When Anakin turned to Palpatine for help on how to save his wife's life, Palpatine told him the story of Darth Plagueis.
It wasn't much of a story. All Palpatine really said about Plagueis was that he found a way to cheat death. In reality, Plagueis only lived for about years. Maybe he could have lived longer if his apprentice hadn't betrayed him in his sleep. And who was Darth Plagueis' apprentice? It was none other than Palpatine himself, the scheming little weasel. Revan, a Jedi turned Sith turned Jedi again, surpasses most of the Sith Lords on this list by a long shot. Well, he does in terms of age.
He lived to be around years old. Revan led a complicated life, to say the least. With Revan's help, the fighting stopped, but not after he engaged in some Dark Side-y type activities. He became brainwashed by the Sith and transformed into Darth Revan. When the Jedi Order captured Revan, they reversed what the Sith had done. Naga Sadow kind of cheated in becoming one of the longest-lived Sith.
He placed himself in suspended animation for years, so at the very least he is years old. He was alive during the Great Hyperspace War. For those of you confused by any Star Wars history not contained in the films, the war took place 5, years before the events of The Return of the Jedi. Naga Sadow was in charge of the Sith Empire during this time period. Valkorion mocked his host, claiming that they were weak and that his children possess power that surpass those of Jedi or Sith.
Valkorion told the Outlander that their knowledge within their aspect of the Force was masterful but they need to extend their boundaries and transcend to a new level of power. He began a brief skirmish with the Outlander. When the skirmish ended, Valkorion showed disappointment on the Outlander's performance and felt a disturbance in the Force. He then seemingly left his host.
During the Battle of Odessen , Arcann attempted to speak to Valkorion through the Outlander, but was met with silence. Nonetheless, his subsequent assault proved that Valkorion had left at least some of his power within the Outlander, who drew on it to defeat Arcann at last. In the aftermath of the battle, Valkorion returned once again, claiming that the Outlander was now ready. Valkorion continued to push the Outlander towards bringing down Vaylin.
During Vaylin's takeover of the Gravestone , he awakened Vaylin's mental conditioning by speaking the trigger words, and giving the Outlander another weapon to use against her.
Due to the void in the Force on Nathema, and the unleashing of power as Vaylin broke through the mental cage Valkorion had put her into, his presence in the Outlander's mind appeared to be fading in and out at regular intervals.
Despite this, he maintained enough of a grasp to attempt to warn against intrusion into the vaults beneath the Sanitarium. The reason became clear to the Outlander soon enough: it contained a holocron that held the Force essence of Valkorion's father, Lord Dramath, who had been imprisoned since his illegitimate son then known as "Tenebrae" had usurped him more than a millennium before.
Dramath offered the holocron as a means of defeating Valkorion once and for all. After Vaylin unleashed a full-scale assault on Odessen , she confronted the Outlander with her full powers, cracking the walls of the Alliance base.
Despite this, the Outlander succeeded in vanquishing Vaylin, but - as Valkorion soon revealed - her death left the Eternal Throne without a master, causing the Eternal Fleet to revert to its original purpose of extermination.
To stop the rampage, the Outlander had to seize the Eternal Throne. The Outlander sat upon the throne, becoming immobilized in agony as the power of the throne pulsed through their body; when it was done, the fleet had stopped firing at last. Valkorion appeared before the Outlander, congratulating them for finally becoming ruler of Zakuul and master of the Eternal Throne He revealed that he intended to hollow out the Outlander as a new vessel for his immortal spirit, just as he had done to the original Valkorion centuries before, and take the Throne back for himself.
Though the Outlander tried to resist, Valkorion shattered the mind of his unwilling host, forcing their very being into the depths of their own psyche. The Outlander resurfaced in the void of their own mind, wearing the form of Valkorion himself. Guided by their own voice to find Dramath's holocron, the Outlander-as-Valkorion relived the memories they had shared, including the confrontations with Arcann and Vaylin on Odessen, as well as his apparent "abandonment" of the Outlander in the wilds on Odessen - which had been in fact a ruse, to see how the Outlander would function without his counsel.
The Outlander was soon able to regain control, facing off against Valkorion himself, who admitted to being impressed with his foe's persistence.
Holding the Emperor at bay, the Outlander used Dramath's holocron to break whatever hold he had over his children, who then allied with their one-time foe to destroy Valkorion.
When the Outlander appeared to gain the upper hand, Valkorion pulled the holocron from the Outlander's grip and destroyed it, boasting that even if they conjured a hundred more holocrons, it would not be enough to stop him. But the Outlander, now in full control of their own mind again, spoke the words "kneel before the Dragon of Zakuul" - the trigger words for Vaylin's conditioning.
To Valkorion's utter shock, thinking that only Vaylin was vulnerable, he became powerless before his enemy; twisting the dagger further, the spirit of Vaylin spoke the same words with gleeful vengeance. Reeling, Valkorion turned towards the throne only to be confronted by Senya, who declared that Valkorion had turned his back on his family for the last time and struck him with her lightsaber. Raving that "a god has no family", and that without him, they were nothing, Valkorion rose to strike at the Outlander, only to be immobilized by Senya and their children.
Valkorion tried to lash out one last time, and was struck down on the spot by the Outlander. With a great burst of dark side energy, the Immortal Emperor was gone, seemingly never to return.
Due to his obsession with immortality and the subsequent use of the Emperor's Voice, Vitiate kept his original body locked in stasis where it could not be harmed either by nature or outside interference and its location kept secret to only his most trusted servants, including the first and former Emperor's Wrath: Lord Scourge.
Vitiate, at an unknown period, carved an ancient Sith ritual into his original body to act as a last resort in the event his body was harmed, which would immobilize the attacker s by putting them into a coma. The plague would spawn an entity that would feed on the victims by connecting their minds and merging into an even stronger entity.
However, despite the effectiveness of the plague, anybody who was previously granted a portion of Vitiate's power was rendered immune to the plague's effects due to the past power acting as a vaccine. Lord Scourge and Kira Carsen discovered the location of Vitiate's original body and they destroyed it at practically the same time the Alliance Commander destroyed Valkorion's spirit in their mind during the Battle for Zakuul.
This event led to the plague being released and rendering Scourge and Kira comatose for more than a year. Satele Shan and her followers learned of this and rescued the duo, however they unknowingly doomed themselves in the process without having any sort of vaccine similar to what Scourge and Kira possessed. The duo trapped the now-plagued, Satele Shan and her followers in a transport programmed to travel a random course throughout unsettled sectors of the Outer Rim, with a few med-droids to tend to them.
Scourge and Kira later learned that the plague unleashed an entity that was connecting the minds of Satele and her followers and merging into a stronger, united hivemind. They sought the aid of the Alliance Commander first by testing them on Mek-Sha to ensure that Valkorion was truly dead and no trace of his power remained in their mind, mainly due to the Emperor being a master deceiver.
Upon the Commander passing their test, Scourge and Kira revealed their plan to the Commander: they would send a signal to the transport in order to bring it to an empty sector closer to Odessen.
Upon its arrival, they would board the transport, connect their minds through the Force, and attempt to destroy the entity. If this did not work, their last resort would be destroying the transport. The Commander agreed to this proposal and Kira stated that it would be a while before the transport came into range. Until then, Scourge and Kira offered their aid in any mission the Commander requested. Much to Scourge's increasing frustration, however, the ship disappeared, not appearing at its next expected rendezvous point.
To hunt it down, they suggested to the Commander to send droids, as they would not become corrupted by Vitiate's power. The droid T7-O1 , piloting a starfighter, was able to locate the ship and transmit coordinates to Odessen. This also uncovered the continued existence of the Emperor's Hand , Vitiate's innermost circle of fanatics. As they had been vessels of the Emperor's power and thus could resist his corruption, the Commander, Scourge, and Kira intended to travel alone to the ship, but were joined by others from Odessen, who provided fire support when the Emperor's Hand attacked them in a shuttle.
Teeseven had been able to get aboard the ship and sabotage its systems enough for the Commander and their allies to board; Kira shut down the ship's engines and defenses, while Scourge joined the Commander to launch the escape pods and jettison the Servants' shuttles, in order to prevent the curse from getting off the ship. As they explored the ship, however, the Commander and Scourge discovered that the Servants had been engaged by another force: the Scions of Zakuul , whose late leader Heskal had prophesied their return "when it was time to die".
After clearing the bridge, the Commander and Scourge were approached by the spirit of Revan, who had been guiding Scourge to stop the Emperor's rebirth. Though thought to have become one with the Force on Yavin years before, Revan explained he could not rest until he knew Vitiate's spirit was banished forever, and warned that Vitiate was using his possessed victims to remake himself. With the ship disabled, Kira rejoined the Commander and Scourge in the medical bay, where they confronted the leaders of both the Servants and the Scions, the latter of whom was killed by the former.
After dispatching the Servant leader, Kira found that while Satele lived still, two of the possessed Jedi were dead, and the others close to death. As planned, Kira connected to the others via the Force to enter Satele's mind, where they encountered all three of the Emperor's known guises there - first Valkorion, then Vitiate, and finally his original form, Tenebrae. Kira realized that the ritual carved into Tenebrae's original body was not a plague, but an imprint, an echo of his original self.
Tenebrae condemned the version of him they knew as too complacent, distracted by "mortal concerns" - empires, wars, and even in Valkorion's case a family - and declared he would succeed where his original self had failed. The Vitiate form separated the Commander from their allies; however, they were soon joined by Revan, who stood with the Commander against Tenebrae's shades.
While the three forms all declared themselves endless, they were confronted first by Meetra Surik , whom Tenebrae mocked for her failure to kill him once before, and then by Scourge, who reminded him that he had saved the Emperor from her the first time, and would not do so again. The Tenebrae form again lashed out to separate the Commander from the others. Marr explained that the new Tenebrae only knew of his past deeds from the memories and impressions of Satele and her students, but had gained none of the wisdom from those experiences.
Marr then warned that if he was not stopped now, there would not be another opportunity, and called upon the Commander to "break the chains he uses to ensnare us all". Finally, the Commander reached the center of the mindscape, a recreation of the Jedi Temple on Tython , and encountered Satele within. The Emperor's three forms boasted that Satele could not resist for long, and that when her mind was destroyed, only Tenebrae would remain.
Satele awoke and mocked Tenebrae for his ego: he could have dominated any one of her students, but instead chose to dominate them all, as well as their master, all to prove he was still powerful. As Satele spoke, those whom the Emperor had manipulated and killed over the centuries, all who knew his true weakness - his pride and vanity, and his fear of death - began to manifest, standing behind the Commander, the one who had the power to destroy him once and for all. In the end, Tenebrae's power was not enough to save him, as the Commander and their allies were able to withstand the power of the Emperor's many forms.
Defeated, the three guises of the Emperor petrified and crumbled to dust, just as his victims on Nathema and Ziost had done in the past. Once and for all time, the Emperor was no more. The Emperor ruled the Empire for over 1, years, and during that time he exerted an enormous psychological influence on his people. In the Empire, he was viewed as both a god and king —almost every citizen of the Empire was more than willing to sacrifice his or her life in the service of their Emperor.
He was the source of many common phrases and utterances in Imperial culture, such as "Glory to the Emperor," [] "Long Live the Emperor," [] and "It's enough to wake the Emperor.
Zakuulans believed Valkorion to be truly immortal, guiding the Eternal Empire to prosperity for centuries. Thousands of years after the Emperor's death, the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis —himself obsessed with achieving immortality—mused that Emperor Vitiate, as he was known to history, was the only Sith Lord in history who had come close to achieving the secret.
Almost from birth, the Emperor was unusual in that he seemed to lack emotion and empathy [1] —something that would remain constant throughout his life, regardless of the host body he would use. As a child, he was a cruel ruler, massacring hundreds simply to sate his hunger for anguish.
As a Sith Lord, Vitiate became known as more of a scholar than a warrior, as he spent much of his century-long rule delving into the mysteries of the dark side. While other Sith became feared warriors and conquered new worlds for the glory of the Empire, Vitiate was content to remain on Nathema even when the rest of the Sith Lords went to war against the Republic. However, his public persona of a scholar was merely a sham: by the time he entered the second century of his lifetime, he was calculating, manipulative, and patient enough to sit by while his plans took years to reach completion.
When news of Naga Sadow's defeat reached the ears of the people, Vitiate was able to carefully drive the rest of the Empire into a frenzy of panic and herd them as he wished. He also revealed his true persona to the eight thousand Sith Lords who heeded his call on Nathema—the reclusive scholar crushed their minds and bound them to his own indomitable will. The ritual performed on Nathema affected the Emperor beyond just his strength in the Force; the price of immortality meant that he no longer experienced any of the senses that normal people possessed.
Taste, touch, smell, color, and even emotion meant nothing to him, as he lacked the capacity to experience any of them. He did not care, however, as such mortal concerns were now beneath him. In his search for a way to completely escape death, the one thing he truly feared, [] the Emperor delved into many arcane and lost techniques of the dark side.
Developing ways to link his consciousness with those of other beings, he soon gained a significant number of servants who were fanatically loyal to and intricately linked with their master. The Emperor was determined not to die, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the galaxy. The Emperor who ruled the Sith Empire was motivated by the only two emotions he could still feel: [] hunger for power [1] and fear of losing it. If the Emperor's ritual had been completed, the Sith would have spent eternity fulfilling any desire that he had.
Over the course of his life, he came to desire peace for the galaxy, but peace in the form of utter and complete emptiness.
Scourge's perception of the Emperor's mind was one filled with indescribable horrors, with the emptiness of complete annihilation lurking beneath its surface. When the Hero of Tython began to oppose him, the Emperor professed a lack of concern for the Knight's successes against his agents, [90] but over the course of his service, Scourge had come to recognize what little emotion remained in his master, and that the emotions that the Emperor was feeling were fear and hatred.
Valkorion retained his near-universal indifference even with his children, expressing no affection for them other than designating Vaylin his favorite, although he repeatedly expressed contempt for the volatile behavior exhibited by her and her brother Arcann. Valkorion also showed no concern at the prospect of losing his children, displaying no reaction upon the death of Thexan and using Vaylin's death to his advantage by turning her spirit into his puppet.
He even encouraged the Outlander to try and kill Arcann on multiple occasions. During his observation of the galaxy during the Galactic War, the Emperor became intrigued by an individual who would become eventually known as the Outlander. After the Invasion of Ziost, the Emperor returned entirely to his Valkorion form and dedicated himself to ruling the Eternal Empire, judging that the Sith Empire was not worth saving, and the Jedi and Republic unworthy of annihilation, but even then had machinations—when the Outlander was brought before him, he offered to share his power, believing that the Outlander was unique in the way they affected the galaxy, just like himself.
He expected Arcann's betrayal and used it to his advantage, transferring his power and consciousness to the Outlander's body. The Emperor gathers a storm of dark side energy before releasing it as Force lightning. Even as a child, the Sith Emperor possessed immense strength in the Force, and his abilities began to manifest themselves at the age of six. He used his newfound powers to snap his adoptive father's neck with a thought, and tortured his mother with the Force for months while feeding on her fear and pain.
As his powers grew, Tenebrae continued to gorge himself on the fear and suffering of those whom he tortured in public executions. When he confronted his real father, the Sith Lord Dramath, at the age of ten, Tenebrae was able to strip the man of both his sanity and his power in the Force. Tenebrae's power at the age of thirteen was great enough for Marka Ragnos, the current Dark Lord of the Sith, to acknowledge the teenager's strength and grant him the title of Lord Vitiate.
Vitiate soon gained a reputation as a scholar, spending much of the next century studying the secrets of the dark side and Sith sorcery, becoming one of the most powerful practitioners of both Sith magic and alchemy throughout history, and devising complex rituals to warp reality and life itself.
Another one of Vitiate's specialties was in the domination of his opponent's minds, as he was able to dominate the minds of eight thousand Sith Lords and bind them to his will. He then used their combined power to perform the most complex ritual of Sith magic ever performed, ripping the Force from the entire planet of Nathema and absorbing the combined life force of every living thing on the surface.
Lord Scourge suspected that the Emperor had not only absorbed the lives of those who had died in the ritual, but was in fact feeding off their spirits to sustain his own throughout the centuries that followed. As Emperor, he spent much of his rule experimenting even further with the dark side, discovering many lost techniques and increasing his immense power even more.
He could suppress his Children's personas and even their Force-sensitivity, making them the ultimate covert operatives, and further possess them like puppets. The Emperor's rituals on Dromund Kaas warped the planet's very atmosphere, creating perpetual lightning storms, [20] and he became vastly skilled in Telekinesis and defensive techniques. He could conjure force barriers easily strong enough to block T3-M4's flamethrower and even strong lightsaber blows from his son Arcann and can conjure protection bubbles to protect himself from oncoming force assault.
His telekinetic prowess and power was so great that he can effortlessly perform great telekinetic feats without using hand gestures as commonly needed, even able to send the extremely powerful Revan flying across his throne room with barely an effort and he effortlessly disintegrated T3-M4 with just a thought by blasting the astromech droid into shrapnel.
The Emperor was able to summon Sith magic, which enabled him to create physical duplicates of himself while battling the Hero of Tython. When necessary, the Emperor would utilize his red-bladed lightsaber in combat and displayed adequate proficiency with it despite being so powerful that he rarely used it.
When The Old Republic was first announced in , the entertainment site IGN mistakenly reported that the identity of the Sith Emperor was actually Naga Sadow, [] though the official website was more vague on the subject. Written by Drew Karpyshyn , the book revealed the Emperor had been born Tenebrae on the planet Medriaas, and explained both Tenebrae's rise to power as Lord Vitiate and the origins of Vitiate's Empire itself.
It also gave more information on the early Empire, and referred to the Emperor as "Darth Vitiate. The name "Tenebrae" is Latin for darkness, gloom or obscurity, [] while his Sith title of Vitiate is also Latin: in this case, it means "having been corrupted, defiled, or voided.
However, the lack of information on the Emperor led Wallace to decide that Darth Malgus would author that section. While he is mentioned throughout The Old Republic , the Emperor only appears in "person" in the Sith Warrior [94] and Jedi Knight class storylines, [90] [97] and is voiced by Doug Bradley , [] who played the character Pinhead in the Hellraiser movie franchise.
Hall Hood , the main writer for the Jedi Knight class, brought up YouTube videos of Bradley's performance as Pinhead when the writers were discussing who they wanted to voice the Emperor, and the team decided on Bradley.
The attempt to capture him fails, and the Emperor turns the player to the dark side in a cutscene. Force users have been known to go insane if they spend too much time there. After Ziost he actually admits that he considers them a worthy adversary. Authority Equals Asskicking : The Sith Emperor that stands above even the Dark Council, being even more powerful than Revan, who was able to take on the combined forces of the Sith and Jedi while at half his full power.
Of the Jedi and Sith, only The Player Character pose anything resembling a threat to his throne, with Marr warning that no one Jedi or Sith poses a chance against Vitiate's might. He proves his superiority when he kills Darth Marr with ease. Ax-Crazy : It's quite clear Vitiate is a twisted sadist who has an unbridled taste for killing and torturing. Badass Boast : Guy spits'em out at a rate higher than Palpatine. I do not end. Legions have risen to test me. Your striving is insignificant.
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However, his spirit lived on, gathering strength until he could possess another body communication from the Emperor's Hand to the Emperor's Wrath : The Emperor's recovery continues. But while he slumbers, his Wrath is needed more than ever.
It is the duty of the Wrath to silence these rumors.
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