The Shadow of Freedon Nadd 4400 B.B.Y.

The Shadow of Freedon Nadd 4400 B.B.Y.

Six centuries after Naga Sadow exiled himself on the jungle moon, after Sadow's Massassi servants built the great temples, an ambitious Jedi Knight, Freedon Nadd, followed rumors and intuition to the isolated Yavin system. In the centuries since the defeated Dark Lord had sealed his preserved essence beneath the focusing chamber of a primary temple, the Massassi refugees had degenerated into powerful but primitive savages. Nadd came to them, fought with them-but his use of the Force awed the Massassi into remembering their past. They showed him where the Dark Lord had gone to sleep waiting for another evil hero to come, waiting for someone like Freedon Nadd.

Nadd awakened the ancient Sith Lord, who taught him sorcerous ways, dark twistings of the Force, giving him skills and weapons that other Jedi Knights could not withstand. The fate of the resurrected Naga Sadow is not known, but Freedon Nadd left Yavin 4 and set about making himself a king on the primitive world of Onderon, outside the boundaries of the Old Republic.For centuries the peaceful people of Onderon had been beset by horrible creatures that crossed over from the erratic moon Dxun. The vicious predators had taken a terrible toll on the population until the people constructed a walled city, Iziz, for their protection. Freedon Nadd, with his knowledge of Sith magic and his willingness to use the dark side, easily made himself the leader of these people. Over the decades the walled city grew, implacably driving back the jungle. Nadd helped his subjects develop destructive technology so they could better fight the monsters - and, later, their own internal enemies, rebels against the Sith Lord's rule. One of the policies Nadd instituted was to banish criminals, including anyone who spoke out against Nadd himself. They were sent beyond the walls of Iziz, where they would be devoured by the voracious predators. However, some of these exiles survived and banded together, even learning how to capture the beasts and domesticate them. Riding flying beasts and carrying handmade weapons, the survivors struck back against the city that had exiled them, thus beginning centuries of unrest and rebellion-a scattered guerrilla war that even Freedon Nadd's powers could not crush.

After Nadd's death, the sarcophagus containing his body became a focus of dark-side energy used by his descendants. Nadd's legacy passed from generation to generation, but the unending civil war continued, with a cost in blood nearly as high as the early attacks from the beasts of Dxun. Centuries later, as the Republic expanded its territory and other Jedi Knights encountered the Onderon system, the crisis was ready to explode.