Darth Cinder
| Darth Cinder | |
|---|---|
| Lysara Synder | |
| Biographical Information: | |
| Homeworld: | Fassa |
| Born: | 2027 BBY, Fassa |
| Died: | 1971 BBY, Fassa |
| Descriptive Information: | |
| Species: | Human (Fassan) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Height: | 1.70 standard meters (5 ft 8 in) |
| Hair Color: | Golden Blonde |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
| Chronological and political information: | |
| Apprentices: | |
| Masters: | Darth Ruin |
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Darth Cinder (born Lysara Synder) was a female Human Sith Lord during the early New Sith Wars.[1] Initially serving as Shadow Hand to Darth Ruin, Cinder became Dark Lady of the Sith after killing her master in 1998 BBY.
Biography
Early life and Jedi training
Lysara Synder was born on Fassa as heiress to House Synder—and, therefore, to the planetary government. As a young girl, she showed signs of Force sensitivity. As a result, she was disinherited and handed over to the Jedi Order.[2] She was taken to Coruscant, and eventually became the Padawan of Phanius.[3]
As Phanius' apprentice, Synder developed an insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge.[4] When Phanius sent her to the Archives to retrieve the Holocron of Tulak Hord, Synder opened the holocron herself, exposing herself to the horrors within.[4]
During this period, she met fellow Padawan Leide Pall[3]. The two developed a fast friendship which eventually blossomed into romance.[5][3][6]
Jedi Knight
Like other newly-anointed Jedi Knights, Synder was tasked with defending Republic holdings in the Galactic Core.[7] She developed a skill for piloting[7] and was often dispatched with interceptor squadrons to deal with spice runners.[7] She came close to capturing the renowned[8] smuggler Marcus Kregg, following him into a debris field against orders, but ultimately fell short.[7]
Synder did not join the Shield of Coruscant; she opted instead to remain Phanius' apprentice, where she was tasked with training the next class of academics[9].
Leaving the Order
When Phanius left the Jedi Order, Synder was one of fifty Jedi academics to depart Coruscant with him.[3] When Phanius turned to the dark side and declared himself Darth Ruin, Synder chose to turn with him. Naming herself Darth Cinder, she became Ruin's Shadow Hand.[5][3] With Ruin, Cinder took responsibility for establishing the first Sith academy on Korriban since the Cold War.[9]
Cinder accompanied Ruin to several worlds in search of wayward Sith tribes. On Yavin IV, they met with a tribe of Sith led by Hopel, who they later recruited into their new order.[10]
Taking an apprentice
In late 2007 BBY, Cinder left Korriban—despite Ruin's protests—to undertake a research expedition in the Mid Rim. She stopped on Ord Mantell to acquire upgrades for her vessel, The Ashen One.[11] While meditating in the Scraplands, she encountered a band of pirates haranguing a youth. Noticing the boy's latent Force sensitivity, Cinder decided to take him under her wing as an apprentice.[5][11]
Instead of returning to Korriban and Ruin, Cinder took the boy to train on Ossus.[12] After two years of training the boy—who she had since dubbed "Darth Fell"—she returned to Korriban, but kept the boy a secret by hiding him in the Valley of the Dark Lords.
New Sith Wars
Sources
References
- ↑ Star Wars: Dark Days
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder II
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder III
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder I
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder XIV
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder XVII
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder V
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Essential Guide to the New Sith Wars, Volume I
- ↑ Dark Days II: Periapsis, Bestia I
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Dark Days I: Zenith, Fell VIII
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder III