A Challenge, The Old Lords are Dead. Who will Rise?

“The King” is as much an archetype as any other. In the Sith world we call them “Lords”. And the title, like the crown or the ring, is the symbol of power. But it takes the embodiment of that power, either constructive or destructive to demonstrate if the character of that Lord-King should be followed or not. To be a Lord means you possess a primal energy that coaxes fear and demands respect. It is a way of presence that others easily see as being close to divinity and having mastery of esoteric knowledge. The Lord is the channel between the realm of the masses and the realm of the arcane that the masses desire to possess for themselves.

When the lord is effective in this capacity they serve as a central point of control within their temple from which they oversee and rule their world; their world being that part of experience that is ordered and organized by the Lord. The Lord clearly defines the boundaries of their temple and what exists beyond this is chaos. Within the bounds of the temple the Lord is responsible for organizing and maintaining societal and hierarchical structures as they see fit. The principles set forth by the Lord are those they embody and live in their own life. If this is enacted correctly the Lord will pass their blessings and teachings on and bestow rewards and the temple will flourish and grow.

This has not happened here however. The Lords that onces commanded the temples became jealous and greedy, unwilling to pass power. They became tyrants that hated and feared and despised new growth. They saw those that came to them as a threat to what they had built and would not allow it to evolve as it should have. These Lords became a shell of what they once were. They began to believe that they were the embodiment of Sith Philosophy instead of allowing it to be what it was meant to be, a living and evolving philosophy. They became paranoid, irrational and abusive and refused to pass the mantle of power on because they saw this as facilitating their own self destruction. This temple now reflects that fall from grace with its chaotic and ruined halls.

The Old Temples have no Lords anymore as a result. Is now the time that a new Lord will rise and have the capacity to disconnect their ego from the philosophy of the Sith; thus breaking the pattern of infantile grandiosity the Sith path has been plagued with? A Lord that knows their own mortality and can allow the power to pass on to future generations as it is meant to be; a Lord that knows their responsibility to their temple over themselves? This challenge I place before you. Who will take it up? We shall see. All I can say is dont wait too long, because I'm not.