01 · Orientation
Summary
Sith tradition joins dark-side practice with hierarchy, initiation, lineage, relics, sacred places, political ambition, and competing claims to legitimate succession. Different Sith institutions vary greatly, but they repeatedly define power as something to seize, cultivate, and transmit.
02 · Cosmology
Worldview and religious ideas
Sith thought rejects Jedi restraint and treats passion, conflict, desire, fear, anger, and ambition as potential sources of strength. The dark side is pursued deliberately, though different Sith eras disagree about how authority should be organized and how many Sith should exist.
03 · Practice
Ritual, discipline, and everyday religion
Master-apprentice training, secret teaching, dueling, relic preservation, tomb visitation, ritual, alchemy or occult experimentation in some traditions, title-taking, and the cultivation of personal power recur across Sith history.
04 · Authority
Institutions and religious leadership
Authority may be claimed through lineage, conquest, mastery, title, hidden knowledge, or succession from a recognized master. Darth Bane's Rule of Two radically reorganized this problem by limiting legitimate Sith lineage to a master and apprentice.
05 · Material religion
Sacred places, objects, and landscapes
Moraband/Korriban, Exegol, Malachor, Sith tombs, temples, relics, holocrons, masks, and weapons preserve memory and legitimize later claimants. Sacred objects are often inseparable from political authority.
06 · Change over time
History, rupture, and continuity
Sith institutions repeatedly rise, fragment, disappear, and re-form. Ancient empires, later secret lineages, the Rule of Two, and the Sith Eternal show continuity through reinvention rather than one unchanged church-like institution.
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