Revan

Revan — renowned as the Revanchist, reviled as Revan the Butcher, worshiped as the Revan, dreaded as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Revan, and praised as the Prodigal Knight — was a Force-sensitive human male who played pivotal roles as both a Jedi Knight and Sith Lord in the Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, and Great Galactic War.
==History==
===Early life===
Believed to have been born around 3994 BBY in the Outer Rim Territories, the child later known as Revan was found by the Jedi Order and apprenticed to the Jedi Master Kreia. The Padawan had an insatiable hunger for knowledge and soon became the Jedi's most promising pupil. While growing up to become a Jedi, Revan became close friends with fellow Jedi Tarre Vizsla, who was also the first Mandalorian ever inducted into the Jedi Order; they grew to be brothers-in-arms. However, as tensions grew between the Galactic Republic and Mandalore, Revan and Vizsla's friendship also became strained, with Revan―as well as another Jedi named Malak―becoming vocal in the need for the Order to assist the Republic against the growing threat of Mandalore, whereas Vizsla desired to honor his heritage by aiding the Mandalorians.
===Mandalorian Wars===
Eventually, Revan and Vizsla's friendship would reach a breaking point, and Vizsla resigned from the Jedi Order in order to fully support his people while Revan started the Revanchist movement and took up arms with his new friend Malak, combating the Mandalorians in defiance of the Jedi Council as the Republic Military's Supreme Commander.
During the course of the Mandalorian Wars, Revan and his forces gradually pushed back the Mandalorians, saving countless worlds at the price of devastating moral compromises and the embrace of dark side practices. On Malachor V, Revan confronted his former friend―now enemy as "Mandalore the Ultimate", leader of the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders―in single-combat and ordered the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator superweapon, destroying both armies and the planet but winning the war in the process. With Mandalore the Ultimate having received a fatal injury in his duel with Revan the two warriors reconciled their friendship, and with his dying breath, Vizsla revealed he was manipulated by the Sith into having Mandalore attack the Republic.
After the war, to ensure that the Mandalorians could not resume the fighting, Revan ordered they be stripped of their weapons and armor, and refused to return the Darksaber―Vizsla's lightsaber―and Mandalore's Mask to them, so that they could not be claimed by a new leader. These actions saw Revan become the most scorned and hated individual by Mandalorians for a long time, even by the rise of the Galactic Empire over three millennia later, as well as kept Mandalore irreparably fractured for generations.
===Dark Lord of the Sith===
Revan and Malak, now hailed as the greatest of heroes to the Republic, vanished into the Unknown Regions to investigate the mysterious Sith influence behind the war. Eventually, they discovered a hidden Sith Empire and fell under the thrall of the Sith Emperor Vitiate. Vitiate directed the newly anointed Darth Revan and Darth Malak to find the mystical Star Forge to escalate plans of a galactic invasion, but the pair broke free from his mind control and used the Star Forge for themselves—creating their own Sith Empire and a fleet of warships―at some point during this time, they and HK-47 encountered Oryx, barely escaping with their lives. Intent on unifying the galaxy to destroy the lurking Sith menace, they returned to the galaxy as conquerors and battled the Jedi and the Republic in the resultant Jedi Civil War. Revan almost succeeded, but Malak usurped the throne and fired aboard his flagship during a Jedi ambush led by Bastila Shan. Revan nearly died, but Bastila healed him and took him before the surviving Jedi for judgment.
====Revan reborn====
The Jedi Council used their powers to wipe Revan's mind and soon retrained him as a Jedi. Alongside Bastila and newfound companions, Revan was tasked to relocate the Star Forge—the heart of Darth Malak's Sith Empire. Across his journey, Revan picked up more allies and fell in love with Bastila, but they were eventually intercepted by Malak’s flagship. Malak revealed to Revan his true identity as the former Dark Lord, then captured and corrupted Bastila to the dark side. Revan escaped and, in a last stand, led the remaining Republic fleet against the Star Forge, redeemed Bastila back to the light side, and killed Malak in battle, destroying the Sith Empire he created.
===After the wars===
Revan married Bastila and sank into obscurity until mysterious visions from his past led him to rediscover Vitiate's Sith Empire. Alongside his former protégé Meetra Surik, also known as the Jedi Exile, and the Sith Lord Scourge, Revan attempted to assassinate the Emperor. However, Scourge betrayed the pair, killing Meetra and helping Vitiate imprison Revan.
Kept in stasis for three-hundred years, Revan waged telepathic war against the Emperor, tempering his hate and stalling his invasion at terrible cost to his own psyche. Revan was eventually freed by Republic forces and took control of the Foundry space station to construct an army of extermination droids against the Empire, but he was foiled and killed by an Imperial strike team. However, his centuries of anguish had splintered his mind and, although his lighter half became one with the Force, his darker half rejected death and resolved to destroy Vitiate. Although the Emperor's physical body had already been destroyed in battle, his hibernating spirit lingered, so Revan planned to resurrect Vitiate to a physical form to permanently destroy him with the aid of the Order of Revan.
A coalition of Imperial and Republic forces, fearing that Revan's meddling would only bring untold destruction, united with Revan's light side spirit to defeat him on Yavin 4. Though the Emperor still reawakened and escaped to the galaxy at large, the two halves of Revan merged together in peace and died a final death.
===Legacy===
Over three millennia later, the Sith Lord Darth Bane discovered Revan's Sith Holocron and used its teachings to destroy the reigning Brotherhood of Darkness and as inspiration for the Rule of Two, paving the way for Darth Sidious. Bane also enacted a brutal massacre of Revan's descendants, having grown jealous and fearful of their power, though one managed to escape his vision and went into hiding, paving the way for Jarik Shan.
==Personality and traits==
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==Powers and abilities==
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==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Jarik Shan and the Lost ones 
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