#driggit parse

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Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Battle of Eriadu, by Jake Bartok.

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Gavi and Driggit should switch clothing and genders again. as a treat.

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Phil Noto - The High Republic downloadable poster set for "Imperial March"

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Space Jail! Baby Nameless! Jam sessions! And the wishes of a Mikkian! Check out Sal's review of The High Republic Adventures Volume I! (Phase III) #StarWarscomics #TheHighRepublic

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i love Driggit Parse so fucking much. my girl literally just said i can fix him but i prefer him broken and left her home to pursue galactic villainy.

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https://www.starwars.com/news/the-high-republic-author-roundtable

Twenty-five novels, 139 comic book issues, 22 short stories, six original manga graphic novels, and five audio originals. All released in just four years.

This is The High Republic, the most ambitious initiative in Star Wars publishing history.

With the release of the final novel, Trials of the Jedi, the High Republic authors recently gathered around a virtual roundtable to chat with StarWars.com. (Daniel José Older was unavailable and sorely missed.) They reflected on the journey the story and characters have taken through the height of the Jedi Order, and the fans who went along on the adventure with them through the end. But is it the end of an era?

light spoilers

Michael Siglain: Stellan Gios was created to die at the end of the initiative, and then we shifted that to the end of Phase I to have more impact there — to give the Nihil a bigger win and hand the Jedi a loss. But he was a character that when we created him, we knew from the beginning, this guy's not surviving.

Claudia Gray: I feel like the overall arc maintained itself, but I think a lot of us wound up becoming attached to a character or a development in a way that maybe we didn't anticipate. I didn't anticipate really being into the Vessel crew. I don't think we realized how big Lourna Dee was going to be when she first emerged. It was more about the characters developing in more ways than we thought.

Cavan Scott: I obviously had no idea Lourna was going to be such a big part of my storytelling. Keeve’s story was pretty much written out. The reasons for her leaving shifted depending on what was going on with the wider universe, although they're pretty much the same, but Lourna’s part in it all has been quite major. And that's absolutely because people loved her after Light of the Jedi and The Rising Storm, and she sort of fell into my hands. She's been there ever since.

StarWars.com: Which other characters did you grow attached to?

Tessa Gratton: I really was surprised how attached I got to Burryaga. It was in Charles's short story for Tales of Light and Life where I suddenly got obsessed with what Burry did to survive. And I was like, oh, my God, that's just so badass and raw and real. I'm going to write Burry and give myself this opportunity to get to know him better as a character.

George Mann: I loved Reath Silas from the first moment I read Claudia's first book. I think I identified with him because he’s a geeky librarian guy. It was a very different sort of Jedi than we'd seen before. [He ends up] coming out of his shell and becoming the Jedi he always should have been — and put through the ringer a little bit. I think you always see a bit of yourself in the characters you write. Reath was kind of my way into the project both as a reader and as a writer.

Lydia Kang: I really enjoyed writing Amadeo Azzazzo in the short story anthology. And then being able to see somebody cosplaying him in Japan, that was really cool. I was like, I'm meeting my character for the first time! Writing the chancellors in Phase II was really fun. I get really into the politics of stuff. I love exploring that kind of drama. As for the entire initiative, Geode is always going to be my favorite. I just adore him.

Claudia Gray: I did go to a con once and somebody had what to the uninitiated would look like a rectangular gray throw pillow, but it was a Geode plushie.

Alyssa Wong: Did you see the [Star Wars Celebration] cosplayer who showed up as Geode and then vanished?

Lydia Kang: He was probably going to karaoke.

Cavan Scott: Vintians love karaoke. It’s well known.

Charles Soule: They love rock music.

[laughter and groans]

Alyssa Wong: The character I didn't realize I was going to fall in love with, but did, was Driggit Parse, who shows up in Escape from Valo. She wasn't really supposed to be a big part of that book, but she grew with each iteration. And I love writing stories about people whose faith shatters, and it's usually their faith in other people. I love writing sad and angry girls. She ended up making it out of Escape from Valo, and she's been going through the comics and short fiction, and she plays a huge part in the Battle of Eriadu one-shot. She's my girl. She represents all the kids who are that age in real life who are faced with impossible choices.

StarWars.com: Was Marchion Ro always supposed to be the big villain?

Cavan Scott: We planned for there to be multiple red herrings. In fact, at one point I was really trying to make the Drengir's name an anagram for ‘red herring.’

Michael Siglain: We wanted to make sure that Marchion Ro was very different from the Emperor, and there were a lot of conversations about that and about the Nihil themselves. The idea was, we're creating these new villains, and they are, for lack of a better description, our punk rock space Vikings. Who would be the leader of them?

But we always knew it was going to go beyond the Nihil; we knew the Nameless were going to be in there. We were riffing off the question from Cavan of what scares the Jedi, and we wanted people to think, oh, it's the Drengir. No, wait, it's the Nihil. And then when we came in with the Nameless, that was yet another turning point where hopefully readers said, “Wait a minute, we didn't see this thing coming either. What is this?” And then people would start to think, okay, well maybe it's this that scares the Jedi. Really, it was much bigger than that. We answer that in the final novels and comics.

StarWars.com: You mentioned earlier that you met High Republic fans at Star Wars Celebration. Does anyone have a favorite interaction with readers?

George Mann: The meetup at Celebration Europe. It was like nothing we could have imagined. We came out as a group looking to meet whoever was going to be there, and there were four or five people standing in a little huddle. We went, four or five people, that's cool, we'll get some photos. We started talking to them, and they're the ones who realized and said, “Oh, you think we're the meetup? No, no, you want to be over there.”

And we looked and there were hundreds of people in this massive sea of cosplay waiting for us. We spent two hours doing photos and talking to fans, and loads of them brought us presents and postcards they'd written to us. It was so humbling and moving, hearing people's stories about how they'd interacted with the books and what they meant to them. I came away from that thinking, I have to strive even harder and do even better with the books for the next round because they clearly mean so much to people.

Alyssa Wong: My very favorite experience was that panel at Celebration Europe where it was announced that I was joining the initiative, and nobody knew [beforehand]. I got to sit in line with all the fans leading up to the publishing panel and I was like, “I can't wait to see what's going to happen on the panel!” I got to have that time to talk with them and ask them what they like the most and share that excitement.

Justina Ireland: Just to add to that, one of the reasons Imri Cantaros made it to the end was because somebody came up and told me how much they loved him at Celebration Anaheim.

Tessa Gratton: Do you remember, Justina, at New York Comic Con when Path of Deceit had just come out, the young man who came up to us? He said, "I've only read three-fourths of the book, but Kevmo Zink is my favorite." And you and I were just like, don't make eye contact. Don't make eye contact.

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StarWars.com: Did anyone get a chance to play Jedi: Survivor?

Alyssa Wong: I did! Seeing the characters in those robes and having them reference [the High Republic], it was so amazing. I was like, “It's real!” Which is a hilarious thing to say when you're making canon. But as other people have said, it feels extra real when you see it outside of what we're doing. Also, Dagan Gera’s my boy, unsurprisingly. Love that guy.

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Alyssa Wong Heads Back To Star Wars For 'The Battle Of Eriadu'

Alyssa Wong heads back to writing Star Wars for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III—The Battle of Eriadu from Dark Horse.

After time spent in the wilderness known as “writing for Marvel,” Alyssa Wong is back behind enemy lines with Dark Horse Comics‘s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III—The Battle of Eriadu. “We met Driggit Parse and Gavi Takitaken in ESCAPE FROM VALO,” said Wong via press release. “And followed their individual journeys across DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCLUSION ZONE #2, THE HIGH REPUBLIC…

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Alyssa Wong Heads Back To Star Wars For 'The Battle Of Eriadu'

Alyssa Wong heads back to writing Star Wars for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III—The Battle of Eriadu from Dark Horse.

After time spent in the wilderness known as “writing for Marvel,” Alyssa Wong is back behind enemy lines with Dark Horse Comics‘s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III—The Battle of Eriadu. “We met Driggit Parse and Gavi Takitaken in ESCAPE FROM VALO,” said Wong via press release. “And followed their individual journeys across DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCLUSION ZONE #2, THE HIGH REPUBLIC…

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“Welcome to High Republic. Everyone's dead.” -Justina Ireland The High Republic Phase 3 and quotes since I'm miserable about it (Part 6/?)

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some actual art I've yet to post👍 (I need to reread Escape from Valo)

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THE HIGH REPUBLIC: ESCAPE FROM VALO TOMORROW

that is all

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Prison break! Moving the Stormwall! Socorro Jayme! And a hot weird guy with freaky eyes! Check out Sal's review of The High Republic: Crash Zone! #StarWarscomics #TheHighRepublic

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"she could fix him but why would she" Driggit Parse you are everything

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I've had the Valo younglings, Driggit Parse, and Zyle Keem for less than two hours and they are everything to me