Darth Nihilus

Darth Nihilus

Darth Nihilus, the Lord of Hunger, was the Dark Lord following the Jedi Civil War and the main perpetrator of the First Jedi Purge, which drew the Jedi on the brick of extinction, he was one of the few survivors of the Battle of Malachor V, a spawn of the Mandalorian Wars. Betrayed by his own apprentice, a Miraluka by the name of Visas Marr, he fell in the Battle of Telos IV at the hands of the Jedi Exile, in 3,951 BBY.

Teaching and learning
All that is known of Nihilus' true beginnings is that he survived the Mandalorian Wars and assumed his dark persona on Malachor V[2]. Although his role in the wars is a mystery, it is very likely that he may have been one of the Jedi that defied the Jedi Council and followed Revan to war. He trained under Darth Traya in Trayus Academy with fellow Dark Lord Darth Sion, until she was challenged by both, stripped of her power and cast out, leaving the Sith with no defined leadership and many factions, all seeking to take what little remained of Revan's Sith Empire[3].


Darth Nihilus encounters Visas Marr as he walks the devastated surface of Katarr.After the dissolution of the Sith Triumvirate, Sion and Nihilus went on their separate ways, each commanding their own minions against the Jedi, in a war of silence and shadow. Trayus Academy kept on producing leagions of assassins, marauders and Sith Lords, honing techniques that allowed them to become stronger near Force-sensitives, to feed upon the Force. The pinnacle of such techniques is something Nihilus alone ever achieved, however. He obliterated Katarr, wiping out the entire Miraluka colony, along with all other life on the planet, with the exception of a young Miraluka that he chose to keep for his own—Visas Marr.

As he walked on the surface, Darth Nihilus found the woman, put her in a deep sleep, and brought her aboard his ship. When Visas awoke, she confronted the Dark Lord, and was shown a vision that crippled her ability to see through the Force and carved out the flesh where her eyes would be had she been human[4]. A vision of the Galaxy as he saw it through his senses, people on other planets unable to feel the Force, disconnected from each another and lost in the crush of humanity, a chaos to which he brought order[5]. She eventually became his most trusted and only apprentice, even developing a powerful Force bond with her