Freedon Nadd was an ancientOld Sith Empire. 1n335f
Biography
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| Freedon Nadd as seen in Vodo Siosk Baas’s Holocron |
Ambitious Jedi
Freedon Nadd was a Jedi student trained at the Jedi Temple on Ossus around 4,400 BBY. He was amazingly open and willing to touch the Force, which may have inevitably led him down the dark path. While strong in the Force, he failed his first true test, when he was told by the Jedi Masters at Ossus that he would not receive his promotion to become a Jedi Knight.
Enraged with the Masters’ decision, Freedon Nadd reached out to his anger and struck down Jedi Master Matta Tremayne in a King Adas.
Sith career and King of Onderon
From this point, Nadd journeyed deeper into the old Empire, and eventually came to the jungle moon of Yavin 4, where he came across the ancient Dark Lord, Naga Sadow, and sought to complete his training under his tutelage. Before the completion of his training, however, Nadd felt he was strong enough to conquer and claim the Sith throne as his own. He murdered Naga Sadow and left Yavin 4.
After collecting many dark side grew on Onderon as Nadd’s bloodlines were extended during his stay.
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| The remains of Freedon Nadd. |
Onderon was not cleansed with the death of Freedon Nadd, because physical death could not claim him. Nadd’s descendants often summoned his spirit in order to study the power of the dark side and the magic of the Sith. Thus time could not put Nadd’s dark side as well.
Nadd’s ultimate goal was to physically resurrect himself. By teaching his descendants well, Nadd hoped to find a powerful candidate to study Sith Alchemy and create a body to hold his spirit. To ensure Ommin or Amanoa would be powerful enough, Nadd made them to compete with each other.
Eventually, as Ommin lost the ability to control his body, Nadd realized that the couple had failed him: Ommin himself would never be strong enough to fulfill Nadd’s dream, while Amanoa would not further her study once her husband failed to compete with her anymore. Indeed, Queen Amanoa assumed the daily duties as the ruler of Onderon and abandoned her dark side study. Freedon Nadd told the woman she would be destroyed if she allowed the Beast Wars to fully erupt, hoping to con the Queen back to studying.
The Freedon Nadd Uprising
However, the Queen completely misunderstood Nadd. As a desperate measure of survival, Amanoa asked for the help of the Jedi. When negotiation failed, Queen Amanoa called upon the power of Freedon Nadd during her confrontation against a Jedi team led by dark power aided the Iziz defense forces against the intruding Beast Riders.
Battle meditation technique to turn the tide of battle. Eventually Arca drove the darkness away from Amanoa, and prepared to move the sarcophagi of Nadd and Amanoa to Dxun.
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| Nadd’s spirit guides Satal Keto and Aleema to safety. |
However, Freedon Nadd’s revenge had just begun. King Ommin mustered a group of Warb Null, stealing the sarcophagi of Nadd and Amanoa from the Jedi. In order to recover the sarcophagi, Master Arca visited King Ommin, but Nadd’s spirit appeared to confront the Jedi. With the help of Nadd’s dark power, Ommin defeated Arca and kidnapped him.
Retreating to his stronghold, King Ommin attempted to corrupt Arca to the Dark Lord saw potential in the Ketos, giving them not only the book and the amulet, but also a pair of Sith swords. After guiding the young initiates to safety, Nadd’s spirit confronted the Jedi and the dying Ommin. Nadd personally terminated the King and declared the defeat of the Jedi, but Master Arca called upon the light to drive Nadd’s spirit away.
At long Dark Lord was far from defeated.
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| Freedon Nadd foretelling the destiny of Ulic Qel-Droma. |
Corrupting Exar Kun
Although his spirit was trapped in the new tomb on Dxun, he could still appear if a Sith amulet was activated. young Jedi would be one of the great Sith, but there would be another who would become even greater than Ulic.
Soon, another ambitious Korriban.
On Korriban, Nadd’s spirit approached Exar and tricked him to trap himself. Nadd claimed to the injured Kun that only the dark side of the Force could save him. Refusing to the dark side influence. Freedon Nadd detected Vodo’s interference, and in a masterful display of his dark power, Nadd attacked Vodo from light years away. Vodo suffered no injury, but was not able to help his apprentice anymore.
Receiving no help from his Master, Exar pledged himself to the dark side, and was healed by Nadd’s dark power. Nadd then led Exar to the resting place of the ancient Dark Lords, unleashing guardian beasts to attack Kun while Nadd himself took away Kun’s lightsaber. In order to survive, Exar Kun called upon the power of anger and slaughtered the beasts, thus gaining the approval of the ancient Sith spirits in the tomb.
The end of Freedon Nadd
Lord of the Sith and King of Onderon, was finally destroyed.
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| The tomb of Freedon Nadd during the Onderon Civil War. |
Legacy of the Dark Lord
Approximately fifty years later, during the Onderon Civil War in 3,951 BBY, Nadd’s tomb on Dxun was occupied by killed a group of Dark Jedi and Sith Lords, who were performing a ritual in an attempt to siphon the tomb’s dark side powers, and very possibly to resurrect Nadd’s ancient spirit. The expedition scavenged through his sarcophagus and took several of his belongings, including his shoto.
Freedon Nadd’s legacy proved to be his biggest contribution to the dark side: a role in the formation of the powerful Order of the Sith Lords which would one day triumph over the Jedi and rule the Galaxy
Interesting Stuff
Freedon Nadd used a short lightsaber, which could be found as an usable item in Blaster,” a vile ranged weapon with a bronze surface which “has killed more Jedi than any lightsaber.””
