Tamith Kai Tamith Kai was a female Human Nightsister from the Great Canyon Clan on the planet Dathomir . She was Brakiss ' s assistant instructor at the Shadow Academy . Biography . When the Great Canyon Clan on Dathomir allied with Brakiss ' s Shadow Academy , Tamith Kai volunteered herself to be Brakiss ' s liaison and eventually became the Shadow Academy ' s assistant instuctor . She was responsible for recruiting , combat training and discipline . Tamith Kai trained her students and bided her time until the order was given in 23 ABY to start taking more students by force . She spearheaded the raid on GemDiver Station and engineered the kidnapping the Jedi trainees Jacen Solo , Jaina Solo and Lowbacca . She and Brakiss split the new recruits among themselves . After Lowbacca and Jaina disrupted one of Brakiss ' s lectures , Brakiss decided that the training of the new recruits would be split between himself and Tamith Kai . She would train Lowbacca , who had demonstrated that he was quick to anger when Brakiss punished Jaina for her insubordination . Tamith Kai planned to use the young Wookiee ' s short temper to lure him to the dark side , resorting to torture . When Lowbacca gave in to his anger , smashing a sonic generator beyond repair , Tamith Kai rewarded him by giving a reprogrammed Em Teedee back to him . The little translator droid ' s increased level of capacity for annoyance and newfound loyalty to the Second Imperium had the opposite of the intended effect on Lowbacca , however . Brakiss and Tamith Kai ' s efforts were in vain , as the plot was foiled by Luke Skywalker and Tenel Ka . As the twins and Lowbacca made their escape , Tamith Kai confronted Tenel Ka , promising to turn her to the dark side after killing the young warrior girl ' s friends . Tenel Ka responded by wounding Tamith Kai ' s knee . This confrontation created a strong sense animosity between the two Dathomiri . In the wake of that debacle , Brakiss decided that capturing such high profile candidates would only lead to unwanted attention . The Shadow Academy would instead rely on the disadvantaged youths of Coruscant and other worlds to fill the ranks of the Second Imperium . If they were Force - sensitive , then they could be trained as Dark Jedi and if not , they could still be useful as stormtroopers or TIE pilot s . Along with Garowyn , Tamith Kai took her new apprentice , Vilas , down to the undercity of Coruscant to do their work . More often than not , they used the Force to simply convince their quarry to go with them , but some like Zekk proved more of a trouble and thus needed to be stunned before being taken to the Shadow Academy . However , he didn ' t cause any more trouble once he was aboard the space station . Tamith Kai took a disliking to Zekk , mainly because he became more proficient in the dark side than her own apprentice Vilas . After Zekk had slain Vilas in a contest to determine who was to be the Shadow Academy ' s Darkest Knight , Tamith Kai became outright hostile towards Zekk . Later , when Brakiss paired them up for a raid on Kashyyyk , Tamith Kai expressed her distrust of the Darkest Knight , not thinking that he was loyal enough . When she found out that Jacen , Jaina , Tenel Ka and Lowbacca were on Kashyyyk , she tried to make Zekk prove his loyalty . She reasoned that if he was loyal , Zekk would kill his former friends without a doubt in his mind . When he failed to do so , her distrust of him went even deeper . Shortly thereafter , both Zekk and Tamith Kai were selected to lead the assault on the Jedi Praxeum . While Zekk chose to lead the Dark Jedi forces on ground , Tamith Kai chose to lead from a floating platform . After a duel with Tenel Ka , the floating platform she was on was sabotaged by the warrior girl . The platform then crashed into a river , killing Tamith Kai .