Darth Melekor

Dieta Umbra, known more popularly as Darth Melekor or the self-proclaimed Master of Shadows, was a male of an unknown species who was a Dark Lord of the Sith during the resurgence of the Sith Empire. He served in the Great Galactic War and the Galactic War, and was present for the Alliance's war against the Eternal Empire. Darth Melekor's life was defined by his search for eternal life and establishment of the Tenebrae Initiative.
One of the first Sith acolytes after the Battle of Korriban, the young Echani quickly completed his training and began his apprenticeship under a Sith inquisitor. At some point during the Great Galactic War, Umbra was tasked with killing a powerful force user, Kwagar Ocata, but instead turned against his old master and quietly served Ocata's force order from the shadows.
At some point during the later years of the Cold War, Umbra became disillusioned with Ocata's order, and fled. Soon after, an event in the jungles of Dromund Kaas would leave him corrupted wholly by the Dark Side and embolden him to destroy Ocata's order, return to the Empire, and relocate his power base to the edges of Imperial space.
Emboldened by his new enlightenment towards the Dark Side, Umbra began his search for eternal life. He took the name Melekor, a perversion of Malachor V, which he viewed as a great triumph of the Dark Side. From that point on, Darth Melekor would serve the Empire, while quietly pursuing his own goals through his secret organization, the Tenebrae Initiative. At some point, records of the Darth simply fade from Galactic history.
== Biography ==
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== Personality and traits ==
Before his transformation in the jungles of Dromund Kaas, Darth Melekor was considered respectable and reasonable as far as Sith went. He was a well-spoken strategist, who showed warmth towards those who expressed loyalty to him and the Empire, and a genuine intrigue in knowledge for knowledge's sake. He honored strength more than anything else, a left over from the early Echani culture he was raised in. Once under Kwagar Ocata's mentorship, he began on a darker path, but maintained his belief in strength as the ultimate expression of a person, and argued against killing for killing's sake. He began teaching these beliefs to his apprentices.
After being consumed the the Dark Side, the Echani inside was no more. Darth Melekor was cold and calculating, never showing sympathy or care for anything other than his own gains. He rejected outward expression of emotion, believing it weakened it's power, and thus capability to be harnessed. Later in life, after being confined to his Force-attuned armor, he was recorded as almost never speaking.
== Power and abilities ==
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