sidious tells him that the planet is a good host of
Darkside energy at its core and this would be the perfect place for him to turn his crystal red when you arrive on Mustafar
Find the place where the Dark Side calls to you.
Hey guys how's your day going today hope everyone had a great new year's. so today's video is something that will sound
confusing by title however as we go along and i explain it to you it'll make you all think very heavily on what's to come
Vader's castle. we all saw it in rogue one and hopefully we'll see it again in the solo spin-off film it has been said that
beneath
The castle was home to a geologically organic cave
Sidious has said in the comics that mustafar is unique that it is strong with the dark side of the force
heck
we even see vader going inside an old cave covered with the hieroglyphics of an ancient
Scripture now that the visual dictionary is out for the last jedi you've heard me recite the fact that snoke string is from the
catacombs beneath vader's castle where there's a supposed sith cave or
darkside cave rather now check this out going back to articles on starwars.com and even around the internet from december
2016 when rogue one came out there were interviews with longtime
Lucasfilm concept artists and rogue one co-production designer doug chang who goes on to talk about vader's castle here's what he had to say
one of the things we landed on early was this idea of a tuning fork a
twin tower kind of look and it was really interesting because then that started to give gareth a lot of ideas
such as well maybe this structure is built this way because it is like a tuning fork its
Tuning the dark side in terms of the energy and then we actually carried that even further to Jedha, the jedha temple the tower there
Mirrors this but on the good side so when you see the film you can start, to see?
okay jeddah had its own tower which was configured like a tuning tower as well
vader's tower vader's castle had the same thing but it was made in black whereas jeddah was white you kind of start
To see the good and the bad you may not really notice it on a first take but
hopefully it's that foundation of design subtleties that then the audiences in time will appreciate
So just
For a moment i want you all to absorb that info and let's go on to the next bit that i want to talk about
the interviewer then asks doug about the cave underneath
Where he says on the lower levels of vader's castle there's a more ancient part that he actually built this castle on a foundation
of an ancient
structure and that
Purpose was to draw energy from the lava lake if you look at the design of the base it feels very much like a dam
and how the lava flows through it
possibly getting energy and so we thought okay well that's the foundation maybe even deeper or
underneath that is an even more ancient part which is a natural cave where vader goes
To meditate so that was written in december of 2016 which was obviously written even earlier in the concept designs
Now here are the pieces that i want to put together
snoke found the obsidian ring from beneath the catacombs of vader's castle. what's a catacomb? well, according to google it's an underground
cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery for tombs
Snoke is ancient we know this
Meaning he probably was there far before vader even stepped foot on most afar and maybe even created a mind
connection to vader himself as he was obsessed with him, clearly. as
we saw in the last jedi i'll also mention again that in the canon aftermath novels
sidious did feel a darkside energy calling to him from the unknown regions and many including myself
Think it was snoke building that mind a bridge like he did in the film now to focus on the idea of vader's castle
constructed purposely on the sole idea to draw in darkseid powers and energy is something very interesting
what could vader be trying to call or summon what would he do here in the depths of the planet below his castle where the
lava river flows collecting dark energy i also like how the all-white jedha kyber temple
mirrors vader's obsidian black castle however as doug chiang calls it represents the good versus the bad
Since snoke is so interested in the light and the dark and my theory of
him being the prime jedi split into two sides light and dark leads me to believe that he once gathered crystals or
Studied from the crystals in jedhas temple only to go to what is now vader's and
Collect the obsidian ring which housed the crystal on it perhaps the crystal itself was pure to begin with and he corrupted it to black
perhaps the ring entirely belonged to vader himself or
palpatine for that matter as we know that the duarte are inscribed on it and the dougherty as mentioned in other videos
Were those four statues that palpatine collected in his office there are so many theories about so many things
however i do think that these spin-off films will get us so much more close to the
unanswered questions that were dying to know not
To mention i think the spin-off films like rogue one and the soon to release solo movie feel much more like the originals and are
A lot of fun returning us all to a more familiar time there's a reason vader's castle is said to be
channeling something dark there's a reason they put an ancient darkside catacomb beneath vader's castle which was
purposely built on that foundation
I think the questions have only just begun and see things from the previous films and comics sort of add up
Here leaves me hopeful that things will get interesting
so my friends let me know what you all think about this i will see you in
the next episode of star wars
theory as always everyone thank you for watching and until then my fellow jedi and sith friends,
remember, the force will be with you. Always.
now, fulfill your destiny