After completing the Jedi Trials, a Padawan would be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight. Most of the Padawans were known to grow or wear Padawan braids to symbolize their rank.
The Code forbade a Jedi from training more than one Padawan or apprentice at a time. Apprentices would often go on missions with their masters as part of this one-on-one training.
Even though a Jedi could chose not to take on an apprentice, it was nevertheless considered part of a Jedi's responsibility to train the next generation of the Order. Ī Jedi was meant to choose the Padawan whom they wished to train. Once they were ready for combat training and intensive study and reached a certain age, Padawans were normally apprenticed to a Jedi Knight or Jedi Master, beginning their one-on-one training. Padawans were known as Jedi younglings at first, and trained in classroom settings with multiple students and a teacher. Jedi Master Depa Billaba trained Padawan Caleb Dume in the Jedi arts.Ī Padawan was a Force-sensitive who trained in the Jedi Order to one day become a full-fledged Jedi. That is the true burden of all masters." ―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker Years later, Rey, a scavenger from the world of Jakku, became the apprentice of Skywalker and later Leia Skywalker Organa Solo. Skywalker attempted to rebuild the Order, but the majority of his apprentices were killed and Ben Solo turned to the dark side of the Force. Still, some Jedi survived and, under the guidance of two survivors, Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, Luke Skywalker was trained as a Jedi. At the end of the war, however, Order 66 was enacted by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, forcing the clones to turn on the Jedi Order. In order to become a Knight, the Jedi in training needed to complete their time as a Padawan and the Trials.ĭuring the Clone Wars, Padawans were trained in combat and served as military commanders of clone troopers. A Padawan's master was meant to choose their apprentice, although, during the galactic Clone Wars, the Jedi High Council began to assign Padawans. Something between a student and an apprentice." ― Grecker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, discussing Anakin Skywalker Ī Padawan, also known as a Padawan learner, Padawan apprentice, Jedi apprentice, or apprentice, was the stage of Jedi training where a Force-sensitive of the Jedi Order trained under a Jedi Knight or Master.