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Cem would be the Fels' shadow child."
"Shadow child?"
"Publicly unacknowledged. Secret, in fact. It's a common Chiss precaution to keep enemies from wiping out an entire ruling family.Chaf'orm'bintrano and Luke Skywalker

Shadow child was a family rank of the Chiss Ascendancy. A child born to an important family, whose birth and identity were kept secret to prevent the entire bloodline being exterminated by rivals.

Baron Soontir Fel and his wife Syal Antilles Fel were said to have had five children, but evidence existed for a total of six: four sons, Chak, Davin, Jagged, and Cem, and two daughters, Cherith and Wynssa. Cem was revealed to be a shadow child of the Fel family.[1]

The only recorded allusion to the custom was made in order to explain an apparent paradox in the Fel family. The introduction of the character Chak Fel in Survivor's Quest in 2004 created a continuity error by adding a sixth Fel child when five Fel children — five having been established as the total number of Fel children — had already been identified. As Davin Fel was the only Fel child of similar age to Chak, Lucas Licensing editor Sue Rostoni initially suggested that Chak was in fact Davin, with Chak being a nickname.[2] This suggestion was ultimately not integrated into canon, with Dark Nest I: The Joiner King introducing the "shadow child" custom as an explanation.[1]

While it may be that "shadow children" were a true Chiss custom, it is also possible that the explanation was supplied as misinformation to disguise the true reason for this discrepancy.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
  2. ↑ StarWars Welcome some BCaT VIPs on StarWars.com Message Boards. Posted by Eeusu Estornii on March 5, 2005 at 11:09 AM. (content now obsolete; backup link)
Families of the Chiss Ascendancy
Four Ruling Families (28 ABY)
Csapla · Nuruodo · Inrokini · Sabosen
Nine Ruling Families (27 BBY)
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Other Ruling Families
A family · Miurani · Paiiri · Prard
Chiss family ranks
Merit adoptive · Trial-born · Ranking distant · Cousin · Sibling
Shadow child
Political hierarchy
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Chiss family topics
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