Shezemu Maahes

The dreaded

Dromund Kaas 3 674 BBY Kaas City (Sith Lord)

Darth Kábus

Details

• Race: Sith Pureblood
• Sex: Male
• Age: N/A
• Height: 6’2”
• Skin colour: Crimson Red
• Eye colour: Orange
• Hair colour: Black
• Religion: Sith
• Title: Sith Lord, Darth
• Class: Inquisitior
• Subclass: Sorcerer

Powers and abilities

Shezemu is trained in the arts of sorcery, making him an expert in the force. Though his abilities with a lightsaber are limited, he often finds ways to make himself look more dangerous than he is, using ancient Sith knowledge. Some of his powers include:

• Force pull -and push. The ability to pull people closer, or push them away without physical contact. Danger level: Varied
• Force generating lightning strike. This is a small attack move where the user summons a small burst of electricity and throws it at the enemy. Danger level: 2
• Lightning storm. A force ability unique to only the most powerful Sith sorcerers. The ability the channel the force to create a storm of lightning. Danger level 9
• Static Barrier. The ability to create a field of electricity around oneself as a means of protection. Danger level: 0
• Unnatural preservation. Most force users have the ability to, through extreme willpower, sustain their bodies in suspended animation for a short time to heal themselves. Danger level: 0
• Force Attunement. This ability grants the user to tap into the force so that they can channel more power during a short period of time. Danger level: 0
• Force Slow. The ability to hinder the opponent’s movements by restraining their muscle movement through the Force. Danger level: 0
• Death Field. Some very powerful Sith Lords can summon a field of darkness to drain the life and power from an opposing group, revitalising themselves. Danger level: 9
• Crushing Darkness. This power grants the user to channel their inner darkness to crush an opponent’s mind. Danger level: 10
• Creeping Terror. Shezemu specialises in making his opponents afraid. This ability causes the target to become terrified for no reason. Danger level: 5
• Force Demolish. Like Force Push -and Pull, this ability is used to move object without physical contact. In this case destroying them. Danger level: 10
• Force Horrors. The user summons Force constructs that will haunt the target, causing them to be afraid. Used as evasive maneuver. Danger level: 1
• Lightning barricade. The ability to summon a wall of force lightning to keep enemies away from reach. Danger level: 6
• Saber Charge. Some Sith have the ability to channel electricity onto the blade of their lightsaber to increase its power. This gives the saber a knockback effect and makes it harder for the opponent to deflect and attack. Danger level: +3

Place of Operations.

• Dromund Kaas

• Shezemu was born in Kaas City in the early decades of the new Sith Empire. His family were prominent and wealthy and had their own stronghold in the city, up until Shezemu killed them for their assets.
• Korriban
• Shezemu helped oversee some of the excavations of the ancient tombs on Korriban. He also served as an overseer, and teacher, to young acolytes.
• His role as an overseer was questioned by some of those on the Dark Council as Shezemu teachings could seem a bit too radical.
• Because of his extreme teachings, he developed a cult like following of acolytes worshipping him as a patron or symbol of the Sith Empire.

Possessions

• One lightsaber with a red kyber crystal
• One stronghold on Dromund Kaas in Kaas City
• One pet corrupted Varactyl
• Two sets of armour
• One unique hand-crafted helmet.
• One Terminus-Class Destroyer
• Two Gage-Class Transports
• One Fury-Class Interceptor
• One Razalon FC-1 vehicle

Trivia

• Shezemu is obsessed with fear, and like Darth Jadus he wishes for fear to be a public tool for anyone to use. However, Shezemu wishes there to be a hierarchy of fear as well.
• Although a ferocious loyalist, Shezemu dislikes the impurity of the Sith, and despises when non-purebloods are permitted to ascend into positions of power. Like the Dark Council. Shezemu believes, like Lord Abaron, that the Dark Council and Sith Academy should be overseen only by those with the blood of the ancient Sith species.
• Shezemu following of acolytes call themselves 'the Cult of Dread’ or 'the Cult of the Dreaded’ in honour of the nickname that Shezemu became known for on Korriban. Shezemu the Dreaded, sometimes the Dread Lion.
• The dreaded Sith has only one apprentice, a Kaleesh he thinks of as his own son.
• Shezemu admires the ferocity of the Kaleesh society and took a Kaleesh child under his wing after murdering his parents.
• Shezemu's Kaleesh apprentice is named Maahes, as a homage to himself as that is also Shezemu's own surname, and although seen as his son Shezemu treats him close to as if he were a slave. But this is to harden him and turn him into a loyal weapon.
• Maahes is referred to, by the Cult of Dread, as the Dread Storm. This is because Maahes’ fights with such ferocity that afterwards, the area of the fight will look as if though a mighty storm had torn it to shreds.
• Maahes has spent an incredible amount of time studying the Dread Masters and the three Phobis Devices. Going so far as to actually meditated near one of the devices, making him the seventh recorded Sith to have withstood the device's madness inducing powers.
• Shezemu is right-handed, which may seem normal, but is quite rare for a Sith Pureblood.
• Although his personal capital ship is a Terminus-Class Destroyer, he has commanded Harrower-Class Dreadnoughts on numerous occasions.
• Shezemu has one slightly 'lazy' eye as a result of a saber cut across his face from another, now dead, aspiring Sith Lord.

Behind The Scenes

• Shezemu's name is derived from the Egyptian god of slaughter and wine if the same name.
• Maahes’ name is also derived from an Egyptian deity, but the god of war and storms. It is also Shezemu's surname.
• Despite his name, Shezemu is inspired by Jonathan Crane from DC comics.
• A Sith sorcerer or sorceress was an individual who was proficient in the arts of Sith magic, using spells, talismans, or incantations to focus the power of the dark side. Sith sorcerers gained their powers through intense study of Sith traditions, and applications of the dark side of Force. Occasionally, an aspiring sorcerer's powers were developed through sheer innate talent, rather than harnessing them through study, spontaneously, or being bestowed upon them by another source.
• The Sith species, also referred to as Red Sith, or Sith Purebloods, were a species of red-skinned humanoids that originated on the planet Korriban. Though, the species did migrate to Ziost before spreading across the galaxy. They are very distinct for their bone spurs, facial tentacles and thorns, and genetic predispositions towards both left-handedness and the dark side of the Force. The Sith species had its own empire ruled first by kings, and later by Dark Lords. After the arrival of the Human Exiles, a dozen survivng Dark Jedi, on Korriban in 6900 BBY, interbreeding and genetic manipulation altered the Sith species. And over the course of several generations, the original species became a hybrid race of Sith and Human heritage. Original Sith blood became a symbol of pride among the Sith, with the term "Sith pureblood" referring to Sith who had a higher than average concentration of Sith DNA, noticeable by their red skin, bone spurs, and orange eyes at birth.