Vernestra Rwoh Confirmed For The Acolyte

What little we’ve seen about The Acolyte to this point has instructed an all-new world of characters to satisfy as Disney+ ventures again to the time of the Excessive Republic period, centuries earlier than the occasions of the Star Wars films. However in a shock reveal, we now know a minimum of one acquainted Jedi can be becoming a member of the sequence.

Revealed by Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland at Star Wars Celebration Europe in the present day, Rebecca Henderson will seem within the TV present as Excessive Republic novel character Vernestra Rwoh.

Rwoh, a green-skinned Mirialan, was at one level one of many youngest ever Jedi to ascend to the rank of Knight on the age of 15, and thought of one of many Order’s best and brightest of her era. However the Rwoh we’ll meet in The Acolyte is way older than the one readers have already met in a number of Excessive Republic novels, her purple hair shaved off to disclose Mirialan tattoos over her scalp. The picture proven to attendees clad Vernestra within the gold and brown “mission robes” worn by Jedi of the period, on an unknown jungle world.

Little else was famous about every other potential Excessive Republic characters showing within the sequence, however it’s cool to see a minimum of one in all these characters develop into a bigger a part of the Star Wars mythology. The Acolyte is ready to hit Disney+ a while in 2024.

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