savage opress was a male dathomirian zabrak sith shadow hand first trained under darth tyrannus and later under his own brother, darth maul, as well as a major antagonist in "". originally a nightbrother under mother talzin on dathomir, he was handpicked by asajj ventress as part of her scheme to kill darth tyrannus for the attempt on her life. his mind was eventually altered by the nightsisters, making him more of a berserker on ventress' call to the point of killing his brother feral without remorse. opress managed to become tyrannus' new shadow hand and learned only a little about the ways of the sith before ventress had him help her fight their master due to his actions under him getting unwanted attention from the jedi. however, in the heat of the moment and provoked by both of them, opress tried to kill both tyrannus and ventress before escaping back to dathomir. there, he was instructed by mother talzin to find maul so that he could complete his training to defend himself against the numerous enemies he had made. after finding his long-lost brother as a shell of his former self on a junk planet, opress managed to stir up maul's grudge with obi-wan kenobi to aid him in his revenge against the jedi. from there, the zabrak duo were able to set up a confederacy against the republic separate from the separatists, and soon took over mandalore. however, they received an unexpected visit by darth sidious, who considered maul's sudden rise to power a threat to his rule, and dueled both him and opress. the latter was fatally injured in the fight and died in maul's arms, who would soon be defeated as well and captured by sidious.