Darth Bane: Rule of Two- Chancellor VALORUM?

I'm about 1/3 of the way through "Darth Bane: Rule of Two", and Jedi Master Farfalla says to Johun, his new apprentice, that he has "been summoned to Coruscant to meet with Chancellor Valorum." This is on page 65 of the hardback release.

This being what, a thousand years before the classic era? Must be a different Valorum. Was it a political dynasty, or did Karpyshyn goof?

 

The former. It's long been established.

 

Nah. Same guy. When 1000 years old you reach, look this good, you will not! Humph.

 

A dynasty of well-intentioned politicians. Then they get blacklisted and killed off. Go figure.

 

Ah. Well then, there should be a new Valorum in the current line.

 

Well, it's a funny story really, there was this masterful manipulator called Palpatine...

They died with Finis.

Though I'd love for there to be an evil clone of Finis called Zod: "Come to me, son of Skywalker..."

 

Hm. I do enjoy it when the EU unintentionally backs up Lucas's creating choices like that. How fitting a name.

 

It's not unintentional. Lucas' character, Finis Valorum, was supposed to come from a legendary line of important political figures, so when Daniel Wallace wrote the New Essential Chronology, he invented one of those prominent ancestors - Tarsus Valorum, the first Supreme Chancellor of the post-Ruusan era.

 

No, I didn't mean the surname (which incidentally also blatantly notes how well-intentioned they were), I meant "Finis." Finito, that is. End of both a long lineage as well as the Republic.

 

It still looks intentional.

 

So Finis Valorum is literally "the last of the valiant" with an implied chancellor coming after. Interesting.

 

He did not have sexual relations with that woman.

I liked Finis.

 

There's nothing ingenuious about it. The number of things in Star Wars that comes from greek fabrication or latin is preposterously high.

And yes, House Valorum is a political dynasty. A predecessor 350yrs allowed the Trafed to rise that long ago. I was under the impression a thousand years ago there was a Hutt chancellor . . .

Notice how I shortened that from Trade Federation. You never see abbreviations in SW books. Ingenious of me, no?

 

CorSec

 

Fine. You almost never see abbreviations.

 

I only read quality EU, Jello. That's why I read so little now.

Now that I've become aware of it the recent year, there's a massive amount of words and names taken from greek fabrication, latin words, and a few other minor sources. It was Erikson that got me wondering . . . when I realised his famous Raraku desert of his series was in fact something from Easter Island, and knowing he's a historian, I became aware of it in SW too.

 

You know, TradeFed is an IU nickname.

 

TradeFed was grudgingly abbreviated very sporadically in Cloak of Deept, yes. But back to the topic, was a Hutt chancellor Teal'c indeed a thousand years ago?

 

I'm Australian, remember? Our shop shelves aren't flooded with every form of EU. GOVD, unfortunatley, wasn't exceptioned.