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<h1>Where is the Mother of the Handmaidens Sisters?</h1>
<center><p>Originally published on February 19, 2020 on Tumblr</p></center>
<p>In <em>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords</em>, from the first conversation you could have with Brianna, also known as The Last Handmaiden, in the secret Jedi academy on Telos, to the moment where you train Brianna to become a Jedi Guardian if she joins your party, the game has consistently shown that Brianna's family plays a major part of her story and character arc due to her identity as an illegitimate child of the Echani general Yusanis and Jedi Knight Arren Kae. I have always enjoyed Brianna's arc, so even when I am playing a female Jedi Exile, I always use mods that allow Brianna to join a female Exile's party. </p>
<p>As I have thought more about Briannas family drama, one day I have come to realise that there is a mystery about Briannas family that I find it unfortunate that we know next to nothing about: the mother of Briannas sisters.</p>
<p>I find it curious that we never get to learn anything about the mother of Briannas sisters <em>at all</em>, aside from the fact that she was not Arren Kae. Given what we know about Briannas family and the drama surrounding it, the realization that the game never explores the mother of Briannas sisters has made me want to ask a lot of questions about her:</p>
<p>Where is she? Is she still alive? How is her relationship with Yusanis and her own biological daughters? How much did she know about Yusanis affair with Arren? Did she know Arren? Did she actually know Brianna? If so, how did she feel about Brianna?</p>
<p>In the conversation where Brianna confirms she had a different mother than her sisters, she says she never saw her mothers face, so we can assume that Arren was not part of Briannas life when Brianna grew up. In the same conversation, the extent Brianna talks about her father, like the reason her father went to fight in the Mandalorian Wars was to join her mother and how he had changed after returning from the war, suggests that Brianna knows her father well enough, so I guess she have lived with her father, though this makes me wonder: was the mother of Briannas sisters part of Briannas life when she grew up?</p>
<p>I also wonder, when exactly did Briannas sisters know about their fathers affair with Arren? Did Yusanis tell them himself or did they find out in another way? Did Brianna and her sisters know each other before learning about their fathers affair?</p>
<p>I guess it makes sense that we know more about Arren Kae than we did the mother of Briannas sisters, since she was the mother of one of the party members, while the Handmaiden Sisters are NPCs who are not even given any names. Arren is also mentioned by Mical the Disciple as one of Revans masters, and Revan is an important character in both <em>Knights of the Old Republic</em> games. If you subscribe to the theory that <a href="https://lparchive.org/Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-II/Update%2058/" target="_blank">Arren Kae and Kreia are the same person</a> (<a href="./arren-kae-kreia-theory.html" target="_blank">I have my own reasons not to</a>, however), Arrens importance increases even more.</p>
<p>However, I would still like to know at least a little more about the mother of Briannas sisters, since Briannas complicated relationship with her sisters also affects Briannas character and story arc.</p>
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