Xendor Respect Thread

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XENDOR, THE FIRST DARK JEDI

Xendor was the leader of the Legions of Lettow, the dark side force users who started the First Great Schism

RETCON OF THE 1ST AND 2ND SCHISM'S

Now despite the 2nd Schism being the one which lead to the exiles being canon now, this wasn't always the case.
The Emperors pawns end notes mentions that Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith #0 is the first appearance of the First Great Schism, but that same issue calls this Schism the ones were they go to korriban and dominate the sith. This was then later retconned into being 2 separate schisms, which means that before this retcon (which was established in 2005 in the The New Essential Chronology) that the exiles were members of the Legions of Lettow before the split. But seeming as all the sources pre 2005 about the First Great Schism were fitting into TOTJ, i think taking those sources is still applicable to certain degrees.

placement of both characters as major agitators in the First Great Schism is new, though the conflict itself was first mentioned in the comic Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith #0 (1996, Dark Horse Comics).

DUELING/COMBAT/KNOWLEDGE

Xendor is likely a master of Jar'Kai

Royale Macheteros, the royal guard of the Kashi Mer monarchy, was their implementation of a two-bladed dueling technique, but the Dark Underlord is also said to favor such a fighting style. Again, dog pile those facts and it isn’t unlikely that Xendor was once one of the Kashi Mer Dynasty’s elite protectors before his banishment and war against the Jedi.

A similar style was practiced by the Royale Macheteros, the elite guard of the Kashi Mer monarchy. When the technique was then co-opted by soldiers of the Legions of Lettow, they called the style Niman after the dual triumvirate of Kashi gods.

Xendor knows teras kasi and can combine it with the dark side

He had been a Jedi Knight, but was exiled from his homeworld after he began use teras kasi martial arts for evil by combining them with the dark side of the force

Xendor found new places in the galaxy in his quest for knowledge

I fled into the tangled stars beyond Kitel Phard, following secret ways Xendor had discovered

Xendor found new ways to use the force

They experimented with news to use the Force

Xendor studied the arts of the Dai Bendu, the Palawa and the Kashi Mer, the Bogan and the Kel Dor sages, the Way of the Dark and the Protectorate of the Hidden

At the beginning the break was peaceful. Xendor sought the hierarchs’ permission to create an academy for the study of Force traditions—to tap the knowledge of the Chatos Academy and the Dai Bendu, the Palawa and the Kashi Mer, the Bogan and the Kel Dor sages, the Way of the Dark and the Protectorate of the Hidden. When they said no, as he’d known they would, he left the Order to found his own academy on Lettow. I accompanied him, and others followed—first by ones and twos, then in larger groups.

Xendor went to mortis and learnt the ways of the ones to such a degree that he developed a vibroblade combat style from the ones

Xendor told me he once journeyed to a dead world where the Force was worshipped as a triad of divine beings. The Daughter was the Light Side. The Son was the Dark Side. And the Father? The Father was the Force itself, perhaps. Xendor said he spoke with these beings, and I asked eagerly what he had discovered. He laughed at me, and dismissed the question.

“Even now, you refuse to understand,” he told me. “There are as many truths to the Force as there are hearts within which the Force manifests itself. The existence of the triad has no more bearing on the reality of the Force than the Ashla and the Bogan, or anything I tell you, or anything you tell others. Any philosophy, creed, or religion that opens the heart to the Force proves itself to be true. My legions follow the dictates of such a creed. But that is only a demonstration of the application of power, Arden. It says nothing about the rightness of our beliefs, or the universality of our faith.”

This is even more impressive when you consider that the only way to get to mortis is to be guided to it, as brute forcing the way to mortis is nearly impossible. Which means that the ones themselves sent Xendor to them (and this was accounted for when writing this scene for the essential guide to warfare, as the endnotes specifically mentioned apocalypse where this idea mainly comes from)

"Not by that name," Luke replied. "But when Yoda was training me in the swamps of Dagobah, he told me about a strange mission that Obi-Wan and my father had undertaken during the Clone Wars. Apparently, they were drawn to a free-floating artifact called the Mortis monolith and transported to a world very much like the one depicted in the Histories of Thuruht."

"I found confirmation in a report from Obi-Wan," Luke said. "It was just as Yoda told me. Obi-Wan seemed to think that he and Anakin had been drawn to Mortis because the Father was dying and wanted Anakin Skywalker to take his place as the Keeper of the Balance."

Master Skywalker, I hope you'll forgive me for asking," Dorvan said. "But when you described the story Yoda told you, didn't you say the monolith was free-floating?"

"That's right."

"Won't that make it rather difficult to find?" Dorvan asked. "Even if you know the approximate coordinates-"

"And we don't," Luke interrupted.

A mysterious force draws Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka to a distant planet, and its inhabitants -- a family of exceptionally powerful Force-wielders -- in an attempt to determine whether Anakin is truly the Chosen One.

The War of the Jedi and the Legions of Lettow: It was fun to introduce some other ancient Force-using traditions, and to imagine Xendor encountering the Ones from the Clone Wars series. (Troy Denning has made great use of them in Apocalypse.)

GENERAL ACCOLADES

Directly superior to Arden Lyn due to her being his right hand and taking over the Legions of Lettow following his death

They include the resurrected leader of the Legions of Lettow (following Xendor’s death), Arden Lyn

One of the Followers of Palawa and a master of teräs käsi was Arden Lyn, the lover of the commander of the Legions of Lettow, General Xendor. After Xendor’s death, Arden Lyn briefly assumed leadership of the Legions of Lettow until she dueled with the Jedi Master Awdrysta Pina.

They formed armies against us, and so we had to do the same. Xendor, to his dismay, became our general. I served as his right hand

Xendor died in battle on Columus, and leadership of the Legions fell to Palawan adept Arden Lyn.

Without Xendor, the entire Legions of Lettow fall apart and flee

Then they came to Lettow to kill the rest of us. I knew there was no hope of victory, only of escape. And so we held Pina’s armies off just long enough to seek refuge beyond the Republic’s borders.

A legendary pair of blades honed in the ancient forges of Vur Tepe, Awdrysta Pina’s blades were long, thin, slightly curving swords with green crystals set in the hilts. The blades emitted a faint emerald glow. They were said to have cut down Xendor himself, the leader of the Legions of Lettow. The blades and Master Pina were lost when Pina went missing while tracking down remnants of the Legionnaires in the Unknown Regions.

I have received the transmission, the news that General Xendor is dead. At last, we have prevailed over the Legions of Lettow. I know it may be wrong of me, but I am relieved by his death, as I trust it brings an end to this awful war. For the first time in months, I look forward to tomorrow.

Xendor "wreaked havoc" alongside Lyn in the The First Great Schism

Like the Jedi, there were masters of teras kasi who used the Force malevolently. One was Arden Lyn. She, along with her Kashi Mer exile beau Xendor and his minions, wreaked havoc during The First Great Schism

The exiles consider themselves xendor's heirs

The Legions of Lettow are all Xendor's acolytes

Xendor's followers-those who believed as he did but lacked his abilities-became his acolytes, or the Legions of Lettow

Xendor is "Immensely powerful" and raised the entirety of the legions of lettow

Xendor, now immensely powerful and full of rage, raised an army onthe planet Lettow and led it against the Jedi

Tionne Solusar calls Xendor a powerful force user

General Xendor, a powerful Force-using humanoid whose origins remain unknown

Lyn thinks Xendor is a master of the force, even in the context of the galactic civil war

At Ossus I met Xendor, the man of my vision. He was a Kashi Mer exile, a master of the Breath, as his people called the Force

The Dark underlord is possibly either Xendor himself or someone trained by Xendor (the essential guide to warfare mentions that Xendor "fled his spirit into the dark" likely leaning into this interpretation)

Chaos largely reigned for the next 250 years until a powerful Sith leader emerged. Known only as the Dark Underlord, his presence was clouded with rumor and Sith folklore. Some said he was called from the realm of Chaos by an inexperienced Sith acolyte who was never heard from again. Others even speculated that the Dark Underlord was the spirit of the Lettow general Xendor himself

Star Wars Insider #88’s “Heritage of the Sith” (2006, IDG Entertainment) have established that Xendor did at least lead the Jedi turncoats. However, if rumors of Xendor’s resurrection as the Sith Dark Underlord as told in “Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties” (2006, StarWars.com) are to be believed—and Lyn’s obsession with bringing Xendor back from the dead would make such a storytelling irony reasonable, if not certain—then some possible additional facts about the Kashi Mer renegade may be inferred. “The Dark Forces Saga, Part 4” (2005, Wizards of the Coast) not only states that a trademark of the Royale Macheteros, the royal guard of the Kashi Mer monarchy, was their implementation of a two-bladed dueling technique, but the Dark Underlord is also said to favor such a fighting style. Again, dog pile those facts and it isn’t unlikely that Xendor was once one of the Kashi Mer Dynasty’s elite protectors before his banishment and war against the Jedi.

Until finally Pina struck down my love, and his spirit fled into the Dark, rather than be drunk by the Green Blade and destroyed.

The pre First Great Schism jedi already fear the coming of the dark side

Xendor left the jedi order uneasy for centuries

The Jedi Order had already faced one great schism in its history, against the fallen Xendor and his Legions of Lettow. Although Xendor had been gone for centuries, there were uneasy stirrings in the order’s ranks

THE FORCE WARS

The force wars was a war between the dark siders of Tython and the light siders of Tython which occurred before Xendor's exploits

According to ancient records, the Jedi Order began on Tython, where Force-users tapped energy they called the Ashla, rejecting the lures of dark energy they called the Bogan. The Force Wars pitted adherents of the two creeds against each other, with the Ashla victorious.

The force wars "mirror" the jedi and sith

The Force Wars of Tython are the earliest recorded conflicts between the light and the dark, bat­tles that would be mirrored over the centuries as the Jedi and Sith crossed blades.

The force wars completely destroyed all of tython and turned it into a dark side nexus, forcing the entire ancient jedi order to abandon it.

The dark side nexus that the force wars left are also likely the cause of the flesh raiders, who are a threat to the SWTOR jedi

This is relevant and applies to Xendor and the Legions of Lettow seeing as The First Great Schism was the first true test since the Force Wars and is described as one of the first major battles for the jedi

When Xendor rebelled against the strictures of the ancient Jedi Order. In one of their first major confrontations, the Jedi Knight were able to defeat the army and restore peace to the galaxy.

After the Force Wars, when the Jedi Order learned of the destructive power of the dark side, the Jedi devoted themselves to the path of light. In the early days of the Republic, a young Kashi Mer Jedi named Xendor defied the order’s code and began experimenting with dark side techniques. Incensed, the Jedi Order confronted Xendor and banished him from Ossus. Xendor, now immensely powerful and full of rage, raised an army on the planet Lettow and led it against the Jedi. Not since the Force Wars had the Jedi fought their own. Xendor and the Legions of Lettow eventually fell in battle; his lover, Arden Lyn, was defeated by the Jedi Master Awdrysta Pina and placed into a strange stasis, sustained by the dark side. Although this first schism within the Jedi was over, it would not be the last

THE LEGIONS OF LETTOW

The First Great Schism is stated to be the cause of the inevitable downfall of the republic, and is what allowed palpatine to take over. (keep in mind Xendor directly caused the Great Schism)

The legions of lettow is the original name of the sith in the first drafts of Star Wars (showing the authors wanted to establish that Xendor is this same sort of sith threat like the ones we see in the OT)

Legion of Lettow (Knights of Sith)

The first draft changes the Knights of the Sith to the Legion of Letow

Each Great Schism causes the jedi council/the jedi to weaken

I care not for the exact number, but with each one, the Jedi Council's strangehold on the ways of the Force weakened.

CONCLUSION

Xendor has knowledge on nearly all sections of the force and combat
Xendor was invited by the ones to mortis
Xendor personally trained an army to start a war even worse then the force wars, and the force wars turned nearly an entire planet into a dark side nexus and still affects the SWTOR jedi
Xendor either is or trained the dark underlord
Xendor opened the first and largest wound in the force which allowed the dark side to properly exist and bring about people like palpatine (the force wars couldnt even do this)
Xendor Is directly superior to Arden Lyn
Xendor's army (the legions of lettow) is the same name as George Lucas's original name for the sith in the early star wars scripts, showing the authors wanted to establish that Xendor is this same sort of sith threat like the ones we see in the OT

Xendor should be on your lists! Respect Him!