Wookieepedia:WookieeProject New Sith Wars/Featured articles

Welcome ! Here you will find a complete list of every New Sith Wars article that this WookieeProject, or it's participants, have taken to Featured status since the projects creation.

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Bouncer
 "They are intelligent. Those are Bouncers, the native species of Ruusan. Old and wise&hellip;some say they dream of the future."

- Torr Snapit

Bouncers were the native sentient species of Ruusan. Globe-like creatures, they received their name from their method of locomotion: propelled by the wind, they bounced themselves off obstacles to reach great heights.

Their homeworld was the location of a great battle between the forces of the Army of Light and the Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars. The Bouncers tried to ease the struggles of both sides, bringing support and comfort to the dying using their mild telepathic abilities. When the conflict ended with Lord Kaan unleashing the thought bomb, trapping the spirits of hundreds of Jedi and Sith inside, the Bouncers maintained a prophecy that "a Knight would come, a battle would be fought, and the prisoners go free." The Bouncers helped fulfill this prophecy when they guided Kyle Katarn to the Valley of the Jedi over a thousand years later. A Bouncer was also responsible for the survival of Rain, who went on to become the Sith Lord Darth Zannah. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Darth Bane
 "I am the Dark Lord who will restore the Sith to glory. They call me Bane."

- Darth Bane

Darth Bane, born under the name of Dessel on Apatros, was one of the most pivotal Dark Lords of the Sith. After serving as a soldier in the Sith Army, Bane trained at Korriban's Sith Academy, where he quickly established his presence as the most powerful student there. He later helped bring upon the destruction of the old Sith order, the Brotherhood of Darkness, which he felt was ruled by weak fools who were preventing the Sith from achieving their true potential. Bane was one of the few Force-sensitives to survive the Last Battle of Ruusan which signified the end of the thousand-year-long New Sith Wars. After its destruction, he then reinvented the Sith into the Order of the Sith Lords by establishing the Rule of Two, a structure which limited the number of Sith and eliminated the infighting which had plagued the old order. Bane's Rule of Two would allow for the rise of Darth Sidious, who would finally triumph over the Jedi and engineer the collapse of the Galactic Republic. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Duel in the Korriban Academy
 "He's vulnerable. Half starved. Exhausted. We should go after him now." "Don't be stupid. What would the Masters do to us if we chopped him down in the kitchens?" "Do you have a plan?" "Tonight. Wait in the archives. I'll bring him to you there."

- Githany and Sirak plot to kill Bane

The Duel in the Korriban Academy was a battle between the rival apprentices Bane and Sirak, alongside their allies amongst the students of the Sith Academy on Korriban. Inside the school's library, the two sides engaged in lightsaber combat&mdash;Sirak, flanked by a pair of fellow Zabrak, the twins, Yevra and Llokay, against the Humans Bane and Githany.

Seeking revenge for being defeated by Bane during a training duel, Sirak had accepted help from Githany, who claimed she could lure an unsuspecting Bane into the Academy's library. Upon doing so, Githany betrayed Sirak by arming Bane with his lightsaber, and instead, sided with him to engage Sirak in battle. Despite their superior numbers, the Zabrak twins were both killed by Githany, as Bane dueled Sirak. Bane bested him yet again, leaving Sirak begging for mercy before he decapitated him. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Duel on Ambria
 "When the time comes I will defeat my Master and take his place." "Perhaps that time is now."

- Darth Zannah explains the Rule of Two to Hetton

The Duel on Ambria was a brief battle that occurred in the year 990 BBY, between the Sith-aspirant Hetton, his eight servants, and Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith. Instigated by Bane's own apprentice Darth Zannah, the duel ensued after Hetton, who had been tricked by Zannah into giving her information regarding the creation of Holocrons, arrived at Bane's camp on the planet Ambria&mdash;having been led there by Zannah.

While meditating at his camp, Bane was surprised by the sudden appearance of Hetton's eight Umbaran-trained Shadow Assassins, each armed with their customary Force pikes. Though outnumbered, Bane immediately readied for battle as all eight assassins attacked, attempting to overwhelm him with the strength of their numbers. After cutting down three of them, Bane was interrupted by Hetton, who had Darth Zannah at his side. Hetton then charged Bane, with his five remaining assassins doing the same. However, all were subsequently killed by the superior might and skill of Darth Bane. Hetton was last to meet his demise, and upon ending his life, Bane attacked Zannah. Before the Dark Lord could kill her for her seeming betrayal, Zannah revealed the truth; she had been using Hetton all along, and from him she had discovered information on creating Holocrons, a secret which had eluded Bane until that moment. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Duel on Tython


The Duel on Tython was a lightsaber battle that took place in 990 BBY between the surviving Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Bane and his apprentice Darth Zannah, against a group of five pursuing Jedi led by Jedi Lord Valenthyne Farfalla. The duel took place on the Jedi birth-world of Tython, in the massive fortress of the long-dead Sith Lord Belia Darzu.

The duel ensued just after Darth Zannah arrived on Tython to warn her Sith Master Darth Bane that the Jedi were aware of their existence. Intent on destroying the last of the Sith, Lord Farfalla and his Jedi followed them to Tython and stormed the temple of Belia Darzu, engaging the two Sith Lords in combat. What followed was an intense display of lightsaber technique and Force ability from all involved. The battle was fierce, and though they had strength in numbers, the Jedi would not survive the day. When the duel ended, all five Jedi were dead, and Darth Bane lay seriously injured, on the very threshold of death. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Fairwind
 "The Jedi, shaken out of their complacency by the galactic crisis, raised their own champions, such as [&hellip;] Lord Farfalla, a foppish alien whose retinue and wooden-hulled battleship looked like elements of a forgotten fairy tale."

- Voren Na'al

The Fairwind was a large gunship of a design reminiscent of large sailing ships. Built with a rounded hull, twin masts, and a large figurehead, the starship was an ornate vessel owned by Jedi Lord and Master Valenthyne Farfalla. Farfalla used the vessel while recruiting Jedi Knights to join with Lord Hoth and his Army of Light on Ruusan. After gathering together three hundred Knights, Farfalla returned to the planet with his ship and a number of other gunships. However, a Sith blockade prevented him from reuniting with Lord Hoth until treachery within the Sith ranks created an opening for the armada. Farfalla then broke through the blockade, rescuing Lord Hoth and his forces in a crucial intervention that helped turn the tide of the war. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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First Battle of Ruusan
 "True victory in this war will not come through armies, but through the Brotherhood of Darkness. Our greatest weapon is the Force, and those individuals who have the power to command it."

- Kopecz, Dark Lord of the Sith

The First Battle of Ruusan occurred in 1,002 BBY as one of the final battles of the New Sith Wars and the first engagement of the last campaign of the war. The battle commenced in orbit over the planet Ruusan, which the Galactic Republic used as a base to launch raids on the Sith-occupied planet Kashyyyk. However, when the Sith dropped out of hyperspace with a much smaller fleet of warships than that of the Republic, the latter was caught at unawares by the former, and the Sith attack began.

Kaan, Dark Lord of the Sith and de facto leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness, commanded the battle from his flagship, Nightfall, using the ancient art of Sith battle meditation. The initial sortie was devastating, delivering heavy casualties to the Republic's ranks. Tides turned, however, when a female Cerean Jedi Master, who was supporting the Republic fleet, employed her own battle meditation; this time it was the Sith who were confounded. However, when victory seemed to be sure for the Republic, the Sith Lord Kopecz infiltrated the capital ship where the Jedi Master was stationed. He killed her two padawans, and then the Master herself. The resulting loss of the Jedi advantage wrenched any chance of victory from the Republic's grasp, and their remaining forces were then annihilated by the Sith fleet. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Fohargh
 "Defeat is bitter, human."

- Fohargh

Fohargh was a Makurth male student at the Sith Academy on Korriban during the New Sith Wars. He attended the Academy alongside such notable apprentices as Bane, whom he bested in a lightsaber training duel early on in the Human's own tenure. However, their next encounter would result in Fohargh's own death.

The Makurth readily accepted Bane's challenge to a rematch, and during the duel, was soon able to overcome his opponent by striking his fighting arm and rendering it useless. However, as Fohargh mocked his seemingly defeated opponent, Bane surrendered himself to the dark side of the Force and slew the Makurth, strangling the life from him on the rooftop of the Korriban Academy. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Hardin


Hardin, known as Bug for most of his life due to the custom of his homeworld Somov Rit, was a Force-sensitive Human who was recruited into Jedi Lord Hoth's Army of Light as a youth, in the service of which he died. Living an uneventful life on Somov Rit with his cousins Root, Darovit, and Zannah, Hardin chafed, longing to escape and take charge of his life. When Jedi Torr Snapit arrived and recruited Hardin, Darovit, and Zannah into the Army of Light for training, Hardin leaped at the chance to depart Somov Rit.

Zannah's presumed death soon after arriving on Ruusan, followed by Snapit's self-sacrifice in defense of the two young boys, stripped away Hardin's gruff, cynical exterior and left him admiring the Jedi, whom he had long criticized in response to Darovit's idolization of them. When Darovit's ideals met reality, he was devastated by the fallibility of the Jedi and the lack of glory in the Light and Darkness War. He defected to the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness, leaving Hardin more determined than ever to prove himself as a Jedi Knight and make up for Darovit's abandonment of the Jedi.

During the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, as Hardin guarded an exit from the caves in which Dark Lord of the Sith Kaan detonated his thought bomb, Hardin encountered and dueled Darovit. Darovit's Sith Master, Githany, crippled Hardin, but Darovit could not kill his cousin. Instead, Hardin's spirit became victim to the thought bomb, trapped for over one thousand years. His death, however, galvanized Darovit into rejecting the Sith ways and living the life of a hermit on Ruusan. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Hetton
 "Age has little relevance in matters of the Force."

- Hetton

Hetton was a Human male who was related to the Demici family, one of the Great Houses of Serenno. From a young age he knew he was Force-sensitive, and as a young man encouraged his mother to search for means of training his abilities without having to pledge allegiance to either the Jedi or Sith. He used his family's wealth and connections to collect an array of artifacts and documents teaching him about the dark side of the Force.

He went on to form the Anti-Republic Liberation Front, a rebel organization that protested against Serenno's membership with the Galactic Republic. This, however, was a front for his true objective: the resurrection of the Sith following their near-total destruction after the Seventh Battle of Ruusan. Members of his order brought Darth Zannah before him after their failed assassination of former Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum in 990 BBY. They believed her to be responsible for the failure of the plot, possibly by revealing it to the authorities.

Upon witnessing her command of the dark side, Hetton pledged himself to becoming her apprentice, despite being over twice her age. He persuaded Zannah by granting her the sum of his collected knowledge and control of the Umbaran-trained Shadow Assassins that had come under his command following the defeat of Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness. Zannah agreed, on the condition that first they would have to defeat her own Master, Darth Bane. However, Hetton underestimated Bane, and both he and his assassin bodyguards were killed. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Hoth
 "I dreamt that I would single-handedly defeat the dark side, that I would make a difference, change the galaxy&hellip; the galaxy, however, has changed me."

- Hoth

Lord Hoth was a famous Jedi Master and Jedi Lord who led the Army of Light against Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars, until their final confrontation in the Ruusan campaign.

Hoth's temper was as legendary as his battle prowess, and a feud between Hoth and Valenthyne Farfalla almost delivered victory to Kaan. Despite their animosity, the pair reconciled, allowing Hoth to face his foe in a final confrontation. Knowing that the desperate Sith would utilize the thought bomb in an attempt to stave off defeat, Hoth went to face him anyway, forcing the Brotherhood of Darkness to destroy themselves in the process. Hoth's act of self-sacrifice saved the Galactic Republic and ended the Sith as a galactic threat for almost a thousand years. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Kas'im
 "Someone well trained in lightsaber combat can defeat an opponent who is stronger in the Force."

- Kas'im's view on lightsaber dueling

Kas'im was a male Twi'lek and Dark Lord of the Sith who lived during the New Sith Wars. Bought from slavery by the Sith Lord Na'daz, Kas'im became his chosen apprentice before he could walk, and spent the following years training in the Sith arts. His master taught him in the ways of all seven forms of lightsaber combat, and eventually, Kas'im killed his master in a duel.

Shortly after Lord Kaan founded the Brotherhood of Darkness, he invited Kas'im to join with him, outlining his plan for victory against the Jedi Order. Kas'im agreed, and for much of the war he served as the Sith Blademaster on Korriban, teaching the Brotherhood's students the art of lightsaber combat. When the Human apprentice Bane lost in a practice duel to Sirak, a Zabrak apprentice, Bane appealed to the Blademaster to train him privately in combat so that he could become skilled enough to beat Sirak and take his revenge. However, the Headmaster of the Academy, Qordis, had ordered the other Masters at the school to cease Bane's preferential treatment when Bane began to pull away from the dark side after killing of the student Fohargh in an earlier duel. Knowing that Bane had considerable potential in the dark side, Kas'im chose to defy the orders of Qordis and taught Bane in secret.

However, Bane eventually left the Academy and the Brotherhood after a conflict with Qordis. Kas'im traveled to Ruusan with many of his students, after a summoning from the Brotherhood's de facto leader, Kaan. Kaan had called them all to participate in what he believed would be the final battle against the forces of the Jedi Order and their Army of Light, led by the Jedi Master Lord Hoth. The guerrilla tactics Hoth employed irritated the Brotherhood's forces&mdash;Kas'im particularly. No longer believing the Blademaster could control his bloodlust so close to battle, Kaan sent Kas'im to try and sway Bane back to the Brotherhood, or kill him. The Blademaster then traveled to Lehon under Kaan's instruction, where he found the former student Bane. After an intense confrontation in which Bane bluntly refused to rejoin the Brotherhood, the pair fought a vicious duel that resulted in the death of Kas'im. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Kaox Krul
 "You have a lot of deaths to answer for." "Perhaps, Jedi whelp, perhaps. But I won't be answering to you."

- Dree Vandap and Kaox Krul

Kaox Krul, also known as The Marauder, The Dark Killer, and The Madman, was a Sith Lord and warlord of the New Sith Empire. He was a formidable warrior within the Brotherhood of Darkness and targeted as a threat by the Jedi near the end of the New Sith Wars. Krul was an avid supporter of Lord Kaan and had developed a mental link with the leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness, so that he could be summoned at great distances.

As Krul fought with the brotherhood, he became known for his brutality and hated the Jedi with a dark side-fueled passion. As the war pushed on, he was targeted for assassination by the Jedi Council, and the Jedi Crian Maru was assigned to hunt him down. In 1,002 BBY, he was responsible for the destruction of the Duros colony on Harpori. Later that year, just before the Ruusan campaign, he was finally tracked down by Crian Maru and was subsequently killed during a Duel on Balowa. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Johun Othone
 "Beware of your anger."

- Valenthyne Farfalla to Johun Othone

Johun Othone was a Human male Jedi Knight, the former padawan of Lord Hoth, and later of Valenthyne Farfalla. Born on Sermeria, Othone was taken into the Jedi Order at the age of ten and apprenticed to Hoth. Before Hoth and Othone became involved with the New Sith Wars, they visited backwater planets on the Outer Rim, staying far away from the Core of the galaxy and politics in general. However, Hoth later created the Army of Light to fight the Brotherhood of Darkness in the New Sith Wars. Othone fought with Hoth during this time, especially during the Ruusan campaign, though his master was killed when the Sith detonated a thought bomb on Ruusan. The blast affected all Force-sensitives on the planet, killing all of the Sith and Jedi on the world at the time. Othone had evacuated Ruusan with thousands of other Jedi and soldiers of the Republic, and survived the blast. Othone had fears that a Sith survived the blast, though he was convinced otherwise by Valenthyne Farfalla, an Equine Jedi Master who later took Othone as his Padawan.

Othone accompanied Farfalla to Coruscant, the capital of the Republic, for a meeting with the Supreme Chancellor, Tarsus Valorum, concerning the Ruusan Reformation. There, changes were made to the Republic, resulting in the dissolution of the Army of Light. After the meeting, Farfalla knighted Othone and gave him a mission to protect Valorum as a Chancellor's Guard. Othone protected Valorum throughout his two terms as chancellor and became his advisor after Valorum stepped down from his position. In 990 BBY, Othone saved Valorum's life from the Anti-Republic Liberation Front, which put the former chancellor in debt with the Jedi. In gratitude, Valorum convinced the Galactic Senate to build a memorial on Ruusan as a tribute to Othone's master, Hoth, and the other Jedi who died to destroy the Sith. Othone, monitoring the construction of the memorial, had his fears of a surviving Sith confirmed when the failed Jedi, Darovit, came forward, revealing the presence of a Sith named Bane and his apprentice Zannah, who was Darovit's cousin. Othone told Farfalla of the surviving Sith; he convinced his former master of Bane's and Zannah's existence, and Othone, Farfalla, and three other Jedi&mdash;Sarro Xaj, Raskta Lsu, and Worror&mdash;confronted the Sith on Tython. The Jedi lost the duel, and all five were killed; Othone was the last to die, impaled by Zannah's lightsaber. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Sirak


"Strength means more than just the ability to use the Force. It means intelligence. Cunning. Ruthlessness."

- Sirak

Sirak was a male Zabrak who trained as a Sith apprentice at the Academy on Korriban during the New Sith Wars. For much of his time at the Academy he was the top apprentice and was favored by many of the Sith Masters there, particularly Qordis. Sirak was renowned at the Academy for his strength in the dark side and his skills in lightsaber combat. He developed a rival in the fellow apprentice Bane, whom Sirak believed was one of the few students that could eventually challenge his place at the Academy. When Bane lost his own favor with the Masters for withdrawing from the dark side, he sought to re-establish his position by challenging Sirak. The Zabrak defeated his Human opponent easily, and from then on, disregarded Bane as a threat to his standing.

Several weeks later, Sirak was challenged by Bane again. He was unaware that Bane had received secret training from Kas'im, the Academy's Blademaster, in preparation for seeking revenge for his earlier loss. Bane's tediously-honed skills allowed him to fully manipulate the duel, drawing out Sirak's defeat. Hesitating on the killing blow, Bane was stopped by Kas'im, who recognized that Sirak was not only beaten but humiliated.

Furious and desperate for vengeance, Sirak plotted ways of killing Bane. His opportunity presented itself when Githany, a deserter of the Jedi Order, offered to help Sirak kill his enemy. Along with the Zabrak twins, Llokay and Yevra, Sirak waited in the library while Githany lured Bane to them. However, Githany had in truth betrayed the Zabrak trio, and instead fought alongside Bane against them. The former Jedi proceeded to kill the twin Zabrak with her lightwhip, and Bane decapitated Sirak as he begged for mercy. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Worror Dowmat


"Go find Masters Raskta and Worror. They also served with Hoth on Ruusan. They will join us in our cause."

- Valenthyne Farfalla

Worror Dowmat was a male Ithorian Jedi Master. Being a healer by profession, he was known amongst his peers to have never wielded a lightsaber, instead providing support for his allies in combat through his proficiency with Jedi battle meditation. One of the many Jedi to engage Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars, Worror went to battle alongside such notable Masters as Lord Valenthyne Farfalla. In the final campaign of the war, Worror served with Lord Hoth.

Worror's career as a Jedi Master ended in the year 990 BBY. He was part of a strike team led by Farfalla to the planet Tython on a mission to eliminate the only surviving Sith Lords of the Sith War, Darth Bane, and his apprentice Zannah. The Jedi believed that their advantage of greater numbers in combat would ensure their victory; however, they were unprepared for the strength of Bane and the cunning of his pupil, and soon became overwhelmed by the Sith's power during their confrontation on Tython. Worror died amongst his companions, after his four throats were slashed by Darth Bane's lightsaber. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Raskta Lsu


"Go find Masters Raskta and Worror. They also served with Hoth on Ruusan. They will join us in our cause."

- Valenthyne Farfalla

Raskta Lsu was an Echani female Jedi Master, and soldier in General Hoth's Army of Light. She was named after the legendary Echani Raskta Fenni, who was also regarded as the greatest warrior of her time. Because of this, Lsu aspired to equal and then surpass the renown of her namesake. Thus, her entire Jedi career was spent honing her martial skills exclusively, and with time her mastery of the lightsaber was such that many considered her peerless in its application. Lsu was so renowned for her battle skills that she was granted the vaunted title of Weapons Master of the Jedi Order. Lsu displayed her talents during the New Sith Wars, fighting in many battles against the Sith's Brotherhood of Darkness.

Ten years after the final campaign which ended the war on the planet Ruusan, Raskta Lsu was part of a team of Jedi selected by Lord Valenthyne Farfalla to embark on a mission to the fabled Jedi birth world of Tython, in attempt to eliminate the last two remaining Sith Lords in the galaxy, Darths Bane and Zannah. Upon arriving and landing on the Deep Core world, Farfalla's Jedi team engaged the Sith, and Lsu once again displayed her skill with the lightsaber. She fought valiantly, and was the only one of the five Jedi to match Bane's own power with the blade. However, she was undone by the wiles of Darth Zannah, who sneaked up behind Lsu and impaled her, thus ending the Jedi Master's life. Read More... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Massacre on Doan


"Leave the miners alone. Show yourself and face me!''" "''The miners are dead."

- Medd Tandar and the Huntress

This massacre took place in 980 BBY on the planet Doan. Tensions between the the planet's Royal Family and mining caste rose when the miners accidentally killed Prince Gerran while attempting to capture him. As a result, Gerran's wife, Serra, became depressed, prompting her bodyguard, Lucia, to hire the assassin known as "the Huntress" to assassinate Gelba, the miners' leader. At the same time, the Jedi Order sent Jedi Knight Medd Tandar to mediate the situation between the miners and the Royal Family, as well as to obtain a collection of recently excavated Sith artifacts. During the meeting between Tandar and Gelba, the Huntress attacked, killing the mining leader and the five other miners that were accompanying her. She used her powers to disrupt Tandar's ability to use the Force and killed him as well.

Fearing that the Jedi would suspect the Royal Family to have ordered Tandar's assassination, Doan's King agreed with Serra that she should travel to the Jedi Temple to assure the Jedi that the Royal Family had not been behind the attack. At the Jedi Temple, Serra discovered that her father had been killed by a Sith Lord ten years previously. Around this time, Draado, the miner who had found the Sith artifacts on Doan, began calling for war with the Royal Family as a result of Gelba's death. Meanwhile, on Ciutric IV, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Bane sent his apprentice, Darth Zannah, to investigate the death of Tandar. Read More...
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Duel on Lehon
 "Did Kaan send you to kill me?''" "''If you will not join the Brotherhood, I will leave your corpse on this barren and forgotten world."

- Bane and Kas'im, just prior to their duel

In 1,000 BBY, a lightsaber duel was fought on the planet Lehon between two Dark Lords of the Sith: the Twi'lek Blademaster Kas'im and his former apprentice, Darth Bane. Kas'im followed Bane to Lehon and found him in the Rakatan Temple of the Ancients, where he presented the Human with the choice of either rejoining the Brotherhood of Darkness to which Bane had once belonged, or making Lehon his final resting place. When Bane refused, an intense lightsaber duel ensued.

Bane, who was considerably stronger in the Force, maintained the offensive in the beginning of the duel. The tide turned when Kas'im split his double-bladed lightsaber into two separate weapons and attacked his opponent with a previously unrealized degree of ferocity. Bane was forced onto the defensive, and was just barely able to maneuver his way out of the temple before Kas'im blasted him with a wave of Force energy. Bane reciprocated the attack, and Kas'im absorbed its brunt by shielding himself with the Force. The temple entrance in which Kas'im stood, however, was obliterated by Bane's exertion, and the Twi'lek was unable to avoid being crushed to death under the tons of rubble that fell upon him. Read more...
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Anti-Sith bill
 "But the fact remains, the Sith and their teachings were banned by the Senate. Their very existence is a violation of Republic law&mdash;and with good reason."

- A Republic commander during the New Sith Wars



In the latter stages of the Old Sith Wars, the Galactic Senate of the Republic approved a bill that banned the Sith religion. The bill was proposed in response to the carnage inflicted by the Sith upon the galaxy during the Jedi Civil War of 3,959–3,956 BBY. The legislation was approved, and banned not only the religion, but all affiliated organizations and governments, as well as the teachings of the Sith philosophy. It remained in effect from the end of the Jedi Civil War until the New Sith Wars, during which it was used as justification for the Republic's battle against the New Sith Empire and its successor organization, the Brotherhood of Darkness. It was apparently nullified sometime during the Republic Classic era, as by the time of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Constitution held provisions that specifically outlawed persecution based on religious affiliation. Read more...
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Sith magic
 "So that the energy we've been feeling&mdash;Sith magic, a power with all the corrupting influence of the dark side of the Force!"

- Wedge Antilles



Traditionally, Sith magic, also known as Sith sorcery, was an arcane expression of Force ability first developed and practiced by the original Sith species through which they manipulated the power of the dark side. The very name of the Sith was adopted by the Dark Jedi Exiles of the Hundred-Year Darkness, who combined Sith mysticism with their own experiments into dark side power to create even more strange rituals and alchemical sciences. Sith magic, while as much a part of the dark side as endowments like Force lightning, was accessible only to those Force-sensitives who possessed an intrinsic relationship with the dark side. Through the recitation of spells, execution of hand gestures, and or the handling of various artifacts, darksiders were able to channel the raw power of the Force's malignant side to warp minds, alter the environment, and obliterate whatever obstacles stood in their way. Males who achieved mastery were known as Sith sorcerers, mages, magicians, or wizards, while females who practiced Sith sorcery were referred to as Sith sorceresses or witches.

Sith magic was prevalent among the citizens of the ancient Sith Empire, and its disciplines were adhered to throughout the span of galactic history, predating even the inception of the longstanding Galactic Republic. Its effectiveness in battle was realized during the Great Hyperspace War of 5,000 BBY, up to and beyond the Great Sith War a thousand years later. Proponents of Sith magic revived its practice briefly during the New Sith Wars, but it became something of an oddity following the reformation of the Republic in 1,000 BBY. By then, a lone Sith apprentice was its only active student. Still, the allure of Sith magic survived through the fall of the Republic in 19 BBY and the subsequent Galactic Civil War, and curious Force-sensitives learned to harness its power from obscure temples on long-forgotten planets and moons. By 137 ABY, the magic of the Sith was studied by the foremost loremasters of Darth Krayt's One Sith Order. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Darth Revan's Sith Holocron
 "I am Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith. Those who use the dark side are also bound to serve it. To understand this is to understand the underlying philosophy of the Sith. The dark side offers power for power's sake. You must crave it. Covet it. You must seek power above all else, with no reservation or hesitation. The Force will change you. It will transform you. Some fear this change. The teachings of the Jedi are focused on fighting and controlling this transformation. That is why those who serve the light are limited in what they accomplish."

- Darth Revan's avatar, to Darth Bane

Constructed by the Dark Lord of the Sith Revan during the Jedi Civil War, Darth Revan's Sith Holocron contained the Sith Lord's teachings on the dark side of the Force, and his knowledge of ancient Sith rituals. It included instructions on how to use the Force power known as the thought bomb, and the lessons from the Holocron focused on the user coveting the dark side and the importance of a Sith Master training one apprentice at a time. Following Darth Revan's redemption and the end of the Jedi Civil War, the Sith holocron remained hidden within the Temple of the Ancients on the planet Rakata Prime.

Three millennia later, the Sith Lord Darth Bane rediscovered Darth Revan's Holocron inside the Rakatan temple and extensively studied the teachings contained inside. Bane copied the Holocron's contents and destroyed the artifact when its power source ceased to work. Bane went on to purge the ruling Sith regime, creating his own Sith Order using the teachings from Darth Revan's Holocron. Bane later transcribed Darth Revan's knowledge into the Telos Holocron, which was eventually studied by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and later the New Jedi Order. Read more...
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Darth Cognus
 "If you become my apprentice, who you were will cease to exist. You must be reborn in the ways of the dark side.''" "I'm ready, my lord." "Then choose a new name for yourself, as a symbol of your new and greater existence." "''&hellip;Cognus."

- Darth Bane and the Huntress, upon the hour of the latter's rebirth



The Huntress was a female Iktotchi assassin who operated in the years following the end of the New Sith Wars. An impeccable record of success saw the Huntress employed by Lucia, a bodyguard working for the royal house of the planet Doan. After efficiently honoring her contract with Lucia, the Huntress was then hired by the bodyguard's charge, Princess Serra, to track down Darth Bane, the only surviving Dark Lord of the Sith of the war of twenty years prior.

With a score of mercenaries allotted to her by Serra, the Huntress ambushed Bane and immobilized him with senflax poison, before taking him into custody and delivering him to the Stone Prison on Doan. Despite the completion of her task, however, she delayed her departure from the penitentiary, believing that her destiny was inextricably linked with that of Darth Bane. She made her way to the prison's hangar bay, where she encountered and dueled the Dark Jedi Set Harth, whom she eventually allowed to flee after conceding the bout to stalemate. Darth Bane arrived shortly afterward, having escaped the torment he had been subjected to at Serra's hands. The Huntress yielded before him and appealed to learn the ways of the Sith from him, an offer which he accepted.

Together they fled the Stone Prison's ensuing destruction and journeyed to the planet Ambria, where the Huntress took on a new name. At Bane's prompting, she cast off the yoke of her former life and became Darth Cognus, so named for her instinctive ability to perceive and influence the future. Before she could formally begin her training, however, Bane's current apprentice, Darth Zannah, arrived to do battle with him for rights to the title of Sith Master. Realizing that the two were evenly matched, Cognus did not interlope but instead pledged to serve the winner of the duel. Zannah emerged victorious, and Darth Cognus' life was then consecrated to the Order of Sith Lords. Cognus ascended to Sith Mastery years later, taking the three-eyed Human mutant Darth Millennial as her apprentice. She was ultimately forced to disavow him for blasphemy against Darth Bane's Rule of Two. Read more...
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Freedon Nadd
 "Freedon Nadd was seduced by the dark side. He apprenticed himself to a Dark Lord of the Sith. After his death, his tomb became a focus of dark side energy, and so his power passed from generation to generation."

- Arca Jeth



Freedon Nadd was an Old Republic Jedi prodigy whose conscious decision to embrace the dark side of the Force had a significant impact on galactic events for many generations after his death. Beginning his career as a student in training on the planet Ossus, Nadd's lust for greater power caused him to slay his Master, Matta Tremayne, before renouncing his affiliation with the Jedi Order. He fled Ossus and made his way to the heart of the old Sith Empire, where he gained an enormous wealth of dark side knowledge. He eventually followed the Force to the jungle moon of Yavin 4, where he found and apprenticed himself to the ancient Dark Lord Naga Sadow. Sadow trained Nadd in the Sith arts, and led the young Jedi even further down the dark path. Eventually believing that he had learned all he could from Sadow, Nadd used his newfound powers to destroy his mentor and left Yavin 4 behind in search of a world that he could conquer as his own. Proclaiming himself to be the new Dark Lord of the Sith, Nadd located the planet Onderon and used his sorcerous powers to subjugate the world and make himself king. He ruled Onderon from his fortress in Iziz until his physical demise in 4,350 BBY. Following Nadd's death, his body was entombed below the royal palace of Iziz, which became a focal point of Sith power. His spirit lingered there as well, teaching the descendants of his bloodline and further steeping Onderon in the miasma that was the dark side of the Force.

By 4,000 BBY, the exaltation of Freedon Nadd's memory was the catalyst for the final battle of the centuries-spanning Beast Wars of Onderon, a conflict that arose between the citizens of Iziz who worshiped the deceased Dark Lord and those who had been cast out for their refusal to pledge allegiance to the Sith. A team of Jedi Knights led by Arkanian Master Arca Jeth came to Onderon and ended the battle by bringing a temporary halt to Nadd's influence over the planet with the defeat of Queen Amanoa. However, Amanoa's husband, King Ommin, reasserted Sith influence over the planet when he summoned Freedon Nadd's spirit from the depths of Chaos. The restored Naddist cult then instigated an uprising when they stole the Dark Lord's sarcophagus in a surprise attack during Amanoa's funeral. Nadd revealed himself to the Jedi and participated in the capture of Arca Jeth, who was ultimately rescued by the Jedi after the defeat of King Ommin during the final stages of the Naddist insurrection. Conceding failure, Nadd abandoned Ommin to the mercy of the Jedi, and his spirit was forever banished from Onderon by the power of Arca Jeth. Prior to his departure, however, Nadd happened upon Tetan socialites Aleema and Satal Keto&mdash;who had come to Onderon in search of dark side knowledge&mdash;and chose to pass the Sith teachings on to them. While Nadd's tomb was relocated to Onderon's jungle moon by the Jedi, his spirit appeared to one of them, Ulic Qel-Droma, and foretold the young Knight's destiny as a Lord of the Sith.

For months Freedon Nadd trained the Ketos in Sith magic, but his interests shifted when Exar Kun, a powerful fallen Jedi with dark side curiosities, stirred the Dark Lord's spirit from within his lunar grave. Nadd guided Kun to the ancient Sith homeworld of Korriban where, through a series of trials designed to test his resolve, he decided that Exar Kun was worthy of Sith apprenticeship. Nadd then led Kun to the ancient dwellings of his own Sith Master on Yavin 4 and was pleased when Kun wholeheartedly embraced the Sith after defeating an enormous Sith wyrm and subjugating the native Massassi warriors. Finally convinced that his apprentice had become one with the dark side, Nadd revealed his need for Exar Kun to create a physical body for him through alchemical means, that he might once again command the power of the Force. However, Kun refused to entertain Nadd any longer, and in that moment betrayed him. His apprentice's strength tremendously amplified by a Sith amulet, Nadd was attacked by Kun with a potent blast of Force energy that mortally wounded the Sith spirit. Consigned to oblivion for a second time, Nadd contacted the Ketos in his final act and warned them of the threat that Exar Kun posed. He then declared that, along with Ulic Qel-Droma, the future of the Sith rested with Satal and Aleema, before fading into Chaos and dying a second death. Read more...
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Seviss Vaa


Seviss Vaa was a male Sith Lord and a powerful member of Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness during the late movements of the New Sith Wars. A scholar, Vaa took particular interest in the alchemical practices of long-dead Sith Lord Naga Sadow, and dreamed of resurrecting the lost art of Sith alchemy. Vaa hoped to create a storehouse filled with the most insidious Sithspawn pulled from the recesses of the dark side of the Force. To that end, the Sith Lord began conducting a series of experiments, hoping to devise monsters with which he could battle the Jedi.

An early experiment of Vaa's took place on the world later known as Aduba-3. Taking a local lizard, Vaa used his powers to mutate the animal, giving rise to a gargantuan creature, conditioned to go berserk at the sight of a Jedi lightsaber. The experiment was unstable, however, and Vaa had it stored in suspended animation below Aduba-3's surface for future study. The Sith Lord subsequently perished during the Ruusan campaign in 1,000 BBY that also saw the deaths of the other members of the Brotherhood of Darkness. His Aduban behemoth caused a great deal of carnage a millennia later, when it wreaked havoc on the village of Onacra. Read more...
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Darth Zannah
 "This is the way of our Order. An individual may die, but the Sith are eternal."

- Darth Zannah, Dark Lord of the Sith



Zannah, known as "Rain" during her childhood, was a Human female from the planet Somov Rit. She was recruited to fight for the Jedi's Army of Light during the Ruusan campaign of the New Sith Wars but, after arriving on Ruusan, was separated from the group during a Sith attack and presumed dead. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, she had been saved and befriended by a member of the native Bouncer species called Laa. When the Brotherhood of Darkness later unleashed a planet-wide Force storm, Rain survived by instinctively enveloping herself and Laa with a bubble of Force energy. Not long afterward, the young girl watched as Laa was haplessly killed by Jedi scouts. Stricken with anger and grief, she unwittingly gave in to the dark side and murdered the Jedi. Her display of rage attracted the attention of the war's only surviving Dark Lord, Darth Bane, who decided to take her as his apprentice. Rain cast away the handle of her youth and instead embraced her birth name, becoming Darth Zannah.

Zannah's preliminary Force training took place on the planet Ambria and involved the study of ancient Sith magic. In her tutelage under Darth Bane, Zannah executed a variety of missions designed to incite anarchist movements throughout the Galactic Republic, including manipulating the terrorist Anti-Republic Liberation Front into a botched assassination attempt on former Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum. From Hetton, the ARLF's leader, Zannah also recovered information regarding the creation of holocrons, a secret highly sought by her Master, who later killed Hetton after Zannah tricked him into an attack on the Dark Lord. When the parasites that comprised Bane's body armor began to cause him concern, Zannah was tasked with infiltrating the Jedi Temple archives on Coruscant to obtain information about the creatures. Her mission complete, Zannah was surprised to encounter her cousin Darovit, who confessed that he had exposed her presence to the Jedi. Zannah fled Coruscant with him and met Darth Bane on Tython, where the Sith prepared to battle the pursuant Jedi. Despite their numbers, all of the Jedi were slain, although Bane was grievously wounded and on the brink of dying. Zannah returned with her Master to Ambria and demanded on threat of death that the local healer save the Dark Lord, which he agreed to do only after Zannah revealed the Sith presence on Ambria to the Jedi. She betrayed and killed the healer upon completion of the procedure and also used her power to drive Darovit mad. The respondent Jedi assumed that he was the Sith Lord they sought and killed him, effectively convincing the Jedi of the Sith's final eradication. With no surviving witnesses, the existence of Darth Zannah and her Master remained safely anonymous.

The Sith relocated to Ciutric IV, and over the course of ten years, Zannah grew to be an accomplished Sith sorceress who equaled Darth Bane in strength. When she failed to confront him for the position of Dark Lord, Bane believed she lacked initiative. However, Zannah had already begun to contemplate his demise. On a mission to Doan, she learned of a Dark Jedi named Set Harth and enlisted the reluctant young man as her apprentice. Zannah returned with him to Ciutric IV to confront her own Master, only to find that Bane had been captured by the Doan Royal Guard. She then returned to Doan, where she infiltrated the place of Bane's imprisonment. She located Bane and fought him, but their duel ended in a draw when both were forced to flee the prison. Soon after, Bane, who had taken the Iktotchi Darth Cognus as his new apprentice, called Zannah to meet him on Ambria, where they dueled for the final time. Zannah was initially overwhelmed by her Master's attacks, but she was able to use her sorcery to injure him. As a last resort, Bane attempted to transfer his essence into her body, but was defeated when Zannah's spirit condemned his to the void of the dark side. Zannah then took Darth Cognus as her apprentice and continued Bane's legacy as Dark Lord of the Sith. Read more... {| width="100%" style="background: transparent; "
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Second Duel on Ambria
 "Only the strongest has the right to rule the Sith! The title of Dark Lord of the Sith must be seized, wrenched from the all-powerful grasp of the Master!"

- Darth Bane

A duel between the Sith Master Darth Bane and his apprentice, Darth Zannah, took place on the planet Ambria in 980 BBY. Bane had begun to fear that Zannah was waiting to challenge him until he grew weak, violating the purpose of his Rule of Two to ensure that the apprentice took the title of Master only because the apprentice was stronger. Bane thus sought the secret of eternal life so that he could live to train another apprentice. Meanwhile, Zannah had finally made her own plans to confront Bane in an attempt to become the Master, and upon learning of his quest for eternal life, she felt as though he had betrayed his own Sith Order. She found and confronted him on the planet Doan, but the duel led to a draw. Bane found a new apprentice, the Iktotchi Darth Cognus, and messaged Zannah to come to Ambria and finish their fight. Upon Zannah's arrival, Cognus swore to serve the true master&mdash;whomever won the coming battle.

The duel began, and Bane instantly gained the upper hand, quickly forcing Zannah to give ground. She tripped while preparing to use a spell on him, and he cracked her rib before she was able to make an energy-draining escape. Zannah then attempted in vain to use sorcery to drive him insane and finally resorted to conjuring dark side tendrils from the ground. He charged her, hoping to strike her down before the tendrils hit him, but one connected with his arm and cut it off. Collapsing to the ground in pain, Bane grabbed Zannah and attempted to transfer himself into her body, using the technique he had learned in his search for eternal life. Her will was too strong, however, and after an intense mental battle she defeated him, casting his consciousness into oblivion&mdash;although part of Bane remained imprinted upon her. Zannah took from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith and, with Cognus as her apprentice, continued the legacy of Bane's Sith Order and the Rule of Two. Read more...
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