Not invented by any means, it was an Old Sith Empire design that they came up with after they advanced lightsaber tech beyond proto sabers. If the Tedryn Holocron is anything to go by the design was at least thought of in a “legends/myth” viewing to certain Jedi Masters, but being that it was Sith in origin none of them put any real consideration into it. What Exar Kun did was introduce the design to rest of the Galaxy at large, and also got the Jedi Order to really re think and consider what they were doing with saber combat, hence 40 years later you had Jedi like Bastilla and Zez Kai El rockin saberstaffs 🤘🏻
This is great it shows the Nadd and Exar Kun, but I wish it Marka Ragnos gaving both Exar Kun and Ulic Qel Droma their mark and making them Sith Lords, but Exar Kun was the master and Ulic his apprentice.
Fire Nation Soldier I wish they made Ragnos the Sith Emperor. We see Ragnos commanding the Sith fleet at the same time that the Sith Emperor rose to power, Kreia said that the Sith Emperor left behind “breadcrumbs” and Kun became a Sith by following Ragnos’s trail, and Freedon Nadd says that Naga Sadow hated Ragnos and feared Kun’s coming and we see in another one of these videos that the Sith Emperor’s spies battled Sadow.
@@ChristianProtossDragoon Who said something like that? All that people say about the ancient sith is that they're completely overpowered. Which, let's be honest they kinda are.
The great sith war lasted only 1 year but he did a lot of damage. Krath a sith cult seized power in the empress teaa system and decided war on the republic and the Jedi. Though the Jedi were their primary target. Ulic Qel-Droma attacked Coruscant but he was abandoned by his lover Qel-Droma took revenge on her and ended her life. Then when he killed his brother his former lover Nomi sunrider cut his connection to the force
Would it have been hundreds of millions in deaths or just millions? I think Exar had weapons of mass destruction that were capable of wiping out entire galaxies like naga sadow's ship causing a super nova
Fun Fact: One of the Jedi Masters under the influence of Lord Vivicar from the list of casualties if you pick the Dark Side option at the Chapter 1 Finale for the Jedi Consular is stationed in the Empress Teta system.
And Ulic was filled with remorse and would ultimately find redemption with his love Nomi forgiving him as he died in her arms, becoming one with the Force. As Vima said, he had the heart of a Jedi. For Kun, his spirit was trapped on Yavin and thousands of years later, the New Jedi Order (with the help of Master Baas’s spirit) finished the job
Many Jedi and Sith, later on, could never understand the lvl of focus Exar had in using Niman in such a way, the only other Master of this style was Revan, but he did not make a double-bladed on handed saber,
They say the Mandalorian Wars were the bloodiest, but from what I read about the Great Sith War (Exar Kun War), that seemed to have been far worse in scale.
Most of the casualties in the Exar Kun War were mostly inflicted by Ulic Qel-Droma, and he mostly conquered rather than destroyed. They honestly hadn't progressed too far in their campaign before Ulic redeemed himself and Kun was defeated. The Mandolorian Wars, on the other hand, were allowed to rage unchecked by an indolent Jedi Order, for years before Revan lead his armies against them. And Revan was not above reflecting the brutality of the Mandolorians back on them. By all accounts the Mandolorian wars were horrible.
@@oliveragag8576 I assume you're referring to Aleema Keto and Crado destroying the Cron cluster. So far as I know they were uninhabited, though the shockwaves devastated Ossus. The Mandolorian Wars had many instances like that. Aside from the Mass Shadow Generator at Malachor V, there was the Cathar genocide and the ravaging of Serroco, burning of Eris III, etc. The Mandolorian Wars were also quite a bit longer.
The Sith spirits are probably motivated by a sense of ''even evil has standards''. They know the omnicidal goals of the Sith Emperor, and as such, they want nothing to do with his empire; they'd rather take rejects from the Jedi Order and personally anoint them as Sith, like the way they did to Exar Kun, instead of working with the larger Sith Empire that exists in deep space.
"The fact that the spirits of the ancient Sith Lords supported Exar Kun suggests that they did not, and perhaps do not, support the Sith Emperor we face today." However, how does Gnost-Dural know that the amulet message was a middle finger to Vitiate and not simply a way of giving Kun the courage to launch the Great Sith War?
@@ChristianProtossDragoon The original commenter basically says that Gnost Dural is merely assuming that Exar Kun was supposed to be a rival of Vitiate, a third party to the Jedi/Republic and the True Sitb, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
@@JJRichardson_ Gnost Dural assumes that, just because Marka Ragnos and the Ancient Sith Spirits anointed Exar Kun as Dark Lord of the Sith, that they would be opposed to the Sith Emperor. But the original poster mentions another possibility, that they, the Ancient Sith, simply wished for Exar Kun to confront the Republic, and they offered him their support to do so. Whether this was to help Vitiate and his True Sith, or whether it was unrelated to the Reconstituted Sith Empire at all and the Ancient Sith simply took an opportunity to create a powerful Sith (Exar Kun) to destroy the Jedi, or because of some other reason. Who knows..
I wish they would have released that Nomi Sunrider novel that was cancelled. I find the cast of characters from this period just before Revan to be far more compelling than most of what came right afterward (though KotoR was a fantastic story).
3:47 Just got done reading the Sith war comics. This is one of the most tragic duels in all of Star Wars! Cutting his own flesh and blood down in hatred…
Urdnot Stark I hope that will happen, there just has to be a back story to star wars and anyway Exar Kun is far too interesting of a story to be so heavily underrated. I will love it to become true so much.
I'd rather have him remain Legends only, instead of Disney creating a slightly altered version of him, no offence to Disney. Best case scenario would be for D-Canon to make it's own interesting and compelling characters, rather than rip them from the previous continuity, whilst keeping Legends running alongside in a parallel universe. Disney are way too smart a company to neglect the money-making potential of new legends material, and are probably just waiting for when sales start to inevitably level. Patience my fellow EU lovers.
This loose end about the animosity between the deceased Sith Lords and Vitiate is wholly unexplored in the game proper. As a fan of the Sith, I can say that was rather disappointing...
Probably it Disney didn't can the EU It would've been more explored. I think we would've seen more of the original dark lords by now as well (as in the exiles Ajunta Pall, Sorzus Zyn, Xoxaan, Reymulus Dreypa and Karness Muur). It's shame though that it got all swept away by Disney.
@@Blackdeathgaming-yv1kk Uhmmmm. No. SWTOR's entire existance up to this present day (and they are still releasing content updates, though the game is quickly being emptied by the parent company, but that's a story for a different topic) is completely independent of Disney. They've had a very long run to explore a lot of nuance about Sith and Jedi history, and have done very little in that regard. It seems the only ones that do exist are Revan and Vitiate, every other Sith Lord is only ever there to place one tomb and some limited mentions elsewhere. This has nothing to do with scrapping the EU, instead it has everything to do with plain old fan service. Revan gives money and assures a steady stream of subscriptions, let's make a whole expansion pack out of him. Exar Kun, the Sith Lord who actually felt unique and who burned brightly at a different time in the Star Wars content history? Nah, just make one character that makes reference to him and drop his name a couple times over the course of the entire questline on Yavin IV, Kun's headquarter planet.
@@moscanaveia mate, I'm not talking just about swtor. I'm talking about the fact that if Disney didn't can the EU we probably would've had stories about the first dark lords by now. It's been like 8 years since the cancellation of the EU and the original exiles/dark lords were still very unexplored. I absolutely loved getting to see Karness Muur in the kotor comics for example. But just before the cancellation of the EU we had the dawn of the jedi era starting to get explored with the first great schism in the Je'daii order also being a subject around that era. It would've been very natural that by now we would've seen the second great schism in novels or comics by now.
I'm sensing some parallels here: Exar Kun- Jedi prodigy; doesn't listen to his elders; searches for power; falls to the dark side. Anakin Skywalker: Jedi prodigy; doesn't listen to his elders; searches for power; falls to the dark side.
I thought Anakin = Exar Kun(Curiousity to exposed Jedi lies) + Ulic Qel Droma (feeling of lost his beloved persons) Meanwhile Nomi Sunrider = Obiwan Kenobi
It appears that Kun, or at least the name, has been re-canonized by Solo. The gangster from the movie has a piece of the Sith Temple of Exar Kun on his yacht.
@@TheMrPeteChannel doubt considering they're refrences from novels and visual dictionary that was supposed to appear in the film but happend non of those appeared do you even think that exar kun backstory will be expanded nope it will just be forgotten in the void another also that, it said it was a myth tale so likely he did not exist.
Yes, when Dooku had rebuilt the Dark Reaper. But I'm talking about when the Dark Reaper was originally used, during the Sith Wars. Wasn't Ulic-Qel Droma the one who originally defeated it (I believe this was before he ended up turning to the dark side)?
Reverse- -Fuhrer Perhaps it was before Ulic's desent into the Dark Side? I'm going off of what the 2002 Star Wars Clone Wars video game said. So forgive me if it turns out what I'm saying is incorrect.
Ulic-Qel Droma did destroy the reaper. In order to make sure no one rebuilds it, he hid the remains of it in Raxus Prime. Dooku however manage to find it and rebuild it. Anakin found Ulic's holocron and told him how to destory it.
Her name is owned by her creator. Every Time the names Nomi or Sunrider are used in a game,book,comic, whatever....her creator gets a royalty check. So she usually gets unmentioned.
Anyway. Unlike Valkorion, Exar Kun was indeed a true Dark lord of the Sith, because he let his passion over dominance guide him. Valkorion was only interested in fuel his immortality on every livin thing on the galaxy, like the another failure Darth Nihilus.
The Emperor was The Dark Side of the Force incarnate. He was about as true a Dark Lord of the Sith as is possible and lived for millennia before and after Exar Kun. As much I like Exar, don't try and compare him Vitiate in his scope and power. I am a huge fan of how Exar tried to bring a Golden Age of the Sith and I wish Valkorion had cared enough to do the same
@@punishedvenomsnake716 The "Golden Age of the Sith" is defined as the Sith Empire as it was before the Great Hyperspace War. In many ways, Vitiate and his Empire symbolised the maintenance of that status.
Don't even start, Exar Kun was but an upstart and a Jen'jidai fledgling compared to Valkorion. 1500 years of the galaxy had been manipulated and steered by Vititate's many names identities and forms. Marka Ragnos himself gave the title of Darth to Tenebrae when he was but a teenager. ruling Nathema solely for many years, with Naga Sadow being responsible for destroying the Sith Empire for his short-sighted gain. the power vacuum and destabilization was great. The Emperor ensured his own survival first and then that of the Empire by taking them to Dromund Kaas. as far away from known space as was possible. The Golden Age was only possible when the Sith Empire had an already consolidated hold upon their empire's worlds and kept to themselves within their portion of space. Ragnos carefully and deliberately held back the Empire's reckless lust for expansionism and ruled for a century, outwitting and outmaneuvering his rivals every ploy and tactic. With Ragnos' death. Sadow pissed it all away. the lesson in this is that for all the great work a single ruler can achieve his usurpers or heirs will make the mistake of getting lazy, fat, overconfident and overgrown of the idea that nothing can challenge their great work. when it was never theirs to begin with. it is why Valkorion also sought to be immortal as to ensure a greater stability and continuance of both govermental pattern and form. the Sith Empire became a self-destructive failed project prone to collapse from within. and the Republic is much the same. it is why he left them both to destroy eachother. and feast on the death that follows.
@@punishedvenomsnake716 exar kun is estates by the source to be more powerful than vitiate since it say he was the greatest threat in the galaxy 4000 years before the birth of luke Skywalker, even luke Skywalker in his prime say exar kun and emperor vitiate were the biggest focal point of the dark side
With the fourth and Final season of Rebels taking us to the base on Yavin IV, I'm very hopeful that we'll have a storyline where they battle with the phantom of Exar Kun. It's just too perfect an opportunity to miss out on!
Not that I like the outcome of the final season of Rebels, but I am actually glad they didn't touch upon Kun. Would've been rather unsatisfying to have an arc, however short, focus on a character so outside the scope of the conflicts that were built upon.
Exar Kun is probably the greatest Sith Lord that ever accomplished and my most favorite Sith of all time. He was even able to force choke all 12 Luke's students. I even wrote how powerful was Exar Kun. I'd say I would place his command over the force and lightsaber combat the likes of Darth Krayt who would rival Darth Sidious and arguably GM Luke Skywalker (DE) who was close to DE Sidious raw strength, maybe even full power?
the luke Skywalker exar kun drained depleted spirit was able to defeat was 2 times more powerful than the luke Skywalker that faced emperor papaltine reborn, dark empire luke Skywalker was even more powerful than vader
You mean the Brotherhood of Darkness, which was led by Skere Kaan, which Darth Bane destroyed by tricking them into using the thought bomb and then established the Rule of Two.
They brought up the Brotherhood, which if my memory serves, is what Darth Bane helped destoyed by tricking the sith into selling all the followers away inside a crystal, and destroying what was left of the sith. Exar Kun was the leader of the Brotherhood. I read the books. Both are from the Old Republic era as well.
No, it's probably a hint that the Sith spirits knew about his ritual that killed 8,000 Sith Lords and they consider him a n opportunist, a coward and a traitor to the Sith Empire.
Nope. Just that the ancient Sith didn't like how Vitiate planned to kill every life in the universe. Vitiate's character did a 180 in KOTFE. Disapointing expansion that is.
The Jedi Order is harder to be a part of, especially since they are incredibly restrictive, the only survive because they are incredibly powerful and typically are sponsored by the most powerful republic or democracy in the galaxy.The Sith order however PREFERS the dark side,but there are a hand full of a light side sith,while not outright shunned because they are light side, but because they represent a political threat and status quo threat.Whereas the dark side in the jedi IS looked down upon
Revan and Malak have fallen to Dark Side because they got corrupted by a conflict which they joined to protect innocent against genocidal Mandalorian warmongers. Exar Kun became a Sith because he was always an arrogant jerk, even before his fall to Dark Side.
exar kun always wanted to become the most powerful he could be and a god he was always mean to be a sith lord, he was the papaltine of the old republic
+White Jadu That's right. I believe it was Corran Horn in "I, Jedi". Luke converts the Massassi Temple on Yavin 4 into the New Jedi Academy and the spirit of Kun awakens and begins tempting Luke's initiates to the Dark Side, leading to the novel's climax where Kun's spirit is damped or snuffed out in some way (haven't read it in a long time).
It wasn't just one of Luke's apprentices that did that. It was many of Luke's padawan/apprentices including young Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo, and Luke's spirit and Exar kun's old master's spirit.
Thats because they get so powerful they seek more, or they reject the Jedi Code for their personal interest. No matter how you look at it though everything in Star Wars could have been peaceful if the Jedi would just have followed the code...
Hate to break it to you, but for a time even Luke succumbs to the Dark Side, becoming apprentice to the reborn Darth Sidious. Until Leia redeems him ;) That's the point though, many powerful Jedi do fall, but just as many are redeemed and inevitably are instrumental in overcoming the Sith of that time period. Ulic Qel'Droma, Revan, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker... the list goes on and on
I had a theory that Exar Kun remains was the thing we call Snoke. Just like the young Solo he search for power beyond his experiaces, because the Sith was extinct (officially). Exar Kun was Luke's most fearsome enemy after Darth Vader abd Sidious. They had to tell the stories of the New Jedi and the creation of the First Order.
This story is missing a key figure... Darth Bane! He helped the Jedi destroy the Brotherhood of the Sith, and destroyed the Sith to become the first person to enforce the rule of two. >.
Reverse- -Fuhrer his influence was starting the Mandalorian Wars, other than that his lasting impact was as a boogey man for young Jedi by Revans time.
It was Exar Kun who invented the double bladed lightsaber and its subsequent fighting style.
Not invented by any means, it was an Old Sith Empire design that they came up with after they advanced lightsaber tech beyond proto sabers. If the Tedryn Holocron is anything to go by the design was at least thought of in a “legends/myth” viewing to certain Jedi Masters, but being that it was Sith in origin none of them put any real consideration into it. What Exar Kun did was introduce the design to rest of the Galaxy at large, and also got the Jedi Order to really re think and consider what they were doing with saber combat, hence 40 years later you had Jedi like Bastilla and Zez Kai El rockin saberstaffs 🤘🏻
Hail to Exar Kun, the Dark Lord of the Sith!
This is great it shows the Nadd and Exar Kun, but I wish it Marka Ragnos gaving both Exar Kun and Ulic Qel Droma their mark and making them Sith Lords, but Exar Kun was the master and Ulic his apprentice.
Sophia Wilson Yes,this was a great scene in the comics
Gnost-Dural (the narrator) speculates on Ragnos's motive at the end.
Darth Sidious
True.
Fire Nation Soldier I wish they made Ragnos the Sith Emperor. We see Ragnos commanding the Sith fleet at the same time that the Sith Emperor rose to power, Kreia said that the Sith Emperor left behind “breadcrumbs” and Kun became a Sith by following Ragnos’s trail, and Freedon Nadd says that Naga Sadow hated Ragnos and feared Kun’s coming and we see in another one of these videos that the Sith Emperor’s spies battled Sadow.
@@darthsidious8596 Dural had no idea that Ragnos baptized Kun and Ulic as Sith Lords. He thought they were simple Dark Jedi.
Crazy that it was Luke’s New Jedi order who finally defeated his spirit
luke barely survive and exar kun whooped their a##
Even still it's impressive that his order was able to pull it off.
@@Baldwin-iv445 And they say the ancient Sith are weaklings.
@@ChristianProtossDragoon Who said something like that? All that people say about the ancient sith is that they're completely overpowered. Which, let's be honest they kinda are.
@@ChristianProtossDragoon Sidious and Vader clap
Exar kun had the coolest outfit
The great sith war lasted only 1 year but he did a lot of damage. Krath a sith cult seized power in the empress teaa system and decided war on the republic and the Jedi. Though the Jedi were their primary target. Ulic Qel-Droma attacked Coruscant but he was abandoned by his lover Qel-Droma took revenge on her and ended her life. Then when he killed his brother his former lover Nomi sunrider cut his connection to the force
Would it have been hundreds of millions in deaths or just millions? I think Exar had weapons of mass destruction that were capable of wiping out entire galaxies like naga sadow's ship causing a super nova
not even, it seems more like a few weeks or months tops. just goes to show how dangerous Exar was…
@@brotftheyhaveusernamesnow It may seems so in the comics but later sources say that the war was a year long.
Fun Fact: One of the Jedi Masters under the influence of Lord Vivicar from the list of casualties if you pick the Dark Side option at the Chapter 1 Finale for the Jedi Consular is stationed in the Empress Teta system.
And Ulic was filled with remorse and would ultimately find redemption with his love Nomi forgiving him as he died in her arms, becoming one with the Force. As Vima said, he had the heart of a Jedi.
For Kun, his spirit was trapped on Yavin and thousands of years later, the New Jedi Order (with the help of Master Baas’s spirit) finished the job
i have a physics test tomorrow... at least im learning something
AzianHolla 4 years later..., did you pass it?
AzianHolla 7 years later did you pass it
@@Momy69420 No, but the next day he struke down his professor and the other younglings claiming it for his own good. I would know I was there
I’ve a lab to finish man and Im doing e same thing
Tell us bruhh
"Tales of the Jedi" anyone?
SolarDragon007 I'm reading those comics at the moment lol.
It's a classic!
Fantastic I just love them
I Executed and ordered you a 66th like!
Many Jedi and Sith, later on, could never understand the lvl of focus Exar had in using Niman in such a way, the only other Master of this style was Revan, but he did not make a double-bladed on handed saber,
My enemies will fall to my order.
" Exar Kun "
They say the Mandalorian Wars were the bloodiest, but from what I read about the Great Sith War (Exar Kun War), that seemed to have been far worse in scale.
The yuuzhaan vong war killed trillions
Most of the casualties in the Exar Kun War were mostly inflicted by Ulic Qel-Droma, and he mostly conquered rather than destroyed. They honestly hadn't progressed too far in their campaign before Ulic redeemed himself and Kun was defeated. The Mandolorian Wars, on the other hand, were allowed to rage unchecked by an indolent Jedi Order, for years before Revan lead his armies against them. And Revan was not above reflecting the brutality of the Mandolorians back on them. By all accounts the Mandolorian wars were horrible.
@@SonofSethoitae But in the exar kun war several solar systems were destroyed. Did something worse happen in the mandolorian war?
@@oliveragag8576 I assume you're referring to Aleema Keto and Crado destroying the Cron cluster. So far as I know they were uninhabited, though the shockwaves devastated Ossus.
The Mandolorian Wars had many instances like that. Aside from the Mass Shadow Generator at Malachor V, there was the Cathar genocide and the ravaging of Serroco, burning of Eris III, etc. The Mandolorian Wars were also quite a bit longer.
@@SonofSethoitae I'm pretty sure the explosion of a star system killed more people than those disasters.
I wish there were more of these.... GIVE US MORE!
The Sith spirits are probably motivated by a sense of ''even evil has standards''. They know the omnicidal goals of the Sith Emperor, and as such, they want nothing to do with his empire; they'd rather take rejects from the Jedi Order and personally anoint them as Sith, like the way they did to Exar Kun, instead of working with the larger Sith Empire that exists in deep space.
Vitiate was against the traditional sith ways
Such great story telling in star wars. I feel like it actually happened and is going on right now
"The fact that the spirits of the ancient Sith Lords supported Exar Kun suggests that they did not, and perhaps do not, support the Sith Emperor we face today." However, how does Gnost-Dural know that the amulet message was a middle finger to Vitiate and not simply a way of giving Kun the courage to launch the Great Sith War?
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????????? Explain
@@ChristianProtossDragoon The original commenter basically says that Gnost Dural is merely assuming that Exar Kun was supposed to be a rival of Vitiate, a third party to the Jedi/Republic and the True Sitb, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
@@JJRichardson_ Gnost Dural assumes that, just because Marka Ragnos and the Ancient Sith Spirits anointed Exar Kun as Dark Lord of the Sith, that they would be opposed to the Sith Emperor.
But the original poster mentions another possibility, that they, the Ancient Sith, simply wished for Exar Kun to confront the Republic, and they offered him their support to do so.
Whether this was to help Vitiate and his True Sith, or whether it was unrelated to the Reconstituted Sith Empire at all and the Ancient Sith simply took an opportunity to create a powerful Sith (Exar Kun) to destroy the Jedi, or because of some other reason. Who knows..
Watching this again in 2021, it came up in my recommendations. I was here years ago, this video is the first in my favorites list.
I wish they would have released that Nomi Sunrider novel that was cancelled. I find the cast of characters from this period just before Revan to be far more compelling than most of what came right afterward (though KotoR was a fantastic story).
3:47 Just got done reading the Sith war comics. This is one of the most tragic duels in all of Star Wars! Cutting his own flesh and blood down in hatred…
Exar Kun might become officially canon guys! Fingers crossed!
Urdnot Stark I hope that will happen, there just has to be a back story to star wars and anyway Exar Kun is far too interesting of a story to be so heavily underrated. I will love it to become true so much.
Didn't happen and thank the maker for that... gods known what Disney would have done to him
I'd rather have him remain Legends only, instead of Disney creating a slightly altered version of him, no offence to Disney. Best case scenario would be for D-Canon to make it's own interesting and compelling characters, rather than rip them from the previous continuity, whilst keeping Legends running alongside in a parallel universe. Disney are way too smart a company to neglect the money-making potential of new legends material, and are probably just waiting for when sales start to inevitably level. Patience my fellow EU lovers.
As of Solo: A Star Wars Story, he is! a Disney Canon visual dictionary namedrops him so he's in the canon now (yay?)
As of 2020, Kun is canon. He invented the first double bladed lightsaber.
Why have they never made the rest of the Timelines on the site? I loved them!
Lance Henriksen. From the bottom of my heart: Thank You. Thank you.
The video shiuld have contained the story of how Kun attacked coruscant to save Ulic, that's a real bro right there.
Exar Kun the only sith Lord with a BLUE lightsaber
okay this comment was posted in 2015 and yeah i forgot about vader
What about Ulic-Qel-Droma, Darth Vader and Palpatine (Dark Empire).
@@vitorkennedy1862 i guess they are a joke to him/her
@@vitorkennedy1862 Ulic's lightsaber was yellow (sometimes depicted as green in some artwork) I'm not sure why it's blue in this video.
Wrong.
It was a really powerful lightsaber, one capable of rending beskar even
Sounds like the story of Walt Disney; from what we know, his spirit remains in the Epcot Center to this day.
Just started this video and gotta say the narration is cool
Exar was the original Sith with a blue lightsaber..
The narrator sounds like the guy from monster quest
It's Lance Hendrickson from Aliens and Millennium.
It's Admiral Hackett from Mass Effect.
This loose end about the animosity between the deceased Sith Lords and Vitiate is wholly unexplored in the game proper. As a fan of the Sith, I can say that was rather disappointing...
Vitiate is definitely top tier sith
Up there with marka ragnos, exar kun, sidious and freedon nadd
Probably it Disney didn't can the EU It would've been more explored. I think we would've seen more of the original dark lords by now as well (as in the exiles Ajunta Pall, Sorzus Zyn, Xoxaan, Reymulus Dreypa and Karness Muur).
It's shame though that it got all swept away by Disney.
@@Blackdeathgaming-yv1kk Uhmmmm. No. SWTOR's entire existance up to this present day (and they are still releasing content updates, though the game is quickly being emptied by the parent company, but that's a story for a different topic) is completely independent of Disney. They've had a very long run to explore a lot of nuance about Sith and Jedi history, and have done very little in that regard. It seems the only ones that do exist are Revan and Vitiate, every other Sith Lord is only ever there to place one tomb and some limited mentions elsewhere. This has nothing to do with scrapping the EU, instead it has everything to do with plain old fan service. Revan gives money and assures a steady stream of subscriptions, let's make a whole expansion pack out of him. Exar Kun, the Sith Lord who actually felt unique and who burned brightly at a different time in the Star Wars content history? Nah, just make one character that makes reference to him and drop his name a couple times over the course of the entire questline on Yavin IV, Kun's headquarter planet.
@@moscanaveia mate, I'm not talking just about swtor. I'm talking about the fact that if Disney didn't can the EU we probably would've had stories about the first dark lords by now. It's been like 8 years since the cancellation of the EU and the original exiles/dark lords were still very unexplored. I absolutely loved getting to see Karness Muur in the kotor comics for example. But just before the cancellation of the EU we had the dawn of the jedi era starting to get explored with the first great schism in the Je'daii order also being a subject around that era. It would've been very natural that by now we would've seen the second great schism in novels or comics by now.
Exar is my favorite and we have very similar traits and personality
I'm sensing some parallels here:
Exar Kun- Jedi prodigy; doesn't listen to his elders; searches for power; falls to the dark side.
Anakin Skywalker: Jedi prodigy; doesn't listen to his elders; searches for power; falls to the dark side.
I thought Anakin = Exar Kun(Curiousity to exposed Jedi lies) + Ulic Qel Droma (feeling of lost his beloved persons)
Meanwhile Nomi Sunrider = Obiwan Kenobi
Master Arca, Master Thon and Master Vodo. Even the great Yoda cannot match their ancient skills, nor their valiant hearts...
There has never been a more opportune time to use that line.
It appears that Kun, or at least the name, has been re-canonized by Solo. The gangster from the movie has a piece of the Sith Temple of Exar Kun on his yacht.
I missed that. Has it been confirmed to have been Kun's?
@@moscanaveia Exar Kun is now absolutely canon. His name was mentioned in a SW RPG as the inventor of the Double Bladed Saber.
@@TheMrPeteChannel still do dictionaries even matter
blade I hope so.
@@TheMrPeteChannel doubt considering they're refrences from novels and visual dictionary that was supposed to appear in the film but happend non of those appeared do you even think that exar kun backstory will be expanded nope it will just be forgotten in the void another also that, it said it was a myth tale so likely he did not exist.
Jeez, does any powerful Jedi not turn to the dark side eventually? It seems as though for every awesome Jedi there are like five that go evil.
Wait, wasn't Ulic-Qel Droma the one who defeated the ancient Sith weapon known as the Dark Reaper?
Yes, when Dooku had rebuilt the Dark Reaper.
But I'm talking about when the Dark Reaper was originally used, during the Sith Wars. Wasn't Ulic-Qel Droma the one who originally defeated it (I believe this was before he ended up turning to the dark side)?
Reverse- -Fuhrer Perhaps it was before Ulic's desent into the Dark Side?
I'm going off of what the 2002 Star Wars Clone Wars video game said. So forgive me if it turns out what I'm saying is incorrect.
Ulic-Qel Droma did destroy the reaper. In order to make sure no one rebuilds it, he hid the remains of it in Raxus Prime. Dooku however manage to find it and rebuild it. Anakin found Ulic's holocron and told him how to destory it.
Why doesn't this timeline video mention Nomi Sunrider?
Because she was a Jedi. This was about the Sith of the time.
Saiyef96 plus most of the time she was overshadowed by ulic
What does Nomi have to do with the Sith Empire
Her name is owned by her creator. Every Time the names Nomi or Sunrider are used in a game,book,comic, whatever....her creator gets a royalty check. So she usually gets unmentioned.
@@FozzieFoskett with real life names it's different.
Freedon Nadd. Quite possibly the single most easily mocked name ever associated with the Sith. Maybe in all of Star Wars.
most skillful in lightsabre in star wars universe ( dual wield )
Imagine if ulik never betrayed kun... then they would have defeated the republic
Exar Kun had to fall to the dark side to complete his campaign of destruction,to show all warnings are relevant good video.
goodclean51
Anyway. Unlike Valkorion, Exar Kun was indeed a true Dark lord of the Sith, because he let his passion over dominance guide him. Valkorion was only interested in fuel his immortality on every livin thing on the galaxy, like the another failure Darth Nihilus.
The Emperor was The Dark Side of the Force incarnate. He was about as true a Dark Lord of the Sith as is possible and lived for millennia before and after Exar Kun. As much I like Exar, don't try and compare him Vitiate in his scope and power. I am a huge fan of how Exar tried to bring a Golden Age of the Sith and I wish Valkorion had cared enough to do the same
@@punishedvenomsnake716 The "Golden Age of the Sith" is defined as the Sith Empire as it was before the Great Hyperspace War. In many ways, Vitiate and his Empire symbolised the maintenance of that status.
Don't even start, Exar Kun was but an upstart and a Jen'jidai fledgling compared to Valkorion. 1500 years of the galaxy had been manipulated and steered by Vititate's many names identities and forms. Marka Ragnos himself gave the title of Darth to Tenebrae when he was but a teenager. ruling Nathema solely for many years, with Naga Sadow being responsible for destroying the Sith Empire for his short-sighted gain. the power vacuum and destabilization was great.
The Emperor ensured his own survival first and then that of the Empire by taking them to Dromund Kaas. as far away from known space as was possible.
The Golden Age was only possible when the Sith Empire had an already consolidated hold upon their empire's worlds and kept to themselves within their portion of space. Ragnos carefully and deliberately held back the Empire's reckless lust for expansionism and ruled for a century, outwitting and outmaneuvering his rivals every ploy and tactic. With Ragnos' death. Sadow pissed it all away.
the lesson in this is that for all the great work a single ruler can achieve his usurpers or heirs will make the mistake of getting lazy, fat, overconfident and overgrown of the idea that nothing can challenge their great work. when it was never theirs to begin with. it is why Valkorion also sought to be immortal as to ensure a greater stability and continuance of both govermental pattern and form. the Sith Empire became a self-destructive failed project prone to collapse from within. and the Republic is much the same. it is why he left them both to destroy eachother. and feast on the death that follows.
@@punishedvenomsnake716 exar kun is estates by the source to be more powerful than vitiate since it say he was the greatest threat in the galaxy 4000 years before the birth of luke Skywalker, even luke Skywalker in his prime say exar kun and emperor vitiate were the biggest focal point of the dark side
future raid content right there.
of course we would, The SIth take action, and wield ridiculous power. And come on, you don't have to be evil to turn to the dark side haha
With the fourth and Final season of Rebels taking us to the base on Yavin IV, I'm very hopeful that we'll have a storyline where they battle with the phantom of Exar Kun. It's just too perfect an opportunity to miss out on!
Not that I like the outcome of the final season of Rebels, but I am actually glad they didn't touch upon Kun. Would've been rather unsatisfying to have an arc, however short, focus on a character so outside the scope of the conflicts that were built upon.
Lol wonder if the Rebels who slept there heard noises from Exar Kun’s soul or those who were alone.
nah they did make exar kun a one dimensional generic watered down weak childish Saturday morning cartoon villain
Exar Kun is probably the greatest Sith Lord that ever accomplished and my most favorite Sith of all time. He was even able to force choke all 12 Luke's students. I even wrote how powerful was Exar Kun. I'd say I would place his command over the force and lightsaber combat the likes of Darth Krayt who would rival Darth Sidious and arguably GM Luke Skywalker (DE) who was close to DE Sidious raw strength, maybe even full power?
the luke Skywalker exar kun drained depleted spirit was able to defeat was 2 times more powerful than the luke Skywalker that faced emperor papaltine reborn, dark empire luke Skywalker was even more powerful than vader
No mention of Nomi Sunrider at all
The narrator sounds like General Shepard narrating MW2
Same Voice Actor (Lance Henriksen)
Man I wish exhar kun would get his own games, he bad ass
@Wilxarkun Castillo Nah if they can make op starkiller work I'm pretty sure they can make exar work as well up to his imprisonedment.
Exar kun is the uchiha madara from star wars
Lol
You mean the Brotherhood of Darkness, which was led by Skere Kaan, which Darth Bane destroyed by tricking them into using the thought bomb and then established the Rule of Two.
And why is Yavin 4 NOT in SWTOR?!?!? This was one of the best timeline videos they ever made. And then the dark times of EA.
Adam Chaney It is now!
They brought up the Brotherhood, which if my memory serves, is what Darth Bane helped destoyed by tricking the sith into selling all the followers away inside a crystal, and destroying what was left of the sith. Exar Kun was the leader of the Brotherhood. I read the books. Both are from the Old Republic era as well.
Hints that the present (ex?) Sith Emperor Vitiate is beyond the Sith itself!
No, it's probably a hint that the Sith spirits knew about his ritual that killed 8,000 Sith Lords and they consider him a n opportunist, a coward and a traitor to the Sith Empire.
Turns out when you're dead in Star Wars you get around
Nope. Just that the ancient Sith didn't like how Vitiate planned to kill every life in the universe.
Vitiate's character did a 180 in KOTFE. Disapointing expansion that is.
+AJ Rice Vitiate probably killed the families of the spirits.
DarkLordofTech Doubt it. For example Vitiate's apprentice was Ludo Kressh's descendant.
Bastila turned only for a little while
Luke falls. He comes back, but he falls.
And in less time than his father.
I wish they mentioned him in RogueOne since his spirits still lurks in Naga Sadows Temples,
@Exar kun The dark side cosmic entity thats right
Kathleen Kennedy and David filoni will just make him another poorly generic sith lord
exar kun was most powerfull sith yea i know some guys may... say omg a u lame he wsn't sith:) but he was :) exar kun is the second sith lord
Whoever blabbers about Kun not being Sith doesn't know what they're talking about.
The Jedi Order is harder to be a part of, especially since they are incredibly restrictive, the only survive because they are incredibly powerful and typically are sponsored by the most powerful republic or democracy in the galaxy.The Sith order however PREFERS the dark side,but there are a hand full of a light side sith,while not outright shunned because they are light side, but because they represent a political threat and status quo threat.Whereas the dark side in the jedi IS looked down upon
we could have had a movie with this guy or mara jade or thrawn, but we got Rose Tico instead maybe we should be happy with what we have
You're right, there are better stories that could of been made into movies. Instead we got that piece of trash The Last Jedi.
Revan and Malak have fallen to Dark Side because they got corrupted by a conflict which they joined to protect innocent against genocidal Mandalorian warmongers.
Exar Kun became a Sith because he was always an arrogant jerk, even before his fall to Dark Side.
exar kun always wanted to become the most powerful he could be and a god he was always mean to be a sith lord, he was the papaltine of the old republic
There is no passion, there is serenity...
There is no chaos, there is harmony
peace is a lie there's only passion
i love that instance on SWG
This is true Tales of the Jedi! Not some Filoni Disney garbage. The ruin of Star Wars began with Filoni
I didn’t expect to hear General Shepherd on a Star Wars video.
Uploading this to UA-cam took a little bit... longer. :D Love the video logs.
Old Republic > High Republic
Completely unrelated
Although yeah i agree
Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith (1994)
Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War (1995)
still got my copies of those comics. Damn they are getting old :D
The Darkside is the best. If the force was real, I'd be a Sith, no question.
Lol
The Middle Side
I'll just be a Grey Jedi.
You better have several clone bodies ready. That shit will eat up your body's health real fast.
@@HolyknightVader999 I stand by my answer from 8 years ago.
I'd still be Sith.
Exar kun is a truly powerful sith.
Swtor is going back to ossus! =D
i think his spirit was killed by one of lukes apprentice
+White Jadu That's right. I believe it was Corran Horn in "I, Jedi". Luke converts the Massassi Temple on Yavin 4 into the New Jedi Academy and the spirit of Kun awakens and begins tempting Luke's initiates to the Dark Side, leading to the novel's climax where Kun's spirit is damped or snuffed out in some way (haven't read it in a long time).
+Sebastian Porter No, it was the trilogy consisting of Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice, and Champions of the Force.
It wasn't just one of Luke's apprentices that did that. It was many of Luke's padawan/apprentices including young Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo, and Luke's spirit and Exar kun's old master's spirit.
Mr33500 Luke's "Apprentice" was Kyp Durron, a major character in the EU. Jaina and Jacen were only 3 or 4 years old at the time.
It was all the students at the Jedi praxeum
yea this dude was a fuckin gangster
I thought that the mandalorian wars were after this one...
i need your help. i'm trying to find the old republic timeline 13-24 if it exists. what say you?
Thats because they get so powerful they seek more, or they reject the Jedi Code for their personal interest. No matter how you look at it though everything in Star Wars could have been peaceful if the Jedi would just have followed the code...
Yeah almost 1 jedi per era , so 99% doesnt join the sith.
@Resondin u forgot Sith spit
Anyone know the song at 2 minutes in?
isnt his hilt shorter. He had a double-bladed but the hit was single bladed. he wielded his double bladed lightsaber as a single blade.
kyp dyrron got to dark side but back again
Are these timeline videos in the official canon?
Nope is Legends
@@harloxzz1990
This is the EU, keep your garbage Disney “legends” label to yourself.
In Legends, which under the name "Expanded Universe" was the official canon from 1976 to 2014.
Hail Exar Kun
*Nomi Sunrider?*
they can, its just really limited
...He wasn't born yet. He wouldn't be born for another 1.9 thousand years
11 years ago wow
Hate to break it to you, but for a time even Luke succumbs to the Dark Side, becoming apprentice to the reborn Darth Sidious. Until Leia redeems him ;) That's the point though, many powerful Jedi do fall, but just as many are redeemed and inevitably are instrumental in overcoming the Sith of that time period. Ulic Qel'Droma, Revan, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker... the list goes on and on
False. Luke was undercover. He did not fall.
Moar timelines!!
I always felt that this would make a great TV series, too bad that's never going to happen.
woke Lucasfilm will ruin it
Hey its Admiral Hackett
@canadianspwn11
It wasn't cheesy at all.
Do you even understand what cheesy is?
Thetes to siths a species and an order ths species were the original users of the darkside
Admiral Hackett?
EU > Disney
voice over was kind of cheesy, but I do enjoy learning about the new additions to the timeline
I had a theory that Exar Kun remains was the thing we call Snoke. Just like the young Solo he search for power beyond his experiaces, because the Sith was extinct (officially). Exar Kun was Luke's most fearsome enemy after Darth Vader abd Sidious. They had to tell the stories of the New Jedi and the creation of the First Order.
@Wilxarkun Castillo I forget about that detail.
Rian Johnson : SIKE
Darth Vader was nothing more than a punk in comparison to Exar Kun
This story is missing a key figure... Darth Bane! He helped the Jedi destroy the Brotherhood of the Sith, and destroyed the Sith to become the first person to enforce the rule of two. >.
HellKaiser666 darth bane came after all this
from what I read, Exar Kun barely had much influence on the Mandalorian Wars.
Exar Kun was imprisoned after Revan and Malak appeared.
Reverse- -Fuhrer
no he didn't.
Reverse- -Fuhrer
It's a comic book character, not a belief in Jesus; lighten up you freak.
Reverse- -Fuhrer
his influence was starting the Mandalorian Wars, other than that his lasting impact was as a boogey man for young Jedi by Revans time.
Reverse- -Fuhrer
well yeah, he's even mentioned in the Star Wars novels, doesn't mean he had any influence on the trilogies.
One of my favorite things about Ecar Kun is how no one was shocked that he fell to the dark side. He was an asshole.
A asshole because he wanted to be the most powerful?
@@alsimmonshellspawn6021 Yeah