

When Rey touched Luke’s old lightsaber in The Force Awakens, one of the visions she saw was Kylo Ren and a group of six other black-clad, masked figures destroying Luke’s Jedi temple.

Who are these mysterious masked figures who served under Supreme Leader Snoke and their master Kylo? Here’s what we know about them and why we expect to see them in the trilogy’s final film. The Knights of Ren were only hinted at in The Force Awakens, but Star Wars: Episode IXcould finally introduce these dangerous characters.
