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Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Traya didn't loose her personality to the hunger, Neph.Mr. Avellone's assertion have been overruled by BioWare:
The Sith Emperor, history's most powerful dark side master, performed a ritual of incredible scope to consume the life energy of every being on his homeworld.
Emperor consumed entire biota of his homeworld along with the Force itself surrounding the planet, leaving the planet as a void in the Force in the aftermath. In-fact, Emperor consumed the biota in such a manner that physical bodies of his victims no longer existed after the consumption. In short, Emperor surpassed even Darth Nihilus's ferocity in performing Force Drain.
Emperor would not have been able to perform this ritual without acquiring mastery in Force Drain and other talents, it represented the epitome of his Force Mastery in general. He didn't magically perform actions during the ritual, he prepared for this objective.
Also, KoTOR-CG pointed out that Nihilus performed Force Drain. He wasn't exclusive at learning this ability, Revan also did. KoTOR-CG revealed that Darth Nihilus mastered Force Drain.
Point is that KoTOR II and Mr. Avellone aren't the only sources to determine what Force Drain is, all available information should be taken in to consideration. This is what I have attempted to do in this thread but I have been accused of ignoring and other BS.
Darth Traya is a fallible character, she doesn't knows everything. She also lies and manipulates. She learned Force Drain as well but lied to Meetra Surik that this power could not be learned.
The actions of Emperor, Traya and Nihilus simply prove what can be achieved with Force Drain, if mastered to extreme level.
The analogy of Tutaminis explains this matter; Tutaminis based actions range from shielding skin from radiation of Sun to blocking a lightsaber with bare hands.
Their is no reason to assume that Emperor cannot be destructive with Force Drain in normal ways. He wouldn't have needed to grant immortality to his servants if he wasn't lethal with this talent.
As I said, that's because she only actually used the technique right before her death. There was no time for her to become enslaved to the power.
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That overrules nothing. It is similar but not the same and Vitiate was consumed by his hunger. Also he surpassed him? That's a laugh-riot. Vitiate needed 8000 Sith Lords and a weeks long ritual to do what Nihilus did by himself in under a hour. Nihilus also destroyed everything on the planet Katarr barring Visas by the way. Go educate yourself and watch Unseen, Unheard on youtube.
Revan doesn't know the technique. Stop saying he does. He exhibited none of the effects of the technique nor demonstrated mastery of it. The Kotor CG giving him the power is just gameplay mechanics.
Translation: Legend doesn't like something so he says it's been retconned and that official sources are wrong. Wow, what a surprise. You are ignoring sources and only paying attention to the ones that seem to support your arguments. As usual.
That Traya gained mastery of the technique doesn't mean she lied. She said the technique couldn't be taught, but could be learned by experiencing it's effects and through instinct.
Vitiate's ritual may be similar, yes. But he's never demonstrated the ability to use the attack like Traya and Nihilus have, to instantly drain another of the Force and feed on their death. If he did have this ability to use at his whim he would have easily defeated the Hero of Tython through use of it. Since the technique has no real defense. He didn't.
Except that Nihilus' drain by itself has a wide range of its uses and levels of ability. It's used in a wide variety of ways such as Force Drain has never been used anywhere else. Because it's a seperate, but similar, technique.
Oh sweet Jesus, not this again. Vitiate didn't NEED to make them immortal in order to drain them. That's something you entirely MADE UP.