Darth Kadant

"Pardon my cliché, but I miss my mother."

- Darth Kadant

Darth Kadant was a powerful and influential born circa 3,985 BBY who reigned supreme over the during the interim between the reigns of  and the. He was the only Dark Lord who ruled not according to a particular philosophy but by the needs of the Sith population. He left his mark on the galaxy by re-organizing the scattered and destroyed after the death of.

Early life
Kadant, whose birth name remained unknown to the galaxy, was born to a powerful Sith Lord named Darth Rahonn, a skilled duelist and powerful Force-user. His mother was an assassin-turned Sith Lady named Urilia De'naan, who was the only Sith Lady of that period not to take the title Darth by choice. His mother was killed when he was just three years old, making his father even more cold and cruel than he already was. Unlike most Sith, Rahonn treated his seed with love and occasional patience, giving him the love of a parent while at the same time toughening him to prepare him for the cold life of a Sith. Once Kadant reached the age of 13, he'd become regarded as the future of the Sith Order, one of its most powerful apprentices due to the harsh training he received from his father, who'd been admitted to the when Kadant was six years old. Kadant had grown cold but passionate, the spitting image of his father. He'd also inherited his incredible Force-potential and natural skill with a blade. His father had very stringent expectations and while he was loving, he was alo strict and brutal, making sure his son never went soft. Rahonn only got colder and crueler as the years went pass. Rahonn's ultimate goal was to elevate his family's position in the Sith through his son becoming Dark Lord. At the age of 15, while Kadant was an excellent student and a powerful warrior for his age group, his father suddenly became excessively cruel towards Kadant. Nothing Kadant achieved could please the powerful Sith Lord and every time the two dueled, Rahonn gave Kadant no mercy, pushing him pass the thresholds of pain and striking him repeatedly with Force lightning even after Kadant was unconscious. Kadant began to shy away from his father, seeking alternate routes for Sith education. Coincidentally, Kadant ended up under the tutelage of Darth Cevant, another powerful Sith Lord who was his father’s top rival on the Sith Council. Kadants choice acquired him a severe public beating by his father. Rahonn challenged his son to a duel with real lightsabers, no holds barred. While he was an exemplary apprentice, he was no match for the powerful, experienced Sith Lord. If it hadn't been for Cevant, Rahonn would've killed Kadant. Cevant stepped in on Kadant's behalf and dueled Rahonn, defeating him but sparing his life. Rahonn then officially disowned Kadant and Kadant continued his training under Cevant, his powers reaching their peak even faster. At the age of twenty, Kadant surpassed his master and was named a Sith Lord by the Sith Council.

Sith Lord
As a result of his successful training of Kadant (now Darth Kadant officially), Cevant was elevated above Rahonn on the Sith Council to the position of Head of the Sith Council, which meant that Cevant's jurisdiction encompassed the entire Sith Order albeit the Dark Lord Revan and his apprentice Malak, who were Cevant's only superiors. This enraged Rahonn, who'd grown even more powerful despite his age at the time. Rahonn attacked Cevant during a Sith Council meeting and Kadant was called to fight his father by the Council, his father having been declared a fugitive to the Sith by Cevant. In an amazing display of his new powers, Kadant coldly slew his father in a most excruciating manner. Kadant severed all the tendons in both arms and then beheaded his father, showing his devotion to the Sith and his cruelty towards family ties. Kadant would enter diligent service to the Sith before the collapse of the Sith Order.

Darth Kadant was a relatively unknown Sith despite the popular affair with his father and Cevant. To hone his skills and gain more sway amongst the Sith, Kadant traveled to. At the, Kadant was welcomed with high esteem. His father had been considered royalty amongst the Sith at the Trayus academy. He had constantly added to the compository of knowledge located at the Trayus Academy. The apprentices benefited from the knowledge. Surrounded by memoirs of his father near constantly, Kadant couldn't focus his attention on the tomes of knowledge with which he was infatuated. As a result, he took to pacing around the academy, wandering deeper and deeper until he ended up in the entrance of the, a location where he was forbid to enter. Gripped by curiosity, Kadant entered the then-uninhabited core. The dark side of the Force there seemed to " whisper temptation into his ear" as Kadant explained it and he ended up in its' center. Reaching with the Force into the nexus of Dark Energy beneath him, Kadant was consumed by the energies. As a result of exposure to the nexus, Kadant was granted ghastly knowledge and gained new powers. He was so overwhelmed by the knowledge that he locked himself into his room where he began to tear everything apart before falling unconscious. When he awoke, he had determined that he was not the only one who had been granted prodigal knowledge that way. He determined that Revan had also tried to draw on the energies from the core, which was probably why the core was only available for use by Revan or under Revan's supervision. That very morning, Kadant left the Trayus academy, a plan (warranted by the knowledge he'd gained from the core) already formulating in his mind.

Fruits of his labor
Darth Kadant began his plan by spreading rumors of an ancient and powerful sect of Sith who operated deep within the Unknown Regions. This rumor spread quickly among the apprentices of the academy (with a little assistance from the Force on Kadant's part) and in turn spread to their masters who took the knowledge to the Council. Proof of the ancient sith (deemed True Sith by the Council) came from the fact that there were reports of planets ravaged by a so-called unstopable army whose weapons inflicted strange wounds which the Council interpreted as lightsaber while in truth the army in question was actually the and the Red Brand who used Maser Beams which left strange marks and who also were fighting for turf in the Unknown Regions, a fact Kadant knew from his travels in those areas. While many Sith intended to make contact with this shadowy order, Revan ordered against it though Kadant sensed that Revan's own curiosity on the subject had been piqued. Revan, who had been using all his energies on overseeing the attack on the Republic, easily let Kadant tempt him with mentions of this army and he began studying Sith tomes, hoping to find evidence of these mystery Sith while at the same time secretly urging Malak to usurp the mantle of Dark Lord from Revan. Sensing that his ploys were moving along smoothly, he took to part two of his plan. He began to sow seeds of doubt into the other Sith Lord's mind. He expressed feelings that Revan hadn't chose a sufficient heir created thoughts of rebellion if Malak were ever to come into power. He secretly began to amass influence among the more powerful Sith Lords of the Order and, when he'd gained their trust, began to formulate plans for the Sith Empire.

Everything was going according to plan for Kadant until one of the younger Sith Lords began to threaten Kadant with revealing his intentions to Revan and Malak. He attempted to blackmail Kadant with this information, although Kadant paid no heed to his threats due to the fact that the Sith Lord, Darth Aliero, held no sway with the Dark Lords and was relatively unknown in the order. Kadant was content with leaving Aliero be until one day as he was strolling through the Sith Academy halls scouting out a prospective apprentice he eavesdropped upon two older apprentices who were whispering rumors of his rebellion to each other. Kadant easily discerned that they'd gotten their information from Aliero and immediately set out to search for him. Learning from an apprentice that Aliero was at the Trayus Academy, Kadant set out in a borrowed ship for Malachor V. From outside the academy, Kadant quickly located Aliero and began eavesdropping on his conversation via the Force and discovered to his chagrin that Aliero was trying to commission a group of Sith Assassins to attack and attempt to kill him! Kadant took adavantage of that situation and sought to announce his presence to the assassins and the whole academy by staging a fight between him and a pack of local s, which included a very large female specimen of that species. He drew the pack to him using and immediately gripped the large female in the Force and slammed her into the side of the academy, sending many Sith scurrying to the exterior. They all, including Aliero and the assassins, stood in awe at how Kadant was handling the beasts. Kadant was intentionally underperforming and letting the beast get the better of him so that the assassins would underestimate his skill when they attempted to kill him but when the other Sith began to try to intervene, he finished the fight quickly before any of them actually did. After refusing the kolto tank and retiring to his personal quarters, Kadant began to arrange himself in a facade of rest so he could catch the assassins off guard.

The twelve assassins had concealed themselves to the point that Kadant couldn't sense them until they all simultaneously struck him with their s. While this should've killed him outright, Kadant absorbed the electrical energy and released it in a massive kinetic explosion which leveled the walls on both sides of the room, waking the residents in the dormitories opposite Kadant's. While the assassins lay prone from the blast, Kadant used  and slashed three of their abdomens apart and blinded a fourth with a flick of his saber. The other eight, who had been wise enough to maintain a distance from Kadant when they fell, choreographically engaged Kadant while he was still reeling from the effects of the shockwave. Kadant desperately hurled the blinded assassin at the other eight, buying him enough time to draw his lightsaber and slash the upraised arm of an oncoming assassin. Two of the eight had produced lightsabers and had taken it upon themselves to protect the others from Kadants attack. Grabbing one of the dead assassin's stomachs and ripping it from his body, Kadant threw the stomach at one of the lightsaber wielding assassins, splattering stomach acid across his temple and left eye, causing the fluid to burn through the blood vessel there while at the same time blinding him causing him to flail wildly as he died resulting in two of his teammates diverting their attention from Kadant to block their ally's strike allowing Kadant to sever both of their arms in one stroke and severing all three of their heads with the backstroke and killed the other blinded assassin with a negligent stab, leaving four assassins, one whom had one arm and another three who were splashed with stomach acid. Using the Force to apply pressure on the cauterized stump of the wounded assassin causing to to drop to a knee in pain after which Kadant whirled with his blade, severing both legs and a remaining arm of the wounded assassin and stuck his blade down the throat of that assassin as he opened his mouth to scream. Kadant turned to face the other three and was hit with a barrage of Force lightning, the combined strength of the three remaining assassins, one whom had a lightsaber. These three proved the most coordinated as demonstrated by how whenever one attacked the other two blocked for the attacker. Kadant countered this by feinting at one and when the two came forth to block, he dashed forwards with his blade raised laterally, ducking beneath their guards to shear through their stomachs leaving only the assassin with the lightsaber.

Instead of just out right killing him, Kadant severed the assassins hand as he stood paralyzed with fear. Kadant's plan was to expose Aliero to the Sith Council, who'd all come to visit the Trayus Academy to monitor the students progress since their last visit. He called for an emergency meating in the where he brought the injured assassin and forced him to tell the council of Aliero's involvement in the assassination attempt, via the Force. Aliero stepped forth and admitted to his actions, claiming that betrayal was the Sith way. Kadant attacked him in response, engaging him using.