Dark Lady Manea Nephthys

Biography
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6745: Manea is Born
6740-6725: Captured by the Sith at age 5 she is apprenticed to a sith sorcerer and at age 20 kills her master, the pureblooded Sith Sorcerer Darth Garris by poisoning him to prove herself a true Sith, and took his assets by Sith law as her own.
6725-6720: Manea begins her studies of XoXaan & Sorzus Syn, increasing her arcane knowledge and becoming a Dark Lady of the sith. She establishes her home in a small fortress on the Sith world of Zoist.
6720-6717: Manea gathers more power and influence and finding an old theoretical crafting manual and map of Ajunta Palls, travels into the unknown regions to craft herself a dark sith amulet that stops the aging process.
6717-6715: plans to expand her domain in sith space, it's during this time she hears of a handsome unbeatable swordsman who moves like the wind, working in a traveling circus.
6714: meets Ryder and seduces him into becoming her champion and general.
6714-6704: Ryder wages war on Maneas enemies expanding her influence and control over sith space. She beds him regularly over this time for her pleasure but eventually begins to fall in love with him.
6703: Maneas travels once more into Sith space and crafts a second amulet. Giving it to Ryder, and making him her first sith apprentice.
6703-6672: Ryder becomes a Knight and wages further war to expand his former Dark Masters domain. By this time her power and forces were nearly large enough to challenge for the Sith Empire itself.
6672: information of a lost world in the unknown regions rich in advanced dark technologies reaches her ears and she plans to send her general, Ryder and a small team to find and retrieve it in hopes of a fast campaign to win her throne.
6671: Manea loses contact with Ryder as his ship is sent off course. Struck by an unidentified space sickness that killed all 16 crew and put its commander Ryder into a coma, the ship “The Morningstar” crash lands on the undeveloped but iron rich world of Demir in the unknown regions.
6664: Manea finally gives up hope, withdrawing her search for Ryder's wearabouts and any plans of taking over the Sith mantle as the new Dark Lord, reducing her army to a large personal garrison on Ziost and focusing on political and historical recoveries.
5230: Finally she emerged from her fortress and into service, summoned by a powerful local sorcerer named Simus who commanded her assistance in his bid to become the new Jen'air. Manea agrees, in hopes of becoming closer to the new Dark Lord of the Sith for potential future opportunity for personal advancement.
5150: Simus is beheaded by a rival named Marka Ragnos and Manea joins Ragnos in his new Sith Empire, the sorceress being dubbed a Dark Lady of the Sith and afterwards helping place Simus' head inside a crystal so that he may live on.
5100: Marka Ragnos appoints a young force sensitive from the outlying planet of Medriaas named Tenebrea to be Lord of the planet. Renaming him Lord Vitiate. A brat of a child who killed not only his father but tortured his own mother for months. Manea is furious, warns Ragnos of the folly by dubbing a child with no control of his raw fury a Dark Lord and renounces her loyalty to the Sith Lord Ragnos, removing herself from the Sith Empire's hierarchy.
5020: Lord Simus’s old apprentice, The half breed Sith Naga Sadow from Zoist remembers his old master's powerful allies. He extends his local influence and after the death of Marka Ragnos commands Lady Manea to his secret citadel on the moon Khar Shian, where she would instruct him in the dark arcane arts. Reluctantly, she agrees. During this time She helps convert the Codex of the Dark Lord Karness Muur, into Galactic basic.
5000: Naga Sadow meets some explorers named Gav and Jori Daragon from outside of Sith known space, and the Lord begins to start talking of conquest against this new empire known as “The Republic”. Manea begins to question her position as Sadows private tutor as he now seemed more focused on war than on gaining power in the dark side of the force.. A path Manea believes will be his undoing.
Naga Sadow after eventually losing the great hyperspace war and while fleeing, requests Manea through a coded message to join him on Yavin 4. Manea refuses and waits close to a year on the hidden Moon fortress of Khar Shian before returning to Zoist with a large troop transport full of Kissai slaves rescued from Sadows’ citadel. Only to find the planet was now abandoned by the remaining Sith forces, and a message waiting for her.. one from Lord Vitiate begging her to visit his home planet to help overthrow the Galactic Republic. Manea, still very much wary of the reckless boy in her memories, destroys the message and instead spends the next decade overthrowing a vast portion of the planet, dominating the remaining population and laying claim to it as her own.
4988: Lost, Manea visits the Tomb of Sorzus Syn and XoXaan on Korriban in the Valley of the Dark Lords. She finds Sorzus Syn’s tomb and once inside finds her holocron. She learns of the existence of the Sorcerers of Tund and their Kissai members. She spends weeks there, learning from the spirit of Sorzus Syns Holocron. She learns of scrolls taken from a blood slurry at the Mongrel Altar next to the headless body of Wyrmuk the Undying. Enhancing her dark powers and teaching her techniques to cause deadly plagues and create monstrous Sith spawn. Syn speaks of the folly to taking on the Jedi on there own worlds, tells Manea instead to commit to finding and protecting the lost dark arcane Magics scattered throughout the Galaxy. And that only one powerful in the old ways should have the right to call themselves Jen'air.
Before she could finish her studies however the Valley came under attack and she was forced to flee before the tomb collapsed on top of her. She returns to Zoist. The Republic fleet it seemed was intent on erasing all darkness from the land and the valley of the Dark Lords was high on there list.
4950: Maneas curiosity gets the better of her.. no Sith Lords have returned for the last fifty years and she decides to travel to Medriaas to investigate what has happened to them. She finds an empty shell of a world.. one torn from the force. She quickly returns to her home world of Zoist. Convinced of the end of the Sith Empire.
4892-4690: the Sith world of Zoist suffers a two hundred year ice age and Lady Manea Nephthys is trapped in her fortress with the descendants of the Sadow Kissai servants and the remnants of the local populace. The Dark lady, through the teachings of Syn, recognises to recruit the Sorcerers of Tund she needs a Kissai apprentice first. Manea uses her Sith sorcery on the Kissai people in her fortress to extend their lives well beyond their natural lifespan, using the lives of the Zoist populace to fuel her Magic’s, allowing them to live for hundreds of years and increase their number. For this they serve her faithfully and without question as their true master.
4691: A civilian uprising of the local populace tries to overthrow Manea’s fortress but her guard and the loyalist kissai manage to quell the uprising. Many lives were lost on both sides.
4672: Lady Manea Nephthys finally apprentices a young Kissai female named Ocilia born inside her fortress. This child who Manea could feel the moment she was born held near limitless potential in the force.
4653: Ocilia, now apprenticed for a longtime and powerful in the force particularly in mind control, force sense, alchemy and Sith illusion techniques, feels the presence of Ryder through the force and Lady Manea sends her apprentice into the unknown regions to continue her search for Ryder, and to return with any information. Ocilia agrees, but her plans are to not only locate the lost Sith but to kill him.
4652: Ocilia returns to Zoist, she had been to Demir where Ryder’s force signature had led her but had no luck in locating him. It was as though his force signature was spread thin over the entire planet. Ocilia, jealous of Ryder and his claim to the Maneas throne and bed once he returns, decides to hide the information from the Dark Lady.
4647: Ocilia and Manea travel into the unknown regions, and return with a sith Amulet. One that Manea gives to Ocilia with the same dark powers that Ryder and her own has. Stopping the aging process, and Manea knights Ocilia deeming her apprenticeship complete. Manea notes this the last amulet she would ever be able to make.. The secret well of power had now run dry. It is now on her travels she hears of a New Sith Emperor Vitiate who has taken over the Sith homeworld of Dromund Kaas and established a new Empire.
4231: Manea, following the advice from Sorzus Syn wished not to join anothers war but instead to take rule off the back of it, orders Ocilia to take a transport of her trusted Kissai and travel to Tund to establish a foothold on the planet, and if possible locate the sorcerers of Tund and recruit them.
4225: Maneas intelligence agents report back that a well known, skilled sith alchemist Vodal Kressh had left the New Emperor on Dromund Kaas and fled to the nearby planet of Athiss. Maneas plans to travel to the planet to recruit Vodal to her cause. A trip that was an utter failure. The Dark lady barely escaped and returned to Zoist with grave injuries.
3990: Manea receives word from Ocilia that she's found the secret order on Tund and gotten close to it's leader. A man known as Karnak the Maleficent, she would try to get close to him and recruit the order to her master's cause. She would send word again when was able to recruit them.
3983: A parcel is delivered to Maneas fortress, the carrier was never seen and surveillance shows only a shimmer of light prior to the box appearing. Manea opened it and inside was the severed head of Ocilia, along with a note. ‘Do not try to find us, we will never bow to a pale skin again’. Ocilias amulet was not in the box.
3640: Word reaches Zoist of a Sith Academy on Odacer Faustin, and a Master named Darth Scabrous who had found the elixir of life inside a holocron of the academy's founder Darth Drear. The master however had disappeared after a mysterious fire in the Academy.
3641: Manea takes a small team and travels to Odacer Faustin to investigate the rumours.
3640: Once at the ruins Manea manages to find a burnt piece of wood deep in the bowls.. Remains of the Neti librarian, Dail'Liss. Through the power of the dark side Manea invokes the spirit of Dail’Liss who tells her that the Holocron of Darth Drear was not destroyed.. Manea searches for weeks and eventually finds the Holocron, containing the recipe of the Elixir and records it.
3639-3632: travels to the planet Murakam. M11, the Deep core. She manages to integrate into the local population and posing as an Agricultural scientist over time gains their trust as well as the orchids. She is finally able to gain access to and smuggle out a sample of orchids and plans to return home to Zoist to begin her study.
3636: The invasion of Zoist by Emperor Vitiate.
3632: Manea returns home to find her home planet a mere husk and her fortress utterly sacked. The local people of her compound dead. Including her kissai and the force had been drained from all life. She was forced to leave the planet for good, war was coming and she had lost everything including her precious research… Well almost.
3632-3629: Manea Traveled the Galaxy looking to find a new home. She had lost contact with many Sith of old. The Lady now was truly alone.
3628: Manea finds her way to a planet in the Nuiri sector along the Outer Rim Territories. This planet was dark.. It called to her as a place to start anew. Or at least for now as to hide from the eyes of Vitiate and the Republic until they ended their war.. A planet called Vjun.
3628-3120: Manea Nephthys over the next five centuries built a mighty trading empire, dealing primarily as a supplier of the finest tunics. After the first forty years the business did so well that the Dark Lady seldom needed to appear anymore in public. Building a small Castle with a cream-and-crimson color scheme overlooking the Bay of Tears. Inside the castle and under it the Dark Lady constructed many secret passages and rooms. The castle itself reminded her of her former home on Ziost with wide open grounds inside a protected compound. She spent much time studying her alchemy and Sith Magics inside venturing into the local population centers often under a cast Sith Illusion.
Every fifty to sixty years the Dark Lady fakes her own death and rises once again as a new member of her household, another daughter or niece in a seemingly endless supply ready to take over the family business. W.Wolf Tunics.
3120-3079: Manea Nephthys after amassing much wealth constructs a large black castle on the beach of the River Weeping, which ran into the bay of tears. The Sith fortress was a forty year masterpiece of power and a show of wealth as the Sorceress once again looks to gain power in an attempt to press her claim to a Dark Throne. She sells her castle to a local wealthy agricultural family known as Malreaux. They soon after renamed the building “Château Malreaux” and deemed it their ancestral home. Lady Nephthys then moved residence to her new Black fortress. (*she left some of her research in one of the secret rooms she had built on an altar before she moved.. Later, the room and her scrolls were found by the Viscount Malreaux in 29BBY. )
3079-0210: Little exists on Maneas' history in this period. We do know several Imperial Sith recruiting personnel visited her and were rejected. It is also recorded Manea visited Korriban, Dromund Kaas and Zoist several times in this period. Often for months at a time.
0210: Manea travels to the planet Zeffo, word reached her of the force sensitive race becoming more powerful in the dark side of the force. She arrives to find two of the sages already dead. Invoking their spirits from their tombs she learns that the new leader of the Zeffo built a secluded seat of power off world. For the Zeffo ruler Kujet, the great structure was a fortress designed for sacrifice and death on the planet Dathomir.
0220: drawn by the surge of power in the dark side of the Zeffo Sage, Lady Manea visits Dathomir, with the intention of recruiting the Zeffo Sage Kujet to her side, possibly even apprenticing him. When arrived she was shocked to see the primitive land.. the witches of Dathomir kept their location hidden from all strangers and she was unsuccessful in recruiting Kujet. A fierce battle breaks out as Manea in her wish to show her power raises a Nightbrother graveyard and sends them to Kujets temple. Unfortunately, several beasts are attracted and in trying to defend herself Manea is gravely injured. The Nightbrothers find her and seeing her power bring her to the clan's Mother Gethzerion.
(* Manea now learns of the Temple that housed a ancient Rakattan Hypergate, and for the next 200+ years both studying it and traveling through it, on a mission to search the Galaxy for her White Wolf. Resurfacing on Dathomir and Vijun every few decades to make contact with the Kwa Temple guardians and the W.Wolf traders company. In the later decades of this period she began trying to build her own Hypergate portal in her fortress on Vjun by channeling the dark energy of the planet itself. )
0042: Manea successfully replocates a Hypergate in the base of her Black Fortress on Vjun and uses it to not only fast travel to Dathomir, but to other worlds previously unexplored.
0042-0028: Dark energies increase three fold across the planet of Vjun.
0028: The Vjun local socialite and political leader Viscount Malreaux stumbles across a secret room in his family's ancestral home. He enters it to find a dark Sith altar and sith sorcery notes. Studies of someone called Sorzus Syn... Unbeknown to him, these had been left behind by the Lady Nephthys over two thousands years earlier and now forgotten. The Viscount is intrigued, and begins to try and discover what the dark studies held by slowly experimenting with the knowledge he had found.
0029: The populace of Vjun goes insane because of the experiments Viscount had performed with midichlorians using the newly found scroll of Sith Magics. In their collective descent into madness and paranoia, they all committed murder against each other, killing off the entire planets population except, presumably for Manea. The Viscount himself was no exception, and in his delusion, he had an advanced security system installed in his home. Despite these measures, he continued to lock himself away to protect himself from harm. Eventually, he took up residence in the ventilation system of the Malreaux family home.
Shielding her mind from the dark Magics the Lady travels through the underground tunnels to her old home. Sneaking into the Castle through a secret passage that had not been used since she built it she finds, the same as outside, everyone is dead. Murdered. Reviewing the footage in the castle's security room she finds the Viscount, caught by one of the security cameras he had installed sneaking into the kitchen and stealing some food.
Heading into the Kitchen and following the smells of death, Lady Nephthys enters the ventilation systems to find the Viscount. And find him she does, dead in a small makeshift room in the vent. Lying in a pool of his own filth, clutched tightly in his hand was her lost scroll. It was then she realised what had happened, and how she could not be found to be the only one alive when others eventually came to the planet. There would be too many questions.
Once again, Dark Lady Manea Nephthys was forced to abandon her home, sealing off and deactivating the Black Fortress Hypergate and traveling to Dathomir to utilize the Rakatan temple to continue her search, never intending to return to Vjun.
(* some time after this, Lord Vader travels to Vjun and senses the darkness from within the black fortress. He takes the impressive structure as his own property, but it is unknown if he ever found the hidden hypergate or the underground tunnels in the massive fortresses bowls. )
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10: Manea returns from the Rakkatan temple to Dathomir and tells of a planet steeped in powerful force energy. Of forgotten races, immense sprawling landscapes, rich in minerals and housing a weapon of power so great the gods themselves would tremble. She shares the location with her most trusted Kwi elder and again disappears into the Hypergate, excited to investigate further and claim this new world.
31: The Nightsisters captured the Star Temple and slaughtered the Kwi who had guarded it for thousands of years. The Nightsisters, now desperate and seduced ignoring the centuries old pact with a lone dark woman who shared arcane magics with Mother Gethzerion, intended to access the secrets of the Infinity Gate and use it to destroy Coruscant. However, their plot was thwarted by the Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos, who, in his role as Temple Guardian, redirected the deadly wave aimed at Coruscant back at the Infinity Gate. Only the scattered ruins of the Star Temples were left. The Kwi also disappeared into the deserts.
This was the last known recorded location of Dark Lady Manea Nephthys.
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