01 · Orientation
Summary
Sith culture changed dramatically across eras, but recurring concerns with power, mastery, hierarchy, conflict, inheritance, secrecy, and succession link otherwise different Sith institutions.
02 · Identity
Belonging and social identity
Sith identity can be created through apprenticeship, title, lineage, initiation, conquest, doctrine, or affiliation with older Sith histories. Different eras define legitimate Sith status differently.
03 · Worldview & religion
Belief, cosmology, and moral order
Sith worldview treats passion, conflict, ambition, secrecy, and the deliberate cultivation of power as legitimate paths to mastery. Different Sith eras disagree about institutions, but they repeatedly reject Jedi restraint and frame hierarchy as something proven through strength, knowledge, lineage, or conquest.
Sith traditions include initiation, master-apprentice lineages, ritual, tombs, relics, temples, holocrons, sacred worlds, titles, and later cult devotion. The Rule of Two is one historical reform within a much longer religious and political tradition rather than the only form Sith life ever took.
04 · Practice
Everyday life, ritual, and material culture
Apprenticeship, dueling, ritual, relic preservation, tomb veneration, political intrigue, secret teaching, and the cultivation of personal power recur across Sith traditions.
05 · Institutions
Social organization and authority
Ancient Sith empires, academies, courts, master-apprentice lineages, cults, and later secret networks provide different organizational forms for transmitting Sith knowledge.
06 · Change over time
History and cultural transformation
Sith traditions repeatedly expanded, fragmented, disappeared, and re-emerged. Darth Bane's Rule of Two was itself a cultural reform aimed at changing how Sith memory and succession worked.
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