Warning: This article contains big spoilers for The Acolyte episode 8. Make sure you’ve seen the finale before reading on.
All throughout The Acolyte, a big mystery has remained over how the Jedi didn’t know about the rise of the Sith if a hundred years earlier, they had seen one rise. In the finale, this is cleared up somewhat as Vernestra uses Sol to cover up what happened with Qimir, burying the details of the dark side’s emergence.
