Queen Amanoa

The darkness did not come easily to Amanoa, but when she finally embraced it, there was no letting go.

Freedon Nadd brought the teachings of the Sith to Onderon 350 years before the birth of Queen Amanoa, spreading the wicked ways of the darkside to his followers. The rulers of the walled city of Iziz, a 1,000 square mile sprawl of turrets, domes, and spires, became the apprentices of Nadd, learning to weild the power over the dark side.

The Sith knowledge passed down through the ruling lineage, infecting each monarch with hatred and intolerance and at the same time enslaving them to the will of the dark side. The Kings and Queens hid their secrets well, casting those who discovered their affilations into the savage wilderness.

Queen Amanoa had not even a suspicion about her husban'd shadowed allegiance for many years. And when she did discover it, she futiely tried to tear King Ommin away, to break the bond he had formed with the Sith ways.

When her effors failed she fell into a deep brooding, for she did not know how to help her husband. Over the years, however, that depression turned into anger at the king for having made the dark alliance in the first place, and then into outright hatred. At the same time, Ommin decided his queen was ready to join him, to share in the power that he had cultivated over a lifetime.

The queen tread slowly into the darkness, but once she passed beyond the point where light could no longer reach, she opened herself completely to the dark side. Ommin and the spirit of Freedon Nadd instructed her in the Force and Sith techniques, and she gradually grew in power, eventually becoming a formidable sorceress in her own right.

Soon after, however Ommin began to suffer from a strange illness that seemed to consume the very marrow in his bones. Within just a few years he could not stand without the aid of a durasteel exoskeleton created by his personal doctors. In the meantime, Amanoa took control of Iziz, driving the conflict with the beast-riders to the brink of war.

The specter of Freedon Nadd appeared to her during a Sith ritual, and he foretold her destruction if she allowed the war to erupt. In a desperate measure to save herself she called upon the help of the Jedi to settle the centuries-long dispute once and for all.

As she awaits the Jedi Masters' arrival she knows that she must carefully mask the dark side's presence when the Jedi arrive, and she hopes they will end the hostilities and quickly leave Onderon before they grouw suspicious.