Four Bound Spirits

The Four Bound Spirits was the name given to four ancient artefact supposedly created before  by an unknown race of people. Each artefact was capable of bestowing whoever possessed it with incredible strength in the Force, but could only be held by Force sensitive individuals with a strong enough connection to actually use the Force. Those with only limited Force potential were quickly destroyed by the orbs, and those who couldn't feel the Force at all would be atomised the moment they touched any one of the artefacts.

The relics themselves were spherical in shape and appeared to be made of stone. Each one sported different coloured veins of energy that pulsed and glowed, and when claimed by a Force user were capable of dissolving and fusing with them. Once a being fused with an orb, the only way to restore the orb to a physical state was voluntarily- or through the death of the holder, at which point the orb would re-materialise of its own accord.

If a single being collected all four of the ancient artefacts, they would have access to almost limitless power. However, most organic creatures were not physically capable of being a host for such vast amounts of energy. A trained Force user could hold all four orbs for several hours, but would deteriorate rapidly beyond that. Only Force wielders who were both naturally strong and trained could host all four of the orbs for an extended period; such an individual would still succumb to the energy eventually, although it would take many years before the effects began to show.

Due to their considerable power, the Four Bound Spirits could not be destroyed through conventional means. Even the Force was ineffective in containing or destroying them. Only the orbs themselves could destroy the orbs, but unfortunately doing so would have apocalyptic repercussions for a large portion of the galaxy.

According to the spirit Akum Fta Q'arryb- an ancient protector of the orbs who bound his spirit to an orb that ended up buried on Dronim Major- the artefacts were the physical remnants left behind when the four Gods that his people worshipped left the galaxy to bring their wisdom to new planes of existence. At the points in space where they departed, the orbs were supposedly found, and after their discovery they were venerated as physical portions of the Gods' souls.

Eventually, heretics and non-believers attempted to seize the orbs, leading to a war which ended with the guardians of the orbs taking them and hiding them away from the galaxy, ensuring that they would remain unspoiled by corruption. Akum's memory was severely affected by his long slumber, however, leaving his recollection of events somewhat blurred.

What was clear was that- at some point- all four of the orbs were found by other cultures, who in turn hid them away for unknown reasons. One was located in an ancient temple belonging to an extinct population of primitives on Dronim Major, one was buried beneath a tropical island on an unnamed, geologically unstable world in ', another was used to power a time-manipulating machine on a Lost Gree Planet and the last was hidden in a coastal temple on '.

Lexi Lambert speculated that the  may have been responsible for the creation of the Force-powered relics, though her husband Benjamin Lambert disagreed. In 25 ATC, after a lengthy campaign to keep the orbs out of Sith hands, possessed all four orbs, and eventually used their power to create hidden temples to house them on Idlanna, one of the three moons of Farrow.