Tomb of Darth Bane

The **Tomb of Darth Bane** was the burial place of the Sith Lord Darth Bane, originally an old Sith academy. It contained a sarcophagus, covered in glowing red Sith runes, which contained his remains, as well as a massive obsidian statue in his honor. Beneath the sarcophagus was a pathway to a sacrificial chamber, where Sith would sacrifice Jedi in rituals.

The tomb itself, not the structure, and the statue were created by Darth Selendis, a Sith of the Banite line who was adept at sculpting. She used the sacrificial chamber in the tomb to sacrifice her master, Darth Orrid. Near the end of the Clone Wars, Grand Master Yoda traveled to Bane's tomb and encountered a specter created by the statue which presented him with the idea that the light side could corrupt just as much as the dark side.

## Description

The Tomb of Darth Bane was a tall, imposing structure located at the far end of the Valley of the Sith Lords, on the ancient Sith homeworld of Korriban. Its entrance was identified by two large pillars which were further inwards than the upper layers. These upper layers had various statues of the Grotthu, a Sith slave race, a race which was used in the construction of the tomb itself.

The tomb, by the time of the Clone Wars, was split into several rooms: an entrance room, which featured several large statues as well as the path to Bane's sarcophagus and his statue; a passageway accessible underneath the sarcophagus via a Force-imbued mechanism, the room lined with crystal talons; and a sacrificial chamber that featured a sacrificial altar for use in Sith alchemy. Bane's sarcophagus was covered in glowing red sith runes.

## History

### Construction and makeover

The tomb originally was an old Sith academy, a smaller one than the more major Sith Academy located at the other end of the valley. It was constructed by Grotthu slaves, which were carved into the design of the structure itself. However, after the Tsis species disappeared, the tomb fell into disuse until Darth Selendis of the Banite line discovered it and repurposed it into a tomb made in the honor of Darth Bane, the progenitor of the Banite Sith and Rule of Two. A sarcophagus was installed, with some of Bane's remains and artifacts left there in his honor and Selendis sculpted a statue which was placed on top of the sarcophagus.

Selendis used and repurposed a chamber, accessible through a hidden passageway beneath Bane's sarcophagus, and turned it into a room used for sacrifices, adding a sacrificial altar to the room's center. She would use this altar in the shroudspinning ritual, in which she sacrificed the recently-dead body of her master, Darth Orrid, in order to weave a shroud around the galaxy.

### Late Clone Wars

"*Why do you come to my tomb,* Jedi*?*"
"*To learn.*"
"*And do you know who I am?*"
"*Yes. Darth Bane. The ancient Sith Lord, you are.*"
―Darth Bane and Yoda[src]
In the latter days of the Clone Wars, Jedi Grand Master Yoda traveled to the temple under the guidance of the Priestesses of the Force, where he first was met with a trial to pass by Darth Bane, and after entering the sacrificial chamber he was met with Force visions sent to him via a dark illusion spell cast by the Dark Lord of the Sith of the time, Darth Sidious, and his apprentice Darth Tyranus. In this vision, Yoda was met with Sifo-Dyas as well as a representation of a battle between the Jedi and the Sith, in which the vision was interfered with and Yoda saw Sidious' true identity as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine.

## Appearances

* "The Rite"
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*

## Sources

* *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
* *Expanding the Unexpanded*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "The Rite"
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
3. ↑ *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 *Expanding the Unexpanded*