Quillan (Sith)

The Sith Lord Chagras, who ruled the Sith domain called the Chagras Hegemony during the New Sith Wars, had Quillan and his twin sister Dromika as his youngest children. When Chagras passed away in 1040 BBY, it triggered a second series of clan conflicts among the Sith clan that governed the Grumani sector. At that time, Quillan and Dromika were only five years of age. They rose to become the leaders of a diminished state called the Dyarchy, which was administered on their behalf by Saaj Calician, their Krevaaki Regent. They made their home on the planet Byllura, residing on a mesa that towered above the capital city, Hestobyll. During his formative years, Quillan developed a specialty in employing the Force to manipulate his surroundings, effectively transforming all other sentient beings and droids into extensions of his will. With Calician's assistance, Quillan and Dromika utilized a network of Celegians to broadcast mental suggestions that captivated Byllura's population, causing them to function as a unified, living entity. To maintain their grip on the Dyarchy, Calician deployed a force of Unifiers clad in red, who enforced compliance among the populace through Force persuasion. This accomplishment was unparalleled elsewhere in the Grumani sector, as even Sith Lord Daiman, who considered himself the omnipresent Creator of the universe, could not exert the same degree of direct influence over the everyday affairs of his own subjects.

Throughout their reign, they remained within their mesa, as Quillan was afflicted by a potent farsight ability, receiving care from Dromika, Calician, and a sizable retinue of servant droids. Quillan's Force-based perceptions were so intense that all other sentient beings were required to address them from a dais situated at a distance from their throne, which consisted of a mound of orange pillows. As Quillan perceived living beings as mere phantoms radiating brightly through the Force, which obscured his physical senses, only servant droids were permitted to approach the twins physically. For much of his life, Quillan primarily resided within his vast mind, preferring to delegate the majority of his interactions with the external world to his twin sister Dromika and their Regent Calician.

Their Regent, Calician, intended to exploit the twin siblings' mental Force abilities to further his own ambitious aspirations of galactic dominance. Calician held the belief that for a single Sith to govern the entire galaxy, all other beings had to become integral components of the "self." Five years before the Dyarchy's downfall in 1032 BBY, Calician personally commissioned the construction of a fleet comprising fourteen large battlecruisers, each carrying a single Force-sensitive Celegian who would receive orders directly from Byllura. These warships were built within concealed hangars located beneath the capital Hestobyll's expansive reflection pools. By 1032 BBY, this fleet was prepared for operations, and Calician intended to use them to invade the Daimanate's rearward systems as the initial step towards galactic domination.

Following the Battle of Gazzari, Kerra Holt, a Jedi Knight, along with the mercenary Jarrow Rusher and several refugee children she had rescued on Gazzari, journeyed to Byllura aboard the Diligence while en route to the Galactic Republic. Quillan immediately sensed Kerra's presence through the Force and instructed Calician to monitor the newcomers and include them. Calician instructed the Celegian known as "One" to contact the orbital defense stations and promptly report the arrival of any strangers. The Diligence received permission to dock at a landing platform within Hestobyll's spaceport. Upon their arrival, "One" directed individuals to relocate the refugees to a center where they would be assigned living quarters and subsequently "integrated" into the population.

Kerra swiftly discerned that an unknown force (later revealed to be the Celegian "One") was controlling the entire population of Byllura through Force Persuasion, noting that everyone moved in unison. In an attempt to shield two of her charges, the Sullustan Tan Tengo and the Duros Beadle Lubboon, from being forcibly "integrated" into Dyarchy subjects, Kerra promptly initiated a confrontation with several Unifiers mounted on speeder bikes. Concurrently, Jarrow and the remainder of Rusher's Brigade engaged a party of Unifiers attempting to seize control of the Diligence. During the ensuing Battle of Byllura, Kerra pursued Tan and Beadle's captors through the streets of Hestoybyll, across the bay, and into the mesa, which served as the source of the Force presence controlling the people of Byllura. Kerra successfully infiltrated The Loft through the airspeeder hangar bay, fending off several Unifiers along the way.

Quillan and Dromika also detected Kerra's presence through the Force and compelled Calician to eliminate the Jedi intruder. By this point, Kerra had realized that the Sith were employing Celegians to manipulate the populace through mental suggestions. She infiltrated the chamber where the Celegian "One" was housed within a large transparisteel cylinder at the center of the room. Kerra managed to communicate with "One" and persuade him to turn against his Sith overlords by transmitting confusing signals to the other Celegians and their charges. She instructed him to order the guards to return to their barracks and then to command another guard to bring the prisoners Tan and Beaddle to the hangar bay. Finally, she ordered "One" to instruct the people of Hestobyll to return to their homes and cease sending messages for his Sith overlords.

Using mental suggestions, Quillan and Dromika commanded the Krevakii Regent Calician to engage Kerra in combat, leading to a brief lightsaber duel. Calician managed to conclude the duel by luring her into a turbolift, feigning an attempt to rescue her two young charges. Upon reaching the top floor of the Loft, the twins employed mental suggestions to order their nanny droids to attack Kerra, launching themselves at the Jedi woman. Kerra entered the half-black dome that housed their throne room and confronted the twins. Initially mistaking them for captives, she quickly realized that they were the focal point of the dark side energy she had sensed. They were joined by Calician, who introduced Kerra to the Sith twins, explaining their philosophy of encompassing all life under their control. The Regent attempted to coerce Kerra into joining the Dyarchy by threatening her with death.

Having trapped and cornered their first major Jedi adversary, Quillan instructed his sister Dromika to command Kerra to kneel. When Kerra refused to submit to the twins, Dromika employed her powers of force persuasion to compel Kerra to kneel. However, the twins quickly became embroiled in a dispute with their Regent over who would have the honor of executing the "Jedi aspect."

Calician sought to kill Kerra with his lightsaber-batons, but Dromika desired to do it herself. The twins employed their Force powers to physically restrain Calician in his position. As Calician argued with the twins and demanded that they release him, Kerra managed to reignite her lightsaber and attack the Regent, severing one of his tentacles. She then engaged the twins in a mental battle, employing telepathy to hurl objects across the room at each other.

The ensuing duel was interrupted by the arrival of the Diligence, which breached through the Lodge. During the fighting, Kerra swiftly realized that Quillan was using his sister Dromika as a puppet to carry out his commands. In the ensuing chaos, Kerra took Quillan hostage and brought him aboard the Diligence, fleeing Dromika, who had picked up one of Calician's lightsabers. Meanwhile, Jarrow had already retrieved Tan and Beadle from the palace's airspeeder hangar bay. Once aboard the Diligence, Quillan was detained in the nook of the warship's command bridge and guarded by two armed mercenaries. During his captivity, Quillan descended into a tantrum of howling fits, as he had never been outside his room in the Loft before.

Despite Quillan's helpless state, Jarrow was angered by Kerra's decision to bring a Sith Lord aboard, citing Admiral Telettoh's maxim never to allow a Sith Lord aboard a Republic vessel. Telettoh had been a Republic Admiral during the Mandalorian Wars centuries earlier who had made the mistake of allowing a secret Sith known as Malak aboard his ship Testament. With the Dyarchy's ruler in captivity, his sister Dromika no longer had commands to relay to their Celegians. Unable to cope with the kidnapping of her twin, Dromika had collapsed into a coma. Within minutes, the twin's intricate command system on Byllura had collapsed as the population emerged from their mentally-induced thralldom and rebelled against the Dyarchy. Riots quickly broke out across Byllura's surface, including the capital city Hestobyll. This situation was further complicated by the rebellion of the Celegians themselves after "One" had successfully convinced the others to rebel against their Sith overlords and cease sending transmissions.

Under Quillan's rule, Byllura had been a model of Sith centralization, with a non-electronic system centered on the will power of one Sith Lord. Ultimately with the loss of their ruler, centralization proved to be the Dyarchy's archilles heel. A desperate Regent Calician contacted Kerra via intercom, inquiring about whether Quillan was still alive and explaining the full of extent of the impact of Quillan's kidnapping on the Dyarchy. With Dromika trapped in a coma, Calician tried to get Kerra to kill Quillan since he wanted revenge for the thralldom he endured at the hands of the twins. In return, Kerra also got Calician to free the captive Celegians. As the Diligence was exiting Byllura's upper atmosphere, the Dyarchy was invaded by a fleet of Arkadianate warships led by their older sibling and Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra. Arkadia's warfleet quickly neutralized the Dyarchy's battleships and captured the Diligence in their tractor beam projector.

Following the Battle of Byllura, Quillan was taken into the custody of his older sister and brought to her capital Syned, a barren and frozen world. Arkadianite forces also found Calician and executed him, and according to a report received by the Bothan spy Narsk Ka'hane, Calician met his end quietly. Ultimately, Byllura fell and the Dyarchy was subsumed into Arkadia's territories. Meanwhile, his sister Dromika still remained within their mountain top palace but was also placed under the custody of Arkadianate guardians. Since Quillan had completely enthralled his twin sister through their telepathic bond, Arkadia took steps to ensure that the two siblings remained separated for the rest of their lives. She hoped that Dromika would be able to lead a better quality of life following her separation from Quillan.

Throughout his time on Syned, Quillan remained immersed in his mind, appearing to outsiders to be in a catatonic state. He thus had to be transported on a special brown repulsorlift chair. Quillan was also present at a holographic Bequest session convened by his grandmother and family matriarch Vilia Calimondra. Vilia allowed her older granddaughter Arkadia to take possession of the former Dyarchy. Concerned at her grandson's well-being, Vilia arranged for Quillan to be transported to her secret residence, with its coordinates being sent via a secure channel. The Bothan spy Narsk would be assigned with ferrying Quillan on a shuttle transport to Vilia's secret location.

However, Arkadia sought to use this as an opportunity to kill both her grandmother and her younger brother, subscribing to the Sith credo that there could only be one Sith. She prepared a special repulsorlift chair for Quillan which had a concealed nerve gas canister. Arkadia intended to kill Quillan while en route to Vilia's location. She also attempted to recruit the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt as an assassin to kill Vilia; seeking revenge for the death of their father Chagras and to end the stalemated Second Charge Matrica, a series of feudal Sith conflicts. When Kerra objected, Arkadia had her imprisoned but the Jedi woman managed to escape with the help of Narsk, who had been a secret agent for Vilia.

Narsk also swapped Quillan's repulsorlift chair, leaving the deadly one carrying nerve gas with the ground technicians. The shuttle departed amid the Siege of Calimondretta, which had been staged as a diversionary escape by Kerra and mercenary Rusher and damaged large areas of the Calimondretta. During the journey, Narsk's ears were permanently destroyed by the impact caused by sonic bombardment during the fighting. However, he succeeded in delivering Quillan safely to Vilia who assumed ultimate custody of both her younger grandchildren. Meanwhile, two of Vilia's other agents had spirited his sister Dromika away from Byllura, bring her into Vilia Calimondra's empire. Knowing the dynamics of the close albeit abusive bond between the twins, Vilia also ensured that the twins were kept far apart from each other. She did not want Quillan and Dromika's Force powers to be exploited by older opportunists like Calician and Arkadia.

Quillan possessed a profound connection to the Force, exhibiting a remarkable farsight ability that enabled him to perceive the future with great precision. However, this ability came at a cost, as he suffered from fever, headaches, and the necessity for those around him to wear dark colors to prevent him from experiencing pain. Similar to the Sith Lord Odion, Quillan's Force perceptions were hypersensitive, causing all other sentient beings to radiate brightly through the Force from his perspective. He spent the majority, if not all, of his life on Byllura, shielded from anything that could harm him, including colors. When confronted with something novel, Quillan would often retreat into a corner and assume a fetal position while Dromika attempted to soothe him.

Quillan and his twin sister Dromika regarded all other agencies outside themselves including both sentient beings and droids as aspects. While the twins were separated physically in body, they were conjoined through the Force which made them one inseparable being. Dromika was the only person able to contact him since she only she shared the same Force plane that he dwelled within. According to Regent Calician, this Force bond was so strong that no form of science or Sith alchemy could separate them. Calician also recalled that Quillan had never spoken a word prior to the Battle of Byllura when he was around fourteen years old.

Quillan lived entirely within his expansive mind, preferring to use mental Force suggestions to manipulate other sentient beings into doing his will. Due to his mind powers, Quillan succeeded in controlling the minds of all the inhabitants of Byllura, making the planet's population almost like a single-celled organism. He also had a natural talent of far-seeing into the future. Due to his deep afinity with the Force, Quillan rarely spoke and instead delegated the tasks of communications to his twin Dromika and their Regent Calician.

Unlike most other Sith however, Quillan and his twin sister Dromika lacked any discernible combat skills since they preferred to act through their environment, using other beings as extensions of their will. Quillan had lived in the Loft for much of his life and had never engaged in physical exercise or labor. Even as a teenager, Quillan always donned pajamas and rarely left his throne room. In terms of physical appearance, Quillan had sandy hair and had dark, saggy eyes.

The character of Quillan made his debut as a minor antagonist in John Jackson Miller's novel, Knight Errant, which was initially published on January 25, 2011. While this marked Miller's first published novel, he also developed the script for the Star Wars: Knight Errant comic series, which maintains close ties to the novel. As of now, he has not made an appearance within the comic series.

On his personal website, Faraway Press, Miller commented that he aimed to utilize Quillan and his sister Dromika to illustrate the tragic consequences that being born into Sith Space could have on the lives of Force-sensitive children living under Sith rule. He contended that Quillan had been molded into a weapon under the guidance of his Sith mentor, Saaj Calician. Miller also posited that if Quillan had been born under more favorable circumstances within the Galactic Republic, the Jedi could have assisted them in leading normal lives.