Ahri Raas

Ahri Raas was a Keshiri male and Sith Tyro who exhibited Force-sensitivity. He received training from the Lost Tribe of Sith—the descendants of a Sith group whose starship, the Omen, experienced a crash landing on the planet of Kesh around 5000 BBY. At the time, they were attempting to transport Lignan crystals to Sith Lord Naga Sadow during the Great Hyperspace War. Raas, a member of the planet's indigenous species rather than a direct descendant of the surviving Sith, was born on Kesh around 27 ABY.

Raas commenced his training with the Tribe in the Sith ways, and, in 37 ABY, he participated in a competition organized among the Tribe's youth. The purpose was to acquire a personal uvak—winged reptilian creatures native to Kesh—by exerting their will on unhatched creatures via the dark side of the Force, causing it to "imprint" on the competitor. Raas and the Human Tyro Vestara Khai both selected the same uvak, and, following a battle of wills, Khai ultimately emerged victorious. Raas later developed a close friendship with Khai, frequently engaging in lightsaber combat training sessions with her.

In 41 ABY, subsequent to one of these training sessions, they observed a ship flying overhead, heading towards the ruins of the Omen—which had become known as the Ship of Destiny—in the Sith Temple. Khai summoned her uvak, Tikk, and together with Raas, they used the creature to locate the ship. They discovered the spherical vessel in the center of the Temple courtyard, where numerous Sith had already gathered. The ship then began to communicate with Khai through the Force. The Tribe, having finally found a means to leave the planet, initiated the use of the ship to attack and seize starships, assembling an armada. In 43.5 ABY, Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker made contact with an Aing-Tii relic, the Codex, sending out a Force call that alerted the Tribe to the threat he posed. Shortly thereafter, Ship abruptly departed from the planet Kesh. By that time, Raas had been taken as an apprentice by Sith Master Yuvar Xal.

Xal and Raas were chosen to be part of the strike team with the mission of recovering Ship and returning it to Kesh, as well as hunting down and eliminating Skywalker. The team, aboard the warship Eternal Crusader, tracked Ship, using Khai's unique connection to the Meditation Sphere to track it. This caused some unrest among the crew, and the Sith debated why it would allow Khai to track it, as well as what it was doing to begin with. Raas suggested it might be leading them into a trap, and, while Lady Olaris Rhea, the strike team's leader, concurred, she decided they had to follow it regardless. They tracked it to a planet within the Maw, where Raas and Xal were selected by Rhea to join the search party sent down to the planet to locate Ship. On the planet, they encountered Abeloth, a powerful being who feigned assistance to the Tribe while secretly sabotaging their efforts to escape with Ship. Concurrently, Xal tasked Raas with cultivating a closer relationship with Khai and gaining her trust in order to stage a coup against Rhea, enabling Xal to assume leadership of the strike team.

As the search continued without success, Rhea ultimately decided they should leave without Ship, prompting Xal to initiate his coup. Before either event could occur, however, the Meditation Sphere suddenly reappeared. As the search party pursued it, Rhea was attacked by a siphon reed and pulled into a whirlpool. Khai jumped in to save her master, and as they resurfaced, Raas used the Force to grasped them in the Force to bring them safely to shore. The search went on fruitlessly, and several more Sith arrived on shuttles from the Eternal Crusader to join the search party until there were no crew members left aboard the ship. Eventually, Abeloth revealed the Skywalkers' location, allowing Ship to return to the Sith. The strike team departed to kill Luke Skywalker and his son, Jedi Knight Ben Skywalker, at Sinkhole Station, a space station in the Maw.

At that location, Raas, Xal, Khai, and Sith Saber Baad Walusari were positioned at a junction within the station that the Skywalkers would need to pass through to reach their ship in the station's hangar. They were instructed to ambush the Skywalkers using grenades, but Xal ordered Raas to betray his friend and Force push her grenades back at her when she threw them at the Skywalkers. When the Jedi arrived on the scene after escaping from their first confrontation with members of the strike team, Khai and Walusari threw their grenades at them, and Raas and Xal quickly pushed the explosives back at the two Sith as they threw their own stun grenades. Rhea, however, had anticipated treachery, and had provided Khai with fake grenades. Meanwhile, the Skywalkers pretended to have been knocked unconscious, and Raas prepared to restrain the younger Jedi. Upset by Raas' betrayal, Khai threw her shikkar at Xal, killing him. Raas was distracted by his master's cry of shock and anguish, and was quickly killed, sliced down the spine by the lightsaber of Ben Skywalker, when Ahri had been attempting to subdue him.

Ahri Raas possessed a somewhat laid-back perspective on life and was less competitive and ambitious than his friend, Vestara Khai. He also exhibited compassion and cared deeply for Khai, although she did not reciprocate romantic feelings. He wasn't afraid to voice his opinions among higher-ranking Sith, offering his theory to Rhea as to why Ship was allowing only Khai to track it. Later, Raas was troubled by Xal's orders to gain Khai's trust in order to betray her. However, he remained loyal to his master and carried out his commands, betraying Khai and attempting to kill her when the time came.

Raas frequently trained in lightsaber combat and effectively employed telekinesis techniques. However, he was not as skilled as Khai in these areas and lacked the necessary focus, making him vulnerable to Khai's use of Dun Möch. During the battle with the Skywalkers, he and his master underestimated the Jedi, incorrectly believing that stun grenades could incapacitate them. Raas was distracted by Xal's cry of pain as the Sith Master was killed, resulting in his own death. Raas had white hair, red eyes, and pale purple skin.

Ahri Raas was conceived as a minor character by author Christie Golden for Fate of the Jedi: Omen, her debut Star Wars novel and the second installment in the nine-part Fate of the Jedi series.