Yana Ro

Yana Ro was an Evereni female who lived in 382 BBY. She was the cousin of Marda Ro. As young children, their grandparents and Yana's sire were killed in an attack, and their respective mothers fled with them to the planet Dalna. The family became members of the Path of the Open Hand, a cult that worshipped the Force but believed it could never be used.
Eventually, the Nautolan Kor Plouth, daughter of the former Path leader Werth Plouth,The High Republic (2022) 4 became Ro's girlfriend. When Ro reached the Path's age of choosing, fifteen years old, she began discussing with Kor her desire to leave Dalna and the Path. The couple also became part a group called the Children of the Open Hand, which "liberated" Force artifacts for the Path's spiritual leader, the Mother, via theft; other members of the Path believed the Children were proselytizing off-world. During the Jedi Order's mission to Dalna, Ro lost Kor when the Mother tried to arrange for the deaths of the Children. Werth and Ro agreed to work together to bring down the Mother. Ro also became the "champion" of the Leveler because she happened to hold its control rod, the Rod of Seasons, near it, thereby keeping her valuable to the Path and leaving the Mother unable to move against her.
Ro later accompanied the Path to Jedha to recover the Rod of Daybreak.The High Republic: Path of Vengeance She went with Werth and Radicaz Dobbs to address the Convocation of the Force. After the Convocation rejected Plouth's demands that the council disband, and then his option of prohibiting the use of the Force until he could provide proof of the Path's beliefs about the misuse of the Force, the trio exited the Convocation Building. As Werth began to speak with the citizens of the Holy City about the incident and other recent events, Ro left withThe High Republic (2022) 4 the Rod of Seasons in her hands and unleashed the Leveler on the crowd, helping provide cover for their hunt for the Rod of Daybreak. While Marda had grown increasingly radicalized and, even after learning of the Mother's deception and killing her, left to reforge the Path to free the Force, Yana left that life behind after the Night of Sorrow. She resolved to become a hauler with fellow former Path member Shea Ganandra and care for Kor's sickly mother, Opari, whom she regarded as the only family she had left. She also secretly kept the Rod of Daybreak from Marda, who had departed with the Rod of Daybreak and the Leveler.The High Republic: Path of Vengeance
==Biography==
===Early life===
At a very young age, Yana Ro and her cousin Marda were taught the Evereni art of saying or avoiding goodbyes by their mothers. To help Yana deal with pain, Yana's mother taught her how to bury deep any miseries by taking deep breaths and letting go. Throughout her life, Yana became well aware of how others negatively perceived the Evereni people. One lesson Yana took to heart was how being Evereni meant learning how trust was weakness.
===Entering the Path===
On their last night on the planet Genetia, the Ro family was attacked by Genetian townsfolk when Yana and Marda were only children, after the family was blamed for crop failure. During the attack, Marda Ro's sire had fought viciously for the family's escape, whereas the cousins' grandparents were killed along with Yana's sire. The rest of the Ro family managed to escape Genetia after Yana's mother and Marda's mother had killed a family of Theelins and had stolen their ship.
After fleeing Genetia, the Ro family had spent days going hungry and cold after the ship's life support systems began to fail. Eventually, their ship was towed by a Hutt Clan trawler to Nar Shaddaa, where the Hutts attempted to force the family into slavery. The Path of the Open Hand intervened and paid for the Ro family's release.
Marda and Yana's mothers decided to leave their daughters to the Path of the Open Hand. Marda believed their mothers would have wanted the two cousins to stay together. While Marda coped with the bloodshed and trauma of their escape from Genetia through assimilation, Yana kept everyone at distance as she acknowledged the weakness in trusting others. She did her best to avoid drawing attention to herself and to remain unnoticed—and thus untargeted. However, she would ultimately develop a crush on and begin dating Kor Plouth, daughter of the Path's own herald, Werth Plouth. For years after their initial arrival on Dalna, Yana and Marda lived as members of the Path, with Yana ultimately entering the ranks of the Children of the Open Hand alongside Kor. While Yana would always remember the tempestuous time when she and her cousin came to join the Path, Marda would forget much of her life before the cult. Some of the few things she had remembered as an adult were the lessons her mother and Marda's had taught them long ago.
==Behind the scenes==
Yana Ro first appeared in the 2022 young-adult novel The High Republic: Path of Deceit, written by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland for the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project. Her concept art was first revealed on an episode of The High Republic Show, which premiered on March 8, 2023.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Path of Deceit 
*The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha 
*The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha script 
*The High Republic (2022) 4
*The High Republic (2022) 5
*The High Republic (2022) 7
*The High Republic (2022) 8
*The High Republic (2022) 9
*The High Republic: Path of Vengeance 
*The High Republic (2022) 10
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*The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight 4 
*The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 2 
*The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness 
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*Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Children of the Open Hand
Category:Evereni
Category:Females
Category:Individuals with lost limbs
Category:Individuals with she/her pronouns
Category:LGBTQIA+ individuals
Category:Refugees
Category:Ro family
Category:Slicers