Shadow Hand
- Intent: To submit a rare, Dark Side-infused stone used in Sith architecture, artifacts, and weapons.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer:
- Darth Prazutis
- Kainate Sith Metallurgists
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Sith Blackstone
- Modularity: Limited (Can be inscribed with Sith runes or further alchemized but cannot be modified by conventional means).
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Compressed Dark Side-Infused Obsidian
- Sith Alchemical Sediment
- Residual Ash from Fallen Sith Worlds
- Dark Side-Conductive Material: Sith Blackstone naturally absorbs and radiates Dark Side energy, making it ideal for Sith tombs, temples, and weapons.
- Dense and Resilient: The stone is far denser than normal obsidian, attributing this due to the alchemical process making it highly durable against kinetic and energy-based attacks.
- Naturally Resistant to Time and Decay: Blackstone structures can last for millennia on ancient Sith worlds, untouched by natural erosion.
- Silent Echoes of the Past: Sith Blackstone retains residual impressions of suffering, death, and rage, making it unsettling to be around.
- Dark Side Amplifier: Strong in the Dark Side, making it a natural amplifier for Sith rituals and sorcery.
- Highly Durable: Tougher than durasteel and resistant to blaster fire, kinetic impact, and most elemental damage.
- Perfect for Sith Architecture & Artifacts: Used in Sith temples, tombs, weapons, and even relics, making it a crucial foundation for the Kainate’s legacy.
- Retains Force Impressions: Those who perish near it leave echoes of their will, twisting memories into spectral whispers of fear, suffering, and rage, making Sith Blackstone a natural conduit for haunting visions.
- Susceptible to Force Light: Prolonged exposure to Force purification techniques can weaken or break its Dark Side resonance.
- Extremely Heavy: Too dense for easy transport, requiring Sith alchemical refinement to become more versatile.
- Cannot Be Inscribed Without Alchemy: The base form of the material lacks the full power of Sith Runes unless inscribed later.
- Echoes Can Be Dangerous: Unstable or overly concentrated areas of Sith Blackstone can cause hallucinations
- Cursed with Eternal Malice: Even when deactivated, the wielder feels its insatiable hunger gnawing at their soul, there is no peace, no silence, only the unyielding thirst for more blood.
- Nullified in Force-Dead Zones: Sith Blackstone is an extension of the Dark Side itself, thriving in places steeped in Sith power and atrocity. However, when placed within Force-nullification fields (such as Ysalamiri suppression zones, Void Stone proximity, or the effects of Sever Force), its supernatural properties are entirely deactivated. In such conditions, the Blackstone becomes mere hardened stone, unable to amplify Dark Side rituals, store echoes of suffering, or radiate its aura of dread. Though still physically durable, its true power is muted until restored to its previous state.
"It is not just stone, it is the weight of a thousand screams, the blood of a hundred worlds turned to ruin, the echo of the Dark Side itself made solid. It remembers, it endures, and it shall outlast the stars." - Darth Prazutis, upon the first forging of Blackstone.
Sith Blackstone was not mined, nor merely found, it was created through atrocity, tempered in ruin, and refined through the will of the Kainate’s Shadow Hand. During the Sith Dyarchy's relentless reconquest of the Sith Holy Worlds, Darth Prazutis sought more than mere dominance, he sought permanence, a foundation upon which the Kainate would be built, something that would outlast flesh, war, and even the decay of time itself. But no material in the known galaxy could match the enormity of his vision.
It was on Dromund Kaas, deep within the ruins of the Sith Citadel, beneath the surface of the world, beneath the Lost City where the first pieces of Blackstone were formed. In the cataclysmic wake of Sith battles, where Jedi and Sith alike had perished in anguish, the very bedrock of the world had become saturated with the Force, blackened by slaughter, transformed by power beyond mortal reckoning. The stone absorbed the final moments of the fallen, becoming something more, a conduit of suffering, a memory of annihilation, a whispering echo of those who had been consumed by war.
Darth Prazutis did not merely discover this phenomenon, he perfected it.
Through dark rites and sith alchemy, his metallurgists learned to forge and refine this obsidian-like substance, binding it with residual Dark Side energy, tempering it through Sith rituals, and crystallizing it into a material stronger than durasteel, yet more ancient than the Sith Order itself. The first great slabs of Blackstone were pulled from the charred ruins of Dromund Kaas, imbued with the weight of the past, and reforged into the foundations of the Kainate’s growing empire. From Kaas City’s fortresses to the bastions of the Kainate's war machine, Sith Blackstone would become a defining feature of the Sith’s future, an unbreakable monolith of terror and memory.
Sith Blackstone does not merely stand against the ravages of time, it remembers. Every battle fought upon it, every Sith who perishes in its shadow, every Jedi executed before it leaves behind an imprint. To the weak-minded, these imprints manifest as whispers, haunting echoes of suffering, visions of the past, feelings of dread and sorrow that never fade.
To the strong, Blackstone is a tool. It was jet black with occasional crimson veining running through its very surface. Its resonance amplifies Dark Side energy, making it the ideal material for Sith temples, weapons, and artifacts. Sith Lords have forged thrones from it, blades carved from its refined shards, armor inlaid with its unbreakable core. Under Darth Prazutis’ rule, Sith Blackstone became the foundation of a new era. The Dark Lord decreed that no true Sith structure would be built of anything lesser, ensuring that every Kainate temple, citadel, and warship would bear its mark, a material that would endure long after its creators had become legends.
Even now, Blackstone continues to spread, unearthed from the ruins of long-dead civilizations or forged anew in the wake of great slaughter. As long as the Kainate stands, Blackstone will remain, an eternal monument to the Sith’s will, to Prazutis’ dominion, and to the endless march of the Dark Side.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To submit a rare, Dark Side-infused stone used in Sith architecture, artifacts, and weapons alike.
Canon Link:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Sith Blackstone
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Compressed Dark Side-Infused Obsidian Sith Alchemical Sediment Residual Ash from Fallen Sith Worlds
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