Darth Drakul Xarxes

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~Patriarch of Arkania

~The Ari of Adascopolis

~The Hand of Order

~Nightfather Amit

~Commander of the Hesperian Guard

~Alcina Adasca (wife)

~Ladon Adasca (son)

~Yasha Adasca (daughter)

~Alkhizar Adasca (son)

~Darth Skyllan

~Lord Ānhrā Māhnîu

~Eternal Sith Empire

~Clan Amit of Dathomir

~The Knights of Order

~House Dreadwar

~The Hesperians

~Krayt's One Sith

~The Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders

~Requiem [AU] (167 ABY-TBD)

**Darth Drakul Xarxes**, born as Makarov of Clan Amit, was a Force-sensitive Arkanian/Dathomirian Zabrak-hybrid male. He was born sometime around the year 100 ABY in the territory of Clan Amit on Dathomir. Until 126 ABY, he was treated as a slave by the hierarchs of his clan, including his mother, before escaping the planet and fleeing to **Mandalore**. For five years after his time with the Mandalorians, he hopped from planet to planet, reaching **Korriban** in 136 ABY, enrolling in the Sith Academy. He eventually claimed the title of Nightfather after conquering Clan Amit and inserting himself as its leader, and soon after became a Sith Lord, the ruler of Arkania. His public identity of Drakul Xarxes is reflective of the period in which **Daritha Ptolemekh** mentally influenced him from across the galaxy. During the True Sith War beginning in 157 ABY, he dominated and inserted the base **Xarxes** persona as the primary. After the war, Xarxes dedicated himself to preserving Arkania in the midst of galactic depression, keeping as many as he could alive while also freeing those whom he could from his previous dominion. He is one of the few Sith Lords of the Order in recent history who had what could be considered a happy and good ending.

## Biography

### Early Life

Makarov Amit was born to a high-ranking Nightsister in Clan Amit on Dathomir. His father was never known to him, for it was made apparent from an early age that his mother had slain him shortly after she raped him. As a result of this, and due to his gender, Djistra saw Makarov as little more than a slave to be used and abused by the rest of the Nightsisters.

His formative years were comprised of tortures and procedures most horrid, but they inspired in him the strength he would need to press onwards.

#### Escape

Makarov's primary slave duties were guard work and tending to the preservation of the library. As far as physicality went, his combatative abilities were unmatched by any in his tribe. His work in the library led him to uncover ancient tomes and holocrons that the Nightsisters had ceased to care for. A particular tome, the *Codex Potentia Deum*, was his first exposure to hope for freedom and the concept of the Force. Written by the ancient Archpriest Zolkhest Dagon, the tome was a compilation of arguments in defense of freedom, reason, and the deification of the Force. Makarov saw this as his inspiration for a better life. Through the instruction of Dagon contained within the tome, he was able to become adept at a few basic Force abilities, finding himself comfortable with them as he plotted his escape. Once he had assembled a lightsaber similar to those the higher-ranking sisters in his clan carried, he prepared to leave in 124 ABY.

He was stopped by his mother, who by now had predicted his plan, and she stepped in to engage with him. The battle was long, for the foes were evenly matched, but Makarov ended it by bringing down the figurehead of a great stone dragon down onto Djistra with the Force. As she lay dying, Makarov fled in an abandoned starfighter, never once looking back at the red planet.

#### Warrior Formation

Makarov began his ten-year pilgrimage with his near-fatal crash landing on Mandalore, being saved by a Mandalorian mercenary named Jax. After nursing him back to health, Jax began teaching Makarov various martial arts while he continued to heal. With Jax's endorsement, Makarov was invited to train among the remnant of the Mandalorian Clan Saxon. The young Dathomirian honed his skills, yet he never once forgot about the teachings he had learned in the libraries of his home.

His time with the Mandalorians lasted only five years, for Clan Saxon succumbed to infighting and conflict with other clans. In the midst of the chaos, Makarov fled, but not before witnessing Jax cut down before him. The loss of the only friend he had ever had in his short life caused a shift in his demeanor, drawing him back towards the darkness and shutting him off from social interaction.

Coruscant was a nearly four-year pit stop in the grand scheme of things, during which time he relaxed his martial training and instead studied the texts he had stolen from Dathomir, as well as many other philosophies and histories, in order to determine what course he should take in life.

Plagued with trauma from his time on Dathomir, as well as an inability to accept his personal freedom, Makarov traveled to Gatalenta, a planet renowned for its spiritual retreats and calming tea. While the time he spent there was the most peace he had ever experienced at that point, it also showed him where he needed to turn most.

It was on Gatalenta that he encountered a person he could call a friend: the warrior Wultar. He was stoic, strong, skilled, and disciplined, all things that Makarov aspired to be, even more than Jax. Wultar mentored the younger Makarov, turning him into a true warrior monk. For almost two years, Makarov trained himself in battle against space pirates and crop bandits from offworld, becoming renowned for his exceptional combat skill on the planet. But the Gatalentans began to take harshly to the warrior monks, saying that they sought out blood. The hypocrisy that Makarov witnessed when the monk's temple was attacked drew him to anger, and in the aftermath of the slaughter that followed, he turned to the one place in the galaxy that would accept such a monster: the Sith Academy on Korriban.

### The Sith

#### Korriban

On the red planet of the Sith, Makarov was immediately accepted into the folds of the ancient cult, in large part because he was already experienced in combat and was considered fit for learning, perfectly moldable by the Sith ideologies.

And his training did indeed commence, though it was far slower than anyone could have expected, in large part because of the past pain endured on Dathomir. Unlike most other Sith, he had significant difficulty in turning his pain and anger into anything more than blind rage, and more often than not, his superior combat ability was trounced by his own inability to focus. As such, he was held back and not chosen by a master.

#### Discerning the Transmundane

His inner transformation transpired while returning to study the ancient workings of Archpriest Dagon. An accomplished philosopher unknown after his time, Dagon believed heavily in personal freedom and dedication to a higher cause. Though Makarov could not yet open his Holocron, he could read the *Codex Potentia Deum*, which impacted him greatly. Believing the Force to be something worth worshipping as a deity, he became instantly more determined in all he did, shining above other Acolytes as someone worthy of trust and dependability. In the aftermath of Darth Krayt's second death, he became entrusted with leading a platoon of Sith troopers, and soon gained the attention of General Reiis Invadator under the new regime established by Darths Dreadwar and Viscretus.

#### Apprenticeship

Under the watchful guidance of the Marchioness of the Black Legions, he grew in zeal for the Empire, for the Sith. His ambition rose beyond a desire to be a guard for greater beings, but to become one of said higher powers. The General instilled in him, as every master should, a desire to surpass those above them, yet he was a dutiful servant of the Empire despite this Banite inclination.

During his various escapades as an apprentice, it became apparent to both master and student that Makarov, at least, was being hunted down by something. There was a target on his back, first evident when he was kidnapped during a mission of Coruscant. Taken to an abandoned surgical facility and bound above a watery pit, he was used as bait to lure the General into a trap. The perpetrator was revealed when she arrived, a clone of the infamous ex-Nightbrother turned Sith: Maul. Through cunning and ingenuity, the General dispatched the clone, rescuing her apprentice from certain death, but the experience was but the first of several.

Later during his apprenticeship, Makarov made a fatal error in neglecting to name two members of the current Council when put to the test: Lords Cruor and Voxyn, when prompted to name them by then Knight Aalihya (later Darth Noxia), who forced him to cut out his eye as punishment. This was a pivotal moment for Makarov, as he realized that those above him had no reason to care whatsoever about him, driving him to become far more cold and unforgiving of offenders.

#### Final Trial

The premonitions throughout the previous three years culminated when a datadisk was received by the General in 141 ABY, requesting Makarov to visit an ancient temple on Yavin IV. The General considered the pursuit of this mysterious and deadly assignment sufficient for a final task, and she sent him off with the knowledge that any attempt of contact with her or any other Sith would be ignored. He was on his own.

Arriving on Yavin IV quite alone and tracking the location given, he quickly discovered he had been bottlenecked into a trap set by Nightsisters of his own clan. Though he fought with greater ferocity than they could hope to match, strength in numbers overwhelmed him and he was subdued and brought to Dathomir, where he discovered that his mother had risen to the status of Nightmother of the Clan. Though she was still technically subservient to the Lady of Dathomir, Darth Traya, her desire for greater power surpassed her obligation to obey her superior.

It did not take much for Makarov to escape his bonds, narrowly avoiding the ritual begun by Djistra, and he engaged with her in combat. Despite all of her power, she could not compete with the raw strength and rage present in the younger and more vigorous Sith apprentice. He slew her before her ritual could be completed and snapped the spine of the nearest Nightsister, declaring to the rest of the Clan that she would be his proxy leader when he wasn't around. Thus, he ascended to become the Nightfather of his clan, subjugating the Nightsisters through fear and strength. Over time, the laws of his people would evolve to erase the second-class nature of the Nightbrothers in the clan, so that they could live alongside the Nightsisters instead of as slaves and servants.

Returning to his master bearing Djistra's corpse, Makarov began to experience horrible headaches and vicious hallucinations. While the medbay could find no hint of injury or flaw, he experienced mental and spiritual turmoil, eventually deducing that Djistra had completed her ritual in part, flinging her essence into him. However, she had yet to dominate his mind and take full control, which gave him the opportunity to retaliate. Summoning his master with an emergency comm signal, he engaged Djistra mentally, instilling horrible fear in what was left of her. Even if she could overcome him, a far more powerful Sith waited outside of his body. One whom he believed did not care about his body and would destroy her, and him, without hesitation or effort if he failed. The realization that she was caught between a rock and a hard place was too much for Djistra and she snapped, her mental defenses failing and allowing Makarov to consume what remained of her. She was defeated, and Makarov was victorious, soon made into a Knight of the Sith Academy.

#### The Trials of a Son

Knight Amit became known throughout the Empire as a cold and calculating individual, fanatically-devoted to the hierarchy of the Order. Within a few months of demonstrating his cruel punishments for those who would oppose the Duumvirate, he received his first apprentice, a fellow Zabrak named Rayge Vigör. Taking him under his wing, Amit sought to break him, which he did at the end of the Trials, wherein master forced apprentice to kill all those whom he loved in order to use their blood in a ritual sacrifice to alchemize a sword. The deed accomplished, Makarov knighted his apprentice, and he himself was elevated to the rank of Master.

#### A New Identity

As was customary among the Sith, the elevation to Master came with the bestowing of a new name with the title of "Darth." The immediate aftermath of forcing his apprentice to act as he had filled Amit with horrible self-loathing, and caused him to revisit the texts that had at one point defined who he was in his search for freedom. He took upon himself a name which reflected this desire to change, a name which would indeed grow to be associated with knowledge and Order: Darth Xarxes, the Nightfather.

It was now that the newly-named Sith chose to act upon knowledge obtained through careful study of his own molecular makeup, having begun the study of the Art of the Small, swiftly increasing his skill due to consistent meditation, shaping the person he was becoming as much as he shaped new elements. Discovering himself in this interim to be of Arkanian descent, Xarxes plotted to conquer the lair of a remnant of Krayt's Empire, which had split from the Eternal Sith Empire after Krayt's death. Over the years, he prepared accordingly, enlisting the power of Knight I-Ron the Shard to forge him a set of Dark Armor and a Sword to accompany it. Having generated from nothing the substance Ostrine with the power of Art of the Small, the metal was forged, entwining Mandalorian Beskar into the hilt. The armor bore his semblance as he cut off his horns and affixed them to the skeletal helm. In this process he also changed his appearance, deviating himself from the natural guise of a Zabrak towards his paternal lineage of his Arkanian father. In doing so, his whole appearance was changed, and he became a dark angelic figure in the armor of a demon, wielding a sword of cocytan metal.

In addition to his physical preparations, Xarxes spent years researching his bloodline, determining his path of approach when it should come to facing the Adasca Meritocracy and family. It took a great many years to prepare, but he marked his first target, Veeshas Tuwan, in early 151 ABY. The day of his invasion arrived, and Darth Xarxes arrived on Veeshas Tuwan, overthrowing the renegade Sith located there and forcing them into his control. The survivors obeyed and swore their allegiance, though his bloody massacre left them referring to him as "The Drakul," which would become a part of his name. Thus, Darth Drakul Xarxes was born, elevated by the Emperor himself to the rank of Sith Lord for this feat.

The chief among the Sith remaining of Krayt's forces was a Muun named Jorah Tassak, known as Darth Eschaton by the Sith. Deformed by a myriad of alchemical experiments and delving into the deepest parts of The Dark, Eschaton became Xarxes' first choice as his Black Steward. This was the first grave error he would make.

#### The Gospel of Dread

His ascension was not yet complete, however, as the call of power beckoned him further. Drawing him and his accomplice, Darth Skyllan, to Raxus Secundas, the duo laid waste to the whole of the planet, exterminating most life through the use of brute force and extraordinary feats of replicating mythical plagues, culminating in the creation of a powerful Dark Side Nexus and Force Battery within the Sword of Order. In the aftermath of their desolation, only a couple hundred denizens remained alive on Raxus with no means of communication or transportation. As of yet, Xarxes did not regret this, though it was here that many more came to know him as "Drakul Xarxes" and his reputation became much more dark and feared.

#### Heart of Stone, Shattered

Xarxes returned to Veeshas Tuwan, determined more than ever to lay conquest upon the Arkanian Dominion to subjugate the planet to himself. Melding more fully to his new form as an Arkanian, he created a disguise for himself and took a new name: Amaunator, for his eyes shone like the light of Olim. Inserting himself in the employ of Varandir Nelothi, Arkania's foremost expert on genetic engineering, Xarxes made a fool of Nelothi by reengineering a Drexl from a single cell more efficiently than Arkanian technology had been capable of up to that point. The feat afforded him an invitation to the Adasca family banquet, where he was pleased to make the acquaintance of Toldoth Adasca, leader of the Arkanian Dominion. Toldoth, Xarxes could instantly tell, was a vile man disguising his lechery as professionalism and class.

But Toldoth was not the prime focus of Xarxes that night, for it was that same night that he met Alcina Adasca, daughter of Toldoth and Princess of Arkania. The fair lady, young and vibrant, decorated with raven hair and porcelain skin, immediately caught Xarxes' eye. Not because of her beauty, but because of the way she looked at him. Absconding to a secret alcove, Alcina revealed that she could sense the true nature of the Sith Lord before her, and yet wanted not to reveal this to anyone. She said also that she knew his pain, secret and hidden, and that she could feel it on his scent. None before had seen Xarxes' weaknesses and refused to exploit them. Perplexed and intoxicated by this new behavior, Xarxes would find many excuses to attend Adasca dinners for the next several months.

#### The New Patriarchate

In early 152 ABY, after many months of attending gatherings of House Adasca, Amaunator revealed to the whole of the gathered family his lineage as a member of the House, according to his genome mapping and DNA sampling. This caused an uproar, not the least of which was intensified by the attack on Adascopolis some weeks later by forces from Tapani. Unprepared for conflict, the Arkanian people cried against Toldoth's desire to wage war against the people of Tapani for this invasion. Tensions escalated until Alcina Adasca offered herself to Xarxes as a means of disposing of her father. The Sith Lord accepted, leaving the planet publicly to go on a diplomatic mission to Tapani to discuss the matter of ceasing hostilities. Meanwhile, Alcina used her guile to trick her father into consuming an untraceable poison (developed by coincidentally, Xarxes). Upon Amaunator's return to the planet, having pacified the Sith forces on Tapani, he was immediately heralded as keeper of the peace, and the House Adasca vote swung his way to replace Toldoth. Rising as the head of the family, he became known as Amaunator Adasca, Head of the Arkanain Patriarchate.

Within months, he took Alcina as his bride, still unsure as to why he felt a connection with her, unused to such a positive emotional response. Yet, this did not dissuade him. In 154 ABY, Amaunator and Alcina Adasca had their first child together, and they named him Ladon. His life outside of the Sith Order was beginning to improve, and it was not long before his heart of stone began to soften, and his demeanor began to shift. The hold held over him by unknown forces was beginning to break.

#### The Battle of Coruscant

When it came time for the Sith to demolish the center of the Galactic Federation in 155 ABY, Xarxes showed his commitment to the Order. Assigned to lead half of the Sith ground forces, he fought long and tirelessly against the Jedi at their Temple, holding them back from reinforcing the Senate. He came away from the fight, when their work was done and the Jedi routed, as a being who struck fear into the hearts of his enemies.

This feat of power is what elevated Xarxes to the Dark Council of the Sith. He quickly became acquainted with the multitude of Councilors and lorded his power over those beneath him. Chief among those of interest to him was Darth Hesper, the woman who would eventually vanish into the void and return to rise as Empress of the Sith in the aftermath of the True Sith War. Mere days after her disappearance, despite having spoken but once before, Xarxes was subjected to dreams and visions of the woman, beckoning him to create, with the aid of a handful of others, a caste devoted to preparation for what was to come. What followed was the foundation of the Hesperian Cult, an offshoot of House Dreadwar designed as a contingency for the future crisis. Xarxes was made the commander of the Hesperian Guard and would work closely with Hesper's paramour, Sorin, in the formation of this sect.

#### Desolation

The beginning of the period known as the "True Sith Trials" came suddenly. Over the past five years, he had built up not just the armada of Arkania, but also of the Hesperians, and had put down an insurrection on Gatalenta during that time. Furthermore, after the disappearance of Emperor Dreadwar, Xarxes had risen to become one of Darth Apollyon's Dark Council, regarded highly after his performance at the Battle of Coruscant.

In early 157 ABY, following an orbital conflict near Coruscant, Xarxes commanded his command ship, the *Tithonus*, to pursue a fleeing Jedi fleet through hyperspace, sensing that they were preparing to attack something of great import to him. When they pulled out of hyperspace in orbit of the planet Vitae, home of Darth Kain, and Kain's presence was palpable for the first time in months, Xarxes knew his suppositions to be true. Commencing an attack on the Jedi vessels, Xarxes, along with Lord Xxys, sought to fend off or destroy the present Jedi. Unable to penetrate their shields, the Nightfather instead rent spacetime to transport himself onto the enemy vessel, slaughtering dozens with his bare hands and ripping the shield generator in two. The dual nature of the Sith was revealed here, as he offered the apprentice of the Jedi commander a choice at life. When the lad refused, Xarxes took his life without a second thought. The duel that commenced with Jedi Master Zar, the mission commander, took more of Xarxes' strength than he would have cared to admit, but he soundly defeated the Jedi, impaling him with one of the Devaronians own horns. As he did, Kain released a firestorm, forcing the Sith fleet into evasive maneuvers in order to not be annihilated.

After the storm had died down, Xarxes informed Kain of Dreadwar's disappearance, and that Apollyon was summoning all the Sith of great importance to a feast at the Temple on Korriban. He could tell something why awry with Kain, and that the threads of fate around him were in flux, greatly concerning the Sith Lord.

#### The True Sith Trials

Xarxes bid farewell to Alcina before heading to Korriban, though not before revealing several contingencies to her in the case of danger in order that she might be saved, naming the ancient planet of Zeffo to be her place of refuge with Ladon if there was anywhere for her to flee. Arriving on Korriban, Xarxes encountered friends and enemies new and old, most of whom knew nothing of his dual-identity as Amaunator Adasca. Before announcements began, he communicated with Darth Skyllan regarding the Hesperians, and with Darths Kain and Catalyst regarding the impending sense of doom weighing on his mind. As the contesting Empress, Darth Viscretus, arrived on the scene with her entourage of Imperial Knights and Jedi and Federation prisoners, Xarxes could sense more clearly the approaching danger. A ship pierced the sky, one from his visions involving Hesper, and he watched as she descended from the sky to herald the coming of doom.

Most did not have time to laugh, as the black pyramids of Darth Venomis blotted out the sun. Xarxes tried to fold the space around himself and the Hesperians, but to no avail. The power of Venomis prevented him from leaving, crushing a few of his ribs in the process. The whole of the Sith retreated as the True Sith fleets unfolded onto the planet's surface. A field was erected around the Temple, but it did not prevent the entry of the Phantom of Darth Dreadwar, who began consuming Sith forces en masse.

Xarxes followed Hesper into the lower tunnels, wiping the mind of Darth Xiannar as he did to prevent unnecessary bloodshed. Try as they might, the tunnels were treacherous, and though Xarxes led the group through the mouth of Karness Muur, he could tell that this was not over. His earlier premonitions came true, and the Beloved King of Stars traveled onto the sands of Korriban, summoning a firestorm like no other to cripple to forces of the Mnggal-Mnggal. But it was not without price, as the last vestige of Venomis consumed Kain's spirit, slaying him instantly.

Records of what happened next are muddled at best. There was talk of Xarxes rising to even greater prominence during this period. Supporting Hesper above the other claimants to the Sith throne, and engaging Darth Malleus, possessed by his ancestor King Adas, in single combat and emerging victorious, are among the legends spoken of at this time. A legend emerged afterwards that Xarxes had been slain and risen again but days later, though most wrote this off as an exaggeration. The one thing that everyone is certain of is that Xarxes emerged from the True Sith War a very different man than he had been going in, so much so that if not for his armored appearance, one might have mistaken him for a Jedi.

In 159, Xarxes was elevated to the status of Triumvir in Darth Hesper's rebuilt Sith Order. He nevertheless remained largely independent of the Sith for the coming centuries, and was the last of the Triumvirate to perish.

#### The Mind Thief

Xarxes was considered "old" by many Sith in the year 162, shortly after the True Sith Trials ended. Unfortunately, this brought with it some poor judgments out of a good heart. Less paranoid than he had been, he chose to train one Valentyn, a Kage from Quarzite with a reputation for killing his teachers. Xarxes had no such concern, now called "The All-Seeing Eye." Training Valentyn was difficult due to the young Kage's own rebellious nature, but he was successful nonetheless. In his final Trial, the young Valentyn was sent to extract the Eye of Typhojem from the homeworld of the long-deceased Kain, though he was warned that if he hurt anyone there, Xarxes would avenge them tenfold. The mission was operating smoothly until something went terribly, horribly wrong. Valentyn threatened to kill Apollo, the child of Kain and Abaddon. By tricking the latter, he rent memories from her mind, inadvertently killing her by removing the demon Envilyn from her mind. Xarxes would not find out for many years that Abaddon's death was caused this way, though he was forced to exorcise Envilyn from Valentyn's mind as the latter began to spew clouds of rot in an unholy possession. Successful in the exorcism, Xarxes locked away the Eye until he could better probe its depths and learn its secrets.

#### Repentance

In 165 ABY, Xarxes and Alcina would have their second child, a daughter named Yasha, was born. Two years following, and they would have their third and final child, Alkhazer. In 170, Amaunator Adasca would grant freedom to the planet Gatalenta and would atone for his past misdeeds in the best way he could by liberating the remaining 30,000 citizens of Raxus Secundas and giving them their own city and farms on Arkania. Though much of the Galactic Dark Age remains steeped in mystery, one of the few surviving truths is that from 165 until his death in 347 ABY, Xarxes was largely reclusive and did not regularly interact with other Sith, preferring to keep to Arkania, only emerging a few times a decade, watching as lives faded before his eyes and all he knew melted into the Force.

#### The Dark Ages

In 210 ABY, after reports of Empress Hesper's daughter, Darth Leto, achieving immortality through genocide on the planet Soullex, Drakul Xarxes pored through time to get some sense into the truth behind the atrocity. While it can only be speculated as to what happened, and there is no perfect correlation, a year of silence from Drakul Xarxes was followed by Leto's companion Mnemosyne disappearing on Dromund Kaas for some substantial time.

Twenty years later, in 231, Darth Xarxes emerges for the first time to the Sith public in decades. He reads the eulogy at Darth Vaer's very empty funeral, mourning that his apprentice could not have followed in his footsteps towards a sort of goodness.

In 287, Xarxes' eldest son, Ladon, has his first and only child, Ceres. Xarxes comes to the realization that the experimentations he performed on himself mutated in his offspring to make the bearing of offspring more difficult. He reveals this to no one, but silently mourns. Ladon follows in the footsteps of his father and more, never using the Dark Side throughout his entire life, though he was very strong.

In the year 300, great tragedy struck House Adasca as Alcina passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones. She was the first to be buried in the mausoleum dedicated to their part of the family Adasca. Xarxes would appear only once over the next ten years to congratulate Darth Leto on her victory as her mother's successor after Hesper passes away. His public appearance lasts all of thirty minutes before he disappears again from the Sith for twenty years, training his granddaughter Ceres and mourning the loss of his wife. The former would become known as Darth Themis in 307 ABY. In 311, more bad news would strike the family as Xarxes lost both of his sons, Ladon and Alkhazer, the latter never siring offspring. Xarxes was nearly driven mad with grief, only rising from it when pondering upon the letters that Alcina used to write him.

In 313, Xarxes appeared once again to officiate his granddaughter's wedding to Hierarch Zorn, one of his underlings.

In 340, Empress Leto selected Darth Themis as a new member of her Dark Council, and she was elevated to serve alongside her grandfather.

#### Death and Legacy

Two-hundred years since he had been taken on as an apprentice, in 347 ABY, Darth Drakul Xarxes, sensing that his time had come, willed himself to unite with the Living Force. His spirit passed on, leaving behind the position of Triumvir, the seat of Patriarch, and the Eye of Typhojem. The first was succeeded by his granddaughter, Darth Themis. The second, by his daughter, Yasha, who ascended to become the Matriarch of Arkania. The third was taken into the possession of one Darth Eschaton, a Sith Lord so reviled even by the likes of Mnemosyne, whom Drakul Xarxes had kept as his steward for an uncertain amount of time. Thus, the legacy of Drakul Xarxes would pass into time until another would rise to wield it.

There is no record of what Xarxes' last moments were like, though the vitals system that monitored his bio readings noted that, in the moments before he passed, he experienced some extreme level of duress, enough to cause him to sweat blood form his brow.

## Personality

#### Pre-True Sith Wars

Xarxes was initially known as a truly cold, calculating, and brutal individual from the moment he entered the Sith Order. He cared little for other beings, including those who aided him, and he especially cared not for the lives of those not a part of the Sith Order. He was chillingly efficient and seemed to take some level of pleasure in pillaging and slaughtering.

#### Post-True Sith Wars

During the lead-up to the True Sith Trials, Xarxes had mellowed out, the effects of fatherhood clearing his mind of the most tainted whispers and lies. Supposedly, during the Wars, he found that his mind had been manipulated, and the majority of the heinous acts he had committed were not, in fact, to be blamed on him. Regardless, for two-hundred years of the Galactic Dark Age, Drakul Xarxes was undoubtedly simultaneously the most stoic and caring individual within the Sith Order, and one of the more altruistic and helpful beings in the whole of the galaxy, despite his previous sins.

Xarxes cared primarily for his family and his planet at this point. When either was threatened, he became unstoppable in his objective to defend them. Even at great cost to himself, he would put aside almost any concern in order to ensure a safe future.

## Appearance

Xarxes originally appeared as a grey-black Dathomiri Zabrak with golden eyes and exceptionally-long cranial horns. When planning his takeover of Arkania, he used Sith Alchemy to transform his appearance to align more closely with the lineage of his father, taking on alabaster skin, pointed ears, a chiseled face framed by long raven hair, and even removing his cranial horns, which would become affixed to the enchanted helm he wore most often. Xarxes was always exceptionally tall and well-built, though these features would become exaggerated when he became an Avatar of Rage during the events of his final trial. He stood seven and a half feet tall and stood even taller when wearing his armor. The height was accompanied by a lean muscular physique that most warriors could only dream of, with broad shoulders and rippling limbs.

Xarxes, as Amaunator, tended to dress largely in crimson, black, and gold fabrics, as these colours became synonymous with his rule. On occasion, he would wear Hesperian green or royal violet robes or a half-cape when bedecked in his armor.

## Reputation and Legacy

Xarxes was known nearly always as someone to never cross, but towards the end of his life, even the Jedi revered him for his aid to them during the True Sith War. Known to be a terrifying presence, Xarxes did his best to adapt an aura of goodness and fatherhood, which brought peace to many around him, though these were few in the later years of his life. His legacy lived on through the lineage of Ladon, his eldest, eventually culminating in the person of Annatar Adasca, his great-great-grandson, who would take on the mantle of Darth Xarxes and rise to become **Emperor Dumé Xarxes, the All-Knowing**. With the exceptions of Darth Hesper, Drakul Xarxes is revered as siring the most successful legacy in the last 600 years of the Sith.

## Relics

Darth Xarxes was the bearer of many ancient and holy relics, many being wrought from his own hands and with his own blood. Chief among these was the Sword of Order, a relic which became synonymous with himself. This massive blade, comprised of icy Ostrine metal, was alchemized to overcome the brittle nature of of the material, allowing him to freeze his enemies or debilitate them with a single touch. It was also a very powerful Dark Side Nexus directly connected to Raxus Secundas, allowing him to refill his Force reserves when exhausted, or to empower himself in combat.

In conjunction with this, Xarxes bore a set of Dark Armor imbued with his essence, binding it forever to him. Though in the later years of his life he would refrain from wearing it, the armor brought him incredible power and strength, increasing his physical strength tenfold, allowing him to lift several tons and punch through walls of durasteel as if they were nothing. The helm was enchanted to protect the wearer's mind from attacks, and the whole of the suit operated as a closed environment, allowing him to survive in a vacuum if necessary. However, it was unable to protect its wearer from flames effectively, as the internal temperatures of the suit would skyrocket, roasting the wearer inside. It is unclear if this ever happened to Xarxes or not. Following his death, the armor was locked away underground beneath Veeshas Tuwan.

Xarxes was once given a Mqaaq'it by Darth Ānrhā Māhnîu following the loss of his eye at the hands of Lady Noxia. He wore the Mqaaq'it until the day he died, when it was removed and kept in a bacta chamber by Darth Themis.

Lastly, the Eye of Typhojem's last known location was Veeshas Tuwan, from whence it has not been moved, rather being passed from Adasca to Adasca as part of their inheritance.