The Dark Hero

The Dark Hero, known to some as Darth Mortem was the savior of the Sith Empire during the time of the Great Sith Civil War. In his first life, he lived during the Great Hyperspace War learning and studying the ways of the Dark Side at the Trayus Academy along with Darth Exitium. Also like Exitium he was born on Nathema and had a family there. But to due to Vitiate performing a ritual there, everyone was killed. When Exitium discovered the truth he told Mortem on what happened the two went to confront the Emperor. Mortem however decided to join with Vitiate for power and betrayed Exitium. Exitium was striked down and believed dead while Mortem became one of the Dark Council Members and was in charge of the Sphere of Mysteries.

Thousands of years later the Sith Emperor would reincarnate him and use him to defeat Darth Exitium once again. In the meantime he would fall into the care of Scarlett, who lost her husband and son in the Kaas City riots. When he finally turned seventeen did he fight in the war. During this time he would regain memories of his previous life and personally kill Darth Exitium thusly ending the war. For his efforts he would once more become a Dark Council Member and return as head for the Sphere of Mysteries.

Biography
Skirmish at Kalakar Six

He was transported to a research facility on Kalakar Six along with Scarlett to help with the activities there. But shortly after arriving some Spies from the Rogue Sith were revealed to be there and started an outbreak that murdered everyone and even themselves on the base besides from Mortem, Scarlett and two droids, X1-26 and 1V-R6. Meanwhile on the Kalakar Six guard ship, a distress message was sent out before everyone on board there was also murdered. Naiko and Namla arrived with a small fleet to search out any survivors to kill while Byron and a small team arrived on the Ebon Hawk, now retooled as the Night Vulture, came to rescue survivors. Byron and the team first stopped at the guard ship but found no survivors. Then they made their way to the facility and founded the Dark Hero, Scarlett, X1-26 and 1V-R6. Unfortunately, they also rain to Namla and her strike forces who slain all of Byron's team leaving only him. He escaped along with the others on board the Night Vulture just as the research facility collapses into the lava below. Byron, with 1V-R6 co-piloting, activates the Vultures stealth shields and sneeks past Naiko's navy. They all then entered hyperspace on route to Dromund Kaas.

Crisis on Dromund Kaas

Upon arriving, the Dark Hero and Scarlett meets with the Dark Council while Byron reported to Imperial Intelligence about the events that happened on Kalakar Six. After the meeting with the Council, the Dark Hero explored Kaas City with his companions, run into or hear several grim things along the way such as protesters getting killed by the Imperial troops, people who are out of work and/or starving to death, high prices on items and with lower sell item value, people disappearing and even some murders are going about. Due to this really dark time many people spend most of their time at cantina's either getting drunk, playing pazaak, swoop racing or just about anything to take their minds off the current events. Eventually The Dark Hero would be called to a mission taking place at the Dark Temple. As the Dark Hero explored the temple with his companions they drew closer to the object they were looking for however their was a source of energy coming from it that made the companions unable to get closer, The Dark Hero pressed on solo. It is here he would locate one of Exitium's holocrons and receive a vision from his past life. After fighting against a force phantom he returned and reported this to the Dark Council. The Hero would then be called to have a private meeting with the Emperor himself. The Emperor expressed interest in the Hero's immunity to what ever power came from the holocron's and sanded him on a mission to locate the remaining seven.

The Hero returned to the Vulture and a Dark Council Member Darth Thais and his two slaves: Sara and Thomas Brant has been recruited to join the Hero in his quest. The Hero's next stop was at Ziost.

Behind the scenes
The Dark Hero is the main custom character for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Fall of the Empire much like Revan and the Exile were for the first two Knights of the Old Republic video games or the class characters from The Old Republic. As such the character's name, appearance, class, alignment and other stats are up to the player's liking. However in Canon the Dark Hero is a male dark sider named Darth Mortem.

As the game progresses players will either learn Lightsaber forms or Force forms. If the player is a Sith Warrior or Sith Agent Scarlett will teach you Lightsaber forms on the Night Vulture every level up. If playing as a Sith Inquisitor you will instead learn Force forms from Darth Thais also on the Night Vulture every level.

Darth Thais's slaves Sara and Thomas are characters the players can romance, Sara for Males and Thomas for females. The influence system from The Sith Lords also makes a return this time done a bit differently: High Influence will make companions like you more and gain bonuses to stats during combat while Low Influence will make companions hate you and eventually betray you. The only companions who won't attack or leave regardless of how low the influence is are Scarlett, Byron, X1-Z6, and 1V-R8.

When players reach level 15 they can upgrade to a prestige class. There are six prestige classes overall and two are available for each class.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Fall of the Empire (First appearance)