The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor was the name adopted by a Pau'an male Jedi Knight who turned to the dark side of the Force and became the leader of the Inquisitorius, a band of Jedi hunters who served the Galactic Empire. The Grand Inquisitor was once a Jedi Temple Guard and was involved in the events surrounding the bombing of the Jedi Temple during the Clone Wars, arresting the innocent and later exonerated Padawan Ahsoka Tano as well as the true culprit, Barriss Offee. This incident left his faith in the Jedi Order shaken, to which he conferred with Jedi Master Taron Malicos about the subject.
After his fall to the dark side and subsequent taking of the title of "Grand Inquisitor," he was responsible for hunting down and eliminating Jedi during the Great Jedi Purge. He personally served the Sith Lord Darth Vader, from whom he received his orders, and was intimately familiar with the records of the Jedi Temple. About a year into the Empire's reign, the Grand Inquisitor set an ambush for the young Jedi Knight Jarik Shan on Mandalore, using Tano's lightsaber to lure him into a trap, though Shan managed to retrieve it and escape after a brief duel with him.
The Grand Inquisitor took an active interest in eliminating the rebel crew of the starship Ghost, particularly the Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan, Ezra Bridger. He encountered these two Jedi on a number of occasions, including a Duel on Stygeon Prime and a duel on the asteroid base Fort Anaxes. After the Grand Inquisitor and the government of Lothal, from which the rebels operated, were consistently unable to eliminate the rebels, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin arrived on Lothal to hunt for the rebels. Together, they captured Jarrus and hoped to use him to learn more about a larger rebel movement that was operating in the galaxy. They brought Jarrus to Mustafar, where the rebels mounted a rescue mission in orbit. During the operation, the Grand Inquisitor engaged Jarrus, Bridger, and Shan in lightsaber combat, and though supported by the Second Sister and the Third Brother, he was eventually bested by Jarrus. Rather than face the infamous wrath of Vader for his repeated failures, the Grand Inquisitor chose to fall to his death.
After the Pau'an's death over Mustafar, the former Jedi Grand Master Yoda utilized a vision of the Grand Inquisitor as his former Jedi Temple Guard self to appear before Jarrus in the Jedi Temple on Lothal. In the vision, this Sentinel warned Jarrus that Bridger and Shan could fall to the dark side, and the two engaged in a lightsaber duel. After Jarrus refused to fight any further, the Sentinel knighted Jarrus and told him he was a Jedi Knight as the Grand Inquisitor once was. The spirit of the ancient Jedi and Sith Lord, Revan, then aided the Sentinel in distracting four Inquisitors while Jarrus, Bridger, Shan, Tano, and Mara Jade escaped.
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