Alice Trinity (Alice Karsten)

> It is without saying. The Sith didn't simply miscalculate when they killed Alice. This mistake shattered their very order. They intended to use her death to break him, instead, they created a monster━an evil that would herald the darkest centuries the galaxy has ever seen. Not a Dark Lord among Sith, but a Dark Lord in the truest sense of the word. She meant the world to him, and in response, he took the galaxy hostage.
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> ━Quinn Maru after learning Alice's significance in the role of creating the Dark Lord Darth Deceptious

**Alice Karsten**, later known as **Alice Trinity**, was a human female noble of the Old Empire. Though born of noble lineage as an heir of the Karsten family, a viscountcy, she became the first love of the Sith Lord **Astral Trinity**. In the years that passed, Alice greatly influenced the personality of the otherwise indifferent and cold Sith and was considered one of the two individuals who could control his otherwise unpredictable and uncontrollable nature, the other being his former mentor, Darth Victus. Fearful of his sudden docile nature being a potential ruse, the Dark Council worked in tandem without the knowledge of Victus and had the Sith Lord physically appear to a gathering of high-ranking Sith, while in reality several Sith were sent to capture Alice. Ultimately, she was killed, resulting in Astral Trinity returning to Arkanis earlier than intended and entering a blind frenzy, murdering a dozen Sith Lords. Her death greatly altered Astral Trinity’s mental state, directly leading to the creation of **Darth Deceptious**.

In the end, her death and the aftermath of its discovery, Darth Deceptious ultimately pursued a nearly decade-long hunt for revenge, murdering his former master Victus to claim his title as Dark Lord, and eventually slaughtered all the members of the Dark Council. Even though he had avenged the death of Alice, all that remained was Darth Deceptious himself, and the original personality had all but been destroyed by the reborn Dark Lord━the seething hatred that burned for that decade had ensured his complete rise and mastery over the dark side, and that hatred continued to exist for the years to come, molding him into a ruthless, manipulative, cunning, and overarching Dark Lord with nearly boundless ambition for knowledge, power, and total control. His ambitions would lead him to a confrontation with the Sith Emperor Vitiate, who shared the same fate as the Dark Council and the galaxy watched as Darth Deceptious declared himself the next Emperor of the Sith, and gained the moniker of the ultimate Sith.

Alice’s influence would continue to always be part of the reborn Dark Lord, allowing him to slowly develop human emotions and show a slight amount of compassion toward his children and those he grew close to. However, this also created a split personality, as the identity of “Astral Trinity” had adopted compassion, giving him the desire to create a family and even experience love. Meanwhile, the dominant personality, “Darth Deceptious”, viewed the emotions as worthless and unnecessary, but became warped and thus allowed his former identity’s emotions to persist so long as he would not be inhibited.