Legacy #27: Into the Core (Darth Wyyrlok and the Secret of Lord Andeddu!)

It's an okay issue for me. One-shots are always a bit short, aren't they? Having the old guy really appearing for the first time as a character after all that name-dropping wasn't all that much. Wyrrlok did get him a bit too easily, if you ask me, but again, one-shot. The mage duel didn't really show all that much except for the vision fight. "You will die!" "No, you will die!" "Oh, okay, if you say so - it's your era after all."

I thought it was funny to have another planet with a clan of (wannabe) Sith living on it, and it was actually better hidden than Korriban.

And the real reason why I post here is: I admit that up to a few days ago, I always thought the name was AnNeddu. Don't know how the 'D' always slipped by my eyes. Funny I should realize it just in time for this issue.

 

Yeah.

I can also see Wyyrlok also acting as a "check and balance" on the New Sith Order. "I serve the Dark Lord as long as he serves the Sith Order as a whole. The minute he stops, I end him and install a new one in his place".

I'd like for Wyyrlok to be all about the manipulation of Krayt and being de facto Dark Lord... but I didn't get the impression that's how he sees himself in this issue. He really does seem... dedicated. Even though he could well be stronger than Krayt.

 

Hence my questions/musings about the LEGACY of the Wyyrlock name...

 

Aside from #19, this is the best issue yet of Legacy. Amazing art, story, and Sith Lords. I'll never be able to look at Wyyrlok the same, again. Previously, he was just Krayt's flunkie. Now, I see him as the next Dark Lord after Krayt. Heck, I can't help but think of a real historical parallel between Wyyrlok serving Krayt and Martin Bormann serving Hitler.

Regarding Andeddu, I'm seriously wondering if he was one of the Exiles from the Hundred Year Darkness, but was one of those who returned to the Republic shortly after discovering the Sith. The way I like to see it, Andeddu was born on Prakith during the Hundred Year Darkness, and somehow falls in with a bad crowd of Dark Jedi. When this group is finally defeated and exiled, Andeddu is one of the surviving Exiles who discovers the Sith. After gaining knowledge of how to make a Sith Holocron and building a fake tomb on Korriban, he's one of the Exiles that attempts to return to the Republic with the new knowledge. He's defeated (just like the others who returned), and flees to his homeworld in the Deep Core. Several thousand years later, some "Sithbillies" (maybe remnants of the Inquisitorius or the Ragnos Disciples) find his tomb and become the Malevolence. Fast forward 100 years or so, and Darth Wyyrlok comes a-calling...

 

I like to go with the idea that Darth Andeddu is Darth Vectivus' master.

;-)

It just makes his running all the more pathetic.

 

Lol! Still, that could be why he and Bane seemed to agree with each other, if Andeddu joined the Rule of Two Sith...


This reminds me of something: Wyyrlok seems to indicate that few ancient Sith Holocrons are left. Aside from the one that the Jedi had on Ossus, there's Andeddu's, Bane's, Nihilus's, and XoXaan's. Wyyrlok doesn't destroy Andeddu's books and scrolls, which makes me wonder if it's because so little Sith knowledge survives into the Legacy era...

 

Unlikely, as Prakith remained under the control of Foga Brill until 17 ABY at least. I'd say they were most likely set up in the aftermath of the defeat of the replacement warlords and the New Republic cleaning out the Deep Core once and for all, which pushes them back to the 20s ABY. But there might be more hints in the issue that I'm missing.

 

very good idea...

 

I'm glad we got on issue focusing on Wyyrlok. I've been hoping for some focus on our other "name" Sith for a while, other than Krayt and his Hands, so getting a look at Wyyrlok here is a treat. Top it off with a good story, and I'm rather satisfied. Now we can give Maladi her own one shot, though I'm not sure what they would do to make her job interesting for 24 pages.

 

While I don't see any immediate means of a one-shot focusing on Maladi, a flashback recalling when Cordelixte first approached Maladi could be good at some stage. There remain a lot of unanswered questions about how that entire deal went down, particuarly given what we now know about Corde and Calixte.

 

Perhaps it could cover how she learned about Vong bio-tech along with a confrontation against Vongerella.

 

I picked this up at last, wasn't in a rush

This book kinda reminded me more of an IDW Transformers Spotlight, than a rock solid tie into the Legacy series. Yeah, it touches upon Talon and Nihl, Krayt's affliction, and such. But really ends up as Darth Wyyrlok kicking butt, with the reason Wyyrlok journey's to the core a secondary notion.

Did he really go all that way just to realize that Darth Krayt's doubt is whats killing his master?

Did Padme really die of a broken heart ? #27 smacks of that type of revelation to me, and really adds nothing to Krayt's plot or the overall plot of Legacy. I don't think thats a bad thing at this point.....

I'm kinda torn on this series right now, the Vector gimic is coming which I am not looking forward to. I'd love to see more one shots like #27, just prehaps in a way slightly removed from from the main story, like the previously mentioned IDW works.

Still, I'd recommend this comic, art was great and the self contained story was fun and expanded upon the Sith Loremaster very well. *groan * Now Vector is coming......

 

Wow! Great issue. Darth Wyrlock is officially one of my favorite Star Wars bad guys. Andeddu however, although visually cool, was a tad disappointing. With all the build up, he was kind of weak.

I liked how the fighting was more intellectual, and not just sabers. I also liked Wyrlocks views on Krayt and the One Sith. From the first scene, it seems he's the only main Sith still running on all cylindars so to speak.

 

I dunno...he seems to me to be plenty dedicated to keeping Krayt on the throne. He's like a hand, except his loyalty isn't bred from fanaticism. Let's remember that he treats Krayt with a tenderness and concern heretofore unseen in the Sith. I think he wants Krayt to live, and he wants Krayt to be everything Krayt wants himself to be, even though, not-so-deep down, Wyyrlok knows he's not.

 

Isn't that what I said, more or less? That though I'd like Wyyrlok to be a manipulative SOB with only his own interests at heart, it's clear that he's not?

 

Ah. I thought you wrote "he doesn't seem dedicated." My mistake.

::high five!::

 

::reciprocates::