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 @arthur_affect and
Well the weird thing is Avellone said his intent with the True Sith was for them to actually be a *pre-Jedi* schism in the Sith, an empire from before the Dark Jedi came and took over. Which was backed up by the official EU timeline which had a Sith Emperor before the Republic.
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and
I've always preferred the idea that the Sith came first, that the Republic started with a Rebellion the first time, etc. bc everything is cyclical
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Interestingly new canon might back that up? I don't know how old the *Old* Republic (not to be confused with the Prequel Republic) was before it fell but apparently the Jedi were only 5000 years old according to The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary. Obi-Wan was just big on hyperbole.
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Both the word and the concept "Jedi" are probably a lot older than what we now know as the Jedi, and the two probably have different histories I really liked the subtle worldbuilding in Rogue One, the Holy City of Jedha implying that "Jedi" was originally an ethnonym ("Jedhai")
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