History Characters / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLordsSithTriumvirate

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as a normal person on the planet Malachor V... until the Mandalorian Wars got underway. After losing everything because [[spoiler:the Exile]] gave the order to fire the Mass Shadow Generator superweapon to devastate the planet. This weapon changed him into an insatiable, empty being who fed on the life forces of other beings, who was found and trained to feed on ''entire worlds'' by [[spoiler:Darth Traya]].

-->See her [[Characters/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLordsKreia separate page]]. (major spoilers).

* BodyHorror: His body is literally in ''pieces'', every bone broken, every muscle torn, skin scorched or rotted or torn off, and he is ''still alive''. And he feels it. Only his will, fed by his pain, keeps him together.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's unknown how much of a chance not to become Darth Nihilus this man had, as the only facts known about his career is that he suffered the cataclysm of Malachor V, was trained by Traya and later got lost in his own power. In his current state, however, he is a destructive entity because he has absolutely no chance not to be.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Despite all of his vampiric powers, he weakens himself critically against the Exile because they are a Force wound just like Nihilus: all which Nihilus can drain from them is the opposite he needs to live.]]

* TragicVillain: According to his background, he was essentially turned into a Force vampire by his experiences in Malachor V. Sith or not, he's a monster because he has no way to be otherwise.

-->''"To have fallen so far and learned '''nothing''': that is your failing."'' \\
''Darth Traya, to Sion''

-->''"To have fallen so far and learned '''nothing''': that is your failing."''

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As the champion of the Sith Triumvirate, he is strong and has unique abilities that make him a threat to basically everybody. An experienced Jedi master like Lonna Vash apparently stood no chance against him.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:It's implied he might have raped Kreia when he and Nihilus teamed up to betray her]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is in command of the Sith Triumvirate and it's fleet, and has the Force skills of his Sith assassins multiplied by millions. In fact, the fleet is mostly ''ghost ships'' crewed by zombie-like thralls of his through the sheer power of the Dark Side.

* OutsideContextProblem: For the Jedi. They knew that the Sith still existed but had no idea that a menace like Nihilus, who could wipe entire planets, existed until many of them already paid the price. He remains this throughout the story as few people even knew he existed, let alone how to fight him.

* OutsideContextProblem: Like Sion, though in a completely different power. Being a walking black hole that feeds on the Force, Nihilus cannot defeated by conventional means - he cannot even be physically killed, because he doesn't have a living body anymore (apparently, his soul is directly bound to an empty armor and mask). He carries a lightsaber, but he ''genuinely'' does not need it. The only way to beat him is [[spoiler:basically being like him.]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The Sith Empire led by Darth Malak was a traditional Sith horde, focused on sweeping the galaxy and destroying every enemy in sight. In contrast, the Sith Triumvirate works secretly, roaming the galaxy without claiming territory, and employs stealth, terrorism and assassinations rather than open conquest, at least at first. They are still fearsome when faced directly, though, an have a private army of soldiers as well as Sith acolytes. In this way, they serve as a potential inspiration/foreshadowing to the [[Characters/StarWarsRiseOfTheEmpireEraSith Order of the Sith Lords]] from the films, who ultimately succeed in destroying the Jedi.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The Sith Empire led by Darth Malak was a traditional Sith horde, focused on sweeping the galaxy and destroying every enemy in sight. In contrast, the Sith Triumvirate works secretly, roaming the galaxy without claiming territory, and employs stealth, terrorism and assassinations rather than open conquest, at least at first. They are still fearsome when faced directly, though. In this way, they serve as an inspiration/foreshadowing to the Order Of The Sith Lords from the films, who ultimately succeed in destroying the Jedi.
* FighterMageThief: Out of the three Sith lords, Sion is the fighter, being a bruiser effectively unable to die physically; Nihilus is the mage, as he uses mainly his Force abilities and his very existence is sustained by them; and Traya is the thief, being underhanded and an expert on techniques that hide one's presence in the Force.

* KnightOfCerebus: In the story of the first and second games, even after the defeat of Darth Malak, the arrival of the Sith Triumvirate marked the instance in which everything went outright downhill for the side of good. By the beginning of the game, the Triumvirate has already almost succeeded where Malak failed and has annihilated the Jedi Order to the point you can count on one hand how many Jedi are left alive.

* TheRemnant: A lot of their military forces come from previous Sith factions, especially Darth Revan's Sith Empire. Otherwise averted, as their ideology and goals are quite different from Revan's. Ironically enough, they are also led by Revan's ''master''.

* WrongContextMagic: All three of them are a perversion of The Force in some way, which makes them extremely dangerous to other Force users.

* WorldsStrongestMan: Nihilus' ability to consume the Force and devastate ''whole planets'' makes him the strongest Force User in the Galaxy at the time[[note]]His sole competition would be the Sith Emperor Vitiate, whose either an equal or close second, but notably less dangerous because he's not a Wound in the Force. As Vitiate isn't inside the Galaxy at the time, the title goes to Nihilus.[[/note]]. He is the reason that the Jedi have gone into hiding and the primary reason the Triumvirate is such a powerful enemy. Nihilus is far and away the greatest threat the Jedi, The Republic and the entire Galaxy have ever seen as his very existence will eventually end all life anywhere near him.

-->'''Kreia:''' I fear he may even rival some of the ancient Sith. He is already more of a force than a living thing, a Hole in the Force that threatens to draw everything into it. And the teaching must die with him, or else all life will be placed in jeopardy.

-->'''Kreia:''' I fear he may even rival some of the Ancient Sith. He is already more of a force than a living thing, a Hole in the Force that threatens to draw everything into it. And the teaching must die with him, or else all life will be placed in jeopardy.