Revan's mask

"They were beaten! You didn't have to do it! One of you knew, but you didn't listen! I don't know your name&mdash;but I take up your cause. I will not remove your mask until there is justice&mdash;until the Mandalorians have been defeated once and for all. So swears&hellip;Revan!"

- Revan, after the vision of the Mandalorians slaughtering the Cathar

This mask was originally worn by a female Mandalorian who was present during the Mandalorian's devastation of the Outer Rim world of Cathar. She tried to convince Mandalorian leader Mandalore the Ultimate's primary strategist, Cassus Fett, not to kill the Cathar, since they had been defeated. However, Fett refused, and ordered the Cathar to be killed; she died trying to defend the Cathar as they were slaughtered.

Ten years later, the Revanchists, led by the Jedi Knight known as the The Revanchist, investigated the planet, only to be told by the Jedi High Council that the Cathar had probably left due to disease and that they should quit their investigation. Just as they were about to disperse, Revan noticed a Mandalorian mask on the ground. As the light struck it, he and the rest of the Jedi present had a vision of the massacre of Cathar refugees by Cassus Fett and his Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. The Mandalorian force herded the Cathar into the ocean, while the Jedi futilely tried to stop them, only to realize that it was just a memory of the past. They witnessed the Mandalorian female speak against the massacre, only to be killed along with the Cathar.

After the vision was complete, the Jedi reeled in shock from the massacre. The Revanchist donned the fallen Mandalorian's mask, claiming he would take up the one dissident's cause, and that he would not take off the mask until justice had been done. The Revanchist finally took the moniker of Revan. After the revelation of the genocide, the Jedi Council assented to the Revanchists' cause.



The mask later became Revan's signature look when he and his friend Malak returned from the Unknown Regions as the new Dark Lords of the Sith with their Sith Empire. Revan would wear this mask until he was captured by the Jedi during the Jedi Civil War.

Behind the scenes
Revan's mask first appeared in the 2003 Xbox and PC video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, developed by Bioware. The backstory of how Revan acquired the mask was explained in the forty-second issue of the Knights of the Old Republic comic series, written by John Jackson Miller.

In the comic Shadows and Light, the Jedi Knight Duron Qel-Droma experiences a vision of Revan and Darth Malak's final duel. In the vision, Revan is seen wearing the mask he wore before his capture by the Jedi. However, in Knights of the Old Republic, Revan never wore the mask in his duel with Malak.

Appearances

 * Shadows and Light
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 42: Masks
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords