::The storm grew even fiercer as it engulfed the temple. As dark clouds closed in above, the howling of the winds began cackling like wild dogs. And amidst their shrill cries were faceless whisperers that were becoming more and more animated by the second. This continued for several minutes until finally the Dark Lord emerged from the temple entrance. In that instant, the storm became so wild and loud that ordinary beings would have feared for their lives.::
Lord Severus looked around as he stepped forth. He could sense what was behind this.
Long ago, in the age of Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, and Aleema Keto, the spirit of Marka Ragnos declared yet another Sith Master fit to be called Lord of the Sith. His name was Ywi'ka Er-Ilsen. Master Er-Ilsen had trained for many years under the spirit of another Sith Lord--Lord Septimius Kah'rae, though he didn't know his name. Kah'rae was a contemporary and bitter rival of Marka Ragnos, who had clashed with Lord Kah'rae on multiple occasions. Ultimately, Marka Ragnos defeated Kah'rae in a duel, and Kah'rae's legs were cut from under him. Standing over him, Marka Ragnos thrust his lightsaber in Kah'rae's chest, which he left there--humming and blazing brightly--for several days and nights before retrieving and deactivating it.
Ragnos couldn't strip Kah'rae of his title of Sith Lord, but he convinced the spirits of the other Sith Lords to break with tradition and refuse to allow Kah'rae's ashes to be buried on Korriban. Lord Kah'rae's ashes were instead buried in a temple on Athiss, which he had built with his disciples, and from which he and his disciples had governed Athiss and a handful of other systems in the Outer Rim for many years.
More than a thousand years later, when Marka Ragnos discovered that Master Ywi'ka Er-Ilsen had trained under Lord Kah'rae, he revoked the title of Sith Lord he had bestowed on Er-Ilsen, who then received the title a second time from the spirit of Lord Kah'rae in act of defiance. Enraged, Marka Ragnos destroyed Master Er-Ilsen and tried to have his ashes removed from Korriban as well, but the other Sith Lords refused.
And now, several thousand years after the destruction of Master Er-Ilsen, the rage of Marka Ragnos had been reignited.
The ruins of the Er-Ilsen's temple on Korriban were weathered, but like all structures on this planet, the ingenuity of the architecture combined with the sorcery in the walls meant that even the temple's entrance, which had been hit hardest by the storm, could not be so easily torn apart.
Lord Severus clasped the red Sith amulet resting below his neck as he emerged. He had received from Master Er-Ilsen what he came for. And he would soon realize Master Er-Ilsen and Lord Kah'rae's vision of a new Sith Council--one that would unite Korriban and Athiss for good.
