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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7308088" data-attributes="member: 5143">Here's what we knew from TFA:Luke had a student destroy his Academy and then left, presumably to find the First Jedi Temple, like Han said. That's all we really knew.So that has us asking: "Why did Luke leave?" "Why go to the First Jedi Temple?" "What can be found there that he's rush off to find it without really letting his friends and family know where he went?" "Why didn't he come back?"My answer to all that was that he just had a student betray him...Maybe he wasn't a good enough teacher. Maybe he went to learn in order to find a way to train students better in the future or maybe there is some hidden wisdom that the first Jedi had that would allow him to bring Kylo back from the Dark Side.If he didn't find any wisdom, maybe he is deep in meditation looking for answers within the Force itself or maybe he got confused by the lack of answers and was despondent. He wants to help, but he doesn't know HOW anymore. He could just need someone to come along and give him a pep talk so that he can pull himself together enough to help.Maybe the Force told him that he'd need to train a new student but he would need to wait for the right moment, after the Awakening, before that was possible.Maybe he found what he was looking for but somehow lost his ship and couldn't get back. The trailer said "The Jedi have to end" so my pet theory was that he found some information in the First Jedi Temple that made him lose faith in the Jedi philosophy. My reigning theory was that the Jedi originally used both the Light and the Dark equally by learning to accept their emotions rather than get rid of them but that an apprentice nearly destroyed the Jedi a thousand years ago and the Jedi became fearful of tapping into the Dark Side. So fearful that they started teaching that you could never feel fear or anger so as to never even slightly tap into the Dark Side, since it consumed one person and that nearly destroyed them all. Luke discovered this and realized that everything that Yoda taught him was wrong. That it was nearly impossible to get rid of fear or anger entirely and that if you learned to accept those emotions you were stronger. That's what he did wrong...but it was too late to save Kylo. So Luke blamed himself and was wallowing in pity over it. But at the same time he was wallowing, he was learning about the original Jedi ways and needed to find a new student to teach...and the Force delivers one to him.All of those things were possibilities. The one where he had actually given up entirely on Jedi, on helping, and on life entirely was one that NEVER occurred to me. That was too obvious after seeing the trailer. It had to be tricking us into something else.</blockquote>

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