Four Sages of Dwartii/Legends

The Four Sages of Dwartii were controversial philosophers and lawgivers who lived in the early days of the Galactic Republic. In an era of Sith domination, a number of bronzium statues honoring the Four Sages were made. In the waning years of the Republic, the politician Palpatine, who was secretly a Sith Lord, owned several such statues.

History
The so-called Four Sages of Dwartii were a group of philosophers and law-givers who lived in the early days of the Galactic Republic, a pan-galactic government founded more than twenty five thousand years before the Galactic Civil War. Called Sistros, Yanjon, Braata and Faya, they hailed from Dwartii, a planet located in the Dwartii system of the Allied Region of Nouane. Although the four sages were noted for possessing much arcane wisdom, their actions generated a lot of controversy. Sistros was accused of pandering to the multitude for selfish ends, while Braata encouraged the study of the dark side of the Force.

At some point during a time period when the Sith ruled the galaxy, a number of bronzium statues of the Four Sages were created. Much later in history, some of those statues entered in the possession of Sheev Palpatine, a Human from Naboo who was secretly a modern-day Dark Lord of the Sith. When Palpatine served as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, his effigies of the Four Sages resided in his office suite in the Republic Executive Building on Coruscant. In the ceremonial office area, two statues stood on either sides of the Chancellor's official desk. One depicted a hooded Sistros with a long-sleeved cloak, and the other depicted a helmeted Braata with the head resting on the tip of a long staff. Two other statues, one of which was a different depiction of Sistros, flanked the doorway to Palpatine's private antechamber. That second Sistros statue had a lining of neuranium under its bronzium exterior, and housed a  cylindrical cavity undetectable by security scans. It allowed Palpatine to hide his hand-built lightsaber in it. The weapon lay dormant in the statue for a long time until finally used against four Jedi Masters on Empire Day. During the Galactic Civil War, a number of statues of the Four Sages were available throughout the galaxy. In addition to effigies similar to the ones owned by Palpatine's, there also existed a statue of Faya that depicted the philosopher resting on a large sword.

Behind the scenes
Bronzium statues of the Four Sages of Dwartii first appeared in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, but were first identified as such in Star Wars: Complete Locations.

Appearances

 * Darth Plagueis
 * Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars: Obsession 2
 * Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo