Yoda's old Master

A member of the Jedi Order took on Yoda as a Padawan when Yoda was young, more than eight hundred years before the reign of the Galactic Empire. At some point, Yoda's teacher told their apprentice an insightful story about two Jedi named K'ungfu and Chuang,The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? and taught him how to live in peace. While Yoda eventually became arguably the greatest Jedi Grand Master in history, the information on his Master's identity was lost.
During a mission to the planet Vagadarr Prime around the year 40 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines Yoda swore to pass on his Master's teachings and end the war between local human tribes and giants of living stone. When Yoda had become the last Jedi Master in existence, he told his Master's story about K'ungfu and Chuang to Luke Skywalker during the latter's Jedi training on the planet Dagobah in 3 ABY.
==Behind the scenes==
Yoda's old Master was first mentioned, albeit unnamed, in the current Star Wars canon in The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi?, a young-readers book which retells the events of the 1980 filmStar Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition . The book was written by Adam Gidwitz and published in 2015.
Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, Yoda's Jedi instructor was N'Kata Del Gormo, a Hysalrian Jedi Master, according to an in-universe legend. The character was created by Chuck Hamilton, a Star Wars fan, for the backstory of his Hysalrian entry in the "Design An Alien" contest held in the Star Wars Galaxy Magazine. Hamilton's entry was given an honorable mention in the ninth issue of the magazine, released on October 1, 1996. The 2024 novel Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss by Steven Barnes re-introduces the character of N'Kata Del Gormo to the current canon as a rumored early instructor of Yoda, albeit not specifying whether they were the latter's Jedi Master.Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss
According to Star Wars veteran Dave Filoni, Frank Oz, who provided both the voice and puppet work for Yoda in the Star Wars saga, believed that the character famously spoke in an unusual, backward manner in honor of his Master.
==Appearances==
*Master & Apprentice 
*Star Wars (2015) 30 
*The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? 
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