@RPGee said:
@Zuldim said:
Revan pops up in it, and if you want more of a resolution about where Revan went during KOTOR2, you'll need to read the "Star Wars: The Old Republic - Revan" book.
That's damn annoying, then. I don't think I'd even want to, there's no way that it can live up to my imagination.
And no, not since Disney have the rights to all Star Wars stuff. It sounds like they don't consider that stuff canon anyway. Perhaps for the better; the two KOTOR games are some of the best games ever made, and I'd hate to see them try and top it, only to fall flat.
Yeah, I read the book and... It's OK. The main focus of the book isn't even on Revan, it's on a Sith named Lord Scourge. The stuff with him isn't terrible, he's a decently interesting character, but it kind of feels like padding, since what most people read the book for was pretty obviously the Revan stuff. Plus, a lot of the book felt like it was trying to justify game mechanics of the actual game with lore reasons (Ex: Scourge gets more powerful as he fights, by getting angry, JUST LIKE THE REAL SITH WARRIOR CLASS IN THE GAME BUILDS RAGE BY FIGHTING TO EXECUTE ATTACKS! Isn't that great?! Doesn't that make you want to buy the game?!) which made portions of it feel like a sale pitch.
But yeah, it's kind of lame.
Basically, Revan goes to look for whatever he and Malek found before coming back and starting the war, and he tracks where they went (there's a detour where he goes and helps Canderous get the Mandalore's helmet to become the new Mandalore) to a planet that turns out to be the homeworld of the Sith Emperor from SWTOR, who originally captured him and Malek there, and used his special force powers to change their loyalties to him. It turns out the Sith Emperor used a secret force ritual to literally channel all of the force from every living creature on the planet into him, killing everyone on the planet, and making it an uninhabitable rock, but making him insanely powerful. As soon as he gets there, Lord Scourge, who just happens to be going to this secret planet the Sith Emperor wiped from all Sith Empire records at the exact same time Revan was, investigating what the Emperor did, captures him, and takes him back to Dromund Kaas, the Sith Empire's capital world. Scourge holds Revan there for like, two years (I'm writing this from memory, so I might be fuzzy on a few details), which is when the events of KOTOR2 take place, before Meetra Surik, the Jedi Exile from KOTOR2 goes looking for him. She tracks down the Emperor's home planet, and somehow manages to track down Dromund Kaas too. She goes there, meets Scourge (somehow) and the three of them, Scourge, Revan, and Meetra (also, T3-M4, who was there when Revan got captured, made his way back to help Meetra find Revan, and is now there) make a plan to kill the Emperor. They execute it, but everything goes wrong immediately. The Emperor promptly kills Meetra, destroys T3-M4, and Scourge betrays Revan and knocks him unconscious. The Emperor then makes Lord Scourge immortal for his "reward", but this involves being continually in agonizing pain. (Scourge pops up as one of the companions of the Jedi Knight in SWTOR, but I haven't gotten that far on a Knight, so I don't know how his storyline is continued).
The book ends with Revan being in a prison that keeps him in a sort of stasis indefinitely, but also makes him fully conscious. The Emperor keeps him alive so he can milk the Republic's secrets out of him, preparing for an eventual attack on them. Meetra is a force ghost, who keeps him company for the next 300 or so years.
Then in SWTOR, Meetra finally manages to communicate with the Republic, telling them about the Maelstrom Prison, where Revan is being held. It's a flashpoint, and a group goes in there, and frees Revan. Revan rebuilds/finds HK-47, and creates "The Foundry", to help the Republic. The Empire then gets a series of flashpoints where they go there, fight and destroy HK-47, and eventually "kill" Revan, although he merely disappears at the end, Obi-Wan style, so he might show up again eventually. So yeah. They reduce Revan to a mid-level dungeon boss. Great, right? (Again, I might be a bit fuzzy on some details here.)
The treatment they gave Revan with The Old Republic game is not great, it's really kind of shameful.
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