Why Did The Sith Lord Exar Kun Weild A Blue Lightsaber And Why Was It So Powerful?

Why didn't the Sith Lord Exar Kun Use a Red Blade and why was his lightsaber so powerful?
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The crimson blade has long been synonymous with the Sith, it being a deeply held tradition for many millennia. However, there were some notable exceptions to this. As we explored in my last video, Darth Revan used purple and red blades, symbolising his duality between the light and dark and lack of affiliation with the Sith or Jedi.
However, Revan was not the only Sith lord to use a different colour to the traditional red. In fact, Exar Kun never used a red light saber, but for a completely different reason than Revan. Exar Kun wielded a double bladed blue-white lightsaber and was similar in colouration to his Jedi blade. However, this blade wasn't simply the blade he had used when he was a Jedi and is in my opinion one of the most fascinating sabers ever to exist. Exar had made several dark side alterations to the blade using the teachings of the ancient Sith. The most notable alteration was the addition of an additional emitter, with both blades being capable of adjusting their length. This allowed Exar Kun to have an incredibly unorthodox lightsaber style, defeating many opponents by catching them off guard.
However, this was not the only addition he made to the saber. Exar, imbued the saber with the dark side, drastically increasing the intensity of the blade. It could cut through almost anything with ease, even force imbued blades.
Despite not being red, Exars Blade was considered one of the most prominent dark slide objects in the galaxy and was known to emit an aura of dark side energies which caused his Jedi opponents to become uneasy and fearful.
Its dark side capabilities were so immense, that the Jedi council deemed that it must be put in deep quarantine after the demise of Exar Kun. Jedi who got too close to it noticed an allure to the dark side while dark side wielders experienced an amplification of their powers while in its presence.
The reason why this blade is not red is two fold. First, Exar Kun lived 1000 years after Naga Sadow. Exar was a power hungry Jedi, hoping to remake the Sith who were presumed to be vanquished from the galaxy. Quite simply, he was never made aware of the loose transition of red sabers when learning about the Sith.
Second, the Sith tradition of using a red blade was not so heavily ingrained at this time. In fact many ancient Sith refused to use a lightsaber at all. The last known Sith Lord before Exar Kun, Naga Sadow had preferred to use a force imbued Sith Sword laced with poison. These ancient Sith believed that a traditional sword allowed for a stronger connection to the dark due to the greater pain it inflicted upon their enemies.
The complete replacement of Sith Swords with red lightsabers took place under the leadership of Vitiate in a bid to strengthen his new Sith Empire. However, during the time of Exar Kun 4000 years before the battle of yavin, Vitiates' Sith empire remained hidden in the unknown regions with their existence known to almost no one.
And It was for these reasons that Exar Kun never adopted a red blade, despite following in the footsteps of the Sith. Although others after him such as Darth Maul, Darth Krayt and Darth Revan all utilised different coloured blades, all also owned a red blade, with Exar Kun and his apprentic Qel- Droma, being the last true exceptions to the rule.
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[@MrShrog]

Finally someone covers Exar Kun

[@hx20games77]

General kenobi You must know him

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

he only covers a 20% of kun lore and feats

[@larifax-8107]

I am so hyped for the KOTOR remake and I hope they don’t fuck up

[@thatoneguywithnointernet]

Knowing Disney. They'll get involved and will ruin it in some way. Like with the last trilogy was supposed to have complete different characters like in the book.

[@Scourge_99]

One of the writers is a woke karen that said she hates kotor, and she trashes anyone that does not like the sequels, and calls anyone who doesn't like rey "sexist". Not looking good so far.

[@yggunshot8402]

@@Scourge_99 It seems like it is more of a remaster with some slightly new elements ratherthan a full on remake, the story should be fine.

[@aurelien5747]

@@Scourge_99 she just said koror wasn’t her favorite Star Wars game, Star Wars fans are crazy

[@Scourge_99]

@@aurelien5747 A normal person would have just said their favorite star wars game " Jedi Fallen order" for example, the fact that she said "Not kotor", and never actually said what her favorite game was, implies she doesn't like kotor, also look at her other tweets, she attack everyone that does not like the sequels or think rey is a bad character (which she is), and calls them sexist. You may think i am crazy, but I just look at the facts, you should try to do that sometime too. You might enjoy being right.

[@patmiller6231]

You forget his sith master freedon nadd he used a bronze lightsaber

[@afewsnakes]

Lame

[@PallahDaOracle]

Orange

[@patmiller6231]

@@PallahDaOracle read it again it was bronze

[@PallahDaOracle]

@@patmiller6231 in the game it was a short orange lightsaber

[@1stAid]

For a second I thought it was Cal Kestis in the picture before looking closely and reading the actual video name lol

[@thatoneguywithnointernet]

Do you need glasses by chance?

[@1stAid]

@@thatoneguywithnointernet Very funny, no I don't. My phone was on low brightness while I was outside in the bright sun, so the screen itself was already hard to see. So when I saw a Jedi with a blue double-bladed lightsaber and not super unique clothing, I just happened to think Cal.

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@@1stAid looking at a phone screen outside is hard

[@1stAid]

@@qcycl1c898 When the brightness is low, yes. It's not so bad if the brightness is up and the blue-light filter is off, though.

[@qcycl1c898]

@@1stAid well in sunlight in the middle of the day, even with full brightness it’s is very difficult for me to see my phone screen. Maybe I’m blind

[@bigbitehood1353]

I'm currently obsessed with Exar Kun and his lightsaber

[@vinceboros6154]

I believe Revan used mostly his red lightsaber as a sith (as he didint like dual wielding) and used his purple one back in the day (mostly) when he was a jedi.

[@swaswa1]

You forgot about fredon nadd he was a Sith Lord before Exar Kun and he took over onderon and he was a Jedi that became a Darksider through reason of jealousy and he wielded an orange blade he was only a couple hundred years before Exar Kun

[@clonesolar]

Thats actually pretty cool, but if I was a sith id have a copper lightsaber.

[@Jonner446]

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[@dy7296]

Short answer: Because lightsabers weren't relevant and colors didn't really matter in the time

[@ghamdi7077]

You saved me 4 minutes. Thanks!

[@K-11609]

Exar and Ulic, Revan and Malek, all the way to the era of The Old Republic should be canon. How can it not since it takes place thousands of years before the events of Star Wars? Here’s hoping the KOTOR Remake not only remains faithful to the franchise, but is also canonical

[@yggunshot8402]

I thought that they made the Qel Droma epics canon, didn't they?

[@K-11609]

@@yggunshot8402 Well at least we have that lol

[@ZeroSensed]

I don't know if you found out or not but unfortunately it is not going to be canon according to Aspyr

[@KillerofGods]

They already said they want to remake Kotor for a more modern audience and plan on changing the story.

[@K-11609]

@@KillerofGods Yep. That both excites me, and concerns me because imo KOTOR's story is nearly perfect.

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[@VadersFortress]

Thanks dude, I'm excited! What should I do to celebrate?

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@@VadersFortress full legends timeline?

[@qcycl1c898]

Thatmight take a while tho

[@VadersFortress]

I'm working on it. About 10,000 words in lol

[@clonesolar]

@@VadersFortress oh is it gonna be like the eckhartsladder one? Please don't be offended.

[@heavenlyking8386]

Exar kun, darth nihilus, revan, bane, Naga sado, tulak horde, marka ragnos, ludo Kresh, malgus, marr, kreia, all badass all sith. Damn where do I sign up

[@grimmseti]

Darth Traya also used different coloured lightsabers, using 3 purple lightsabers instead of a red one. .

[@13superjedi]

At 0:41 I read and hear a lot about how Exar Kun's lightsaber blade was a unique color/shade of blue, or that it was blue-white. What do people mean by this? Is it actually a unique shade? Or does the blue-white thing just mean the color of the blade being blue and the color of the core being white like any other blue lightsaber?

[@Inputbrick]

Yo this guy has got to be James from JARmedia

[@googesowders8622]

Great video 👍

[@Valheru4]

Exar Kun ... my favorite Sith - had a great storyline ... but I wouldn't want current Disney to touch it ... as I fear they would kill the story, make it woke or try to do gender swaps.

[@bigguy9154]

Disney-made starwars is just fanmade, spread the word

[@Ahzuv]

They would make ulic qel-droma into a woman

[@Ahzuv]

Revan did use red as a sith, not purple. He used purple before becoming a sith and later used it as a zombie

[@revaniac]

His Blade is the reason why making a lightsaber Crystal "bleed" to turn it red is Nonsense.

[@SharkdYGO]

I see an Exar Kun video I sub

[@dar-nakkallig]

The only time Revan used a purple blade was during SWTOR. During The Foundry FP (he was a Jedi but crazy) Shadow of Revan Expansion (split personality disorder), and Echoes of Oblivion (finally got his shit together).

[@Jedioutcast]

Didn’t he have a green canonically when he became a jedi again in KOTOR 1?

[@dar-nakkallig]

@@Jedioutcast yes, according to the Revan novel. But I am speaking of SWTOR, where Revan had no Green blade.

[@Jedioutcast]

@@dar-nakkallig yeah he lost his green blade

[@neofulcrum5013]

Exar was a beast

[@shiverofsharks3677]

Wait how did he infuse the crystal with the Dark Side without turning it red?

[@dieslow6152]

because he used a different kyber crystal, the red kyber crystal was man made kyber crystal so it was able to receive darkside augmentation easier, so i suppose Exar used a natural one

[@ultimatemagneto3354]

Exar Kun vs Star killer

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

kun wins easy

[@MrShrog]

Hello there

[@connorfoutz2777]

General Kenobi

[@omarsener8491]

You are a bold one

[@ianquadros6802]

2:07

[@brucejedilee5290]

Freedon Nadd was the last great Sith Lord before Kun not Sadow. Though I think not even he used a red blade but a bronze one

[@VadersFortress]

His influence was pretty much confined to Onderon though.

[@brucejedilee5290]

@@VadersFortress True, or at least before his death. After it his spirit would cause great havoc in the galaxy by influencing and teaching a number of powerful and influential Sith Lords including Exar Kun but also Aleema and Satal Keto, Lord Ommin, Amanoa, and Warb Null

[@VadersFortress]

Yeah, one of the few sith Lords who was more powerful in death. I'll do a video on him soon

[@brucejedilee5290]

@@VadersFortress Will be most interesting to watch

[@GayFishYe]

@@brucejedilee5290 Freedon Nadd, as well as Palpatine, Marka Ragnos and Darth Andeddu, were the only 4 Sith Lords to have actually returned as ghosts from Chaos, which is why they were able to move around. Kun, Karness Muur and many others who became Dark Side Spirits, were confined to one place, because they were attached to a certain place or object.

[@ParkerBlank]

That one dislike is heresy

[@hipped_golfer2485]

I thought the saber turned red when the crystal was infected with the welders dark side

[@digitalnative5678]

This was before Disney canon in the Expanded Universe. Red Kyber crystals in the EU were synthetic and manmade, rather than regular kyber crystals that were "bled" by forcing the Dark Side into them and corrupting them. Exar Kun's kyber crystal color would not be changed.

[@cambuxton6835]

Maybe he had some good in him.

[@wasifiqbal9984]

Exar-Kun no Bakaaa!!!!

[@derpyturtle927]

The one guy that disliked lol

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Kermit

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Hat

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[@illicitburn9386]

Exar Kun getting sent to the future to start a new sith empire but getting mislabeled as an other force group makes me chuckle.

[@claudius3359]

What? Is it that time in the new jedi order era?

[@emzonik8851]

0:25 - Umm......wasn't DARTH Revan a sith Lord?

[@zaxmann8446]

To the one person who disliked this I admire your boldness

[@bluebird3670]

Exar kun more like NARUTO-KUN😤

[@GuntherRommel]

Congrats on 100k!