Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord from the Sith, demolished the historic order devoted to the dark aspect and reinvented it as a group of two: one Get good at to wield the power and spread the wisdom, and one apprentice to understand, problem, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord within a duel towards the death. But Bane’s acolyte, Zannah, offers yet to engage her Professional in mortal fight and verify herself a worthwhile successor. Determined that the Sith imagine galactic domination won’t pass away about Dynasty of Evil: Superstar Wars Legends (Darth Bane): A Novel of the Old Republic with him, Bane vows to understand the secret of the neglected Dark Lord that may assure the Sith’s immortality-and his own.

A perfect opportunity arises whenever a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining world Doan, giving Bane a justification to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission-while he himself models out in key to fully capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its own precious knowledge. But Zannah is normally no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to question her, and she senses that he is hiding something imperative to her potential. If she’ll claim the energy she craves, she must do something now.

While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded plenty of to embrace the Sith method and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

But Zannah is not the only person using the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family members is normally haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her dad and tortured her when she was a kid. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentor-and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.

Only a Sith who has removed her own Master may become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane abruptly vanishes, Zannah must find him-possibly even save him-before she can eliminate him. Therefore she pursues her quarry through the grim depths of a ravaged world around the brink of catastrophe to the barren gets to of the desert outpost, where the future from the dark side’s most powerful disciples will become decided, once and for all, by the ultimate, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.