Sith Council

"Fools. Blind fools."

- Darth Bane

The Sith Council was a body of advisors to the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith in various incarnations of Sith government. It consisted of ten members made up of Sith Lords.

Old Sith Empire
This Council convened in a great citadel on Ziost. The Sith Council managed the affairs of the Empire. Each Lord that sat on the Council personally ruled over a dozen worlds.

After Marka Ragnos' death, two Lords on the council, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, fought over the position of Dark Lord of the Sith. This conflict created a rift within the council, with several lords siding with Kressh, and the rest siding with Sadow.

Eventually, Sadow was able to convince the council to make him Dark Lord after he convinced them that the Republic was executing hit and runs within the Empire. After Ludo Kressh discovered the deception, he and two other lords attacked Sadow's fortress but they were soundly beaten and Sadow secured his hold over his title.

In the Great Hyperspace War, the council was essentially wiped out. Three of the members were killed during the struggle between Ludo and Sadow, and the rest seemed to have been apparently killed in battle with the Republic. The only member to survive the war was Naga Sadow. This tradition of a Sith Council was (as far as we know) not continued by Sadow's successors, Freedon Nadd and Exar Kun.

Revan's Sith Empire
Although no information is given, it can be speculated that due to Revan learning of the Old Sith Empire he established a Sith Council for his empire.

New Sith Empire
In the New Sith Wars, Kaan seemed to have resurrected this council with himself as its ambiguous head. Unlike earlier councils, each member actually held the title Dark Lord of the Sith in his own right, making for a far murkier chain of succession. However, while only ten Dark Lords were ever seen on the council, at least sixteen others were known to have existed at the time.

Old Sith Empire
2 as of yet unidentified members
 * Naga Sadow
 * Ludo Kressh
 * Simus
 * Dor Gal-ram
 * Horak-mul
 * Shar Dakhan
 * Garu
 * Tritos Nal

Revan's Sith Empire
No members identified as of yet

Brotherhood of Darkness
2 as of yet unidentified members
 * Kaan
 * Darth Bane
 * Qordis
 * Githany
 * Kopecz
 * Seviss Vaa
 * LaTor
 * Kaox Krul

Behind the scenes

 * In a scene in The Golden Age of the Sith the faces of eight members are shown (excluding the already dead Simus and Naga Sadow). Only one other person (besides Sadow) on the council seems to have Dark Jedi blood with the absence of protruding eyebrow ridges and a squashed nose.


 * In Jedi vs. Sith Kaan and his brotherhood of Darkness are shown conversing in a room before Darth Bane appears. Of the eight people talking only Githany, Kopecz, and Kaan are named. An old man with a beard is perhaps Qordis (reasoning being that Qordis is older than Bane and Bane appears fairly aged in this story). The other four in this inner circle are unnamed but two of them may perhaps be Seviss Vaa or LaTor as there is strong indication that they are within Kaan's inner circle - Seviss Vaa was described in The New Essential Chronology as one of the highest ranked Sith Lords, and LaTor was described in the Dark Forces novellas as Kaan's "fifth in command".

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction