Darth Kain

### Aliases

Corvar, Empress' Vengeance, The Beloved Prince of the Stars, The Seed of Chaos, The Dark Messiah, The Son of Suns, The Beloved King of the Stars

## Physical description

### Eye color

Green

> *"There are things far more terrifying than death in the galaxy. I should know — I'm one of them."*
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Darth Kain was a spawn of Abeloth, born within a pit of fire in 128 ABY, thanks to a botched ritual by maddened cultists. With Abeloth's invisible hand, Kain was guided throughout his life as the adopted child of a smuggler, until that smuggler was murdered and Kain, known then as Corvar, was taken as a slave. After violently freeing himself from his bonds, Corvar went on to be a successful freelancer across the galaxy, until he was given the opportunity to join the New Sith Order. It was during this mission that he learned what he truly was. He then succeeded, joining the Sith and skyrocketing through the ranks.

## Biography

### **Early Life**

It began with the love between a Dathomirian exile, Zul'tar, and a woman not from Dathomir, Delylah. Pregnant, she was taken from her home by mad cultists, twisted Dathomirians that worshipped the Ma'dri, or Mother, rather than the Fanged God and Winged Goddess. They cut Delylah's unborn child from her belly and tossed it into a pit of fire, hoping the sacrifice would please their goddess so that she would give life to their leader, who had just died of old age. The Mother, most commonly known as Abeloth, instead took pity on the child and gave it life. It crawled out of the flames, the very sight of it driving the cultists into murderous frenzy. The child had been born.

Guided by his Abeloth, the baby crawled his way to the ship that Delylah had once used to come to Dathomir. His Mother set a course for the planet where her son was destined to survive: Kashyyyk. As her power began to fade as the ship grew further from Dathomir, she planted a subconscious ability into his mind: to disguise his True Form. He took the traits of Delylah and her husband, combining them into the form of a human newborn. The key to maintaining the illusion was the focusing of a single trait, one that could forever remain; a scar on the bridge of his nose.

The ship crashed into the Kashyyyk Shadowlands, and was discovered by a tribe of Wookiees that made their home in the wroshyr tree nearby. They found the baby boy, taking him in and raising him to the best of their ability, despite the mystery surrounding him. Though there were many hurdles, the Wookiees took great care with the strange child they had found, and Kain remembers what little time he spent on Kashyyyk very fondly, even if it was only for the first three years of his life.

A smuggler who often traded with Kashyyyk happened to spot the young toddler after those three years. The Twi'lek's name was Hassan, and he knew that this boy had no place among the Wookiees. And so he consulted with the family that had taken the boy in, coming to an agreement. Hassan went on to raise the boy, naming him Corvar and instilling a sense of virtue and whimsy in him. However, Hassan knew that Corvar was gifted in the Force; after all, any time Corvar threw a fit, things aboard his ship would randomly set on fire. Hassan had no love for the Jedi, and feared the Sith even more, so he took it upon himself to find material that would aid Corvar in taming his power. Smuggled Jedi texts, datacrons, and scrolls were occasionally found and given to his adopted son. Though they made for dull reading to Hassan, the boy seemed to be fascinated. It was a nice change of pace, as Corvar was typically stressed by their nomadic lifestyle, which made it impossible for him to make friends for very long.

But all good things must come to an end. After stopping on Tatooine for business, the cantina that Hassan and Corvar were visiting was struck by a band of slavers. At only the age of nine, Corvar watched his adoptive father die, and he was taken as a slave thereafter.

### Slavery

For years he toiled away as a slave, the experience ebbing away at the goodness that Hassan had instilled in him. This culminated during a horrible accident during the mining of a cave in the desert. As the slaves worked themselves to the bone, a Krayt Dragon arrived, threatened by those that were nearing its eggs. A cave-in separated Corvar and one of his friends from the rest of the group, leaving the two children trapped underground. His friend, a boy just a bit younger than him, died of exhaustion before help would arrive. Starving, Corvar forced himself to eat the remains of his fallen friend to survive. He hated himself for quite a long time for committing such an atrocity, and he further hated the slavers that had put him in this situation in the first place.

After being found and returned to servitude, Corvar released his hatred on his masters. He set aflame their camp with the Force, burning them and any slaves foolish enough to fight for them alive. In his heart he would always remember the name of his slave master, the one who taught him the meaning of cruelty.

Kain.

### Life of Solitude

Only twelve years old when he regained his freedom, Corvar cut out the explosive tracker in his neck and put it in a pendant. He tried to sell it for credits but none would take it. So he kept it, deciding to use what Force abilities he knew to become a freelance mercenary. Work came at a slow pace at first; after all, only the truly desperate hired a child. But he began to build a reputation, earning more and more paid jobs for years and years. At the age of sixteen, he was offered an opportunity to participate in a competition composed of fighters from around the galaxy, one where he would be pitted against both them and the environment until only three out of three-hundred competitors remained. He was one of those final three, earning the most amount of credits he had earned in his young life.

He used these credits to visit the Aing-Tii, which he'd only heard of in Jedi texts written by Luke Skywalker. He stayed with them for nearly a year, gaining their trust and learning from them. His genuine curiosity had eventually allowed him to leave in good graces, though he took scrolls detailing some of their esoteric abilities along with him.

Corvar resumed his life of freelance work. Now that he was older, he began taking even more dangerous bounties and jobs. These displays of skill had eventually earned him the attention of Darth Maladi, who contacted him about the most important mission of his life. If he were to assume control of Kubjo the Hutt's criminal empire and turn over its resources to the New Sith Order, Corvar would be given the opportunity to join. Despite this being an immensely tall task, Corvar accepted. He had lived a life of solitude long enough; he was prepared to become part of something larger than himself.

### The Old Sith Trials - Corbos

He went to Nar Shaddaa, signing up to be a pit fighter in service to Kubjo himself. After a battle against two other fighters and a prototype spider droid, Corvar impressed the Hutt and was given an opportunity to rid himself of the debt he'd accrued by helping destroy the droid. He was to find the sword of Jen-Sin Caal in the abandoned mines of Corbos alongside one of the fighters he'd just fought against: Reaper. Corvar was able to further negotiate the deal, becoming a partner of Kubjo's to further his goals of taking over the Hutt's empire. As a gift to cement the partnership, Kubjo gave Corvar a holocron, one that was made by the long-dead Darth Gravid.

They were accompanied as well by Kubjo's protocol droid, D-3PO, and a Sith Apprentice meant to see if Corvar and Reaper were worthy to join the Order, Feros. Things went south rather quickly when the group mistook which Docking Bay was theirs, instead finding a fully-crewed ship called the Tranquility. Feros and Reaper attacked the crew in public while Corvar tried to stop the senseless violence, saving two of the crewmembers in turn. Feros, Reaper, and D-3PO escaped Nar Shaddaa in their intended ship with one of the crew that Corvar saved, though Corvar was temporarily separated by security forces. He quickly took the ship that Feros had initially arrived on, stowing away the other member of the Tranquility's crew that he'd saved. Corvar gave chase to the larger vessel that the others were escaping on, aiding them in defeating the pursuing Nar Shaddaa security forces before boarding the YV-666 he was originally meant to have left on.

One of the crew he'd saved was a Force sensitive Miraluka named Brooke, who Corvar developed a connection with. He became protective of her around the others, treating her as a little sister that wouldn't be harassed by the manic Reaper or cruel Feros. While on the trip to Corbos, rather than rest, Corvar decided to learn from the holocron of Gravid.

They eventually reached Corbos as intended, making their way into the tunnels below ground, where they soon found the sword of Jen-Sin Caal. However, it was guarded by a Leviathan, one of the horrifying dark side creatures left there at the end of the Hundred Year Darkness. Corvar, Feros, and Reaper did battle with the Leviathan, defeating it and acquiring the sword.

Corvar and the others returned to Nar Shaddaa, hoping to give the sword to Kubjo so their debt would be paid. But things went awry when Corvar began to notice a strange woman appearing to be following them. During their meeting with Kubjo, she revealed herself as the Beloved Queen of the Stars, Abeloth. When a confused Corvar did not know how to respond to her offers of being a family, she began to destroy the station, something that Kubjo falsely believed was being done by Corvar and the others. Running for their lives, Corvar, Feros, and Reaper nearly made it off the station before Corvar was separated from them once again. He was now alone with Abeloth.

And she revealed the truth. Of how he was born, of what he was, and what he was meant to become. The revelation was difficult to grasp, but Corvar was able to comprehend the situation fairly quickly. He vowed that one day they would rule the galaxy, with her as the Beloved Queen of the Stars, and with him as the Beloved Prince.

When he returned to Feros and Reaper, he learned that Brooke had disappeared, though he knew it was of her own volition. He hid his true nature from the others, not wanting to complicate the matters further as they escaped an angry Kubjo the Hutt.

Despite not completing the task he was originally given, Feros' word was more than enough for Darth Maladi to grant Corvar a place among the New Sith Order.

Shortly after first arriving on Korriban, Corvar was given an audience with Emperor Dreadwar — an exceptionally rare occurrence for an acolyte. Dreadwar sensed what Corvar was, and gave him a task to truly cement himself as a member of the Order. Zul'tar, the Dathomirian exile that was married to the woman whose flesh made his birth possible, was on Korriban. The old Dathomirian had accomplished a task for the Emperor after being captured by Sith forces, but learned information that could not afford to be spread. So Corvar was tasked with killing him. Corvar had no hesitation, for the man he truly considered his father was already dead. After a brief fight, Corvar killed Zul'tar, taking the name of the slaver that ruined his life. He claimed to be born again under the name of Kain to show that he was his own master, but in reality, it was because he knew that hearing his own name would spark the anger he would need to become truly immersed in the dark side.

### The New Sith Order

Darth Kain quickly ascended the ladder of power in the New Sith Order, earning allies in ones such as Darth Viscretus within weeks of joining the Order. He became a member of Emperor Dreadwar's Dark Council not long after taking his new name, and eventually earned the title of Empress' Vengeance. With the resources of the New Sith Order at his beck and call, Kain began to further his own goals.

As a test of his loyalty, and of the loyalty of Darth Nihl and Darth Talon, the trio was sent to eliminate a subsect of the Sith that was working to bring about the return of Darth Krayt on Nfolgai. After nearly being killed by a creature - known as one of the Butchers - Kain and the others were surprised to learn that this cult intended on not only bringing Krayt back from Chaos, but to do it by putting his spirit in the body of their leader, who was a Gen'dai. Unfortunately for all parties involved, the cult did not bring Krayt back, instead summoning an unknown spirit that possessed the Gen'dai and slaughtered nearly everyone in attendance. Kain was forced to incinerate the Gen'dai entirely in order to defeat the spirit, and save Nihl and Talon.

During his studies, he came across a prophecy that led him to the world of Taegis. Accompanied by a young acolyte named Bubonis, and a crew of smugglers that were used for their ship's ion shielding (which was required to breach the atmosphere of Taegis), Kain discovered the Eyes of Typhojem. The Eyes were strange, spherical holocrons, each said to contain one half of the knowledge of the mythological Left-Handed God. After acquiring them, Kain allowed Bubonis to see his True Form, driving the acolyte mad. The Beloved Prince then left Bubonis on Taegis, returning to Korriban with the Eyes and gifting one to the Emperor while keeping the other for himself.

Soon after this discovery, Kain took a hiatus from his duties in the Order, retreating to the wilds of Kashyyyk in his True Form. When the New Sith Order began receiving reports of Wookiees being driven to burning down their homes by some unseen madness, a team of young Sith were sent to investigate. Once Kain learned from them how his time there was driving the locals insane, he returned to the Order with renewed vigor, and with more respect for the consequences of his own power. It was on Kashyyyk that Kain found his pet Loth Cat, which bore black fur and a scar across its face. As it reminded him of himself, he named it Corvar.

With the Eye of Typhojem's knowledge, Kain began to hunt creatures that originated from the Dark Illathurion, another dimension said to house incomprehensible horrors. He did so to further his own powers, and to ensure that nothing of celestial horror could one day contend with his reign on the galaxy. This hunt led him to Kelcium, where he was accompanied by a team of Sith as they investigated the silence of the Sith's electrum mines. The ice moon was home to a race of creatures known as the Formless, which were entirely invisible to all but Kain, and relied on possessing solid matter before twisting it into forms they could use to lay their eggs in living flesh. In order to prevent the Formless from spreading any further, Kain unleashed a Force Fire Storm, which engulfed the entire moon.

Not long after this incident did Kain receive a message from Kubjo the Hutt. The Hutt wanted to make amends, and wanted Kain to pay his new debt by acquiring a piece of art — a carbonite slab with a frozen Jedi youngling from the Clone Wars inside. Kain tracked down the slab to the apartment of a Federation senator. It was then that Kain hatched his scheme. He freed the youngling from her imprisonment, using the Force to ensure her survival of the intense hibernation sickness, before imprisoning the senator in her own carbonite slab. He then cast a Sith illusion over it, making it appear as the original slab before giving it to Kubjo, and the contacting the Federation with information about their missing senator. A Federation fleet appeared in orbit of Kubjo's new station, attacking who they believed to have kidnapped a senator.

Kain took the youngling in, learning her name was Eva, and housed her at his home on Vitae — the name given to Abeloth's planet in the Maw. He brought her up to speed on galactic events, and made her believe that the Jedi Order of today was not the same as the one she left. She eventually cut off her Padawan braid, deciding to stay with the man that had saved her life. He had purposely left out the vital information of him being a Sith Lord, however. And when he was often away on business, he left Eva in the care of T1-FA, a personalized nanny droid.

Meanwhile, he had met Darth Abaddon, the younger sister of Lady Apollyon, on the moon of Kelcium. She had been drawn there by a prophecy of her own, and would have died had Kain not rescued her. And yet, when given the opportunity to flee as Kain held off what remained of the Formless horde, she stayed by his side. This trust quickly led to a strong relationship between the two, who loved each other deeply.

Eva soon learned the truth about Kain when the holonet caught wind of him during a botched mission with Lord Catalyst. Kain was eventually able to convince her of the truth: that he used the Sith as a pawn, and did not want her to join either the Jedi or the Sith, for he believed both would corrupt the best parts of her. With no more lies between them, Kain introduced Eva and Abaddon, and the three soon became as tightly knit as any other family in the galaxy.

After this, Kain forged his Blade on Dathomir, after having lost his lightsaber on his return trip to Kelcium. It was made from the Spirit Ichor of Abeloth, and powered with a fraction of his own soul.

During a mission to free a band of Mandalorian exiles from a Federation prison ship, Kain played the role of imposter by altering his image to look like a member of the ship's crew. When killing each member one-by-one failed, Kain slaughtered them all, then freed the Mandalorians and mentally dominated them, making them believe he was their Dark Messiah.

Soon after, Kain took over the bounty hunting guild on Nevarro, publicly murdering the former leader of the guild in a gruesome display that made even the most renowned of bounty hunters think twice before turning on him. He left his Mandalorian exiles there, to keep his interests known.

During a trip that forced them into Federation space, Kain and Eva were pursued by a Jedi Knight through an asteroid field. A strange anomaly forced both ships to rock violently, and then caused all aboard those ships to be knocked unconscious. When Kain awoke, he found himself, Eva, and the Jedi Knight - Raverene - in an ominous mansion hosted by three Sisters. These sisters were mad, dedicated to old gods and demons that Kain had believed to be little more than fairy tales. During their escape, the most powerful of the Sisters attached a demon to Kain's soul, weakening him. He, Eva, and the Jedi returned to Vitae, where Abaddon was waiting. His love informed him that he and Eva had been gone for months, making it clear that time had worked differently in that unusual manor. But with Kain and the others being forced to escape in the Jedi's starfighter rather than his own ship - which had been destroyed in his fight with the eldest Sister - the Jedi Order was able to trace their position.

A Jedi fleet arrived above Vitae, and the Jedi demanded that Kain and Abaddon be arrested. Instead, Kain signalled for Sith reinforcements to arrive. The reinforcements, led by Darth Drakul Xarxes and Darth Xxys, fought in the orbit of Vitae as Kain and Abaddon fought the ten Jedi that confronted them on the ground. Despite being weakened, Kain was able to defeat the Jedi that assaulted him, and Abaddon was able to defeat her fair share as well. But the Jedi who led the assault on the ground, Jedi Master Mai, wanted to ensure that the spawn of Abeloth could not be allowed to harm the galaxy as his mother did. She ordered the capital ship of their fleet, the Consular, to fire on Kain's home. The bombardment was momentarily held off by a waning Force Shield from Kain, but Mai stabbed him, causing him to lose concentration and allow the bombardment to proceed. After the smoke cleared, Kain found the corpse of Abaddon in the debris, though Eva, T1-FA, and Corvar had safely made it to the shelter built beneath his home. Enraged, and with the weakness of the demon no longer holding him back, Kain disintegrated Mai with a glance of his Deadly Sight before unleashing a Force Fire Storm on the Jedi fleet.

When the dust settled, Abaddon had disappeared. The demon that was attached to Kain's soul sensed the empty vessel of her body, possessing it. Kain soon tracked her down to Nar Shaddaa, where she had been luring victims to an abandoned apartment before killing them. When he attempted to exorcise the demon from her body, it was revealed that the demon could not be removed without casting Abaddon's soul to the void as well. Kain was far too attached to her, deciding he would rather have her alive and possessed than dead forever. And so he simply ensured that Abaddon regained control of her body with his efforts, but the demon would forever remain a part of her.

Not long after this, Kain was paid a visit by Darth Viscretus after her return from the Unknown Regions. They met one another's families, and they contemplated the future of the New Sith Order in wake of Dreadwar's disappearance.

## Personality and Traits

Kain has a peculiar personality for one of his station. He often presents himself as a kind and understanding Dark Lord, but he does not share this same kindness with those who either annoy or oppose him. In execution he is undoubtedly sadistic, twisting his victims both physically and mentally far beyond their limits. He boasts an inquisitive mind with his superiors, witty humor with his peers, and advice beyond his years for his subordinates. With time he has also grown into a fatherly figure for his adopted daughter, Eva, displaying kindness and love that he shows no other but his lover, Darth Abaddon.

## Powers and Abilities

As he was born in a pit of fire, Kain has an unprecedented affinity for pyromancy. He can manipulate flames in unique ways, forming armor or even Force Storms from them. He also has an immunity to temperature-based attacks due to his ability; fire cannot burn him, and ice cannot freeze the inferno of his heart.

Beyond this, Darth Kain is well-educated in the ways of the Force. He has studied from scrolls of the Aing-Tii, the holocron of Darth Gravid, and  the mysterious holocron known as the Eye of Typhojem *(of which only Emperor Dreadwar possesses another of)*. His broad stretch of knowledge has afforded him a variety of powers, from Fighting Sight to Sith Alchemy. His powers of illusion are also unnaturally powerful, amplified by the Force Psychosis he has inherited from his mother.

When it comes to the blade, Darth Kain has practiced saber combat as an art form rather than a necessity. What he does know of swordplay is advanced, but he has not pushed himself to master it as he has with his Force abilities, as he realizes a powerful sorcerer will defeat a powerful warrior a majority of the time. With his lightsaber now replaced with a Sith Sword, however, he has simply begun translating what he can of his knowledge of Djem-So to swordplay.

Lastly, his bloodline affords him a certain amount of immortality on the same level of his mother; though he is *much* younger than her. It is theorized that the Mortis Dagger could slay either of them, but that has not been proven.