Jarvashqiine (priests)

The Jarvashqiine were a group of shaman-like priests who were able to use abilities granted by the Force and adhered to its dark side. They were worshipped by a religion of the same name and believed that only the use of elaborate blood rituals allowed the dark side to manifest itself; in truth, the absence of such rituals could render a Jarvashqiine priest unable to access the Force at all.
In 990 BBY, Chief Librarian Restelly Quist of the Jedi Order mentioned the Jarvashqiine in the Jedi trainee guidebook The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, describing the rituals used by the priests as "atavistic." At some point after the foundation of the Galactic EmpireDark Empire Sourcebook in 19 BBY, Galactic Emperor and Sith LordThe New Essential Chronology Palpatine studied the shamanism of the Jarvashqiine in an attempt to attain complete mastery over the Force and its dark side.
==Behind the scenes==
The Jarvashqiine shamans were first indirectly referred to as the "shamanism of Jarvashqiine" in the Dark Empire Sourcebook, Michael Allen Horne's 1993 sourcebook published by West End Games for use with Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia subsequently established that "Jarvashqiine" was a term that applied to both the religion and its shaman-like priests.
==Sources==
*Dark Empire Sourcebook 
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia 
*The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force 
==Notes and references==
Category:Dark side organizations
Category:Religious organizations