Bo-Katan Kryze

Key events in Bo-Katan Kryze's story

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Unknown - Birth into House Kryze

Born on Mandalore into Clan Kryze, the royal house of Mandalore, as the younger sister of Satine Kryze. She grows up flying over the hills of Kalevala.

Unknown - Taking the Creed

As a child she recites the Mandalorian Creed in the Living Waters beneath Mandalore while her father, Adonai Kryze, watches. Later she dismisses the ceremony as theater for the royal family's subjects.

Unknown - Joining Death Watch

After her father dies and Satine becomes Duchess of the pacifist New Mandalorians, Bo-Katan joins Death Watch. She becomes Pre Vizsla's lieutenant and commander of the Nite Owls.

~21 BBY - Exile to Carlac

After Death Watch's failed alliance with Count Dooku, the group is exiled from the Mandalore system and sets up camp on Carlac.

20 BBY - Conflict on Carlac

She meets Lux Bonteri and his disguised companion, Ahsoka Tano, and fights Tano and a group of rebuilt battle droids when the Jedi's identity comes out.

19 BBY - Discovery of Maul

While Death Watch is based on Zanbar, she and Vizsla find Maul and Savage Opress drifting in an escape pod. Maul Force-chokes her when she questions an alliance with the Sith.

19 BBY - Forming the Shadow Collective

She joins the missions to Mustafar, Nal Hutta and Tatooine that bring Black Sun, the Pykes and the Hutts into Maul's Shadow Collective, and she leads the attack on Jabba's Palace.

19 BBY - Takeover of Mandalore

She helps stage Death Watch's fake rescue of Sundari, topples Satine's government, introduces Vizsla as Prime Minister and takes Maul prisoner.

19 BBY - Break with Maul

After Maul kills Vizsla in a duel for the Darksaber, she refuses to accept an outsider as ruler and escapes the palace with her loyal Nite Owls.

19 BBY - Rescue of Satine and Kenobi

With her nephew Korkie, she breaks Satine out of the royal prison, but Satine is recaptured. After Maul kills Satine, Bo-Katan frees Obi-Wan Kenobi and asks him to bring the Republic to Mandalore.

19 BBY - Hunting Maul

During the civil war she and the Nite Owls track Maul for months. She recruits Ahsoka Tano on Coruscant, and together they ask Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker for Republic help.

19 BBY - Siege of Mandalore

She fights alongside Tano and Rex's clone troopers, captures Prime Minister Almec and duels Gar Saxon. She helps take Maul prisoner and seals him in a Mandalorian vault.

19 BBY - Regent of Mandalore

The Jedi name her regent of Mandalore. When she refuses to obey the new Emperor, Clan Saxon betrays her and removes her from power during the Imperial occupation.

1 BBY - Destroying the Duchess

She allies with Clan Wren and the Spectres and helps Sabine Wren destroy the Arc Pulse Generator aboard Tiber Saxon's Star Destroyer.

1 BBY - Taking the Darksaber

With the backing of several clans, she accepts the Darksaber from Sabine and leads the Mandalorian resistance. The Children of the Watch reject her claim because she did not win the blade in combat.

Imperial Era - Night of a Thousand Tears

The Empire devastates Mandalore in the Great Purge. She surrenders to Moff Gideon, who betrays the ceasefire and takes the Darksaber from her.

9 ABY - Raid on Trask

With Koska Reeves and Axe Woves, she rescues Din Djarin and Grogu, then seizes an Imperial Gozanti cruiser loaded with weapons.

9 ABY - Assault on Gideon's Cruiser

She helps Djarin rescue Grogu and takes the bridge of Gideon's light cruiser. Djarin wins the Darksaber from Gideon, and she refuses to accept it from him as a gift.

9 ABY - Loss of her Fleet

Without the Darksaber, she loses the support of her followers. Axe Woves takes her fleet, and she withdraws alone to Kalevala.

9 ABY - Return to Mandalore

She guides Djarin through the ruins of Mandalore, saves him from a cyborg captor and sees a living mythosaur while bathing in the Living Waters.

9 ABY - Reclaiming the Darksaber

She joins the Armorer's covert of the Children of the Watch, wins back her Nite Owl fleet in battle and receives the Darksaber from Djarin.

9 ABY - Liberation of Mandalore

She leads the united Mandalorians in retaking the planet from Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant and relights the Great Forge to begin the reconstruction.