Taron Malicos

Taron Malicos was a human male Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. As a Jedi General, Malicos became one of the Order's most trusted leaders and was renowned for his abilities as a tactician and motivator of his troops. In the final months of the war, he was called by Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi to provide support in defending Republic shipyards on Anaxes. While there, Malicos met Kenobi's Padawan Jarik Shan and spoke with him briefly, offering sympathy for the young Jedi's difficult position with the Jedi Council, as well as sharing some of his own reservations about the Order, which Shan agreed with and earned his respect to Malicos.
After Order 66 was declared by Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, Malicos turned to the dark side of the Force upon escaping to Dathomir and became leader of the Nightbrothers by killing Viscus, while influencing the Dathomirian Nightsister Merrin to learn her magick and informing her that the Jedi had massacred her people — in actuality, the massacre was orchestrated by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and its Head of State Dooku, who ordered the Kaleesh warlord General Grievous to annihilate the entirety of the Nightsisters.
Malicos eventually encountered Padawan Cal Kestis and attempted to turn him to the dark side on two occasions, though he failed to do so. When Merrin eventually concluded that Malicos had lied about the Jedi killing her family, she and Kestis agreed to take him out, ensuring a duel between the Padawan and Malicos. Kestis won the duel with the help of Merrin, in which the Nightsister buried the fallen Jedi alive with her magick.
==Personality and traits==
Malicos was a formidable Jedi General as well as a trained motivator and cunning tactician. Noted for his competency and courage at leading clone troopers into battle, the Jedi Order counted Malicos as one of their most trusted battlefield commanders. Malicos was the General of the 442nd Siege Battalion. As such a gifted tactician in the war, Malicos came to hold a more hardened view of the war compared to most Jedi, recognizing that the Jedi Code was not always the most effective standard to live by as a soldier. He shared his views were shared by a Temple guard and Jedi Padawan Jarik Shan, both of whom came to agree with him.
After being betrayed by his troopers in Order 66 and spending several years on Dathomir, Malicos succumbed to darkness and madness. He became power-hungry and manipulative, having influenced the Nightbrothers to follow him and exerted power over Merrin when he asked to learn the art of Nightsister Magick and lied to her about the Jedi conducting the massacre of her fellow Nightsisters, when in truth, it was conducted by General Grievous on the orders of Count Dooku. He was also keen at being evasive in order to keep his true identity secret, portraying himself to Cal Kestis as a "wanderer" who studied ancient history and philosophies when Kestis attempted to discern his identity.
Whilst on Dathomir, Malicos gained scars and carried trophies from dead Nightbrothers he had slain due to opposition from them. He had also lost faith in the Jedi, believing they had doomed themselves to eternal extinction by allowing their traditions and past glories to blind them to reality. In the Jedi Order's place, he wanted to create something new and better. The former Jedi believed that Merrin could not control her own power, claiming that she had become possessed by it, such as her releasing a number of Nightsister Zombies to attack Kestis and Malicos.
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