Thinking about Revan’s fall to the dark side and how much room there is for interpretation in current canon
I’m a little rusty but am reading all the KotoR and Old Republic comics right now and am trying to remember. I thought Revan and Malik turned to the dark side over time during the Mandalorian Wars, then it was retconned that they had met Vitiate and that their realization of a greater threat ended up being another factor in their eventual fall rather than a complete retcon
I also like that Vitiate/Valkorian and Revan are both very similar since both went beyond the traditional Sith vs Jedi dogma and found something new.
But a lot of interpretations online seem to suggest that Vitiate snapped his fingers and turned Revan and Malik evil. This feels much less interesting to me.
I know the SWTOR mmo and book portrayed Revan as a prisoner for 300 years, but he was also ironically imprisoning Vitiate by sapping some of his power. So again, there’s that mirror between them.
In terms of strict current canon (which is ironically not canon anyway) what actually happened? Does the canon leave room for interpretation or is my view of the thing basically fan fiction at this point?
Thanks!