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Graysith
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posted 11-12-2002 02:08 PM
The "Diamond of the Sith" refers to the four primary and ancient Sith worlds: K'eel Doba, Khar Delba, Korriban and Korris'ian. These worlds orbit a binary star system: K'eel Doba and Khar Delba orbit a dim red dwarf, while Korriban and Korris'ian travel around a nondescript yellow star. The two stars are gravitationally bound, but as there are no other systems in the area they do not particularly draw the attention of anyone to their "twinned" existence. Thus while the existence of Korriban has been rumored throughout the ages, and has been stumbled upon here and there by a few unlucky enough to find it, the existence of Khar Delba and its sister planet K'eel Doba has remained a tight secret. Khar Delba is the home of the Temple of the Sorcerer clan of the Sith. The last great Sorcerer Dark Lord to lay claim to it was Aelvedaar; when the dark jedi over-ran the Sith Diamond 4,000 years ago, he departed from there to travel to Korris'ian, and from there iniatiated his final magicks to hopefully assure the eventual resurrection of the Sith. It is basically an arctic world, with a thin equatorial band of jungly-forest. It is currently protected by a chronotic shield placed there by Aelvedaar, that no one should find his Great Temple. That temple, at the time of Aelvedaar's return to the present, was occupied by Graysith and her first love, Darth Wicked. Korris'ian was once a moon orbiting Korriban, but was moved by Sith magick into its own, closer orbit to ther little yellow sun the two planets share. Consisting of jungles and forests and meadows which hold a small population of tuk'ata, it once boasted a thriving "rural" population of Sith, who eventually relocated in entirety to K'eel Doba for protection. It is also the site of the Temple of the Weapons clan of the Sith. The last Dark Lord of this clan was Suranas Rean. Korriban, the planet once orbited by Korri'sian, is basically craters and rock and desert and dust. It is, however, the site of the infamous Rael N'kuht, otherwise known as the "Valley of the Dark Lords," within which is hidden the Eternal Flame. The powers of this valley respond only to the desire and command of those who come to it in darkness; it is currently beneath a protective chronotic shield, placed there by Aelvedaar, and further guarded by native tuk'ata. K'eel Doba is the secret and primary world of the ancient Sith civilization. It's capital city, Phrinnchatka, was placed beneath a chronotic shield at the time the dark jedi were over-running the Sith; this killed the populace but kept the secrets of the Sith safe from the dark jedi's prying eyes. It is an underground city with a great spaceport, Ch'arlingua. This is also the site of the Great Temple of the Warrior clan of the Sith, title of Dark Lord to which was misappropriated by Ankrist Roan but taken justly back by Dark Lord Recinis. Both city and spaceport have been hidden beneath the surface by Sith magicks; to any outside observer the planet is just another dreary rock and crater-strewn place of inhospitality, all other cities having long crumbled to dust, leaving absolutely nothing behind to prove a former existence. 4,000 years ago, in a final and magickal act Aelvedaar managed to reach out with the newly discovered powers of the All, to enter into the minds of the dark jedi and therein to send confusion and desire to kill each other. As a result, not only did they totally forget the positions of all of the Sith Diamond components -- with the exception of Korriban, which managed to whisper down through the ages as rumor -- but this led to the development of the dark jedi's creed that only two of them could exist together at any one time: a Master and an Apprentice. They then took the name of the "Sith" upon themselves, as since they gained their extra boost in dark Force through what they so briefly learned of the original Sith magicks; little does the majority of the current galaxy realize that the Sith were themselves once a mighty and thriving civilization. [ March 17, 2004 03:32 PM: Message edited 2 times, lastly by Graysith ] |