So, why was Malachor taboo to the Mandalorians?

Kreia implied that it was a True Sith world about which they had forgotten, a world that had been theirs until they left it. Which, of course, now applies to all Sith worlds, because it turns out the True Sith are extraordinarily boring in origin and nature.

KOTOR II seemed to imply that it was taboo because it was creepy and evil and full of dark side energy and killer beasts, and probably more importantly, because it had once been an active Sith world full of godawful evil Sith who would kill you and eat your soul. Which I think is all we really need.

 

Maybe Malachor was a world where a Mandalore battled a Sith and lost? Tragedy and shame for the Mandalorians... thus taboo because their pride does not allow to remember that. Maybe some Mandalore after the one in the Sith War tried to get the Mandalorians free of the Sith dominating their Mandalore. Kunite remnants might have been contacted by the True Sith... and when Mandalorians started the Mando Wars on True Sith behalf through former Kunite turned True Sith links, they might have tried to NOT go to war. A duel should settle it and they lost. shame... thus taboo.


or Malachor was sacred because of Taung past there during one of their nomadic stays. yet the True Sith violeted the sacred ground and Mandalorians lost their revenge battle.. thus loosing their sacred ground and vowing it taboo.

 

i don't think revan was a sith when he killed mandalore i think he became evil when he killed him.

 

I did not mean Revan. I meant in between Kun Sith War and Mandalorian Wars. Long before Revan

 

So basically the place where the True Sith first made contact with the Mandalore at the time and told him to go start a war?

I'm torn on what I'd prefer personally. I'd like the idea that it has been a taboo to the Mandos for centuries, though I'm also unsure if that'd really be something that'd last that long in such a nomadic society. I'd enjoy the idea they fought the True Sith there several centuries ago or something, though.

However, I'm also simply open to what Havac said: that the world is so screwed up by the dark side that it sends even Mandos running scared. I never quite was sure whether Traya's talk of Trayus Academy being a nexus of uberpower was simply due to what happened to Malachor or something that had always been part of Trayus Core. If the latter, then I really hope similar things are what the Sith are trying to dig up in TOR--though I'm more expecting it just to be parts to build Star Forge II.

 

Since Malachor was a true Sith world, this hypothetical battle between a Sith and Mandalore could have occurred pre-Exar Kun. We don't know much about the Mandalorians prior to their involvement in the Great Sith War. Malachor V could theoretically have been one of the worlds the Mandalorians considered their homeworld prior to their current one (like Roon and Shogun). The True Sith under the Exiles could have expelled the Mandalorians from the planet. According to the Atlas, Malachor was a Sith colony in 27000 BBY, so the Mandalorians could have come and tried to settle there and gotten their shebs kicked.

I really hope they don't go with Star Forge II. Since the True Sith are supposed to be all mysterious and arcane and etc, I would rather it be some other, more Force-oriented weapon like the Dark Reaper.

 

Well, Malachor wasn't always a barren rock, it was only after the exile made Bao Dur pull the trigger. Then it became the crazy jagged rock.

I'm guessing that the True Sith didn't want the Mandalorians to find the Academy and blow it up for kicks. That place is such a repository of knowledge, it gave Kreia all the information she needed to teach both Revan and the Exile, and send them off to stop the threat before it happened.

Then, Bioware returned and changed the mysterious True Sith into just another group of Saber Jockeys.

 

I don't think it's ever explicitly stated why the planet is 'taboo', but it's obviously got something to do with the Sith association. Trayus Academy was there before the MSG blew the planet apart. Probably just gave them the creeps.

As for True Sith and Mandalorian invasions, I also don't think it's been established how they were involved with the Mandalorian war yet, though it has been constantly hinted that they were involved in some manner.

 

I'm pretty sure that Kreia says Revan chose Malachor for a reason, so it was special before the battle.

Kreia never met Revan after the Mandalorian Wars started and never went to Malachor until after they started. Kreia taught Revan nothing about being a Sith and didn't teach the Exile anything about being one either (since she's canonically lightsided).