Sozin

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## Biography

### Early Life

Sozin was born in Coruscant to an unknown Jedi Grandmaster in Coruscant in 630 BBY. When he was a month-old, Sozin was taken to Tython to begin his training in a quieter area than the luscious and populated streets of Coruscant. Sozin was born during the peak-end of the High Republic Era. He was trained by numerous Jedi masters as he inherited the role of Grandmaster of the order. When he was 7 years old, whilst training he became acquainted to Roku Skywalker, who was the exact same age as himself with the two even sharing a birthday.

The two quickly became best friends.

### Post-Betrayal

After Sozin betrayed and essentially murdered Roku in 560 BBY, he returned to Tython proclaiming that he had tried his best to help Roku but that he was too late and by the time he arrived at the island, his former friend had already died. Most people accepted this story and declared loyalty towards Sozin with the exceptions of the Avatar Sages and Agricultural Core.

A year after Roku's death, the Sages renounced their loyalty to the Grandmaster of the Order. Even before the death of the Avatar, Sozin always saw the sages as a thorn in his plans and always wanted them to be wiped out, but he understood that if he were to massacre them right after the death of Roku, it would be obvious he was the perpetrator behind his death.

At first Sozin did not introduce any of his dictatorship ideas and waited patiently for 12 years until 547 BBY, when he sent an army of loyalists to his cause to execute all the sages because he knew that they would search far and wide for the next Avatar, jeopardizing his plans. With the combination of Republic superweapons and the sheer number of Sozin's forces, the last relics of the Avatar became extinct.

The massacre of the sages was kept from the pubic with Jedi masters being informed that the sages were preparing to rally against the Republic. With his only threat out of the way, Sozin began to destroy any evidence of the Avatar's existence. He locked away all the Avatar scriptures and relics underground the Jedi temple on Tython. He visited the island where Roku died and collected the Golden Saber, taking it to a Sith temple on Malachore where he used it to power the temple. He created a mechanism to have the temple destroyed and collapse on itself if anyone attempted to take the Golden Saber out of it.

### The Hundred Year War

About the same time/after he massacred the sages, Sozin famously began the Hundred Year War by deploying millions of Jedi and Republic forces to colonize the mid and outer rim taking planets and forcing tribes to declare loyalty to the republic. The war was seen as the most shameful act of the republic (with the exception of the Sith wars and massacres) but as Sozin predicted, it increased the republic's power and territory exponentially. The most notable force to fight against the republic was the Trade Federation but when their homeworld of Cato Nemodia was attacked, they surrendered. This would cause a huge rift between aliens and humans and the hundred year war and it's legacy would eventually lead to the creation of the Confederacy of Independant Systems in 22 BBY.

Sozin also created colonies in outer rim territory such as Tatooine and Nal Hutta. The war would continue for just over 30 years after the death of Sozin but it ended itself after there was really no place to colonize.

### Changes in Republic & Jedi Order

Sozin assumed to the role of Chancellor of the Republic being the first and one of the only politicians whilst being an active Jedi (with the exception of Arya). This garnered much disdain from the Jedi and much of the Republic. The Jedi did not want one of their own entering politics therefore in their eyes being susceptible to corruption and the Republic did not like a Jedi who they saw as monks entering galactic affairs.

Perhaps one of the only good intentions of Sozin was to dissipate the public's belief of the Jedi being out-of-touch monks unable to connect with normal citizens. He made it legal for a Jedi to run for political roles and introduced the order to Republic politics making it mandatory for masters to take padawans for a day-trip to the senate and have them hear a session, teaching them about the state of the republic. These few changes were indefinitley the most positive ones Sozin set and were done for a morally good reason.

However, Sozin showed his ability to be an evil dictator by changing numerous rules and practices in the Jedi order. First, he set out to force every Jedi to remain celibate until their death which was welcomed and agreed with by many traditional Jedi, loyal to Sozin. He also set to abolish and outlaw romantic and physical attraction between Jedi, but this was far more opposed against.

In what was named 'Night of Blood' Sozin tasked his loyalists to murder a list of political rivals as well as those opposed to him and even Jedi masters who were not loyal to him. These proceedings killed over a thousand people. The Jedi Celibacy Act which was introduced 20 years after Roku's death, outlawed romantic attraction and sex with all Jedi. The republic was not made aware of this act with Sozin fearing they would argue against it.

### Later Life

Sozin continued to be a strong force as Chancellor and Grandmaster of the Order until his retirement from both positions in 500 BBY, after serving almost 50 years in the role. He lived the remainder of his life quietly in Coruscant. He lived alone with a few droids as servants, reportedly he spent the rest of his life thinking about his actions and everything he did. As he felt his life dimming, he remembered his early life with Roku regarding it as so much brighter than his life at that point. It is suspected that deep down, Sozin regretted his actions especially killing his best friend maybe even viewing it as the biggest mistake of his life.

Regardless of this, Sozin did not change anything he had done and still supported the Hundred Year War. In 480 BBY, at the age of 150, Sozin died peacefully in his sleep.

### Legacy

Sozin's actions in killing Roku and his acts to change the republic would have a lasting impact. As for Sozin himself, he had two children. One boy named Azulon and an unknown other. Once the Jedi order found out that Azulon was Sozin's son, their distaste and anger for him grew as he was responsible for all the celibacy laws implemented.

The Hundred Year War would carry on after Sozin's death with his son assuming the role of chancellorship and ending the war with the Legendary Siege of Ba Sing Se winning the siege and ending the Hundred Year War. Sozin indirectly caused the rise of the Sith by destroying the relics of the Avatar and killing Roku, sith like Darth Bane and Darth Tennebris were able to stay in hiding without the threat of the Avatar which might had sensed their dark presence. Sozin's actions also eventually left the republic very corrupt and due to the increased involvment of Jedi with the senate (started by Sozin) this would leave the Jedi also quite corrupt and servants of the republic instead of the people.

Sozin's reputation was very mixed. The outer-rim and mid-rim especially despised him viewing him as a conqueror who took away their freedoms. A massive statue of him was built outside the senate building on Coruscant and many human senators viewed him in a very positive light naming him 'The Great Uniter'. Traditional Jedi such as Mace Windu and Saesee Tinn respected and acknowledged his efforts. When the Galactic Empire was founded, Sidious decided to keep the statue of Sozin and Azulon as he saw no reason to take it down. Palpatine, Krayt and Marr would regard Sozin as Jedi by name but Sith by nature. By the time of the Clone Wars, the newly established Republic were far too concerned about the war effort to even think about Sozin, but it is worth noting, when Coruscant was reclaimed by the Republic in 32 ABY, Sozin's statue was taken down.

This corruption and the legacy of the Hundred Year War would help Palpatine's rise to power and the formation of the Galactic Empire. Sozin's massacre on the sages was very effective leaving a maximum of two survivors both being on missions in the outer-rim and unknown regions respectively. One died only two years after the massacre on the planet of Malachore and the other was imprisoned by the Pyke Syndicate and kept alive by carbon freezing as the pykes were keen in experimenting with the sages power source, which contained some of the Avatar's power. The last sage of the Old Republic was killed in 12 ABY by an assassin loyal to Darth Sidious.

The sages were eventually restored as part of the Harmony Restoration Movement after the Clone Wars ended in 20 ABY, with Avatar Arya recruiting spiritual force-sensitive individuals and teaching them the ways of the sages.