Syo Bakarn Syo Bakarn was a Human male Corellian Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a healer during the Great Galactic War against the resurgent Sith Empire . Following the Treaty of Coruscant , Master Bakarn relocated to Tython where he served as a member of the Jedi High Council during the Cold War . However , Bakarn himself was unaware that he was host to a second personality , the First Son of the Sith Emperor . Biography . Seeds planted . Syo Bakarn was a Force - sensitive Human male native of the Core World of Corellia . Born around 3678 BBY , he was a member of the Bakarn family , which had once carried the name Bakvalen . The Bakvalens had at one point been a well - known Corellian noble lineage , living in Bakvalen Hall , their own manor in the capital city of Coronet . Bakarn was born during a time of turmoil , as the Galactic Republic was engaged in the Great Galactic War with the resurgent Sith Empire , led by the enigmatic Sith Emperor . Seeking to further his power base , the Sith Emperor decided to create a group of personal sleeper agent s called " Children of the Emperor . " The Emperor ' s agents , Servant s of the clandestine organization Emperor ' s Hand , scoured the galaxy for Force - sensitive beings suited for their Master ' s needs . Like many infants from many different species , Bakarn was spirited away from his family on Corellia and he was taken to the Sith Academy on the planet Korriban to undergo training in a specialized group . For weeks , Bakarn and the other children underwent various rituals and processes inside the Academy , until eventually Bakarn was chosen to be the first individual to be inducted into the ranks of the Children of the Emperor . The young Bakarn was granted a personal audience with the Sith Emperor , whereupon he was infused with the Emperor ' s strength and was bound to his mind and will , becoming the Emperor ' s First Son . The First Son was essentially another persona created inside Bakarn ' s mind , who was unaware of its existence . A master strategist , the First Son would lay dormant inside the labyrinths of Bakarn ' s mind , waiting for the Emperor ' s command to awaken and do his Master ' s bidding . After his initiation , Bakarn was returned by the Emperor ' s Hand to his parents , as eventually were the other Children . Thus , a network of sleeper agents was spread by the Sith Emperor throughout both the Republic and his own Sith Empire . The First Son , bound through the Force to the other Children , continued to sleep inside Bakarn . However , he constantly projected a mental shield , hiding himself and the other Children of the Emperor from being detected by other Force - sensitives . As long as the First Son lived , the Childred were undetectable by the galaxy at large . Having no memories of his experiences at the Sith Academy and unaware of the second personality inside him , Bakarn continued to live with his parents on Corellia . He and his father at one point took a walk in Axial Park , when his father told him about their family ' s proud past . Eventually , Bakarn ' s Force - sensitivity was discovered by the Jedi Order . He was taken from his homeworld and trained in the ways of the Force , becoming a Padawan to a Jedi Master . During his time as a Padawan , Bakarn gained recognition after he saved his Master from an attack by a Mandalorian Jedi hunter . Eventually attaining the rank of Jedi Knight and studying as a Consular , Bakarn focused his studies on his healing skills , eventually becoming a noted healer . Helping rebuild . As a Jedi Knight , Bakarn joined the war effort and fought on the front lines of the Great Galactic War . Although he displayed great combat prowess on the battlefields , Bakarn found no enjoyment in fighting and preferred to channel his talents on healing and rebuilding . As such , Bakarn made it his priority to tend to wounded Republic soldiers after each battle . At one point in his life , he distributed ancient medicine across the alleways of his native Coronet City . Such actions earned him the nicknames " the Wise Son of Corellia " and " the Quiet Healer . " Near the end of the war , around 3653 BBY , Bakarn joined fellow Knights Satele Shan , Bela Kiwiiks and Jaric Kaedan during the battle on the icy Outer Rim world of Rhen Var . Rhen Var had been captured earleir by the Dark Council member and Dark Lord of the Sith , Darth Mekhis , a Sith scientist and alchemist , who intended to use the world to test her new creations . The Jedi and the Republic army landed on the surface of Rhen Var and embarked on a march toward Darth Mekhis ' s fortress . The Republic ' s Forty - fifth Battalion was dispatched ahead to the forests of Rhen Var as a scout force for the Jedi and the main army , but while on the scouting mission , they were attacked by the Empire ' s weaponized poison gas . By the time , the rest of the Republic forces reached them , all of the scouts were either killed or close to dying . True to his duties as a Jedi healer , Bakarn attempted to ease the suffering of the dying scout Maxin Davers , while Shan rallied Republic forces for a final push forward toward Darth Mekhis ' s fortress . Bakarn and the Republic army soon encountered and engeged a large detachment of the Empire ' s troops and Sith but were able to defeat them . As the Republic laid siege to Mekhis ' s fortress , Shan personally infiltrated the compound and captured the Sith , ending the battle in a Republic victory . Shortly after that battle , a surprise peace offering came from the Empire , and negotiations were scheduled to take place on the planet Alderaan , where a peace treaty was to b discussed . The Republic sent a delegation of Senators and Jedi , including Bakarn , to Alderaan . Bakarn , remained excluded from the direct negotiations , so he waited for Jedi Knight Aryn Leneer before the hearing room in the building of the High Council . Bakarn felt there that Leneer became increasingly restless and learned that she felt strange , which troubled him , although he did not trouble her as a threat . Shortly afterwards he felt a disturbance when he sensed Leneer ' s betrayal of the Sith denounced and attacked the two Sith warriors in their vicinity . Bakarn couldn ' t jeopardize the negotiations and tried to call her back but she did not hear him before Dar ' Nala ordered them to stand down in which they obeyed . Eventually , Bakarn and Leneer were informed that the Sith had conquered Coruscant in order to force the Republic to make concessions in the negotiations . Leneer was extremely angry at this decision , and at the death of her master , and Syo attempted to comfort her after the incident . He offered her his help with anything she needed , but she declined to speak to him and later left the planet to search for her master ' s killer . After the end of the war , Bakarn relocated with the rest of the Order to their ancestral homeworld Tython , where he was responsible for many of the technical aspects of the new Temple , including the construction of the new Archives . During that time , he also founded the Jedi Restoration Concord , a group of Jedi tasked with providing agricultural , engineering and constructional aid to Republic worlds devastated by the war with the Empire . One of the Concord ' s big achivement was made on the planet Uphrades , where young Jedi serving the Concord quadrupled the planet ' s food production in just two years . Bakarn ' s selfless efforts in healing the scars of war did not go unnoticed and earned him the rank of Jedi Master and a seat on the Jedi High Council . Bakarn was especially close with a fellow Jedi named Duras Fain . On one occassion , the two of them pursued an Imperial fugitive to the moon of Nar Shaddaa . There , the Jedi met an aspiring technologist named Tharan Cedrax , who helped them track the Imperial by building a tracking device . After that encounter , Bakarn , Fain and Cedrax became close friends . Although Bakarn did not approve of Cedrax ' s lifestyle , he continued to enlist his services in building technological advances for the Jedi Order . The First Son . Unbeknownst to most , including even Syo himself , the Emperor had created an alternate personality and implanted it into Syo ' s mind . This personality would be known as the First Son and leader of the Children of the Emperor . The First Son shielded the rest of the children from detection . Eventually , the Barsen ' thor defeated him , redeemed him , expelled the Emperor ' s influence in him as well as his identity as the First Son , and ultimately exposed the Emperor ' s Children to detection . The Barsen ' thor eventually gained Syo Bakarn ' s seat on the Jedi Council . Behind the scenes . Defeating Syo Bakarn , as the First Son of the Emperor , is the finale of the Jedi Consular ' s storyline . As the fate of Syo is player determined , Syo can be killed , even when the Barsen ' thor tries to redeem him . The First Son takes over and viciously hammers away at the Jedi Master , forcing them to blast Bakarn into a cave wall which collapses on him . Despite being a major character in the consular story , Syo Bakarn also makes an appearance in the Jedi Knight storyline by attending Kira Carsen ' s hearing and agreeing with Tol Braga that no one was beyond redemption .