The dying ceremony, also called a farewell ceremony, was a brief ritual in which a Sage of the Baran Do—a Force-based organization located on Dorin—pretended to die. The Sage then joined the Hidden Ones, a secret sect of the Baran Do dedicated to preserving the Order's knowledge so that, should the Order ever be destroyed, it could be reinstated. The ceremony was established because the Hidden Ones required its members to accept that they were dead to the outside galaxy, ensuring that they had no desire to leave the Hidden Ones once they had joined in order for the sect to remain secret.