Freedon Nadd

Freedon Nadd (—4,350 BBY) was an ancient Sith Lord and possibly the first fully human Sith.

Biography
Freedon Nadd was a Jedi student, trained at the Jedi Temple on Ossus around 4,400 BBY. He was amazingly open and willing to touch the Force, which may have inevitably led him down the dark path. While strong in the Force, he failed his first true test, when he was told by the Jedi Masters at Ossus that he would not receive his promotion to become a Jedi Knight.

Enraged with their decision, Freedon Nadd reached out to his anger and struck down Jedi Master Matta Trenayne. Now, fallen to the dark side, there was no turning back. Nadd completely succumbed to the teachings of the Sith and became proficient in the use of dark side Sith magic. Believing that he would never be more than a Sith apprentice, due to the ancient rule of one Dark Lord at a time, Freedon grew even more enraged and rebelled against the Sith and fled to the jungle moon of Yavin 4. While on Yavin 4, he came across the spirit of an ancient Sith Lord, Naga Sadow, and sought to complete his training under Sadow. Before his training was complete however, Nadd felt he was strong enough to conquer and claim the Sith throne as his own. He destroyed the spirit of Naga Sadow and traveled to Korriban, an ancient Sith burial planet, to complete his training once more. After collecting many Sith artifacts from Korriban, and feeling that his training was complete, Nadd fled to Onderon, where he taught the Onderonians about Sith lore and magic, hoping to establish his own Sith Empire. Legends spread of Nadd single handedly using Sith magic to repel the Beast Masters time and again. This legend spread down through generations on Onderon and Nadd became somewhat of a god in Onderon truism for defeating the planet's "wild beasts and aborigines."

Once the Jedi Knights learned of the atrocities taking place on Onderon, they soon dispatched an army to defeat Nadd. Though Nadd was defeated and killed on Onderon, his teachings were widely accepted by the Onderonian people and the dark side energy grew on Onderon, as Nadd's bloodlines were extended during his stay. 350 years later, the Onderonian King, a descendant of Freedon Nadd, and his dark side followers created a series of revolts to finally exterminate the Beast Masters and the other outsiders and exiles of Iziz, the capital of Onderon. King Ommin called the revolts the "Freedon Nadd uprisings" in his ancestor's honor. This uprising was short lived as Jedi Master Arca Jeth and his task force came and killed Ommin, bringing the wars to an end. To ensure that Nadd's body would not be touched by future generations of Sith, Arca Jeth relocated his tomb to Dxun, Onderon's primary moon. When Freedon Nadd was eventually defeated, he was able to preserve his soul inside one of the ancient Sith artifacts he had earlier discovered on Korriban. Nearly 400 years later, the exiled Jedi student Exar Kun, who himself was slipping closely to the dark side, discovered the Sith artifacts and was controlled and manipulated by Nadd's evil spirit, which led Kun to Korriban and then to Yavin 4. Nadd was to use Exar Kun to further his own progression, slipping further down the dark side, and find the Sith Amulets hidden on the moon. Consequently while doing so, Exar Kun, now bearer of the amulets, became more powerful than Freedon Nadd's spirit could control. Exar Kun took complete control of the ancient Massassi race on Yavin 4 and exterminated Nadd's spirit in the process.

Centuries later, during the Onderon Civil War in 3,951 BBY, Nadd's tomb on Dxun was occupied by Darth Nihilus' Sith forces allied with General Vaklu, posing a threat to Canderous Ordo's Mandalorians and their base on Dxun. Eventually, the Sith camp near the tomb was spotted by the Mandalorians, and the Jedi Exile dispatched three of his allies, who broke through the Sith defenses and killed a group of Dark Jedi, who were performing a ritual in an attempt to siphon the tomb's dark side powers.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (mummified corpse)