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Great Darkness
Legends
Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
The Great Darkness was a location where the Kerestians believed that, upon death, souls were doomed to spend eternity, wallowing in torment in a black empty void. Due to their nature, the Kerestians themselves were unafraid of such a fate, instead embracing it to the extent of attaching ritualistic significance to kills made with their principle weapon, the darkstick.
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