Gnost - Dural Gnost - Dural was a male Kel Dor Jedi Master serving the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Great Galactic War and the ensuing Cold War with the resurgent Sith Empire . Biography . Apprenticeship . A Force - sensitive Kel Dor , Gnost - Dural was trained by the Jedi Order in the ways of the Force from an early age , studying at the Coruscant Jedi Temple while a Padawan . During his training as a Consular , at the advice of Jedi Master Shol Bestros , the senior Padawan began to keep a journal as a means to record his thoughts and experiences which could later serve as a personal reference as well as material for the Temple Archives . As Gnost - Dural began exploring the early histories of the Jedi Order , he uncovered forgotten records of Tython , the Force Wars , and the Infinite Empire . These discoveries would prove vital to the Order in the following decades . Continuing down the path of a historian , Gnost - Dural constructed his own green - bladed lightsaber as part of his training . Great Galactic War . Four years after beginning his journal , the Jedi High Council bestowed upon Gnost - Dural the title of Jedi Knight . During the ceremony , the Kel Dor swore to uphold the Jedi Code and defend the Galactic Republic as part of his duty to the Order and the Force . It was upon this day that news broke on Coruscant of a bloody assault on the Tingel Arm ; history would later remember this attack as the first appearance of the resurgent Sith Empire , last seen during the Great Hyperspace War nearly two millennia prior . Dispatched along with hundreds of other able - bodied Knights to the Minos Cluster , Gnost - Dural and his compatriots hoped to end the Sith offensive there quickly and decisively . As the Sith met the Jedi in battle , the conflict continued to drag out . Digging in on the planet Eliad for several months , Gnost - Dural had fought many Sith trooper s in the initial weeks , but only once had an encounter with an actual lightsaber - wielding Sith . Despite the Jedi ' s initial concern at confronting the dark sider , he quickly realized that overconfidence was the Sith warrior ' s downfall and defeated him . Collecting the slain Sith ' s weapon , Gnost - Dural hoped to one day be able to return to the Temple Archives on Coruscant to enter it into the collection and studying it . In the following weeks Gnost - Dural was transferred to the Republic Fleet where he was placed under the command of Admiral Greik and confronted and defeated the Imperial Battle Group at Bothawui . Despite this victory , the planet was eventually attacked a second time , resulting in the loss of Master Belth Allusis . After years of fighting on the front lines of what was now known as the Great Galactic War , Gnost - Dural ' s petitions to the High Council were finally answered and he returned to Coruscant and the Temple Archives to conduct research on the origins of the Sith . During his research , Gnost - Dural compiled a report to the Council detailing an historical account of the Sith Empire and his belief that the long - thought dead Sith Lord Naga Sadow was indeed the Sith Emperor leading the war effort against the Republic and the Jedi . Jedi Master . Eventually , Gnost - Dural became a Jedi Master and the keeper of the Jedi Archives . In the years following the Treaty of Coruscant , the Jedi High Council tasked him with creating a new timeline of the event . His research during this time unearthed several previously unknown factors about the war and served as the basis for a new Jedi Library . In 3640 BBY , Gnost - Dural was assisted by intelligence agent Theron Shan to find and destroy the " Ascendant Spear " . The pair infiltrated the facility and Dural , giving time for Shan to sabotage the station , confronted his former apprentice turned dark Kana Terrid , now Darth Karrid . Dural dueled and killed her apprentices , but was captured in turn and interrogated by Karrid . Dural tricked her into going to Duros , where she met her demise in the ensuing battle . Powers and abilities . Gnost - Dural used telekinesis and Force speed . He was a master of several forms of lightsaber combat including Soresu , Djem So , and Juyo . In combat , he wielded a single - bladed Jedi lightsaber . Behind the scenes . Gnost - Dural was voiced by Lance Henriksen . Gnost - Dural was one of the main characters in " " . Though a major character in elements of the material published alongside " The Old Republic " , he neither appeared in nor was mentioned in the game until he received offhand mentions in the " Shadow of Revan " and " Knights of the Eternal Throne " expansions . He was originally set to appear in the early version of " " first expansion , which would have included the planet Ziost and a storyline for the Sith Warrior class involving the Jedi Master .