Akanah Norand Goss Pell Akanah Norand Goss Pell was a female Fallanassi practitioner of the White Current . Isolated from her parents at an early age , she later married Andras Pell , who died shortly afterward . She later met up with Jedi Master Luke Skywalker around the time of the Black Fleet Crisis . Akanah told the Jedi that she knew his mother , a Fallanassi , and would lead him to her if she would help her find her people , though she was in fact lying to further her own gains . After she made her way back to them with the Jedi Master ' s help , she revealed the deception to Skywalker after the Battle of N ' zoth , and the two parted . Pell later trained Skywalker ' s nephew , Jedi Knight Jacen Solo , following the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War and taught him to accept the nature of the galaxy as it was rather than constantly attempt to save it . After Solo left her , Pell continued to live with the Fallanassi on the moon Pydyr . In 44 ABY , the dark side entity Abeloth consumed Pell and took the form of her body . Pell greeted Skywalker , but after he discovered that the woman who appeared to be Pell was in fact Abeloth , he killed her in the ensuing fight . Regaining her consciousness for a very short moment , Pell implored Skywalker to forgive her as she died . Biography . Early life and exile . Born to Joreb Goss and Isela Talsava Norand on the Expansion Region planet Gavens , Akanah and her family later left her homeworld and moved to the city of Ialtra on Lucazec . Akanah inherited her Fallanassi potential through her mother . While still a young girl , her father , Joreb Goss , left her and her mother in search of wealth to support his small family , though he never returned . Years later , when the Galactic Empire arrived on Lucazec , Akanah was only twelve years old . Along with her mother , Akanah fled to Carratos to avoid death at the hands of Emperor Palpatine ' s Inquisitors . Hidden away and separated from the Fallanassi , Akanah ' s mother used her Fallanassi abilities to hide Akanah and herself from the myriad of thugs that plagued Carratos . While on Carratos , Talsava enlisted the aid of a fellow Fallanassi named Nashira to teach Akanah . With a good start in the practices of the White Current , Akanah was formally inducted into the Fallanassi circle . Nashira left soon after , leaving the completion of Akanah ' s training to her mother . However , this was not to be . Just three years after arriving on Carratos , Talsava took all the money they had saved up on Carratos and bought passage off world , abandoning Akanah . All alone , Akanah was forced to fend for herself using her subpar abilities to hide herself with Force illusions . Devastated by being abandoned , Akanah swore to make it offworld and discover the reason for her mother ' s departure . She met and married Andras Pell , a wealthy businessman who was thirty - six years older than her . Pell loved Akanah dearly , but she was more interested in Pell ' s prized possession , a Verpine star freighter which was later christened " Mud Sloth " by Luke Skywalker . Andras Pell died only a year after their marriage . Inheriting the " Mud Sloth " was a huge plus for Akanah . Starships were hard to come by on Carratos , and having her own ship meant that she would finally be able to leave the planet . With her newfound ship , Akanah was eager to reunite with her mother and the rest of the Fallanassi . Unfortunately , she was in no way a spacer , and while her Force skills had improved over the years , she doubted that she could locate her family without aid . Meeting Luke Skywalker . Some time later , Akanah Norand Goss Pell sensed the strong Force presence of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker through the White Current . Knowing that he would be the perfect pilot and aide to finding the hidden Fallanassi , she began a journey to Coruscant , the capital of the New Republic , to meet him . Deathly afraid of abandonment due to the fact that both her parents had left when she was a girl , Pell devised a plan to ensure Skywalker ' s cooperation and devotion to the quest . Upon meeting Skywalker , Pell revealed that her former teacher , Nashira , was Luke ' s long - lost mother , though she had in fact invented this fact as a ruse to fool Skywalker . Skywalker was desperate for any information and was completely fooled . He had been meditating on his role in the Force , hidden in a reconstructed residence of his father on Coruscant . Akanah ' s arrival and offer to help him find his mother helped shake Skywalker from his existential ponderings . Traveling in Pell ' s ancient Verpine Adventurer , " Mud Sloth " , the pair left in secret to locate the Fallanassi and , as Akanah claimed , Skywalker ' s mother . Their journey first led them to Lucazec , the previous home of the Fallanassi before Akanah and her mother had fled to Carratos . Searching through the abandoned city , Akanah was able to find evidence that several of her Fallanassi family had fled to Teyr . Arriving on Teyr , Pell and Skywalker made their way to the small town of Sodonna , where the Fallanassi had once owned a group of communal lowhouses . Searching the abandoned houses , Pell found where the Fallanassi had fled to , the small world of J ' t ' p ' tan . However , on her way back to the " Mud Sloth " , Pell came upon another piece of information , the location of her long - lost father . After Pell crafted the lie that the Fallanassi were actually on Atzerri , Pell and Skywalker made their way off Teyr . Reunion and confession . Arriving on Atzerri , Pell quickly made up a false story and left Luke in search for her father . Through several Force tricks , Pell made her way to Atrium 41 , the decrepit home of her estranged father . Unfortunately , a joyous reunion was not to be . Joreb Goss had become strongly addicted to the drug Rokna blue , which had severely damaged his brain . He had no recollection of his wife , the Fallanassi , or of even having a daughter . A tearful Pell returned to the ship and revealed the true location of the Fallanassi hideout on J ' t ' p ' tan . Along the way , Luke comforted the grieving Pell , and she began to open up . The pair engaged in debates over the Force and the White Current and grew close , even making love one night . Pell now had a horrible dilemma of continuing a love affair based on deception or revealing her subterfuge to the Jedi Master . Once at J ' t ' p ' tan , Pell led Skywalker to the hideout of the Fallanassi under a Force illusion on the far side of the planet . Once there , Luke tried to question the Fallanassi leader , Wialu , about information on his supposed mother , Nashira . Because Luke was not a Fallanassi , Wialu refused to give any information on the sought - after woman . However , Pell managed to convince Wialu and the rest of the Fallanassi to aid the New Republic in defeating the Yevetha . During the Battle of N ' zoth , she used her White Current abilities to help create illusions of a large fleet that made it difficult for the Yevethan warships to target the real New Republic vessels . After the battle , Pell questioned Wialu about her mother and was upset to hear the truth of her mother ' s disappearance — that she had in fact been the one who had betrayed the Fallanassi to the Imperials many years before . When the Fallanassi learned of the treachery , they exiled Talsava but offered to provide training for her young daughter should she develop any Force abilities . Greed had gotten the better of Talsava again on Carratos , and she had stolen their funds out of selfishness . Pell then revealed to Luke that she had misled the Jedi Master and knew nothing of his mother . Shocked by this revelation , Luke was heavily disappointed in her . However , he managed to forgive her , knowing she was full of guilt , and the two said good - bye after the battle . Two decades later , Skywalker would finally learn that his mother had actually been Padmé Amidala , the Queen of Naboo around the time of the Clone Wars . Training Jacen Solo . Devastated by the revealed betrayal of her mother and by Luke ' s refusal to forgive her deception , Pell completely devoted herself into the workings of the Fallanassi . On the star liner , " Star Morning " , Pell , along with the rest of the Fallanassi , relocated to the moon Pydyr to renew their immersion in the White Current . Some time later , Wialu died , and Pell became the leader of the Fallanassi . Several years after the conclusion of the Yuuzhan Vong War , Skywalker ' s nephew , Jedi Knight Jacen Solo , visited Pell and the Fallanassi during a galaxy - wide odyssey to gain a wider understanding of the Force outside the teachings of the Jedi Order . Solo spent a period studying with Pell to understand the White Current . While Jacen believed that he was obligated to fix a fractured galaxy , Pell instead taught him to accept the nature of the galaxy as it was . Solo respected Pell but disagreed with her opinions , so he left Pell and Pydyr . Pell later sent a recording to Luke Skywalker about her concerns over the Potentium view of the Force which was now practiced amongst the Jedi . Captured by Abeloth . Despite their parting , Skywalker and Pell were destined to encounter each other again . In 44 ABY , Skywalker , temporarily working with a group of Sith to defeat the dark side entity Abeloth , tracked Abeloth to Pydyr after she had escaped their previous encounter . At some point , however , Abeloth consumed Pell and took over her body . Pell greeted Skywalker after he arrived in the village where the Fallanassi now lived , and after exchanging greetings , the two discussed the fate of the Jedi . Pell revealed to Skywalker that when she had trained Solo , he had shown a vehement desire to save the galaxy , which had caused him to cause serious death and destruction during the recent Second Galactic Civil War . Pell then told Skywalker that the principal issue with the Jedi was that numerous Jedi , including Solo , Raynar Thul , and Tenel Ka Djo , planned to save the galaxy but instead ended up causing severe damage to it . The two then parted ways , and Skywalker left the village . When Skywalker , along with his son , Ben , and a group of Sith , returned to the village , they were greeted by an angry Pell , who menacingly told them that they should not have come back . Luke then asked Pell about Abeloth ' s whereabouts , after which she said that the Fallanassi were in fact hiding Abeloth because she was one of them . When several Sith took a group of Fallanassi hostage , Pell conjured an illusion of phantoms attacking the Sith , driving them insane . After witnessing this act , Skywalker was definitely convinced that Abeloth had taken over Pell ' s body . As the Jedi and the Sith battled Abeloth , Skywalker was finally able to kill the body of Abeloth , who then took the form of Callista Ming , another former lover of Skywalker . Pell regained control of her body for a very short time before dying , then asked Skywalker to forgive her for everything that she had done to him . Personality and traits . Akanah Norand Goss Pell was a kind person . She disliked violence , and frequently asked Luke why he had killed and continued to kill , as well as why various Jedi acted in what they believed to be in the general interest of the galaxy but ended up destroying what they had vowed to protect . Pell was very concerned with finding her family and the Fallanassi . When she discovered the truth about her parents , she was shocked and deeply saddened . When Pell first met Skywalker , she was fascinated with him but also feared him , knowing his power rivaled that of the late Emperor Palpatine . While she was not above tricking Skywalker into believing she knew his mother , she disliked having to lie to him . When she eventually revealed the deception to Skywalker , she apologized to him , begging for his forgiveness . Almost three deceades later , when her body was consumed by Abeloth , Pell implored Skywalker to forgive her . Behind the scenes . Akanah was created for the " The Black Fleet Crisis " novel series by author Michael P . Kube - McDowell . Later , she appeared in Troy Denning ' s " The Joiner King " as part of Jacen Solo ' s attempt to better understand the Force and learn about different aspects of it , such as the White Current . She later reappeared in Denning ' s " " , which told of her consumption by Abeloth and her death .