When Marr attempted to assassinate Surik, the exiled Jedi defeated her and convinced her to turn to the light side of the Force in the process. That presence was a female exiled from the Jedi Order, Meetra Surik, who was on a quest to find the few Jedi Masters who had survived the Purge with the aide of Darth Traya, who had put away her Sith trappings and identified herself once more as Kreia. One year later, Nihilus sensed a growing presence in the Force and sent Marr out to eliminate it. Marr was collected from the surface and Nihilus began to train her as his Shadow Hand. Nihilus was responsible for the devastation of the planet Katarr in 3952 BBY, killing and absorbing the Force energy of the Jedi at the Conclave on Katarr along with every other living thing on the world save one Miraluka woman named Visas Marr.

He and Sion then began a Jedi purge, causing the virtual extinction of the Jedi Order.

Nihilus' affliction developed to the point where the Dark Lord was forced to call upon the dark side of the Force to encase his spirit within his mask and armor to stay alive. The two Sith then combined power to sever her connection to the Force and sent her into exile. Sion defeated Traya, while Nihilus sapped her energy. The apprentices grew in strength throughout their training and eventually overpowered their Master.

The trio chose individual titles for themselves, Darth Nihilus becoming the Lord of Hunger. Together, they formed a triumvirate with Darth Traya at its head and her other apprentice, Darth Sion, as the third member. He accepted her offer of apprenticeship at the Trayus Academy on Malachor V, where he, over time, became one of three concurrent Dark Lords of the Sith. He was found by a seeker of these, the former Jedi Kreia, who became the Sith Lord Darth Traya and told him that she could teach him to feed his endless hunger. The affliction painfully ravaged his body while rendering him a wound in the Force. Experiencing the shadow that obliterated almost everything on and around the planet made Nihilus crave Force energy. He survived the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator superweapon during the war's final battle at the planet of Malachor V, which surrounded the planet with a destructive spatial phenomenon known as a mass shadow. Before becoming a Sith Lord, he lost everything during the Galactic Republic's war against the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. ' He is a wound in the Force, more presence than flesh, and in his wake life dies… sacrificing itself to his hunger.' ―Visas Marr - Listen ( file info) ĭarth Nihilus (pronounced / ˈnaɪ.e.lɨs/) was a Human male who reigned as a Dark Lord of the Sith during the era of strife following the Jedi Civil War.

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