Arakein Monks

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"Who? The Arakein Monks. Word is they'll put anyone's name in their Book of the Dead, and they remember forever."
―An Imperial starfighter pilot, to Vitale[1]

The Arakein Monks were a religious order that existed almost two millennia before the Galactic Civil War. They built a stone clock at the top of Mount Arakeirkos and kept the names of deceased in their Book of the Dead.

History

"What have you heard about Mount Arakeirkos?"
"I'm not familiar with it."
"Neither am I. But at the top, there's a great clock set in stone, built by the Arakein Monks almost two thousand standard years ago. According to legend, whoever watches each swing of its pendulum for a day will have the lifespan of the universe revealed before his eyes."
―Micha Evon and Hazram Namir — 20?cb=20250116042720 ▶️ (file info)[2]

The religious order known as the Arakein Monks was active almost two millennia before the Galactic Civil War,[2] originating in the[2][3] Inner Rim Territories' Arakein system.[4] The monks built a giant clock out of stone at the top of a mountain named Mount Arakeirkos.[2] They were also rumored to put a deceased individual's names into their Book of the Dead so that they would remember the individual forever.[1] In 3 ABY,[5] Captain Micha Evon of the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry told the rebel First Sergeant Hazram Namir about Mount Arakeirkos and the clock built by the Arakein Monks.[2]

During the Battle of Jakku[1] in 5 ABY,[6] the New Republic pilot Vitale played the game Who? What? Where?—where the players listed who first heard about their death and how and where they died—with enemy pilots of the Galactic Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing over a comm channel. One Imperial pilot wished for the Arakein Monks to put their name in the alleged Book of the Dead, mentioning the books significance.[1]

Behind the scenes

The Arakein Monks were first mentioned in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.[2]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Battlefront: Twilight Company
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion (post by jasonfry) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (December 11, 2007): "I wouldn't get your hopes up re alien homeworlds, beyond simple stuff like the Planetnamian species getting a Planetnamia on the map or things Dan and I can account for with a relatively quick reference." (backup link) (screenshot) Jason Fry, co-author of The Essential Atlas and a number of maps in the current Star Wars canon (see a list here), stated his intention to create homeworlds for numerous species based on context implied from their names. Given this principle, this article makes a similar basic assumption for the Arakein Monks in relation to Arakein system.
  4. ↑ StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the main events of Battlefront: Twilight Company to 3 ABY.
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
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