#2) the whole notion of the pyramid of power for sith temples. it focuses the power at the top; the reverse would spread that power out

[dapurinthos]

thinking about the sith shrine in the depths again, with special note to:

the blight is attacking the back wall of the chamber of the sith shrine in the depths. i don't think that the chamber that the jedi acknowledge as the extent of the sith shrine is the extent of the shrine. i think it's an antechamber.

because the architecture isn't correct. a truly sacred space is within the temple, is separated from it. it's a second enclosure. a ziggurat has its on the top, after successive levels and outer rooms. a peripteros has its portico, then the entrance chamber, then the interior chamber. even rock-cut temples have a division between the 'lay person' area and the 'priests only' area. look at the interior of the only sith temple we've seen: the tomb of darth bane on korriban (in rebels, they went up outside of the temple). there's the great chamber in which his coffin sits but also the coffin moves to reveal the sacrificial chamber, the sanctum sanctorum of that particular temple (which is probably several millennia old, since zannah isn't going to stick around to build her old master a whole-ass temple on korriban, especially when they're supposed to be hiding. also the lettering on that sarcophagus is gibberish, which fits more as a 'these letters are magic, we don't know what they do, but they're magic so we're putting them here' way that writing is treated when it's still a very new invention. so a very new importation by the exiles).

not to mention that it allows the whole 'no one has set foot here for 5000 years' from tarkin to be accurate as well as the jedi of the high republic using the shrine to purify objects. what they think is the inner sanctum is not the inner sanctum. the inner sanctum is behind that wall, and whatever is behind that wall has enough of the living force imbued in it to be the focus of the blight. the blight spreads outward from it.

anyway, that's my ted-x talk on the sith shrine in the depths.