Rukil Rukil was a Human male who lived in an Outcast village , located in the Undercity of the planet Taris , from around the year 4056 BBY up until the time of the Jedi Civil War . By this time , he had lived a large portion of his life in the village as an Outcast . Rukil was condemned to live forever in the bedrock levels of the ecumenopolis with his father and grandfather sometime around 4056 BBY because of their part in a rebellion against the wealthy nobles that ruled Taris . There , Rukil ' s father and grandfather began searching for the Promised Land , a rumored paradise underneath the Undercity with droids to care for all of their needs . After both his father and grandfather disappeared , Rukil continued the quest of searching for the fabled paradise so that he could lead his fellow Outcasts to a better life . As the years went by , however , fewer of the Outcasts believed his tales of the Promised Land . By the time the village was being led by a male Human named Gendar around the year 3956 BBY , Rukil ' s apprentice , Malya , was the only one who truly believed him . She continued his field work because he was too old to do it himself . By this date , Rukil was over a hundred years old and was referred to by the younger Outcasts as " Rukil Wrinkle - Skin . " Around this time , Malya went missing while searching for the Promised Land . After she had been missing for some time , Rukil asked the amnesiac former Sith Lord Revan for help in finding his lost apprentice during Revan ' s search for the Jedi Bastila Shan . Revan and Shan eventually located Malya ' s corpse and brought back her journal , which had recorded her findings , to Rukil . After deciding that Revan was trustworthy , Rukil told him of the history of the Outcasts as well as his search for the Promised Land . Rukil then requested that Revan search for the journals of his father and grandfather and bring them back to him . Revan did as Rukil asked , and Rukil was able to discover the location of the Promised Land . Rukil showed the evidence to Gendar , who finally believed Rukil and set out to prepare the Outcasts for the long journey . After telling Gendar the information , Rukil gave Revan his thanks and a final farewell before the Outcasts departed for the Promised Land . Eventually , the Outcasts reached the Promised Land , but soon after they arrived , Taris was bombarded by the Sith Empire , who were attempting to kill Bastila Shan before she could escape . Rukil and the Outcasts survived , but the bombardment destroyed all of the buildings and generators on Taris leaving them without equipment . However , Rukil was glad that the Promised Ones , which the Outcasts had named themselves after reaching the Promised Land , survived even though they needed to start over . During his time in the Promised Land , Rukil served his people as the first keeper of memories and made holorecordings of speaking of the Promised Ones ' efforts . Some time later , Rukil died and a woman named Baral replaced Rukil as the keeper of memories . Biography . Early life . Rukil was a Human male , born before the year 4056 BBY , who lived on the ecumenopolis world of Taris . Around that year , early in his life , a rise in pollution poisoned the oceans of Taris , causing the planet ' s only source of food to be greatly damaged . As a result , a famine swept the planet and the rich nobles kept all of the food for themselves , leaving the poor people to die of starvation . These poor people , including Rukil ' s father and grandfather , rebelled against the nobles and plunged the planet into a civil war . However , the rebellion was routed by the nobles , killing millions of people , while the surviving rebels were taken as prisoners . Due to the fact that the prisons on Taris could not hold them all , the nobles sent the remaining rebels to the Undercity at the bottom of the planet ' s cities . Rukil and his entire family were among those sent down to the depths of Taris , becoming the first of many Outcasts to be condemned to the Tarisian Undercity . After being exiled , both Rukil ' s father and grandfather dedicated their lives to seeking out clues to finding the fabled paradise called the Promised Land and recording them in their journals . The Promised Land was said to be a self - maintained colony beneath the Undercity , with droids that took care of everything that the inhabitants needed . Sometime after their exile to the Undercity , Rukil ' s father and grandfather went missing and died in search of clues for the location of the Promised Land , leaving their journals lost in the depths of the Undercity . Like his forbears , Rukil also sought out the near - mythical paradise , gathering clues as to where the Promised Land was located . Rukil ' s hope was to find the paradise to bring his people comfort and free them from their bleak existence in the Undercity . However , as the years went by , fewer and fewer people believed Rukil ' s stories about the Promised Land . Later years . Eventually , Rukil became too old to undertake his own field research , so his apprentice , Malya , a young female Outcast , did his research for him , recording any clues she found in her own journal . As Rukil grew older , the younglings in his village began to refer to him as " Rukil Wrinkle - Skin , " and nearly everyone ceased to believe in the Promised Land save for his apprentice . He told stories of the Promised Land to the village children , but many of them laughed at him and did not believe in his tales . However , one Outcast named Shaleena would use the stories to make her stay in the Undercity seem less dark , even though she did not fully believe in them . By 3956 BBY , the village was led by a Human male named Gendar , who viewed Rukil as a nice old man clinging to an illusion . Another important figure in the community at the time was Igear — a shopkeeper who hoarded anything of value he could get his hands on — who was afraid of Rukil ' s search for the Promised Land . Igear thought that there was some truth in Rukil ' s stories and feared their discovery would make Igear lose his importance in the village . Despite the adverse conditions he lived in , Rukil had managed to survive for a hundred years in the Taris Undercity and was the oldest member of the Outcast village . His age caused him to confine most of his movements to a hut in the south side of the village , but he was still able to keep busy by helping other members of the community have a better life . By this year , Malya had been missing for some time , having disappeared while outside of the village along with her journal . Rukil was worried about the fate of his apprentice and looked for someone to help locate her . It was during this time that the Undercity began to see an upsurge in activity from so - called " up - worlder s " — those from the Lower City , Middle City and the Upper City — subsequent to the Sith Empire ' s attack on the Republic cruiser " Endar Spire " above the planet during the Jedi Civil War . The increase in activity was caused by the crash - landing of several Republic escape pods from the " Endar Spire " , with the increase in " up - worlders " being various factions trying to find the escape pods and the people they contained . The arrival of Revan . After the Sith attack on the " Endar Spire " , the amnesiac former Sith Lord Revan and the Republic officer Carth Onasi crashed in an escape pod into the Upper City of Taris . After a few days , they began searching for the Commander of the Endar Spire , the Jedi Bastila Shan . The trek took Revan and Onasi to the Undercity where they searched for the Republic escape pods , and while they were there , they encountered Shaleena , who mentioned Rukil and his stories about the Promised Land . After meeting Shaleena , Revan sought out Rukil and talked to him at his hut . Rukil wondered whether Revan had come to aid him , or to bring him false hope and lead him away from the true path like others had done before . The statements Rukil made confused Revan , and Rukil did not trust Revan enough to explain to him the whole story about his search for the Promised Land . However , Rukil informed Revan about his missing apprentice and presented Revan with a quest to find Malya , bring back the tale of her fate , and report to him what she had found . After rescuing Shan from the Black Vulkars , Revan and Shan located the corpse of Malya in the Undercity , and near her body , he found her journal . After finding that Malya was dead and discovering her journal , Revan and Shan returned to Rukil with it . Rukil was saddened by the news of his apprentice ' s death , but he also had hope due to the information contained in the journal . Rukil now trusted Revan enough to tell him his plans for Promised Land , explaining the history of the Outcasts from their rebellion against the rich nobles to their present condition . He also informed Revan about his father ' s , grandfather ' s , and lastly his lifelong search for the Promised Land , as well as the fact that his apprentice ' s journal did not include all the information he needed on the location of the Promised Land . After returning the journal of his apprentice to Revan for safekeeping , Rukil requested that Revan begin to search for the journals of his father and grandfather , an assignment which Revan accepted . While Rukil was hopeful upon seeing the journal of his dead apprentice , when Igear heard about it , he approached Revan , offering Revan a reward if he would bring the journals to him , so that he could destroy them . However , Revan refused to give the journals to Igear . When Revan later found the journals of Rukil ' s father and grandfather in the Undercity sewers , he brought them to Rukil , who was hesitant at first to even look at them . Rukil finally looked at the journals and pieced together all of the information contained within them , at last discovering the location of the fabled Promised Land . He greatly thanked Revan for his help , and rushed off to give Gendar the news of his discovery . Gendar was skeptical at first , but when Rukil showed him the evidence he had found in the journal , Gendar believed the elderly man . The journey that Rukil had discovered to the Promised Land would take many weeks and was also a very dangerous one — involving traveling through areas of the Undercity infested with the twisted mutants known as Rakghoul s . However , due to the aid of Revan , the Outcasts had the been provided the Rakghoul serum , which treated and prevented infection from the plague that the creatures carried . Despite the danger that they faced , the Outcasts decided that they had enough supplies to leave that night . After his brief discussion with Rukil , Gendar left to prepare the villagers for the journey , leaving Rukil to talk with Revan . Revan offered to come with Rukil , but Rukil refused his help , as once one entered the Promised Land , they could never leave . Rukil told Revan that he sensed that Revan ' s destiny was still before him , and after giving one last goodbye to Revan , Rukil left for the Promised Land with the other Outcasts . The Promised Land . Some time later , Rukil and the rest of the Outcasts reached the Promised Land , and the group named themselves the Promised Ones . Rukil became their first keeper of memories and was tasked with keeping a record of the group . Upon reaching the Promised Land , Rukil made a holorecording telling how the Outcasts had been aided and about their successful journey to a place where they could be free from the people who had exiled them . In the middle of making the recording , the Sith Empire began bombarding the planet in an attempt to kill Bastila Shan . While the upper levels of Taris were completely destroyed , Rukil and the Promised Ones survived because of the Promised Land ' s sheltered location . The outcasts survived , but they were placed in a situation where all of the buildings and power generators of Taris were destroyed leaving them with even less technology than they had before . Many of the Rakghouls also survived the bombardment , but they ate the dead instead of attacking the Promised Ones . Rukil made a recording where he told what had happened and the danger the Promised Ones were in . Despite the difficult situation , he was glad that the group had survived and foresaw the group ' s process of starting over . Some time later , Rukil died and was replaced as the keeper of memories by a woman named Baral . Legacy . After his death , Rukil was mourned by the Promised Ones who were faced with living in a world where they were alone without advanced technology . The Promised Ones faced many difficulties as they struggled to survive in the Undercity over the generations . They ran out of Rakghoul serum , experienced radiation poisoning and suffered hunger . The group continued to have a keeper of memories who recorded the group ' s difficulties and named themselves as successors to Rukil . Eventually , the Promised Ones died out , leaving the planet abandoned for some time . By the year 3643 BBY , the Republic had come to Taris in an attempt to make the planet hospitable for life again . A researcher named Hacken Berge and his assistant , Ashwyn Tejera , came to Taris in order to learn about the fate of the Outcasts due to a mention of the Outcasts in Revan ' s journals . At some point after arriving on Taris , Berge hired an individual affiliated with the Republic to search for any information on what happened to the Outcasts , while he was in the Republic Waypoint Station Morne . The individual ' s search led to the discovery of the recordings of Rukil , Baral , and other keepers in an area known as Transport Station 5 . The individual then brought the discovery to Tejera in Olaris , the center for the Republic ' s rebuilding efforts on Taris . Therefore , the records of Rukil and the Promised Ones were recovered and brought to the knowledge of the outside galaxy . Personality and traits . Rukil had brown eyes and fair skin . At one point , he was viewed by many of the Outcasts as a man of wisdom , until many stopped believing in his tales of the Promised Land . In 3956 BBY , Rukil was a very old member of the Outcast Village , in spite of the harsh conditions of the desolate place . He was over a century old at this date and was balding with gray hair on the sides of his head . Like his ancestors , he cared deeply for his village , a trait which manifested itself in his obsessive search for the Promised Land , and his helping of the other Outcasts in order for them to have better lives . Rukil was more of an adventurer in his younger days , searching throughout the Undercity sewers as well as other parts of the Undercity , looking for clues pertaining to the location of the Promised Land . However , as he reached old age , Rukil became known as an eccentric , continuing to tell tales of the Promised Land to the young people of the village , particularly Shaleena , who spoke of him fondly despite not quite believing his stories . His eyesight also became extremely weak with his advanced age . By the time of the destruction of the Endar Spire , Rukil had become quite cryptic in his mannerisms , and stayed in the south side of the village because moving around too much was hard on his bones . He talked to himself at times and was viewed by the many of the Outcasts as a kind old man . For most of his life , he placed his hope and energy into finding the location of the Promised Land . When Rukil encountered Revan , he could see a " mantle of destiny " surrounding him , and later said that he could sense that Revan ' s destiny was yet to come . At the time of the Outcasts arrival in the Promised Land , Rukil was pleased to finally be free of the people that had exiled him to the Undercity . He rejoiced in completing his goal of taking his people to the Promised Land . After the bombardment , Rukil was sorry that the Outcasts had not arrived sooner , since they could have brought in more supplies before the colony was damaged . Despite the hardships he knew his people would face , Rukil still was glad that the Promised Ones had survived . During his time living in the Promised Land , Rukil had access to a holorecording device , which he was able to operate . After his death , Rukil was mourned by the Promised Ones , the same group of people who had disbelieved his stories of the Promised Land before . Behind the scenes . Rukil first appeared in " " , a 2003 video game produced by BioWare . In the game , he appeared as a member of the Outcast village who gives a quest to find the missing journals about the Promised Land . For completing this quest by bringing the journals back to Rukil the player receives light side points . In the game , Rukil states that he has the ability to sense the future destiny of others , which is a trait of those who are Force - sensitive . Malya ' s entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " states that a group of Jedi Knights located her body and returned it to Rukil . This article was written with the assumption that the group of Jedi Knights was referring to Revan and Bastila Shan , which would place the recovery of Malya ' s body after the rescue of Shan from the Black Vulkars . Rukil is also featured in the quest " Chasing History " in BioWare ' s 2011 MMORPG " " . The quest is available to Republic players and is given by Hacken Berge in Waypoint Station Morne . Berge hires the player to research what happened to the Outcasts , which leads the player to find two holographic recordings left by Rukil . The quest also includes recordings mentioning Rukil ' s death and the impending destruction of the Outcasts due to Rakghouls , radiation poisoning , and starvation . The player is rewarded with 400 credits and an item when they take the information they found to Berge ' s assistant , Ashwyn Tejera , in the Olaris reclamation base . The player may decide to refuse the quest , but this article assumes full game completion . Inconsistencies . There is one point where the stories in " Knights of the Old Republic " and " The Old Republic " conflict . In the " Knights of the Old Republic " Rukil and Gendar say that the journey to the Promised Land would take many weeks , however ; in " The Old Republic " it is said that the Rakghoul serum was developed a few hours before the Sith bombardment . Since the Outcasts are confirmed to have the serum in " The Old Republic " , Revan must have given the group the serum at some point before they left . However , since Rukil was making a recording at the time of the Sith Bombardment at the location of the Promised Land , the timelines in the two games conflict . Malya ' s entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " mistakenly places her death and the subsequent search for her body during the Great Sith War instead of the Jedi Civil War . Alternate stories . While the storyline included above is one option that the player may choose , an alternate to the story presented above happens if the player chooses to sell the journals to the Outcast merchant , Igear , instead of turning them over to Rukil . If the player did this , Igear destroys the texts out of greed , hoping to ensure that the Promised Land is never found so that the other villagers will continue to depend on him and his store . By giving Igear the journals , the player receives 100 credits , or 200 credits if the player can persuade Igear to pay more . However , as a result of this act , Rukil is outraged and curses Revan before running off , and the player is given dark side points . Before speaking with Rukil , the player can collect all of the journals , letting the player give Rukil the journals more quickly , or the player can meet up with additional non - player character party members and have different characters with them when they spoke to Rukil . The player can also take the quest and then leave it uncompleted , leaving Rukil and the villagers stuck living in the village . Also , it is not necessary for Revan to do anything with Rukil at all , since going over and talking with him is the player ' s choice . However , in " Star Wars : The Old Republic " , it is confirmed that Revan aides the Outcasts in their quest for the Promised Land and provides them with the Rakghoul serum , making all of the alternate choices non - canon .