Sith Emperor

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The being history would come to know as the**Sith Emperor**, born as **Tenebrae** and later known as Lord **Vitiate**, was a Dark Lord of the Sith and leader of the resurgent Sith Empire. He proclaimed himself the new Emperor and ruled over the Sith Order after the fall of the first Sith Empire. The Emperor often stayed isolated from his people while starting a lifelong quest to destroy the galaxy and obtain what no other Sith could claim, eternal life. After the death of the Dark Lord Marka Ragnos, and the first Sith Empire lost the war against the Galactic Republic, Lord Vitiate lead the surviving Sith into deep space, fleeing from the Republic and hoping to find a proper planet. After having found a world to make into a Sith capital, Lord Vitiate declared himself as Sith Emperor and promised his people vengeance. After hundreds of years passed the Sith had been reborn into a prominent authority. At which time the Emperor deemed his armada ready to combat against the forces of the Republic, sparking a new war that would last for decades, and lead to a long-lasting legacy.

## Biography

### Early Life

According to legend, the Sith Pureblood named **Tenebrae** was born on the Sith world of Medriaas over five thousand years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. The illegitimate son of the ruler of Medriaas and a poor farm woman, Tenebrae's eyes were said to be as black as the void of space, and even as an infant he showed little to no emotion, nor did he ever cry. Animals tried to avoid him, and his voice carried power and weight beyond his years. When the boy turned six, he began to show signs of great Force-Sensitivity, which raised the suspicions of his stepfather, as neither he nor his wife were Force-Sensitive.

### Child of Darkness

Tenebrae's stepfather confronted his wife in front of a six-year-old Tenebrae, and he proceeded to attack her in anger after she admitted to having had an affair with the Lord of Medriaas. However, Tenebrae fed off the man's anger to fuel his own strength in the Dark Side, and he used his newfound abilities to telekinetically break the farmer's neck. Tenebrae then tortured his mother for months with the Force before killing her for betraying their family, and began to subjugate the other members of his village with his powers. Over the course of the next four years, Tenebrae's influence and reputation grew as he conquered neighboring villages and raised legions of followers. Some followed the child out of fear of his immense power, while others served out of fanatical loyalty. Tenebrae massacred thousands during his rise to power, and tortured people for days in public executions as he fed off their suffering.

His father, had heard rumors of Tenebrae's activities, but because they occurred on the remote northern continent and also due to the fact that he had forgotten about his affair with Tenebrae's mother, the Sith Lord believed that the events were of no concern to him. When Tenebrae was around the age of ten, his father decided to investigate the rumors of the child's activities and determine whether he should be killed or become one of his servants. However, the Sith Lord underestimated his son's abilities, after revealing his true parentage, Tenebrae stripped his father of his power and drove the man insane before killing him. Then, Tenebrae conquered the rest of Medriaas while his half-brother, fled the planet. In three years, Tenebrae had conquered Medriaas and crushed any who opposed him.

### Service to the Empire

After his conquest of Medriaas was complete, Tenebrae traveled to the Sith Empire's capital where he came before Marka Ragnos, the Dark Lord of the Sith and ruler of the Sith Council. Acknowledging the thirteen-year-old's power, Ragnos granted Tenebrae the right to rule Medriaas as his own and elevated him to the rank of Sith-Lord, bestowing the title of Lord Vitiate upon him. Returning to Medriaas, which he renamed Nathema, Vitiate proceeded to build a palace upon the site of his childhood home and ruled the planet for one hundred years, spending much of that time studying the secrets of the Dark Side. Early in his reign, many young Sith flocked to Vitiate, and he taught his new followers to restrain their emotions and draw on their inner anger in order to increase their power. When Ragnos' death prompted a struggle to determine who would succeed him, Vitiate chose not to involve himself or his world in the battle between the competing Sith-Lords.

Vitiate also refrained from participating in the crusade upon which the victorious Naga Sadow embarked against the Galactic Republic, instead watching from Nathema as the Sith Empire battled the Republic and their Jedi protectors in the war. Vitiate had never participated in any battles or conquests during his reign, and had a reputation of being a reclusive scholar. However, when the Empire met its ultimate defeat in battle above the holy tomb world of Moraband, Vitiate put his plans to seize power into action. The self-declared Emperor drove the people of the Empire further into a panic while simultaneously offering them hope. Traveling to Moraband, he promised to lead his people to salvation and safety from the Jedi, and he soon led the scattered survivors into a twenty-year great exodus from the planets under Sith control into the Unknown Regions of the galaxy.

After making a new Sith capital out of a lost colony world, he would declare a new Empire that would rise from the ashes of the old, and offered both the Sith people and their non-Sith servants the chance to build an orderly and powerful society, an Empire that would one day return and gain their revenge upon the Republic. The people, who had come to see the Emperor as a kind of god, fervently agreed and set to work building their new Empire. At first, the Emperor appeared in public often and dictated much of the Empire's policies and actions, but over time he began to appear less and less. Not long after arriving on their new capital he created the Dark Council, a group of Sith-Lords who served as the primary ruling body of the Empire, and the council soon began to take over much of the day-to-day running of the Empire. The Emperor spent that time studying even further into the mysteries of the Force, unlocking powerful secrets of the Dark Side.

## Powers and Abilities

**The Force:** Even as a child, the Sith Emperor possessed immense strength in the Force, and his abilities began to manifest themselves at the age of six. He used his newfound powers to snap his adoptive father's neck with a thought, and tortured his mother with the Force for months while feeding on her fear and pain. As his powers grew, Tenebrae continued to gorge himself on the fear and suffering of those whom he tortured in public executions.Tenebrae's power at the age of thirteen was great enough for Marka Ragnos, the current Dark Lord of the Sith, to acknowledge the teenager's strength and grant him the title of Lord Vitiate. Vitiate soon gained a reputation as a scholar, spending much of the next century studying the secrets of the dark side. He soon gained an immense knowledge of Sith sorcery, becoming one of the most powerful practitioners of both Sith magick and alchemy throughout history.

Another one of Vitiate's specialties was in the domination of his opponent's minds, as he was able to dominate the minds of many Sith Lords and bind them to his will. As Emperor, he spent much of his rule experimenting even further with the dark side, discovering many lost techniques and increasing his immense power even more. While his body was harmed by the ravaging effects of the dark side, the technique of transfer essence allowed him to move his consciousness, which had been made immortal as a result of a ritual on Nathema, between bodies and sustain his life indefinitely. By combining various Force techniques, the Emperor was also able to imbue portions of his consciousness into infants, transforming those children nto extensions of his will. The Emperor was able to summon Sith magick, which enabled him to create physical duplicates of himself while battling the Hero of Tython. When necessary, the Emperor would utilize his red-bladed Lightsaber in combat.