Finger cake

Finger cakes were a small type of cake edible by the Evereni species. At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. The feast occurred after the Jedi's death; therefore, it must have taken place no earlier than 379 BBY. a feast was held on the Gaze Electric, a starship belonging to Marda Ro—the Evereni founder of a group of marauders who would eventually become the Nihil—for which a being serving Ro baked finger cakes frosted with ground palm sugar. During the feast, Vika Faer—an Evereni who was staying with Ro's raiders—came over to Ro to sit with her,The High Republic: Temptation of the Force bringing Ro a small plate of the finger cakes. Ro took one of the finger cakes and nibbled on it throughout their exchange.
Ro later mentioned the finger cakes in a recording she made for her descendants. By 252 BBY,"The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year. during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her memoirs, including the message where finger cakes were mentioned.
==Behind the scenes==
Finger cakes appeared in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.
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