Lost Tribe of the Sith : Purgatory Lost Tribe of the Sith : Purgatory is the fifth eBook in the " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series . A tie - in to the " " novel series , it was written by John Jackson Miller and released on October 25 , 2010 . Publisher ' s summary . " The mighty Sith dynasty founded on the planet Kesh by the survivors of the shipwrecked " Omen " has endured for a thousand years — and so has the merciless Sith code , which prizes power above all else . Lady Orielle Kitai enjoys power as the scion of a noble family and member of the elite Sith Saber s . But Lillia Venn , as reigning Grand Lord of the Sith , possesses absolute power … and is determined to keep it . " " When a failed regicide sparks a political — and literal — bloodbath , and suspicion falls on Orielle , she is swiftly condemned to slavery by the ruthless Grand Lord Venn . But seeing the cunning power play for what it is , Orielle vows to strike back . And at the ramshackle home of a poor dirt farmer with an astounding secret , she discovers the means to make her vengeance a devastating reality . " Plot summary . Background . " Purgatory " occurs approximately 1 , 140 years after the events of " , " the first novella in the series . It is told from the point of view of two protagonists , Orielle Kitai , a Sith Saber , and her friend Jelph Marrian , a slave who specialized in selling high - quality fertilizers to Keshiri farmers . Unknown to Orielle , Jelph was also a secret Jedi Shadow who had become stranded on the planet Kesh . Following the death of the Lost Tribe of Sith ' s founder Yaru Korsin in 4975 BBY , his daughter Nida Korsin had ruled the continent of Keshtah Minor as Grand Lord for 79 years . While she produced a son named Donellan , he did not outlive his mother . As a result , Nida instituted a succession system based on merit . Thus , successive Grand Lords were elected from among the seven High Lord s of the Tribe . Since 5000 BBY , the continent Keshtah Minor had been ruled by the Lost Tribe of Sith , the descendants of a group of Human Sith who had become stranded on the planet during the Great Hyperspace War . Force - sensitive Sith formed the elite of Keshiri society while non - Force sensitive Humans formed a Yeomanry class . The indigenous Keshiri , a purple - skinned humanoid species , formed the bottom of Sith society and were predominantly serfs . In addition , outcasts from the Tribe formed a slave class . Despite their class and social differences , Orielle and Jelph developed a close and friendly relationship . Orielle met Jelph while looking for beautiful flowers to decorate her mother Grand Lord Candra Kitai ’ s booth prior to the Donellan ' s Day , an annual holiday which commemorated the memory of Donellan . From Riches to Rags . The first protagonist Orielle Kitai led a privileged and sheltered life due to her mother Candra ' s status as High Lord . During that year ’ s Day of the Dispossed , Candra and her daughter along with other members of the ruling elite including the current Grand Lord Lillia Venn are present in the capital city Tahv ' s arena Korsinata for a game of rake - riding . Rake - riding was a competitive blood - sports which involved teams of riders competing on flightless uvak s , winged reptilian beasts native to Kesh . These particular uvaks have had their wing muscles cut at birth , rendering them flightless . For that game , Candra and Orielle had sponsored a rake - rider known as Campion Dey . Unknown to Candra and Orielle , Dey had planned to assassinate Lillia during the games . However , this attempt was unsuccessful and Dey was killed . Candra and Orielle were shocked and horrified that their sponsored rake - rider would attempt to assassinate one of their family ’ s political allies . Hoping to prove her family ' s innocence , Candra ordered her daughter to return to the family estate while she remains behind . After two hours , Orielle returned to her family ’ s estate only to discover that the Grand Lord had unfairly blamed her family for the assassination and had ordered their disenfranchisement and enslavement . Under Lillia ' s orders , the family ’ s Keshiri servants had destroyed all of her family ' s possessions in a public bonfire . As a sign of her diminished status , Orielle is renamed " Ori " , a nickname she had used while around Jelph . In addition , Lillia had ordered the summary executions of two other High Lords Dernas and Pallima , the leaders of the Red and Gold Faction s respectively . In desperation , Ori takes her uvak to Jelph ' s remote farm where she attempted to find comfort and solace in her friend . During her time there , Ori and Jelph discussed whether the " downfall " of her family was the result of a conspiracy engineered by the Grand Lord . Jelph advised Ori not to return because he believed that her life was in danger . He speculated that Lillia must have ordered the attempted assassination on herself in order to make Ori and her mother political scapegoats . The fact that she had spared them rather than execute them indicated that the Grand Lord had wanted to make a public example of them . In the end , Ori agreed to stay with Jelp until it was safe and to temporarily abandon her plans to regain her family ' s position . The Discovery . Several days later , Ori was home alone on the farm while Jelph was away checking his traps in the forest . During that time , Ori ’ s Sith rivals Flen and Sawj Luzo , arrived at the farm and killed her uvak Shyn on the pretext that slaves were not allowed to own uvaks . Prior to Dey ’ s failed assassination attempt , the two Luzo brothers had been Ori ’ s rivals while she was training to be a Sith Saber . They also produced two confessions from her mother Candra which claimed that she conspired with both Dernas and Pallima . Under duress , the Luzo brothers also confiscated her lightsaber . To mark her new status as a slave , Ori was given a spade . After the Luzo brothers depart , a humiliated Ori descended into a fit of rage . She damaged and destroyed several items of Jelph ’ s property including his plants , wooden cart , and barn . During that time , Ori discovered an Aurek - class tactical strikefighter beneath a mound of manure . Ori quickly realized that the starship could become a way for her and her mother to regain their loss status within the Tribe . Since the Tribe ’ s ancestors had crash - landed on Kesh , the Tribe had been unable to leave the planet and return to the stars for more than a millennium . The Tribe had always hoped to return to the wider galaxy to create their own interstellar empire . By the time that Jelph had returned to the homestead , he found that Ori had already left and that his starship had been uncovered . As a member of the secretive Jedi Covenant , Jelph was committed to eradicating any Sith influence and preventing the Tribe from posing a threat to the galaxy . Fearing that the Tribe would pose a threat to the galaxy , he resolved to stop his friend Ori from revealing the presence of a Jedi and a hyperspace - capable starship to her people .