Horizon - The Dread Council

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The Dread Council
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Team information
Team Members:	Darth Pravus Darth Vexatus Raken Xia Long Valhavoc
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The Dread Council was an affiliation of powerful dark siders founded circa 30 ABY. Displeased with the Dark Brotherhood's direction and lack of progress, its members—both within the Brotherhood and without—implemented a series of plans in order to ensure the organization's survival.

At the onset of the Horizon plague the Dread Council were summoned to the ruins of a Sith Academy on Odacer-Faustin by Darth Pravus. The plague would provide the chaos necessary to begin executing the Dread Council's plans to eliminate the Dark Council and wrest control of the Brotherhood from its current leadership.

Dread Council Members

Darth Pravus

The enigmatic leader of the Dread Council and former apprentice to Grand Master Sarin, Darth Pravus recruited disenchanted members of the Dark Brotherhood's elite to form an antithesis to the Dark Council. In 36 ABY the final pieces of the Dread Council were formed with a Prophet to guide their way, a General to lead their armies, a Warrior to battle their foes, and a Spy to sow dissent. Conducting an ancient coronation on Odacer-Faustin, Darth Pravus ushered in a new era within the Dark Brotherhood.

Darth Pravus arrives on Odacer-Faustin

Troutrooper

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Raken

Following the sudden death of Grand Master Sarin at the conclusion of the Ninth Great Jedi War, and the rise of Muz Ashen to take his place, Raken saw the immediate need to establish a shadow council that would ensure his own vision for the Dark Brotherhood would continue. Upon Raken's exposure to the teachings of the One Sith after the fall of House Revan, it became clear to him that the Brotherhood need not be saved.

Rather, Raken's confidence in the rise of the One Sith as the next and true coming of the Sith religion, convinced him the Brotherhood was too fractured and weak to play a role in the coming shift in the balance of galactic power. Thus, while most who count themselves amongst the Dread Council's number believe they are working to save the Dark Brotherhood, Raken works to move the Council's efforts to destroy it.

Maxamillian von Oberst-Tarentae

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Legorii Kryotek Entar

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Magistrate to the Dread Council

Valhavoc

Valhavoc at the Shadow Academy prior to the onset of the Plague

Prior to the Horizon event occurring Valhavoc was sent by Darth Pravus to the Shadow Academy to gain intelligence on the Headmaster. When Valhavoc arrived he assumed the guise of studying to earn a Dark Maven in Combat. The outbreak of Thren's Horizon Plague occurred partway through his studies, as a Journeyman Valhavoc was one of the first to become infected with the illness, suffering hallucinations and flashbacks to previous events in his life as it progressed. Due to the lockdown on the Academy ordered by the Headmaster, Ronovi Tavisaen, Valhavoc was unaware that a fleet of starships, led by former Grand Master Zoraan, was attacking the Brotherhood as a whole.

Once the group of Dark Jedi in the Shadow Academy came to this realization Valhavoc made his way off of Lyspair and sought out Darth Pravus who conducted several experiments on the Knight. Pravus sought to isolate the virus so that he could maintain a sample for future use in the Dread Council's plans. Potentially engineering it to affect only specific individuals or races.

Valhavoc then returned to his mission observing the Headmaster at the Shadow Academy, again assuming the cover of studying towards a Dark Maven degree.