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* BaitTheDog: The Emperor actually acts like a kindly old man to a village of Twi'leks (especially the children) that he visits when he and Darth Vader are stranded on Ryloth. Then, after the subsequent battle is over, he tells Vader to kill them all -- ostensibly [[HeKnowsTooMuch to get rid of any witnesses]], but in actuality [[ForTheEvulz because he can]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Vader was horrified by this]], though he carried the deed out all the same.
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* BaitTheDog: The Emperor actually acts like a kindly old man to a village of Twi'leks (especially the children) that he visits when he and Darth Vader are stranded on Ryloth. Then, after the subsequent battle is over, he tells Vader to kill them all -- ostensibly [[HeKnowsTooMuch to get rid of any witnesses]], but in actuality [[ForTheEvulz because he can]]. Even Vader [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Vader was is horrified by this]], though he carried carries the deed out all the same.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Palpatine introduces himself and Vader to the Twi'lek villagers as "Death" and "Fate" respectively in the Sith tongue, [[spoiler:hinting towards his plans of killing them all for fun]].
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Chained Sinkhole.
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* VillainProtagonist: Pretty much every viewpoint character except for Cham and possibly Isval, who's an Antihero Protagonist. Vader and the Emperor obviously qualify, as does Belkor Dray. The later parts of the book sometimes switch to the viewpoint of Mors, who's thoroughly on the Empire's side and has quite a few vices, but starts showing [[AFatherToHisMen redeeming]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone qualities]] towards the book's end.
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* VillainProtagonist: Pretty much every viewpoint character except for Cham and possibly Isval, who's an Antihero Protagonist. Vader and the Emperor obviously qualify, as does Belkor Dray. The later parts of the book sometimes switch to the viewpoint of Mors, who's thoroughly on the Empire's side and has quite a few vices, but starts showing [[AFatherToHisMen redeeming]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone qualities]] redeeming qualities towards the book's end.
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* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Sidious tells Vader he does not plan to kill the Twi'lek villagers, because he plans to order Vader to kill them for him.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany:
** Isval notes that Cham would disapprove of her SerialKiller tendencies and repeats to herself her rationalization of why they are necessary. She finds this half convincing, even to herself, but goes through with another hunt anyway.
** Cham realizes during the hunt for Vader and the Emperor that he's slipping into the same SunkCostFallacy that's trapped Belkor, but can't bring himself to back down.
** Isval notes that Cham would disapprove of her SerialKiller tendencies and repeats to herself her rationalization of why they are necessary. She finds this half convincing, even to herself, but goes through with another hunt anyway.
** Cham realizes during the hunt for Vader and the Emperor that he's slipping into the same SunkCostFallacy that's trapped Belkor, but can't bring himself to back down.
* KickTheDog: Palpatine orders Vader [[spoiler:to exterminate the village of Twi'leks that welcomed them, ostensibly to LeaveNoWitnesses but in reality simply because he can and as a bit of petty spite towards Vader, as Vader had stopped him from killing one of them earlier out of PragmaticVillainy.]]
* SunkCostFallacy: Something Cham notes about Belkor is that the man keeps getting in deeper by telling himself he's come to far to back out now. Cham himself later falls into this and keeps pitting the Movement's resources against Vader even after numerous signs that killing him is beyond them because he can only stomach the deaths of those who already died in pursuit of that goal if they succeed in the end.
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* TheWorfEffect: Lyleks are considered the apex predator on Ryloth, with the Twi'leks having all sorts of defenses just to keep them at bay. [[spoiler:Vader and the Emperor slaughter an entire colony almost singlehandedly.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: WhatMeasureIsAMook:
** Alluded to when Isval notes it only cost the Movement thirty men to take down a Star Destroyer. A pained Cham reminds her that thirty is a lot of people.
** When Gobi and Kallon cheer at all the Imperials being killed in the attack on the ''Perilous'', Cham rebukes them for celebrating the deaths of even their enemies.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Lyleks are considered the apex predator on Ryloth, with the Twi'leks having all sorts of defenses just to keep them at bay. [[spoiler:Vader and the Emperor slaughter an entire colony almost singlehandedly.]]]]
** The story makes it very clear that a Star Destroyer is an absolute behemoth of a ship that takes almost every resource Cham had scrounged together over several years to bring down. And the Empire has hundreds of them.
** Alluded to when Isval notes it only cost the Movement thirty men to take down a Star Destroyer. A pained Cham reminds her that thirty is a lot of people.
** When Gobi and Kallon cheer at all the Imperials being killed in the attack on the ''Perilous'', Cham rebukes them for celebrating the deaths of even their enemies.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Lyleks are considered the apex predator on Ryloth, with the Twi'leks having all sorts of defenses just to keep them at bay. [[spoiler:Vader and the Emperor slaughter an entire colony almost singlehandedly.
** The story makes it very clear that a Star Destroyer is an absolute behemoth of a ship that takes almost every resource Cham had scrounged together over several years to bring down. And the Empire has hundreds of them.
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Straight Gay applies to male characters.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: Moff Delian Mors holds the distinction of being the first LGBT character in the new ''Star Wars'' canon, though there were a few gay characters in some ''Legends'' stories. Her sexuality is only touched upon when it's noted that her wife was killed in a transport accident years before the events of the novel.
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* StraightGay: Moff Delian Mors holds the distinction of being the first LGBT character in the new ''Star Wars'' canon, though there were a few gay characters in some ''Legends'' stories. Her sexuality is only touched upon when it's noted that her wife was killed in a transport accident years before the events of the novel.
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Vader and Isval]], the former actually comments on this to the latter (telling her he knows exactly what she means by [[spoiler:murdering out of love]]) right before he kills her.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Vader and Isval]], the former actually comments on this to the latter (telling her he knows exactly what she means by [[spoiler:murdering out of love]]) right before he kills her.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Inverted. Isval is a former SexSlave who kills Imperials that abuse sex slaves, and escaped from her former life by strangling the man who used her.
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''Lords of the Sith'' is a StarWarsExpandedUniverse novel by Paul S. Kemp set in-between the events of ''[[Literature/StarWarsTarkin Tarkin]]'' and ''Literature/ANewDawn''. It is the fourth novel released following the ContinuityReboot by Disney.
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''Lords of the Sith'' is a StarWarsExpandedUniverse Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse novel by Paul S. Kemp set in-between the events of ''[[Literature/StarWarsTarkin Tarkin]]'' and ''Literature/ANewDawn''. It is the fourth novel released following the ContinuityReboot by Disney.
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* CanonImmigrant: Sith tongue, the language used by the Sith species in ''Legends'', returns. The species doesn’t, so the language is relegated to one between the two eponymous Lords of the Sith.
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* ConLang: [[CanonImmigrant Sith tongue]] appears as a secret language between Vader and Palpatine.
