Darth Syrinn

Darth Syrinn was a Human female Dark Lord of the Sith who lived centuries prior to the fall of the Galactic Republic. A prominent Sith alchemist and sorceress, Syrinn was a member of the lineage of the Rule of Two started by Darth Bane in 1,000 BBY, and her apprentice continued the line when they killed her in 689 BBY. Her remains were interred in a cave on Yavin 4, alongside her Sith holocron, which would be discovered years later.

Biography
Born a few hundred years after Darth Bane reorganised the Sith Order to follow the Rule of Two, at an early age Syrinn discovered her latent potential in the Force and was discovered by an unidentified Dark Lord of the Sith, who would take her under their wing as a Sith apprentice. Eventually, after several years of training Syrinn killed her master and took on the mantle of Sith Master for herself, later choosing an apprentice who would go on to be her own downfall. She viewed this apprentice as selfish, and chose to hide her knowledge from them by storing it in a holocron instead, which she requested by interred in her tomb with her. She was buried on Yavin 4, after having visited the planet earlier in 689 BBY and discovering a tribe of ancient Massassi warriors from the era of Exar Kun, managing to hold them in stasis with her Force abilities even after her death. Her followers also installed a boulder suspended by a rope to be used as a trap in her tomb, to ward off potential grave robbers.

In 3 ABY, members of the Imperial Army - namely, Delof Terallo and Zekk Ryen - discovered her cavernous tomb and chose to explore it, accidentally awakening the dormant Massassi residing within it. After Sergeant Ryen was killed by them in a blood sacrifice, Lieutenant Terallo and his astromech droid, R5-C3, retreated further into the temple and used the trap installed all those years ago to hold off the ancient predators. Darth Syrinn then appeared to the man, commending his wisdom and proposing that she could train him in the ways of the dark side using the knowledge of the holocron, which she served as gatekeeper for. Instead, however, Terallo refused and called in the Imperial Reclamation Service, who took her holocron for safekeeping. Despite this, her remains were not uncovered and remained deeper within a sealed-off part of the tomb.

Appearances

 * Ancient Artifice 

Behind the Scenes
Darth Syrinn was created by HarmonyGrex for his first Star Wars fan fiction short story, Ancient Artifice. She may return for the sequel, Survival; the author also has plans to one day release a separate story based on Syrinn's earlier life, where more details such as her homeworld and the identity of her apprentice will be revealed.