darth wrend was a dark lord of the sith who lived at an unknown point in time and was best known for coming back to life after being killed by the jedi order, in order to fight them once again. the legend of darth wrend would come to qui-gon jinn's mind during his time as a padawan, who opened the holocron of prophecy, which contained numerous prophecies of which several dated ten thousand years prior. one of the prophecies said that evil would disappear yet appear again once the righteous had lost its light, which many believed that was referring to the return of the sith. at that time, qui-gon believed that the prophecy talked about darth wrend's return from the dead and that it had already been fulfilled, although it would later be discovered that the prophecy referred to the return of the sith in the form of darth sidious and his apprentice darth maul. darth wrend is only alluded in the novel and audiobook "master & apprentice".