Most elite of their eras face off against each other

Fair enough. 🙂

It is a unique application of the Force, which is foreign to Jedi and Sith. We're not obliged to explain how this new way works. It is extreme nonsense anyway, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a thing in Legends continuity now.

Satele Shan outright claims they couldn't defeat Arcann because of this appliaction of the Force. I see no reason to think she is lying or doesn't know what she is talking about. This added to the fact the entire story shows how Zakuul is so different and Valk constantly spamming non-Sith stuff makes it more solid.

Foreign to the current Sith. Anyway, perhaps I've should have made it clearer, but one the biggest things about the Sith is that they don't restrict themselves, at least not intentionally. So if the Zakuul's view does provide more power, it wouldn't be against the Sith way to embrace it.

Embracing a different approach on Sith is not the same as explicitly disowning the Sith entirely and then creating a new Empire with a unique application of the Force that makes it harder for Sith/Jedi to fight against.

What are you all on about? You could argue that Tenebrae was never really attached to the Sith to begin with, but the entire point was he didn't change--ever. At all. Under his various masks, he's still the same paranoid, murderous psychopath he was as a child. It's literally his defining character trait.

Originally posted by Sinious
Embracing a different approach on Sith is not the same as explicitly disowning the Sith entirely and then creating a new Empire with a unique application of the Force that makes it harder for Sith/Jedi to fight against.

And like I said, that's not against the Sith way.

I never said what he did isn't similar to what a Sith would do. Doesn't change the fact that he isn't a Sith anymore.

But that's literally what we have been arguing about...

So? My point is (assuming you're referring to my first sentence), if you can't reach the conclusion of Valk being a Sith with your line of thought (which you can't), this line of thought becomes irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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I have not once said Valk is a Sith in this thread nor have I argued that he is. Good lord. And no, it is not irrelevant when I argue against a case certain people have made.