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The House of Tund was an ancient noble house of Sith-Human half-breeds endemic to the Centrality sector world of Tund.
History
Founding
For millennia following the 27,700 BBY Rakata invasion of Korriban,[3] Tund, a verdant Force nexus in the Centrality sector,[4] played host to a group of heretical Kissai priests[5][6] who had been banished from Korriban for interpreting the death of Sith King Adas during the invasion as a sign to reject the dark side.[7] Sometime after the founding of the old Sith Empire in 6900 BBY,[8][9][10] the pureblooded descendants of these heretics were joined on Tund by a number of half-breed Sith-Human colonists hailing from the Sith Worlds.[4] In keeping with the Sith Empire's feudal system of government and the krato-magocratic cultural practices and traditions with which they were familiar,[11] these Sith-Humans established a Sith Lordship of Tund soon after arriving, a post which nominally oversaw and ruled the entire planet as a de jure fiefdom in the name of the presiding Jen'ari of the Sith Empire.
In reality, however, the Sith Lords of Tund only exercised tangible power over the half-breed Sith-Human population. The pureblooded Tundan Sith, the descendants of the original Kissai heretics, neither recognized the Sith Lord's de jure claim over Tund nor considered Tund to be a member world of the Sith Empire.[12] As such, intermittent conflict between the two ethno-linguistic groups of Sith was common on Tund during the early part of the Manderon Period. In an effort to address this longstanding internal contention, a half-breed Sith Lord of Tund descended from the Jen'jidai Remulus Dreypa[13] eventually wed a pureblooded Tundan priestess to form the House of Tund, a noble family[1][2] representing both groups of Sith whose eldest scions inherited the Sith Lordship of Tund and worked to keep the peace between the purebloods and half-breeds.
Golden Age of the Sith
The last member of the House of Tund to hold the planet's Sith Lordship was Mraito, a noteworthy Sith sorcerer and philosopher of the Force active during the Golden Age of the Sith. He produced a number of seminal academic texts on the subject of the Force during his tenure as Sith Lord of Tund, integrating the kratocratic teachings of the mainline Sith[11] and the collectivism of the Kissai caste[14] with the Rakata-inspired Unifying Force monism of the Tundan Sith.[7] The resultant dzwolutwokun philosophy, collated and codified in such published works as Mraito's Qotaral and Qâzoikut Qyâsikanjat, achieved widespread popularity on Tund during this time and helped to further bring together the varied factions represented in the cultural makeup of the planet's population. Mraito's writings ultimately came to serve as the philosophical fabric of the Tundan Sith in subsequent centuries, a literary canon codifying the population's unique set of Force-related beliefs and cultural mores.
Despite Mraito's success in strengthening the ties between half-breeds and purebloods, the House of Tund's uncontested hegemony over Tund came to an end during the Republic counterinvasion that followed the end of the 5000 BBY Great Hyperspace War.[15][16] Fearful that the Jedi and Galactic Republic intended to exterminate the Sith species, Mraito assembled a band of followers called the Tsistaralkut and oversaw the evacuation of the Sith Worlds, rescuing and resettling Sith refugees on outlying colonies like Ambria,[17] Thule,[17][18] Vjun,[17] and Tund itself.[4][17] Though many Sith-blooded survivors were successfully saved through the self-sacrificial actions of the Tsistaralkut, Mraito met his end during the third battle of Korriban,[19] inadvertently bringing an end to the main line of the House of Tund. Mraito—a known asexual—had neither married nor produced an heir, a fact which left the line of succession muddled and compelled several members of disparate House of Tund cadet branches to make shaky claims to the Sith Lordship.
