Right after the fall of the Republic, Darth Vader had some help in hunting down and destroying the Jedi who escaped Order 66. As first revealed in Rebels in 2014, the Inquisitors were tracking surviving Jedi from the end of the Clone Wars right up to the start of the true birth of the Rebel Alliance. But who were the first red lightsaber-wielding Inquisitors?
Up until recently, the Wookieepedia-fueled answer to this question would probably lead you to say, the Grand Inquisitor, the character voiced by Jason Isaacs in Rebels and played by Rupert Friend in Obi-Wan Kenobi. Or when Tales of the Jedi debuted in 2022, you may have thought that the Clancy Brown-voiced Inquisitor with the scary bird-helmet was the earliest Inquisitor, since at one point, the 2024 book The Star Wars Encyclopedia called him “The First Brother.” But that was a mistake, because the real “First Brother,” and perhaps the earliest Inquisitor ever, has reappeared in Star Wars: Maul —Shadow Lord, which, in terms of the actual chronology, is his “first” appearance.
