Yun - Ne ' Shel Yun - Ne ' Shel , the Modeler or She - Who - Shapes , was the Goddess of Life among the Yuuzhan Vong . Legend . As with all of the lesser Yuuzhan Vong gods , Yun - Ne ' Shel was created by Yun - Yuuzhan , the chief deity of the Yuuzhan Vong pantheon . Yun - Yuuzhan vowed to Yun - Ne ' Shel and her divine compatriots that they would ascend as he had , once mortal beings had reached perfection of their own and taken the place of the lesser gods . The legend went that after Yun - Yuuzhan ' s creation of the universe , however he was tired and weary from his labors . Approached by one of the lesser deities , Yun - Harla , the Goddess of Trickery , Yun - Yuuzhan was tricked into revealing the secrets of his creation . Yun - Ne ' Shel , as the handmaiden of Yun - Harla , was then granted the information . With it , Yun - Ne ' Shel possessed the power to model and shape life , earning her the sobriquet of the Modeler . In other interpretations , Yun - Ne ' Shel was granted the tools to model life directly by Yun - Yuuzhan . Despite the differing interpretations on how Yun - Ne ' Shel received the secrets of creation , Yun - Ne ' Shel was subsequently seen as the deity responsible for creating the basic appearances of all living beings and arbitrating their life cycles . Yun - Ne ' Shel hoped to build a paradisal existence , peaceful and harmonious , with her new tools . Her vision was shattered by Yun - Yammka and Yun - Harla , the Twin Gods and the deities of war and trickery respectively , who introduced pain and suffering into the Modeler ' s paradise . Rather than Yuuzhan Vong legends crediting Yun - Ne ' Shel as a visionary , however , most condemned the hermaphroditic deity for her naivety and foolishness — the beings she had modeled were supposed to compete for the rank of godhood , which Yuuzhan Vong believed could only be achieved through the pain , treachery and suffering invited into Yun - Ne ' Shel ' s paradise by the Twin Gods . Yun - Ne ' Shel was often portrayed as a close ally of the Lovers , Yun - Txiin and Yun - Q ' aah , the god and goddess of love and intimacy , who were in turn rivals of the Twin Gods who had introduced pain and suffering into the Modeler ' s paradise . She had a rapport with Yun - Shuno , the patron of the downtrodden and the hopeless , who could ask Yun - Ne ' Shel to look kindly upon her worshipers . When the Yuuzhan Vong launched their invasion of another galaxy in 25 ABY , following millennia traveling the intergalactic void , a trait arose among the species of associating characteristics of several of their deities with those of Jedi who defended the galaxy . Onimi , a shunned Shamed One who used the Force to control Supreme Overlord Shimrra , the leader of the Yuuzhan Vong , began to view certain Jedi as the incarnations of the gods , whom he believed were conspiring against him . Tahiri Veila , a young Jedi girl who had been subjected to Yuuzhan Vong genetic experimentation , was believed by Onimi to be the living incarnation of Yun - Ne ' Shel , both due to her past and the fact he could sense her in the Force . Characteristics and role . Yun - Ne ' Shel was a hermaphroditic Yuuzhan Vong deity usually recognized as being of the female form . Young , benevolent and kind , she was also deemed foolish and naive by sections of Yuuzhan Vong society . The goddess of creativity and childbirth , Yun - Ne ' Shel presided over the gentler aspects of Yuuzhan Vong life , although the organisms she had shaped were often used as weapons by the Yuuzhan Vong in their warlike existence . Due to her role as the deity responsible for the outward appearance of living beings , Yun - Ne ' Shel played a role in the lives of the Shamed One s , those Yuuzhan Vong whose bodies had rejected the implants that came with rank and who were shunned by society . Shamed Ones would often pray to their patron Yun - Shuno , who was in legend was able to approach the Modeler and beseech her to ameliorate the lives of the more worthy Shamed Ones . Yuuzhan Vong statuary and art differed in its portrayal of the gods depending on the domain producing the work , although Yun - Ne ' Shel was always depicted in such mediums with infants , agricultural implements , gentle beasts and artisan tools . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , a heretical movement arose among the Shamed Ones , who began venerating the Jedi . The movement ' s leader , the Prophet Yu ' shaa , associated Yun - Ne ' Shel with the Jedi Order , due to the fact that both the goddess and the Jedi revered life . Veneration and worship . Yuuzhan Vong . Yun - Ne ' Shel differed markedly from other Yuuzhan Vong gods in that she did not require sacrifices from those who sought her aid . Instead , the Modeler would observe the actions of those who were in need of her help and respond accordingly . Priests of Yun - Ne ' Shel existed , as they did with all Yuuzhan Vong gods , though they were often forced to recognize that the idealism of the goddess had been foolish and futile . Almost any female Yuuzhan Vong who was impregnated in society would beseech Yun - Ne ' Shel , as the goddess of childbirth , for a healthy offspring and a sound pregnancy . The Modeler ' s priests would , on payment from the supplicant , assist in childbirth . Members of the intendant caste — those responsible for the bureaucratic and administrative aspects in Yuuzhan Vong society — often appealed to Yun - Ne ' Shel when they needed creative inspiration during difficult tasks . Warriors , despite their impatience for Yun - Ne ' Shel ' s misguided idealism , would sometimes invoke the Modeler ' s name when implementing new strategies and tactics . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , Warmaster Tsavong Lah of the warrior caste brought together an armada to crush the New Republic presence at Ebaq 9 . Each battle group of his armada was named after a Yuuzhan Vong deity ; only Yun - Shuno , Yun - Lingni and Yun - Ne ' Shel were not honored in this manner . Shaper caste . Yun - Ne ' Shel was worshiped primarily by the shaper caste — the caste responsible for creating and maintaining Yuuzhan Vong biotechnology — due to her role as the goddess of creation and design . Those shapers deemed skilled and successful in their manipulation of Yun - Ne ' Shel ' s gifts were said to have the eyes of the goddess upon them . Decades after the Yuuzhan Vong War , members of the shaper caste helped terraform worlds ruined by the invasion into verdant paradises alongside the Jedi Order . Master Shaper Nei Rin came to believe that the Jedi Master Kol Skywalker , with whom she worked alongside on the Ossus Project , as the initiative was named , was looked kindly upon by Yun - Ne ' Shel .