How many AUs can I come up with? Who knows! Let’s find out >:3
AU where Nahdar Vebb, Barriss Offree and Ahsoka Tano are a trio. They’re all best friends and support one another.
Nahdar and Barriss were friends first, and she brought Ahsoka into the mix during the war. In this AU, Kit Fisto, obviously, still has his padawan and Nahdar Vebb isn’t rocketed to knighthood so soon.
Nahdar and Barriss bond over learning force healing, and they lean on one another when the war becomes too much for either teenager to handle. They both help Ahsoka learn how to cope with war, and even teach her a thing or two about force healing.
Nahdar doesn’t die, because he’s still got Kit’s influence in his life instead of the war. Barriss doesn’t fall, because she leans on Nahdar about the horrors of war. They’re the same age, if anyone would get it: he would.
Ahsoka, in turn, gets Barriss and Nahdar to let loose every now and again. She complains about Anakin all the time. The two are shocked at her flippancy, but after some coaxing, the senior padawans are willing to let off some steam in regard to their masters.
Just....teenagers being teenagers. In the midst of a war they didn’t actually sign up for...just let them have this tiny corner of friendship and joy that the galaxy can leave alone. Just for a little while longer.
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SO WHAT ARE JEDI HEALERS LIKE IN CANON?
The subtitle of this project was literally, “Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite.” because Star Wars lore is a mess of about five distinctly separate continuities and hardly anything has been devoted to this particular niche of Jedi worldbuilding. I spent a few hours hunting down sources, most of which were just one or two lines, at most a whole entire single paragraph! of information, and not much on how Force healing actually works.
This is fair, primarily the Force is about the emotions the user puts into it, that’s the core, central theme of what the Force means to Star Wars worldbuilding, rather than nitpicking details about hard rules of how it works. Further, the Force isn’t full of hard and fast rules on a bigger scale, it depends on the person, it depends on their mood, it depends on whether it’s a Tuesday or a Friday, because it’s about serving core themes, not about serving a system of magical rules.
That said, here’s what we know of Jedi Healers specifically in canon, both as a group within the Jedi Order and as an ability of the Force. This post will mix together Legends and Disney/Lucasfilm canon, as well as include RPG books that are not meant to be sources of canon, because the whole point of this is to give worldbuilders some tools to start with, should you want! HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT, PICK OUT WHAT YOU LIKE, AND BUILD UP FROM THERE. \o/
KNOWN JEDI HEALERS:
- Rig Nema (Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
- Stass Allie (Disney/Lucasfilm canon, as a healer)
- Barriss Offee (Legends canon as a healer, Disney/Lucasfilm canon as working with healers)
- Mill Alibeth (Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
- Nahdar Vebb (Fantasy Flight Games canon, as a healer)
- Vokara Che (Legends continuity)
JEDI HEALERS ROLE IN THE JEDI ORDER:
Jedi healers seem to be fairly rare and they were regarded as fairly precious:
(Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force / Legends canon)
Note: In this instance “Old Republic” = prequels era, and while this snippet is Legends, Rhinnal has been mentioned in Disney/Lucasfilm canon in The Rising Storm. In the FFG books, the Jedi established a chapter house on Rhinnal for many patients that was still in use and had been expanded during the prequels’ Jedi Order’s time. So, the Jedi have Halls-of-healing-esque houses on other places beyond Coruscant.
Jedi Healers were regarded as the most sensitive Jedi of all:
(Wild Space / Legends Canon)
JEDI HEALERS’ STRUCTURE:
Rig Nema was a Consular Jedi, which was a Jedi that devoted themselves to the study of a science or diplomacy, where she was a dedicated doctor. Jedi specializing in healing seem to often withdraw from any combat duties, as well as they fall under this specialized role within Jedi career paths.
(The Visual Encyclopedia / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
In Legends, the Jedi Healers worked with the MedCorps Jedi, as well as the were in leadership roles in the Temple’s infirmary and on worlds like Rhinnal and H’ratth.
(The Jedi Path / Legends canon)
Note: The Service Corps are tricky, because Legends established them just after The Phantom Menace came out, before even the second movie of the prequels had arrived, much less TCW or anything. Which means much of the content that came later had a tendency to contradict itself, as well as they do not exist at all in Lucas’ canon, and they are only mentioned in deeply obscure reference guides in Disney/Lucasfilm canon (and no mention of aging out--which further cannot work the same way, as TCW and Dooku: Jedi Lost establish that 14 year olds are young for Padawans and that 17+ isn’t rare for Padawans), but have never appeared in any book or comic yet. All of which means: Feel free to use them! Source material is a buffet that you get to pick and choose from! But be aware that some things are fundamentally incompatible from one continuity to another, and the Service Corps is a big one of those.
Within the Jedi Order, there was a sub-order of the Knights who practiced healing arts, called the Circle of Jedi Healers:
(The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia / Legends canon)
“Seated on the Jedi High Council due to her invaluable role as a Jedi Consular, Master Stass Allie is gifted not only in diplomacy and Lightsaber combat, but also Force healing. As a member of the Circle of Jedi Healers and overseer of the Medical Corps, she continues to hone her healing abilities even while deployed as a general for the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars.”
(Complete list of Force Collection cards / Continuity status unknown, probably Legends as it started in 2013)
Not all Jedi had to be dedicated healers to work with the medical clinic. In Disney/Lucasfilm canon, Barriss Offee often spent time helping injured Jedi, because she found healing to give her solace.
(Stories of Jedi and Sith / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
Though, in Legends, Barriss was more directly a healer, working under Stass Allie in the Circle of Jedi Healers, where she specialized in disease rather than surgery.
(Star Wars Databank / Legends canon)
Similarly, when Mill Alibeth finds her place within the Jedi Order, at Yoda’s suggestion that she use her abilities for specialized medical and spiritual assistance for war-wounded Jedi, she’s not necessarily Master Nema’s Padawan, it’s not so formalized as that, showing that there’s a lot of flexibility within the Jedi Order’s studies and paths.
(Brotherhood / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
JEDI HEALERS’ ABILITIES:
While Jedi healers focus on medical training, they also train Jedi in the main components of Jedi philosophy, like greater control and insight. When Mill Alibeth begins training with Rig Nema, she gains greater mastery over herself and the insight she has into Anakin in their meditation together:
(Brotherhood / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
In addition to Jedi healers being rare, it seems like it was taxing for them to directly use Force healing, because it drained them personally. While much of Kylo’s ability to revive Rey seems to come from that they were a dyad (and this would not be possible with other types of Force Healing, so other Jedi could not do that particular thing), Rey does do some Force Healing, where she must calm herself and center herself to do it properly, and it takes energy from her to accelerate healing.
It’s not much here, she doesn’t need to recover from it, but anything more significant and likely she would have. So, Jedi healers have to be careful about how much they give of themselves when healing others. This is also why Grogu collapses after healing Greef in The Mandalorian.
(The Rise of Skywalker novelization / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
Another Jedi healing ability is the Healing Trance, which would accelerate their natural healing process. While in this trance, because their heartbeat and breathing slow, they can appear to be dead to others, and they’re unaware of the world around them. Depending on the climate, they can last anywhere from a week to a month within this trance, without outside hydration being given to them.
(Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force / Legends canon)
JEDI HEALERS WITH THE FORCE VS TECHNOLOGY:
The Jedi Order of the prequels seems to balance between technology and the Force, that both have their place in healing. In the episode “Voices”, Rig Nema relies on medical scans to show Yoda’s physiology, as well as a tank of dark liquid (either a bacta tank or a sensory deprivation tank, both would be useful for Jedi who need calm and no distractions to connect to the Force) to help him, but it’s balanced with his connection to the Force being plumbed, it’s not focused only on technological means.
JEDI HEALERS HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR:
In addition to being extra sensitive, Jedi Healers would be spending time in places that were soaked in pain and suffering, just by the nature of injured people’s anguish. Not only would they face the difficulty of dealing with a patient’s pain directly, Force-sensitive means being psychic, as in that pain literally soaks into the walls around them.
(”The Jedi Who Knew Too Much” / Lucas canon / Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
It’s intense enough in places that have a bad accident and those feelings linger, it’s a hundred times worse in places where people are always in pain or dying. Jedi Healers aren’t just subjected to the person’s suffering that’s right in front of them, but the thousand patients before them that have left their emotional imprint on the walls, the floor, the ceiling, the pillows, the bed, the very air around them.
HALLS OF HEALING/MEDICAL WINGS:
The Medical Center and Infirmary seem to be located about halfway up the left-hand side of the main ziggurat: "Medical center and infirmary, staffed by Jedi Medical Corps.” (Complete Locations | Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
“The Jedi Temple's Halls of Healing were beautiful. They had lofty ceilings and enormous windows that spilled golden light over the blue and green and rose-pink walls and floor. Imbued with the Force's most gentle aspects, with love and nurturing and peace, they were full of perfumed flowers and green growing things, with the music of running water and the vibrancy of life renewed. They were the perfect retreat for those who were broken in body and mind, a place where the ugliness of suffering was washed away.” (Wild Space | Legends canon)
It’s difficult to get a sense of the size of it in The Clone Wars, but it seems to be fairly big, given the diversity of what we see of it, there may be more hard scientific areas and more gentle healing areas, both:
- Obi-Wan’s transformation into Rako Hardeen is in an area with multiple cordoned off areas with doors that can be fogged over. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon , Disney/Lucasfilm canon )
Likely the same area in the episode “Voices”, it seems like it’s in an area of the Temple that’s a hallway away from windows facing the outside. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
Anakin and Mace share a recovery room, which has a different style from the other infirmary rooms, done in different colors and with softer lighting, indicating that they have gentler recovery rooms versus the active medical problem areas
It has a window looking out over Coruscant, indicating that it’s near the edge of the ziggurat, likely an area for less critical patients and meant to promote healing. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
Yoda is put in the infirmary in an area that looks to be the same area, but also has a separate area for a bacta tank, which seems to be at least possibly similar to the same area Depa was in when she was submerged in bacta.
When Anakin walks into the room (and later he and Yoda walk out), we see what looks like sky through a window in the background of the outside hallway, possibly indicating this was near the edge of the ziggurat as well. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)(Kanan: The Last Padawan | Disney/Lucasfilm canon)
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after @merlyn-bane 's recent post about who might have been agemates with anakin in the temple, @dontbelasagnax & I got talking about any jedi we might know that was around anakins age
we couldnt come up with many lol which got me thinking. there have to be more than this. so I did a bit of research and I thought sharing what i found out might be of use to someone
so this is mostly based on legends and a bit of guesswork. I have made the assumption that if a jedi was a padawan or had only recently become a knight at geonosis, they must have been a padawan at the same time as anakin. obviously this doesnt necessarily mean that they are anakins age, grogu was born the same year as anakin and yet probably wouldnt have had any contact with him as due to species differences in aging, he would have been a baby in the creche.
so to begin with, here are the Jedi I found with birth years within 10 years of anakins own (41bby)
Bultar Swan (born approx 51bby [extended canon wikia])
Aayla born 48bby [legends wikia]
Ferris Olin Born 44bby [legends wikia]
Tru Veld- born 42bby [legends wikia]
Dara Thel-Tanis born 41bby [legends wikia]
Barris Offee born 40bby [legends wikia]
Tallisbeth Enwandung-Esterhazy born 34bby [legends wikia]
And here is a list of Jedi who were padawans during or just before Geonosis:
Talia Moonseeker [passed trials just before geonosis]
Bairdon jace [padawan on geonosis]
Lumas Etima (padawan on geonosis)
Jyl Somtay (padawan during geonosis)
Tan Yuster (padawan on geonosis)
Stam Reath (padawan on geonosis
Nahdar Vebb (padawan during Geonosis) [edit 26/2/24 Thanks @persephoneofhades]
if you guys know any that i havent mentioned reply to this post and I can always edit it so this can be something of a resource
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