Snoke

Snoke was an extremely powerful Force-sensitive humanoid male who held dominant mastery of the dark side of the Force. A sinister and cunning individual, Snoke was a seeker of arcane lore who operated from somewhere deep in the Unknown Regions, hiding in the shadows, plotting his ultimate plan for complete control and domination of everything in the universe. While his lust for ancient knowledge and powers led him to study the Sith, he did not affiliate with them. As a master of the dark side of the Force, Snoke created his own order of Force-sensitive individuals known as the Knights of Ren, training them since near birth to serve as his dark side disciples, secretly carrying out his will across the galaxy.
Although he remained elusive and unknown to the galaxy for centuries, watching events unfold with great patience, Snoke revealed himself to the Jedi Padawan Jarik Shan toward the end of the Clone Wars — when the latter traveled to the World Between Worlds — having been greatly interested in him after discovering he was a direct descendant of the ancient Jedi and Sith Lord, Darth Revan. Although unable to sway Shan into becoming his apprentice, he continued to watch in keen interest as he grew from a Jedi Padawan into powerful and famed Jedi Knight in his struggles against the Galactic Empire. Occasionally, Snoke would reach out to Shan through the Force as a way of taunting him, feeding his fears, even attempting to use him as a means of acquiring an ancient and powerful relic known as the Soul Stone, though Shan managed to resist his influence.
After the fall of the Galactic Empire, Snoke gathered up the Imperial remnants to form his own military regime known as the First Order, sparking the beginning of his long thought out plans to ensure his eventual conquest of the Andromeda galaxy and, afterwards, the rest of the universe.
== Personality and traits ==
Snoke was a secretive and enigmatic figure, mysterious to even his own servants among the Knights of Ren. As a seeker of ancient knowledge and arcane lore, Snoke's studies led him to learning of and understanding many great and relatively unknown sources of power across the universe, including the Infinity Stones, which he sought after most heavily. He was both incredibly wise and cunning, being a master of manipulation, carrying a very malicious and sinister attitude within as an extremely powerful user of the dark side of the Force. Despite this however, his alternate method of training his students ― the Knights of Ren ― in comparison to how the Sith taught their own apprentices, led the Knights to be unfailingly loyal and fully devoted to him.
== Powers and abilities ==
Although not a Sith, Snoke was an immensely gifted and powerful Force-sensitive. Having studied the Force extensively over several centuries of life, Snoke held total mastery over powers offered through use of the dark side of the Force. Applying his knowledge to his craft, he was able to invent a completely unseen ability he named Volantuniris, which enabled the user to fly through the air in a cloud of black smoke. Snoke was also well practiced in other abilities such as Force lightning and Force fire, the latter of which he used in to try and kill Jarik Shan. Similarly to Volantuniris, Snoke's fire and lightning were colored black instead of the normal blue.
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==Sources and copyrights==
For details of the official canon character see Snoke on Wookieepedia. The related topic of this article is the property of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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