Jedgar Octavius Paladin

Lord Jedgar Octavius Paladin served as the second Grand Master of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. His reign was a period of growth, and saw the creation of the Dark Council and the Shadow Academy, among other things. Following his retirement, he served as the Brotherhood's first Justicar, and was adviser to Grand Masters including Jac Cotelin and Justinian Khyron. He is a holder of the Golden Lightsaber and a member of the Star Chamber.

Character History

Early Life

Born on Corellia in the waning years of the Old Republic to the Hereditary Duke of V'Armonde, nominal ruler of a distant and sparsely-populated moon orbiting a hardscrabble Outer Rim colony, predominantly involved in the export of luxury animal skins, Paladin was a child of privilege and wealth. He raced aircars and engaged in the life of a young dilettante until the death of his mother in his fifteenth year. Sobered, and to an extent embittered by her death, he joined the small Republic Navy just as the Clone Wars began.

Naval Career

Post-Battle of Yavin

After the smoldering ashes of the Empire cooled, only a dozen or so Dark Jedi of the Circle of Adepts were still alive, scattered across the Imperial Remnant. Our only knowledge of the seven years between the Battle of Endor, and the death of the Reborn Emperor at Byss come from the journals of Kane Vader. As the first Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Dark Jedi, Kane Vader realized the weakness of his position. Luke Skywalker soon established his own school of the Jedi arts on Yavin. The infant Brotherhood faced extinction under the waves of new Jedi.

Kane Vader sought out refuge with one of the rogue Imperial factions, and a fringe element called the Warriors Guild. Dissatisfied with his place, Vader dispatched his apprentice, Master Jedgar Octavius Paladin to a nascent imperial faction on the Outer Rim, commanded by the newly promoted Grand Admiral Stefan Ronin, called the Emperor’s Hammer. The Grand Admiral recognized this boon, and offered the Jedi succor in his territories, augmenting his forces with the skilled Dark Jedi. Vader, used to ruling the Brotherhood in secret, left for parts unknown, appointing his apprentice as his successor.

Dark Brotherhood

Paladin became one of the most dynamic and influential Jedi of the Brotherhood. Two of the ancient Orders, the scholarly Krath, and the pilots of the ferocious Sith dominated. Flying missions with the Imperial fleet, they slowly pushed their reach beyond the borders of their system and the dark moon of Eos. Paladin established the Dark Council as the ruling body of the Brotherhood, his circle of advisors and administrators of the rapidly expanding organization. He inducted over a hundred new Apprentices, teaching them the ways of the Dark Side after establishing the Shadow Academy, the first school of the Dark Side in over five thousand years. As all things do, time passes. Paladin, satisfied with what the Brotherhood had achieved under his rule, departed to find his Master, and pursue his own arcane knowledge, leaving the position of Grand Master to his capable apprentice, Kreeyat Havok.

DJB Facts

Positions Held

• Grand Master
• Justicar

Outstanding Achievements

Lord Paladin was one of the founding fathers of the Brotherhood, and established many of the institutions that currently govern the Brethren. He established the Dark Council, the Shadow Academy and the Society of Envoys. The first Dark Side Compendium was written during his reign. He solidified the hold of the Iron Throne over its first homeworld, on the moon of Eos, and oversaw the beginnings of the Dark Hall. He inducted over a hundred apprentices into the Dark Brotherhood, and several of his former apprentices rose to become Grand Master in their own right.

Titles

• Duke of V'Armonde
• Grand Master Emeritus
• Lord of the Sith

Trivia

Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.