Saber of Darth Krall

The Saber of Darth Krall, or Krall's lightsaber, was a lightsaber owned by the Sith Lord Darth Krall. At some point before his death in 241 BBY, Jedi Padawan Klias Teradine snuck into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts vault within the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant. He saw the weapon there, documenting the incident in his holojournal. In 88 BBY, after reading the holojournal, Jedi Initiates Dooku and Sifo-Dyas snuck into the vault and saw the lightsaber as well, with the former later telling his sister Jenza about it in a holo-letter. Around 23 BBY, Dooku gave data disks of his messages to Jenza to his recently recruited Sith assassin, Asajj Ventress, for her investigation into his sister's location, and she listened to the one mentioning the Saber of Darth Krall.
==Description==
The Saber of Darth Krall, also known as Krall's lightsaber, was a lightsaber owned by the Sith Lord Darth Krall. The Sith's weapon featured a single red blade and a ridged, gold-colored cylindrical hilt.
==History==
Darth Krall wielded the lightsaber for some time as a Sith, though the weapon eventually came into the possession of the Jedi Order. Klias Teradine, a Jedi Padawan during the High Republic Era, snuck into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts—a forbidden vault of the Jedi Archives of the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant—and saw the Saber of Darth Krall, which had been stored there. Teradine later documented the incident in his holojournal at some point before being killedThe High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak 4 in 241 BBYStar Wars: Timelines dates the flashback events of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak, during which Klias Teradine is killed at Mount Bikja, to 241 BBY. Therefore, Teradine must have snuck into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts and seen the lightsaber by that date. by fellow Padawan Tylera Yorrick after he had become possessed by a vitalicron,The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak 3 though many Jedi later theorized him to have been expelled from the Jedi Order.
In 231 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic (2021) 7 to 231 BBY. Jedi Knight Keeve Trennis experienced a Force vision set on the Amaxine Space Station, in which Darth Krall wielded his lightsaber against the Jedi. When Krell stabbed Trennis in their duel, the Jedi broke out of her meditation.
In 88 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines Jedi Initiate Sifo-Dyas discovered Teradine's holojournal and read about the Padawan's visit to the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts, including when he had seen the Saber of Darth Krall. Sifo-Dyas shared this information with his fellow Initiate, Dooku, and the pair decided to sneak into the vault as well. However, when the pair saw the Sith's lightsaber, Sifo-Dyas was not impressed by it and said that he thought it would have been spikier. Dooku later told his sister Jenza about the events in a holo-letter. Around 23 BBY, Dooku gave data disks containing his messages to Jenza to his recently recruited Sith assassin, Asajj Ventress, for her investigation into his sister's location, and she listened to the message that mentioned the lightsaber.
==Behind the scenes==
The Saber of Darth Krall first appeared in flashbacks in the audio drama Dooku: Jedi Lost, written by Cavan Scott and published on April 30, 2019. The spelling and capitalization of the item was confirmed by the audio drama's script releaseDooku: Jedi Lost script on October 1 of the same year.
The Saber of Darth Krall was first pictured in a vision in the seventh issue of the 2021 comic-book series Star Wars: The High Republic. The issue was written by Scott, illustrated by Georges Jeanty, and published by Marvel Comics as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I on July 28, 2021. The lightsaber was also depicted on Mike Mayhew's variant cover for the issue, which was released the same day. This article assumes the lightsaber's physical traits as depicted in The High Republic comic issue's vision are canonical due to them matching the variant cover's depiction.
The Saber of Darth Krall was also pictured on a variant cover for the twenty-fifth issue of the 2020 comic-book series Star Wars: Darth Vader. The comic was was written by Greg Pak, the variant cover was illustrated by Chris Sprouse, and the issue was released by Marvel Comics on July 20, 2022. Sprouse later shared an uncolored version of the variant cover on Instagram.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic (2021) 7 
*Dooku: Jedi Lost 
*Dooku: Jedi Lost script 
*Darth Vader (2020) 25 
==Notes and references==
Category:Red lightsabers
Category:Sith lightsabers