Darth Zannah Runs The Gauntlet

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Darth Zannah Runs The Gauntlet

Darth Zannah has been assigned by Darth Bane to hunt down and destroy numerous Sith throughout Star Wars history.
If she is successful, she must battle her own master, and has formed plans to eliminate other rival Dark Lords of the Sith.
How far will she get until her plans are ultimately stopped by a superior opponent? Or will she succeed and rule the galaxy (nah).
Note: All battles take place on equal grounds until she defeats Darth Bane. Then, Darth Zannah will be empowered by Lake Natth.

1. Sedriss QL
2. Darth Bandon
3. Darth Nihl
4. Serra Keto
5. Ludo Kressh
6. Darth Maul
7. Darth Baras
8. Darth Vader
9. Darth Nox
★. Darth Bane
11. Exar Kun
13. Darth Krayt
13. Darth Caedus
14. Sith Emperor
♛. Darth Nihilus

Stops at Bane, Vitiate or Nihilus.

Darth Nox resisted the Dread Masters. I don't see how Darth Zannah is overcoming him.

Anywhere from 9 onward she likely dies. Willing to admit she might beat Vader, though.

Dead at 6.

Gets lolstomped by 8, 11, 13, 13, 14, and 15.

Loses to Bane and possibly Nox as well

Nox resisting the Dread Masters occurs in a planetary quest, its open to all classes. It could have been the Wrath who did that, or it could never have occurred at all via Cipher 9 or the Champ rescuing them. Plus they'd just woken up from stasis. On Oricon she does not resist them so easily.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Nox resisting the Dread Masters occurs in a planetary quest, its open to all classes. It could have been the Wrath who did that, or it could never have occurred at all via Cipher 9 or the Champ rescuing them. Plus they'd just woken up from stasis.

Lame. I thought my Darth Jaggarath was special. 🙁

Ultimately, Nox doesn't have a way to beat Zannah anyway.

Nah. I would Electrocute her, then Stealth out, come up behind and Maul her. I would disrupt her getting ready for a sorcery attack via Knockback
Then fire a quick succession of all my lightning capable onto her from behind. I would then Stealth back away, and continue the cycle again and again.

Dies at 6, but if she got by, she'd die at 8.

Re: Darth Zannah Runs The Gauntlet

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
6. Darth Maul
8. Darth Vader
11. Exar Kun
13. Darth Krayt
13. Darth Caedus
14. Sith Emperor

Stops at any one of these.

You put Zannah>Bane too?

Didn't she legitimately defeat him? By the skin of her teeth, admittedly, but still.

By drawing on a nexus. Otherwise, she would have lost, since she wouldn't have tendrils.

Ahhh, I'mma have to reread that fight.

Bane only got to that point through circumstance too. Zannah was seconds away from unleashing an amped mental attack on him, which he couldn't have survived. If they hadn't of reached the graves when they did, he'd have lost right there.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Ahhh, I'mma have to reread that fight.

Make sure you read over and laugh at the part she falls over a grave.

Karpyshyn's books do typically induce uproarious laughter.

I found the first Darth Bane very well written. All other books he has done was disgusting.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
I found the first Darth Bane very well written. All other books he has done was disgusting.

This reminds me of the epic rants the user/moderator Havac at TFN has on Karpyshyn's Bane trilogy:


The Bane books are a childish collection of the most generic possible cliches slapped together without any skill in plotting, characterization, or prose. Karpyshyn writes video game fights, right down to the game mechanics, and has no conception of how to make a character interesting other than to make Bane MAXXX AWESOME BRAH, by which he means the most boring, generic Sith Lord cliche possible, but he kills dudes good and is impossibly awesome at everything all the time ever, except for the few times the plot means he can't be. The books also ride roughshod over continuity out of pure indifference, arrogance, and laziness, and the plots are silly. Karpyshyn never met a situation or character he couldn't make more simplistic, generic, and uninteresting. The books are pure color-by-numbers, lowest-common-denominator trash. They're the sort of garbage that make people embarrassed by tie-in fiction.

The books are simplistic, juvenile trash, lowest-common-denominator attempts at storytelling by a third-rate writer with no power to tell an original story; he is limited entirely to recycling impossibly generic cliches in the manner of a twelve-year-old who has read lots of books and thinks, "Yeah, I can do that!" Karpyshyn has never met an idea he cannot sap of all interest or uniqueness (and appears incapable of considering writing outside the perspective of RPG mechanics), and the Bane books reflect that to perfection. They are the nadir of genre tie-in garbage, badly-written, boring, and utterly generic. Any enjoyment of them should be immediately followed by crippling shame.

I'm rereading some of his commentaries now; they're hilarious.