Tulak Hord Tulak Hord , known as the Lord of Hate and Master of the Gathering Darkness , was a Dark Lord of the Sith that ruled during the early Sith Empire , commanding great armies and possessing a mastery of the dark side of the Force and lightsaber combat which left him nearly unrivaled . During battle , Hord wore a black mask , making him a fear - inspiring sight . History . Lord of Hate . A Force - sensitive male , Tulak Hord was a student of the dark side of the Force and a pupil of the early Sith Empire . Rising through the ranks , Hord was feared by his rivals even in his early days , having mastered the art of lightsaber combat and manipulation of the Force . During his early years , Hord fought an honorable duel against a Dashade named Khem Val , who later became his most faithful ally . Assembling a massive army of followers , Hord and Val led a campaign of terror against rebellious militants on the planets Yn and Chabosh , crushing them . While on the campaign , Hord was approached by a Sith known as Aloysius Kallig who sought to serve him ; however , Hord dismissed him . Kallig refused to accept dismissal , however , and challenged Hord ' s best general and beat him . After Kallig ' s victory , Hord decided to accept him , and he led Hord ' s troops to numerous victories . During the battles , Hord employed his knowledge of Sith rituals , draining the strength from his opponents and feeding off of it . Earning the titles Lord of Hate , Master of the Gathering Darkness , and finally , Dark Lord of the Sith , Lord Hord went undefeated , slaying all who dared to challenge his might . While Kallig ' s military prowess gained Hord enormous success , it also intimidated the Dark Lord , who feared that Kallig could become a very dangerous rival . Hord decided to deal with the situation by having Kallig assassinated , with his family subsequently going into hiding . Lord Hord continued his endeavors into the arts of Sith sorcery , authoring many tomes of knowledge and crafting his personal holocron . Rumored to have known the secret to eternal life , Hord scattered much of his teachings in hidden and hard to reach locations to ensure only the worthy could obtain his knowledge . Discovering and conquering the Dromund system , it was believed that the Sith Lord conquered over a hundred worlds for the Empire . One who did prove worthy during Hord ' s life was his only known apprentice , Ortan Cela , who came to learn much from the great Sith . Appreciating his relationship with the honor - bound Khem Val , Lord Hord placed his servant and ally in suspended animation inside a stasis chamber deep in the heart of what would later serve as Sith Lord Naga Sadow ' s tomb on Korriban . Ortan Cela would kill his master not long afterwards by stabbing him through the back , and Cela ' s Dashade servant Veshikk Urk consumed the dying Sith Lord ' s Force energy . At some point following his death , his loyal minions constructed a massive tomb for their fallen master in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban . Entombed with him were several tomes of his writings , his holocron , and his mask . Legacy . Following the conclusion of the Great Hyperspace War and the bombing of Korriban by the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order , much of the histories of Lord Hord were destroyed or lost . While the tomb remained intact , traps were in place to keep looters away and test the worth of any knowledge - seeking Sith . By the time of the Jedi Civil War several centuries after the retreat of the Sith Empire into the Unknown Regions , Jedi Padawan Revan entered the tomb , successfully navigating its traps and discovering the Dark Lord ' s mask , taking it with him when he departed . Also within the tomb , the Jedi discovered several treasures , including three rare lightsaber crystal s : an amethyst , a firkrann and a bondar crystal . Before departing the world , Jedi Revan discovered Sith Master Jorak Uln hiding inside the tomb after the man was deposed by fellow Master Uthar Wynn as the Headmaster of the Sith Academy on Korriban . In the throes of his anguish and madness , Uln captured Revan and his companions , planning to torture them before executing them . While imprisoned , Revan and his companions joined forces with the captured Sith apprentice Mekel and defeated Master Uln . Shortly after , the exiled Jedi Meetra Surik investigated the tomb during her journeys , finding it to have been looted , and the entrance collapsed . Following the return of the Sith Empire , some of Hord ' s artifacts were rediscovered . Darth Marr , before gaining a seat on the Sith Emperor ' s Dark Council , discovered Hord ' s lightsaber hidden on Dromund Fels . During the Galactic War , Hord ' s spirit was one of several Sith spirits that manifested on the moon Yavin 4 for a brief period of time . Powers and abilities . Tulak Hord was renowned for his legendary dueling abilities . Centuries later upon inquiry from Surik , Kreia remarked that Hord was " the greatest lightsaber duelist of the Sith Lords , " going on to say that his skill was considered " remarkable even for his time , when many true lightsaber masters lived . " Kreia also revealed that if Surik had to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat , she would learn that " we are as children playing with toys compared to the prowess of the old masters . " Later , Khem Val revealed to Darth Nox that Hord single - handedly broke the sieges laid by Jedi to Imperial strongholds in the Yn and Chabosh . Over a thousand Jedi perished in these battles . Hord was a fearsome master of the dark side . He was extraordinarily competent in the matters of telekinesis ; when Darth Nox approached the ruins of the " Endar Spire " , Khem Val revealed that " The great Tulak Hord once pulled a ship this size from the sky . " Hord was also a master of sorcery . Behind the scenes . There was some disagreement as to when precisely Tulak Hord lived . Kreia seems to imply he was an ancient Dark Lord from the first Sith Empire , yet she also calls him a lightsaber master , and some sources imply that the Sith did not use such weapons until they re - established contact with the Jedi and the Republic after the Great Hyperspace War . Additionally , Tulak Hord ' s rival Aloysius Kallig is known to have utilized a lightsaber and Darth Thanaton was also discovered to have kept records of lightsaber techniques authored by Tulak Hord .