Sith Academy: Korriban

[PsychoSith]

Did the Sith have any rituals or philosophies that dealt with how to endure pain? I don’t follow the extended universe lore so I thought someone here might know.

Not a specific ritual, but the Sith believe pain can amplify their emotional response to a situation. This all comes back to the Sith code:

Peace is a lie there is only passion,
Through passion I gain strength
Through strength I gain power
Through power I gain victory
Through victory my chains are broken
The force will set me free

Basically they welcome pain as pain is a great emotional motivator, something that can produce passion, thereby granting strength. Its something they can draw from. In fact to dilute or lessen pain to ones' self would run contradictory with their beliefs, unless not in combat or so extreme they are incapable of fighting. This is why in episode VII, kylo repeatedly strikes himself on his fresh wound.

[Darth Logos]

Pain is usually something to be dealt with in order to attain greater strength/power. As PS spoke of, your passion (desire for results) drives your ability to endure.

When Darth Bane was exposed to an orbalisk infestation, which ultimately resulted in 90% coverage of his body, he endured the pain of them in order to have a saber-proof suit of armor grafted to his flesh. Orbalisks feed on dark side energy, so they are drawn to its practitioners. Once latched on, they secrete a venom that simultaneously heals the host but inflames the nerves. The burning pain elicits emotional surges that manifest rises in dark side energy from the host, allowing the orbalisks to feed. This became counterproductive when he was endeavoring to create a holocron, and needed to remain calm in order to meditate. The orbalisks would increase his pain level until he had no choice but to unleash his anger, ultimately feeding them.

In another instance, the Sith Emperor, Darth Vitiate, granted his new Emperor's Wrath, Lord Scourge, to undergo a Sith ritual for eternal life. At the end of the ritual, the battle hardened Lord Scourge was nothing more than a quivering and whimpering fetal ball on the floor. He asked Vitiate when the unbearable pain would end. Vitiate replied that it never ends, you "simply" learn to ignore it.

[SpartanGrey117]

What exactly goes into making a kyber crystal bleed? I could be wrong, but would Anakin's crystal not have bled after "Master Skywalker, there are too many of them! What are we going to do?" *Insert Beat Saber meme here*

[Darth Logos]

[PsychoSith]

What exactly goes into making a kyber crystal bleed? I could be wrong, but would Anakin's crystal not have bled after "Master Skywalker, there are too many of them! What are we going to do?" *Insert Beat Saber meme here*

To answer your question, in new canon crystals are alive within the force to an extent. To bleed a crystal is not to commit dark side acts yourself, but while in a trance transmit your memories and thoughts of pain, suffering, malice, and hate to the crystal itself. Your projecting your pain onto it.


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[Darth Tepes]

Which is why Kylo's saber is like it is.  He was bleeding his crystal and because of his unhinged explosive nature he overloaded the crystal and cracked it.  Which is why he had to rig the side ports to vent the excess energy.

[Darth Logos]

Which is why Kylo's saber is like it is.  He was bleeding his crystal and because of his unhinged explosive nature he overloaded the crystal and cracked it.  Which is why he had to rig the side ports to vent the excess energy.

I simultaneously love and hate this.

[Darth Tepes]

I simultaneously love and hate this.

When  I can I will send you screen grabs of his Comic.  They show him doing this.... It also showed Luke kicking the Knights of Ren's asses without breaking a sweat.

[Darth Logos]

When  I can I will send you screen grabs of his Comic.  They show him doing this.... It also showed Luke kicking the Knights of Ren's asses without breaking a sweat.

Which then only begs the question: How the hell were the KoR EVER considered a threat?

[digitalsithlord]

When  I can I will send you screen grabs of his Comic.  They show him doing this.... It also showed Luke kicking the Knights of Ren's asses without breaking a sweat.

Before the dark times, before Disney, in legends Luke was a very powerful Jedi.  In the Darth Cadeus series, Luke crushes Cadeus' chair out from under him by merely tapping his finger.

[Darth Tepes]

Which then only begs the question: How the hell were the KoR EVER considered a threat?

Before the dark times, before Disney, in legends Luke was a very powerful Jedi.  In the Darth Cadeus series, Luke crushes Cadeus' chair out from under him by merely tapping his finger.

And later on he Cut a Sith lord into 5 pieces in Zero G.  Then during another fight used One Sith as a club to smack down another one....

[Darth Logos]

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And later on he Cut a Sith lord into 5 pieces in Zero G.  Then during another fight used One Sith as a club to smack down another one....

But that's too violent. We can't teach kids that a hero can be badass....unless it's a girl that never has to try in order to gain ability.

[Darth Tepes]

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But that's too violent. We can't teach kids that a hero can be badass....unless it's a girl that never has to try in order to gain ability.

Too Right. 

[Darth Logos]

Too Right. 

If I ever get MY SW story produced, it will require an R rating for violence.

[DOA40]

Going back to the whole "bleeding crystal" thing, there was a comic that showed when Darth Vader bled the crystal that went into his lightsaber shortly after his fall to the Dark Side.  Won't spoil it, but it's an interesting story.