
Temple Guards carried lightsaber pikes-thick, double-bladed lightsabers that produced a rare and distinctive yellow blade. The Guards would disappear inside the robes and identity-concealing masks, which was the ultimate expression of emotional detachment required. The Temple Guards were anonymous Jedi Knights who committed themselves to the Order. The Jedi Temple Guard was an ancient, honored heritage within the hallowed halls of the Jedi Temple that reported to head of security Cin Drallig. After passing the Jedi Trials, the Grand Inquisitor declared Jarrus a full-fledged Knight of the Jedi Order, a status the Inquisitor once held before his fall from the light side of the Force. Upon journeying to the abandoned Jedi Temple on Lothal, Jarrus encountered the spectral forms of several Temple Guards, including the Grand Inquisitor through a Force vision. At the Emperor's command, Vader deployed additional Inquisitors to hunt the Jedi fugitive and his compatriots.

The former Guard was granted the title of Grand Inquisitor.ĭuring the Age of the Empire, the Grand Inquisitor committed suicide after failing to defeat Padawan Kanan Jarrus. With the end of the Clone Wars, the fall of the Jedi Temple and the Galactic Empire's rise to power, at least one of the Temple Guards survived the Jedi Purge by pledging his allegiance to Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor, and joined the Inquisitorius-Jedi hunters trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force by the Emperor's Sith apprentice, Darth Vader.

During the Clone Wars, Padawan Barriss Offee was arrested by the Temple Guards for committing treasonous acts against both the Order and the Republic. Armed with lightsaber pikes-a double-bladed lightsaber that produced rare and distinctive yellow plasma blades-the Guads served under the head of security, Jedi Master Cin Drallig. Concealed within formal robes and a mask, the life of a guardsman was a higher calling that required absolute emotional detachment. An ancient and honored tradition in Jedi history, the Temple Guards were Jedi Knights plucked from the ranks to become anonymous sentinels as part of their lifelong commitment to the Order. The Jedi Temple Guard was a security force maintained by the Jedi Order and tasked with the protection of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the capital planet of the Galactic Republic.
