Sith Council

The Sith Council was a body of advisors to the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith in various incarnations of Sith government. In the old Sith Empire, the Council consisted of ten Sith Lords.

Old Sith Empire
This Council convened in a great citadel on Ziost. The Sith Council managed the affairs of the Empire. Each Lord that sat on the Council personally ruled over a minimum of a dozen worlds.

After Marka Ragnos's death, two Lords on the council, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, fought over the position of Dark Lord of the Sith. This conflict created a rift within the council, with several lords siding with Kressh, and the rest siding with Sadow.

Eventually, Sadow was able to convince the council to make him Dark Lord after he convinced them that the Republic was executing hit-and-run attacks within the Empire. After Ludo Kressh discovered the deception, he and two other lords attacked Sadow's fortress, but they were soundly defeated, and Sadow secured his hold over his title.

The only council member known to have survived the Great Hyperspace War was Naga Sadow. This tradition of a Sith Council was apparently not continued by Sadow's successors, Freedon Nadd and Exar Kun.

Dark Council


Hundreds of years after the collapse of Darth Revan's Sith Empire, during the Great Galactic War and the later Cold War, the Sith Council, known as the Dark Council, was a twelve-member council consisting of powerful Sith Lords which obeyed the Sith Emperor. After the Treaty of Coruscant and the conclusion of the Great War, the Emperor withdrew to pursue his own mysterious goals, deferring power over the Empire to the Dark Council. The Dark Council then oversaw the consolidation of the Empire's new domains.

Revan's Sith Empire
Although no information is given, it can be speculated from Revan's comments to Darth Bane in his personal holocron that no Sith Council existed under his rule; Revan believed that the Sith needed to be ruled by a single individual, the epitome and symbol of the power of the Dark Side, in order to stave off destruction by the squabbling of lesser beings.

New Sith Empire
In the New Sith Wars, Kaan seemed to have resurrected this council with himself as its ambiguous head. Unlike earlier councils, each member actually held the title Dark Lord of the Sith in his own right, making for a far murkier chain of succession. However, while only ten Dark Lords were ever seen on the council, at least sixteen others were known to have existed at the time.

Lost Tribe of Sith
On Kesh, the Lost Tribe had established their own version of the Sith Council known as the Circle of Lords. The Circle was located in Kesh's capital city of Tahv. It consisted of a Grand Lord, who served as the head of the Circle, seven High Lords, and thirteen Sith Lords for a total of twenty one members.

Old Sith Empire
5 as of yet unidentified members c. 5,000 BBY
 * Naga Sadow
 * Ludo Kressh
 * Simus
 * Dor Gal-ram
 * Horak-mul

Dark Council

 * Darth Howl
 * Darth Jadus
 * Darth Marr
 * Darth Vowrawn
 * Skeletal Female Dark Lord

Brotherhood of Darkness

 * Kaan
 * Qordis
 * Kopecz
 * Kas'im
 * LaTor
 * Seviss Vaa
 * Hezzoran
 * Borthis
 * Orilltha
 * Shenayag
 * Kaox Krul
 * Darth Bane
 * Githany

Lost Tribe of Sith

 * Darish Vol
 * Takaris Yur
 * Olaris Rhea
 * Workan

Behind the scenes
In a scene in The Golden Age of the Sith the faces of eight members are shown (excluding the already dead Simus and Naga Sadow). Only one other person (besides Sadow) on the council seems to have Dark Jedi blood with the absence of protruding eyebrow ridges and a squashed nose.

In Jedi vs. Sith Kaan and his Brotherhood of Darkness are shown conversing in a room before Darth Bane appears. Of the eight people talking only Githany, Kopecz, and Kaan are named. The other four in this inner circle are unnamed but two of them may perhaps be Seviss Vaa or LaTor as there is strong indication that they are within Kaan's inner circle - Seviss Vaa was described in The New Essential Chronology as one of the highest ranked Sith Lords, and LaTor was described in the Dark Forces novellas as Kaan's "fifth in command". In Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Kas'im, Hezzoran, Borthis, Orilltha and Shenayag are all described as "Lords" and leaders of the Brotherhood of Darkness.

The Essential Chronology refers to it both as "a tribunal of Sith Lords" and the "Sith council."

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction