This article, Dark Sirens, was created by HarmonyGrex. |
Dark Sirens is a short story written by HarmonyGrex. A spin-off of Ancient Artifice and its sequel Survival, it follows and provides additional backstory on Darth Syrinn and the events that led up to her death and the internment of her holocron in her tomb, introducing numerous new characters including her master and her apprentice. The story consists of five chapters and take place on Nathema and Yavin 4.
Plot Summary[]
In 689 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Syrinn ponders the future of her order. She has spent her life gathering information on the possibility of attaining eternal life and her plans have finally come to fruition with the assistance of her apprentice Darth Mowbris, but will he allow her to ascend to greatness and leave him behind?
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Source: Dark Sirens | Attribution: HarmonyGrex |
Eternal life was a goal that many Sith had aspired to throughout galactic history. In her research Darth Syrinn had pored over ancient history books detailing the planet-ending ritual of Lord Vitiate, the agonizing three-hundred-year stasis of Revan, the botched essence transfer of Darth Zash, but they offered little help. As much as she didn’t want to admit it, Syrinn did not possess Vitiate’s magnitude in the Force, Revan’s mental fortitude or Zash’s powerful artifacts. She could not do what they did, but that did not mean she was resigned to failure. She was Dark Lord of the Sith, heir to Darth Bane’s legacy, among the most powerful Force users in the galaxy. She would think of something. From the day of her birth among the crystal forests of Christophsis eighty years prior Syrinn (then a measly girl named Shiren Dizkar) had been fascinated by alchemy. When her family had visited the capital Chaleydonia and observed the kyber crystals being refined and purified in bubbling colorful liquid, Shiren was struck by the odd beauty of the chemical reactions, the hissing shards being readied for export to the Jedi Temple. Her passion developed into latent potential as she took to studying the sciences and became a medicinal researcher for the Republic Medical Service, testing the pharmaceutical properties of newly discovered bacteria on far-flung worlds. It was on one of these worlds that she inadvertently created a Force-imbued potion from basic alchemical ingredients, the small blip of power she exercised bringing her to the attention of a secretive Kel Dor Sith Lord searching for an ancient artifact. Darth Flurin sought her out, scooped her up and took her on as an apprentice. Officially Shiren Dizkar was still missing according to the Republic’s records, but Darth Syrinn was alive and well. The memory of those shining crystals meant that the purple-hued focusing lens of her little-used lightsaber was taken from Christophsis’s crystalline shores. It was Syrinn’s alchemy that attracted her master to her, and her alchemy that eventually killed him. That was the way of the Sith, to betray, to discard, but Syrinn had other plans. She was not just the next in a line of lords doomed to die by their students’ hand – she would persevere, by any means necessary. |
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Dark Sirens is the second spin-off story of HarmonyGrex's series detailing the backstories of the major characters from Ancient Artifice and Survival; he is planning to write others on the likes of Delof Terallo and Dija Kullias. The title of the short story was inspired by Darth Syrinn's name, as "Dark Sirens" sounds similar.