#sith emperor

[torkin-zarander]

🔥Revan vs Tenebrae🔥

[northern-koi]

Careful, spoilers for JK story (and a lot of letters)

Talking about the end of Knight's storyline, when they finally defeat the Emperor. I remember there were three choices, two of them were light sided and the third was the dark side, basically the only one that said "kill the Emperor". At this point I was so dreadfully immersed I looked at those options and I asked myself: "How could anyone even think of choosing the light sided one?"

You're a Jedi Knight. You were raised a soldier, a weapon, an instrument, among those who constantly told you that you must fight for peace and justice. You, however, never had any of those: your life was a constant battle and because of that you rarely had justice you deserved (remember, "true" Jedi are never soldiers, so you are not the one to be rewarded haha it's the Jedi Consular).

You are being thrown into battle again and again and again because you are capable. Suddenly you're the only one who can destroy the immortal entity that threatens to consume the whole galaxy. Why? Oh well it's your Destiny. And so you follow that Destiny, what else could you do?

Everyone around you are chanting how important it is to Destroy The Emperor, how you must do whatever it takes to achieve it, what sacrifices you must take. No one sees you as a person, you carry the Will of the Force and that's natural to everyone around you.

So, then you instantly fail to resist the Emperor and half of the people who were telling you that you are The Only One dies. You are consumed by darkness and again by expectations. You are worthless. The Force saves you just so you can continue spreading it's Will. Yet, you are wounded, scared, humiliated, avoided, never to be the person you were before.

While half of the galaxy is looking at you and is prasing you for your resilience, you do try to look presentable to them: as brave as always, a true hero, the Jedi Knight. In truth, you cannot find yourself, you are being tortured by the constant dark presence in your mind, you have endless nightmares and whispers in your head.

You have Voss to remind you about the Great Sacrifice that you will probably have to make. Once again, the only thing that people would discuss with you is your Destiny: to Destroy The Emperor. You are basically between a rock and a hard place, feeling the immense pressure every day and every night.

And here you are, in one blow you can finally defeat the source of all this nightmare, the Emperor. Would you think of something like "Oh what a true Jedi I am" or "But what if we can redeem him, like the true Jedi would do"?

No. You are a weapon. You have a Destiny. It is to Destroy the Emperor. Once and for all, so none of this will ever repeat and you can become the Hero you were always supposed to be. For peace and justice, you must do that.

And you kill him. You would expect to feel proud, to feel victorious or at least relieved. Instead, you feel empty. All of this feels wrong, incomplete. The Council rewards you, you are being hailed. Yet, your nightmares never go away, your battle does not end here, there is no sudden galactic peace. You feel corrupted and deceived, but have no time or right to show it – there is a war to win.

And then imagine The Horror when JK learns that the Emperor is nowhere near dead.

I mean, the only worse scenario is to be IA... And this feeling of emptiness was so real to me when I finished the story. Felt like I, the player, was deceived too (felt bad but in a good way).

Love this game.

[sananaryon]

the Star Wars RPG retconning the Bane trilogy's Thought Bomb from being an ancient sith ritual to being something Bane developed using Revan's knowledge of the Nathema ritual is genuinely one of the rare retcons in Legends that I fully support and makes more narrative sense.

The Thought Bomb being an ancient sith ritual made for war makes no sense, it's a suicide bomb that can only be detonated by powerful sith lords who consent to its use, and then tortures their souls for all eternity. Even the ancient sith (especially the ancient sith) weren't THAT petty and devoted to screwing over Jedi that they'd sacrifice themselves and be tormented for eternity just to make them suffer.

Bane developing it from the Nathema Ritual (which did actually serve a purpose and benefited the Sith using it) but designing it specifically to screw over the caster as well makes much more sense given that he wanted it to wipe out the Brotherhood of Darkness.

the retcon turned the Thought Bomb from something that makes you ask why in the world someone would make this, to an act of intentional sabotage.

[cursedbeasts]

SWTORtober day 13: Emperor

A mashup of my old Tenebrae design and the canon Tenebrae from the Echoes of Oblivion patch.

@swtortober

Commissions info - Prints* - Merch*

*might be domestic only!

[glorfinniell]

Day 23 of Swtortober: Villain

Such a cool design.

[lexl52]

Who's the better manipulator?

Sousuke Aizen

Tenebrae/Darth Vitiate/Valkorion

Voting ended onApr 3

[diazuk-legacy]

Goretober Day 20: hands

Day 19 - Day 21

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

"The Phobis devices allowed the Dread Masters to destroy entire Galactic Republic fleets during the Great Galactic War; they had mastered the art of battle meditation to the point that they would inflict an awful, mysterious terror upon members of any given Republic cruiser."