Adonai Kryze

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"Your father sounds like an interesting man. I would've liked to have known him."
"He was a great man. He died defending Mandalore."
"This is the Way."
―Din Djarin and Bo-Katan Kryze[4]

Duke Adonai Kryze was the Mandalorian father of Satine Kryze[2] and Bo-Katan Kryze.[5] He was part of House Kryze, that was the royal family of the Mandalorians.[4] A few decades prior to Clone Wars, Kalevala's House Kryze occupied a leading position among the Mandalorian clans, with Adonai Kryze, Duke of Kalevala being the leader of the Mandalorian during this time.[3] When Bo-Katan was a child, she took the Mandalorian Creed by performing a Mandalorian initiation ritual in the Living Waters in the Mines of Mandalore, and was showered with gifts, while Adonai looked on proudly.[4]

Between 41 BBY and 40 BBY[1] escalating tensions between Mandalorian clans led to the outbreak of the Great Clan Wars. During the wars, Kryze emerged as a warlord of House Kryze and gained respect from his enemies, including Death Watch. Kryze realized through the long course of the war that constant fighting would not bring prosperity for Mandalore, and thus he sent his daughter, Satine Kryze to Galactic Republic capital of Coruscant to study diplomacy. On Mandalore, he was killed during the war[3] while defending the planet,[4] and was succeeded by his pacifistic daughter, Duchess Satine Kryze. Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla considered Satine unworthy to lead the Mandalorians, and so planned an alliance with Count Dooku.[2]

According to Bo-Katan, he was a great man.[4]

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Behind the scenes

Adonai Kryze was named and first introduced into the current canon by Tim Veekhoven as part of the lore he introduced while writing the Build the Millennium Falcon magazine.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Author Kiersten White established that the plot of the novel Padawan was explicitly written to convey that Obi-Wan Kenobi had not met Satine Kryze, which "Voyage of Temptation" establishes was during the Mandalorian Civil War. Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of the novel to 41 BBY. Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy further states that the mission to Pijal, dated to 40 BBY by Timelines, occurred after the civil war. Therefore, the war must have taken place between 41 BBY and 40 BBY.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 32 Guide to the Galaxy: The History of Mandalore
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Database" — Star Wars - Das offizielle Magazin 104
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 The Mandalorian — "Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore"
  5. ↑ Bo-Katan Kryze in the Databank (backup link)
  6. ↑ Social media correspondence with Tim Veekhoven (screenshot)