Marka Ragnos's tomb
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Marka Ragnos's tomb was one of the many tombs in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban. It was the tomb of ancient and legendary Sith Lord Marka Ragnos.
Rivaling Sith Lords Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh dueled each other in the tomb at Ragnos's funeral. Naga Sadow would surely have defeated Kressh, had the spirit of Ragnos not intervened.
Around a millennium later, during the Jedi Civil War, Revan and his companions visited the tomb during their search for the Star Forge. Revan had to enter the tomb and retrieve an old Sith artifact in order to impress Uthar Wynn enough that Wynn would grant him access to Naga Sadow's Tomb where a Star Map was located.
Millennia later, at the culmination of the crisis of the Disciples of Ragnos who sought to resurrect Ragnos, Jaden Korr, who was a member of the New Jedi Order and Kyle Katarn's student, defeated both the cult leader Tavion and the spirit of Ragnos. Korr subsequently sealed the tomb's entrance, trapping Ragnos's spirit there, and also prevented anyone from entering that place again.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The tomb appears in three video game series and one comic book series, but the depiction of the tomb as well as its location in the Valley of the Dark Lords in all four sources are dissimilar to each other, which also goes for their depictions of the Valley of the Dark Lords itself.
In Jedi Academy the tomb is a separate building, the most impressive of the valley, with a huge statue of Ragnos outside above a high stair; all this was seemingly based on Tales of the Jedi
- Inside, the building is a whole complex of rooms, roofs, levels and stages and the sarcophagus is located in a wide chamber.
In KOTOR (which happens 1000 years after the Tales of the Jedi) the exterior is quite indifferent compared to the other tombs, and its interior is a small set of corridors; Ragnos' sarcophagus is found in one of them. However, to reach the tomb there is a long ramp similar to the corridor in Jedi Academy.
This has created a serious continuity problem that has never been brought into consideration and would be very difficult to retcon, unless some future source suggests that there were two different tombs (one for his body and a secondary one in a different place for his honor), or that his body was, transferred sometime. However, the continuity problem was caused as necessary differences of presentation for the purpose of, in the case of the games, the gameplay.
[edit] Appearances
- Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Star Wars: Empire at War
- Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
