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PATHS OF DESTINY

PATHS OF

DESTINY

Tracing the relationships that

connect the Skywalker saga.

Spanning a galaxy of star systems and unfolding
across multiple generations, the Skywalker saga
swirls with complex action and intricate detail. Yet
the tremendous galactic events portrayed are driven
by the associations formed between a core group of
characters. To graphically illustrate the connections at
the center of this epic adventure, Star Wars historian
David West Reynolds has crafted a trio of diagrams
that reveal the fateful links between father and son,
master and Padawan, Jedi and Sith, and more.

Words: David West Reynolds

espite hailing from latent potential that will not be denied,
D origins somewhat for good or for ill; of the temptations
of evil; and the challenge and power of
obscure and most
forgiveness. It teaches us over and over
mysterious, members
of the Skywalker family again that obscure circumstances do not

took multiple leading define someone’s identity. A person may

roles in conflicts that toppled the Republic wait a lifetime, but when opportunity
and shook the entire galaxy. In mapping knocks and we see their spirit put to the
out the lineage of this extraordinary test, we discover who they really are. We
group, we see individuals go from the learn that our choices and contributions
humblest of beginnings to the greatest do matter, and can matter for countless
heights of galactic power. Becoming others in ways that we cannot predict.
involved with the Skywalkers can sweep Whether your side wins or loses in the
even a smuggler from obscurity to the chronicle of the moment, what measures
center of titanic political revolutions. you are the choices you make and the
In the Skywalker saga we recognize degree to which you step up and make
the recurrence of certain themes: of the contribution that you were uniquely
adoptive parents; of hidden identity; of equipped to make.

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