Sith spellbook

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"This appears to be a collection of magical formulas…"
―Aleema Keto[1]

A Sith spellbook was a book that was usually prepared by an individual well versed in Sith lore, and contained the spells, rituals, and incantations necessary for conjuring Sith sorcery.

History

The use of Sith spellbooks dates back as early as the Sith Empire.[8]

In the year 3998 BBY,[9] two young aristocrats from the Empress Teta system named Satal and Aleema Keto also came to possess a Sith spellbook when they stole one from the Galactic Museum on Coruscant. It was written in the Sith language, and since the Ketos were unable to decipher it, they traveled to Onderon after learning of potential darksiders who could.[1] They eventually met up with King Ommin, who gave Satal an amulet that allowed him to completely understand the ancient Sith writings.[2]

Roughly three thousand years later, Darth Bane, the only Dark Lord of the Sith to have survived the New Sith Wars, found the Tomb of Freedon Nadd during his search for knowledge regarding the creation of holocrons. He successfully penetrated the chamber within the tomb that housed Freedon Nadd's holocron, and after studying the device for many days, found that within were spells for harnessing the intricacies of Sith sorcery. Because Bane himself was not attuned to Sith sorcery, he transcribed the holocron's data into a spellbook and presented it to his apprentice, Darth Zannah.[3]

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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 1.12 Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Darth Bane: Rule of Two
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Red Harvest
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Legacy (2006) 27
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Tales of the Jedi Companion
  7. ↑ Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Tales of the Jedi Companion says that the Sith Hall that Aleema and Satal Keto steal a Sith spellbook from in Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1 has artifacts "all created by the people known as the Sith."
  9. ↑ The New Essential Chronology
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