marka ragnos was an ancient sith-human hybrid sith lord, who lived during the time of the first sith empire, and seized the title of dark lord of the sith, serving as the ruler of the empire. after his death, two sith lords, naga sadow and ludo kressh, fought to occupy his throne, only for ragnos' spirit to appear before them and claim that only the most worthy should succeed him. ragnos lived on as a force spirit following his death, trapped within his tomb in the valley of the dark lords on korriban. a thousand years after the dark lord's death, exar kun summoned ragnos from his grave through the use of talismans. ragnos crowned exar kun as the new dark lord, with ulic qel-droma as kun's apprentice, as an attempt to resurrect the lost empire thousands of years prior. several thousands of years after that, in the video game "" (set during the new republic era), a cult dedicated to ragnos, led by the dark jedi tavion axmis, raised as a new threat to the galaxy, with the intent of resurrecting the sith lord using an old artifact called the scepter of ragnos. after absorbing froce energy from numerous locations across the galaxy using the scepter, tavion and her cult traveled to korriban and almost succeeded in resurrecting ragnos, but were stopped by luke skywalker's new jedi order. inside ragnos' tomb, the jedi knight jaden korr defeated tavion, before ragnos' spirit emerged and possessed her body, attempting to kill the jedi. however, jaden was able to defeat ragnos, whose spirit left tavion's body and returned to the depths of the force, swearing revenge against the jedi.