Line #519 Characters/DarthBane


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3	!!Introduced in ''Path of Destruction''.
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5	[[folder:Darth Bane]]
6	!!Darth Bane (Dessel)
7	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-darth_bane-tea_3500.jpg]]
8	!!!'''Species:''' Human
9	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Apatros
10	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Path of Destruction'', ''Rule of Two'', ''Dynasty of Evil''.
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12	->''"I am the Dark Lord who will restore the Sith to glory. They call me Bane."''
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14	Star of the ''Literature/DarthBane'' trilogy of novels. He destroyed the obsolete original Sith Order and created his own.
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16	* AbusiveParents: His father beat him from childhood up until his late teens, when Bane accidentally killed him with the Force. For a given value of "parent", he would likely count as this towards Zannah, albeit more in the sense that he is TheCorrupter and put her through a TrainingFromHell, not that he was ever pointlessly cruel to her for no reason.
17	* TheAntiChrist: Bane extensively researches the Sith'ari prophecy that is the Sith's equivalent to the Chosen One. Since he believes the Force is there for him to command, instead of vice versa, he discounts the prophecy, but if the Sith'ari does exist [[spoiler:it's probably Bane himself.]] This was later confirmed by the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. Even though his plan takes [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo one thousand years]] to pull off.
18	* AppropriatedAppellation: His abusive father used to call him "the bane of [his] existence", and even after Hurst's death, his friends continued calling Dessel "Bane". After joining the Sith, he takes the name for his own as a symbol of turning his pain and suffering into a strength.
19	* AwesomeButImpractical: His Orbalisk armor ultimately proved to be this. The Orbalisks provided him with a NighInvulnerable layer of defense, greatly increased his strength and connection to the Darkside, and granted him a HealingFactor. It also came with several problems. It made stealth practically impossible with how noticeable it was, the increased adrenaline flow could send him into a [[UnstoppableRage mindless rage]] if he didn't keep his anger in check, and if an Orbalisk dies it [[TakingYouWithMe pumps its host full of lethal toxins]]. The last one is what almost killed him and is the main reason he had it removed.
20	* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the day, everything falls into place exactly as Bane envisions; he destroys the Brotherhood of Darkness, establishes his new Sith Order, and successfully trains a worthy apprentice. Even Bane's own death is in accordance with his doctrine, and even after he's gone, Bane's Sith continue on for a thousand years, a feat few other Sith can claim to match.
21	* BadassBookworm: It's implied that much of Bane's knowledge of the Force comes entirely from his diligent study of Old Sith lore. It's especially impressive when you realize that Bane was a miner with little-to-no formal education and no training in the Force whatsoever until he was in his mid-twenties.
22	* BaldOfEvil: He's gone bald from the toxic dusts he breathed in during his youth, while working in the [[MadeOfIndestructium cortosis]] mines of his homeworld.
23	* BenevolentBoss:
24	** As sergeant of the Gloom Walkers, Dessel led by example, saved his squadmates lives on many occasions, and actually mutinied against their commanding officer to prevent them from being led into a suicide mission. Sadly, the deeper he delves into the dark side, the more detached he gets from this camaraderie; by the time he meets one of his old friends again many years later, Bane doesn't care in the least for her (in fact, he only ''vaguely'' recalls her) and was ready to kill her despite the fact that [[UngratefulBastard she had just saved his life]].
25	** While "benevolence" doesn't really enter into it anymore, Bane is a stern and merciless taskmaster, but he doesn't hesitate to praise Zannah when she manages to impress him.
26	* TheBerserker: While wearing his orbalisk armor, Bane fights with a reckless abandon, employing pure brute force with no thought to defense, as the parasites grant him NighInvulnerability.
27	* BigBad: As well as VillainProtagonist, Bane's machinations begins the Sith Order anew and sets into motion the Grand Plan that will eventually be realized by Darth Sidious.
28	* TheBigGuy: Bane reportedly stood 2 meters tall. For perspective, that's Vader's height ''in-suit''.
29	* CharacterTics: After narrowly surviving the destruction of his orbalisk armor, Bane develops a tremor in his left hand and he tends to open and close the hand repeatedly to keep it under control.
30	* TheChessmaster: Bane had established a massive network of spies and informants across the galaxy to keep him informed of various political movements.
31	* TheChosenOne: Darth Bane is the prophesized Sith'ari, a legendary being foretold to lead the declining Sith into destroying the Jedi and conquering the galaxy.
32	* CombatPragmatist: As befitting a Sith, Bane uses any trick necessary to win.
33	* CurbStompBattle: Bane is on the receiving end of one when first dueling Sirak. He returns the favor later on.
34	* DeadlyUpgrade: The orbalisk-armor he wore for ten years. The parasites provided him NighInvulnerability upped by a HealingFactor strong enough to instantly heal lightsaber-cuts, and increased both his physical and Force powers to monstrous levels. However at the same time they were constantly poisoning him, feeding on his Dark Side energies, and caused him to flew into {{Unstoppable Rage}}s, that completely clouded his mind and judgement. [[spoiler:Even when he finally gets rid of them, their dying act leaves his body with damage that lasts the rest of his life.]]
35	* DentedIron: By ''Dynasty of Evil'', a combination of age, traumatic injury, and a lifetime of using the corruptive power of TheDarkSide has done a great deal of damage to Bane. While still a force to be reckoned with, he's not what he once was.
36	* {{Determinator}}: Nothing stops Bane when he sets his mind to it.
37	* EmotionEater: Once, close to death, Bane murdered two children so that he could use their father's grief to fuel his own connection to the Dark Side and keep himself alive.
38	* EntertaininglyWrong: As he gets older and starts feeling his age, Bane fears that Zannah is just waiting for him to grow weak and helpless so she can take the title of Sith Master with ease. The reality is that Zannah is biding her time because she's worried that Bane is just faking his declining health (knowing that he's exactly the kind of cunning opponent who'd do something like that) and wants to make sure she's capable of beating him before trying her luck.
39	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: While he can understand how Jedi tend to think, by the time of ''Dynasty of Evil'' he's so far into the Dark Side that when Lucia, an old army comrade from his days in the Sith footsoldiers, frees him from imprisonment he's baffled by her given reasons, and figures she's either a dribbling idiot or trying to get something from him. The notion she is legitimately trying to free him out of hideously misplaced loyalty to her former squadmate just doesn't click.
40	* EvilCounterpart: He's kind of the anti-Luke Skywalker: both of their mothers died in child-birth. Bane's father was an [[AbusiveParents Abusive Parent]], and he was partially responsible for Bane growing up to be a sociopath. Luke's father didn't even know of his existence, and during their first meeting cut off Luke's hand in a duel, and tried to tempt him to join TheDarkSide. Both Bane and Luke are immensely powerful in the Force. Both have brought around the destruction of the Sith Order of their time. As Bane rebuilt the Sith in accordance with his vision, so did Luke rebuild the Jedi Order. As if trying to lampshade this, when Bane made an appearance in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' he was voiced by Creator/MarkHamill.
41	* FeelingTheirAge: Although barely middle-aged by ''Dynasty of Evil'', Bane's lifelong use of TheDarkSide has done a number on his health, to the point that he worries that Zannah is just waiting for him to decay to the point where she can kill him with ease instead of proving her superiority over him at his best.
42	* FreudianExcuse: Darth Bane was abused as a child by his father and grew up on an armpit of a planet. Bizarrely, while it's easy to see how this shaped him into a monster, he makes no attempt to justify his actions with it.
43	* FromNobodyToNightmare: An abused, unloved, poor miner living on a complete backwater mining colony. ''No one'' would have expected him to end up being the one to reinvent the Sith and kickstart a ''thousand-year'' Grand Plan that culminated in the rise of the Empire and '''Palpatine'''.
44	* GeniusBruiser: Unlike [[BookDumb most other]] Sith at the Academy on Korriban, Bane spent a great deal of his time reading and studying the histories and philosophies of past Sith Lords, and by the end of his life was an expert on these subjects. He was capable of formulating incredibly complex and long-term plans, manipulating others easily, without even using the Force, and he accumulated an immense wealth of both money and information by using his facade as a trader. He also happens to be a master lightsaber duelist, and an immensely powerful user of TheDarkSide.
45	* GenocideFromTheInside: He orchestrates the deaths of every Sith except himself and Zannah so he can create the Rule of Two.
46	* GrandTheftMe: To learn to stave off death in ''Dynasty of Evil'', Bane learns Darth Andreddu's ritual of essence transfer, which would allow him to transfer his soul into someone else's body. He tries it in a last ditch effort to win his final duel with Zannah, but he fails and dies, although he does leave an impression on her.
47	* GreaterScopeVillain: For the entire Skywalker Saga. The RuleOfTwo that he put into place would govern the Sith all the way to Sidious's death, and in fact Sidious's conquest of the Galaxy and creation of the Galactic Empire was ultimately the culmination of his plan.
48	* HeroWorshipper: In his time at the Sith Academy, Bane comes to idolize [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Revan]], finding him to be the ideal Sith Lord despite his eventual redemption. It's finding Revan's Sith holocron and his example in taking on a single apprentice that inspires Bane to create the Rule of Two.
49	* {{Hypocrite}}: Subverted. Zannah derides him as one when he starts looking for a means of immortality, but she eventually catches on to the truth, that Bane doesn't want to be truly immortal, just to extend his life long enough to see his vision through.
50	* IAmNotLeftHanded: One of the reasons Zannah held off on killing him was the suspicion that he was holding back some technique for a rainy day. [[spoiler:He was. But it doesn't save him.]]
51	* IgnoredEpiphany: After killing a fellow student in the Brotherhood of Darkness, Bane had a crisis of conscience, being unable to justify it besides it had been out of rage. He also realizes that he murdered his father with the Force without knowing it and feels haunted by this realization. This only lasts for a while, of course, and Bane returns to being the ruthless Sith he was before.
52	* IHaveManyNames: Born as Dessel, he takes the name "Bane" upon joining the Brotherhood of Darkness, extending it to "Darth Bane" after being inspired by Darth Revan. As the Dark Lord of the Sith, Bane uses a number of aliases, including "Lord Eddels" and "Sepp Omek" to gain wealth and power for his long-term plans.
53	* ImmortalitySeeker: When he feared that Darth Zannah would never become powerful enough to strike him down, he attempted to discover the secret of immortality so that he would live long enough to destroy the Jedi himself. When Zannah found out, she pointed out that this violated the RuleOfTwo that he himself created (though she later conceded that it didn't truly, since the Master still had to do everything they could to survive, and she realises that he only did it because he feared that since she still hadn't try to kill him that she lacked the necessary ambition).
54	* {{Irony}}: Bane is disdainful of [[EvilIsPetty petty sadism]], preaches that there should only be two Sith at any given time, and feels that the Apprentice must overthrow the Master in the DuelToTheDeath rather than through trickery or deceit, to prove that the next Master is stronger than the last. Flash forward a thousand years, and Palpatine - the Sith who brings all of Bane's plans and ambitions to fruition - is the exact opposite of all of this, a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] with a [[LaughablyEvil warped sense of humour]], who trains an apprentice Darth Maul while still serving under Plagueis, whom he murders by getting him drunk and torturing him to death with Force Lightning while he starts to sleep, partly out of fear that he might be slightly stronger than he is.
55	* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. Bane is a cold, cruel social Darwinist who, by his own admission, doesn't feel things like pity, gratitude, or remorse, and who inflicts pain and suffering on others without hesitation, but he rarely goes out of his way to KickTheDog unnecessarily, and is too disciplined and pragmatic to indulge in petty acts of malignance.
56	* LargeAndInCharge: He was two meters tall, and very muscular in build.
57	* LaserBlade: He wielded the blade of his Fencing Master's Master.
58	* LightningBruiser: Bane is very fast, in spite of his size.
59	* LongGame: So long in fact that he was fully aware it could not be obtained in his life time, hence the Rule of Two he established.
60	* ManipulativeBastard: Bane, when he destroys the Brotherhood by playing on Kaan's ego.
61	* MasterSwordsman: Effortlessly took on the Jedi Grandmaster and the Jedi Weaponmaster of his time ''simultaneously''. Of course, it helped that most of his body was invulnerable to lightsabers.
62	* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: For a Force wielder Bane is an oddity in that he lacks any precognitive abilities whatsoever, not even vague dreams. It's something of a problem for him what with that whole "Grand Plan" thing meaning an ability to see problems coming often puts him on the backfoot, which is why he takes a shine to the Huntress.
63	* NoBodyLeftBehind: His body was destroyed when he tried to take over Zannah's body.
64	* PragmaticVillainy: While Bane's a coldblooded killer, he's not a petty sadist, doesn't kill on a whim, and will spare people's lives if they prove themselves useful. He also sabotages many plots to split up the Republic, not because he cares about it, but because a fractured galaxy is more work to subvert and conquer.
65	* RuleOfTwo: He created the rule that only two Dark Lords of the Sith could exist in any given time: a master and an apprentice.
66	-->'''Darth Bane:''' Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody power, the other to crave it.
67	* TheSleepless: ''Path of Destruction'' states that after Bane started learning and training at the Sith Academy, he found that he needed almost no sleep and instead relied on just an hour or two of daily meditation to keep his body energized and his mind invigorated. After wandering the wastelands of Korriban for two weeks, he did need to sleep, but only for a few hours.
68	* TheSocialDarwinist: He's a firm believer of "survival of the fittest". This is part of the RuleOfTwo: a Sith Lord remains in charge by proving himself the strongest until his apprentice eventually becomes strong enough to defeat him. Notably, Bane doesn't exclude himself from this belief; while held captive at the mercy of a vengeful enemy, Bane acknowledges that, by his own ideals, if he's not strong enough to save himself, he deserves to die. Likewise, he refuses to find a way to use the Force to heal himself or fix the damage the years do to his body, figuring if it kills him, he deserves it.
69	* SternTeacher: To Zannah. While hardly kind or merciful, he wasn't cruel.
70	* TheStoic: By the end of ''Path of Destruction'', Bane has evolved into a stone cold killer who rarely lets any emotion shine through (and even when he does, it's usually [[UnstoppableRage murderous rage]]).
71	* TragicVillain: Although all his sympathetic traits are swept away by the end of the first book, Bane was a good man forced into a bad situation in the beginning.
72	* TookALevelInJerkass: Dessel starts out capable of appreciating things like loyalty, generosity, and compassion. Over time, Bane strips himself of these qualities, becoming utterly cold-blooded, merciless, and cruel.
73	* {{Ubermensch}}: Sought to make the Sith Order greater than it was before by destroying it and remaking it with the RuleOfTwo.
74	* TheUnfettered: Bane doesn't do morality, or indeed any kind of rule other than the exaltation of strength.
75	* UngratefulBastard: After his old comrade Lucia saves his life in ''Dynasty of Evil'', Bane barely comprehends why she helped him, makes it clear that he doesn't feel a shred of gratitude or obligation to her, and would have killed her if Zannah hadn't interrupted and killed Lucia first.
76	* VillainsNeverLie: When captured and tortured by Serra, she demands he tell her who killed her father. While drugged too much to give a fully coherent response, Bane does at least answer her questions truthfully in as much as he's able, so when she asks if he killed her father, he says he didn't.
77	* VillainProtagonist: Of the eponymous Darth Bane novels.
78	* VillainousLegacy: Bane's remade Sith Order endures for over a thousand years after his death, and the consequences of the actions taken by Bane's successors linger for decades after that; Bane's actions shaped essentially the entirety of the ''Legends'' canon from his lifetime on.
79	* VisionaryVillain: Bane's vision of a new Sith Order and the ultimate dominance of the Sith over the Jedi and the Republic is what drives his actions, and it outlives him by centuries, culminating in Darth Sidious and the rise of the Galactic Empire.
80	* WouldHurtAChild: Bane has no qualms about threatening or murdering children if it gets him something he needs.
81	* WrongAssumption: In order for Bane's plan to defeat the Jedi to succeed, he assumed that all of the future Sith would follow the RuleOfTwo to the letter. However, at least three Sith Lords before this occurred, Darth Tenebrous, Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, ignored parts of the rule for their own benefit: seeking ways to achieve immortality, murdering their master in a dishonorable way, training more than one apprentice at a time or training one behind their master's back. Darth Bane failed to take into account that Sith in general are driven by not just their desire to destroy the Jedi, but also by their passion and lust for power.
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84	[[folder:Darth Zannah]]
85	!!Darth Zannah (Rain)
86	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-darth_zannah_terc_9590.jpg]]
87	!!!'''Species:''' Human
88	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Somov Rit
89	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Path of Destruction'', ''Rule of Two'', ''Dynasty of Evil''.
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91	->''"This is the way of our Order. An individual may die, but the Sith are eternal."''
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93	Originally a homeless orphan discovered by Bane. He noted her great potential in the Force and took her on as his apprentice.
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95	* BadassBookworm: Given that her specialty in the Force is sorcery, which requires intensive study in the Force. Her only education was also through her study of the Force under Bane.
96	* BastardUnderstudy: During most of the Bane trilogy she was acting as Darth Bane's apprentice.
97	* CainAndAbel: A cousins variant with Darovit. She's the Cain, using the Force to shatter his mind and leave him as a patsy for the Jedi to kill.
98	* ChildMage: Even at the age of 10, Zannah is strong enough in the Force to [[spoiler: disintegrate her cousin's hand.]]
99	* ClingyJealousGirl: Invoked by Zannah, who tells her lover Kel that if she ever finds her with another woman, she'll cut the woman's heart out. Downplayed, because Zannah is neither clingy nor jealous enough to do it, but she is '''cruel''' enough.
100	* CombatTentacles: She summoned tentacles made of pure Dark Side energy in her final duel against Darth Bane.
101	* CripplingOverspecialization: Double-fold at that:
102	** The only lightsaber style she mastered is the defensive Soresu. This means that, while she can protect herself from almost any opponent, she herself can't go on the offensive until the opponent tires out and/or makes a mistake- and if that doesn't happen she's in a risk of tiring out herself.
103	** Similarly, she only developed her sorcery-related Force abilities which, as powerful as they are, take immense concentration to use. This leaves her unable to perform them while defending herself in a lightsaber duel and conversely unable to defend herself while using them.
104	* DarkActionGirl: A powerful and scary warrior who happens to be female.
105	* {{Deuteragonist}}: The second protagonist after Bane, as the trilogy is also her story of how she eventually surpasses her master and becomes the new Dark Lord.
106	* DisproportionateRetribution: When she found out a woman had slept with her boyfriend, she put her in a permanent coma, with what little was left of her mind forced to suffer nightmares for the rest of her life. Never mind that she'd been using the boyfriend for one of Bane's schemes, which ended with him dying.
107	* DoubleWeapon: Wields a double-bladed lightsaber.
108	* TheDragon: To Bane in the ''Darth Bane'' novels.
109	* DragonAscendant: The trilogy concludes with her as the first in a long line of these.
110	* EnfantTerrible: Young Zannah takes some time to fully embrace her role as Bane's apprentice, but once she does, she becomes a cold-blooded killer.
111	* EvilOrphan: Zannah's parents are dead, and she's Darth Bane's apprentice.
112	* EvilSorcerer: More so than other Sith Lords, for Zannah has an innate gift for 'Sith Sorcery'.
113	* TheFace: With Bane's orbalisk infestation making him easily identifiable, it falls on Zannah to handle much of the infiltration and interpersonal work that involves the groundwork of Bane's grand plan.
114	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zannah is much more physically pleasing than her master, avoiding the usual pitfall of EvilMakesYouUgly, but no less a monster.
115	* FauxAffablyEvil: Unlike the more stone-faced Bane, Zannah can put up a good front of civility and friendliness, but beneath that, she's thoroughly sadistic and wholeheartedly devoted to her master's vision of Sith domination of the galaxy.
116	* FemmeFatale: She's described as very attractive, and she's perfectly aware of it, using her beauty on numerous occasions to get information from unsuspecting males she encounters.
117	* {{Foil}}:
118	** For Bane; they're both powerful Sith Lords with a DarkAndTroubledPast, but they're otherwise total opposites in physicality, personality, and combat method of choice.
119	** For Johun in ''Rule of Two''. Both are young students just coming into their power when the story begins, but where Johun becomes a capable Jedi, Zannah goes further and further into evil. Just to show they're not so different, the story has a scene where both use the Force to nudge the minds of those around them for their own goals.
120	* GainingTheWillToKill: Commits her first murder by accident at age ten. A kindly ship-owner from Ruusan and his kids follow next.
121	* IHaveManyNames: Like her master, Darth Zannah had used many names in her lifetime: Rain as a child, Zannah as her Sith name (and also her real name), Rainah when infiltrated on Serenno, Nalia Adollu when infiltrating the Jedi Temple and finally Allia Omek.
122	* IKnowWhatYouFear: See MindRape.
123	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The ''Darth Bane'' novels end with her killing Bane and becoming the next Dark Lord (or Lady) of the Sith, but the way they work means she will one day be supplanted by her own apprentice, who will be killed by her apprentice in turn, and so on.
124	* KidSidekick: A villainous version. Zannah is this to Bane in the first half of ''Rule of Two''.
125	* LaserBlade: Her double-bladed lightsaber.
126	* LittleMissBadass: Young Zannah is a villainous version in ''Rule of Two'', but only briefly before the time-skip jumps to her as a young adult.
127	* MagicKnight: While this is a common attribute for all Jedi and Sith, Zannah deserves special mention for her aptitude in Sith Sorcery and developing many unique force skills.
128	* MindRape: One of her skills is being able to bring forth the most terrifying nightmares from a person's subconscious in the form of hallucinations.
129	* MsFanservice: Very pretty, and fully aware of it.
130	* NiceToTheWaiter: Not because of actual niceness, mind (Sith, remember), but simply out of basic pragmatism. People are more likely to help and assist the good looking lady who's tremendously polite to them, and it gets her a network of unnoticed workers she can plug for information at minimal expenditure.
131	* PragmaticVillainy:
132	** When Bane is injured, Zannah attempts to save his life. The reason for this is because he hadn't fully taught her all of his dark side abilities, yet.
133	** Why she's NiceToTheWaiter. People are more likely to help someone who's nice to them, giving her a small network of contacts of her own for a minimal cost.
134	** Zannah believes in no killing without a good reason. That said, the minute she ''has'' a reason... out comes the lightsaber.
135	* {{Sadist}}: Unlike the more pragmatic Bane, Zannah clearly enjoys inflicting pain on others.
136	* ASinisterClue: She's left-handed, and is one of the few ''Star Wars'' characters (let alone Sith) to be described as such.
137	* StealthExpert: One of Zannah's abilities is to use the dark side to conceal her presence.
138	* StoneWall: Zannah is trained in Soresu, a form of lightsaber combat that places heavy emphasis on defense and endurance.
139	-->'''Zannah''': Defense will not slay my enemy.\
140	'''Bane''': You lack the physical strength required for the powerful attacking strikes of Djem So or the other aggressive forms. You must rely on quickness, cunning and, most of all, patience to best your enemies.
141	* SupernaturalFearInducer: Capable of using the Sith magic power of "summon fear" as noted under MindRape and IKnowWhatYouFear.
142	* ThatManIsDead: An unusual variant. Zannah goes by Rain as a child and goes back to using her birth name when she becomes Bane's apprentice.
143	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Rain was a sweet little girl but circumstance molded her into every bit the sociopathic monster it takes to become a Sith.
144	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After watching her friend be killed in front of her by her rescuer and losing all of her family to a fate worse than death, all at the age of 10, is it any wonder she turned to the dark side?
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147	[[folder:Kaan]]
148	!!Lord Skere Kaan
149	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/23021c6b_cb2c_456e_b774_b51f77da7f1c.jpeg]]
150	!!!'''Species:''' Human
151	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Coruscant
152	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
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154	The Dark Lord who leads the Brotherhood of Darkness prior to Bane’s creation of the Rule of Two.
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156	* AndIMustScream: As with everyone else caught in the Thought Bomb, what little of Kaan's mind is stuck in unimaginable torment for a thousand years.
157	* BeardOfEvil: Kaan has a goatee and is evil like any Sith.
158	* BigBadWannabe: Despite being the leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness, Kaan turns out to be a weak man desperate to find a way to defeat the Jedi; Bane finds him laughably easy to manipulate, with Kaan being duped into destroying not only himself, but his own army, leaving [[VillainProtagonist Bane]] free to recreate the Sith in his own image.
159	* CharmPerson: Kaan uses his charisma (and possibly some minor MindControl) to keep the other Sith from fighting each other.
160	* DesperationAttack: At Darth Bane's suggestion, he and the remaining members of the Brotherhood combined their powers to create a Thought Bomb, which killed both the New Sith and a hundred Jedi, including Lord Hoth, leaving what was left of their consciousness trapped in torment for a thousand years.
161	* FallenHero: Kaan is yet another Jedi turned bad.
162	* {{Irony}}: Despite his mastery of mind tricks, Kaan himself was weak willed and preached Rule by the Strong to hide his own weakness.
163	* JediMindTrick: Unsurprisingly for a fallen Jedi, Kaan was very good at using mind tricks to keep his subordinates under his control. Only Bane and Kopecz were strong-willed enough to resist it.
164	* SanitySlippage: He was driven mad by the Dark Side due to his desperation at his inability to beat the Jedi. This meant he was easily manipulated by Bane into using the Thought Bomb.
165	* SmugSnake: Kaan is really confident in his abilities. Just another reason Bane hates him. Most notably, he was confident that he and his followers would survive the Thought Bomb, he was very wrong.
166	* UnwittingPawn: Kaan was one to Darth Bane. Using the Thought Bomb really helps Bane to rebuild the Sith Order with his Rule of Two.
167	* AVillainNamedKhan: ''Kaan'' but close enough.
168	* VisionaryVillain: Kaan united the Sith under his Brotherhood of Darkness, making them all equals and giving them the Dark Lord title to all of them, with him at the top, while rejecting the teachings of the Siths before them. This is the primary reason why Bane wants to wipe out the Brotherhood: according to him and inspired by Darth Revan's holocron, there were too many Sith Lords, which dilutes the power of the Dark Side.
169	* WrongAssumption: Everyone in the Brotherhood thought that Bane came back with them to Ruusan to take over the Brotherhood, especially Kaan, who was jealous of Bane's power (after an impressive display of the Dark Side earlier). This blinds him to Bane's real goal: the destruction of Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness.
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172	[[folder:Kas'im]]
173	!!Kas'im
174	!!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek
175	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Nal Hutta
176	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
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178	A Twi’lek Sith Lord and the duel instructor in the Brotherhood of Darkness.
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180	* IAmNotLeftHanded: During their duel Bane seems to have gained an advantage as he has trained specifically to counter Ka'sim's double lightsaber technique, only for Ka'sim to cut his doublelightsaber in two and to reveal that he's just as good with two lightsabers, revealing that he kept some of his techniques secret from his students, overpowering Bane, who instead relied on the Force and cunning to kill him as he cannot beat his mentor with the lightsaber.
181	* JoinOrDie: Offers this to Bane on Lehon. The latter rejects it, resulting in their final duel.
182	* MasterSwordsman: Kas'im is a Sith Blademaster, and is considered to be the greatest swordsman in the galaxy and perhaps in history. He proves to be worthy of his reputation, being the one who trained Bane after his crushing defeat at Sirak's hands into the MasterSwordsman he is, and is a master of using a single lightsaber, a double-bladed lightsaber and two lightsabers at the same time. His skills are such that he overpowered and nearly killed Darth Bane, who had to rely on his cunning and Force powers to bury his mentor under rubbles instead.
183	* SuperPersistentPredator: Kas'im said this to Bane in their final duel. Those were his last words before receiving tons of stone of the temple they are in on him.
184	--> ''I will follow you wherever you run. Wherever you go I will eventually find you and kill you. Don't live your life in fear, Bane. Better to end it now.''
185	* StrongAndSkilled: While he isn't as strong as Bane or Kaan with the Force, he's still a powerful Sith and above all he's an extraordinary lightsaber duellist with a mastery of single blade, double-bladed and dual wielding lightsabers all at the same time.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:Kopecz]]
189	!!Kopecz
190	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0dbaf718_c08f_4223_809a_06684cfb53a4.jpeg]]
191	!!!'''Species:''' Twi'lek
192	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ryloth
193	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
194	A fallen Jedi turned Sith Lord in the Brotherhood of Darkness.
195	----
196	* CommanderContrarian: Kopecz was often the first voice of dissent against Kaan, stirring the other Sith against him on issues such as the prolonged battle for control of Ruusan. However, Kaan was always able to sway Kopecz into siding with him.
197	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Thankfully averted in his case. Kopecz was the only Brotherhood Sith on Ruusan not to fall victim to the [[AndIMustScream Thought Bomb]], as he was already aware of what the consequences of it would be beforehand. Instead, he dies in honorable combat with Farfalla.
198	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Kopecz is the Sith Lord recruiting Bane for their cause. This is the essentially his only role in Darth Bane's story but this action has changed the Sith forever.
199	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nothing good came from him recruiting Bane.
200	* WorthyOpponent: Kopecz has the respect of some of the Jedi Masters.
201	[[/folder]]
202
203	[[folder:Githany]]
204	!!Githany
205	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74859e8d_ff2c_4dac_a736_889755fbb60d.jpeg]]
206
207	!!!'''Species:''' Human
208	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
209	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
210	An ambitious female Sith Lord in the Brotherhood of Darkness.
211	----
212	* AwesomeButImpractical: Many Sith on Korriban, Bane included, scoff at the lightwhip as being an effective weapon due to how incredibly difficult they are to control. [[AvertedTrope Therefore]], Bane is absolutely amazed at how efficient Githany is with it.
213	* BrokenPedestal: Like most members of the Brotherhood of Darkness, she's loyal to Kaan and refuses to turn on him despite Bane's urges, which is why he ends up deciding that she has die with the others. However as the battle on Ruusan turns into a disaster and upon hearing Kaan's plan to use the Thought Bomb and seeing Kaan's face, she realizes that Kaan is insane and sees him for the false messiah he is, realizing that Bane was right about Kaan all along. However, by that point it's too late.
214	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Githany betrayed the Jedi, Sirak and finally Bane himself. The only one she doesn't betray is Kaan (something Bane asks her many times to do) which ultimately results in her death.
215	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Githany realises the folly of the Thought Bomb and tries to flee from it. She manages to get right to the edge of the Bomb's radius... which means that instead of dying instantly, like those at its epicenter, Githany's death is painful and slow enough for her to realise exactly what's happening.
216	%%* DarkActionGirl: Due to being a member of the Sith.
217	* FallenHero: She was a Jedi before becoming a Sith.
218	* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She's both attracted to and frustrated with Bane, as he's the only one attracted to her who doesn’t fall under her thumb, and has has his own plans and keeps secrets from her.
219	* {{Irony}}: When trying to escape the Thought Bomb, she planned to rejoin Bane once again to become his apprentice, studying at his feet, learning everything he knows, even if it takes years or decades armed with patience, and then turn on him and take an apprentice of her own. Without even discussing that with him, this mindset is ''exactly'' what Bane seeks for an apprentice, understanding what he wants for the Sith in her final moments. Unfortunately for Githany, by following Kaan, she was discarded by Bane and he left her to die with the rest of the Brotherhood.
220	* RedHerring: The relationship between her and Bane in ''Path of Destruction'' seemed to be leading to the outcome of Githany becoming Bane's apprentice. Ultimately, she doesn't. Zannah, a character who was never seen or mentioned prior to her recruitment, does.
221	[[/folder]]
222
223	[[folder:Qordis]]
224	!!Qordis
225
226	!!!'''Species:''' Human
227	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
228	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
229	One of the instructors at Kaan's academy on Korriban, and one of Bane's chief adversaries.
230	----
231	* AcademyOfEvil: The headmaster of the Brotherhood's Academy.
232	* EvilMentor: Qordis is this to Bane.
233	* {{Greed}}: Qordis had embezzled funds from the Brotherhood to satisfy his avarice. After his death, all of his wealth will comes into Bane's possession.
234	* UndignifiedDeath: After Bane rejects his allegiance, he wanted to die in honorable combat against Bane. Despite Qordis' pleas, the latter instead just kills him using the Force and leaving his body on the floor.
235	* WrongAssumption: While everyone in the Brotherhood thought that Bane came back with them to Ruusan to take over the Brotherhood, Qordis was the first to tell Bane and offers his allegiance. Unfortunately for him, Bane was planning to ''destroy'' the Brotherhood, not lead it and Qordis was swiftly killed by the Dark Lord.
236	[[/folder]]
237
238	[[folder:Sirak]]
239	!!Sirak
240	!!!'''Species:''' Zabrak
241	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Iridonia
242	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
243	Bane's rival at the Sith academy on Korriban.
244
245	----
246	* AintTooProudToBeg: In his final confrontation against Bane, when Githany kills his two accomplices and Sirak himself is beaten, he begs for his life. Bane responds by beheading him.
247	* CurbStompBattle: Sirak and Bane exchange those during their rivalry: Sirak won their first duel and Bane won the second. Their last confrontation is once more into Bane's favor.
248	* OffWithHisHead: His final fate, courtesy of Bane.
249	* TheRival: Sirak is this to Bane.
250	[[/folder]]
251
252	[[folder:Hoth]]
253	!!Lord Hoth
254	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/858a20d2_0d94_44a6_ae0f_716b147299d7.jpeg]]
255
256	!!!'''Species:''' Human
257	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Kaal
258	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
259	The Jedi Master leading the resistance against the Brotherhood of Darkness.
260	----
261	* TheDeterminator: The man will not stop until he's eradicated the Sith from the face of the galaxy, with or without the council's permission.
262	* HeadbuttingHeroes: He and Farfalla might have wanted to defeat the Sith, but they constantly clashed with each other.
263	* HeroicSacrifice: He chose to lead a small contingent of Jedi into the caves of Ruusan, knowing full well that Lord Kaan would have something waiting for them.
264	* KnightInSourArmor: Hoth isn't nearly as optimistic or cheerful as Valenthyne.
265	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His name was actually Rohlan, but everyone knew him as Lord Hoth due to achieving a major victory on the ice planet.
266	* [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Lords Who Actually Do Something]]: That's right, he's a Jedi ''Lord'' to you, peasant. During the Republic Dark Age, influential Jedi Masters were actually allowed permanent residence in ornate castles on planets that were otherwise defenceless to Sith invasions, and could even form dynasties. Case in point, Hoth comes from a long line of esteemed Jedi Lords who rule over the Yushan sector.
267	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Recruited Force-sensitive children into the Army of Light to keep them out of the hands of the Brotherhood of Darkness.
268	[[/folder]]
269
270	[[folder:Valenthyne]]
271	!!Lord Valenthyne Farfalla
272	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e4e3b139_f2e4_44c2_9f8f_b4cc58a64ebf.png]]
273
274	!!!'''Species:''' Half-Bothan
275	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
276	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction'', ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
277	An eccentric and vain Jedi Master who has fought against the Sith for years and just wants the war to end.
278	----
279	* AgentPeacock: Perhaps the most flamboyant, fashion-conscious Jedi ever. The traditional Jedi values of modesty and antimaterialism clearly got lost on him somewhere along the line.
280	* BigBad: In the VillainProtagonist ''Darth Bane'' trilogy, the noble Jedi Farfalla is the closest that ''Rule of Two'' has to one of these.
281	* BlingOfWar: In contrast to the minimalist dress code of most Clone Wars Jedi, and even most Jedi of his own era, Valenthyne wears diamond-encrusted golden armour into battle and generally looks immaculate at all times. He even has a gold lightsaber!
282	* BlueBlood: Inherited his "Jedi Lord" title from his nobleman father.
283	* CharacterDeath: He and a party of Jedi are killed at the end of ''Rule of Two'', having fought Bane.
284	* TheCharmer: Compared to Hoth's gruffness, Farfalla is much attuned to the fine art of diplomacy.
285	* TheDandy: Lord Farfalla is initially treated as a bit of a joke by the Sith.
286	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Going after Zannah and her master with only four other Jedi, without alerting the rest of the Order, was a very reckless and foolish thing to do. While they knew that Zannah was Bane's apprentice, the latter could have very well spent the previous decade recruiting more apprentices and even formed his own army, and they would have been outnumbered and slaughtered. While this obviously doesn't occur, they still get defeated by two Sith. And while the Jedi would have been informed that the Sith survived, due to Zannah's gambit to heal Bane, the Jedi that were dispatched to kill the (presumed) Sith, assumed that that he was the only one left.
287	* FaunsAndSatyrs: Being a rare Bothan hybrid, he has the look of one.
288	* HalfHumanHybrid: Although the human part can only be assumed, he is definitely half-Bothan. From the waist up, he looks completely human, with his bestial Bothan genes only manifesting in his furry legs and tail.
289	* IGaveMyWord: Vowed to Hoth to eradicate the Sith, which he uses as justification to go to Tython hunting after Zannah.
290	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Rushing off to Tython without telling the Council as a whole may not have been the smartest idea of all.
291	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's significantly more level-headed and approachable than Lord Hoth.
292	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Like Hoth, Farfalla is a Jedi Lord as well as a Jedi Master, meaning that he owns land on at least one world.
293	* YouAreInCommandNow: Became the leader of the remnants of the Army of Light and what was left of the Jedi after the death of Lord Hoth.
294	[[/folder]]
295
296	[[folder:Pernicar]]
297	!!Pernicar
298	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fd59c211_a5b5_4f3c_9589_8cb41e451848.jpeg]]
299
300	!!!'''Species:''' Human
301	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
302	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction''.
303	\
304
305	----
306	* TheLancer: Pernicar is this to Lord Hoth.
307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Caleb]]
310	!!Caleb
311	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/35d2bd73_40c2_4984_b853_f3d38fba22f6.jpeg]]
312	!!!'''Species:''' Human
313	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ambria
314	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction'', ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
315	\
316	The healer.
317	----
318	* ChoosingNeutrality: Caleb did not want to partake in the war between the Jedi and Kaan's Sith. So he chooses to lives isolated on Ambria, becoming a healer to the common people.
319	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Zannah hacks him to pieces.
320	* TheHermit: Caleb lives isolated on Ambria.
321	* PapaWolf: He stands up to a ''Sith Lord'' with nothing but sheer willpower (and douses his own arm in ''boiling water'' to show his determination) to keep his daughter hidden and safe. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but he still gets points for trying]].
322	* ShooTheDog: After Bane threatens his daughter to get his compliance, Caleb sends her off into the wider galaxy, with no idea where, so it can't work again.
323	* TortureIsIneffective: Caleb is extremely resistant to torture, to the point of dousing his own arm in boiling water and feeling nothing. Bane didn't even attempt to torture him before threatening his daughter. Years later, Zannah tortures him to make him heal her master but this didn't work at all, Caleb even taunting her while being tortured.
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:Serra]]
327	!!Serra
328	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7958b6ac_b409_4552_85e7_c937eac664af.jpeg]]
329
330	!!!'''Species:''' Human
331	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ambria
332	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction'', ''Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil''.
333	\
334	Caleb's daughter.
335	----
336	* DaddysGirl: Her desire for vengeance is solely motivated by her father's death.
337	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Once she realizes she is absolutely going to die and there's not a thing she can do about it, she calmly accepts it, severely putting out the Huntress, who wanted her to suffer.
338	* MarryForLove: The explanation for how a girl from a backwater ends up married to royalty, especially when she hates the trappings that come with the station.
339	* MeaningfulRename: Serra was not her birth name but a name she took when she leaves her father to protect her from Bane, doing so on Caleb's advice.
340	* MissingMom: Her mother is never mentioned.
341	* RagsToRoyalty: Serra goes from being the nondescript daughter of a healer on a backwater planet to the princess of the royal family of Doan by the time she reappears in ''Dynasty of Evil''.
342	* {{Revenge}}: When she learns that her father Caleb died, she becomes adamant to avenge his death, to the point of hiring the Huntress to capture Darth Bane, who she believes is her father's killer.
343	* RichBitch: Serra sort of starts out as this. She got better, [[spoiler: only to be killed by Darth Cognus.]]
344	[[/folder]]
345
346	[[folder:Lucia]]
347	!!Lucia
348	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cc563b95_c226_400a_a16d_5c817157a194.jpeg]]
349
350	!!!'''Species:''' Human
351	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
352	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Path of Destruction'', ''Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil''.
353	\
354
355	----
356	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A pretty gory one by ''Star Wars'' standards. Zannah smashes her against several walls, pancaking her.
357	* FatalFlaw: Her UndyingLoyalty for her friends which drives her to avenging them. Lucia hired the Huntress to avenge her boss' husband because she cared for Serra. When she encounters Dessel again, now Darth Bane, being tortured by Serra, she frees him to repay him for saving her life multiple times when they served together in the Sith Army years ago. Those actions ultimately cause hers and several people's deaths, including Serra, the one person she is the most loyal to.
358	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Lucia sees the Jedi as smug know-it-alls (well, in fairness...) and the Sith as being not so bad as all that. Of course, she's used to Kaan's type of Sith, since she worked for them, not Darth Bane's type of Sith, and especially Bane himself. It gets her, and several other people killed, and allows the Sith to live to plot another day.
359	* IOweYouMyLife: To Serra, in ''Dynasty of Evil'', though she takes it to dangerous and obsessive levels.
360	* TooDumbToLive: She decides to let Bane go, which gets her boss killed, and lets the Sith escape. The only reason Bane doesn't kill her is because Zannah beats him to the punch.
361	* UndyingLoyalty: Loyalty is one of Lucia's biggest traits, being devoted to Serra and to Dessel when they served together in the Sith Army. Deconstructed as this drives her to do amoral things for {{Revenge}}: killing her superior officer for being responsible for Dessel's death (as she believes) and hiring an assassin to avenge her boss' husband.
362	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her hiring a hitwoman to get revenge for her boss' husband getting killed starts a chain of dominoes which gets her and her boss killed, and gives Zannah a handy apprentice, allowing Bane's Sith to continue.
363	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Lucia and Dessel were friends and comrades in arms while fighting together as part of the Gloom Walkers. By the time they meet again more than two decades later, Dessel has become the cold and merciless Darth Bane, who feels nothing for Lucia despite her attempt to save his life.
364	[[/folder]]
365
366	!!Introduced in ''Rule of Two''.
367
368	[[folder:Johun]]
369	!!Johun Othone
370	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e27507cf_0ff0_48c0_b74f_8be2215dbf97.jpeg]]
371	!!!'''Species:''' Human
372	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Sermeria
373	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
374	\
375
376	----
377	* AllForNothing: All of his attempts to alert both the Jedi Order and the Galaxy that the Sith survived ended up being in vain.
378	* AscendedExtra: Johun started off as a name in a sourcebook for the Dark Forces Saga. In ''Rule of Two'', he's one of the main characters.
379	* TheCassandra: Johun is convinced the Sith are still out there after Kaan and his followers die, but since he's a padawan at the time, no one listens to him.
380	* {{Foil}}: Johun is this to Zannah in ''Rule of Two''. Both are young students just coming into their power when the story begins, but where Johun becomes a capable Jedi, Zannah goes further and further into evil. Just to show they're not so different, the story has a scene where both use the Force to nudge the minds of those around them for their own goals.
381	* TheHeroDies: He's the closest thing ''Rule of Two'' has to a hero, [[spoiler: and he dies at the climax in the Duel on Tython.]]
382	* TheLancer: Johun is this to Valenthyne Farfalla.
383	* OlderAndWiser: Starts off as a padawan, but after the time skip in ''Rule of Two'' he's become a full-fledged knight.
384	* PraetorianGuard: Spends the time skip in ''Rule of Two'' serving as Chancellor Valorum's bodyguard.
385	[[/folder]]
386
387	[[folder:Darovit]]
388	!!Darovit
389	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e73b3c03_0ce1_4104_a0b9_0e3c13fdb371.jpeg]]
390	!!!'''Species:''' Human
391	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
392	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
393	\
394	Rain's cousin.
395	----
396	* AnArmAndALeg: On the site of the Thought Bomb, after its detonation, he encountered Bane and his cousin Zannah. Darovit tried to attack Bane but Zannah blows his right hand up to stop him, preventing him from being a threat to the Sith Master and thus sparing Darovit's life. This was Zannah's last act of mercy towards him before becoming a Sith Lord.
397	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He stumbled on the aftermath of the Thought Bomb, which drove him temporarily mad.
398	* TheHermit: Becomes one after being spared by Bane and Zannah on Ruusan.
399	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He remained convinced Zannah, who talked openly about how she was a Sith and had killed people and was planning on staying a Sith, could be talked around to redemption. In any other ''Star Wars'' story, he might've succeeded.
400	* MoralityPet: Averted. He tried really hard to be one for Zannah but unfortunately for him, she isn't interested. She even renders him mad with her powers in the end.
401	* TheScapegoat: Zannah uses her Sith powers to fry his brain, before the Jedi show up looking for a Sith lord. When they found a crazy guy with one hand near a dismembered corpse, they cut him down and assumed that was that for the Sith, allowing Zannah and Bane to go on their merry way.
402	* SpoiledBrat: Though he grew up in poverty, he ended up like this anyway. He had fully bought into the image of the glorious Army of Light fighting evil on the battlefield of justice. Seeing the realities of war broke that illusion, but he stubbornly clings to it by acting as if menial tasks like pulling the dining cart were beneath the dignity of a Jedi.
403	* TooDumbToLive:
404	** Sure, he was only 13 when he first encountered Bane, but he should've known better than to threaten a Dark Lord of the Sith.
405	** See HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.
406	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His belief in Zannah's capacity for redemption lets the Sith Rule of Two continue on.
407	[[/folder]]
408
409	[[folder:Hetton]]
410	!!Hetton
411
412	!!!'''Species:''' Human
413	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Serenno
414	!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
415	\
416
417	----
418	* TheDragon: Hetton asks to be this to Zannah. She decides he's not worth it.
419	* OlderSidekick: Hetton is much older than Zannah when she pretends to take him as her apprentice. That did not last very long.
420	[[/folder]]
421
422	[[folder:Raska]]
423	!!Raska Lsu
424	[[quoteright:344:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3abbbcb9_72cc_4d5b_9c1b_2593839ead8e.jpeg]]
425
426	!!!'''Species:''' Echani
427	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
428	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
429	\
430	Sarro Xaj's master.
431	----
432	* DualWielding: Raska wields a pair of blue-bladed lightsabers.
433	* MasterSwordsman: Raska is a Jedi Blademaster.
434	[[/folder]]
435
436	[[folder:Sarro]]
437	!!Sarro Xaj
438	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a360a127_4739_4590_9906_9a9ae55894fe.jpeg]]
439
440	!!!'''Species:''' Human
441	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
442	!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
443	\
444	Raska's apprentice.
445	----
446	* LightningBruiser: Sarro is even bigger than Bane and just as fast.
447	[[/folder]]
448
449	[[folder:Worror]]
450	!!Master Worror Dowmat
451
452	!!!'''Species:''' Ithorian
453	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ithor
454	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
455	\
456
457	----
458	* SlashedThroat: How he dies, and as an Ithorian, he's got four throats.
459	* SupportPartyMember: Rather than engaging Bane and Zannah directly, Worror uses his Battle Meditation to enhance the abilities of his teammates. Once he dies, things go downhill for the other Jedi very quickly.
460	[[/folder]]
461
462	[[folder:Kel]]
463	!!Kelad'dan
464
465	!!!'''Species:''' Lethan Twi'lek
466	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
467	!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Darth Bane: Rule of Two''.
468
469	----
470	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Sort of... Zannah takes up a relationship with Kel, a terrorist she's manipulating, which is noted to be partly motivated by the fact being a Sith Lord in training doesn't provide a teenage girl with an abundance of warmth and affection. Not that she ''wants'' those things either, since she is fully on the side of Sith. And that means she's far more "bad" than her lover could ever be.
471	* BadassNormal: Kel goes toe-to-toe with Johun - a Jedi - and nearly comes out on top.
472	[[/folder]]
473
474	!!Introduced in ''Dynasty of Evil''.
475
476	[[folder:Darth Cognus]]
477	!!Darth Cognus ("The Huntress")
478	[[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darth_cognus_4226.png]]
479	!!!'''Species:''' Iktotchi
480
481	An Iktotchi assassin turned Dark Lord of the Sith, and the apprentice of Darth Zannah.
482	----
483	* AffablyEvil: Despite feeding on the misery of others, she's never unnecessarily cruel, and she even accepts Set Harth's proposal to [[spoiler: stop fighting and go their separate ways.]]
484	* DarkActionGirl: A ruthless assassin turned Sith Lord.
485	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Why she joins the Sith.
486	* TheDragon: Becomes briefly one to Darth Bane before becoming Darth Zannah's.
487	* DragonAscendant: It's never shown, but she eventually overthrows and kills Darth Zannah, taking her place as Dark Lord of the Sith.
488	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One of her special skills is having incredibly accurate visions of the future in her dreams.
489	* HornedHumanoid: Comes with being an Iktotchi.
490	* IFightForTheStrongestSide: More like "I serve the strongest side" but same idea. Before the fated duel bewteen Darth Bane and Darth Zannah for the title of Lord of the Sith, Darth Cognus swears to serve and learn at the feet of a true Sith Master, regardless which of the two will emerges victorious of the duel.
491	* MeaningfulName: Her Sith name is Darth Cognus, which she chooses for her precognitive abilities. She also can see a person's past with the Force when concentrating on a place linked to them.
492	* NoNameGiven: Before taking her Sith name, she's only ever known as 'the Huntress'.
493	* PowerNullifier: Cognus has an innate talent for disrupting and suppressing other people's ability to use the Force, making Jedi and other Force users easy prey.
494	* ProfessionalKiller: She enters the story when she is contracted to kill the people responsible for the death of Serra's husband.
495	* PsychoForHire: Unlike Bane or Zannah, Cognus is already rather psychotic before joining the Sith.
496	* PsychoKnifeNut: Before becoming a Sith Lord, she's an assassin who favors a pair of knives as her main weapons.
497	* {{Sadist}}: She clearly enjoys people's suffering, even if she is not the one inflicting it. She is however pragmatic enough to not let it go over her head.
498	* SlasherSmile: She's very fond of these in ''Dynasty of Evil''.
499	* TattooedCrook: Cognus has four black tattoos shaped like lines that run down from her lower lip. When she smiles, they look like fangs.
500	[[/folder]]
501
502	[[folder:Set Harth]]
503	!!Set Harth
504	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3270ee65_be1b_41fb_b901_bfbf665bc714.jpeg]]
505
506	!!!'''Species:''' Human
507	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
508	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil''.
509	\
510	A Dark Jedi who crosses paths with Zannah.
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512	* BodyBackUpDrive: He ends up cutting a deal with a bunch of cloners so that he's always got plenty of spares in the prime of life, which also saves on the whole BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind thing.
513	* BodySurf: Ends up mastering this, courtesy of Darth Andeddu's holocron, and gets good enough at it that through a large supply of clones, he achieves immortality.
514	* BrilliantButLazy: He's no ace as a fighter or anything - though he's good enough to match the Huntress and impress Zannah, even if she was in desperate need of an apprentice, and when the Sith are presumed gone, the Jedi are very clear that ''he'' is the most dangerous man in the galaxy. More to the point, he is rather smarter than he appears, and becomes an expert on Sith lore, mastering the ability of Essence Transfer on a level rivalled only by the likes of Valkorion and Palpatine (and he was arguably better at it than the latter). He just can't be bothered applying himself to anything more than his indulgences.
515	* TheDragon: Set is briefly this for Zannah, in an extremely lazy and reluctant fashion - his skill and power impressed her, and she made him a JoinOrDie offer. Then she made the mistake of leaving him alone with her ship. Cue his response of ScrewThisImOuttaHere, after pinching Darth Andeddu's holocron.
516	* TheHedonist: Harth's main goal in life is just having a good time and, later, acquiring knowledge, rather than any grandiose scheme or anything. This might be why the Jedi Council, while they suspected he was alive, didn't exactly turn the galaxy upside down looking for him.
517	* InadequateInheritor: Zannah soon comes to feel this way about him, and was probably going to dump him as a potential apprentice. He saved her the trouble by running out on her at the first opportunity.
518	* KarmaHoudini: Gets away clean with Andeddu's holocron and becomes a body-surfing immortal, long outlasting Zannah, Bane, and apparently the ''entirety of the Baneite Sith'' - including the loose successor in the form of Darth Caedus (who was trained by Lumiya and Vergere, one of whom trained under Sidious and Vader, and one of whom remains an enigma).
519	* PragmaticVillainy: He doesn't really bother with being capital-e evil, and is rarely much more than a bit of a dick. He runs out on Zannah at the first opportunity, recognising how dangerous being one of the Sith is (and having no interest whatsoever in their agenda), studies sufficiently to master Essence Transfer, then makes a deal with a bunch of cloners to ensure that he has a constant supply of prime condition clones, meaning that he's never caught short and never has to engage in a mental struggle with an unwilling host. Given that he lives for over a thousand years, amasses a vast fortune and collection of Sith lore, and never really attracts Jedi attention, it seems to work out nicely.
520	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Not during the trilogy, but he ends up easily cracking a thousand, apparently lasting well into the Yuuzhan Vong era.
521	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: More or less at the first opportunity, at that. He's fascinated with Sith lore and willingly apprentices himself to Andeddu's spirit, but despite becoming a fully trained Sith Lord, he has absolutely zero interest in anything grander than a) having a good time, b) securing more wealth and Sith collectables, c) ensuring he's got a constant supply of pristine clone bodies to assure his immortality.
522	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's not particularly ''evil'', but he's immoral at best, a reluctant Sith Apprentice and a fully trained Sith Lord with no compunction about getting very nasty if crossed, and he's a white-haired PrettyBoy.
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524
525	[[folder:Medd]]
526	!!Medd Tandar
527	!!!'''Species:''' Cerean
528	!!!'''Homeworld:''' Unknown
529	!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil''.
530	\
531
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533	* FlatCharacter: Medd gets very little characterization before being killed by the Huntress.
534	[[/folder]]
535

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