Master Torbin has taken a sacred oath, the Barash Vow. For 10 years he has spoken to no one, devoting his entire life to pure communion with the Force as penitence for his past.

A natural tracker and ally of the Jedi Order, Bazil has a hypersensitive nose that can detect his quarry at a distance. The diminutive Tynnan is tenacious in his hunt.

The palatial world of Brendok, long thought to be uninhabited by those in the Core, is not a part of the united planets of the Galactic Republic. In the time of the High Republic, the planet was among the worlds struck by the Emergences that destroyed entire civilizations in the wake of the Great Hyperspace Disaster. However, a vergence in the Force was believed to be behind the natural reclamation that led to Brendok becoming a lush, green world capable of supporting life. Covered in vast mountains and mossy forests, Brendok is home to an ancient fortress where a coven of witches dwell beneath the world’s twin moons.

On the world of Brendok, a coven of witches make their home in the abandoned shell of an old mining facility. Led by Mother Aniseya, the coven is protective of its way of life, seeking to preserve their culture, beliefs, and powers through the next generation: her daughters, Mae and Osha Aniseya.

The ancient walls of the fortress on Brendok hold many secrets. Led by Mother Aniseya, the witches who make their home here lead a quiet life far from the Core Worlds and protected by the fortified walls. Part of a former mining facility, the witches annexed the fortress as their homestead.

The yellow leaves and bright blue fungal growths of an ancient bunta tree stand out on the world of Brendok among the mossy forests. The bunta tree is beautiful, but it can be deadly; the leaves are poisonous when eaten.

The proprietor and barkeep at the Lomi Usqi Noodle Shop, Cabuck keeps the bowls of noodles flowing at his rundown establishment on Ueda. Sometimes he brings his child, Cabuck Junior, to work.

Despite being unsettled by hyperspace travel for most of her long life, Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh keeps a ship ready for whenever she needs to leave Coruscant. Named for her former Padawan Imri Cantaros, Vernestra’s ship is a Valkeri-Kuat Consolidated Enterprises VKCE-7100x Starcutter, an experimental design with an integrated hyperdrive, a rarity for the era.

As captain of the Fallon freighter, Blex disregards Republic rules and prioritizes profits over the lives of his hired hands.

The frigid world of Carlac is a desolate place, dominated by a glacial landscape, ice-covered caverns, and perpetual snowfall. Those who wander here quickly find no other signs of life. In the age of the Republic, the snow-draped world in the Outer Rim Territories avoided much of the violence of the Clone Wars. But when the nomadic Death Watch warriors turned it into a camp, the planet and its peaceful Ming Po people faced death and destruction. Chieftain Pieter, leader of the Ming Po, demanded that Death Watch leave Carlac at once, unleashing the cruel temper of Pre Vizsla.

In the later years of the High Republic, Chancellor Drellik oversees a blossoming Galactic Republic, with representatives from all corners of the galaxy serving the Galactic Senate under his watchful leadership.

A rare ore with properties of energy disruption, cortosis is not typically sought after by armorers. Pliable and weak in its natural state, cortosis does make for an effective defense against Force users, shorting out Jedi lightsabers for brief periods of time.