Andrik Kieral

"*Clearly, the Jedi Council has learned nothing from the first Schism. The Order has stagnated, and thus it must be destroyed so that something new can take its place.*"
— Alleged quote attested to Andrik during the Hundred-Year Darkness

**Andrik Kieral** -- better known as **the Daritha** or as **the Emperor** to his revised Sith Empire, and erroneously referred to as **Darth Andrik** by the Jedi Order for a brief time -- was an ancient Human male Jedi Knight who fell to the dark side and was exiled from the Jedi Order following the Hundred-Year Darkness.

Exiled from Republic space, Andrik and his fellow exiles came upon Korriban and its native Sith, whom they enslaved after Ajunta Pall executed Sith King Hakagram Graush and took control of Korriban, becoming the first Dark Lord of the Sith. As such, Andrik and his fellow exiles were christened as the Lords of the Sith, and he was amongst the few Ajunta Pall selected to be part of his newly formed Sith Council.

In the years that followed, Andrik watched as his fellow exiles either fought amongst themselves for power, or became hermits in pursuit of knowledge. When Sorzus Syn and Broodica ascended to become the second and third Dark Lords of the Sith respectively, Andrik continued to be a member of their councils. After orchestrating the downfall of Broodica, Andrik took control of the Sith Empire, becoming the fourth Dark Lord of the Sith. During his reign, he focused on expanding the borders of the empire, conquering and colonizing over fifty habitable star systems in the regions near Korriban and Ziost.

At some point, he grew disillusioned with both the Sith Empire and the developing Sith teachings. Amassing a large number of followers, Andrik departed from the Empire and set out on a voyage to the western Unknown Regions, seeking to start anew. Coming upon the ancient human colony of Exegol, Andrik saw the world as the perfect staging point for a new empire and Sith Order - ones uncorrupted by the excesses and depravities of his fellow Exiles.

## Biography

### Early life

Andrik was native to Dellalt, a planet on the border of the Tion Hegemony. In 7015 BBY, the settlement in which Andrik lived was attacked by a slave raiding party from Hutt Space and he was amongst those who were captured. In the years that followed, Andrik would be owned by several different masters, but was was eventually freed when errant Jedi Master Ajunta Pall found and dismantled the slave auction on Jomark where Andrik would be sold once more

### Lord of the Sith

Having taken advantage of the weakness inherent to the protosaber during the Hundred-Year Darkness and having experienced it first-hand during the Battle of Corbos, Andrik sought to remove this weak point in their weapons. Following several months of trial and error, Andrik would finally succeed in figuring out a way to replace the external power pack of the protosaber with an internal battery, thereby creating the modern lightsaber. His fellow Exiles would take advantage of this development, with Karness Muur being the first to adopt the new development after Andrik.

### Legacy within the Sith and beyond

Andrik's sudden disappearance would have caused a power vaccum within the Sith Empire, were it not for the fact that he had been gradually delegating more and more authority to his eldest son Khayan, whom he had been grooming to eventually replace him as Dark Lord. As a result, the transition of power was uncharacteristically smooth by Sith standards. Though Khayan and Dhakan, Andrik's bloodline would continue in Sith Empire, producing a great number of Dark Lords of the Sith, later spreading to the Galactic Republic in the generations following the Great Galactic War.

By the time of the Great Hyperspace War, he was remembered at the second longest reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, with only Marka Ragnos surpassing him. Further, despite disowning the teachings of Korriban, Andrik's own contributions to them would survive and shape the Sith, with even the legendary Telos Holocron featuring several recordings made by Andrik himself.

## Personality and traits

"*Once I was a slave, freed by a Jedi Master. Then I came to rule an empire built on the backs of slaves, and I despised them to the point I could barely be in their presence. They reminded me of what I once had been, and that terrified me. I was an hypocrite of the highest order, and when I finally realized it... I left. I ran.*"
— Andrik

As a Jedi Knight, Andrik shared his master's passion for exploring obscure and arcane uses of the Force.