Tahl Tahl was a female Noorian Jedi Master , a librarian of the Jedi Archives , and was also a close friend of Qui - Gon Jinn , with whom she fell in love . She was also the master of Padawan Bant Eerin . During a mission on Melida / Daan , she was blinded in a prison . However , her improved hearing and Force - sensitivity helped her get back on her feet . Biography . Early life . Brought to the Coruscant Jedi Temple at the advanced age of 6 , the young Force - sensitive girl was permitted to start her training at the Temple academy , learning the ways of the Force . A close friend of Initiate Qui - Gon Jinn , the two would maintain a relationship through their apprenticeships and as Jedi Knights . During Exhibition Day of 82 BBY , while she and Qui - Gon Jinn were still Initiates , she had won every last dueling match up until she had defeated Clee Rhara . She was pitted in the final round against Jinn . They knew each other ' s strengths , which made the exceedingly long duel very interesting to all the spectators around them . Even Jedi Masters came to watch . In the end , Tahl momentarily slipped on her own sweat and Jinn knocked her to the ground , holding the blade of his training lightsaber inches away from her to signal his victory . Having constructed her own blue - bladed lightsaber and training independently as a Consular , Jedi Tahl specialized as a researcher and Lore Keeper and could always be found close to the Temple Archives . However , Tahl still took assignments from the Jedi High Council . She and Jinn also became friends with Didi Oddo , who ran a cafe on Coruscant . Jedi Master . After both Tahl and Jinn achieved the rank of Jedi Master , the High Council encouraged them to take Padawans . While Master Jinn successfully trained Feemor and begun the tutelage of a young man named Xanatos , Master Tahl still refused to take a student . In 53 BBY , the High Council assigned Tahl as steward of the orphaned Padawan Orykan Tamarik and dispatched the duo to Telos IV , along with Master Jinn and Padawan Xanatos . While Jinn and his student were to investigate the mysterious death of High Priestess Liora , Master Tahl was tasked with recovering the last of the holocrons from the Order ' s abandoned academy on the world . After collecting several volumes of text and the remaining holocrons , Master Tahl departed from the Telosian Archives building and stumbled upon a secret meeting in an exterior courtyard . One of the men , dressed in the garb of an Antarian Ranger , attacked Tahl upon seeing her ; though Tahl gave chase all three men escaped . Reporting this news to Jinn , Tahl later attempted to meet with him but a riot interrupted her . The riot , a cover for a group of insurgents to infiltrate the palace grounds , claimed the life of Princess Nason . When the riot was quelled , Master Tahl informed the other Jedi that the Council had reassigned her , sending her to the Landor system to apprehend the pirates who had captured Captain Stieg Wa . Years later , in 47 BBY , both Tahl and Jinn were dispatched to the planet Apsolon as supervisors of the first free elections held on the world . While there , Tahl developed a close bond with the twin daughters of the peoples ' hero Ewane : Eritha and Alani . As a symbol of the democratization of Apsolon , the planet was renamed New Apsolon ; Tahl reluctantly left the planet along with Jinn , as she wanted to stay to ensure the planet was stable . Blindness . By 44 BBY , Tahl was sent to act as a peacemaker to the broken world of Melida / Daan , where the Melida and Daan people were murdering each other . She was caught in the battle and sustained injuries that caused her to lose her sight . A white scar had crossed all the way from her left eyebrow to her chin . As she was unable to free herself from Melida captivity , Qui - Gon Jinn and his new Padawan , Obi - Wan Kenobi , were sent to rescue her . Upon returning to Coruscant , Tahl was assigned TooJay , a 2JTJ personal navigation droid by Grand Master Yoda to assist her in her blindness ; though she became more of a bother than a help . Master Tahl was not greatly affected by her blindness , as she had an immense knowledge of galactic history , politics , and the backstory of practically everything and anything going on in the galaxy . Remaining at the Temple , Tahl kept herself useful by assisting Jedi before they departed on missions , giving them detailed backgrounds on planets and species they might encounter . When the Temple was vandalized and an attempt on Master Yoda ' s life was made , Tahl worked with Master Jinn to try to uncover the perpetrator . With the addition of several thefts , which included lightsabers and the Healing Crystals of Fire , Tahl and Jinn began officially investigating the incident and , with the aid of Mon Calamari Initiate Bant Eerin , discovered that Bruck Chun , a promising senior Jedi student , was the robber . Later , when Xanatos was revealed to be the mastermind of the chaos , Tahl did what she could to discover what he was after : crystalline vertex stored in the Temple ' s Treasury room . Once the Temple was secure , she helped trace Xanatos ' company , the Offworld Mining Corporation , to Telos IV , prompting Jinn and Obi - Wan Kenobi to travel there . Following Eerin ' s display of courage during the Temple incident , Tahl selected the young girl as her Padawan ; though she regularly left her behind to go on short missions of her own . This upset the members of the High Council as well as Jinn , with whom she had several arguments about the matter . Indeed , Tahl would accompany Jinn without her Padawan in 42 BBY when the pair worked together to uncover a saboteur in Master Clee Rhara ' s flight system on Centax - 2 . Uncovering the saboteur , using the alias of long deceased Tarrence Chenati , the pair were too late to save the school from having its funding cut . Return to New Apsolon and death . In 41 BBY Tahl received a call of help from the twins Eritha and Alani of New Apsolon , as their father Ewane was murdered after being reelected Supreme Governor . She answered the call for help and went alone to the world , despite Master Jinn ' s objections . Upon arriving on the world she accepted the twins ' request to go undercover in the former secret police called the Absolutes , now outlawed and trying to oust the planet ' s democratic government . As Tahl didn ' t report back to the High Council after several weeks , Master Jinn grew concerned and decided to go looking for her , despite the disapproval from the Council . The Jedi Master and Padawan Kenobi managed to find Tahl and helped her complete the mission . During their struggles , Master Jinn pledged his life to her , and she did the same to him , speaking aloud the feelings they had long held for each other . Little time had passed before Tahl ' s undercover status was discovered and she was kidnapped by Balog , the Chief Security Controller who had pretended to assist the Jedi . Chief Balog kept her in a sensory deprivation containment device , injecting a drug that slowly drained her of her strength . Upon discovering their betrayal , Jinn and Kenobi began a full - scale chase of Chief Balog in the process of rescuing Tahl . When they finally found her , she was still alive , but the injuries she had suffered while in captivity were too severe , and she soon succumbed to her fatal injuries . This loss , magnified by Jinn ' s close relationship to her , drove him to the edge of the dark side . Bent on seeking revenge , Jinn hunted down Balog and was prepared to execute him for his heinous acts . However , before Jinn could deliver the fatal blow to Balog ' s chest , Tahl ' s voice came to him warning him not to . He regained control of his emotions and didn ' t kill Balog , instead delivering Balog and the twins to the authorities . Powers and abilities . Tahl was highly capable at lightsaber combat . Because she had been renowned for her gymnastics , she may have been a practitioner of Form IV . She could come at her opponents with either a twist in one angle or a reversal on the other . Whenever she appeared to be tired out , she would draw out a fresh reserve of strength . Qui - Gon Jinn noted her to be of having greater agility than him . She was also capable at unarmed combat , as noted when she wrestled with a Zeku at a cantina while undercover . Even after being blinded , Tahl could still manage to use a lightsaber in combat . Behind the scenes . " The New Essential Chronology " misstates her death as 39 BBY .