KOTOR 1 - I carried around a severed head for no reason!
WARNING: the following contains heavy spoilers about KOTOR I. Do not read it if you haven't played the game yet.
ANOTHER WARNING: you saw that there were going to be spoilers, right? If you haven't played the game, stop reading now.
Revan looked down at the bodies of his defeated enemies. The Mandalorians had attacked him from hiding using their cloaking technology. Revan was slightly unsettled that the Force hadn't warned him of their presence. But here, literally in the shadow of the Rakatan temple, the Dark Side was a constant distracting buzz in his mind. Perhaps he'd simply missed the warning.
As Revan neared what he was sure must be the end of his long quest, he was experiencing more frequent flashes of his previous life. There was no coherence, no narrative, just isolated images and feelings. In this case, as he battled the Mandalorian leader, he had seen flashes of his previous battle with Mandalore himself. This Mandalorian was no Mandalore, to be sure, but the surprise attack had invoked some of the same feelings. There were moments of desperation, when Revan wasn't sure he'd be able to triumph. But as before, he reached within himself, found deep reserves of both willpower and the Force, and pushed himself to victory. He couldn't be certain, but he felt that the battle with Mandalore had ended differently than this one. He almost-but-not-quite remembered a conversation with the dying Mandalore, perhaps a pivotal one. This battle, however, had ended much more abruptly: a final, brutal stroke that separated his opponent's head and body.
As he gazed down at the Mandalorian's leader's head, partially cauterized arteries and veins slowly draining blood onto the grass, he felt the quiet urging of the Force speaking to him:
"Take it."
Revan paused, briefly uncertain. The Force spoke to him often, and he usually complied without question. But here, with currents and eddies of the Force flowing from the Temple, and with his own emotions unsettled by Bastila's capture, his own marooning on this planet, and the urgency of destroying the Star Forge before the Republic Fleet arrived, his normal confidence wavered. Had he heard correctly? Did the Force really want him to take the decapitated head with him?
"Take it!"
This was more clear, more urgent. Revan was now certain the Force wanted him to take the severed head with him. But he had brought no impermeable bag, no suitable container. And he was already burdened with around a hundred medpacks, dozens upon dozens of grenades that he never seemed to use, maybe fifty landmines he'd recovered and never gotten around to selling, not to mention around threescore guns and vibroblades, and a whole collection of datapads. He could wrap it up in that Sand People clothing he'd been lugging around since Tatooine, he supposed. But was this really the right choice? He was already carrying about ten suits of armor for no particular reason, and adding a bloody head wasn't going to make things any easier.
"YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT FOR A SIDEQUEST. JUST TAKE THE DAMN THING!"
Obediently, Revan stooped down, carefully wrapped the head in the Sand People clothing, and stowed it with the rest of his possessions. "Couldn't be any nastier than all those Tach Glands", he thought, and proceeded toward the beach.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: If you get the quest for the head before doing the Mandalorian fight, it makes sense that you'd take the head, because the quest-giver asked you to get it. But if go to the area where the Mandalorians are first, before getting the quest (like I did in this playthrough), you still get the head. But you don't have the quest yet. So you take it with you - why? As a trophy??? Plan to eat it later??? Taunt Canderous with it??? I have no idea.