Sariss Sariss , alias " Prophetess " , was a Force - sensitive female Human who was one of seven Dark Jedi attempting to reclaim the Valley of the Jedi some time after the Galactic Empire ' s defeat at the Battle of Endor . Born the daughter of Imperial Warlord Cronal , Sariss was trained in the ways of the Force by the Prophets of the Dark Side on Dromund Kaas . As she grew up , she became an apprentice to Inquisitor Jerec , who completed her training as a Dark Jedi . She was one of Jerec ' s most loyal followers . Biography . Sariss did not know that she was the daughter of Lord Cronal , one of the Prophets of the Dark Side who raised her in the ways of the dark side on Dromund Kaas . There , Sariss first met her later master , Jerec of the Inquisitorius in the Galactic Empire . Because Cronal held to a creed of dark nihilism , the mere existence of his daughter constituted a shocking offence , as it was tribute to creation instead of destruction . Consequently , Sariss was disavowed by her father in a most horrid way possible . Cronal not only allowed his fellow Prophets to freely engage her in carnal relations , but he also partook in the repeated rape himself . " Prophetess " was the alter ego assumed by Sariss on Tatooine , where , working in cooperation with local governor Tour Aryon , she posed as a local fortune teller as cover for her true job as a spy for the Secret Order of the Empire . As a fortune teller , she claimed that Wuher was the reincarnated soul of Cedo Partu . Wuher never allowed the Prophetess to enter Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . Right before the Battle of Yavin , as part of her espionage , she trailed Jabba Desilijic Tiure and his bodyguards to Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley . Shortly thereafter , Sariss had to quickly make room for a group of stormtroopers rushing to the docking bay in a vain attempt to prevent the escape of the droid R2 - D2 , holder of datatape s containing the stolen plans of the first Death Star . During the rebellion on Tatooine that followed the Battle of Endor , Sariss abandoned her post to become a Dark Jedi apprenticed to Jerec , although outwardly she claimed devotion to the Empire ' s Church of the Dark Side . In her role as a disciple of the quasi - religion , she seduced a wealthy Epicanthix mineral baron on Panatha , to whom she became engaged . She then seduced his son , Yun , whom she taught her " faith . " She convinced Yun to kill his own father . She then gave the baron ' s wealth to Jerec and also gave Yun to Jerec as an apprentice . With the death of Emperor Palpatine in 4 ABY , Sariss assisted Jerec to rebuild the collapsing Empire and search for the Valley of the Jedi , a Force nexus formed in the final battle of the New Sith Wars more than a thousand years ago . After learning that Jedi Master Qu Rahn might have known the location of the valley , Sariss , Yun , and Maw led the landing party , which consisted of two skimmer s . They were able to capture Rahn and his rebel companions and took them over to Jerec ' s Super Star Destroyer , the " Vengeance " . The rebels were already executed , and Jerec was able to probe Rahn ' s mind and discovered that although Qu Rahn did not know the location of the valley , his friend Morgan Katarn , killed by Jerec several years ago , did and had kept the map leading to it in his home on the planet Sulon . Eventually , Qu Rahn broke free and fought against the Seven Dark Jedi . Sariss , Boc , and Yun engaged him , but they were no match until Jerec intervened and killed Rahn . After killing Rahn , Sariss , Boc , and Yun traveled to Sulon to gather the pieces of the map and use 8t88 to decode the map . She ordered her apprentice to travel to the city of Barons Hed while she returned to the " Vengeance " to inform the success on searching the map . They were able to find the location where the Valley of the Jedi was hidden , and the planet was known to be Ruusan . A short time later , Sariss spoke with Yun , who told him that Jerec acknowledged that Yun did well with the rock . She gave him his next assignment — to find out what happened to Patrol Zulu , Able , Mary 341 , which was long overdue . Sariss later accompanied Jerec when the Dark Jedi Master confronted Katarn , who was furious after killing Maw on a landing pad near Jerec ' s personal cargo ship , the Sulon Star . Jerec tried to turn Katarn to the dark side by persuading him to kill his partner and love , Jan Ors , whom Jerec ' s men had captured earlier . Katarn managed to hold off his anger and stay with the light , and Yun watched as his Master pushed the Jedi into the Sulon Star and then sent the doomed ship towards the surface . Katarn managed to escape from the Sulon Star in his own ship , the Moldy Crow , though he crashed the vessel in the process . He was later found unconscious by Sariss , Boc , and Yun and took him over to the caves where he would be executed . Sariss then attempted to execute Katarn with her lightsaber , but Yun , whose body seemed to act on its own , blocked Sariss ' s blow , which accidentally deflected against him , inflicting a mortal wound . With a few tears coming down her eyes , she didn ' t know why Yun would turn against her . Yun eventually told her that Kyle was a true Jedi , and that he shouldn ' t die , and he deserved a better battle . Watching her apprentice die , Sariss chose to spare Kyle and engage him in a duel . Enraged with the loss of Yun , she was determined to destroy the self - trained Jedi . Sariss fought against Katarn and initially had the upper hand while trying to killing him , but she underestimated Kyle who used a countering technique known as the Flowing Water Cut . Sariss quickly found she couldn ' t defeat him and that she underestimated his power in the light side of the Force . She came to realize the point of what Yun said to her before his death ; that Kyle was a true Jedi of the light side . Sariss was ultimately killed in the confrontation , and Kyle went on to rescue Jan and defeat Boc and Jerec once and for all . Powers and abilities . Sariss was quiet and reserved , but a formidable opponent in combat and deemed the most skilled lightsaber fighter of the seven Dark Jedi , relying almost exclusively on her fencing skills instead of using additional Force powers . She was also the only known practitioner of Deadly Sight , allowing her a measure of ranged attack as well . Behind the scenes . Sariss was played by Valerie Wildman in " " . In the non - canonical ending of " Star Wars : Jedi Knight : Dark Forces II " , where Kyle chooses the dark side , he kills Yun instead of Sariss , and she later appears as Emperor Katarn ' s aide . William C . Dietz and Dave Dorman , in their novella " " , add a further dimension to the relationship between Sariss and Yun . They reveal that she considered Yun a very good and talented student , and also that he was the closest thing to a friend she ever had . In the novella , Yun ' s block superficially injures her in the arm . In the audio version of " Dark Forces : Jedi Knight " , Sariss deliberately kills Yun when he tries to stop her . She shows no remorse in Yun ' s death which enrages Kyle leading him to kill her . The figure of the ' Prophetess ' was initially only an uncredited extra appearing for a second in " " . Afterwards , that figure ' s backstory as the " Prophetess " was created for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game . Abel G . Peña , in his " The Dark Forces Saga " articles , retcon ned the Prophetess and Sariss into the same character . An unidentified illustration for a Dark Side Adept in " Threats of the Galaxy " matched the appearance of a lightsaber - wielding Prophetess .