Yarael Poof

**Yarael Poof** was a male Quermian Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council up until before 19 BEF. Poof was replaced on the council by his former padawan, Coleman Trebor.

## Biography

Poof was a male Quermianborn in 365 BEF, from his species' homeworld of Quermia, who was found to be Force-sensitive at a young age and was thus brought into the Jedi Order to be trained. Eventually, he obtained the rank of Jedi Knight and trained Coleman Trebor, a Vurk, to his own Knighthood. Poof, as a Jedi Master, would be named to the Jedi High Council.

### The High Republic

#### Responding to disaster

"*We can say that these events do not seem to be the result of direct action by Force users. We are not all-knowing, but as of now we have no evidence along those lines.*"
―Poof reporting to Chancellor Soh — Listen (file info)[[|[src]]]
Yarael Poof was a revered Jedi Master who, by 232 BBY, had become a member of the Jedi High Council, the ruling body of the Jedi Order. A celebrated diplomat and teacher, he was among those summoned by Supreme Chancellor Lina Soh to Monument Plaza, a green space located on the Galactic Republic's capital world of Coruscant, in the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace Disaster. Poof informed the Chancellor that the Council did not believe the event was the result of direct action by Force users. While he clarified that the Jedi were not all-knowing, Poof asserted that there was no evidence of that being the case, a claim supported by fellow Council member Jora Malli. Soh assigned everyone present at the meeting, including Poof, to determine the cause of the disaster and prevent it from happening again. The Council then assigned Master Avar Kriss to lead the Jedi response to the Emergences, a series of events that occurred in the aftermath of the Great Disaster throughout the Outer Rim. While leading the investigation, Poof acted with the intent of preventing future Emergences.

Poof was later present at a Council meeting to discuss Soh's request for the Jedi to work with the Republic Defense Coalition to hunt down and imprison or destroy the Nihil, a group of Outer Rim–based marauders that had been unknowingly manipulated into causing the Great Disaster by the Eye of the Nihil, Marchion Ro. Poof refuted fellow Council member Rana Kant's claim that the galaxy was far from being at war and expressed his belief that the Jedi were the guardians of two ideals that sometimes came into conflict: justice and peace. Ultimately, the Council voted to grant the Chancellor's request for Jedi aid. After the Nihil were believed destroyed with their defeat at the Battle of Kur, Poof accompanied Soh to the dedication of Starlight Beacon, a space station located in the center of the Outer Rim's dark zones to assist with navigation through the dangerous and difficult-to-navigate area of space.

Nearly a year later, Poof participated by hologram in a High Council meeting after a devastating Nihil attack on the Republic Fair on the planet Valo. When Grand Master Pra-Tre Veter noted that Master Kriss was engaged in battle against the Drengir on Mulita, Master Teri Rosason criticized her for thinking she could do what she wanted. Poof countered that Kriss was operating within the parameters the Council had afforded her, and Adampo added that she was acting in direct response to the Chancellor's request. The Quermian further commented that no one, including Kriss, knew what was occurring on Valo until the journalist Rhil Dairo managed to get a distress signal out.

#### The fall of Starlight

In 231 BBY, Poof was present during a meeting in Jedi Master Stellan Gios' meeting chambers in which both Jedi Masters and four senators questioned Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and Padawan Reath Silas regarding an incident on the Amaxine Space Station. As the group finished their initial questioning of Vitus, Poof left the room alongside the senators. In 230 BBY, Poof attended the Eiram celebration—which celebrated the Starlight Beacon's arrival to the planet Eiram in order to assist with its recovery following a hemisphere-wide storm—via hologram and watched the festivities.

Following the destruction of Starlight Beacon that same year, Poof attended a meeting in the Chancellor's office alongside Veter, Soh, her aide Norel Quo, Admiral Pevel Kronara, Senator Izzet Noor, and multiple other individuals regarding the identity of Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro and what further action they could take. Poof informed Soh that the Jedi Order was still evaluating the scope of the losses on Starlight Beacon and expressed hope that some of those unaccounted for had survived, also recounting the deaths of Jedi Masters Nib Assek and Stellan Gios. Noor then provoked Poof and Veter, revealing their recall of the Jedi Order to Coruscant. The Jedi Masters confirmed Noor's claim while explaining that they had executed the recall out of prudence, hoping to prevent more Jedi deaths at the hands of the Nihil's creatures known as the Nameless. In the weeks following the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Poof and his traits were mentioned in *Chronicles of the Jedi*, a book written by Jedi Master Harli Cogra.

#### The Guardian Protocols

One week after the fall of Starlight Beacon, Poof was among a group of Jedi High Council members presenting a set of initiatives to the Jedi Order in the Senate Building to be put in place following Starlight's destruction. The group informed the Order of the Nihil's involvement in the Great Hyperspace Disaster and the Valo Atrocity, as well as the deaths of multiple Jedi such as Stellan Gios, Orla Jareni, Nib Assek, and Loden Greatstorm—the last of which was at the hands of the Nihil weapon known as the Nameless. The council members also informed the present Jedi of the Nihil's leader, Marchion Ro, and the Stormwall he had created to cut off access to a portion of the Outer Rim now known as the Occlusion Zone. Poof himself affirmed that these incidents were the reason the Jedi had been recalled, then announced that they would be initiating the Guardian Protocols. These initiatives included the accelration of youngling combat instruction, the staffing of outposts by droids, the pausing of independent research, holding Padawan trials early, restricting resource management, allowing offensive combat when necessary, and declaring that no Jedi would travel alone. After going over each measure, the council members dismissed the Jedi Order from the Senate Building.

In 39 BEF, Poof and Mace Windu debriefed Trebor after his mission to alleviate a labor dispute on Mykapo, congratulating him on his success and informing him that his former Padawan, Jyl Somtay, would not be required to follow him to his next assignment, a political gala on Yag'Dhul. Some time between then and 21 BEF, Poof was no longer on the Council, and would be replaced by Trebor.

### The Chosen One

At some point before the Battle of Naboo in 32 BBY, by which point he was the most senior of the four Quermians enrolled in the order, Poof—alongside the rest of the council—was confronted by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn about the increasing isolation of the order following plans to dismantle the Jedi outpost on Kwenn. Under the suggestion of Jedi Master and fellow councilmember Mace Windu, Poof traveled to Kwenn alongside the remainder of the entire council in a show of good will to the galaxy. However, the group soon thereafter became the target of multiple pirate factions intent on wiping out the Jedi Order's leadership.

Shortly before the Battle of Naboo, Poof was in attendance when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn came before the Council with news that the Sith, the ancient enemies of the Jedi Order, had resurfaced. He later observed Jedi Master Mace Windu evaluate the Force abilities of Anakin Skywalker, a nine-year-old boy from the planet Tatooine whom Jinn had discovered to be Force-sensitive and believed to be the Chosen One, a being who was prophesied to bring balance to the Force. Although the child was strong in the Force, the Council denied Skywalker entrance into the Order as they found his deep emotional attachments troubling and believed that he was too old for training. The Council reversed their decision, however, after Jinn was slain by the Sith Lord Darth Maul on Naboo, allowing Skywalker to become the Padawan of Jinn's former apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, per Jinn's dying wish. Poof sat on the council until he perished on a mission shortly before the beginning of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY.

## Appearances

* *Star Wars Jedi*: *Coleman Trebor* 1 (Appears in hologram)

## Sources

* *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
* *Expanding the Unexpanded*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
2. ↑ According to *Savage Spirits*, Yarael Poof died shortly before the Clone Wars. As *Star Wars: Galactic Atlas* dates the beginning of the Clone Wars to the year 22 BBY, it can be determined that Poof died around 22 BBY.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8  *Star Wars Jedi*: *Coleman Trebor* 1
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8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 *Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi*
9. ↑ *Star Wars* (2020) 2
10. ↑ *The High Republic: The Rising Storm*
11. ↑ *Star Wars: Timelines* dates the events of *The High Republic: Out of the Shadows* to 231 BBY.
12. ↑ *The High Republic: Out of the Shadows*
13. ↑ *Star Wars: Timelines* dates the events of *The High Republic: The Fallen Star* to 230 BBY.
14. ↑ *The High Republic: The Fallen Star*
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20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 *Savage Spirits*
21. ↑ *Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia*