Mandalore's Mask

**Mandalore's Mask** was a ceremonial war helmet which signified its bearer as the Mand'alor, the ruler of the warrior clans of Mandalore. Created by Mandalore the First, who carved the helm from the ridged sternum over the heart of a mythosaur, and whose exploits legendized the Mask, the relic was passed down to successive Mand'alore until Mandalore the Ultimate. Having waged the Mandalorian Wars against the Galactic Republic, the war's end at the Battle of Malachor V saw his forces altogether annihilated, himself defeated in ritual combat, and the Mask appropriated by the Jedi Knight Revan, resulting in the fragmentation of the entire Mando'ade throughout the following millennia. Nevertheless, the mask was returned to the Mandalorian mercenary Canderous Ordo a few years later for his assistance with defeating Darth Malak and his Sith Empire in the Jedi Civil War, with which Ordo reunited his compatriots as Mandalore the Preserver, albeit to a lesser extent from the Ultimate's reign.

Due to the persistence of his people's scorn for Revan, however, the Preserver hid the Mask in a Sith tomb, guarded by Revan's assassin droid HK-47, near his base on the Onderonian moon of Dxun, with the decree that only a descendant of Revan was allowed to retrieve the helm. Thousands of years later during the reign of the Galactic Empire, Jedi Knight Jarik Shan, himself descended from Revan and fathered by a member of Ordo's clan, reclaimed the helm from the tomb with his paternal family as a measure of goodwill, and presented Mandalore's Mask before Bo-Katan Kryze and various clans a year later during the Mandalorian Civil War. With the clans united into an Alliance of Mandalore under Kryze's leadership and in rebellion against the Empire, the newly-crowned Mandalore the Restorer in turn dubbed Shan as the first Mandalorian Jedi since Mandalore the Ultimate, definitively ending the antagonism between the Mando'ade and the bloodline of Revan.

## **Appearances**

* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 72: Old Friends Not Forgotten" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 1: Battle of Coruscant" (first mentioned)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 41: Storytelling" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 54: Catching Up" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 19: Judgement of Soul" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 36: An Inside Man" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 39: His Mandalorian Past" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 40: Some Preparation" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 44: Family Reunion" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 45: The Challenge" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 46: The Hunt for the Mask"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 47: Vader's Vendetta"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 48: Against All Odds" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 49: Goodbye, For Now" (hologram only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 55: Zero Hour Pt 2" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 57: Next Move" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 60: Exploring Old Ruins" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 61: Return to Mandalore"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 63: Aftermath" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 64: Heroes of Mandalore"
* *The Shan Bloodline - Volume 1: The Taken War* (will appear)