Hakagram Graush was a male Sith belonging to the Sith Empire, who governed the planet of Korriban holding the title of Sith King circa 6900 BBY. Following the arrival on Korriban of Dark Jedi exiles after the Hundred-Year Darkness, the Sith sorcerer and ruler, together with his people, forbade the newcomers from gaining access to their Sith magic secrets. However, through the monarch's second-in-command, known as the Shadow Hand, the numerous Dark Jedi managed to gain the King's trust. Ajunta Pall, who led the Dark Jedi, beheaded Graush using the King's own war sword.
Following Graush's death, Pall seized the King's throne. The Dark Jedi became Sith Lords themselves, replacing Graush as the ruler of the Sith people. The late King was interred within a tomb situated in the Valley of the Sleeping Kings. Millennia after the King's passing, the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis visited the tomb, seeking information about the existence of Force ghosts, but Graush's spirit never appeared.
Hakagram Graush was a male individual who belonged to the Sith, a blood-colored race of aggressive humanoids that originated on Korriban, a desolate planet within the Stygian Caldera. Like the majority of his species, Graush possessed a strong connection to the Force, and he shared his family name with the well-known Sith sorcerer Dathka Graush and the Graush dynasty.
Eventually, Graush was crowned as the king of his people. The monarch governed the Sith Empire with the aid of his second-in-command, known as the Shadow Hand. During his time as ruler, Graush constructed a palace on Ziost, which served as the capital of the ancient Sith Empire. His reign continued until approximately 6900 BBY, when the Exiles, a group of fallen Jedi who had been defeated in a pan-galactic conflict known as the Hundred-Year Darkness, arrived. The leader of the Exiles, High General Ajunta Pall, was particularly interested in the techniques the Sith used to draw power from the dark side. Despite the strangers' greater powers and superior weaponry, referred to as lightsabers, Graush and his Sith did not immediately worship them as deities upon their arrival.
Without Graush's knowledge, the Dark Jedi infiltrated the Sith society's power structure, aiming to undermine the monarch's authority from the inside. Betrayed by his own Shadow Hand, Graush was tricked into trusting the Exiles, which ultimately resulted in his death when Pall decided to execute the Sith King. Graush was forced to kneel and was beheaded with a swing of his own war sword. The Kissai believed Pall was a manifestation of Typhojem and crowned him as their Jen'ari, or Dark Lord of the Sith.
Pall rose to become the ruler of the people of Korriban and Ziost, declaring himself the rightful successor to the renowned King Adas. Pall, along with his allies, including the Human female Sorzus Syn, eventually proclaimed themselves to be Sith Lords. Despite being removed from his throne and murdered, Graush was given a respectful burial in the Valley of the Sleeping Kings, Korriban's impressive burial site.
Following Graush's demise, the Sith Order was established, and the Sith species' culture was transformed into a dark side religion. However, millennia after his passing, the name Hakagram Graush was still remembered. The Muun Sith Lord Darth Plagueis journeyed to Korriban and visited the burial grounds, which were then called the Valley of the Dark Lords, hoping to encounter Sith spirits and ask them about their ancient secrets.
Among other symbolic places, such as the throne of Sorzus Syn, Plagueis entered the tomb of Graush and attempted to communicate with the ghost of the last Sith King, but his efforts were unsuccessful. Plagueis did not witness any ghostly apparitions, which strengthened his belief that they did not exist. Plagueis wrote a brief note about this lack of supernatural activity in his scientific journal.
Hakagram Graush was a tall, muscular Sith with crimson skin. Unlike the majority of other Sith, he possessed five fingers on each hand, instead of the usual three. When he chose not to wear a helmet, the King's long, dark hair could be seen flowing down his neck. When Graush first encountered the Exiles, he was not particularly impressed by the newcomers' advanced technology. He did not worship them as deities, viewing them as powerful but not godlike.
Despite Korriban's frigid climate, he often went barechested, wearing only a cape and an ornate loincloth. Like most of his contemporaries at the time, he wore numerous types of ornaments, including metal bracers and shin armors. Graush also wore a helmet crafted from the skull of a horned creature, with a neck guard composed of small metal scales.
Hakagram Graush, the last King of the Sith, made his initial appearance in the second issue of the 1996 comic book series titled Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith. The monarch was not named in the series, and his identity was only revealed in 2012, with the release of Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side. Daniel Wallace, the author of Book of Sith, originally intended for the murdered monarch to be the Sith sorcerer Dathka Graush. However, Wallace realized that this would not align with Dathka's established timeline, so he introduced Hakagram, who was likely his descendant, instead.
While the text in Book of Sith explicitly states that Ajunta Pall beheaded Hakagram Graush using the monarch's own sword, an illustration depicts Pall using a lightsaber. In his endnotes, Wallace acknowledged that he did not notice this error during his review of the artwork.
In the twenty-ninth issue of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comic series, a horned helmet known as the Helm of Dathka Graush was featured. The design of this helmet is similar to the one Hakagram Graush wore in Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2.
In Tales of the Jedi Companion, Ood Bnar states that the Sith "were not united, preferring to remain in tribal 'circles,'" when Ajunta Pall conquered them. However, Ood Bnar lived in 4000 BBY, 2900 years after Ajunta Pall. Sorzus Syn witnessed Ajunta Pall meeting and beheading Graush, so this article assumes that Bnar was misinformed.