Daritha Anubisu, Anubisu was a Sith sorcerer and also a direct descendant of the ancient Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Asmodeus. He was the ruthless apprentice of Daritha Underlord and carried on as the leader of the Brutal Darkness. After his father's death, he became the King of Onderon, as well as the Sith apprentice of Underlord. Early during his reign as King, he married the noblewoman Delpha Qel-Droma, and eventually the couple birthed a daughter named Rouge Qel-Droma, whom they intended to also be trained in the ways of the Sith.
As a youth, Anubisu was instructed in the ancient Sith teachings by his father, the previous King of Onderon. When he himself became King after his father's death, Anubisu's studies were continued and accelerated by the spirit of Asmodeus. When his relentless studies into the dark side began to have adverse effects on his physical body, Anubisu curtailed them, retired from Onderonian politics and faded from visibility, leaving the rule of the planet in the hands of his wife.
The general populace of Onderon believed Anubisu to be dead, and rumors of him actually being alive were unfounded until the death of Delpha Qel-Droma in 1,000 BBY at the hands of the Jedi. Anubisu then returned to the forefront of Onderonian events, having survived through use of a special life-support system and in command of a Dark Side Army. Supported by the power of Asmodeus, and his secret apprentice Daritha Blaze, the army waged war on the invading forces of the Jedi Order and Galactic Republic.
History[]
Early Life[]
Born to the name of Abath Cay-Band he was a member of the Onderon Royal Family. He was the descendent of Adamin Cay-Band (Darth Asmodeus), a Dark Lord of the Sith who ruled Onderon more than four centuries before. The Royal Family was the heir to the legacies of Asmodeus: the Tomb of Asmodeus, which was a focal point of dark side energy, and a collection of Sith artifacts.
In the tradition of his predecessors, Abath was indoctrinated in the ways of the ancient Sith and learned to harness the power of the dark side. As a youth, he became Darth Sabbath and was apprenticed to his father who began his rudimentiary instruction into the ways of the Ancient Sith. Sabbath originally felt as though Sith lore was merely part of his royal tutoring, believing his father was only teaching him lessons in the use of power; however, he soon realized that the dark side offered many other possibilities. Thus, Sabbath devoted himself to learning Sith sorcery. After his father's death, when Sabbath assumed Kingship of the walled city of Iziz, he had also grown enough in skill to summon Asmodeus's spirit from Chaos.
Sith traning[]
Darth Asmodeus taught Sabbath much more than his father had, imparting not only dark side knowledge but ancient Sith traditions as well. Sabbath ruled Iziz in the same manner as his forefathers, dominating the citizens through the power of the dark side. Sometime during his tutelage under Asmodeus, Sabbath married Delpha Qel-Droma, the daughter of an Onderonian nobleman, thereby taking her as his Queen. Over the years the couple had a daughter named Cassie.
Sabbath eventually lost interest in the mundane daily activities of life and secretly focused his attention on his training under Asmodeus. Sabbath learned more and more of the dark side and its nature from the Sith Lord, and soon he was completely given over to it. Susan did not suspect Sabbath's dark side allegiance for many years, and when she did, she attempted to break the bond between him and his Sith ancestor. Her attempts were futile ones however, as Sabbath had become too strong. Eventually, with the help of Asmodeus, Sabbath corrupted his wife to the dark side, and the couple became powerful Sith sorcerers. Someday, Sabbath decided, he would turn his daughter Jenna to the dark side as well.
The love between Sabbath and Delpha faded during their quest for dark side power. Mistrust, loathing, and outright hatred filled the empty space. Little did the couple know that they were both being manipulated by Asmodeus. Asmodeus's ultimate goal was to physically resurrect himself and wield the dark side once more as ruler of Onderon. By teaching his descendants well, Asmodeus hoped to find a candidate powerful enough to master Sith Alchemy, and help recreate a body to house his spirit. To ensure Sabbath or Susan would be powerful enough, Asmodeus made them compete with each other.
Look of the dark side[]
However, forbidden teachings were not absolved of consequence. Sabbath's bones and flesh slowly decayed under the weight of the dark side, until he became an invalid, decrepit and helpless. To compensate for this, his personal doctors constructed a special iron exoskeleton to support his physical body and flesh. The trappings of a metal support frame severely restricted Sabbath's mobility, and as a result, personally attending to matters of state became difficult. Sabbath therefore charged his personal aide, a young Onderonian politician named Kolo Tad, with the business of the King's affairs. On one such occasion, Tad failed him utterly in the arrangement of a state dinner.
In reality, Tad's failure had been the secret design of Tad's own aide Nova, who often completed the tasks Tad took credit for. In the midst of the engagement, Sabbath lashed out with the dark side and killed Tad for his embarrassing blunder. The young Novar was then appointed Minister of State and also selected as the King's new aide. The failure of Tad happened just as Novar knew it would, having engineered the event himself to further his own political machinations.
After a decade of Nova's maneuvering, Sabbath took him as his Sith apprentice. However, two years into Nova's teaching, Sabbath's body had become too ravaged to continue any further. The King retired from the public eye, handing both Iziz and Nova's dark side study to his wife. Thus, Delpha Qel-Droma assumed the daily responsibilities as ruler of Onderon. It was then that Asmodeus realized the King and Queen had failed him: Sabbath himself would never be strong enough to fulfill Asmodeus's dream, while Delpha would not further her own study once her husband failed to maintain competition with her.
The Rising of Darth Asmodeus[]
After years of isolation, pieces of major news began to reach Sabbath in his lair. He learned that his wife, Queen Delpha Qel-Droma, had come into conflict with Onderon's Beast Riders, and that she had requested the assistance of the Onderon system's Jedi watchmen to help her defeat them. He also learned that the Beast Riders staged an assault during which Jenna was kidnapped by the Beast-Lord Oira Kron, and that Delpha ordered the Jedi Koma Hashina to rescue her daughter.
Hashina then brought Cassie and her Beast-Lord husband before the Queen with hopes of peacefully settling their differences, but the Jedi discovered that Delpha was given over to the dark side, and that under her, the citizens of Iziz were worshiping the spirit of Darth Asmodeus. Peace talks utterly failed between the Queen and the Beast-Lord, and the meeting quickly degenerated into more aggressive negotiations. The Jedi/Beast Rider war effort was successful, though Delpha perished with the arrival of Jedi Master Cray Jeth, and Sabbath's daughter cassie was newly wed to the Beast-Lord Oira Kron. Cassie filled her mother's vacancy and became Queen, with the Beast-Lord as her consort.
Sabbath in turn plotted to take the planet back from his daughter and the Beast-Lord, and reclaim the throne as rightful King of Onderon. In a surprise assault, he dispatched his minions to launch attacks throughout the fortified city of Iziz.
Sensing the presence of the dark side haunting the planet, the Jedi Knights led by Master cray Cray decided to move the coffins of Delpha and Asmodeus to Onderon's fourth moon, Dxun. Before the tombs could be relocated, however, one of Sabbath's minions, the armor-clad Dark Jedi Narb Wull, ambushed the Knights with a massive groundborer and the King's Dark Side Army in tow.
Sabbath meanwhile sensed Cray’s presence above ground, and incapacitated him through the Force with a dark side backlash. Cray was down, and the Jedi Knights were held at bay by the armored darksider and his war machine while Sabbath’s army successfully recovered both sarcophagi.
As Cray recovered, the Jedi deduced that if the King was indeed alive and behind the attack, the groundborer's departure tunnel would take them to his hideout. Queen Cassie Qel-Droma led Cray and his apprentice Koma Hashina through the catacombs. Soon, Cassie discovered that she was unfamiliar with the tunnels, as they ran deeper than any she had previously encountered. Cray, though, was following the strong pull of the dark side in the tunnels, until the trio came upon none other than Sabbath himself.
Cassie gasped in horror at the sight of her father, who was connected to a complex life support system. The most intriguing sight to them was Sabbath's mechanical exoskeleton, which, as he described to the Jedi and his daughter, was a necessity; the King's prolonged exposure to the dark side had detrimental effects on his body, and over time he grew dependent on this iron support contraption to replace his natural mobility. Appearing weak and virtually helpless to his guests, Sabbath was confronted by Cray, who demanded the remains of Asmodeus.
When the Jedi Master approached the King, however, Sabbath blasted him with a torrent of Force lightning, which knocked Cray back. As Koma rushed to his Master's side, the spirit of Asmodeus appeared behind the King. Only then did the Jedi realize that Sabbath was far from being as helpless as he pretended, and in fact had been empowered by Asmodeus's spirit. As Cray was distracted by the ancient Dark Lord, Sabbath rose and seized him by the throat, then incapacitated Cray by smothering him with waves of dark side energy. Sabbath attempted to seduce Cassie with the dark side as well, but was quickly rebuked. Asmodeus then ordered his right hand man, Narb Wull, to deal with Hashina who dueled with Wull. Hashina swiftly triumphed over the armored warrior, but at Asmodeus's order, Sabbath kidnapped Cray and fled deeper into his subterranean stronghold.