![]() ![]() The Crystal dominated by Hatred, Pain, and the untamable power of the Dark Side, bound to the will of its master just as the sith binds the very force to their will, at least in their view. I also threw in my interpretation of a fan favorite here for spice: Secondary Colors unless someone were to do the opposite with the Light Side, in which case a Crystal that's been bled red (and possibly other crystals, we only have one source for this, and it's an Ashoka comic) can be purified into a brilliant white blade. You will note that this leaves out Red, because of another New Canon detail: Red Lightsabers are not natural, you have to take a Kyber Crystal (usually one taken from a jedi you kill, in Sith tradition) and essentially torture it with the Dark Side, "Bleed" it, as they describe it in some Darth Vader comics, and channel the dark side through it so potently that it permanently changes the character of the crystal. Like Orange, this is a color that can easily lean Dark Side, even if both Ambition and Wrath are perfectly capable of being channeled towards righteous causes. ![]() To Punish those deserving, or to express Rage.Īnger and wrath are the key themes in this one, though I certainly interpret it as including righteous fury as well, and that ties nicely into Mace Windu's themes as a character. I apologise to anyone who thinks this is me talking shit about Plo Koon, but I don't think he ever had an orange blade in Canon. ![]() Nobody in canon has this except one color option from Fallen Order, so it was a blank slate I got to base off of the question. I wanted a few that lean a little Dark Side, but to balance it with the fact that emotions are not inherently evil- thinking some were is the fatal flaw of the Prequels-era Jedi, after all. The other yellow blade in canon, to my knowledge, is one Ventress gets her hands on in Dark Disciple, which she didn't make, but I don't think this is out-of-theme for her either.įor Ambition, or Greed, for your own benefit. It's an idealist's weapon, and I like that as a theme.Ĭoming up with a 3rd option that ties into the Sentinels thematically was fun, and I like how this reflects the Jedi Temple Guards' role as essentially Jedi Military Police with their yellow blades. Luke, when he finally makes his own Lightsaber, is the big inspiration here, and I kinda like this interpretation implies about the motivations of Yoda, Qui-Gon, and Ashoka when she was a young Padawan, just off the top of my head. To seek spiritual balance, in oneself, or in the redemption of others. This seemed like the most convincing through-line I could draw between Obi-Wan and Anakin, because Obi-Wan never felt like much of a Jedi Guardian to me, unless you interpret it as being about his desire to protect the innocent from danger, which while it's super Anakin, also fits his mentor. What you want to use that power for is thus an interesting question to pin the color on, and one you can actually ask your players at the table what their character's answer is. ![]() Legends always had, either as a soft rule, or as a relatively explicit one to represent Character Classes in the games, a strong correlation between lightsaber blade colors and the character of the jedi who wielded them, but in new canon, they've made it a touch more explicit, without giving any strict criteria for what character traits determine what lightsaber color, and I want to play with this for my campaign, set post-Endor, where my 3 Force-weilders will eventually get around to finding their own Kyber Crystals and making their own lightsabers, which will all be sweet magic items in d&d terms to make up for me not letting them pick lightsabers when they made that characters (I did talk to them each in advance before implementing that rule, and they all agreed to it).īut if they're going to have to collect their lightsaber crystals, that means they're gonna attune to them and give them color, and I was trying to come up with a fun way to determine these things in play, and I made a chart with a few neat ideas, primarily the idea that the color is determined by your answer to one specific question: Why do you seek power?Ī Lightsaber is a weapon, it represents power, both in the literal sense that you can kill people with it, and as a symbol of the power in the force that anyone using or building a lightsaber wields. So I was vaguely working on something for my campaign and wanted to share and see what y'all thought:Īs some of you will be aware, and our more old-school or SWTOR-focused friends in the community might not be, in new canon, Lightsaber colors aren't determined by crystal or actual, physical properties: All Lightsaber crystals are Kyber Crystals, and the color of both the crystal and the blade it emits are determined when the crystal makes a force bond with the weilder, and reflects something about them. ![]()
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