- "We ate alone, just the three of us—rich sauce and thin cuts of meat, boiled grain with a chemical spice reminiscent of Dalnan pepper."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
Dalnan pepper was a variety of pepper edible by the Evereni species that shared its name with[1] the planet[2] Dalna.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[3] Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a pirate group who would eventually become the Nihil[4]—and the siblings Vika and Velya Faer ate a meal prepared by Ro's assistant Alirya, which contained a chemical spice. Ro later mentioned this event a journal entry[1] she[5] recorded for her descendants and noted that the taste of the spice reminded her of Dalnan pepper.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her memoirs, including the message where Dalnan spice was mentioned.[5]
Behind the scenes
Dalnan pepper was mentioned in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[1]
Appearances
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑ The High Republic: Path of Deceit
- ↑ The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. Marda Ro met the Faers after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met them no earlier than 379 BBY.
- ↑
Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year.