Hakagram Graush Hakagram Graush was a male Sith of the Sith Empire who ruled on the planet Korriban as the Sith King around the year 6900 BBY . After the arrival of the Dark Jedi exiles on Korriban , following the Hundred - Year Darkness , the Sith sorcerer and monarch , alongside his people , disallowed the outsiders from learning their secrets of Sith magic . However , through the monarch ' s second - in - command known as the Shadow Hand , the numerous Dark Jedi eventually lured the King into their confidence . Ajunta Pall , the leader of the Dark Jedi , beheaded Graush with the King ' s own war sword . With Graush ' s death , Pall usurped the King ' s throne , and the Dark Jedi became Sith Lords themselves , taking Graush ' s position over the Sith people he once ruled . The deceased King was buried inside a tomb in the Valley of the Sleeping Kings . Thousands of years after the King ' s demise , the tomb received a visit from the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis , who was inquiring on the existence of Force ghost s , but no specter of Graush ever showed itself . Biography . Life as a Monarch . Hakagram Graush was a male member of the Sith Purebloods , a race of blood - colored , violent humanoids originating from Korriban , a barren planet located within the Stygian Caldera . Like most members of his species , Graush was strongly connected with the Force , and he shared his surname with famed Sith sorcerer Dathka Graush . Eventually , Graush was crowned king of his people . The monarch ruled over the Sith Empire with the help of the Shadow Hand , his second - in - command . His reign lasted until around 6900 BBY , with the arrival of the Exiles , a group of fallen Jedi who had been defeated in a pan - galactic war called the Hundred - Year Darkness . The Exiles ' leader , the former Jedi General Ajunta Pall , took particular interest in the techniques used by the Sith Purebloods for drawing power from the dark side . Despite the strangers ' greater powers and superior weapons called lightsabers , Graush and his Sith did not immediately hail them as deities when they arrived . Downfall of the King . Unbeknownst to Graush , the Dark Jedi infiltrated the power structure of the Sith society , seeking to undermine the monarch ' s authority from within . Betrayed by his own Shadow Hand , Graush was lured into the Exiles ' confidence , which led him to his death as Pall eventually decided to execute the Sith King . Graush was literally brought on his knees and beheaded by a swipe of his own war sword . The Sith people concluded that the fallen Jedi were themselves more powerful gods than even the King , and they accepted Pall ' s takeover . Pall rose to power over the people of Korriban and Ziost , the capital of the ancient Sith Empire , appointing himself as the rightful heir of the famed King Adas . Pall and his cohorts , including the Human female Sorzus Syn , eventually pronounced themselves Sith Lords . Even though he had been stripped of his throne and murdered , Graush was buried with due honors in the Valley of the Sleeping Kings , Korriban ' s majestic burial grounds . Legacy . With Graush ' s demise , the Sith Order was founded , and the culture of the Sith race was turned into a dark side religion . However , millennia after his death , the name of Hakagram Graush was still remembered . The Muun Sith Lord Darth Plagueis traveled to Korriban and visited the burial grounds , then renamed the Valley of the Dark Lords , in hopes of encountering Sith spirits and query them for their long - lost secrets . Among other symbolic locations such as the throne room of Sorzus Syn , Plagueis entered the tomb of Graush and tried to contact the specter of the last Sith King , to no avail . Plagueis witnessed no manifestation of a ghost , which reinforced his belief that there was no such thing . Plagueis wrote a succinct note about this lack of supernatural incident in his scientific journal . Personality and traits . A crimson - skinned Sith , Hakagram Graush was tall and muscular . Unlike most other Sith , he had five fingers per hand instead of the usual three . In spite of Korriban ' s cold climate , he used to go barechested , wearing only a cape and an elaborate loincloth . Like most of his peers at the time , he wore many types of ornaments , including metal bracers and shin armors . Graush also wore a helmet made of the skull of a horned creature , with a neck guard made from small metal scales . When he chose to appear bare - headed , the King ' s long dark hair could be seen flowing on his neck . When Graush first met the Exiles , he was not overly impressed by the newcomers ' superior technology . He did not hail them as deities , considering the Exiles powerful but not godlike . Behind the scenes . Hakagram Graush , last King of the Sith , first appeared in the of the 1990s comic book series " " . The monarch went unnamed in the series , and his identity was only revealed in 2012 , with the publication of " " . Daniel Wallace , author of the " Book of Sith " , originally intended the murdered monarch to be the Sith sorcerer Dathka Graush . However , Wallace realized it would not fit with Dathka ' s established timeline , and he introduced his probable descendant Hakagram instead . While the text in " Book of Sith " clearly states that Ajunta Pall beheaded Hakagram Graush using the monarch ' s own sword , a picture depicts Pall using a lightsaber . In his endnotes , Wallace admitted he did not catch that mistake when he reviewed the artwork . In the of the " " series of comics , a horned helmet known as the Helm of Dathka Graush was shown . The design of this helmet is similar to the one Hakagram Graush wore in " Star Wars : Tales of the Jedi " .