Dying ceremony

The dying ceremony, also called a farewell ceremony, was a brief ritual in which a Sage of the Baran Do—a Force-based organization located on Dorin—pretended to die. The Sage then joined the Hidden Ones, a secret sect of the Baran Do dedicated to preserving the Order's knowledge so that, should the Order ever be destroyed, it could be reinstated. The ceremony was established because the Hidden Ones required its members to accept that they were dead to the outside galaxy, ensuring that they had no desire to leave the Hidden Ones once they had joined in order for the sect to remain secret.

In 43.5 ABY, Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben, traveled to Dorin to find out more about the Sith Lord Darth Caedus' fall to the dark side. They trained briefly with the Baran Do before attending the dying ceremony of instructor Charsae Saal. The Skywalkers discovered that he had not actually died, however, and traveled with him to find the Hidden Ones, whom they persuaded to rebel against their corrupt leader, Koro Ziil. The Hidden Ones then returned to the Baran Do, forsaking their sect, and thus putting an end to the dying ceremony.

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