Tulak Hord

Tulak Hord was a Dark Lord of the Sith that ruled sometime in the ancient past of the Sith Empire after they had begun to use lightsabers, some time between 6,900 BBY and 5,000 BBY. Hord wore a claustrophobic black mask, making him a fear-inspiring sight.

It is unknown how Hord died, but his power was so considerable that a burial chamber was built in his honor in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban. In later years, both Revan and the Jedi Exile visited his tomb (though the entrance was blocked and the tomb looted by the time the Exile arrived).

It was said of Hord that he was the greatest of the ancient lightsaber masters of the Sith. Kreia stated that compared to him, all the greatest masters since were as children playing with toys. He was said to have been buried with a holocron containing his teachings on lightsaber dueling. This may have been the holocron that the aspiring Sith Lashowe asked Revan to help her locate&mdash;which either ended up in the hands of Uthar Wynn or Revan himself.

Behind the scenes
There was some disagreement as to when precisely Tulak Hord lived. Kreia seems to imply he was an ancient Dark Lord from the first Sith Empire, yet she also calls him a lightsaber master, and some sources imply that the Sith did not use such weapons until they re-established contact with the Jedi and the Republic after the Great Hyperspace War.

Updated continuity information from The New Essential Chronology has now refined Hord's historical lifespan&mdash;he lived at some point after the Hundred-Year Darkness and Dark Jedi exile from the Galactic Republic (around 6,900 BBY), until an undefined time prior to the Great Hyperspace War (c. 5,000 BBY).

This suggests that Kreia's remark about Tulak Hord being a lightsaber master could well be correct.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords