Jori Daragon's amulet

Jori Daragon's amulet was an artifact created in the Sith Empire at some point by 5000 BBY. Shaped like an ornamental gauntlet, it had a connection to another similar amulet. When the hyperspace scouts Gav and Jori Daragon arrived in the empire from Galactic Republic space in 5000 BBY, the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow planned to use the imprisoned siblings in his plot to expand the empire through conquest of the Republic. Keeping the Daragons separated from each other, Sadow allowed Gav, whom he had been training in the use of Sith magic, to record an inspirational message for Jori on his amulet's counterpart, which the Dark Lord then delivered to Jori. After she had viewed the message, Sadow further returned to Jori the Daragons' impounded starship, the Starbreaker 12. Sadow's manipulations eventually led to Jori being forced to depart for the Republic without Gav, with the amulet serving her as a reminder of her brother.
After arriving in the Republic's Koros system, Daragon eventually managed to reach the system's empress, Teta, and warn her and a pair of Jedi who were present of the danger posed by the Sith Empire, showing the amulet as physical evidence of her account. Soon thereafter, the empire indeed launched an invasion of the Republic, during which Gav, who had been appointed the commander of the Sith fleet, used the coupling between the two amulets in an attempt to find Jori on the planet Koros Major. Upon experiencing remorse over his affiliation with Sadow, however, Gav then traveled to the Primus Goluud system to confront the Dark Lord, but Sadow trapped him in a crippled ship and caused a nearby star to undergo a supernova. At that point, Jori, who had followed Gav, once again found herself peering at her amulet as she was forced to abandon her brother to his death. More than a millennium later, the Jedi Covenant Shadow Celeste Morne retrieved Daragon's amulet on one of her assignments for the Covenant.
==Description==
Jori Daragon's amulet was one of a pair of coupled amuletsTales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 3 created by the Sith species of the Sith Empire at some point by 5000 BBY. Palm-sized and shaped like a type of gauntlet worn by the empire's Sith Lords, the amulet was made of silver-colored metal and had an inlaid yellow gemstone. It also had smaller yellow incrustationsTales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 5 and was adorned with chains. Like its counterpart, the amulet of Jori Daragon had three straps for securing it to the wielder's hand.
The amulet could be used by a practitioner of Sith magic to record a spoken message along with a palm-sized, golden, three-dimensional depiction of the sender. In addition, according to Daragon, Sith Lords utilized amulets such as hers in order to focus their magic powers, although Daragon herself was not certain of the specifics of such use. Beside the artifact's active applications, its presence also caused a tingling sensation emanating from the amulet that was connected to it.
==History==
===In the Sith Empire===
When, in 5000 BBY, the explorers Gav and Jori Daragon arrived in the Sith Empire as a result of a random hyperspace jump from the distant Galactic Republic space and were promptly imprisoned on the orders of the empire's suspicious Sith Lords,Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2 the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow sought to use the situation to realize his ambitions of expanding the Sith realm through conquest. Breaking out the two prisoners, Sadow separated them, keeping Jori at his citadel on the planet Khar Delba while Gav was being instructed in the use of Sith magic at a fortress Sadow kept on the world's moon, Khar Shian.
At the latter site, Gav, who had been practicing in the use of a Sith amulet, recorded a message on its counterpart for Jori in which he briefly mentioned his training. He also informed his sister that Sadow had made "arrangements" that would allow both of them to return to the Republic and expressed his belief that they would be reunited soon. Sadow subsequently delivered the linked amulet to Jori on Khar Delba. Although the explorer was initially perplexed regarding how her brother's message could be acccessed, it presented itself shortly thereafter. Expressing gratitude to Sadow for delivering the message, Daragon held on to the amulet as the Dark Lord brought her to her and Gav's starship, the Starbreaker 12, which Sadow had also liberated from Sith impoundment.
Having been manipulated by Sadow, his rival, Ludo Kressh, at that point attacked the Khar Delba citadel. Seizing the opportunity, Sadow urged Daragon to board the Starbreaker 12 and depart for the Republic without her brother, although before the explorer ultimately complied, she gazed at the amulet in her hand, with tears welling in her eyes at the thought of abandoning Gav alone in the Sith Empire.
===In the Galactic Republic===
When she arrived in the Koros system, Daragon was promptly arrested for her prior misdeedsTales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 2 and sentenced to labor on the colony world Ronika. Dedicated to rescue her brother and warn the Republic of the threat posed by the Sith Empire, however, Daragon soon escaped and returned to the planet Koros Major, where she broke into the palace of the system's empress, Teta. As both the empress and her guards surrounded Daragon with drawn weapons, the young woman attempted to convince Teta to listen to her warnings. She also displayed the amulet, holding it up as physical proof of her tale. Teta and the Jedi Memit Nadill and Odan-Urr were then persuaded of the truthfulness of Daragon's account, and indeed soon thereafter a Sith fleet that had followed the hyperspace route taken by the Starbreaker 12 launched an invasion of the Republic, including an attack on Koros Major.
During that battle, Gav, whom Sadow had appointed the commander of the Sith fleet, attempted to find Jori. With his amulet reacting to the presence of that of his sister, Gav arrived at Aarrba's Repair Dock, where Jori was also headed in order to obtain a ship to pilot in combat. At the facility, one of Gav's Massassi soldiers killed its owner, Aarrba. The devastated commander, remorseful over his involvement in Sadow's schemes, then traveled to the Primus Goluud system in order to confront the Dark Lord.Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 4
Sadow, however, trapped his former apprentice aboard a damaged Sith Meditation Sphere and, when both a ship piloted by Jori and Teta's fleet also arrived in the system in pursuit of Gav, triggered the star Primus Goluud into undergoing a supernova explosion. Gav, realizing what Sadow had done, warned Jori and the Koros fleet of the impending disaster which he himself was unable to evade. Preparing to jump her vessel into hyperspace, Jori then once again peered at her amulet while contemplating her guilt over leaving her brother to his doom.
After the Republic eventually emerged victorious over the Sith Empire, Jori became the new owner of Aarrba's Repair Dock. At some point by 3963 BBY, the Jedi Covenant's Shadow Celeste Morne recovered Daragon's amulet for the organization, with the accomplishment being recorded in a database the Covenant kept on its Shadows. When the Covenant member Feln viewed Morne's record that year, he was highly impressed with her past assignments, including the retrieval of the amulet.
==Behind the scenes==
Jori Daragon's amulet first appeared in the fourth issue of Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith comic book mini-series. The issue was written by Kevin J. Anderson, penciled by Dario Carrasco, Jr., and published on January 8, 1997. The amulet was first identified by name in the twenth-fifth issue of Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comic series, which was written by John Jackson Miller and published on January 30, 2008.
The fourth and the fifth issue—published on February 12, 1997—of The Golden Age of the Sith, both of which were colored by Perry McNamee, depicted Jori Daragon's amulet as being silver in color and encrusted with a yellow gem. In contrast, in the July 23, 1997 second and the September 17, 1997 fourth issue of the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire series, colorist Ray Murtaugh depicted the artifact in multiple shades of blue. This article assumes the color scheme from The Golden Age of the Sith is correct.
==Appearances==
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 4 
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 5
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 2
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 3 
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 4
*Knights of the Old Republic 25 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia 
==Notes and references==
Category:Archaeological artifacts of the Sith Empire
Category:Communication methods and formats
Category:Gauntlets
Category:Sith talismans