XoXaan

"I am XoXaan. I was one of the first of the Sith Lords, one of those who abandoned the Jedi Order to seek a darker path to truth."

- XoXaan

XoXaan was a humanoid female Dark Jedi who was exiled from the Jedi Order following the Hundred Year Darkness. Following the fateful battle on the Outer Rim world of Corbos, XoXaan was among the Jedi who abandoned the Republic and traveled to Korriban, where they found the original Sith species. XoXaan and her associates enslaved the natives, christened themselves the first of the Sith Lords, and instituted a new order that centered around worship and practice of the dark side of the Force.

Though other Sith Lords possessed similar talents, XoXaan was noted amongst her peers for her skills in dark side healing. She recorded her knowledge in a holocron, which was entombed with her in Korriban’s Valley of the Dark Lords. Her spirit waited millennia for someone to come along who was worthy of her Sith teachings. In 25 ABY, XoXaan’s spirit found one such student in the ex-Jedi A'Sharad Hett. From her holocron, Hett learned the ways of the dark side, and eventually created a new Sith Order based on XoXaan’s teachings. After Hett assumed the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith under the moniker Darth Krayt, he constructed a massive statue in reverence of XoXaan&mdash;his first and greatest teacher&mdash;within the Temple of the Sith on the planet Coruscant.

Biography


"My brethren and I invented what it means to be a Sith."

- XoXaan

XoXaan was once a member of the Jedi Order during the Old Republic era. However, she and other Jedi of her time became corrupted by the dark side of the Force, which caused a rift between these Dark Jedi and their light side counterparts. The result was a war that spanned one hundred years, which culminated with the Dark Jedi's defeat on the Outer Rim planet Corbos. XoXaan and her contemporaries were exiled from the Jedi Order and banished from the Galactic Republic into deep space, left to contemplate the error of their ways.

XoXaan and the other Dark Jedi traveled aimlessly through space and in 6,900 BBY arrived on the Outer Rim world of Korriban. XoXaan and her brethren introduced themselves to the Sith people, who revered the Dark Jedi as gods and worshiped the power that they wielded. Along with her colleagues, XoXaan took up the mantle of Sith Lord and began the creation of a Sith-dominated empire. As XoXaan progressed further in the ways of the Sith, she developed a talent for healing through the dark side of the Force, and was renowned amongst her fellow Sith Lords for it. At some point XoXaan passed away, but not before recording much of her knowledge within a Sith holocron. She was laid to rest within Korriban's Valley of the Dark Lords in her own mausoleum, along with her holocron. Though her flesh had died, XoXaan’s spirit resided within her holocron and waited for one she felt had&mdash;like her&mdash;found the teachings of the light side to be lacking. Thousands of years passed, and in 25 ABY, XoXaan’s wait ended with the arrival of A'Sharad Hett, a bounty hunter who had once been a Jedi Knight.

Training a Dark Lord


"I have waited for someone like you&hellip;someone who has served the light and found it empty, who has found how lacking the galaxy is. Someone who has known anger, hate&hellip;and despair."

- XoXaan’s spirit, to A’Sharad Hett

XoXaan sensed Hett’s presence on Korriban while he tracked a bounty named Resk. After killing him, Hett felt XoXaan call to him from the depths of her tomb. He followed the voice and was led inside XoXaan’s resting place, where he found the door to her burial chamber. After shattering it with the Force, Hett discovered XoXaan’s holocron, which released her spirit upon activation. Sensing the darkness within the bounty hunter, the spirit of XoXaan introduced itself to Hett, and offered to initiate him in the ways of the dark side, an offer he accepted.

As his Master, XoXaan's spirit taught Hett for years, instilling in him the traditions of the original Sith Lords and enhancing his skills through use of the dark side. However, Hett tried to feign his status as a Sith acolyte; he only sought to learn enough about the dark side through XoXaan’s teachings to further his own goals, which included toppling the perpetrator of the Great Jedi Purge&mdash;Darth Sidious, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith.

Legacy


"He created himself, then re-created the Sith Order under the guidance of XoXaan&mdash;an ancient Sith warrior&mdash;his first and greatest teacher."

- Darth Talon, regarding Darth Krayt

When Hett completed his training under XoXaan, he exited her tomb prepared to execute his vengeance mission against Darth Sidious, only to find that a New Republic had replaced Sidious's Galactic Empire. Dejected, Hett left known space, where he was captured and imprisoned by the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong species, who tortured him and implanted their slave seeds within him. Combined with XoXaan's teachings, these experiences contributed to his rebirth as Darth Krayt and the formation of his One Sith Order. After Krayt conquered Coruscant, he placed a gigantic statue of XoXaan within the new Temple of the Sith, in honor of his mentor.

By 137 ABY, the Vong implants within Krayt had ravaged his body, to the point that he felt as though his death was on the horizon. Darth Wyyrlok III, Krayt's chief lieutenant, delved deep into ancient Sith lore hoping to find a way to cure his Master. He even consulted XoXaan's considerable knowledge of dark side healing for any potential secrets; however, Wyyrlok found that XoXaan's teachings proved unsatisfactory and was thus forced to search elsewhere for answers.

Personality and traits
Like many of her original brethren, XoXaan was a Sith Lord who found the way of the Jedi unsatisfying. She believed that the teachings of the Jedi were flawed and that in the path of the dark side lay a greater truth. She also felt that the galaxy was empty and that Sith-inspired rule was required to fill it. When the Dark Jedi encountered the native Sith on Korriban, XoXaan was among those who played off of their naiveté, allowing the Sith to treat them as deities. She also adopted their customs, including the creation of holocrons, a secret that could be traced back to the ancient Sith king Adas.

Powers and abilities
"My Lord is dying. He is being consumed. Nothing in the Sith lore helps, including the ancient knowledge of XoXaan."

- Darth Wyyrlok

XoXaan used the power of the dark side to conquer lesser beings, such as the malleable Sith race she and her colleagues enslaved on Korriban. XoXaan was well-versed in Sith lore and stored what she knew within the recesses of her own holocron. Her knowledge included dark side healing techniques, though Darth Wyyrlok found that none of them were able to successfully remove the slave seeds from Emperor Krayt's body.

Behind the scenes
XoXaan was first mentioned in the fourteenth issue of the Star Wars: Legacy series, Claws of the Dragon, Part 1, written by John Ostrander. Her backstory was minimally explored by Ostrander in the Legacy’s seventeenth issue, Claws of the Dragon, Part 4, where she only appeared in flashbacks of Darth Krayt’s path down the dark side. XoXaan was drawn by Jan Duursema for Claws of the Dragon, Part 4, and in her next appearance (also in flashbacks), Star Wars Legacy 30: Vector, Part 11. In Vector 11, XoXaan was confirmed to be connected with the Dark Jedi perpetrators of the Hundred Year Darkness.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy 14: Claws of the Dragon, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy 17: Claws of the Dragon, Part 4
 * Star Wars Legacy 18: Claws of the Dragon, Part 5
 * Star Wars Legacy 30: Vector, Part 11

Notes and references
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