Venn immobilized Kitai with the Force , several guards took hold of her . Venn explained that , although she had allowed Gadin Badolfa to deliver Kitai ' s messages , Candra had alerted Venn to the meeting , betraying her daughter in exchange for what Venn called " improved working conditions . " While Venn entered Marrian ' s starfighter , her guards held Kitai in place . However , Marrian telekinetically brought the blasters to his hands and telepathically warned Orielle to duck before he shot her two captors from behind . Grabbing Orielle ' s arm , Marrian led her toward the river as Venn powered up the starfighter , unaware that Marrian had used the ship ' s proton torpedoes and thousands of kilograms of ammonium - nitrate - based explosives — converted from common fertilizer — to create an anti - theft system for the vessel . As Venn ascended , the torpedoes detonated , killing Venn , the Luzos , and the guards . Orielle and Marrian fled the farm , which , along with the entire bank , sank into the river as a result of the explosion . Orielle and Marrian retreated into the mountains , where they constructed a new hut and lived off the jungle ' s native flora and fauna . Eight weeks after the confrontation , Marrian received a signal from his transmitter , which , as Marrian had kept it separate from the rest of his starfighter , had been spared from the explosion . The signal reported that the Jedi had descended into civil war . Resolving to forget the Jedi and the Sith and to live only for themselves , Orielle and Marrian threw the transmitter into the river and returned to their new home , where they lived the remainder of their lives in secrecy . Legacy . In 2975 BBY , a Force - vision of Orielle appeared to Quarra Thayn , who at the time was guiding Edell Vrai across the continent of Alanciar , so he could infiltrate the military base on behalf of the Sith . In the vision , Orielle was seen with her now - husband , Jelph Marrian , and their three children . The family was in hiding in the jungles of Keshtah Minor . Orielle compared her former life as a high - ranking member of the Sith tribe to Quarra ' s station in the Alanciar military . She also warned Quarra of the dangers of " living within a dream . " Convinced of the inevitable Sith take - over and intrigued by Orielle ' s peaceful life in the jungle , Quarra decided to remain loyal to her family rather than becoming the consort of Edell Vrai after the Sith have occupied in Alanciar . Personality and traits . A slender , auburn - haired woman , Orielle Kitai was fiercely loyal to the Lost Tribe of Sith and proud of her position and special responsibilities , which were the result of her mother ' s power . She was well acquainted with the Tribe ' s customs and , like most Sith , looked down upon Kesh ' s native Keshiri , whom she felt were inferior to Humans ; she never even allowed them to call her by her first name . Despite her hatred for the smell of uvak manure , she enjoyed spending time with Jelph Marrian , whose entire farm stank of it , and cared deeply for her pet , Shyn . Often a braggart , she was not afraid to flout her unparalleled knowledge of Tahv ' s complex aqueduct system , especially in the presence of Marrian , whose soft and humble attitude intrigued her . Though holding a collected , if arrogant , manner in front of the farmer , she also had a short temper , which she lost — along with the contents of her stomach — when discussing her condemnation to slavery with him , and lost again when her lightsaber was confiscated . Despite the pride she felt for the Tribe and her vow to regain power within it , her feelings for Marrian were stronger . While she told him that she could not be with him if it meant she had to be weak , Marrian convinced her that being strong did not mean she had to rule the galaxy . Orielle was willing to shed her loyalty for the Tribe after they betrayed her , and resolved to live a calmer life with the farmer , whom she realized she could not live without . Inspired by a legend of Keshiri slaves who had escaped their masters , Orielle became determined to make her own destiny rather than follow the one chosen for her by the Sith . Powers and abilities . Powerful in the dark side of the Force , which caused her ordinarily brown eyes to glow orange when she utilized it , Orielle Kitai reached the rank of Sith Saber by the age of twenty - five . Adept in telepathy , she was able to sense when she was being lied to by a Keshiri florist , and she clearly received Jelph Marrian ' s mental warning when he prepared to shoot the guards holding her captive . Slender and stealthy , she was able to conceal her presence even to Force - users , such as the zoo ' s Sith guard , whom she quickly disabled , and the Jedi Jelph Marrian , although she was unable to best the latter in one - on - one combat . She was also proficient in telekinesis , as displayed when she used the Force to remove Marrian ' s entire tool collection from the wall of his barn , using her fury to keep them in a whirlwind as she rampaged through the barn with her shovel . Behind the scenes . Created by author John Jackson Miller , Orielle Kitai makes her first appearance in " " , the fifth installment of the " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series of eBook s . She later makes an appearance in the series ' subsequent installment , " " and " . "