Darth Thanaton

"This is the weapon you have chosen?''" "''Yes my Emperor."

- Darth Marr and the Emperor during Teneb Kel's audience.

Teneb Kel was a Human male and a Sith apprentice who fought in the Great Galactic War. He learned the ways of the Sith under Lord Calypho, after being found in slavery, and was frequently accompanied by a male Abyssin slave named Maggot. After the arrest of his master, Lord Calypho, he was sent on dangerous mission by the Dark Council, to hunt down the Emperor's traitorous apprentice, Exal Kressh.

Sith training
"My master learned at the feet of Lord Calypho!"

- Maggot

Teneb Kel was originally a slave. He was found by his master, Lord Calypho, who decided to take the slave as his protege and train him in the ways of the dark side as his Sith apprentice. Teneb Kel was then taken to the Sith Academy on Korriban, where he "devoured books like scraps of bread" and learned to master the use of the Force.

Retaking of Begeren
"Sir! Incoming!"

- A Sith trooper, in response to Teneb Kel's air-support

Later, Twenty-five years before the Treaty of Coruscant, Teneb Kel had apparently risen to prominence. Responsible for providing air-support for the battered down Sith troopers and the retaking of the local palace, he participated in the Invasion of Begeren, a former Sith world forged into a mining station by the Galactic Republic. In the midst of the invasion, Kel unleashed his Sith air-fighters onto the Republic forces and climbed up for a balcony into the Sith palace. There he encountered the Republic Governor of the planet, guarded by two soldiers, whom he slew. He then went on to follow the fleeing Governor into the next room where he impaled the frightened politician with his lightsaber. With the palace retaken, the Republic forces retreating and the Governor slain, he reported the victory back to Imperial Command. His next order of business was to check on his Abyssin slave Maggot, who he had used to keep contact with the main forces during the battle. Finding him passed out and surrounded by dead Republic soldiers, he awakened his friend and commended him for being a fine soldier before departing. On their way, the pair was approached by a Sith major, informing them both of his own personal gratitude, and the gratitude of the Dark Council, as well as of their immediate arrest for the crimes of Kel's master, Lord Calypho. Kel reluctantly surrendered himself and was escorted to the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas, to face the judgement of the Dark Council.

On the Council's demand
"Kill him!"

- A member of the Dark Council orders the execution of Lord Calypho

On Dromund Kaas he made way to the Kaas Citadel, the residence of the Dark Council. On his way he witnessed the celebrations of the Imperial victories throughout the galaxy, and the honoring of Lord Nankrang for his triumph over the Jedi in the Mid Rim. Finally, they reached their final destination and, despite the warnings of Maggot, he entered the Citadel, but not before making sure of his companion's safety. Teneb Kel soon reached the heart of the Citadel, where he found his master, weak and helpless, and on his knees. The Dark Council then appeared in front of Teneb Kel, asking him if he loved his master, to which Kel responded that his love to his master was that of a love to his father. The Council then ordered Kel to kill his own master, for crimes against the Empire. Kel complied, encompassing his master in a burst of Force lightning, a burst his master repelled with his lightsaber. After a brief duel Teneb Kel incapacitated his master, but before he could finish him, the Council intervened hoping to use the near-dead Calypho and had him carried away. After having bested Calypho, Teneb Kel rejected him as his master. Still, the Council saw use and potential in the "masterless-apprentice" and they chose him to carry out a most special mission. They told him that in order for him to redeem himself for the crimes of his former master, he would track down and assassinate the Emperor's own apprentice, a female Sith Hybrid by the name of Exal Kressh, who had betrayed the Emperor and fled into Republic Space.

Darth Marr then escorted Kel to the Sith Emperor himself, where he is informed to go and search for Exal Kressh in the Lenico system. The Emperor then put Kel down into a heavy sleep where he experiences visions of both his past and future, including his training on Korriban, the arrest of Lord Calypho and his future mission ordered by the Dark Council, sending him to his doom, to hunt down the Emperor's former apprentice Exal Kressh. He is awakened by Maggot a day later, and upon realising what has transpired, he makes immediate haste off Dromund Kaas to the Lenico System to search for the rogue Sith apprentice.

Personality and traits
"As you wish."

- Teneb Kel

Teneb Kel was a loyal servant of the Empire and prideful of his Sith status, as shown with his open disgust for the miners who he felt had desecrated the Sith world Begeren with their quarry. He was very knowledgeable of Sith history, and the politics of the Empire. He despised those who were rich or greedy, and even more so if they tried to make a profit off the Empire. He was very loyal to the Sith; when he was arrested for the crimes of Calypho, even though he felt tempted to resist, Kel surrendered himself without defiance. Yet he did have a softer side, displayed when he congratulated and protected his slave, Maggot, from his fellow Sith. The only relationship he ever had, other than his friendship to Maggot, was with his master, Calypho, who he fought without hesitation when ordered to. Also, unlike 'proper' Sith, Teneb Kel drew his strength of the dark side from fear, rather than from hate.

Powers and abilities
"I fought in the Foundry Uprising. My son taught me the nine edicts of Teräs Käsi. I'm not afraid to hurt you..."

- A Republic soldier's last words before being slain by Teneb Kel

Teneb Kel was a clever young apprentice, considered by many destined to be a great Sith. Kel was proficient in the use of a lightsaber, utilizing a double-bladed one in combat. He was also a noticeably capable Force-user. Remarkably skilled in the use of telekinesis, he could use it to, among other things, choke, push and levitate his enemies as well as to disarm them. He was also capable of throwing his lightsaber. Kel could produce Force lightning, in addition.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 1: Shades of the Sith

Teneb Kel