Tarro Blood Tarro Blood was a Human male Mandalorian - turned bounty hunter who operated during the Cold War and the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . He was a competitor in the Great Hunt , going to great lengths in order to sabotage his fellow competitors . History . First Great Hunt . The son of Alderaanian nobility , Tarro Blood renounced his privileged existence as the heir to a minor lordship in favor of pursuing greater glory and fame as a galaxy - renowned Mandalorian mercenary . Leaving his past behind and taking on a new dramatic moniker , Blood was able to prove that he was no pretender after years of training under a famed Mandalorian champion . Under the guidance of this exceptional tutor , Blood became a feared warrior and the favorite to claim victory in the next Great Hunt . Unfortunately for him , Tarro Blood ’ s characteristic arrogance and sudden rise to prominence rubbed his competition the wrong way . The other Mandalorians in the competition made it their mission to ensure that he never came close to claiming victory . The resulting defeat nearly cost Blood his life , in addition to his pride , and he remained out of the public eye for nearly a decade , choosing not to participate in the next Great Hunt . Second Great Hunt . After ten years , Blood entered another Hunt , and had no desire to maintain honor during the competition , sabotaging his competitors at every chance . One of the rival hunters he targeted was Braden , who had found a talented protege to be a Great Hunt competitor . While the Hunter was out collecting a bounty on the Corellian fugitive Vexx , Blood had his accomplice , Sedyn Kyne , murder Braden and his friend Jory , unaware that his actions were on holocam , in order to strand the Hunter on Nal Hutta . He later dispatched a Rodian bounty hunter named Nails to take down the Hunter but his lackey greatly underestimated her opponent and was killed . The Hunter managed to win sponsorship into the Great Hunt from Suudaa Nem ' ro and arrived on Dromund Kaas to win a spot in the final melee . Blood continued to interfere by hiring freelance Imperial soldiers to interrupt the Hunter ' s first bounty and later tried claiming that the Hunter died within the Dark Temple , all unsuccessful . When the Hunter won the final melee and became a Great Hunt competitor , Blood directly interfered and tried to denounce the Hunter ' s credentials , saying they were falsified , but the Huntmaster and his assistant had already made their decision . Frustrated that his adversary would not die , Blood promised that he would have the Hunter ' s skull in his hand by the time the competition was finished . He then alerted the Imperial authorities that the Hunter intended to steal a D5 - Mantis Patrol Craft from the local spaceport ; he was unjustly considered an honest Mandalorian . Despite this , the Hunter succeeded and stole the ship . Throughout the Great Hunt , Blood made constant interference in the Hunter ' s hunts . On Balmorra , he tricked Vexx ' s siblings into thinking that the Hunter shot Vexx in the back and killed Braden when he discovered the " crime . " He then alerted Hunt target Tyresius Lokai that the Hunter was after him and on Alderaan , paid off House Rist to assassinate the hunter . Blood also leaked the list of Great Hunt targets to sell on an auction on Hutta , forcing Assistant Huntsmaster Lek to call on the Hunter for assistance . Hedarr Soongh became aware of Blood ' s crimes and assisted the Hunter in taking out Blood ' s allies on Nar Shaddaa . Kyne was challenged to a death match and lost , but his compatriots fatally wounded Soongh when they refused his demand to stop persecuting the Hunter , but were subsequently killed by the Hunter , thus depriving Blood of any support in the Hunt . The final target of the Great Hunt was Jedi Master Kellian Jarro , credited for the highest number of Mandalorian deaths . Blood was the first hunter to reach Jarro but was quickly subdued by a mind trick . Held under questioning , Blood claimed that the Hunter was his accomplice , hoping that the Republic would detain or at least kill his rival once and for all . He was wrong on both counted . Face - to - face for the last time , separated by a forcefield , Blood attempted to goad the Hunter into releasing him and facing him for a final confrontation , claiming that both Soongh and Braden would ' ve wanted it . Mako , the Hunter ' s partner , stated that Braden would ' ve wanted to see Blood as he was , undeserving of a warrior ' s death . Behind the scenes . Blood ' s fate can be decided three ways : leaving him in his cell to die when the ship is vaporized , freeing him from his cell to fight him in a stand up duel , or freeing him from his cell and shooting him .