Darth Zannah

"I'm a killer too."

- Zannah to Darth Bane

Zannah, also known as Rain, was a young Human girl from Somov Rit, and cousin to Root, Tomcat (Darovit) and Bug (Hardin). She later became Darth Zannah, Dark Lord of the Sith, and pupil of Darth Bane.

Biography
Zannah was one of the many children recruited to the Army of Light to fight the Sith. Taken from her homeworld with her two cousins by the Jedi scout Torr Snapit, their ship was attacked by Buzzards from the Brotherhood of Darkness. When a hole was blown in the ship, Rain was sucked out to fall to the forests below. She was believed dead by her cousins, but was in fact saved by the Bouncer Laa who was flying below. Cushioned on Laa's soft back, Rain spent the next few days with the bouncers recovering. It was during this period that Laa had a horrible dream of Rain as a dark Jedi. She was one of the only survivors of the seventh Battle of Ruusan, and encountered the sole surviving Sith Lord Darth Bane.

After the battle, she and Bane stumbled across her cousin Darovit, who tried to stop Bane. Zannah caused Darovit's hand to explode, and Bane questioned her on why she allowed him to live; she replied that she was still young.

Zannah did not travel with Bane from Ruusan to Dxun; instead she met him later on the world of Onderon, after Bane had fully realized his plans for the new Sith Order.

Bane took Zannah as his new Sith apprentice, bestowing upon her the title of 'Darth', to be henceforth passed down from Master to apprentice in Bane's new Sith Order. Darth Zannah returned to Ruusan several years after the battle, and engaged her wandering cousin in a final, deadly duel.

As a Sith Lord, Zannah wielded a unique red double-bladed lightsaber powered by a crystal given to her by her master Bane. Long after Zannah's death, this lightsaber came into the possession of General Grievous.

Behind the scenes

 * Zannah first appeared in Jedi vs. Sith, but is curiously absent in the short story Bane of the Sith. The New Essential Chronology explained this discrepancy by describing Zannah finding her own way to Onderon.
 * Both the New Essential Chronology and The Dark Forces Saga mistakenly identify Darovit as Zannah's brother, when, in fact, the original source Jedi vs. Sith establishes them as cousins.
 * As the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace novelization was written before the identity of Zannah was established, it incorrectly refers to Darth Bane's apprentice as "him".

Appearances

 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace novelization