Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins took his talents to Maz’s castle on Takodana, playing his hypolliope horn cluster as part of a quartet. A poet and painter herself, Maz offered board to traveling musicians in return for entertaining her guests.

Ubert Quaril, known among his fellow musicians as Sticks, played some odd gigs in his time – but few were odder than entertaining the assorted lawbreakers and fortune-seekers drawn to Maz’s castle on Takodana. Appearing as part of a quartet, Sticks entertained the crowd with his xyloxan.

The musician Sudswater Dillifay Glon played as part of a quartet at Maz’s castle, using a bow to draw unique sounds out of his seven-string hallikset.

Maz Kanata is more than a thousand years old, a diminutive being with vast experience at surviving in the underworld. From her castle on Takodana, Maz has seen galactic powers rise and fall and felt the Force ebb and flow, seeking an elusive balance between darkness and light. She has given many a young smuggler a start by offering credits, equipment or connections, and helped many an old friend rediscover a lost path.

The ancient edifice known as Maz’s castle sits on the shore of a lake on Takodana, a site rumored to have been a battleground for the Jedi and Sith. The castle is simultaneously aged and state of the art, with sensor grids and advanced communications gear sprouting from worn stone battlements. Inside Maz’s castle, pirates, smugglers, spies and all manner of scoundrels mix and mingle, searching for loans, information, equipment, repairs -- or kicking back to enjoy music, food and drink or games of chance. All must obey their host’s prohibitions against politics or war. The First Order raided Takodana shortly before the Battle of Starkiller Base, leaving the castle in ruins and its proprietress indignant.

A lush green world in the galaxy’s Western Reaches, Takodana has long served as the base of operations for the diminutive pirate queen Maz Kanata, whose ancient castle is a haven for smugglers, brigands, scouts and spies from numerous worlds. Takodana has been largely spared war over the centuries, remaining neutral as galaxy-ruling regimes come and go around it.