Let's forget about the expanded universe for a minute...
Focusing on the movies...
In The Phantom Menace (the movie!) we know very little about Darth Maul. He's Sidious' apprentice. That's it. He is a mystery.
Now In Episode II we learn A jedi Master named Sifo Dyas ordered the clone army. Sifo Dyas died ten years before Attack Of the Clones so he died during the events of The Phantom Menace.
Now...
Skip to Episode III. As revealed in the REVENGE OF THE SITH novel (go to MF.com's forums for that), Palps tells Anakin that his old apprentice was Jedi Master Sifo Dyas, the one to order the Clone Army. Sifo Dyas died during The Phantom Menace. He died before Count Dooku joined up with Sidious. He died when Maul died.
So...
Remembering what Yoda said about "Only two there are" doesn't it make sense that Darth Maul is a fallen Jedi?
well, it's already official that Darth Maul's been trained by Sidious since he was a child and that his name is Kahmeir Sarin, not Sifo Dias.
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thinking along the lines that Sifo Dias was on the Council during ep. 1 should he have been in the scene with the Council in said episode? If he wasn't then was there an empty seat during that scene?
Maul,Dooku,Palpatine could walk into the cloning facility claiming to be Master Sifo Dias.
Sifo Dias was ment to be one of the top jedis right? Well if he suggested there be a clone army made then it might persuade some of the other masters to agree.
Get what im saying?
Somewhat....
I'm pretty sure Lucas meant Dooku to have ordered the Clones under the guise of Sifo Dyas....Stover may have taken some liberties while writing the Novelization - or the person who posted that could have just been lying....
Wow, that sounds a lot like EXPANDED UNIVERSE TO ME.
but...
IN THE MOVIE MAUL'S A MYSTERY.
Sifo Dyas "WAS" on the council. He died during Phantom Menace though. Obviously he must have left the council, probably before that Naboo crap happened.
But expanded universe...
*shudder*
I don't know...
Remember when people thought Owen was Obiwan's brother?
Expanded Universe means nothing to me.