Lord Scourge

> You know who I am, but not what I am. I am that which has emerged from the shadows, the forgotten power reunited again, the descendent of Naga Sadow and successor to this false ruler. The True Sith have returned, and are numbers will only multiply as we exact our vengeance.
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> Lord Scourge, revealing his true identity to Revan.

**Lord Scourge** is a Sith Pureblood who is the leader of the True Sith cult, and disguised himself as a Sith warlord who serves the Sith Empire.

## Biography

### Rise to power and undercover

Scourge was a Sith Pureblood who rose to power as the leader of the True Sith. He claims to be a descendant of Naga Sadow, though whether he actually is or is metaphorically claiming himself as one remains unknown. Scourge took on an apprentice of his own, Bao-Dur, who became his heir and would rule the True Sith if Scourge were ever to die. Scourge went undercover as a loyal Sith Lord who served Sith Emperor Vitiate and his Sith Empire. He served under a Sith named Darth Nyriss.

A Jedi named Logan Starr, otherwise known as Revan, was flying over the surface of Nathema, the Emperor's homeworld, and took him captive. For years, Nyriss and Scourge kept Revan alive, torturing him to extract any valuable knowledge around The Republic and Jedi.

### Revan's Imprisonment

Scourge visited Revan in his holding cell for another interrogation session, flaunting his supposed superiority over his prisoner. After torturing him to the point of spilling blood on the chamber floors, he orders his Zabrak slave to clean it up. The second Revan tries having a proper conversation with the nameless slave however, Scourge activates the shock collar around the Zabrak's neck and orders him to leave.

Later, the former Jedi Exile Meetra Surik arrived on Dromund Kaas, and Lord Scourge, sensed Meetra Surik coming in a vision. Scourge contacted his apprentice Bao-Dur through a hologram, and tells him that he wants him by his side as they rightfully take what is theirs.

### Meeting Meetra Surik and rescuing Revan

Later, the Jedi Knight known as Meetra Surik arrived on Dromund Kaas. Scourge, making sure if she was the Jedi he had sensed, ordered guards to attack her. She killed them all, and Scourge realized that she had come to rescue Revan. He told Meetra that he intends to help Meetra defeat the Emperor, and claimed that the Emperor is mad, as he wants to plunge everyone into eternal conflict that will end with their extinction. When Meetra asked why she should trust him, he told her of what her senses tell her, and Meetra sensed nothing suspicious about Scourge. Together, they hatched a plan to break Revan free from prison.

Scourge entered the Citadel, the heart of the city of Dromund Kaas, and met Captain Yarri. She told Scourge that he cannot speak with the Emperor, but he can speak to one of his advisors. Scourge demands to speak with the Emperor himself, and so Yarri allowed Scourge to enter the throne room, but warned the Sith Pureblood that if he will be wasting his time, he will kill him. Scourge entered the throne room, and spoke with the Emperor. The Sith Emperor Vitiate told Scourge to speak to him of what happened. Scourge informed the Emperor that he entered Darth Nyriss's service years ago, and killed the traitor Darth Xedrix, who allied himself with separatists to kill Nyriss. Xedrix also helped in the escape of the fugitive Jedi Revan. Scourge claimed he had executed Xedrix. Vitiate told him what he had came to the throne room for. Scourge claimed that Xedrix wasn't the only one to plot himself against the Emperor, but that he was merely sacrificed in order to keep the other rebels from showing their true intent. Scourge told the Emperor that Darth Nyriss and several other Dark Council members have been in the plot against the Emperor, and that they are planning an attempt on his life. Emperor Vitiate told Scourge that he will replace Darth Nyriss on the Dark Council once she falls. Vitiate warned Scourge, however, that if his information is proved to be false, he will suffer a fate more terrifying than anything he can imagine. Scourge sensed screams of disembodied voices coming from Emperor Vitiate's power, and sensed a world, crushed by its own gravity. Scourge left the throne room, and asked Yarri what is going to happen with Nyriss, in which Yarri replied that she will get purged by the Imperial Guard, along with the other Dark Council members that were involved.

Scourge later had Meetra Surik dress in a revealing outfit as a slave, so that they can undercover when going into Darth Nyriss's stronghold. As they were infiltrating the stronghold, Yarri and her guards arrived, causing mayhem and destruction. Scourge and Meetra raced to Revan's dungeon, where they found him. However, they were attacked by Darth Nyriss, who demonstrated her power against them. However, Revan, recovering his mask, deflected Nyriss's force lightning back, vaporizing her. Nyriss was dead. Scourge, Meetra, and Revan left the stronghold, as it was burned down by Yarri and her followers. They went back to the cave where Scourge and Surik met.

### Plotting against Emperor Vitiate

Once returning to the cave, Meetra reverted back to her Jedi robes, and Revan recovered all of his memories. Scourge contacted Yarri, and told her that the Jedi are in his grasp. Scourge later returned to Revan and Meetra, who were watching a hologram, and Scourge informed them that it wasn't just Nyriss and her followers that were exterminated, but that all of the Dark Council was, even the ones that were not involved in the conspiracy against the Emperor. Scourge told them of the presence of the world that the Emperor's power spawned from, and Meetra said that it was Malachor V that the Emperor got his power from. Scourge warned Revan and Surik that Vitiate will consume world after world until he alone is left, becoming a god of the galaxy.

Meetra Surik told Scourge that the Emperor's power is similar to that of another Sith Lord that Meetra Surik defeated, Darth Nihilus. The Exile said that she draws power and the Force from others that allowed her to defeat Nihilus, and that she can use the same thing to cancel out Vitiate's power. Scourge, Revan. T3-M4, and Meetra Surik all agreed on the plan, and Surik later mediated through the Force.

### A tragic future

While Meetra was meditating, she got a Force vision of what will happen in the future. In the vision, Scourge, Revan and Meetra Surik entered the Citadel, and fought Yarri and her guards. As Scourge and Surik were fighting the guards, Revan went into the throne room to confront Emperor Vitiate. Vitiate and Revan made a good fight, but the Emperor eventually overpowered Revan. Scourge killed Yarri and the guards, and raced to the throne room to confront the Emperor. Just as all three of them were about to fight, Scourge stabbed Surik in the chest, killing her. The Emperor's force lightning consumed Revan, wounding him.

When asking Scourge of why he had betrayed his allies, Scourge replied that he knew that he wasn't strong enough to defeat them both, and lured the two into the Citadel, pretending to be on their side, and knew that the Emperor would overpower them. Scourge said he did this to prove his loyalty to the Emperor once more. Vitiate tested Scourge by ordering him to strike down Revan. Just as Scourge was about to, Vitiate halted the Sith Lord, telling him that he passed his test, and that Revan could still be of some use to him. Vitiate promised that Scourge will be given a great reward.

Just as Scourge was about to leave the Citadel, Vitiate asked Scourge why he killed Captain Yarri. He asked the Sith Lord if he was loyal to the Empire and working with Captain Yarri, then why did her kill her. Scourge alerted two of his followers, a Duros and a Devaronian Sith Lords, to appear and attack the Emperor. Vitiate easily overpowered and force choked them, as Vitiate was distracted by the two Sith Lords, Scourge quickly struck Vitiate with his lightsaber from behind. Vitiate was mortally wounded, the power draining away from him. Scourge revealed to Vitiate that he is a member of the True Sith, and that he came to take what is rightfully the True Sith's. He struck down and killed Emperor Vitiate. Revan, noticing this, limped away, but Scourge force choked Revan telling him his true allegiance and goals. He claimed that he was a descendant of Naga Sadow and heir to Vitiate's throne. Scourge struck down Revan, killing him, and marched away with his two Sith henchmen as the True Sith conquered Dromund Kaas.

### Death

The vision ended, and Surik woke up, noticing that the vision of the future she saw hasn't happened yet. Scourge came to Revan telling him that they are ready to leave. Meetra Surik, determined to prevent the future from the vision she saw from happening, ignited her lightsabers and stabbed Scourge in the back. Scourge fell down to the ground, dead. Meetra told Revan of what had happened, and together they returned to the Republic, eager to build a new future.

### Legacy

After Scourge's death, Bao-Dur, his apprentice, discovered his master's corpse, and declared himself new leader of the True Sith.

    Shortly afterwards, Scourge's corpse was discovered by Yarri and her guards, reporting it to Emperor Vitiate. Shortly afterward, the True Sith, led by Kaizen Drackmoor and Bao-Dur, entered the Citadel and killed Vitiate, and the True Sith merged with Vitiate's Sith Empire, becoming the True Sith Empire. For ten years, the True Sith Empire built their strength, preparing to attack the Jedi and the Republic.

## Behind the Scenes

Lord Scourge appeared in the official Star Wars Legends novel Revan, in which he also was a Sith Pureblood. However, Scourge had different motivations, and the True Sith don't exist in the Legends continuity. Scourge first appeared in the Loganverse at the end of DarthYcey's second film, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II :The Sith Lords: Hunger for the Force. There, he appeared to Revan, (who was not Logan Starr, given that this film was made before the Yceyverse and the Loganverse crossovered), and told him of what he thinks he is doing. The scene played pretty much the same as Scourge's visit to Revan's dungeon from the novel. Scourge was voiced by a male Ivona computer voice in this film, and his mouth wasn't animated to move. Scourge later made his full debut in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Knights and Darkness Part II, in which he was voiced by Kevin Smets. Here, Scourge was actually a Sith who serves an even more ancient Sith Empire, and sought to rule the galaxy. He was killed by Meetra Surik. Though the character of Scourge is based off Scourge from the novel The Old Republic: Revan, the actual in-game head is from a mod that replaces the player character's head with a custom Naga Sadow reskin, created by Miro42. Scourge's eyes where white on his corpse in the flashback of Bao-Dur's vision in the second episode of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic III: Shadow of the Sith. This is because it was his eyelids closed, as it is possible the animation software didn't have the textures to make Scourge's eyes closed.

## Appearances

* *Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Hunger for the Force* (First appearance)
* *Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Knights and Darkness Part II*
* *Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic III: Shadow of the Sith* (flashbacks)