Marwolaeth

Marwolaeth, later known as the Ruins of Marwolaeth, was a fortress that was active during the Zhell Unification Wars. Located on Zhell's snowy, northern continent, it served as a safe-haven for many of Zhell's women and children during the war. During a siege, the fortress was destroyed by the Zhell Mystics. The deaths they caused opened a, allowing the dark side of the Force to saturate the planet. After its destruction, the ruins of the fortress served as a holy place for the Knights of Zhell.

The Zhell Unification Wars
"The monks were corrupt. Because of the wound they created, the dark side saturated everything. Eventually, even other monks began to fall. But the Mystics would soon remember their transgressions. The sins of Marwolaeth would not be so easily forgotten."

- Brenin Karr

Hoping to prevent prolonging the war any longer, the Zhell Mystics laid siege to Marwolaeth — a fort which had become the stronghold of the seven tribes opposed to the Mystics — in the waning days of the Zhell Unification Wars. The opposing tribes had sent their women and children to this fortress to keep them safe from the increasingly bloody conflict. The Mystics thought that by capturing the fort, they could force the dissident seven tribes to surrender which would bring a conclusion to the almost decade-long war. Instead, the Siege of Marwolaeth resulted in the ruthless slaughter of all those inside. The Mystics were horrified by the actions of their troops, but did not have the power to undo the deaths caused in the fighting. The sudden eradication of so many innocent lives opened up a and Marwolaeth would remain desolate for centuries afterwards as a result.

Place of Pilgrimage
"The Knights make a pilgrimage to the fort as part of their training. There, they can easily commune with the dark side and feel the horrors that transpired there, even now, after so many centuries. More recently, the catacombs beneath the ruins have served as the location where many a Knight has found the crystal to construct their lightsaber."

- Brenin Karr to his son

Decades after its destruction, descendants of those who had lived in Marwolaeth became the Knights of Zhell. The Knights declared the ruins a holy location for both its significance to their founding and for its nexus of dark side energy.

Early on, the ruins would serve as a place of pilgrimage for fledgling Knights who would venture there to commune with Wyll (later known as just the dark side of the Force). The ruins were haunted by the dead, who could transmit the terror they had felt before death through the dark side to new initiates. Those who did not go mad were able to return to the Temple of Zhell and complete the final legs of their training.

After Zhell made contact with the Jedi Order, and the Knights learned to create lightsabers, the catacombs underneath Marwolaeth were learned to be the home of a type of red. Knights would then venture to the ruins both for their pilgrimage and in order to construct their lightsabers.

Catacombs
The catacombs of Marwolaeth were a series of natural and man-made underground tunnels that ran directly underneath the fortress of Marwolaeth. Discovered sometime after the Zhell Civil War, the caves contained natural red which were later used during the construction of a Knight's unique lightsaber.

The catacombs were also haunted by the spirits of those who had escaped into them during the Siege of Marwolaeth, making obtaining a crystal here particularly difficult.

Forge
The Forge refers to an ancient structure located at the center of the Marwolaeth compound. Originally used for worship of Wyll, as the Forge sat directly over the dark Force nexus, the Forge was turned into the central location where Knights who had been victorious in obtaining their crystals in the catacomb would build their very first lightsaber.

Behind the scenes
Marwolaeth borrows some of its fictitious imagery from the ruins of Labyrinthian in the game .

The word "marwolaeth" is of origins and meant "death".

Appearances

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