Dathka Graush
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- "It is done. I am free."
- ―Dathka Graush[src]
Dathka Graush was a Sith King[2] who lived about seven millennia before the Battle of Yavin.
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[edit] Biography
Graush was entombed on Korriban roughly fifty years after he had won one of the planet's periodic civil wars and established a dynasty that ruled over two-thirds of the planet. While he was alive he had his heart removed and replaced with a Force-sensitive crystal. He also was in the possession of a helm which strengthened his command of the Force. Through Sith Alchemy, he created an army of servants out of dead bodies, Korriban zombies, that helped him establish his rule, which ended with his death.
Like most Sith of the period, his spirit was imprisoned in his tomb on Korriban along with his Sith sword, a holocron, and a Sith amulet. Exactly six months before the destruction of the first Death Star, pirate captain Naz Felyood crashed his ship, Jynni's Virtue, on Korriban. His ship logs indicated that Dathka's spirit was still around.
At some point, the former Emperor's Hand known as Lord Cronal found Graush's spirit, using knowledge from the Temple of Korman Lao to call upon it. From Graush, Cronal acquired knowledge that he used to construct the Shadow Crown.[2]
[edit] Behind the scenes
There is some degree of ambiguity present in the Wizards of the Coast article. It states that Graush was a "pure blooded Dark Lord" and that his death was 7,000 BBY. This seems impossible, due to the Hundred Year Darkness having recently begun at this point, with the Sith Empire not even having yet been founded. Since it is already established that Ajunta Pall was possibly the first Dark Lord of the Sith, Dathka may have become the Dark Lord immediately afterward.
It is also possible, and perhaps more likely, that Dathka was a Sith Lord when the Dark Jedi arrived on Korriban—as we know, during the warring era of the native Sith, after the arrival of Ajunta Pall and the others their Sith ruler was slain by the Dark Jedi. This would make sense, as Dathka is said to have ultimately been assassinated and his approximate death date fits in with the time of the Dark Jedi arrival on Ziost. The fact that Graush is buried in the Valley of Golg, rather than the Valley of the Dark Lords like all the later rulers of the Sith Empire, would seem to support this theory, as well as his "pure Sith" ethnicity - unlike the baseline humans that comprised the early Dark Lords of the Sith Empire. The mention of Graush as a Sith King in Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor strengthens this theory.
His name was misspelled "Grausch" in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 29: Exalted, Part 1.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 29: Exalted, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (Mentioned only)
[edit] Sources
Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls on Wizards.com (article) (First mentioned)
- The Essential Atlas
