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This article is about a Sith Lord during the Old Republic Era. You may be looking for a Sith during the Legacy era, Darth Ruyn.

Darth Ruin

Biographical information
Born	Before 2,000 BBY^[1]
Physical description
Species	Umbaran (Possibly)^[1]
Gender	Male^[1]
Hair color	None^[1]
Eye color	Yellow^[1]
Skin color	Pale blue^[1]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Old Republic era^[1]
Affiliation	Jedi Order (as Phanius)^[1] Galactic Republic (as Phanius)^[1] New Sith Empire (as Ruin)^[1]

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"There is no passion…there is solely obsession.
There is no knowledge. There is solely conviction.
There is no purpose. There is solely will.
There is nothing…
Only me."

―The creed of Ruin^[src]

Darth Ruin, born as Phanius^[1], was an Umbaran Jedi Master who left the Jedi Order and then became a Dark Lord of the Sith who lived over two millennia before the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY.

1 Biography
- 1.1 New Sith War
- 1.2 Legacy
2 Behind the scenes
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 External links
6 Notes and references
- 6.1 In other languages

BiographyEdit

New Sith WarEdit

An intelligent and charismatic renegade Jedi Master, Phanius was known for the disturbing tone of his philosophy, which included elements of moral relativism and solipsism, similar in certain aspects to the much later Potentium sect.

Phanius abandoned his oath and left the Order to pursue prohibited teachings, becoming one of the first of what would eventually become known as the Lost Twenty. He secretly united the numerous Sith clans, possibly left over from the Old Sith Wars or Emperor Vitiate's Sith Empire, and founded a new Sith Empire. In an event known as the Fourth Great Schism, fifty Jedi Knights soon followed him and pledged themselves to him, his new Sith Order and to the dark side of the Force.

The newly rechristened Darth Ruin and his followers initiated the New Sith Wars against the Jedi and the Galactic Republic, but Ruin's Sith Order quickly disintegrated. Ruin's single-mindedness and ambitions led to hatred and betrayal by his followers, who later killed him.

LegacyEdit

In 40 ABY after the formation of the New Jedi Order, information about Darth Ruin was found and compiled by Chief Librarian Tionne Solusar. Bodo Baas' spirit shed little light on the history of Ruin.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

"Ruin is the definition of pure evil, as I conceive of him and it. I'd say he is in the Darth Traya mold, only Ruin broke the mold and then murdered the mold-maker."

―Abel G. Peña^[src]

The character of Darth Ruin was created by George Lucas as part of the backstory for the prequel trilogy. In Lucas's notes, Ruin is an unnamed Jedi Knight who fell to the dark side with fifty followers 2,000 years prior to the film saga, founding the Sith. Since the Sith have been well established in other C-canon works for thousands of years, this "foundation" was degraded to be only a schism, after three previous ones. All other information on him was created by Abel G. Peña.

According to Peña, due to the Jedi placing Phanius in the Lost Twenty, they probably did not know his identity of Darth Ruin. When naming him, Peña also considered the names Reaper, Fatalis, Necro, Mortalis, Eradicus, Execute, and Solipsis. He also considered giving him a number of "Sithly" professions such as necromancer, sorcerer, warlock, and archmage.