Naga Sadow

"The Sith Empire will burn brightly, like a supernova, dwarfing the complacent Republic. We shall hold the entire galaxy in our grasp."

- Naga Sadow

Naga Sadow, also known as Darth Naga Sadow, was a male Sith Lord, and renowned dark side magician during the days of the first Sith Empire. Sadow had ancestors among both Humans and the Sith species of the planet Ziost. He rose to prominence in the final days of the Sith Golden Age, when Marka Ragnos, the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, passed away, leaving the mantle of Dark Lord vacant. During Ragnos' funeral, Sadow engaged in a duel with rival Sith Lord Ludo Kressh for Ragnos' title, only to have their contest ended by the spectre of the deceased Dark Lord himself. After a brief admonition, the ghost departed while issuing a warning to both Sadow and Kressh, stating that the fate of the Sith Empire hung on the balance of their decision on how to proceed with leadership of the Sith people.

However, the unexpected arrival of two hyperspace-traveling siblings on Korriban, Gav and Jori Daragon, immediately spurred Sadow's progressive nature. Seeing them as passports to an ideal opportunity for conquest of the Galactic Republic from which they originated, Sadow masterminded a plot that resulted in his ascendance to Dark Lord of the Sith, with many of the lesser Sith Lords swearing fealty to him&mdash;save Ludo Kressh and those loyal to him. Kressh in turn gathered his own followers, and made an attempt on Sadow's life, striking at his decoy-fortress on the planet of Khar Delba in error. Kressh's attack was thus fruitless, and his forces were defeated by those of Naga Sadow. Now the undisputed ruler of the Sith Empire, Sadow allowed one of the alien travelers, Jori, to return home in feigned earnest; he was in truth allowing the girl to unwittingly lead his forces directly to the Republic.

Daragon made her way to the Empress Teta system to warn the Republic of the impending Sith invasion, but the Sith fleet emerged from hyperspace before an ample defense could be mustered. Leading the Sith forces from his personal meditation sphere, Sadow gave command of his flagship to Gav Daragon, and the Sith launched attacks against various unsuspecting Republic worlds. However, Sadow was betrayed by Gav when he fired upon the Dark Lord's sphere and interrupted his meditations, causing the illusions he had been projecting to fade. The tide of battle immediately turned in favor of the Republic as the bulk of Sadow's forces simply disappeared, and the war ultimately lost to the invaders. His fleet in shambles, Sadow then fled back to Sith space, where he engaged in a final battle with Ludo Kressh, one that resulted in the latter's death. Under the forces of Empress Teta, the Republic followed Sadow to his Empire, in an attempt to destroy the remaining Sith, once and for all. Sadow fled to Yavin 4 with his remaining Massassi warriors, where he hoped to rebuild the Empire.

Failing in his goal, Sadow entered a Sith sarcophagus to wait for someone to seek him out to continue the Sith Empire. 600 years later the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd arrived on Yavin 4, awakening Sadow from his slumber. After he learned all he could, Nadd killed Sadow and left Yavin 4 to rule over the planet Onderon as the new Dark Lord. But Sadow's spirit survived and would continue to haunt Yavin 4 with all of the Massassi to guard his tomb.

The death of Marka Ragnos
"You have held us back long enough, keeping the Sith Empire from its great destiny."

- Naga Sadow, to Ludo Kressh

Naga Sadow lived circa 5000 BBY, 20,000 years after the formation of the Old Republic. Sadow was descended from the Dark Jedi who had fled the Republic after the Hundred-Year Darkness, with only minimal Sith blood to dilute his Human lineage. As Sadow grew, he was trained by the Sith Lord Simus, one-time rival of Marka Ragnos. Sadow would develop his own rivalry with fellow Sith Lord Ludo Kressh, leading to severe confrontations between the two several times. In addition, Sadow owned several Human slaves who worked as miners, soldiers, and crew aboard the Sith dreadnaughts Omen and Harbinger, which were used to for ore mining operations. Two of his leading slaves were Yaru Korsin and his half-brother Devore Korsin, who were the Force-sensitive descendants of Tapani slaves from House Nidantha, a lesser Tapani house.

After the death of Marka Ragnos, the two Sith Lords emerged as favorites to succeed him as Dark Lord. During the funeral of Ragnos on Korriban, Sadow and Kressh engaged in a duel of Sith swords, after a disagreement as to who would better serve the Empire as Dark Lord. They were interrupted by the spirit of Marka Ragnos, who told of a great past and an uncertain future for the Sith Empire, encouraging the Sith to band together. Moments later, hyperlane mappers Gav and Jori Daragon arrived, hoping to establish a trade relationship with the Republic. They were quickly captured and sent to the underground Sith prison on Ziost soon after.

Fate of the Daragons
"They must be precursors to an invasion&hellip;we should kill them at once!" "No&mdash;not until we interrogate them. They may be alien spies&hellip;or they may be the key to ripe new fields for the Sith Lords to conquer."

- Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow discuss the Daragons

Naga Sadow, meeting with nine other Sith Lords on Ziost, the central world of the Sith Empire, discussed the Daragon's ultimate fate. Ludo Kressh demanded that they be killed immediately, citing that they would return to the Republic, which would attack with a large military force. As was usually the case between the two, Naga Sadow (along with his former master Simus) passionately disagreed with Kressh, outlining the possibilities of keeping them as prisoners to his fellow Sith. The following speech of his won over many of those present.

Sadow later sent a group of his loyal Massassi guards to the impound dock of Ziost, where the Daragons' ship, the Starbreaker 12, was being held, to steal a distinct Republic blaster from the cargo hold. He gathered a strike group of his Massassi and infiltrated the Ziost prison, freeing the Daragons, killing anyone in their way, including Sadow's former mentor Simus. After purposefully leaving the Republic blaster behind, Naga took the Daragons to his private fortress on Khar Shian, the moon of Khar Delba.

Dark Lord of the Sith
Naga Sadow returned to Ziost to find a meeting underway regarding the recent attack. The other Sith Lords, most of all Ludo Kressh, were angered by the apparent Republic rescue of Gav and Jori Daragon, and Sadow, pretending to be shocked at the death of Simus, insisted that they must retaliate against the Republic. Further, he insisted that he be crowned the new Dark Lord of the Sith, promising to not falter in the face of the "new threat." All but Ludo Kressh of the Sith Lords were unanimously giving this title for him, soon earning the ceremonial circular mark on his forehead to signify this. He then took the title of "Darth" for himself.

It was around this time that Naga Sadow transported Jori Daragon to his decoy fortress on Khar Shian's host planet of Khar Delba, to isolate the siblings from each other. His aim in doing this was to begin teaching Gav Daragon ancient Sith magic, sensing his innate strength in the Force. Before long, Gav began forming images out of thin air, noting the dissimilarity between it and what the Jedi attempted to teach him when he was a child.

Naga Sadow once again sent his Massassi to Ziost, this time to capture the Daragons' starship, the Starbreaker 12, and transport it to Khar Delba. In the bloody massacre that preceded the ship's commandeering, the Massassi once more left behind a clue, this one being Naga Sadow's emblem. It wasn't long after this that, upon seeing the evidence left behind, Ludo Kressh attacked Sadow's decoy fortress on Khar Delba.

Ludo Kressh, along with allied Sith Lords Dor Gal-ram and Horak-mul, bombarded the icy planet with a large fleet of battleships. Naga Sadow, planting a homing beacon on the Starbreaker 12, encouraged Jori Daragon to flee to safety. She was hesitant to leave without her brother, but Naga was able to convince her to leave. After confirming her leap to hyperspace, the Dark Lord called upon his fleet on Khar Shian, surprising and overwhelming Kressh's forces. Naga Sadow, with the press of a button, commanded Massassi loyal to him on Horak-mul and Dor Gal-ram's ships to kill their captains, and they did so without question. Following this and brutal attacks from the Khar Shian fleet, Ludo Kressh had no choice but to retreat.

Later, as Naga Sadow's Massassi workers attempted to repair the considerable damage done to the Dark Lord's decoy fortress, Gav Daragon was transported to Khar Delba at Sadow's request. Once he arrived, Naga Sadow began to convince him to assist the Sith Empire in his invasion of the Republic; Gav, tied up in the whereabouts of his sister, was easily manipulated. Shortly thereafter, during a meeting in the Dark Lord's war room, what was unbeknownst to Naga Sadow a decoy fleet of ships arrived at the fortress on Khar Delba, relaying a hologram message of Ludo Kressh. Sadow ordered Gav to press a button on the wall, causing what would seem to be Kressh's flagship to explode. Ignoring Gav's shock from killing someone, Naga Sadow began preparing his forces for their invasion.

Assistance in his war effort came from all across the Sith Empire, including from Ch'hodos and its ruler, Sith Lord Shar Dakhan. Gathering a massive fleet of warships, each carrying thousands of Massassi warriors and gigantic war beasts retrieved from various Sith worlds. The Dark Lord himself sat in his comparatively small meditation sphere, ominously shaped like an eye. As his fleet converged over Khar Shian, Naga Sadow appointed Gav Daragon to commander of the attack on Koros Major, Gav's home planet. And with that, the fleet made the jump to hyperspace, prepared for anything the Republic might throw at them.

Unintended Consequences
"...You may have more freedom of action than other Sith allow their slaves&mdash;but the greatest thing your kind can aspire to is competence in my service.And that is what I demand of you. Your work will create my glory. Begin your preparations. Succeed in my name. Fail me&mdash;and die."

- Naga Sadow's hologram transmission to Yaru Korsin prior to his fateful mission to Phaegon III

Naga Sadow's invasion of the Galactic Republic also sowed the seeds for the origins of the Lost Tribe of Sith, a purely Human Sith tribe that lived on the Wild Space planet of Kesh. Prior to his planned invasion of the Deep Core world of Kirrek, Sadow ordered the Human Yaru Korsin and the former Kaleesh Jedi Saes Rrogon, the captains of the Sith dreadnaughts Omen and Harbinger, to deliver a mining team led by Korsin's half-brother Devore Korsin to the Phaegon system. Korsin and Saes were tasked with extracting and delivering lignan crystals to Sadow's forces on Kirrek. Lignan crystals were powerful lightsaber crystals crafted from Lignan ore which enabled the blade of a lightsaber to last longer and burn hotter than normal crystals. Sadow also dispatched the Sith quartermaster Ravilan Wroth and his retinue of Massassi warriors to escort the Sith expedition.

While Sadow had designated Korsin as the leader of the expedition, he also reminded the Human Sith in a holocron transmission that he was still subject to the former's law and whim. While Sadow gave Korsin more freedom of action than most other Sith masters, he still expected that his Human slaves aspire to competence while in his service. This was what he demanded from the crew of the Omen and the Harbinger. Sadow also reminded his underlings that he would only expect success and that failure would be punished by death. The Omen and Harbinger left the main Sith mining flotilla which had gathered at the gas giant of Primus Goluud and travelled to Phaegon III. There, Captain Korsin ordered the bombing of the moon's surface to clear the way for a team of harvester droids to mine the Lignan. Despite their mission's success, the Sith mining fleet was attacked by a Jedi Infiltrator starfighter, piloted by Saes's former Jedi Master Relin Druur and his Padawan Drev Hassin. While the dreadnaughts' Blade-class starfighters fought the intruder, the two ships made preparations to jump into hyperspace.

Hassin crashed his starfighter into the Harbinger, causing a series of explosions which killed himself and pushed the Harbinger towards the direction of the Omen. Meanwhile, Korsin's ship began to move out of the way too late, and the two dreadnaughts collided as the Omen jumped to hyperspace. The Omen was pushed just off course, and while in hyperspace encountered a massive gravity well that tore the ship apart. After a dangerous journey through hyperspace, the Omen crash-landed on a mountain in the remote planet of Kesh. Since the Omen and its transmitter relay was badly damaged, it was unable to return to the stars and its crew and passengers would remain stranded permanently on Kesh. The Massassi warriors eventually succumbed to an unknown pathogen in Kesh's atmosphere. Later, Captain Yaru killed his estranged half-brother Devore Korsin during a duel near the Omen; eliminating a rival to his leadership of the 332 stranded Sith crew and passengers.

Meanwhile, Saes dueled his former master Druur on the Harbinger, seeking to end the score between them once and for all. He succeeded in wounding Druur but failed to stop him damaging the Harbinger hyperdrive. Druur's actions caused the Harbinger to accidentally jump over five thousand years into the future. With the Lignan ore, Saes used the Force to keep his ship together until it emerged from the the warp. Upon learning of what had happened, Saes intended to return his cargo to Sith space, unsure of what had happened to the Empire. During a final duel against Druur, Saes was finally killed by his former Master, who was angered by the death of Drev Hassan. Shortly later, Druur, who had also succumbed to the Dark Side, was killed during a lignan ore explosion which also destroyed the Harbinger and its crew. This effectively destroyed the last remnants of Naga Sadow's forces.

The Great Hyperspace War
"My plan has worked perfectly&hellip;now, without question, the Sith Empire is mine. So, too, will be the Republic."

- Naga Sadow, plotting against the Galactic Republic

The Sith fleet's first encounter was with the Starbreaker 12, under new ownership of Ssk Kahorr, who had recently acquired it as recompense for damages done to his business by Jori Daragon. The Sith promptly destroyed the Starbreaker 12, and Sadow assured Gav, who feared for his sister, that there were no Human lifeforms aboard. Gav's ships then made their way to Koros Major, with Naga Sadow traveling to the massive star Primus Goluud to meditate.

From here, Sadow formed great illusions on the battlefields of Koros Major, Coruscant and Kirrek, creating mirages of war beasts and Massassi troops, weakening the resolve in his Jedi and Republic opponents, as well as those planets' civilians. This meditation was eventually interrupted by Gav Daragon, who, piloting one of his capital ships, fired upon the Dark Lord's meditation sphere, breaking his concentration and causing his magical illusions to fade, eventually leading to Sith defeats on all three planets.

Naga Sadow lured Gav to his meditation sphere, asking to discuss the matter peacefully. Gav agreed, taking his personal shuttle to the damaged craft, but the Dark Lord was gone by the time he arrived. As a small fleet of Koros ships, commanded by Empress Teta herself, and including Jori Daragon, arrived, Gav transmitted coordinates to the Sith Empire to the Empress, citing that all of their defenses were away invading the Republic. Moments later, the regrouped Sith fleet led by Naga Sadow arrived, apparently focusing the Force through his flagship into Primus Goluud before withdrawing to hyperspace. As explosions started to ripple all over the supergiant, Gav yelled at Jori to leave, and reluctantly, she and the opposing fleets did so just before the star went nova.

The Dark Lord's fleet came out of hyperspace over Korriban, and were quickly confronted by a large contingent of Ludo Kressh's ships. Ludo Kressh declared himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith, casting Naga Sadow out of the Sith Empire forever. A brief space battle ensued between the two, until Naga Sadow crashed one of his own ships into Ludo's flagship, killing the self-proclaimed Dark Lord.

Moments later, Empress Teta's forces arrived above Korriban, and attacked Sadow's fleet. The Koros ships quickly took advantage, crippling the Dark Lord's flagship. As a last resort, Naga Sadow ordered the Massassi on two of his ships to kill their captains, forming a barricade between himself and the Republic ships. A small squadron of starfighters followed Sadow however, but he once again used the Force to manipulate solar flares, this time on the nearby Denarii stars, causing them as well to go nova, destroying the starfighters and their pilots. Empress Teta, presuming Sadow to have died in the explosion, recalled her fleet and returned to Koros Major.

Naga Sadow, with his lone ship, retreated to the remote moon of Yavin 4, fourth moon of Yavin Prime. It was here that he conducted alchemical experiments on his Massassi warriors, causing them to mutate from red-skinned Humanoids into fearsome, savage, hunchbacked predators. Due to the earned loyalty, his Massassi slaves treated him like a god despite these abuses, building huge temples to honor their Sith Lord. Naga Sadow had hopes of reconstructing a new base to form a new Sith Empire, but this was never realized by him.

A Sith Mentor
"I cannot fail like this! Conquest is the destiny of the Sith Empire!"

- Naga Sadow

Sadow encased himself in a suspended animation chamber, beneath the focusing chamber of a primary temple, where he remained in a coma-like trance for centuries, waiting for someone to call upon his power and continue the history of the Sith. He remained in suspended animation until 4400 BBY, when a dark-hearted Jedi named Freedon Nadd arrived on Yavin 4, awakening Sadow's spirit. Nadd learned the ways of the Sith from Sadow's spirit and King Adas's Holocron and then attempted to destroy Naga Sadow's spirit after gleaning information about Sith Sorcery and plundering Sadow’s vaults for Sith artifacts. Nadd then traveled to the planet Onderon, which he conquered and made his own; there he proclaimed himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith.

While Sadow never created a new Sith Empire as he dreamed, another Dark Lord, who managed to escape in the Unknown Regions, later rebuilt the Empire and even attacked the Republic more than a thousand years later.

During Sadow's reign the Sith constructed a tomb for him on Korriban. The tomb did house a Star Map left behind by the Infinite Empire, and Naga Sadow's poison blade. During the Great Hunt, Shaela Nuur died in this tomb while fighting two terentateks. This tomb was later used by the Sith academy Master Uthar Wynn as a final test for Sith hopefuls to join the Sith Order, in which a student would have to retrieve a Sith lightsaber from the farthest room in the tomb, where the Star Map was located. Here it was that Revan and Malak found the Star Map, and later Revan returned after his memory was wiped to again find the Star Map. After Revan retrieved the Star Map and the lightsaber, he killed Master Uthar Wynn as Wynn's treacherous apprentice, Yuthura Ban, looked on. Revan also defeated Ban in a duel immediately afterward, but spared her life and allowed her to return to the light. The tomb was also later visited by the Jedi Exile Meetra Surik, though she could not enter it as its door was blocked.

In 3756 BBY, Jedi Master Barel Ovair and his Padawan Eison Gynt traveled to Yavin 4 to explore Sadow's tomb. The Jedi found that Sadow's Massassi warriors survived the bombardment of the moon during the Great Sith War, and were promptly attacked by the beasts. They fled inside the temple, and only Ovair returned to Coruscant. The Jedi Master lied in his report to the Jedi Council that Gynt was killed. Gynt was still alive, and was eventually possessed by Sadow's spirit. Using the Padawan's body, the Dark Lord reached Coruscant years later, and fought Ovair, but lost. Later, Jedi historian Gnost-Dural ascertained that Ovair was in reality a Sith, who infiltrated the Jedi Order. His orders from the Sith Emperor were to seal Naga Sadow's spirit, so that the dead Dark Lord would not interfere with the Emperor's plans.

Sometime in his life Sadow wrote a treatise about the use of alchemy and poisons which would one day be read by Darth Bane. At some point before his death, he also created a holocron in which he transcribed his knowledge of alchemy. This holocron was lost until its discovery by Darth Sidious, who incorporated its study of alchemy into his own work, The Creation of Monsters, and into the Telos Holocron.

The Lost Tribe
"Naga Sadow is just a name from folk tales&mdash;'Korsin's celestial ally.' That&mdash;that thing acted like it owned the Omen. And the crew!''" "''They weren't conquerors. They were diggers in the dirt. And the great Yaru Korsin was just a delivery boy."

- Korsin Bentado and Iliana Hilts reacting to revelations about the Tribe's true history On the planet Kesh, Naga Sadow's stranded Humans slaves became the rulers of a primitive alien civilization but remained trapped on Kesh for the next five millennia. Eventually, the stranded Sith established contact with the Keshiri, a purple-skinned near-Human species that was indigenous to Kesh. The Keshiri geologist Adari Vaal, who was fleeing religious persecution, stumbled upon the Sith's encampment and established a working relationship with the Sith. Korsin and Vaal exchanged information about their respective situations&mdash;Korsin learned that there were many villages full of Keshiri on the mainland of the planet, Kesh, and about Keshiri society in general, including the Keshiri's belief in the Skyborn gods. With Adari's help, the Sith were able to establish themselves as the new ruling elite of the Keshiri by claiming to be the Skyborn. They overthrew the Neshtovar, a ruling priestly elite that rode uvak, winged reptilian beasts that were used for transportation and maintaining communications across the continent of Keshtah Minor, which became the Tribe's main domain for the next two thousand years.

Under the leadership of Grand Lord Yaru Korsin and his wife Seelah Korsin, the Sith offworlders developed into the predominantly Human Lost Tribe of Sith. In 4985 BBY, the Red Sith members of the Tribe were purged following the mass poisoning of several Keshiri villages in the Ragnos Lakes which resulted in the deaths of a 100,000 Keshiri. Having consolidated its dominance over the Keshiri, the Tribe then turned its attention to internal threats. In 4975 BBY, Korsin and his daughter Nida Korsin defeated an attempted coup d'état by his wife Seelah and his step-son Jariad Korsin, who were seeking retribution for the murder of her husband Devore Korsin. The Tribe also foiled a planned Keshiri uprising led by Adari Vaal, which sought to overthrow the Sith and to drive them offworld. While Korsin succumbed to his wounds and died, he designated Nida as his successor and she would rule for the next seventy-nine years, which would be remembered as a "golden age" within the Tribe. By then, the Human Sith on Kesh numbered around six hundred individuals.

The Tribe also rewrote its history by destroying or distorting all information relating to their enslavement under the Red Sith, particularly Naga Sadow. By 3000 BBY, Naga Sadow would be remembered among the Tribe as Korsin's "celestial ally" from folk tales. Following the Red Sith Purge, the Tribe gradually forgot what the Red Sith looked like. Instead, the Red Sith members of the Tribe were remembered in Keshiri tales as being "deformed in some way" and being the antithetical opposites of Seelah's "perfect" Human specimens. By 3000 BBY, a faction had emerged within the Tribe which revered and worshipped the "original 57" or the "Different Ones", which had become the cryptic nicknames for the Red Sith. To cover up the fact that the Tribe's founder Korsin had not returned to Sadow in order to escape punishment for failure, the Tribe's leadership adopted the belief that they were the Protectors, benign gods in Keshiri mythology who had returned to Kesh. Prior to his death, Korsin himself concealed Sadow's hologram transmission, the last remaining relic of the Tribe's true history, by recording his testament over it. In 3000 BBY, Sadow's secret transmission was discovered and this sparked a violent bloodbath known as the Great Crisis, which devastated much of Keshtah.

In the end, the Caretaker Varner Hilts ended the crisis and reunited the Tribe after he discovered a map which confirmed the existence of a second continent known as "Keshtah Major" or Alanciar. The new Grand Lord Hilts also commissioned a new testament which acknowledged the Tribe's origins as slaves to the Red Sith of the Sith Empire, particularly Naga Sadow who was remembered as a "monstrous thing." However, Hilts highlighted that the Tribe's ancestors resisted their enslavement by learning about Sith philosophy and the Dark side of the Force. While Hilts also acknowledged that the Tribe's arrival on Kesh had been accidental, he emphasized that the Tribe had turned the tables on their former Red Sith oppressors and rightfully exterminated them. This enabled the Sith Tribe to realize their "true destiny" as the rulers and slavers of the native Keshiri. Twenty-five years later, Hilts succeeded in annexing Alanciar and bringing it under Sith rule.

Personality and traits
"Your progressive ways will ruin the Sith Empire, Naga Sadow!"

- Ludo Kressh

Naga Sadow believed that beings who were not of Sith blood were nonetheless capable of participating in the furtherance of the dark side and of the Sith Empire. Ambitious and ruthless, Sadow would stop at nothing to achieve his goal of becoming Dark Lord of the Sith and pursuing the expansion he felt necessary for the Empire's survival. His willingness to kill his own mentor, Simus, in the process demonstrated the lengths to which he would go. He was also intelligent and manipulative, framing the Republic for his actions to gain the support of the other Sith Lords and luring Ludo Kressh into a trap in an attempt to eliminate his rival, while at the same time tricking the Daragons into thinking he could be trusted.

However, Sadow was also overly confident, and it was this that led to his downfall. The Republic was much larger than the Sith Empire and Sadow overexerted his forces during his invasion. At the same time he left the Empire undefended and, therefore, returned to find his power usurped by Kressh. Sadow commanded loyalty from those who served him but appeared to care little about them, frequently sacrificing his Massassi in order to further his goals. On Yavin 4, he demonstrated his contempt for them by conducting his experiments with apparently no remorse for the side effects of his actions.

Due to his Red Sith ancestry, Naga Sadow's face exhibited many decidedly non-Human traits. Most evidently, his skin was reddish and his chin ended in two pointed tentacles. The Dark Lord was completely bald, and huge veins bulged from his skull. His hands were tipped with claws comparable to those of an uvak, a winged reptile from Kesh. An imposing man, Sadow stood 1.88 meters tall.

Powers and abilities
"Here in my Meditation Chamber I can see the galaxy in my mind's eye&hellip;I can visualize vast armies, powerful fleets, invincible warriors&hellip;and with Sith arts, my imagination can make them real!"

- Naga Sadow

Naga Sadow was an accomplished Sith sorcerer. He chose to delve into forbidden Sith teachings, and augment his dark side power with long-forgotten Sith traditions. One of Sadow's greatest strengths was his ability to create illusions. With the aid of his meditation sphere Sadow could focus his abilities to generate illusions of large Sith forces on remote worlds. These phantom forces were able to even cause damage to Republic troops. Furthermore, even several Jedi Masters present at Coruscant could not recognize the illusions for what they were. If it was not for the intervention of Gav Daragon, this may have been enough to deliver victory for the otherwise outnumbered Sith forces.

Sadow also demonstrated an ability to manipulate solar activity through the Force, giving him the power to create solar flares and twice using this to escape from Republic forces, once causing the already unstable star affected to explode. However, to use this ability required a one-of-a-kind Force-enhancing crystalline apparatus onboard the Corsair.

Equipment
Naga Sadow had a mystical Sith sword that was simply called "Naga Sadow's Poison Blade." The blade carried a toxin which poisoned the victim when it inflicted injuries.

During the Jedi Civil War when Revan searched for the Star Maps, he retrieved a poison sword in the tomb of Naga Sadow on Korriban.

Behind the scenes


Naga Sadow's original appearance and backstory in Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith contradicts his later exposition. In Dark Lords of the Sith, despite appearing Human, Sadow is stated as being pure Sith, and not claiming any descent from the exiled Dark Jedi. He was also stated to have been only a Sith Acolyte and powerful magician, and to have been 'banished' to Yavin 4 by the ruling Dark Lords of the Sith. The story was fully developed (and somehow altered) in Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith

IGN had reported that the Sith Emperor of Star Wars: The Old Republic is none other than Naga Sadow, but since other sites, including the official website, were vague on the matter, the identity of the Sith Emperor remained uncertain. However due to a misunderstanding in a recent interview many have taken the words of Daniel Erickson, lead writer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, to mean the Sith Emperor was indeed the Emperor during the Great Hyperspace War. He has since posted a message saying this was not his intention and that the Sith Emperor was not the Emperor during that era, and therefore not Naga Sadow. The Old Republic: Revan confirmed it further, giving the Emperor a name and backstory.

Although earlier sources remained ambiguous on the death of Naga Sadow, the Freedon Nadd entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia mentions that Sadow's spirit was destroyed by Nadd as do most other more recent canonical sources when referring to Naga Sadow's death. Nevertheless, he must have survived in some form at least until Eison Gynt and Barel Ovair went to Yavin 4.