Eicho

Eicho was a Valon Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order, serving in the Outer Rim planet Valo's Jedi temple by training the Jedi younglings Tep Tep, Kildo, and Gavi. After Eicho refused to allow Tep Tep to keep a rathtar named Bubbles in the temple, Kildo placed a jar of spotted spiders in his bag in retaliation. The Jedi Master died on Valo during a Nihil marauder attack in 230 BBY, and the younglings later recounted the rathtar and spotted spider incidents to Padawan Ram Jomaram the following year.
==Biography==
Eicho was a Valon Jedi Master of the Jedi Order who lived during the High Republic Era and operated out of the Jedi temple on the Outer Rim planet Valo. He trained Jedi younglings Tep Tep, Kildo, and Gavi in meditation, which the children found boring. One time, Tep Tep brought a rathtar named Bubbles—who had broken out of the Lonisa City Zoo—into the temple to heal its injuries. Eicho passed out upon seeing the creature, and Bubbles attempted to eat him.
Ultimately, Eicho did not allow Tep Tep to keep the creature and spoke harshly to her about bringing it in. Afterward, the Jedi Master canceled his meditation sessions with the younglings for two weeks while recovering from the incident's shock and left the Valo temple. Upon his return, Kildo snuck a jar of spotted spiders into Eicho's bag as retaliation for the Master reprimanding Tep Tep. Eicho was shocked and departed the temple again shortly after his arrival until he had recovered from the incident. Following the destruction of the Starlight Beacon space station in 230 BBY,Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia Valo's Jedi Masters prepared to leave and head to the Jedi Temple on the Core Worlds planet Coruscant. However, their efforts were stalled when Valo was attacked by the Nihil marauders not long after in the same year.
All of the Valo Jedi temple's Masters—including Eicho —hurriedly attempted to flee into the world's mountains to escape Lonisa City. However, the Nihil caught the Jedi and killed all of them despite their attempts to fight back, with several being fed to a Force-eating Nameless creature. The ordeal left only Gavi, Kildo, and Tep Tep surviving, albeit deeply scarred by the experience.The High Republic: Beware the Nameless After living for a year on their own in the wilderness, Tep Tep, Kildo, and Gavi returned to the temple and met with Padawan Ram Jomaram, one of the only other Jedi on the world, and told him about the deaths of Valo's Jedi Masters. While introducing themselves, the younglings recounted the stories of the rathtar and spotted spider incidents to Jomaram, as well as Eicho's reactions to both. While Tep Tep insisted she would have never let the rathtar eat Eicho, Kildo claimed that Gavi could not prove he was responsible for placing the spiders in the Master's bag. In 228 BBY, Tep Tep and Kildo reminisced on seeing Valo's Jedi Masters fed to Nameless during the Nihil's occupation of their planet, somberly remembering how their teachers had turned to husks.
==Personality and traits==
While training younglings on Valo, Eicho became frightened when Tep Tep brought a rathtar to the temple and passed out. The incident flustered him, resulting in him departing the temple for two weeks and canceling scheduled meditation sessions, much to the delight of the three younglings he was teaching. While reflecting on the incident, Kildo did not regret placing spiders in the Jedi Master's bag, having considered the way he had spoken to Tep Tep in the past rude. Eicho attempted to help evacuate the younglings from the Nihil during a Nihil attack, fighting against the occupiers to give his students more time to escape.
==Powers and abilities==
As a member of the Jedi Order, the Jedi Master was a Force-sensitive individual trained to wield the Force.
==Behind the scenes==
Eicho was mentioned in Escape from Valo, a 2024 junior novel written by Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase III. On Twitter, Older confirmed that all of the Valo Temple's Jedi Masters—including Eicho—perished in the Nihil attack.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Escape from Valo 
*The High Republic: Beware the Nameless 
==Notes and references==
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