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**Visivous**, born and referred to as **Sarcos Nath** for most of his life, was an ancient Sith Lord who lived during the Old Sith Wars. After his death, he was entombed in the Sith Temple on Dxun.

Having mastered the art of Sith sorcery to maintain his conscious essence after death, he was awakened when his tomb was breached by two young Jedi Exiles in search of Dark Side knowledge. A cult arose around him soon after among the Dark Jedi and the One Sith.

Calling himself the **Tvath**, meaning "master" in Mando'a, he controlled his new empire from Dxun for five years during the Shadow Crisis, corrupting their minds and fulfilling their thirst for understanding of all elements of the Force.

The cult surrounding him soon rose to such power within the One Sith that those opposed to his influence were killed or exiled themselves.

The new Shadow Empire waged a brief and silent war against the Alliance and Jedi Order, leading a series of surprise assaults on Jedi retreats before vanishing back into the shadows. One of Visivous
After the Shadow Empire was pushed back beyond the Outer Rim, however, Visivous was unable to lead it as his consciousness could not leave his sepulchre, and he sank back into obscurity, the truth of the Empire's leadership having never been uncovered by the Jedi or the Mandalorians.

## Biography

### Great Sith War

The Sith Pureblood Sarcos Nath, born on Begeren in 3959 BBY was a dark member of the Jedi Order at the Enclave on Ossus gifted with powerful Force premonitions. Inspired by Exar Kun's Sith Brotherhood of break-away Jedi, and having seen visions of his own future and that of the galaxy, he began studying arcane Sith magic and constructed a sepulchre for himself on the obscure Demon Moon of Onderon, placing a curse on it to preserve his essence after entombment there. Soon after, he killed himself and binding his spirit on Athiss to a Sith holocron. The holocron changed hands over the next few thousand years, eventually finding its way to Dxun.

### Awakening on Dxun

Thousands of years later, the Jedi Exiles Quennen Drai and Ror-Cen Ossa discovered the tomb and released the spirit of Sarcos Nath. Prostrating themselves before him, Quennen and Ror-Cen begged tutelage of the ancient Sith. Nath, deeming them both to be too weak and ignorant to serve his needs, tortured them for two full years before setting them free with the demand that they bring him more followers and seek out lost artifacts of the Sith. Eventually, they succeeded to impress him, and Nath bestowed upon each of them the title of Sith Lord.

Darth Nihl's One Sith opposed his existence, and a schism arose among them. One of their number, a Quarren named Darth Vehendal, slew Nihl in 150 ABY and joined the swelling ranks of the Tvath. With Nihl's death, many other One Sith fell in line.

As his influence grew, he gave himself a new Sith name, Visivous, and he continued to rule for another decade before establishing his new Empire.

### Shadow Crisis

Creating the Shadow Empire, Visivous was finally able to unleash his conserved power on the galaxy with hellish fervor. His plans seemed to go without resistance as numerous planets fell to his influence.

Seeing the resurgent Jedi Order as a pertinent threat to victory, Visivous sent Darth Aanx and a large portion of his forces to Illum, hitting the Jedi at their source. With Aanx's death, however, the war machine began to crumble into failure. With the apparent death of Vehendal and Vician's policy of direct and open war after the Battle of Onderon, the Empire's progress slowed and ultimately reversed on itself.

Darth Vician's capture at Ossus in 166 ABY sealed the lid on the coffin of Visivous' brainchild, and with Darth Vehendal's retreat into the Outer Rim with the rest of the empire, Visivous was forced to remain on Dxun, immortal but abandoned and unremembered.