Dooku

**Count Dooku**, also known as **Darth Tyranus**, is a former Jedi who became Darth Sidious' student and led the Separatist cause. Although he presents himself to the galaxy as an idealist, his true ambition is to lead a Sith Empire beside Sidious.

## Fanon

### Name

In both New Canon and Legends, Dooku is a singular name, not a family name paired with a separate given name: as a point-of-view character in Jude Watson's *Legacy of the Jedi* (2003) he is referred to only as Dooku, and in the published script for the audio drama *Dooku: Jedi Lost* (2019), he is listed only as "Dooku", while other characters have both given name and surname listed. However, many fans have treated "Dooku" as a surname, and the fan-invented given names "Jard" and "Yan" were both fairly well known by 2005. The origins of "Jard" have been documented in the "Behind the Scenes" section of the Star Wars Fanon wiki's "Jard Dooku" page, but the origins of other possible names are a little more obscure.

#### Yan

The name "Yan" appeared in the fanfiction "Coming Home", posted on the Jedi Council Forums on November 29, 2002, just six months after the premiere of *Attack of the Clones* in May of 2002. The author of the story, then posting as Marnie, published the story on their personal fanfiction website The Borrowed Ones around the same time it was crossposted to the Jedi Council Forums. In response to a Tumblr ask message, they confirmed that they believe they invented the name "Yan" during the writing of that story by switching out the "I" in "Ian."

#### Glamnor

In an August 2017 ask message on Tumblr, an anonymous user claimed that "Glamnor" had been established as Dooku's canonical given name, but no one in the reblog chain could track down a source. (Unless *Star Wars: Trials of the Republic* and *Star Wars: Battles of the Sith* are real and simply absent from both Google searches and Wookieepedia, or Pablo Hidalgo truly did Tweet it and simply nobody could find it; unfortunately plausible, but impossible to verify at this point).

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 **New Canon** *Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition*, "The Sith"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Star Wars*: Episode II *Attack of the Clones*
3. ↑ **Legends** *Legacy of the Jedi*, Chapter 1
4. ↑ **New Canon** *Dooku: Jedi Lost* (script), "Dramatis Personae"
5. ↑ Darth\_Tryanus: "Greivous' Weakness (post #28)" (2005-06-20) [Forum post]. boards.theforce.net. Jedi Council Forums. (Archived on December 21, 2023).
"Jard Dooku". swfanon.fandom.com. Star Wars Fanon. (Archived on December 23, 2023).
7. ↑ Marnie: "'Coming Home' a young Jinn story, featuring Yoda, Qui-Gon and Dooku. Angst and Action. (post #1)" (2002-11-29) [Forum post]. boards.theforce.net. Jedi Council Forums. (Archived on December 21, 2023).
8. ↑ "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones". *Box Office Mojo*. IMDbPro. (Archived on November 27, 2023).
9. ↑ "Coming Home". hrafn.btinternet.co.uk. The Borrowed Ones: Marnie's fan fiction site. (Archived on March 3, 2004).
10. ↑ "Hi! This might sound very strange, but I've been..." (2023-12-22) [Tumblr post]. galadhir.tumblr.com. Tumblr. (Archived on December 23, 2023).
11. ↑ "Count Dooku’s canonical first name was just released fyi, in a new book about like, warfare and shit. “Glamnor Dooku”" (2017-08-18) [Tumblr post]. radioactivepeasant.tumblr.com. Tumblr. (Archived on December 21, 2023).