- "Pray that the Jeedai soon liberate us from those who oppress us with terror and violence!"
- ―Heretic chant
The Jeedai heresy was a heretical movement with the True Way that ultimately helped end the Yuuzhan Vong War.
History[]
- "Name them. This heresy will die on this moon. If every Shamed One here must perish in glorious sacrifice, it will end here."
- ―Tsavong Lah
The heresy began on Yavin 4, shortly after the Yuuzhan Vong had conquered the moon and driven the New Jedi Order off. Anakin Solo, trying to rescue Tahiri Veila, encountered Vua Rapuung, a former Warrior whose ex-lover, Mezhan Kwaad, had made him appear to be a Shamed One. Kwaad was also the one who was holding Tahiri. Anakin and Vua agreed to help each other against their common enemy. When the two finally confronted Kwaad, she admitted her role in Rapuung's shaming, and mortally wounded him, shortly before Tahiri decapitated her. Upon learning that the Jedi had redeemed Rapuung, other Shamed Ones began to believe that the Jedi could redeem all Shamed Ones.
Despite efforts by Warmaster Tsavong Lah to suppress both news of Vua Rapuung incident and the "heresy", the heresy continued to spread throughout Yuuzhan Vong space among the Shamed Ones and the lower-class workers and slaves. By the time Shimrra Jamaane, the Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong, arrived on Yuuzhan'tar, the heretics were disorganized, and some groups had contradictory views of Rapuung's redemption. High Priest Jakan, head of the Priest caste, advocated that the heretics be hunted down and killed, but Shimrra decided that they would just try to give them a warning. Jakan, however, inadvertently defined some of their doctrine, when he said that Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo had no connection to Yun-Harla, the Trickster, and Yun-Yammka, the Slayer. Still, the groups remained contradictory.
That all changed after the Battle of Ebaq, when Nom Anor was forced to flee Shimrra after the disaster caused the death of Warmaster Tsavong Lah. Anor, realizing that this could be the way that he could dethrone Shimrra, assumed the guise of Yu'shaa, the Prophet, and began forming their doctrine for them. Yu'shaa said that the Force was the remaining exaltations of Yun-Yuuzhan, the Creator God of the Yuuzhan Vong, who had died when he created the Universe. Anor later gained an ally in Ngaaluh, a priestess of Yun-Harla, who had heard about the heresy and believed it to be the Truth. Ngaaluh became Anor's spy in Shimrra's Citadel, bringing false accusations against Anor's rivals in the intendant caste, in the hope that it would remove Shimrra's most competent prefects.
After a few weeks, Shimrra realized her treachery and ordered her to be interrogated, but Ngaaluh committed suicide. Deprived of his spy and with the number of converts dropping, Yu'shaa proclaimed the planet Zonama Sekot to be the home of the Jedi and a new home for the Shamed Ones. When Anor learned of Zonama Sekot and visited it, he offered to destroy it for Shimrra, if he would reward him. Anor's sabotage of Zonama Sekot failed. Despite the disappearance of Yu'shaa, the heresy had taken a life of its own. When Zonama Sekot appeared in the skies of Coruscant, the heretics believed that their redemption was at hand, and rebelled against Shimrra and the Elite. The chaos they caused was vital to the Galactic Alliance during the Battle of Yuuzhan'tar. After the battle, the Shamed Ones were renamed the Extolled, and finally gained the equality that they had sought, on Zonama Sekot.
Jeedai heretics[]
- Nom Anor
- Kunra
- Ngaaluh
- Vua Rapuung (Eventually)
- Vuurok I'pan
- Eckla Shoolb
- Yus Sh'roth
- Hul Qat
- Aarn
- At'raoth
- Chreev
- Ekma
- Hrannik
- Idrish
- Kuhqo
- Loiin Sool
- Niiriit Esh
- Shoon-mi Esh
- Sh'simm
- Taan
- T'less
- Varesh
- V'tel
Figures in the heresy's sacred tales[]
- Shimrra Jamaane: The Rainbow-Eyed Enemy who caused the gods to call forth the Jeedai.
- Corran Horn: Silverblade, The-Slayer-of-Shedao-Shai, defeated Commander Shedao Shai in personal combat.
- Ganner Rhysode: The Ganner, killed uncounted numbers of warriors at the Well of the World Brain. Believed to guard the entranceway to the Yuuazhan Vong realm of the dead.
- Wurth Skidder: Resisted breaking by a yammosk.
- Luke Skywalker: Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, associated with Yun-Yammka, slew Supreme Overlord Shimrra (late addition).
- Anakin Solo: Redeemer of Vua Rapuung, died in glorious combat against the voxyn to save his crèche-mates.
- Jacen Solo: Twin of Jaina Solo, converted to the True Way, but rejected it for the Jedi. Associated with Yun-Yammka and later with Yun-Shuno.
- Jaina Solo: Twin of Jacen Solo, slew Warmaster Tsavong Lah in personal combat, associated with Yun-Harla.
- Tahiri Veila: One-who-was-shaped, associated with Yun-Ne'Shel.
Appearances[]
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (First appearance)
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
- The New Jedi Order: Traitor
- The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion
- The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy
- The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force