Risstenni Risstenni was a female Wookiee who lived on the planet Cularin during the time of the Clone Wars . Circa 21 BBY , Risstenni ' s son , Chywarra , was abducted by the Wyrd , a group of Tarasin Force witches . They took him to the extinct volcano Cloud Mountain , where they placed him inside the Hand artifact , a Force - imbued statue that allowed its controller to draw power from the artifact ' s occupant . Risstenni traveled to Cloud Mountain in search of her son and was captured by the Wyrd , who offered to let her take Chywarra ' s place inside the artifact . She accepted , entered the statue , and was killed during a Wyrd ritual . She was transformed into a dark side spirit and , in her new form , encountered a group of agents that had come to Cloud Mountain to search for her and Chywarra . Biography . Risstenni was a female Wookiee who lived during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . At some point , she mated with another Wookiee and gave birth to a son , Chywarra . Circa 21 BBY , the family became residents of Kiirloor , a Wookiee settlement that had been established on the planet Cularin following the death of the Wookiee Jedi Master Kirlocca . However , the Wyrd , a group of Tarasin Force witches that lived on Cularin , opposed the presence of the Wookiees at Kiirloor . One morning , two months after the establishment of Kiirloor , the Wyrd kidnapped Chywarra and planned to draw power from him using a hand - shaped Force - imbued statue known as the Hand artifact . The Wyrd hoped this would allow them to cause the inactive volcano Cloud Mountain to erupt and destroy Kiirloor . After waking up to find Chywarra missing , Risstenni began looking for him . After a while she found a toy ryyk blade that belonged to her son , and she left it in a tree near Cloud Mountain to act as a sign for anyone who tried to follow her and Chywarra . She continued searching and sighted Chywarra being carried up the side of Cloud Mountain by a member of the Wyrd , so she climbed up the volcano and began looking for her son in the tunnels inside the mountain . Eventually , she discovered a large cavern that served as the headquarters of a Wyrd enclave that was located inside the mountain , and she began observing the Tarasin inside the chamber . However , she overheard some Wyrd members talking about how Chywarra had survived a session inside the Hand artifact ; angered , Risstenni rushed out to attack the Tarasin . The group ' s leader , Xinishia , told her that they would kill Chywarra if she tried to fight them , and she then used the Force to compel Risstenni to sit down . Xinishia offered to let Risstenni take Chywarra ' s place inside the statue during the Wyrd ' s next ritual . Risstenni agreed , as she could not see any other way to save the life of her son . The Tarasin allowed Risstenni to say goodbye to Chywarra and then helped her into the artifact ' s thumb . The Wookiee scratched at the interior of the device , but she was unable to climb out because it was made of a highly polished smooth material . When the Tarasin began their ritual , Risstenni was overcome with a feeling that something inside her was trying to tear her body apart , which caused her to pass out . The device drained her life force and killed her , transforming her into a dark side spirit . When Risstenni came to , she discovered that she had changed form and could move through the side of the statue . She thought about going to get help , but she did not want to leave her son , so she decided to remain within the enclave . The Wyrd ignored her in her new form and allowed her to listen to them discussing their plan ; thus she learned of the witches ' plan to destroy Kiirloor . When the Wookiees of Kiirloor discovered that Risstenni and Chywarra were missing , they sent representatives to ask Mother Dariana of the Tarasin Hiironi irstat if she knew who was responsible for the pair ' s disappearance . Dariana sent the Heroes of Cularin , a group of freelance agents who operated in the Cularin system , to investigate the matter , and they traveled to the tunnels inside Cloud Mountain . Risstenni approached them while in the guise of a ghostly humanoid , then worked out how to manifest herself and appeared to them in the form of a Wookiee . She spoke to the agents and explained to them how she had died . She then begged them to rescue her son and warned the agents that it was dangerous for them to continue traveling through the tunnels . However , while she was talking to them , a Tarasin Force ghost attacked the agents , with the aim of preventing them from interfering in the Wyrd ' s plans . Risstenni responded by entering combat with the spirit and allowed the agents to confront Xinishia and the other members of the Wyrd . Personality and traits . Risstenni was furious when she overheard the Wyrd members inside Cloud Mountain discussing how Chywarra had survived a session inside the Hand artifact , which made her want to tear Xinishia ' s limbs out . The Wookiee didn ' t want to agree to Xinishia ' s proposal that she take Chywarra ' s place inside the statue , but she agreed to it because it seemed the only way to save Chywarra , and because there were too many Wyrd members for Risstenni to fight by herself . She was also afraid that the Wyrd would use their Force powers to take control of her body again , as when Xinishia used the Force to make the Wookiee sit down . Risstenni hoped that she would be able to survive long enough for help to arrive . Following her death and transformation into a dark side spirit , Risstenni was not filled with rage like most other dark side spirits were , because she had died sacrificing herself to save her child . Behind the scenes . Risstenni was created by Ed Gibson and appeared in " From the Trees " , a Wizards of the Coast role - playing adventure that formed part of the " Living Force " campaign . In the scenario , the players role - play as the Heroes of Cularin . It is possible for them to decline Dariana ' s call to help the Wookiees of Kiirloor ; such a decision causes the player characters to never meet the spirit of Risstenni . If they do accept the assignment when they first encounter Risstenni , it is possible for them to attack her before she manifests herself into the form of a Wookiee . They can then destroy the spirit by using the Force power Force Light . If the player characters do speak to Risstenni and decide not to proceed further into the tunnels of Cloud Mountain , she is understanding and considers it more important that they warn the Wookiees of Kiirloor about the Wyrd ' s plan than that they rescue Chywarra . If the player characters make their way to the Wyrd enclave ' s headquarters , they are confronted by Xinishia and the Wyrd , who try to make a deal with them whereby the Wyrd frees Chywarra and lets the players leave the enclave unharmed if , in return , the player characters promise to convince the Wookiees to relocate Kiirloor . If the player characters agree to the demand , as they leave the chamber , Risstenni defeats the Wyrd spirit that she had been fighting and thanks the player characters for saving her son . Risstenni remains close to Chywarra for the rest of the adventure , and it is then possible for the player characters to suggest that Chywarra enroll at the Almas Academy , a Jedi academy located on the planet Almas . If he chooses to do so , Risstenni ' s spirit accompanies him to the academy .