Sadness

"*Oh, it’s impossible, you will fail with the Great Gift, you will disappoint us. He will disappoint himself.*"
―Sadness, on Yoda[src]
**Sadness** was one of the five Priestesses of the Force, female Force-sensitive cousins who resided on the Wellspring of Life and had access to the secrets of immortality via manifesting a physical form after death. The five Priestesses represented five emotions: Sadness, Anger, Serenity, Joy, and Confusion. They trained Jedi Grand Master Yoda in the art of manifesting one's consciousness after death, and through five trials of the five emotions, Yoda received their masks.

## Biography

### Origin

"*I am no priest, only a follower. I have what you seek, as do they and Qui-Gon Jinn.*"
―Revan[src]
Sadness and her "cousins" were originally one female person, who was able to manifest into five emotions: Sadness, Anger, Serenity, Joy, and Confusion, and only able to completely manifest on nexuses of the Force, such as the Wellspring of Life or Korriban.

The Priestesses resided mostly on the Wellspring of Life, where they were visited by both the former Jedi Revan and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn at some point, who was seeking the power to manifest a physical form after death, by using the powers of the Cosmic Force. Jinn's training was incomplete, and he was never able to manifest beyond a voice, unless on worlds of great Force power.

### Training Yoda

"*His destiny is already set. It is not for us to decide.*"
"*But why* him*?*"
―Serenity and Sadness, on Yoda[src]
In 0 BEF, Jedi Grand Master Yoda travelled to the Wellspring of Life, on the suggestion of Qui-Gon Jinn, in order to seek the same power that Jinn sought. Yoda was greeted by Serenity, the leader of the priestesses, who brought him to the Cave of the Priestesses, where the Priestesses convened. Sadness believed that Yoda would fail his training and expressed this feeling to her cousins, but was overridden by Serenity who blessed his training to begin.

Serenity guided Yoda through the Island of Darkness and Valley of Extinction, his first two tests on the world, where he had to face a shadow of his own dark side and his greatest fear: the destruction of the Jedi Order. After completing both tests, Sadness and Anger told Yoda to seek out Korriban for his "ultimate test."

On Korriban, Yoda faced a test where the Priestesses had no power, and he had to fight against the alchemy being used by the Dark Lord of the Sith, which Yoda discovered to be Sheev Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. The priestesses and Jinn expressed that this was not an expected outcome, but that it could not be reversed.

### Post-training

"*A trial of sadness, and a trial of confusion.*"
―Yoda[src]
After departing Korriban, Yoda returned to Coruscant with one of the masks in his possession. Yoda deduced that he had to undergo five more trials, one for each of the five emotions, the first being Serenity. Yoda would later realize that his trial of sadness was enduring the Great Jedi Purge and leading the Jedi Order to safety. Some three years after the end of the Clone Wars, the five masks joined together into a ring after Yoda admitted that he did not know everything, and Serenity told him that their guidance was over.

## Personality and traits

"*For we are Confusion…"
"Anger…"
"Sadness…"
"Joy…"
"And Serenity. We are the Priestesses of the Force.*"
―The five Force Priestesses identify themselves[src]
As Sadness, she represented the emotion of sadness, and as part of the five priestesses was pessimistic about a possible trainee's abilities to complete their training. Sadness, as well as her four "cousins," had glowing yellow eyes and wore simple black robes with gray lines that covered almost her entire body. The priestesses all had gray-colored skin, five-fingered bony hands, and two-toed feet.

## Powers and abilities

"*We are one, and one is all.*"
―The Five Priestesses, blessing Yoda to begin his training[src]
Sadness as well as her four cousins had the power to manifest themselves physically despite being dead, and could appear as fully corporeal entities in places of great Force power, such as the Wellspring of Life or Korriban. They could also disappear and leave behind vestiges of their previous existence, such as their masks. The priestesses travelled around primarily as balls of light floating through the air to different destinations.

## Appearances

* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter IV — *Plans* (Mentioned only)

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
3. ↑ *Secrets Revealed* Chapter IV — *Plans*
4. ↑ *Soul Searching* Yoda I — *Understanding*