Lit Red Sith darkside inclination: Genetic or Cultural?

Is there any evidence either way?

 

Cultural from the look of it, though we only have Sexy Boy Seki to go by so far.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sek'nos_Rath

 

I think in the same series one of the nicer temple heads was a red sith.

So yeah, cultural.

 

If it's cultural, I wonder how this culture came to be.

 

Yeah cultural, and anybody tryin' to argue for genetic pre-destination towards evil is jonesing for a grade-A bithslap.

 

I'd love to see a Red Sith who follows the ways of the PT Jedi.

 

I'd say cultural and environmental. By the time we get to the GAotS era, the Sith worlds are so replete with dark side energy that even if you somehow managed to eradicate the culture, anyone raised on those worlds would likely wind up corrupt.

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As for where the dark side culture "came from" in the first place, I would imagine it went the same way as always. The Sith species discovered the Force, a bunch of different traditions arose around its use... and then one of those traditions -- in this case a dark side one -- beat out all the rest.

 

For a planet to have Dark Side energy, there has to have been Dark Side use and/or dead darksiders on that planet.

 

Yes.

 

http://swtor.gamepedia.com/Codex/Galactic_History_04:_King_Adas

 

I hadn't really considered the possibility that Adas' conquest of the Sith nations could also double up as what united all the Sith beneath the banner of the dark side... but, yeah, that'd work.

 

That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that the Red Sith didn't know about The Force until the Rakata showed up.

 

Actually, cultural. They can choose to be Jedi. Look at Lord Praven:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Praven

Read that. His only "passion" (which the Sith Code requires) is honor. He actually becomes a Jedi, and a loyal servant of the light side. So there you go: cultural, tradition...but not hard-wired into their blood.

 

But he still has a passion.

 

So? You're going to argue that he's still technically dark-sided because he has a single passion? I'd say practically every Jedi has some passion or another. He just doesn't use rage, hatred, lust, etc. like the other Sith. He's certainly not dark. Gray, maybe, but more likely light and definitely not dark.

 

No. I was just asking about the possibility of a Red Sith without passion.

 

Well, I think it would be very hard to find any sentient being with no passion whatsoever.

 

Maybe I should say "a passion".

 

To quote Jedi Master Djinn Altis:

"Passion. Passion and anger and love. That's what this galaxy needs, not serenity. Passion for change. Anger at this brutality. Love - buckets of it, for everyone, love between child and parent, between spouses, between brothers and sisters, between friends. We need more attachment, not less. Attachment can stop us from tearing ourselves apart."

 

Oh! Right. In that case, you're incorrect.

Anyway, this line of conversation has reminded me to reacquaint myself with Halagad_Ventor 's excellent Evil Never Dies:

"King Adas was a massive, regal being encased in majestic ebon warrior armor. Raised from his youth as a chosen being due to the charcoal pigment of his skin, Adas demonstrated great intelligence, fighting prowess, and a tremendous aptitude for Sith magic. With his alchemically forged battle-ax, Adas led the bloody unification of Korriban's disparate nations and became its undisputed world ruler. The Sith people came to believe that King Adas was immortal and that his reign would be eternal."

Given the above, I have no idea why TOR's codex would suggest that Adas was an untrained Force sensitive. Bizarre.

And I'd forgotten all about this nugget:

"Some historians have speculated that the attitudes of the early Sith people were owed to a prehistoric encounter between their species and the vampiric beings known as the Anzati."

 

Even then, it would be very difficult. Almost everyone has a passion about something–even the Jedi, technically, have a passion for the Jedi way.

 

True, but this thread isn't about whether the PT Jedi are right or wrong.

"untrained" could mean that Adas didn't know everything that a Jedi would.

 

It's about whether a person can be both a Sith devotee of passion, and lightside- and we know from that quote that there exist lightside Jedi who see nothing wrong with passion.

 

I'm totally against genetic, by the way.

Anyway, could the Adas Kingdom be the origin of the name "Sith"?

I would love an Adas novel. Ulicus