Darth Ruin

Darth Ruin, once known as Phanius, was an Umbaran Dark Lord of the Sith who lived over twenty centuries before the Battle of Yavin.

An intelligent and charismatic renegade Jedi Master, Phanius was known for the disturbing tone of his philosophy, which included elements of moral relavitism and solipsism, possibly echoing certain aspects of the much later Potentium.

Phanius abandoned his oath and left the order to pursue prohibited teachings, becoming one of the first to be known as the Lost Twenty and subsequently the founder of the New Sith Empire in an event known as the Fourth Great Schism.

The newly rechristened Darth Ruin and his followers initiated a war against the Jedi, but Ruin's Sith Order quickly disintegrated. Ruin was single-minded and his ambitions led to hatred and betrayal by his followers. Darth Ruin was killed, and the New Sith Wars began.

Behind the scenes

 * When naming him, Abel G. Peña also considered the names Reaper, Fatalis, Necro, Mortalis, Eradicus, and Execute. He also considered giving him a number of "Sithly" professions such as necromancer, sorcerer, warlock, and archmage.
 * According to Peña, due to the Jedi placing Phanius in the Lost Twenty, they probably did not know his identity of Darth Ruin.