Respect Darth Zannah, the Dark Lady of the Sith
Speed
Darth Zannah, even while untrained, uses a telekinetic blast on Darovit's hand before even Bane can react or put up a guard.
It happened so quickly Bane never even had a chance to put up his guard ... but the attack wasn't directed at him.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah moved so fast that the world passed by her in a blur of wind and colors.
She was two small to pilot the swoop bike Bane had used to whisk them across the landscape. At first that hadn't mattered: She'd used her newfound talents in the Force to propel herself along, running so fast that the world passed by her in a blur of wind and color.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah speedblitzes Pommat and Quano.
Zannah answered by whipping out her lightsaber handle and igniting the red three-quarter-length blades protruding from each end. She moved with the blinding speed of the Force, her first vicious slash severing Pommat's outstretched arm at the elbow and carving a lethal furrow across his chest while the second cleanly removed Quano's head from his body. Both were dead before they even had a chance to register an expression of surprise.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Force Cloak
Darth Zannah claoks herself to the point where no one could sense her, or her master, and this effect lasted for 10 years.
And he never sensed the apprentice and her unconscious master, masked by Sith sorcery, hiding silently in the cellar just below his feet.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
A spell of concealment had hidden the Sith Lord and the young woman from the Jedi who had discovered the healer's body. The memories still carried the echo of the spell upon them; even after a decade it had been potent enough to momentarily overwhelm her.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Strength
During her duel with Set Harth, Zannah landed multiple hits on the Dark Jedi.
For good measure she kicked him hard in the back as he rolled past, a blow meant not to disable him, but to goad him on to further aggression.
...
When he was a step slow in retreating after one of his thrusts, she kicked his feet out from under him and sent him sprawling to the floor, only to back away and let him get to his feet again.
...
Zannah stepped forward and snapped her foot straight up, catching Set under the chin. He staggered back howling in pain while a string of unintelligible profanities spewed from his mouth, along with a spatter of blood. "Do you yield?" Zannah asked. His only response was to spit a gob of blood onto the expensive carpet at his feet and rush forward once more.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Telepathy
This is how Zannah describes her abilities:
I can use my powers to conjure up your worst nightmares and bring them to life before your eyes. I can drive you mad with fear, shred your sanity, and leave you a raving lunatic for the rest of your life.
Darth Zannah probes the mind of Cyndra and brings out her greatest fears.
Weaving her fingers in a complex pattern in the air, she reached out with the Force and plunged deep inside the Chiss woman's mind to find her secret, most primal fears. Buried in her subconscious were nameless horrors: abominations and creatures of nightmare never meant to see the light of day. Drawing on the power of Sith sorcery, Zannah plucked them out and brought them to life one by one.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah makes these illusions more real, making her shriek and collapse to the floor.
The illusions grew more real and more terrifying the longer the spell continued, but Zannah had no intention of ending it yet. The Chiss shrieked and threw her weapon to the ground. She flung her head wildly from side to side, covering it with her arms and screaming "No!" over and over before collapsing on the floor.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah keeps the spell going, pushing at Cyndra before making her nothing more but an empty shell.
Or Zannah could push the illusion even farther, driving her victim to the edge of insanity and beyond. An image of the Chiss romantically entangled with Kel sprang unbidden to her mind - and Zannah pushed.Cyndra's cries of terror became animal howls as her sanity was ripped apart by the ghastly visions. Her hands scratched and clawed at her own eyes, tearing them out. Blood poured down her cheeks, but even blindness couldn't save her from the nightmares crawling through what was left of her mind.
Her howls stopped as her body went into seizure; her mouth foamed as her limbs convulsed wildly on the floor. Then, with a final, bloodcurdling shriek, she fell limp and lay still. Her conscious mind completely and irrevocably obliterated, her catatonic body was now nothing more than an empty shell.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Darth Zannah drove Sarro Xaj insane.
The big man hesitated, casting a quick glance over toward the others to see what had happened. Seizing the opportunity, Zannah's fingers flickered in strange patterns as she unleashed her Sith sorcery at her foe. His eyes went wide and he stumbled away from her, his lightsaber swinging wildly at the air around him as he was beset on all sides by imaginary demons. Flailing in half-mad terror at the invisible monsters, he ignored Zannah as she swooped in and ended his life with one long, diagonal stroke across his muscular chest.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah used a mental assault on Set Harth, making his body tremble and fall down to a fetal position.
With Set, however, she did not intend to destroy him completely. Instead she enveloped him in a cloud of utter despair and hopelessness. She reached into the innermost recesses of his mind and wrapped it in the nothingness of the void. Set's eyes went blank, his jaw hung slack, and his lightsaber slipped from nerveless fingers. He slowly slumped to the ground, his eyes closing and his body trembling slightly as he curled up into a fetal position.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Darth Zannah even attacks Darth Bane through telepathy, making him fall to his knees. This was described as a strike from a hot knife.
Zannah's assault began as a sharp pain in his skull, like a hot knife stabbing directly into his brain before carving down to slice the two hemispheres in half. Then the knife exploded, sending a million burning shards in every direction. Each one burrowed into his subconscious, seeking out buried fears and nightmares only to rip them free and haul them to the surface. Bane let out a scream and dropped to his knees. When he stood up the sky was thick with a swarm of flying horrors.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
She kept this assault going, making Bane see creatures of horror that have the voice of his father.
Their wings were torn and ragged, leather flaps of skin hanging from exposed bone. Their bodies small and malformed, their twisted legs ending in long, sharp talons. Their flesh was a sickly yellow: the same color as the faces of the miners who had died on Apatros after being trapped in a gas-filled chamber.Their features were inhuman, but their burning eyes were unmistakable: each creature was staring at him with the hate-filled gaze of his abusive father. As one, they swooped down on him, their mouths screeching out a cry that sounded like his father's name: hurst!, hurst!, hurst!
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Telekinesis
Darth Zannah, while untrained, telekinetically breaks the necks of the Jedi who killed Laa.
Instinctively she lashed out at him. She didn't know how she did it, it wasn't even a conscious thought. She only knew he had shot her friend, he had killed Laa. His voice was cut short as she snapped his neck with the Force. The eyes of his companion went wide in horror. But before he could do anything else she had broken his neck too.
Source: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Zannah also telekinetically blasted off the hand of her cousin Darovit.
The right hand of the boy she called Tomcat- her cousin and childhood friend- disintegrated. With a mere thought she obliterated everything below his wrist: flesh, bone and tendon vanished in a bloody explosion, leaving only a ragged stump.
With nothing else to grip it, the hilt of his lightsaber clattered to the floor, the blade extinquished. Howling in pain, the boy fell to his knees, clutching his mutilated limb to his chest.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah used a Force choke on her cousin, Darovit.
Zannah reached back with the Force, wrapping it around his windpipe. And slowly she began to squeeze. Darovit fell to his knees, his hands flying up to his throat as his oxygen was cut off.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Zannah unleashed a telekinetic wave that slammed a distracted Bane into a wall and destroyed Lucia's body.
But before he could unleash it he was hit by a wall of thunderous force rolling out from a corridor to his left. Instinctively he threw up a defensive shield, absorbing the blow. Despite this, he was slammed against the opposite wall, knocking the breath from his lungs. Lucia was not so fortunate. Unable to call upon the Force to protect herself, she was sent careering down the corridor, flipping and twisting. Her skull smashed against the stone half a dozen times as her body ricocheted off the walls and ceiling, reducing it to a bloody, misshapen mess. Her corpse finally tumbled to a stop thirty meters away where the hall made an abrupt ninety-degree turn.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Force Wound
Zannah applies pressure to Caleb's internal organs, slowly crushing them.
She reached out with the Force and picked Caleb up. His feet dangled only a few centimeters off the floor, yet his head brushed against the shack's low, slanted roof. She began to squeeze, applying pressure directly to his internal organs, slowly crushing them as she inflicted an agonizing pain few beings had ever experienced. She was careful to leave his lungs alone, however-allowing him enough air to breath and speak.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Force Shield
Darth Zannah, even while untrained, put up a shield that saved her and Laa from burning destruction.
The fires had killed most of the other bouncers. The survivors had all gone mad. All except Laa. Somehow Rain saved her. She'd used the Force, shielding them both from the burning death and destruction, though she wasn't quite sure how she'd done it.
Source: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Combat skill
Darth Zannah briefly holds her own against an Orbalisk Bane.
She fell into a defensive posture as she so often had during their training sessions. But this was no drill, and her Master came at her with a speed and ferocity she had never faced before. Giving in to his orbalisk-fueled bloodrage, he was like a wild animal, raining savage blows down on her from all angles, the strikes coming so fast it seemed as if he wielded a dozen blades at the same time. Zannah fell into a full retreat, desperately giving ground beneath the overwhelming assault.
…
She ducked under a horizontal cut from his lightsaber, only to catch a heavy boot in her ribs. She rolled with the kick, narrowly avoiding the return cut of his blade. She parried a sharp descending blow, gathered her feet under her, and launched herself backward, flipping ten meters clear.
…
She scrambled to her feet and twirled her lightsaber before her, creating what she hoped would be an impenetrable wall of defense. Instead of trying to pierce her guard, Bane leapt high in the air and came down almost right on top of her. She deftly parried his blade, redirecting it to the side as she spun away to keep his body from slamming into her. But Bane caught her on the chin with his elbow as she turned, the blow snapping her head back. Her body went limp, her weapon dropped from her nerveless fingers, and she crumpled to the ground.
Source: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
Darth Zannah bests Set Harth in a duel.
With the Force he picked up a bronze bust on the side of the room and hurled it toward her left flank. At the same time, he dived forward into a somersault that brought him close enough to strike at her right side as he tumbled past her. Zannah easily repelled both threats, her spinning blades slicing the bust in half even as she pivoted just enough so that Set's weapon missed her hip by less than a centimeter.
His fury allowed him to call upon the dark side, making him even more dangerous as he unleashed his next series of attacks. Leaping high in the air, crouching low to the ground, lunging forward, springing back, spinning, twisting, and twirling, he came at her from every conceivable angle in a relentless barrage meant to overwhelm her defenses, only to have Zannah turn his efforts back with a cool, almost casual, efficiency.
At Bane's urging, she had become an expert in the defensive sequences of the Soresu form. It was simple for her to parry, redirect, or evade her opponent's blows by using Set's own momentum against him, easily keeping the Dark Jedi at bay.
When he moved back in, she twisted her lightsaber in a sharp, unorthodox move, hooking one of her blades onto his and wrenching the weapon from his hand
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Zannah stalemates Darth Bane, using her defenses to hold off his assault.
He opened with a series of two-handed overhead chops, using his great height to bring his blade hacking down at her from above. She easily blocked each blow, but the momentum of the crushing impact caused her to stagger back, throwing her off balance. She recovered quickly, however, spinning out of the way when he followed up with a low, looping swipe meant to hew her off at the knees. She retaliated with a quick jab with the tip of one of her blades toward Bane's face, but he ducked his head to the side and came back with a wide-arcing, single-handed slash at chest level. Zannah intercepted his blade with one of her own, angling her weapon so that the momentum of Bane's attack was redirected downward, sending the tip of his lightsaber into the dirt. This should have exposed him to a counterthrust, but he was already reacting to her move, driving his entire body forward into Zannah's before she could bring her weapon up. His weight slammed into her, knocking her back as Bane snapped his neck forward. Zannah threw her head back just in time, and the head-butt that would have smashed her face glanced off her chin instead. Scrambling to stay on her feet, Zannah raised her weapon back up, spinning the handle so that the twirling blades formed a defensive wall that repelled Bane's next half a dozen blows.
Bane pressed the action with a devastating, complex combination of attacks, but Zannah was able to intercept, parry, or deflect each one. Her defensive style was simple, but performed correctly it was nearly impenetrable.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Even after tripping on a grave and falling to the ground, Zannah managed to ward of Bane's assault and get back to her feet.
Bane was on her in an instant, his lightsaber slashing viciously, his heavy boots kicking and stomping at her prone body. Zannah thrashed and twisted on the ground, her lightsaber flailing desperately to parry Bane's blade. She felt a sharp crack as the toe of his boot caught her in the ribs, but she rolled with the impact and managed to end up back on her feet. Her vision was blurred with stars, pain shooting through her left side with each gasp as she tried to catch her breath. Bane didn't let up, coming at her with a frenetic assault. The next few seconds were a blur as Zannah relied purely on instincts honed over twenty years to parry the wave of blows, miraculously keeping him from landing a lethal strike. Zannah threw herself into a back handspring, flipping head over heels three times in quick succession just to put some space between her and Bane.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
Dark Side Tendrils
During her final battle with Darth Bane, Zannah brought forth Tendrils of the Dark Side from the ground.
Again she opened herself up to the dark side. This time, however she didn't attack Bane directly. Instead, she let it flow through her, drawing it from the soil and stone of Ambria itself. She called to power buried for centuries, summoning it up to the surface in wispy tendrils of dark smoke snaking up from the sand.The thin tendrils crawled along the ground, reaching for one another, twining themselves together into writhing tentacles each several meters long. Then, in response to her unspoken command, the tentacles rose up and lashed out at her foe.
Source: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
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