Star Wars: The First Sith Explained

How Much Is Still Canon?

With Disney buying Lucasfilm came the great EU purge, whereby decades of stories from across novels, comics, and games were wiped out of canon and shifted into 'Legends', with the company intent on building up their own, new canon.

That, however, has included cherry-picking elements from the old Expanded Universe, hence why someone like Grand Admiral Thrawn has been reintroduced in Star Wars Rebels, and why Solo brought back the martial art Teräs Käsi.

Among these re-canonised events is the Hundred-Year Darkness, which gets a brief mention in the 2015 comic book Star Wars 9: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, Part II. Ajunta Pall, meanwhile, isn't a name that's in canon, but the 'unidentified Jedi rogue' is, which means that for all intents and purposes, that character remains the very First Sith.

The first Sith Lord actually named in canon is Darth Bane, courtesy of The Clone Wars, who'd have the greatest impact upon the Dark Side since the Sith's formation by introducing the Rule of Two (a master and an apprentice), but with new Star Wars stories working more of things like the Old Republic back into canon, maybe eventually Pall will be reinstated as well.