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The original was posted on /r/swtor by /u/Budget_Address1559 on 2025-08-13 22:06:09+00:00.
NOTE: This is kind of a sequel post to the post I made about Vitiate’s name confusion…
I know that the Sith Empire under him that was made from the remnants of the original Sith Empire used the title of “Darth” for well aclaimed Sith Lords, but did Vitiate ever use the title of “Darth” himself? I am kinda mixed on this. Most sources say that he did not use the title Darth. All of the stories like the Revan novel and SWTOR itself just simply refer to him as either “Emperor Vitiate”, “Lord Vitiate” or just “Vitiate” in of itself.
From what I heard, there is this tabeltop game description called “Force of Destiny”, and from my understanding based off of what other people say, it is an unreliable in-universe description used to describe Vitiate in a time shortly after the Battle of Yavin, and that historians got mixed up and confused things a bit.
I don’t know if there are other sources that say he has the Darth title, but I at least know of one other source that is a meta out-universe encyclopedia book that says he has the “Darth” title.
The Star Wars: The Old Republic official game and lore encyclopedia, a companion book to the game, has some interesting and juicy lore and details about a lot of the SWTOR lore. Of course, they talk about the Sith Emperor himself: Vitiate, formerly Tenebrae.
Though the book most of the time calls him “The Sith Emperor” or simply “The Emperor” when they refer to him by the “Vitiate” name, they really only say “Lord Vitiate”. However, in page 170-171, there is this passage that talks about the Kressh family line. And there is an interesting piece of information here…
Forgive me for my tracing of lines
The text here is talking about Vodal Kressh, a descendant of Sith Lord Ludo Kressh from the Great Hyperspace War. Vodal Kressh was a Sith Lord who launched a “Bitter revolt again the current Sith Empire’s ruler, Darth Vitiate”
So, is Vitiate a “Darth” or is he not? Despite this, some people still believe that Vitiate is not a Darth. I would like to hear why from their opinion and explain this text from the offifical SWTOR Encyclopedia. (To be fair, I am confused whether Tenebrae kept the Vitiate name as Sith Emperor and made it a secret, or just abandoned it and fully took on the title of simply “Sith Emperor”).