The Purest Jedi Master to Ever Exist – Master Fay (Legends)

I’ve read and rewatched a lot of Jedi stories, but the more I looked into Master Fay, the more I realized just how different she was from everyone else in the Order. She didn’t just believe in the Force – she lived it, all the way. No Council politics. No lightsaber fights. Just trust in where the Force would take her, even when it led her to her final moments.

Let me walk you through what made her so special.

Qui-Gon Looked Up to Fay

We always hear about Qui-Gon Jinn being the Jedi who followed the will of the Force instead of obeying the Council all the time. He was stubborn, independent, and believed in something deeper than rules. But even Qui-Gon never fully gave himself over. He still had to compromise. He still struggled with emotion, like that one time he tried to save someone he loved even though he felt the Force pulling her away.

Now, Fay? She actually did what Qui-Gon only tried to do.

After passing her trials, Fay left the Temple behind. No Padawan, no missions from the Council. Just the Force. And for centuries, that’s how she lived – traveling the galaxy, helping people, and stepping into conflicts only when the Force guided her to. Qui-Gon admired her deeply, and honestly, we all think he hoped to walk a similar path someday.

The Jedi Who Never Needed a Weapon – The True Peace Keeper

What surprised me most is that Fay never used a lightsaber in battle. Some Jedi believed she didn’t even carry one. She wasn’t a fighter. She didn’t win through violence. Wherever she went, she helped people, calmed things down, brought peace – and she did it all without needing to draw a blade.

There were stories of her stopping wars just by being present. She wasn’t feared like Mace Windu or respected through rank like Yoda. She was remembered because she made people feel safe. That kind of presence is rare in the Jedi Order.

Obi-Wan once said she probably never hurt anyone in her whole life. That hit me hard when I first read it. To spend centuries walking through a broken galaxy and never resort to violence – that’s something only someone deeply in tune with the Force could do.

Why Fay Looked Young for Centuries

Fay was a near-Human Jedi with pale skin, gray eyes, long blond hair, and pointed ears like a Sephi. And despite living for hundreds of years, she always looked like she was in her twenties. That wasn’t just genetics.

Mace Windu and Obi-Wan both believed the Force was keeping her alive – literally keeping her youthful – as a result of how deeply she was connected to it. She wasn’t immortal, but if anyone was close to becoming one with the Force before death, it was Fay.

The Mission That Took Everything

When the Clone Wars broke out, Fay felt the Force pulling her to the volcanic planet Queyta. She didn’t know why at first, but when she arrived, she found other Jedi there on a mission – Obi-Wan, Knol Ven’nari, Nico Diath, and Jon Antilles. They were trying to recover an antidote to a deadly bioweapon the Separatists had just unleashed.

Things went sideways fast.

As they moved through the factory, Ventress and Durge showed up. Chaos broke out. Jedi started falling one after another – one of them even got thrown into lava. Eventually, only Fay and Obi-Wan were left standing.

Fay realized Ventress had grabbed the antidote and wasn’t going to hand it over. So she used the Force – no lightsaber – to strike Ventress with shards of metal, injuring her. Then she used her mind to strip away Ventress’s thoughts and put her into unconsciousness.

That moment showed just how strong she really was. But it didn’t last long.

As Fay and Obi-Wan tried to leave, Durge triggered another explosion. In the middle of the chaos, Ventress came to, snuck up behind Fay, and stabbed her straight through the heart with both blades. The fight was over. Obi-Wan barely held onto a cliff above lava, and Fay was on the ground, bleeding out.

But even then, she didn’t panic.

With the last of her strength, Fay reached out to Obi-Wan through the Force and gave him everything she had left. She helped him climb back up and gave him the energy he needed to jump to safety. That one move meant the antidote made it off the planet.

Obi-Wan made it back alive. Millions were saved. Fay, on the other hand, quietly let go and joined the Force.

The One Jedi Everyone Respected

What stuck with me was how nobody ever had anything bad to say about her. She didn’t follow orders. She didn’t stay in the Temple. She didn’t train students. And yet, every Jedi who knew her respected her deeply.

Even the High Council didn’t question her choices, because they saw the results.

Mace Windu told Obi-Wan that she probably could’ve lived forever if she hadn’t given herself up on that mission. But in the end, she chose to save lives. That was exactly what the Force had always led her to do.

Fay only appeared in Star Wars: Republic #53, but that one comic told us more about how to truly live by the Force than a dozen stories about Jedi politics. She didn’t chase power. She didn’t fight for glory. She just listened, acted, and gave everything she had.

And that’s why I’ll always remember her as one of the purest Jedi to ever live.