Sith King

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"The guardian beasts called tuk'ata stand watch over the tombs and protect them from desecration. They have long been the royal companions of Sith Kings."
―Extract from Jen'jidai Sorzus Syn's titular chronicle[1]

"Sith King" was a title traditionally held by certain rulers of the Sith species prior to the arrival of the Dark Jedi Exiles to Korriban in 6900 BBY at the end of the Hundred-Year Darkness.[2]

Due to the kratocratic cultural mores of the Sith people,[3] Sith Kings were generally among the most powerful Force users of their times and often engaged in protracted campaigns of conquest against their rivals.[4] Many Sith Kings were protected by tuk'ata Sithspawn companions in life and death, buried in such sacred locations as the Valley of the Sleeping Kings[1] and the Valley of Golg.[4]

Among the most notable Sith Kings were Adas,[5][6] Dathka Graush,[7] and Hakagram Graush, the latter of whom was the last to have held the title prior to the formal establishment of the Sith Empire by the Exiles.[1] The title fell out of widespread usage in the years that followed, replaced by the equivalent title Jen'ari meaning "Dark Lord of the Sith" in the Sith language.[3][8]

Behind the scenes

Though Sith holding the title of "king" have appeared in the Legends continuity since 1996's Tales of the Jedi Companion, the term "Sith King" was first employed as a fully capitalized title on page 118 of the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas and on page 142 of the 2010 sourcebook The Unknown Regions. It first saw usage as a proper noun in its own right on page 37 of the 2012 reference book Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side.

Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls, which was published when[9] the canon was that the first Dark Lord of the Sith reigned ~25,000 BBY,[10] refers to Dathka Graush as a "Dark Lord" who reigned "over seven millennia before the Battle of Yavin."[4] However, The New Essential Chronology retconned the first Dark Lord of the Sith to have reigned in 6900 BBY,[11] a century after Graush's reign.[4] Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor retconned Dathka Graush to be a "King of the Sith".[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
  2. ↑ Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 HyperspaceIcon Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties on Hyperspace (backup link) (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 WizardsoftheCoast Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls: Part 3: The Dark Lord's Heart on Wizards.com (original site is defunct)
  5. ↑ The Essential Atlas
  6. ↑ The Unknown Regions
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
  8. ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 154 ("Jen'ari")
  9. ↑ WizardsoftheCoast Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls on Wizards.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
  10. ↑ The New Essential Guide to Characters
  11. ↑ The New Essential Chronology

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