Star Wars Reveals the Origin of the Jedi"s Barash Vow

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Spoilers for Star Wars: the High Republic - The Blade #4!Jedi who fully commit themselves to the Force take an oath known as the Barash Vow and a new Star Wars comic has unveiled the origin behind the practice. A handful of known Jedi including Dez Rydan, Kirak Infil’a, and Obi-Wan Kenobi took the vow, refraining from the Jedi Order and any peacekeeping activity. How this oath came to be has been unknown since its first appearance in an issue of 2017’s Darth Vader, but where and how it originated has just been revealed.
In Star Wars: the High Republic - The Blade #4 by Charles Soule and Marco Castiello, the military forces of the city-state Bethune lay siege to their rival city-state Firevale. The Kage Jedi Barash Silvain chooses to oppose Bethune and instead side with the Firevalian prince Colden and his pregnant Bethunian wife Princess Sicatra. The star-crossed lovers claim that they seek refuge from the enraged Bethunians. But when the battle escalates and the body count becomes too high for Sicatra’s conscience to bear, she stops the war between Firevale and Bethune by admitting that she lied about her pregnancy in an effort to get the queen of Firevale to abdicate the throne to her and Prince Colden. The royal couple planned to then foster trade between the two city-states. Barash becomes ashamed that she let her emotions drive her to take the wrong side in the conflict. She then exiles herself to become more attuned with the Force.
Barash Listened to Herself, Not the Force After losing her family at a young age, Barash Silvain found a new family in the legendary and exceptionally skilled Jedi Porter Engle. The pair of Jedi would eventually consider each other to be siblings, but it is this quality that Barash believes to have clouded her judgment in the Bethune-Firevale conflict; instead of listening to the Force, she immediately empathized with a family in danger (Prince Colden and the pregnant Princess Sicatra) and didn’t second guess her decision to ally herself with them. Barash believes that to be a Jedi again, she needs to learn to listen to the Force over her own personal biases.
Barash taking a vow of solitude as both penance and a path to redemption is similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s time alone on Tatooine, where he waited to train Luke Skywalker until he was ready. The Jedi Master Kirak Infil’a, on the other hand, self-exiled to become an expert combatant and to let the Force present to him what his true path as Jedi would be. Dez Rydan similarly took the Barash Vow to rebuild his connection to the force as it was nearly severed by the monstrous Drengir race. The Barash Vow began as both a form of penitence and a method of re-focusing one’s self to the light side of the Force. But over the years many Jedi would take the vow to accomplish only one of the two purposes it was intended for.

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