Centuries after the Great Hyperspace War of 5000 BBY, when the Old Sith Empire fell to
the Jedi and Republic, a young force sensitive human was accepted into the jedi academy on
Ossus, where he trained under several powerful light-side masters including Odan-Urr who
built the Great Jedi Library, and Matta Tremayne, an expert in lightsaber combat.
Dreaming all his life of becoming a Jedi Knight, Freedon Nadd was hardworking, focused and
naturally talented, learning rapidly and demonstrating incredible understanding of the force.
With his mental acumen even surpassing his significant physical prowess.
Praised by his instructors and standing out among his peers, Nadd was certain his efforts
would soon pay off, but in private, some of the masters felt one final test was needed
to truly understand his level of commitment to light side teachings.
Therefore, when it came time to select the next round of Padawans to graduate in 4400BBY,
the jedi passed over Nadd to see how he dealt with failure.
Confused and heartbroken, Nadd sought guidance from master Matta Tremayne.
But rather than explain the decision, she ignored him for a time and then refused to
reveal their reasons.
Her words and attitude, coupled with the crushing of his dream led to a great surge of anger
which then erupted into accusations that the Masters were hording secrets to secure their
own power.
No longer interested in their opinions he brazenly declared himself a Jedi, rejecting
the authority of the Order.
Still refusing to explain anything, Master Tremayne challenged him to a duel which Nadd
gladly accepted, attacking furiously before spotting an opening and swinging down his
lightsaber for a final killing blow.
Yet just before he struck, it became clear Tremayne was offering no resistance when she
flashed him a look that said this was all a test and he failed.
Devastated by her death, Nadd quickly came to the conclusion the jedi were to blame for
this entire situation, and that by toying with his emotions and refusing explanations
they forced his hand.
Vowing vengeance against the Order, he fled the planet and set a course for the old sith
empire, determined to become the most powerful dark side sorcerer in the galaxy.
Though the Empire and its people were gone, Nadd found a number of valuable scrolls, books
and artifacts like when he travelled to Ashas Ree, where he found the holocron of King Adas,
the First Sith pureblood to unify the tribes of Korriban in 28000 BBY.
At some point, Nadd also came across the Holocron of Darth Andeddu, the immortal god-king of
Prakith, a dark lord of the old empire most famous for discovering Essence Transfer.
An immortality ritual to detach consciousness from a physical body so it could enter another
living being or inanimate object, to serve as the next host.
Eventually, Nadd heard rumors about a powerful being on Yavin 4, and upon landing was attacked
by the Massassi worshippers of Naga Sadow, the last Dark Lord of the old Sith Empire.
After defeating many Massassi in battle, he earned their respect and was deemed him worthy
of an audience with their master.
Following his defeat in the Great Hyperspace War and the collapse of his empire, Naga Sadow
fled to Yavin 4, where he established a secret base to continue his studies in sith sorcery
and alchemy, experimenting on his Massassi slaves.
After extending his life for decades, Sadow believed it might still be possible to bring
forth a new Sith Empire, and so placed his increasingly frail body into suspended animation,
waiting for the day a worthy apprentice might appear to carry on his legacy.
Selecting Freedon Nadd as his apprentice, Sadow taught him everything he knew of the
dark side and when the training was complete, the student recorded all he learned on his
own personal holocron.
Then, in the tradition of their Order, the apprentice killed his master to claim the
mantle Dark Lord of the Sith.
Settling on the planet Onderon, Nadd used the native population to form a new sith civilization,
greatly influence by the Order’s culture and lore.
Ruling with an iron fist as King of Iziz, the planets only city, any who resisted were
exiled beyond their protective walls, to be devoured by the many wild beasts roaming the
land.
Yet some of these exiles survived and tamed these creatures to become mighty Beast Riders,
often in conflict with the Naddists of Iziz.
Reigning for over a century, news of the Sith King eventually reached the Jedi and Republic,
who sent an army to defeat and kill Freedon Nadd.
Yet the Dark Lord’s consciousness survived the death of his body, possibly through the
ritual of Essence Transfer learned from Andeddu, and so roamed Onderon as a Sith Spirit, keeping
the planet steeped in Dark Side energy.
Though a government was formed, Freedon Nadd’s direct descendants ultimately took power and
ruled over Iziz.
Influencing and using his people, Nadd awaited the day a powerful apprentice might be selected
and trained in sith alchemy so they might create a new, worthy body to host the dark
lord.
Sometime later in 4000 BBY, Nadd believed his descendants King Ommin and Queen Aminoa
might fill that role, yet both ultimately failed to meet his expectations, when the
Republic learned of their Dark Side connection and allied with the Beast Riders to depose
their government.
First they defeated the Queen and her forces to take control of the planet, before facing
a Naddist uprising led by the King and fought by his dark side supporters.
Though Ommin was eventually defeated and killed, Nadd’s spirit mocked the jedi, explaining
that one day they would learn the Sith were truly victorious this day.
The reason for his confidence, was that in the final days of his uprising, the king was
introduced to a pair of force-sensitive royal cousins from the Empress Teta system, seeking
knowledge of the dark side.
Impressed by their potential, Nadd selected them as their heirs to his legacy, gifting
them a number of Sith artifacts before they fled the planet.
Unaware of these sith successors, Jedi Master Arca Jeth and his former apprentice Ulic Qel
Droma led the effort to cleanse Onderon of the Dark Side, moving the tomb of Freedon
Nadd, King Ommin and Queen Aminoa to the wild moon of Dxun.
Yet much to the Jedi’s surprise, the spirit of Freedon Nadd appeared before Ulic Qel Droma
and ominously prophesied he would one day become a powerful Sith Lord.
Studying the knowledge bestowed upon them, Satal and Aleema Keto eventually founded the
Krath, a secret society where they trained students in the dark side before sending them
to fight a holy crusade.
At first this meant staging a coup to depose their parents to take control of the Empress
Teta system, but eventually they went to war with the entire Galactic Republic.
Continuing the legacy of Freedon Nadd, the cousins achieved some measure of vengeance
for their master when one of their attacks killed a number of influential jedi, including
Master Arca Jeth.
With the Sith resurgent and galaxy at war, yet another possible successor to the Sith
emerged, when Freedon Nadd appeared before jedi knight Exar Kun, manipulating him into
accepting the dark side and training as an apprentice.
Nadd then sent Kun to Korriban and Yavin 4, teaching him in the ways of the sith.
But in the end, Exar Kun grew tired of his overbearing master and learned he trained
other apprentices who were now rivals to power.
Therefore, Kun liberated himself by using a powerful sith talisman to destroy the dark
lords spirit.
Enraged by this betrayal, Nadd summoned the last of his power to reach out though the
force, warning the cousins about Exar Kun before declaring Satal, Aleema and the prophesied
hero Ulic Qel Droma as the true heirs to his Sith legacy.
Yet despite the warning and his final instructions, Satal was ultimately killed by Qel Droma who
then began a relationship with Aleema Keto.
In the end, Exar Kun, Ulic Qel Droma and Aleema Keto joined forces to wage the Great Sith
War of 3996 BBY against the jedi and republic.
Though this war ended in defeat, the Dark Lord’s legacy lived on as thousands of years
later, when Darth Bane sought to reform the Sith Order yet again, he found the holocron
of Freedon Nadd but was unable to take full advantage because he was not skilled in Sith
sorcery.
Yet when it came time to train his apprentice Darth Zannah, she used the holocron to great
effect, master ancient arts she used to kill Bane, take leadership of the order and continue
a thousand year campaign which ultimately ended in Sith victory over the Jedi and Republic.
Going on to influence the Sith and galaxy for thousands of years after his death, Freedon
Nadd was remembered as one of the most powerful Dark Lords to ever live.