Darth Venamis Darth Venamis was a prospective Sith Lord of the lineage of Darth Bane . A male Bith , he was the Sith apprentice of the Dark Lord , Darth Tenebrous . Tenebrous trained Venamis in violation of the Rule of Two , since he had another apprentice , Darth Plagueis . Despite Venamis ' s use of the Sith title , Darth , it was not legitimately bestowed upon him . Biography . Darth Venamis claimed to have been found by the Bith Dark Lord of the Sith , Darth Tenebrous , and selected as an apprentice — Darth Plagueis considered that Venamis may have been related to their master , possibly an offspring . Venamis ' s apprenticeship was kept secret from Tenebrous ' s other apprentice , the Muun Darth Plagueis . After the latter discovered the former ' s existence , he doubted that Venamis had been trained as a true Sith apprentice . Around the year 67 BBY , Venamis posed as a physician , using fraudulent information regarding place of residence and practice , to free the Nautolan Naat Lare from the Bedlam Institution for the Criminally Demented on Bedlam who had been incarcerated there three years before in 70 BBY . The Bith then tasked his potential apprentice to cull the population of marsh haunt s near a Barabel settlement on Abraxin . After Tenebrous died on Bal ' demnic at the hands of Plagueis in 67 BBY , the latter discovered that Venamis kept a list of certain Force - sensitive beings as potential apprentices of his own — other than Lare , they were a Shi ' ido changeling who worked as a professional gambler and the Iktotchi prophet of Saleucami . However , before Venamis could pursue his own agenda , he moved to fulfill Tenebrous ' final command to eliminate Plagueis , leaving Lare on Abraxin . Traveling to Sojourn — a moon owned by Plagueis and maintained as a personal retreat — Venamis was bested in a duel and forced to ingest a coma - bloom , a poisonous species of flora , putting him into a coma . As part of his experiments with midi - chlorians over the following decades , Plagueis and his droid 11 - 4D kept the comatose Venamis alive to manipulate and study . Around the year 42 BBY , Venamis was eventually allowed to die by Plagueis , his usefulness finally fulfilled . Afterwards , he was resurrected and killed again and again , in the presence of Plagueis ' s apprentice , Darth Sidious , and of 11 - 4D . Powers and abilities . In his duel with Plagueis , Darth Venamis demonstrated a superior offensive skill in lightsaber combat taught to him by his master , Darth Tenebrous . His attacks were so powerful that Plagueis had to change tactics and defeat Venamis with his use of the power of the dark side of the Force . Venamis could also generate Force lightning , as Plagueis sensed him about to do so , before he crossed his blades to Venamis ' s neck , and caused him to " yield . " Among his talents , was also the difficult ability to levitate himself , doing so when Plagueis used the Force to break the greel branch he was perching on , and suspended himself in midair and continued the duel using that ability . Behind the scenes . Darth Venamis ' first and currently only appearance to date - save for the brief appearance of his corpse in the 2014 novel " " - is the 2012 novel " Darth Plagueis " , written by James Luceno . The novel tells the backstory of Darth Plagueis . It revealed that Venamis was Darth Tenebrous ' secret apprentice .