Seib Nod

Seib Nod was a female Lorrdian member of the Sisterhood of the Beatific Countenance on the planet Lorrd. A lifelong member, she grew bored of her cloistered lifestyle and opted for a life of crime instead. Stealing valuable artifacts from her temple, she fled Lorrd and went to the galactic capital world of Coruscant, where she intended to sell the stolen items. She found a buyer in archaeologist Artuo Pratuhr.

Pratuhr and his assistant, Zey Nep, met with Nod at the Outlander Club in 22 BBY. The archaeologist was initially wary of Nod's intentions, but the Lorrdian was able to convince him that she was acting on behalf of the Sisterhood in selling the items. Once he had handed over his money, she decided to double-cross him and left with both the items and the credits. She was later apprehended by Pratuhr and Nep, and was given a long sentence in CoCo Penitentiary.

Biography

A female Near-Human Lorrdian from the planet Lorrd, Seib Nod was a lifelong member of the Sisterhood of the Beatific Countenance. As such, she was forced to live in a cloistered fashion, which soon bored her. With no funds whatsoever, she realized that in order to start a new life for herself, she would have to procure them from somewhere. Not caring how she went about it, Nod stole several valuable artifacts from her temple, and departed Lorrd post haste, for the galactic capital of Coruscant. There, she continued to wear her religious fatigues to mask her criminal intentions^[1] and became a participant in Coruscant's party scene.^[2]

Intending to pawn the stolen relics, she was contacted by Artuo Pratuhr, an archeologist who wanted to buy them for the Galactic Museum. In 22 BBY,^[3] Nod met with Pratuhr and his assistant, Zey Nep, at the Outlander Club,^[1] a nightclub and gambling hall in Coruscant's Uscru Entertainment District,^[4] at the height of the Separatist Crisis.^[5] While at the Outlander Club, the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker entered, searching for the bounty hunter Zam Wesell. Nod walked behind the two as they split up. While Skywalker searched the club for the bounty hunter, she walked past the^[5] woman Dyemma Reel^[6] and a Human. When Kenobi disarmed Wesell, Nod walked near the club's bar.^[5] Initially, the archeologist was suspicious of Nod's intentions, but she claimed that the Sisterhood was selling the items to raise desperately needed funds. The clandestine nature of the sale was to conceal the fact that the Sisterhood was in such financial trouble that it needed to sell the relics in the first place.^[1]

Pratuhr agreed to the deal, but the criminal atmosphere of Galactic City caused Nod to make a snap judgment—drawing a blaster on the archeologist, she took his money and fled the Outlander Club for an outbound flight.^[1] A few days later,^[7] while waiting at the dock, Nod was confronted by Pratuhr, who caught up to her. She did not feel threatened, however—she was armed, he was not. What Nod had not accounted for was the presence of Nep, who, standing behind her and disguised as a refugee, had her own blaster trained on her. Realizing that her plans were thwarted, she returned the money. Pratuhr then took her to the local authorities and returned the relics to the Sisterhood. Nod was then incarcerated in CoCo Penitentiary for a considerable amount of time, during which she was pardoned by the Sisterhood for her crimes.^[1]

Personality and traits

Although the Sisterhood of Beatific Countenance required lifelong servitude,^[1] the withdrawn^[8] Seib Nod did not find her servitude spiritually fulfilling in the slightest, and so, due to her boredom, sought out more material possessions. She was desperate enough to break free of her situation by turning to crime as a way of raising money for herself. Once she had committed one criminal act, she was prone to lying to others, and she found herself so changed by her one act that she felt free to perform another. When she was jailed, she was at such a point that the forgiveness of her fellow Sisters meant nothing to her. Nod had light skin, and as with all members of the Sisterhood, Nod had scripture tattooed on her body, including distinctive facial patterns.^[1] During her visit to the Outlander Club^[5] in 22 BBY,^[3] Nod was a bachelorette.^[9]

Equipment

While traditionally members of the Sisterhood wore their robes and masks outside their temple to hide their skin, Nod maintained her religious garb in order to hide her mercenary nature.^[1] Nod was distinguished by the blood-red ankle-length robes she wore. The robes were attached to a unique facial screen that completely hid her face. Both the robes and the tattoos were obvious symbols of her membership in the Sisterhood.^[7] During her deal with Pratuhr, she pulled a blaster on him.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Seib Nod first appeared in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones,^[5] which released on May 16, 2002.^[10] The Outlander Club scenes including Nod, who was portrayed by uncredited extra,^[5] were shot at Fox Studios, Sydney on July 17, 2000.^[11] Nod was first identified in an Episode II Depth Commentary available on StarWars.com that could be accessed through the DVD-ROM home release of Attack of the Clones^[12] on November 12, 2002.^[13] Spelled backwards, Seib Nod is Don Bies, a special-effects artist for Attack of the Clones who played Artuo Pratuhr.^[8]

Trisha Biggar's October 11, 2005^[14] reference book Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars identified the same character as "Seib Nob."^[15] Further complicating matters was Stephen J. Sansweet and Pablo Hidalgo's October 27, 2005 reference title Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels identifying the character as "Nob Seib,"^[16] leading continuity editor Leland Chee to clarify that the original designation, "Seib Nod," is correct.^[17] The character's story was later fleshed out by Benjamin Christopher Norton Dawe, writing as "Captain Yossarian," through StarWars.com's "What's The Story?" Hyperspace feature.^[1]