Zavar Rarnok was a male Zabrak Sith Lord who was apprenticed to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vorath. Prior to serving the Dark Lord, Rarnok was a member of the Imperial Inquisitorius.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Zavar Rarnok was born on Iridonia in 32 BBY. At some point following the rise of the Galactic Empire, he was discovered to be Force sensitive and, rather than be eliminated by the Empire, was instead recruited into the Inquisitorius, where he was trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force.
Inquisitor[]
In 5 ABY, Rarnok was stationed on Chommell Minor, where he answered to Lady Dulcea Greejatus of the Imperial Ruling Council. In that year, he captured Leia Organa when she and Shara Bey attempted to infiltrate the Imperial base on Chommell Minor. He brought her before Lady Greejatus, who had also received the captured Luke Skywalker thanks to the efforts of the Snatchers.[1]
When Skywalker and Organa managed to escape from Lady Greejatus and made their way to nearby Naboo, Rarnok followed them there and confronted them in the Theed Hangar. After remarking how he was following in the footsteps of the Sith Lord Darth Maul, Rarnok engaged Skywalker and Organa in a lightsaber duel. During the duel, Rarnok attempted to tempt Organa to the dark side, only to then sense that she was pregnant with a child. Sensing the future the child had ahead of it, Rarnok disnegaged from the duel and reteated from the hangar, vanishing into the storm that had been unleashed upon Naboo by Operation: Cinder.[1]
Sith[]
At some point, Rarnok became apprenticed to the Sith Lord Darth Vorath.
In 10 ABY, Rarnok was sent along with Darth Nemesis to the swamp world of Zegris to retrieve the Tedryn Holocron. When Vorath was unable to unlock the holocron's contents, he sent Rarnok and Nemesis to find Toah Jarsan. When the two Sith failed, Vorath instead sent another apprentice of his to do so.
Fifteen years later, the Sith were finally ready to enact their plan. Rarnok was sent to Bastion along with Darth Mordus and others to eliminate the remnants of the Dark Empire. After doing so, they then captured a group of New Republic diplomats, led by Leia Organa Solo, and took them to Dromund Kaas, where Vorath made himself and his Sith Order publicly known.
During the Imperial-Sith War, Rarnok, unlike the rest of his fellow Sith, played his role behind the scenes rather than on the front lines. Posing as a Jedi Master, Rarnok went to worlds in the Outer Rim to sow distrust between them and the New Republic, providing the Sith with more territory and more leverage against the Republic.
However, shortly after a failed mission to Skustell, the Sith were defeated at Coruscant and Darth Vorath was vanquished. While the remnants of the Sith retreated to Korriban, Rarnok instead returned to the Temple of Valtheran on Vorath's planet, where Rarnok planned on continuing the Sith under the Rule of Two. Upon arriving at the Temple, Rarnok was confronted by the Dark Jedi Lumiya, who was already planning on doing the same.
The two Dark Lords-to-be dueled, with Rarnok easily gaining the upper hand. This proved to be a ruse by Lumiya however, as she then summoned her apprentice Carnor Jax, who attacked Rarnok from behind and stabbed him in the back, killing the Zabrak. With Rarnok dead and the rest of Vorath's order huddling on Korriban, Lumiya was free to continue the Sith's legacy under her rule.
Behind the scenes[]
Zavar Rarnok was originally named Darth Ravage, a name which would later be used canonically in The Old Republic. Because of this, DarthVorath decided to rename the character.
In earlier versions of Destiny, Rarnok was more of an expy of Savage Opress. While writing From the Ashes, the character was drastically rewritten to be more distinct and have more of a character than he did in the earlier versions.
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
- The New Republic (First appearance)
- Rise of the Dark Empire
- The Emperor's Wrath
- Calm Before the Storm
- The End of All Days