Adas

Adas was an ancient Sith warlord who lived circa 28,000 BBY, long before the exiled Dark Jedi of the Hundred Year Darkness conquered his species. He used his knowledge of the dark side of the Force to conquer and subjugate his homeworld, which he ruled as king.

Adas was clad in signature black armor, attire that matched the dark hue of his own skin. His mastery of Sith magic and reputation of conquest led his people to regard him as a near-immortal figure.

By the time the Rakata came to conquer Korriban, Adas was over three centuries old, and, although they taught him the secrets of constructing the pyramidal Sith holocron, Adas knew the invaders were bent on conquest. He led the Sith race to victory over the Rakatan invaders, but at the cost of his own life.

His legendary reputation inspired the Sith ideal of the Sith'ari, a mythical messiah figure for the species and the dark-side orders that followed it.

Behind the scenes

 * In the Tales of the Jedi Companion, Ood Bnar says Adas lived "more than two dozen millennia ago." The Old Sith Empire was established by fallen Jedi Knights around 6,900 BBY, which would preclude Adas having been part of this regime.
 * Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties retconned Adas to being an actual Sith ruler who lived at the approximate time Ood Bnar's comment, rather than an actual Sith Lord like Darth Sidious.
 * A holocron flashback in Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic depicts what is labelled by Ood Bnar as a Dark Jedi garbed in black armor. This may be Adas, despite the fact he appears to be wielding a lightsaber in the vision. However, Evil Never Dies author Abel G. Peña said that he did not specifically base Adas on the Holocron Dark Jedi, and while they might be the same, he didn't consider them to be.