Cin Drallig Cin Drallig was a human male Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars . He was the head of the Jedi Temple Guard and a lightsaber instructor who was nicknamed " the Troll " by fellow Jedi . Drallig was killed by Darth Vader during the attack on the Jedi Temple . Biography . Early life . Cin Drallig , a human male , was a master swordsman who served the Jedi Order . Drallig rose to the rank of Jedi Master and led the Jedi Temple Guard during the Clone Wars . As a Master , he was a teacher of lightsaber combat who passed his skills onto new generations of Jedi . He earned the nickname " the Troll " from other members of the Jedi Order . The Clone Wars . Guarding the Temple . During the Clone Wars , the Jedi Temple was bombed by Padawan Barriss Offee . Before the perpetrator had been caught , the Jedi led an investigation to determine who was behind the attack . Anakin Skywalker approached Drallig , who was standing guard with the Temple Guard at the gates of the Jedi Temple , where protesters were demonstrating against the war and the Jedi Order ' s involvement in it . Skywalker showed Drallig a holographic image of their then - suspect , Jackar Bowmani , and asked the Jedi Master to be on alert for him . This led to the suspect ' s wife , Letta Turmond , being taken into custody after spotting the holographic image , and the Jedi ultimately learned that Turmond was part of the plot to attack the Jedi Temple . The Temple was later attacked by Captain Rackham Sear of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . During the attack , Drallig led two Temple Guards in securing the quarters of the Jedi youngling s . He arrived just in time to cut a small explosive drone in half before it detonated in a room with several younglings . He ordered the guards to stay with the younglings and destroy any more explosives that entered the area . Drallig then joined Masters Mace Windu and Obi - Wan Kenobi , reporting to them that the younglings were safe , but that there were explosions throughout the Temple and that the source was unknown . Master Depa Billaba and Initiate Caleb Dume ended the attack by confronting Sear on the roof of the Temple , where he committed suicide by leaping off the building . Fall of the Jedi Temple . At the end of the war , Skywalker turned to the dark side of the Force and became Darth Vader , apprentice to Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine — secretly Darth Sidious , the Dark Lord of the Sith . Vader attacked the Jedi Temple with the 501st Legion of clone trooper s , while Palpatine issued Order 66 to force the clones to turn against the Jedi Order . Drallig fought to defend the Jedi Temple alongside Padawans Whie Malreaux and Bene . The three Jedi were eventually confronted and slain in lightsaber combat by Darth Vader . Powers and abilities . Drallig , the wielder of a green lightsaber , was a skilled swordsman who used his knowledge of lightsaber combat to train other Jedi . He was nonetheless killed in lightsaber combat by Darth Vader during the attack on the Jedi Temple . Behind the scenes . For his brief appearance in , Cin Drallig was portrayed by prequel trilogy stunt coordinator Nick Gillard , whose name was used as the basis for the character ' s name . Drallig was later voiced by Robin Atkin Downes in " Sabotage , " the seventeenth episode of the of the animated television series " " .