Star Wars’ Inquisitor Focus Continues with Rise of the Red Blade Novel

Since Star Wars Rebels in 2014, the franchise has persistently featured Inquisitors as threats for Force customers and veteran Jedi to face off towards. Created by the Empire with the categorical intent of capturing or killing Jedi that managed to outlive Order 66, the Inquisitors have solely lately begun to really feel like a reputable risk they’re usually constructed as much as be. And like house pirates of current historical past, the Inquisitors are persevering with their progress in prominence with a brand new novel.

Announced at Star Wars’ guide panel at New York Comic-Con, the upcoming novel Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade will give attention to Iskat. Similar to Reva from Obi-Wan Kenobi, Iskat is an Order 66 survivor who was forcibly conscripted into the Jedi searching program, and he or she’s equally not totally purchased into the Sith mindset fairly but. With the aim of studying about her previous and determining the place she got here from, Iskat sees the Sith as a way to an finish. Penning the novel is Delilah S. Dawson, whose earlier Star Wars credit embrace the Galaxy’s Edge tie-in novel Black Spire and the backstory novel for Captain Phasma.

Rise of the Red Blade serves as the primary time that the Sith Inquisitors headline a novel of their very own. Up till this level, they’ve visitor starred in numerous Darth Vader comics and been antagonists in numerous novels, reveals, and video video games. There’s nonetheless a lot in regards to the Inquisitors that is still in the dead of night, resembling their unusual hierarchy and what, if any, sort of connections to their previous lives they nonetheless lengthy for. Since our POV character will probably be one in every of them, hopefully somewhat extra mild is shed on the group.

Star Wars Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade will launch on July 18, 2023.

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