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| - Force Reforge was an ancient Force technique developed by Amaranth and Xendor which was designed purely to reconnect someone who had become lost to the Force. This was a necessary creation for Amaranth, who had been cut off from the Force by a band of Ashla warriors during the Force Wars. It was developed by combining Amaranth's knowledge of the old Force ways of the Rakata and Amaranth's own millennia-spanning learning with the newest and most secret teachings Xendor had managed to take from the Jedi Order when he became a Dark Jedi. The process itself required a 'disconnected' target, a Force-sensitive overseer and a third person, also Force-sensitive, to serve as the blood sacrifice. Once all three were together, arcane rituals assisted the Force in flowing through the overseer and into the sacrifice, creating a temporary Force bond. However, once the temporary bond was forged, the disconnected target had to slay the sacrifice, traditionally by slitting the throat, and as the sacrifice's life force leaked out of them it and the Force bond would jump from the sacrifice and into the nearest target, the disconnected. This transferal of Force would either replace or, in the case of more powerful targets, kick-start the target's own Force talents once more. As the technique required the death of an involved individual, it tended to draw on the dark side of the Force significantly, and would also subtly alter the Force imprint of the newly reconnected, sometimes leaving them with Force talents unlike what they previously possessed. Additionally, the technique required a Force hollow to fill up, and thus couldn't be performed with individuals who had never had a significant connection to the Force. The most notable downside of the technique however, was that it linked together the lives of the overseer and the reconnected target, so that if one were to perish, the other would as well. Because the technique was developed in order to combat one of the most early versions of the ability to cut a target out of the Force, it was archaic and complex, but despite these issues and the inherent downsides of the ritual, Reforging was the single most surefire way to return the Force to a stripped user, which some considered a major offset to the disadvantages of the skill.
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