Gumar Adraki

Gumar Adraki was an Andraven villager who lived on the planet Andraven. In 232 BBY, when it came time to migrate the wellagrin creatures from one side of a mountain to the other, he and his friend Jam were joined by a trio of Jedi younglings: Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs. During their mission, Solay accidentally caused the wellagrins to stampede and bring about an avalanche, splitting up the creatures. The Jedi and villagers split up to reunite the wellagrins, which they successfully did, reaching the top of the mountain. Following another avalanche, the five were able to traverse the falling snow by riding on the wellagrins' backs, landing at the orchard where they planned to take the creatures.
Sometime later, Adraki was in charge of overseeing the annual wellagrin hatching, and the Jedi returned to Andraven to witness it. The process was interrupted and nearly derailed by the businessman Raxlo, whose harvester melted snow near the eggs. Adraki and the Jedi were able to put a stop to the device, saving the baby wellagrins. Later around that year, with the support of his Jedi friends, Adraki later completed the Ancestors Circuit, an Andraven tradition of challenges that everyone in his family had also passed. He planned as much as he could in advance, but unexpected difficulties forced him to think on his feet, which he did successfully.
==Biography==
===Migration time===
Gumar Adraki was a male Andraven individual who resided on the snow planet Andraven during the High Republic Era. He had a father. In 232 BBY, a trio of Jedi younglings—the human Kai Brightstar, the Pantoran Lys Solay, and the Pooba Nubs—visited Andraven during the migration of the wellagrin creatures of the planet. After the Jedi played with the herd for a bit, learning to ride the creatures, Adraki and his younger acquaintance, Jam, were impressed and complimented Solay on her quick learning. Their master, Jedi Master Zia Zanna, then informed them via hologram that they were to accompany the wellagrins on their migration, which Adraki explained was to give them access to more food. The wellagrin trainer, Varna, cautioned them to avoid avalanches, but Adraki assured the younglings that if they stayed with him and Jam, they would be just fine.
The villagers, Jedi, and wellagrins then set off, with Adraki noting that they loved to explore and swim in groups. A couple from the herd, however, broke off and headed for a cliff. Solay cried out with concern, but Adraki told her to watch and played an Andraven flute, which drew the runaway wellagrins back to him. He explained that they used the flutes to signal which direction for the wellagrins to swim. Jam then tried to play as well, but he was not able to get the same sounds that Adraki had. The younger villager handed flutes to each of the Jedi to try—Brightstar attempted first but sounded, in his estimation, like a sick bantha, a creature native to the planet Tatooine. Adraki sympathized with the difficulty of playing the Andraven flute, encouraging Brightstar that he would get better with practice.
===Well, well, wellagrins…===
Solay then noticed one of the wellagrins, Snowball, veering up a slope and off the trail. Adraki expressed worry, so Solay tried to signal Snowball with a flute. Her inexperienced playing, however, made everyone wince and prompted the wellagrins to stampede, causing an avalanche. Adraki told the group they had to get to higher ground, insisting to a concerned Solay that the wellagrins could swim through the snow and would be fine. The three Jedi and two villagers were able to climb to a higher rock, waiting for the avalanche to subside. After it had, Adraki checked to make sure everyone had gotten through unscathed.
Coming back down to the trail, Solay lamented at losing the wellagrins, blaming herself for thinking she could play the flute like Adraki. Nubs suggested that Adraki play the flute again, but he informed the Pooba that they would not hear it from as far away as they were. Instead, they decided to split up in order to find the herd. Adraki and Solay together found a wellagrin tangled up in foliage. The Pantoran started by walking up to the creature, but it was resistant, so she tried again, this time going down to her knees and speaking gently with the wellagrin. It let up, giving the Jedi room to free it from the bushes. Adraki was impressed with Solay's skill and love for creatures.
===In a jam===
Brightstar then called the pair via holo, asking for help. He and Nubs were trying to move a stationary wellagrin, which Adraki, with a laugh, declared would not move. Solay noticed berries in a nearby tree, so she jumped up, grabbing a snack with which to entice the creature to move. Soon, the group had re-gathered the whole herd and reached the top of the mountain as fresh snow began to fall. Adraki, noticing this, re-emphasized that they would need to get to the orchard before dark. Solay, however, then realized that Jam was nowhere to be seen. The four called for him, but it was too snowy to see anything.
Solay became overwhelmed with the stress of the mission, but Nubs reminded her of Master Zanna's advice to take a breath, focus, and trust the Force. After the three Jedi completed the exercise, Solay decided to play her flute in the hopes that Jam would hear it and play his back, leading the group to his whereabouts. Adraki and the others looked up expectantly, and eventually, the notes of a flute came in response. The group linked together and found Jam, who ran to embrace Adraki. However, his and Adraki's sprinting cracked ice underneath, causing another avalanche. Adraki, Jam, and the Jedi slid down alongside the swimming wellagrins—Solay jumped onto the nearest's back and suggested the others do the same. Brightstar, Nubs, and Adraki were able to do so, and the latter tried to pull Jam onto his, but the child's hand slipped away.
Jam continued sliding down and was able to join Solay on her mount. The group, wellagrins and all, successfully glided into the orchard, completing their mission. That night, surrounding a heater, Solay recounted the day's adventures to Zanna. A snowball fight then broke out, with the kids giggling all the while.
Adraki, Jam, and Varna later visited the Jedi's planet of Tenoo for the settlement Kublop Springs' Visitor's Day, which attracted guests from all over the galaxy. They were in the audience when Solay unveiled the sculpture the town had created for the day.
===Wellagrin from ear to ear===
The Jedi returned to Andraven to witness the hatching of baby wellagrins. Nubs played with the adult creatures in the wellagrin pen, and Adraki, Jam, and the other Jedi cheered him on as he expertly rode a wellagrin through the snow. Adraki expressed his excitement for their visit as well as that year's hatching in particular, as he was in charge of caring for the eggs. He had been checking them daily to keep them in the cold snow. The group bar Jam mounted wellagrins and rode up the nearby mountain to see the hatching ground, but it was unusually warm when they got there, with some of the snow melting.
They rushed forward to the eggs, which they found exposed and without snow nearby. Adraki did not want to move the eggs out of fear of confusing the adult wellagrins, but he was concerned that there would be an issue with the hatching due to warmer temperatures. They then heard a strange noise and investigated it, discovering the businessman Raxlo using his harvester's laser to cut through the snow. Brightstar confronted him to stop, and he paused the machine, revealing his plan to harvest valuable Tenga rocks from Andraven. Adraki and Brightstar scolded Raxlo for his location of choice, but he was unconvinced and brought out several security droids to keep the Jedi and Adraki out of his hair.
===Go Adraki===
Despite having lightsabers, the Jedi were unable to defend themselves against the small droids, becoming encircled and trapped. The droids marched them to a small clearing under a cliff, where Adraki suggested dumping snow on top of their captors to allow them to escape. The Jedi used the Force to push the snow down, burying the droids. The group sprinted back to the harvester, where Raxlo had left the back door open, which they entered. Sneaking into the cockpit, they crawled around as they searched for a button to turn off the laser. Brightstar clicked one on Raxlo's chair, but it turned on music and woke up the businessman.
The younglings sheepishly waved hello. Raxlo began to lecture them on reckless button-pushing and continued to refuse to stop his harvester, so Nubs flicked several switches in retaliation. In the ensuing hubbub, more buttons and levers were pushed, and the laser aimed directly at a mountain, causing a large avalanche to race toward them. The harvester plummeted downward with the snow and had its laser ripped off in the crash. It came to a rest near the eggs, which were now covered in snow. Once the harvester's passengers caught their breath, Adraki realized that the eggs had been saved. Indeed, an egg that had rolled up to the cockpit hatched in front of them, so the Jedi and Adraki ran outside to greet it.
Adraki thanked the Jedi for their help, and he and Brightstar went to console a morose Raxlo. They reminded him that he could not harvest wherever he liked, but Adraki offered to show him which areas would not interfere with the wellagrins. Jam, Varna, and the adult wellagrins then arrived, just in time to see the rest of the babies hatching. Later, Adraki and the gang accompanied Raxlo to his new and more fruitful digsite, where the businessman thanked Adraki for his help and apologized for his earlier wrongdoing.
===Short circuit===
Later around that year, It later came time for Adraki to complete the Ancestors Circuit, an Andraven tradition that honored their ancestors who had first settled the world. He planned in advance, researching and preparing strategies that he kept on his datapad. The Jedi younglings joined him as the tradition allowed friends to help. When the Jedi arrived, Adraki explained the history and significance of the event. His dad then joined them, bringing along the sled and wellagrins they would use for transportation. He had nearly been late, which had been stressing his son out. He tried to calm Gumar down, explaining that unexpected twists were a normal part of the circuit, but Gumar was focused on being prepared and continuing the family tradition of completing it.
He and the Jedi admired the ornately carved sled, which had been in Adraki's family for a long time. It showed scenes of a wellagrin and of a zaba wolf, which Adraki explained was a creature that his ancestors had been able to domesticate via kao reed flutes, but his dad noted they had not been seen in years. As he performed final checks, Varna indicated the beginning of the circuit with her flute, so Adraki leapt onto the sled to begin.
His first of three challenges was to gather some heat stones, which he quickly did by searching near the roots of a particular plant by which his ancestors had also found the stones as the information in his datapad instructed. The party then reached a clump of trees for the second challenge: retrieving a snowfig. After explaing the snowfig's history as a food his ancestors ate, Adraki admitted that he had not anticipated the fruit being high up on the tree. The trunk was too slippery to climb, and as he wanted to avoid just having the Jedi use the Force, each individual stood on top of another to reach the snowfig, with all of them crashing to the ground when Adraki snagged it.
===Wolf it down===
As they made their way to the third challenge, which was to make a flute from a kao reed, the sled became stuck in some brambles. They dismounted and began to remove the brambles as Adraki stressed about being short on time—they needed to finish by sundown. However, a howl then rang out, and a zaba wolf began to bark at the group. This scared the wellagrins, who were now able to drag the sled through the snow. Adraki and the Jedi ran after it, all able to jump back on the moving vehicle, though Nubs barely escaped the wolf's bite. Steering to a side trail to flee the creature, they stayed quiet to avoid alerting it.
Adraki noticed that his datapad was broken and accepted his fate as the first one in his family to have failed. His friends encouraged him to be confident in himself even without the datapad, reminding him that his ancestors did not have one. At the mention of his ancestors, Adraki remembered the carving of the zaba wolf, where a kao reed flute was used to befriend it. He found a nearby ice lake, where he knew the reeds grew, and Nubs, followed by the other Jedi, distracted the wolf so that Adraki could run and gather the reeds. He quickly cut one off and fashioned a flute out of it, playing the instrument to draw the wolf's attention away from the Jedi and toward him.
The wolf still growled when Adraki offered his hand palm-down, but when he switched it, the creature warmed up to him and licked him, offering to let Adraki ride it. Just as the sun began to set, the group made their way back to the start, where Varna and Adraki's father were amazed at the zaba wolf. The latter expressed pride for his son having finished the circuit, giving him, the Jedi, Jam, and the zaba wolf a hug.
==Personality and traits==
Adraki was encouraging when Brightstar did not play the Andraven flute well, assuring him that it was difficult to master. He complimented Solay on her skill with creatures, quite impressed by her talent. When he had the responsibility of managing the wellagrin hatching, Adraki was quite concerned at the prospect of the eggs becoming too warm. At the discovery of the agitator, he did not express anger, instead offering a win-win solution once the tension had passed.
During the Ancestors Circuit, Adraki felt the need to be fully prepared for every scenario in advance, relying on the information he stored on his datapad. Along the way, he learned the value of adapting to the unexpected and of trusting himself and his friends. Adraki had hazel eyes, light blue skin, and was a member of the trunked Andraven species.
==Skills and abilities==
Adraki was able to play the Andraven flute well enough to nudge the wellagrins in the direction he wanted them to go. He later used a kao reed flute to befriend a zaba wolf.
==Equipment==
Adraki donned a mustard-and-brown hat with similarly colored clothing. He wore green mittens and carried his flute with a strap on his back. Adraki relied heavily on the use of his datapad during the Ancestors' Circuit, during which he rode a sled and also made a new flute.
==Behind the scenes==
Gumar Adraki first appeared in "Lys and the Snowy Mountain Rescue," the first part of the fourth episode of the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures first season. The episode was released on May 4, 2023. He was voiced by Liam Ramos.
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==Sources==
*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
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