Sorry Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Has a New Master of the Jedi Mind Trick

Star Wars has introduced a caller Jedi quality shown to beryllium the eventual maestro of the caput trick. No, truly — and halt looking astatine my manus arsenic I effort to person you.

Today's Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #7 focuses connected Grandea, yet different Jedi subsister of the Order 66 purge, who has lived connected successful secrecy for different 50 years by honing her skills of intelligence manipulation.

While the database of Jedi present known to person survived the Clone Wars seemingly grows longer by the day, Grandea's backstory astatine slightest provides a bully crushed wherefore she has been capable to flight the Empire for this agelong — by focusing each of her Jedi abilities connected perfecting the caput trick, to the exclusion of beauteous overmuch each else. Imagine drafting a D&D quality and putting each of your stat points into Persuasion. It's a spot similar that.

Legacy of Vader is the ongoing Star Wars graphic caller bid from Charles Soule and Luke Ross that's doing a bully occupation of fleshing retired the quality of Kylo Ren. Set betwixt The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker, this latest contented sees Ren conscionable Grandea arsenic helium seeks to turn his Force powers.

Through flashbacks, we spot Grandea investigating retired her powers connected progressively much hard species, from weak-minded humans to the tougher Hutts and Toydarians (with apologies to Qui-Gon Jinn, who failed to instrumentality Watto backmost successful The Phantom Menace).

Grandea's powers are beardown capable that she is capable to deceive a brace of Jedi hunting Inquisitors and instrumentality them into believing they person bested her successful battle. So heavy is their confusion, that adjacent aft their minds are past work by Darth Vader, the brace honestly reply they judge Grandea is dead, and her assemblage burned to region each trace.

So, however does Kylo Ren's brushwood with Grandea play out? Well, we won't spoil Legacy of Vader #7 here. Suffice to say, though, that Grandea's instauration is already going down good with fans, arsenic the angsty young Sith lord's travel to redemption successful The Rise of Skywalker continues.

"I'm gladsome they clarified Hutts and Toydarians tin successful information beryllium caput tricked fixed the idiosyncratic [being] beardown capable to bash so," wrote 1 instrumentality connected reddit. "Never liked the thought of immoderate taxon being wholly immune."

"This was a cleanable issue, and wholly addressed my concerns astir wherever the communicative was going," wrote another. "Grandea is simply a fable successful my books, and each of that achieved successful 1 comic issue!" said a third.

"This publication is astir Kylo Ren’s conflict to specify himself, and it is not casual for him," Soule antecedently told IGN, successful our interrogation astir his plans for the Star Wars: Legacy of Vader series. "Some fans would accidental that’s due to the fact that helium is not himself arsenic Kylo – portion of him knows he’s genuinely Ben – and the communicative tin beryllium viewed done that perspective. But I deliberation it besides works if you cognize thing astir Kylo Ren different than what you spot successful these beautifully-drawn pages – that he’s searching for himself, similar galore younger radical do. Of course, he’s besides a acheronian abstraction wizard with a laser sword helium loves to usage to deadly effect whenever helium feels similar it."

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social