I'm literally on my knees, begging and sobbing for the Mandalorians to have a normal fucking government.
You know what I like to think?
I think that Tarre Vizsla left the darksaber to the Jedi Order specifically because he knew the Mandolorians were going to pull Exactly This Shit, and he wanted to set up a little test for them.
Because he also left the Jedi Order his Diaries. His political essays, daily life, personal philosophy, family photos, the works.
So when the Mandolorians broke in to steal "their" artifacts, they found the darksaber out in the open, near the front of the Library.
Along with his Diaries. The record of this man's life, in an easy-to-carry Holocron.
They're both there, in two cases, right next to each other. The alarms are blaring, there's really only time to take one. Which do you take? His weapon? Or his words?
It's a test, and the Mandolorians that robbed the temple failed the hell out of it.
The Darksaber hasn't really stabilized anyone's rule because while there was an artifact that more or less carried the Divine Mandate of Mandalore, it wasn't the Darksaber. It was THE LITERAL HOW-TO-MANDALORE-REAL-GOOD INSTRUCTIONS he left behind.
I think that'd be a funny twist on events.
I respect the fuck out of you @gallusrostromegalus
Genuinely, you have managed to present something that actually fits with canon while also expanding upon it in a perfectly cohesive way that fits the themes of not only Tarre Vizsla as a character (and what he represents) and everything involving the Darksaber, but you've also managed to highlight something that many people seem to forget:
Tarre Vizsla was also a Jedi. Not just a Mandalorian. A Jedi.
I love this scenario/story that you've presented. Not only does it address Tarre Vizla's decision to leave the Darksaber with the Jedi, but you expand on why he might have done so. And then to present taking the Darksaber or his teachings as a choice for his descendants to make---"the choices we make and how they impact the greater whole" being something that the Jedi expel upon so much in their teachings---holy fuck, man. You blew it out of the fucking park.
Well done.















