IIRC it's in the novelization of the original SW, the one he actually wrote, which I had as a kid. It's in a short prologue page that sets the stage (also indicates he was a weak politician influenced by corrupt advisors, so definitely before he hashed the mastermind stuff out)
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @arthur_affect and
Yeah was gonna say I grew up in the 80s and 90s knowing the Emperor's name was Palpatine long before the prequels but that was because I was an ubernerd
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Replying to @roryleahy @arthur_affect and
I don't remember there being anything about the EMPEROR being a Sith Lord until the prequel movies though, even once I knew that Vader was. There was no rule of two pre-1999. The emperor was an evil force user who corrupted Vader; Vader was the Sith lord
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @roryleahy and
The whole Darth-as-title thing didn't exist until the prequels either as far as I can recall
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @roryleahy and
It did not. It was this big thing when the marketing unveiled the Darth Maul toys and we were like HOLY SHT
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Sarcasmorator and
This did necessitate some furious retconning of why all the ancient Sith Lords established in the EU (Freedon Nadd, Exar Kun, Marka Ragnos) did not have "Darth" names
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
Isn't it supposed to be something invented by the Sith Empire, as opposed to Korriban-native Sith who had lost the way, and yes, brought back by Revan/Malak?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
(For the non-KOTOR/SWTOR players: the Old Republic era was based on comics originally, nobody was a Darth and the Sith were from Korriban, which is still a canon place. Turned out there was a Sith Empire located basically where Exogol is in current canon, who used Darth)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
But that - the Sith Empire - was a prequel-era retcon by Bioware specifically to explain the change in the ancient Sith.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Sarcasmorator and
That version of the Sith Empire is a post-KotOR thing, when KotOR first came out it implied the Darth names were straight up invented by Revan, and had the connotation of being names he and Malak took when they abandoned their old identities
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(Which was retconned both with him having been "Revan" before his fall and with the Sith Empire in the Unknown Regions having apparently done the Darth thing long before him)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
Which was mostly a conceit to explain how you could have an MMO character and pick your name even though you were going to become a Darth
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