She was then swayed to serve Surik against Nihilus. The ritual Nihilus' group were conducting on Dxun was attacked by a group sent by Surik when she involved herself with the now-ongoing Onderon Civil War, with help from Mandalore the Preserver and his Mandalorian clan that lived in secret on Dxun. The practitioners were killed, but not before the ritual was completed. Meanwhile, Surik headed to Iziz to support Onderon's queen , Talia.
The Royalist leader's palace was invaded by Nihilus' Sith and the separatists. Surik turned the tide in the Royalists' favor and Nihilus' plans for Onderon were thwarted when [4] General Vaklu was executed summarily and the separatists were quashed. This was actually a ruse by Kreia to draw her former pupil there while she traveled to Malachor to prepare for Meetra Surik's final lesson.
Nihilus' forces, comprised of servants who had been reduced to mindlessness by prolonged exposure to their Dark Lord and Sith warriors, made their way to the planet. The Republic Navy was there to ambush the fleet as it approached, working with the Mandalorians who were there to assist Surik and their Mandalore.
Thus began the Battle of Telos IV , a large conflict with fronts on both Citadel Station , the planet's orbiting satellite , and in space.
Nihilus realized too late that the Academy was not actually populated by Force-sensitives, though Atris was the headmistress, but his ravaging hunger drove him to attempt to consume Telos anyway.
Nihilus' ship was assaulted and boarded by the Mandalorians in a coordinated final strike against the Dark Lord. Mandalore led his troops to board the Ravager , while covered by the Republic forces, to assist Surik and Visas Marr in their advance on the warship's bridge. Four proton bombs were set in strategic locations throughout the ship along their way. Colonel Tobin, his body twisted by exposure to Nihilus' dark powers by this point, attacked the raiders in an attempt to impede them.
However, the Onderonian patriot relented when they pointed out that it would only be a matter of time until his homeworld would meet the same fate as Telos if Nihilus succeeded. During his confrontation with the Exile, Marr, and Mandalore, Nihilus attempted to absorb Surik's Force energy, but failed and exhausted himself because of Surik's ability to draw on the Force energy of those around her.
They engaged in a brief duel , with the Dark Lord seemingly too strong to defeat. This weakened Nihilus enough that the trio was able to kill him. Before leaving in the orbital shuttle she and her companions had used to board the ship, Marr felt compelled to remove the Dark Lord's mask, wanting to see the face of the one who had wounded her. Nihilus' body then erupted in an aura of dark side energies as the trio left the bridge. Shortly thereafter, the bombs aboard the Ravager exploded and the rest of the Sith fleet was decimated by the Republic.
Nihilus' spirit touched the planet's dark side nexus and remained in touch with the corporeal plane because of it. After Nihilus' death, Meetra Surik traveled to Malachor V for a final meeting with Kreia, completing her own training with the death of the former Sith.
In reaching her mentor, Surik killed the last of the Sith, Darth Sion, convincing the continually suffering Sith Lord to let go of his life. At least one Sith Lord rose and succeeded Nihilus, quietly ruling as the Republic began to thrive anew. Darth Nihilus' holocron, which could allow someone to commune with his spirit, [14] was centuries-old when it came into the possession of the crime lord Diago Hixan , who kept it in a cavern on the planet of Tatooine called the Lightspring during the Cold War.
To do this, she tried to enlist the aid of a smuggler [20] later known as the Voidhound , [21] without revealing its true nature. The Jedi set out to take the box alone [22] and was captured by Hixan, but the smuggler had followed her. In the ensuing confrontation, Hixan and Zare, who had arrived as well, were killed by the smuggler and the Jedi. Pridence was able to determine the origin of the holocron and she set off to ensure the Empire would never see it.
One stated that he had been slain by Brianna , [9] another companion of Surik's [23] who was on Telos IV' surface while Nihilus was killed. Baas recorded these in his holocron , from which his knowledge would be transcribed to Jedi vs. While the Empire was in power, three groups tracked Nihilus' mask to the planet of Volik in the Unknown Regions , stored aboard a Dynamic -class freighter called the Nashuaga. The parties—a group of spacers , Sith cultists known as the Apex Society , and a band of pirates called Sando's Boys —all convened in and around the cove where the ship resided.
After dispatching the other two groups, the spacers claimed the mask for their own. The only response he received from Nihilus was a statement in the Sith Lord's language , which his comrades did not attempt to translate, [25] but the three were in agreement.
They believed that Krayt was unworthy of being a Sith as they saw his Rule of One as a dilution of the Sith ways. Darth Nihilus was a man who always craved greater power. However, unlike most Sith Lords, he cared very little for the Sith as an organization. He was cautious, as his actions during the campaign against the Jedi showed, and was known as an aggressive, dominant figure who would not abide a threat to his power.
Nihilus was once a Human male [2] with black hair coiled finely into strips that he tied together behind his head. She was his only apprentice, and her betrayal was met with much anger. During combat, Darth Nihilus fought in an aggressive, one-handed style.
He had learned some of the greatest of the Sith teachings, but such practices took the form of dependence. They would make him stronger, but only for a time, and he would have to feed upon Force energy to replenish his strength.
For this reason, Force-sensitives and worlds rich in the Force would draw him. His reach in the Force eventually extended to a point where he could feel Force users throughout the galaxy to find planets he would then cleanse entirely, killing everything who was touched by the Force. Prolonged use of this power made him a threat to all life, as his craving grew more intense with each feeding.
Eventually, Nihilus' hunger controlled him, not the other way around, and the Sith Lord would instinctively feed upon those around him, slowly killing them. Nihilus' very speech caused pain and death to all who heard it, and those who served him became utter slaves in time. His ability was somewhat similar to Traya's influence upon others: the reconvened Jedi Council in the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine inferred that the Sith had somehow learned this ability to feed on the Force from her.
Darth Nihilus was adept in many aspects of the Force. Nihilus could also use the Force to lift starships, as he did on Malachor V with the Ravager. He tore it from the mass shadows that surrounded the planet and kept it together even though it had suffered extensive structural damage. His knowledge also extended to Sith alchemy : during the second battle of Onderon, Nihilus' sect of Sith followers used techniques that would bend tame beasts to their will.
Darth Nihilus wielded a self-built [2] lightsaber containing a red crystal. The mask was white with red stripes over each eye hole. It would have covered cheeks, but not a nose or mouth. There was also a brown embossed detail on the mask that split it vertically in two halves. To enable his addiction to devouring worlds, he led a flotilla from his personal starship, the Ravager. He created these ships from the wreckage left behind after the Battle of Malachor V.
As such, they were badly damaged and held together with Nihilus's will. He only allowed the particle shield to barely maintain atmosphere, and staffed them with slaves whose bodies were badly damaged from being in contact with the Dark Lord. The desktop icon for the PC version of the game was Nihilus' face. Though he did state that his conception of Nihilus' origin story was non- canon , Avellone said he thought of Nihilus as Meetra Surik's "other half," pursuing a different path after Malachor V was torn apart.
In-game, Nihilus never spoke a clear word; he emitted solely patterns of sounds similar to Atris' Sith holocrons found on Telos IV. Alien languages such as Huttese were subtitled, while Nihilus' words were not. Concept art showed a confrontation between the two, [37] but Atris never actually interacted with Nihilus during the game.
In a bug that occasionally occurred when Nihilus died, his body was surrounded by dark side energies, but the body itself did not disappear.
A Sith lightsaber, a Dark Jedi Master robe , and a lightsaber crystal could then be found in his remains. He had a removable hood that revealed that showed Nihilus' hair for the first time.
It was styled in dreadlocks. That degree of distinction from preceding, familiar threats allows Nihilus to be truly alien in a universe saturated with a wide variety of alien races. He is a terrifying vision of otherness, and that quality of the unknown is a common quality in gaming's most frightening villains.
It must be said, that Nihilus works so well because he is a part of ensemble of villains. He is not only a threat to the player, but to the more sympathetic and human villains as well. On his own, Nihilus would still be compelling, but he would also come across as a more conventional, otherworldly threat than an entity with a distinct persona. Fortunately, things are looking bright for the future of the Fallen Order franchise.
But only time will tell if Respawn can craft a villain as compelling, novel, and frightening as Darth Nihilus. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2 is reportedly in development. God of War is coming to PC in and has players excited, especially as they'll get to see what mods PC players will inevitably create. Hank Whitson is a pop culture omnivore, avid reader, gaming geek, escapism nerd, and unrepentant anime addict. He will play and write about literally anything, but has a special place in his heart for compelling stories, creative combat, and clever worldbuilding.
Knights of the Old Republic 2. Share Share Tweet Email. Hank Whitson Articles Published. Say hi in our Discord! I love all this. Especially knowing that this is 'just how he talks' and we'll never know what he's saying. That means he COULD be saying, "remind me to pick up juice boxes at the store after this" or "this mask covers a really bad zit on my nose" or "One ring to rule them all! Waffandrord wrote: ». March 16, PM edited March You will not get much out of ittttt.
It's all the force ghosts pleading for the festering wound to be healed In this game, it's definitely "Troll the players, Nerfy Rey, troll-lalalalalalala, lets go fishing with Kozi FierceRevan wrote: ». Stokat wrote: ». He's giving the date of when will be dropped. You would think Nihilus would speak in the accent that will stab you, not the one that will make you a cup of tea. Edit: profanity filter didn't like that particular British accent.
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