Adas

Adas was an ancient Sith warlord who lived circa 28,000 BBY, long before the exiled Dark Jedi of the Hundred Year Darkness conquered his species. He used his knowledge of the dark side of the Force to conquer and subjugate his homeworld, which he ruled as king.

Biography
Adas was clad in signature black armor, attire that matched the dark hue of his own skin. His mastery of Sith magic and reputation of conquest led his people to regard him as a near-immortal figure.

By the time the Rakata came to conquer Korriban, Adas was over three centuries old, and, although they taught him the secrets of constructing the pyramidal Sith holocron, Adas knew the invaders were bent on conquest. He led the Sith race to victory over the Rakatan invaders, but at the cost of his own life.

Circa 4,400 BBY, Freedon Nadd first discovered Adas's holocron and used it to conquer the planet Onderon. Around 4,010 BBY, his Sith holocron was uncovered by Queen Amanoa of Onderon, who learned all the stored secrets. The holocron was then passed to her apprentice Novar to teach Sith initiates. The Gatekeeper of Adas's holocron, however, had a unique personality that it could turn down the user's request or even threaten its user. King Adas's holocron eventually found its way into House Pelagia's holocron library and subsequently liberated by Sir Nevil Tritum of the Mecrosa Order during the Great Jedi Purge. Following the Battle of Endor the order gave the holocron to Lumiya.

Behind the scenes


In the Tales of the Jedi Companion, Ood Bnar says Adas lived "more than two dozen millennia ago." The Old Sith Empire was established by fallen Jedi Knights around 6,900 BBY, which would preclude Adas having been part of this regime.

Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties retconned Adas to being a member of the actual Sith species who lived and ruled at the approximate time Ood Bnar's comment suggests, rather than an actual Sith Lord like Darth Sidious.

A holocron flashback in Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic depicts what is labeled by Ood Bnar as a Dark Jedi garbed in black armor. The black armor on this individual may have been based on Adas' description. However, the fact that he is wielding a lightsaber in the vision rules out the possibility of the image specifically being Adas. Evil Never Dies author Abel G. Peña confirmed this, and said that he did not specifically base Adas on the Holocron Dark Jedi, and while they might be the same, he didn't consider them to be.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Saga of Nomi Sunrider

Notes and references
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