Darth Malgus.
Born Veradun, he became the man who sacked Coruscant, declared his own Empire, and finally broke free of every master — a Sith who refused, in the end, to be owned by anyone.
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A Sith Who Refused to Be Owned
Born Veradun, he was marked early. Raised by an adoptive father, he killed a Twi'lek servant on the family estate as a boy — not out of rage, but because the dark side moved through him and he let it. That instinct took him to the Sith Academy on Dromund Kaas, through the ranks of the Imperial Military, and into the thick of the Great Galactic War as a commander whose ferocity set him apart from the beginning.
The turning point was Eleena Daru. She had been his companion through campaigns and years, and his attachment to her had been used against him — proof, in Sith logic, that love was armour with a crack in it. Rather than accept that vulnerability, Malgus removed it. He killed her himself. What followed was not resolve but a slow estrangement from everything the Empire stood for, empire included.
What came after was a long unravelling. Malgus served on the Dark Council, declared a New Empire of his own, and was brought down by forces from both sides of the war. He resurfaced, went rogue, and declared he would never again answer to a master. The designs on this page draw from that full arc — the Old Republic era that made him.
Every chain he broke revealed another — until none remained.
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Satele Shan bested him in battle and left him breathing through a respirator; Darth Jadus later turned his own grief into a weapon against him.