Light Of The Jedi - Tumblr Posts
ok so in the wake of the new acolyte trailer I decided to finally keep reading the high Republic books I've been meaning to get to, more specifically 'light of the jedi' and I read something I absolutely adored
so avar kriss
she has a very special connection to the force, needs to find a hunk of a damaged ship in the whole star system.
she sits down in a field of farmers crop saying that the force is extremely strong here, it's all around her. she floats up her saber and makes it start to spin like a windmill in front of her, she then uses this lightsaber and adjusts it's speed to channel the force to find the object like a kind of force magnifying glass to put it simply if crudely
i really love this and think it's a genius push to the boundaries of what can be done with a lightsaber when paired with the force and it got me thinking of maybe alternative ways that a lightsaber could be used.
what if a Jedi needs to push something that's far away, so they throw their saber in that direction, ignite it with the force and use the blade like an extension of themselves to push said object away? that would be so cool!
id love to see more of this in the new show, fingers crossed!
ps. avar kriss' lightsaber is so gorgeous and I love it
okay I was totally gonna wait for all the episodes of the acolyte to release for me to say anything about the show because I wanted to let it have its time before I judged but I just wanna say
I absolutely loved jecki in 'night'!! her jar'kai was literally the smoothest and most satisfying version of the fighting style I've seen in live action and I'm really happy with the whole episode period.
I think I might draw her soon tbh
head empty, just thinking about Jecki watching over ahsoka as one with the force, helping her throughout her life as ahsoka even surpassed her own age.
helping her train against the clones with Anakin's tough training, as she took up her second saber, when she went on all those suicide missions, when the Jedi cast her out, when she wandered the galaxy on her own and felt abandoned by all, during order 66, getting her white sabers the age Jecki was when she died
when ahsoka has no one Jecki was next to her, supporting her as the force
Stellan’s lightsaber hilt has got to be one of the prettiest lightsabers in Star Wars, so I wanted to see if I could replicate it. This hilt is made with cedar, chamfuta, purple heart, and padauk. I turned the main shaft of the hilt on the lathe, and used the scroll saw with various sanders, hand files, and chisels to make the cross guards and details. I also used one of the chisels to accidentally stab my finger which was fun… As with the others, some of the joins still aren’t quite perfect but this is still one of my favourite things I’ve made.
Wooden Jedi vector, made with cedar, panga panga, redheart, and lacewood, with a cherry stand.
This was quite awkward to figure out because there isn’t one specific way a vector should look. All the official art is very slightly different so I had to figure out the right shapes and proportions for everything so it still looked enough like a vector. It’s not massively symmetrical but the Art of the High Republic book mentions that ship models for Star Wars actually have built in asymmetry to make it look more lifelike, so yeah that’s all definitely intentional I did that on purpose, definitely…
The joints on this could definitely be stronger, it’s literally just held together with glue, but as long as you don’t swoosh it too hard it does hold itself together.
Porter Engle’s lightsaber, made with cherry, mopane, spalted lime, and redheart on a beech(?) stand.
This one was a lot of carving and not that much turning. It’s also one with a lot of art and comic book depictions, but with comic book lightsaber depictions, the exact shape isn’t generally consistent so it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with the curved guard part. This was a fun one though.
Manifesting alive Porter for Temptation of the Force. He’s not dead you can’t convince me.
star wars: the high republic.
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Okay so spoilers for Light of the Jedi:
Near the end of the book Jedi Master Loden Greatstorm has been captured and is being tortured. How? By torturing others around them. I just found this so telling about how much the Jedi do care about others.
The Jedi care about people. They care about them deeply. Feeling them in pain and not being to help is literal torture for them.
This is why I don’t get how some seem to think their super detached from average citizens. We see time and time again Jedi throwing themselves between innocents in danger. It’s such a trend the Empire used it to identify them because they know a Jedi will always be compelled to protect others, even if it cost them their life. Protecting others is literally one of their main purposes in life.