After the disastrous Battle of Ruusan the Sith Order was completely wiped, with the
Jedi claiming what they believed to be the final blow against the Sith…
But they were wrong.
One man, known as Darth Bane was the sole survivor of the Battle of Ruusan and devised
a new plan to return the Sith to Dominance, the Rule of Two.
He knew that the infighting of the Sith was their downfall and from now onwards there
should only ever be two.
One Master to Hold the power and one Apprentice to crave it…
So let’s break entire the entire Family Tree of the Darth Bane line of Sith Lords…
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And before the first Sith, I just have to mention this is only Canon information, so
there are huge gaps in the line and very light detail around the early years of the Sith,
so just be aware!
**Number 1.
Darth Bane.**
Coming from the Outer Rim world of Moraband, which was the ancient Homeworld of the Sith,
Darth Bane was born around a thousand years before the Clone Wars.
At the time he was born, the Sith Order was almost as numerous as the Jedi Order and sprawled
across the Galaxy…
Unfortunately for them though, the Sith were often driven by their individual lust for
power, and almost always turned against eachother…
During his rise to the top of the Sith, Bane realized this reality and believed that it
only made them weaker.
This belief was confirmed to Bane at the Battle of Ruusan in 1032BBY when this infighting
led to the entire destruction of the Sith, leaving him as the sole-survivor.
Although it was later discovered that Bane himself had a large hand in organizing the
destruction of his own men…
But in Canon we don’t yet know how this happened…
Realizing that the Old Sith ways were now dead, Darth Bane crafted a new philosophy
based on the ancient Sith belief in the Dyad of the Force.
Ancient Dark Sider users believed that the Dyad in the Force was a nearly unbreakable
bond between two force users which allowed them to share life essence and become stronger
as a single unit.
Regardless, Bane formed the Rule of Two based on this ancient belief and proclaimed that
shall only be a Sith Master and Sith Apprentice, who could only ascend by slaying their master.
If they died in the attempt to take the title from their Master, then they simply proved
they were not worthy to hold it.
He also believed that every time a Sith apprentice killed their Master, the essence of the previous
Sith would transfer on, strengthening the killer.
The philosphy also stated that the two Sith should remain in the shadows until their power
had grown enough to reconquer the Galaxy, and train the apprentice through harsh torture
in secret.
Eventually Bane fulfilled his own philosophy when he was slain by his own Apprentice, Darth
Zannah on the Mid Rim world of Ambria.
**Number 2.
Darth Zannah**
Darth Zannah was the First Sith Apprentice in the Rule of Two doctrine.
Not much is known about her in Canon, apart from the fact that she was never detected
as a force sensitive child by the Jedi Order, allowing her to be recruited by Darth Bane.
After she killed her Master in the Duel on Ambria, she continued on his teachings faithfully
and took her own apprentice.
This apprentice is still unknown in Canon.
**Number 3.
Darth Sanguis**
**Now Darth Sanguis isn’t the direct apprentice of Darth Zannah, but his position in the timeline
is currently unknown, so there is a dotted line between these two.
During his time as a Sith Lord, he became obsessed with the hunt for eternal life, specifically
with a focus on blood magics and dark sciences.
Because of this, he abandoned his apprentice named Darth Noctyss and rushed to Dark planet
of Exegol seeking the key to immortality.
There he likely discovered the dark science of Blood Alchemy and established a labratory
on Exegol.**
Eventually his search came to an end, and he discovered a ritual which would finally
make him immortal…
Unfortunately though, once completed, he was made immortal, but was also turned into a
disfigured and wretched crawling creature…
He would be stuck like this forever, forced to roam the surface of Exegol.
This ties into the next Sith Lord
**Number 4.
Darth Noctyss**
After being abandoned by her Master, Darth Noctyss was furious and she ravaged hundreds
of planets in the Outer Rim in hopes of finding exegol without a way finder.
Noctyss knew that Sanguis had gone to exegol based on some notes found his labratory back
home.
She eventually managed to find the ancient Sith world and once she got there she came
across a horrid creature, which she didn’t know was actually her long lost master.
Eventually she realized that this creature was actually her master, who had successfully
cracked the key to living forever… but with some horrible side effects…
Soon after, she enslaved her former master, torturing him until he gave up his secrets,
which eventually he did…
Sanguis showed Noctyss how to perform the same ritual that he did, and in the final
part of it, he forced Noctyss to kill him…
This did actually grant her the immortality she so badly wanted, but it also condemned
her to the same fate as him…
To live forever as a horrible creature on the surface of Exegol.
At that moment Darth Noctyss realized that she had freed her old Master from his torment,
but subject herself to the same thing…
**Number 5.
Darth Caldoth**
At this point, there’s another huge gap in the timeline.
We don’t know exactly what period Darth Caldoth Lived in, so he is placed here in
the family tree until we know more.
Darth Caldoth was a Sith Lord from the Duros species who travelled the Galaxy in search
of the more obscure side of the force, and how different cultures used it different.
In this search he was lead the Nightsister witches of Dathomir, where he eventually stole
a burial pod from their homeworld…
After the coven of Nightsisters realized that their sacred burial pod was stolen from them,
they sent one of their members named Zeldin to seek revenge on the man who stole it.
In order to do this, Zeldin utilized Dark Magicks, which was the Nightsister interpretation
of the force to stalk Darth Caldoth and invade his mind, following his every thought.
What she didn’t know however was that Caldoth was fully aware of what she was doing, leading
him to tear her conciousness from her own body and trap it in his own mind forever.
In a way, this meant that Darth Caldoth had all of the power of a Sith, with the knowledge
and tradition of a Nightsister inside of him…
Some time after this, Caldoth lured out an unsuspecting Jedi battlemaster named Bran
Ath’Morath onto the planet Kizan, by destroying it’s largest city.
This led the two into a duel and out of nowhere, Caldoth allowed the Jedi battlemaster to pierce
himself through the shoulder…
This stunned Bran in shock, freezing him, which sadly allowed Caldoth to take his head
off…
**Number 6.
Ry Nymbis**
So far we don’t know the Sith name of Ry Nymbis in Canon, but we do know that he served
as the apprentice to Darth Caldoth.
From the moment of his Birth, Nymbis always had a dark presence surrounding him in the
force.
This completely shattered his childhood, as most people related to him and in his town
kept their distance.
They were scared of the young boy and the darkness that was residing in him.
His Mother however still loved young Ry and wanted him to have a good childhood, but eventually
even she grew shameful of what the boy had become.
As he grew into a young boy, Nymbis understood the effect his darkness was having on this
around him, and so he became quiet and distant from society, living far from everyone else
with his mother and never interacting with anyone…
It was at this moment that a Dark hooded figure swooped in and visited the two at their home,
telling the mother that Nymbis had the potential for great power…
With the knowledge that her boy would never be accepted by those around him, she reluctantly
accepted the offer of this dark hooded figure and allowed him to be taken away…
This dark hooded figure ended up being Darth Caldoth, who wanted to train him in the ways
of the Sith…
Now what happened next was even worse.
The first action Darth Caldoth took to train his new apprentice was to drop him off on
the planet Simoth, and force him to become a slave there and fight in the gladiator pits…
After being left alone there for some years, Nymbis became a champion of the fight pits,
feared among the others…
Some years later, Caldoth returned to the pits and slaughtered all of the other gladitators,
before lowering his hood and revealing his red eyes to his apprentice.
This unleashed a torrent of rag inside of Ry Nymbis, leading him to charge at his master
hoping to strike him down…
Caldoth though easily dodged this and hurled Nymbis into the ground, cutting off one of
his Lekku…
At this point, Caldoth knew Nymbis was ready to become a true Sith apprentice, for he had
faced the pain and suffering necessary.
IN the following Months, Caldoth took nymbis to various ancient Sith temples and even vergences
in the force, before coming together to study mystical force powers which hadn’t been
used in thousands of years.
The Two soon got into a fierce rivalry though, each trying to out discover eachother with
the goal of becoming the most powerful…
This culminated when Nymbis stole an ancient ritual parchment which when used would turn
the person he was looking at into stoe for eternity.
Nymbis’ master found out about this though and changed the words of ritual so that it
would apply to the person reading it…
When Nymbis went to recite the words, he forever encased himself in stone…
Some explorer may one day find his body of stone…
**Number 7.
Darth Sakia.**
Darth Sakia likely doesn’t exist in history, but she was mentioned by a Jedi Master when
she was was telling a story to county Dooku.
Master Yoda denies this Sith ever existed, but it wouldn’t be the first time he was
wrong about something like this…
**Number 8.
Darth Kris-Ov**
This is another Sith Lord that likely didn’t exist in history, but he was featured in a
tragic play that was performed intfront of Republic senators during the Clone Wars…
In the play, he began as a Jedi but soon had his heartbroken by another Jedi girl, and
fell to the dark side.
Realizing that he had fallen, Krist-Ov’s lover aimed to make him face his destiny and
the two lovers duelled with Krist-Ov eventually defeating her and being moments away from
killing her.
Unfortunately for him though, he stopped for one final moment to profess his love to her,
and she used this hestiation to stab him through through the heart.
His lover then lay down on the ground with her hand holding his, begging the force to
know why Krist-Ov Made her kill him…
**Number 9.
Darth Tenebrous.**
In legends, Tenebrous has a pretty rich and interesting story, but in Canon not much is
known about him.
We do know that he is the Master of Darth Plagueis, and because he was from the Bith
species, he was incredibly intelligent.
He actually even designed Maul’s personal starship, the Scimitar before his death…
He also had a Sith Trooper Legion named after him in the Rise of Skywlaker.
**Number 10.
Darth Plagueis.**
Darth Plagueis was the Master of Darth Sidious and again he has a very rich story in legends,
and very light one so far in Canon.
We know that he was a member of the Muun species and was deeply interested in biological sciences
and the midichlorians.
He also discovered essence transfer for the first time, and found the key to immortality,
but could not use it for himself…
After passing on his teachings to his Palpatine, He was killed by him, before getting the chance
to use his own teachings.
He was also alive during the Phantom Menace but died shortly before Palpatine ascended
to the position of Chancellor.
**Number 11.
Darth Sidious**
Now this is where the family tree gets absolutely crazy.
We all know the broad story of Darth Sidious from the movies, but over his reign, his orchestrated
the Clone Wars, reigned as Emperor of the Galaxy and oversaw an extensive cloning and
Dark sciences program, eventually leading him to him transfering his essence into a
Clone Body.
Palpatine actually started four new Sith Lines, with one of them being very weird.
The first is the Darth Maul Line.
**Number 12.
Darth Maul**
Darth Maul was found as a young boy by Palpatine, and was eventually taken in as an apprentice.
During his early days, Maul was taken to Malachor to view the desecrated battelfield and he
sent around the Galaxy as the fist of Palpatine.
Eventually he was defeated by Obi-Wan on Naboo, but that wasn’t the end of him.
He survived this and returned with the help of his brother Savage Opress.
With his survival, he travelled to Mandalore and built up a Criminal alliance known as
the Shadow collective who helped him to overthrow Duchess Satine, giving him control of Mandalore.
He then defeated Pre Vizsla to become the first Sith Lord to claim the rulership of
Mandalore and the Darksaber…
Sometime after the siege of Mandalore, he was then marooned on the planet Malachor,
stuck there without a ship, possibly forever.
Luckily for him that didn’t happen and he was soon found by Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano
and Kanan Jarruss.
That leads us to the next in the tree.
**Number 13.
Ezra Bridger.**
After their arrival on Malachor, Maul recruited Ezra bridger to become his Sith apprentice
and they together opened the Grey holocron which gave them the location of Obi-Wan Kenobi…
Despite this short sting, Maul ultimately failed to keep him as an apprentice, and Ezra
rejoined Kanan and the others…
Now we have to go back up the tree for the next Sith.
**Number 14.
Darth Tyranus.**
Dooku was one of the most respected Master in the Jedi Order, but saw how the Jedi was
was faltering and how they were becoming disconnected from the regular citizens of the Galaxy.
Because of this, he chose to leave the Order and was then recruited by Darth Sidious to
lead the other side of the War for him, as a Separatist.
The difference with Dooku is that he actually believed in the Separatist cause, and that
the people on separatist planets deserved better treatment.
Unfortunately he was just a placeholder for the man who Sidious truly wanted as his apprentice,
Anakin Skywalker.
But before we get to that and Dooku’s other, we have to go down the Tyrans line further.
**Which leads us to Number 15.
Asajj Ventress.**
Now Ventress wasn’t a true Sith Apprentice, but she served as an acolyte of the Sith,
because Sidious and Dooku were the Master and Apprentice.
And this really shows you how the Rule of two badly started to degrade by this point.
It started with Plagueis, but from this point it was really not taken as seriously.
Eventually Sidious grew worried about Ventress and ordered Dooku to kill her, but he failed
at this job, leaving her betrayed and bitter.
This then leads to her plot to kill Darth Tyranus. and puts us on a side branch of the
tree.
**Number 16.
Savage Oppress**
On the whim of Mother Talzin, the leader of the Nightsisters at the time, Savage Oppress
was enhanced with Nightsister magicks, making him a tremendous force of nature.
He was soon sent to serve as a Dark Acolyte of Count Dooku by Talzin and Ventress, but
didn’t realize he was just being used in her plan for revenge.
When he discovered this he turned on both Ventress and Dooku, and rushed off to find
his Brother Maul.
At this point he became the apprentice of Maul and served only him.
He was then killed by Palpatine, after he and his brother got too powerful and became
too much of a threat to Sidious’ rule…
**That brings us back to the Ventress branch of the tree. and her apprentice, Number 17.
Quinlan Vos.**
Near the end of the Clone Wars, the Jedi council were becoming increasingly worried that they
may lose the war.
Because of this, they jointly decided that cutting off the head of the snake, or assassinating
Count Dooku was the only path forward, despite being against everything they stand for.
For this mission, they chose Quinlan Vos, who was considered one of the best spies and
secret agents in the Order.
During his mission to carry out this assasination, he used Ventress to get closer to Dooku, but
he fell in love with her along the way…
At this point, Ventress taught her both how to utilize the Dark Side of the force and
some basic Nightsister Magicks.
Eventually, Dooku turned Quinlan against Ventress and became the apprentice of Tyranus himself.
Eventually though, his love for Ventress brought him back to the lightside and Ventress jumped
infront of Dooku’s lightning to save his life.
He then buried her on Dathomir, along with her ligtsabers…
So with the death of Ventress and the return of Quinlan Vos to the Light side, the Line
of Darth Tyranus comes to and end…
**Number 18.
Darth Vader.**
This one needs no explanation, but Darth Vader was the chosen one and he was chosen by Palpatine
from a very young age to become his final apprentice.
After promising that he could save Padme, Palpatine convinced Vader to join the Dark
Side and also help to wipe out any Jedi who survived Order 66.
It was this very difficult task of wiping out the Jedi survivors of Order 66 that Led
to Vader being appointed the Order of the Inquisitorious.
They were originally headquarted on Coruscant, but soon moved to the Mustafarian moon of
Nur, where they project their fear across the Galaxy.
From there, the Inquisitors hunted down all remaining Jedi in the Galaxy until the disaster
on Malachor where they got bodied by Kana, Ezra and Ahsoka…
They were then disolved very shortly after.
Now we get to the final Sith on the list, who isn’t really a Sith, but now kinda is…
**Number 19.
Snoke Snokington.**
Snoke’s story is still very much in mystery but we know that he saw both the rise and
fall of the Galactic Empire, and that he is a Strandcast created by Palpatine, and controlled
by him for a large chunk of his life.
Either he was created from birth on Exegol, or his DNA was later used to create the clones
in the yellow tank there…
WE know from the Force Awakens that he had one apprentice before Kylo Ren, who was more
powerful, but nothing else about him, and then he had Kylo Ren…
Because palpaitne was controlling Snoke, but he did also have free will, you could technically
now call Kylo a Sith, but we still need more information.
That will likely come from the Mandalorian Season 3, Bad Batch Season 2 and Andor!
So that is the full family tree of the Sith Lords.
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