The mandalorian [Spoilers]

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

If a black lightsaber makes no sense paint a lightbulb black and then switch it on.

They give it a glowing edge for us the viewer.

Or, it's made out of a special type of black hole. Black Holes emit X-Rays through Hawkins Radiation, so if a dark saber was made out of a type of black hole, the glow could be it emitting white light.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Oh right, is it new or is this part of the original stories? I've only ever seen the first 6 or 7 movies and the two grindalwald ones and never read the books. Originally, I was going to ask if it was something from the Elder Scrolls series, mainly because they shared the word elder. The back story of it sounds cool, sounds like a wand worth putting into DnD.

It's in the originals. It's Dumbledore's wand, which he got from Grindlewald.

An artifact wand similar to it would definitely be a cool magic item for D&D.

 

[trappedslider]

It's in the originals. It's Dumbledore's wand, which he got from Grindlewald.

Who stole it from gregorovitch.

 

[Zardnaar]

Rewatching The Jedi. That opening scene omg...

 

[Imaculata]

Surely there are loopholes regarding the earning of the dark saber? Mando could simply make sure that it ends up in the hands of someone that Bo-katan can easily defeat, right?

 

[Zardnaar]

Surely there are loopholes regarding the earning of the dark saber? Mando could simply make sure that it ends up in the hands of someone that Bo-katan can easily defeat, right?

It's the spirit behind it and the story.

Bearing up a look not impressive.

 

[pukunui]

Yeah, you can’t cheat the story.

 

[MarkB]

Surely there are loopholes regarding the earning of the dark saber? Mando could simply make sure that it ends up in the hands of someone that Bo-katan can easily defeat, right?

There are no hard rules here for there to be loopholes in. Basically, it provides some symbolic legitimacy to the wielder, but only if they are known to have proven worthy of wielding it - and that's entirely subjective.

Bo-Katan lost it, we don't know how, and Gideon got his hands on it. Whether he took it from her himself or not, he's a powerful and elusive Imperial Moff, a worthy adversary to win it back from. Since Din defeated Gideon he's now even more worthy.

But subbing in a patsy to take the fall? How do you see that flying with the Mandalorians? It's got to be a pretty hard sell.

 

[Sacrosanct]

There are no hard rules here for there to be loopholes in. Basically, it provides some symbolic legitimacy to the wielder, but only if they are known to have proven worthy of wielding it - and that's entirely subjective.

Bo-Katan lost it, we don't know how, and Gideon got his hands on it. Whether he took it from her himself or not, he's a powerful and elusive Imperial Moff, a worthy adversary to win it back from. Since Din defeated Gideon he's now even more worthy.

But subbing in a patsy to take the fall? How do you see that flying with the Mandalorians? It's got to be a pretty hard sell.

Yeah. It's not so much looking for loopholes, it's how to you get Bo Katan to view it as honorable and worthy of a fight. That's who you have to convince.

 

[MarkB]

Yeah. It's not so much looking for loopholes, it's how to you get Bo Katan to view it as honorable and worthy of a fight. That's who you have to convince.

It's not even about what she sees as honourable (though that's no doubt part of it). It's about whether she sees it as something she can sell convincingly to her people.