Maul, a Force-sensitive Dathomirian Zabrak male, was a dark sidewarrior who served as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Maul during the final years of the Galactic Republic and reigned as a crime lord during the rule of the Galactic Empire. The son of MotherTalzin of the Nightsisters, he was taken at a young age by the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, who anointed his first Sith apprenticeDarth Maul. Through his training, Maul grew strong in the dark side of the Force, becoming an expert lightsaber duelist and assassin who yearned to reveal the Sith‘s continued survival to the Jedi Order. During the crisis on Naboo in 32 BBY, Maul confrontedJedi MasterQui-Gon Jinn and PadawanObi-Wan Kenobi. Although he succeeded in killing the former, Maul was defeated and maimed by Jinn’s apprentice, who left the Sith Lord for dead. As a result of Maul’s defeat and apparent death, Sidious replaced him with Count Dooku, Jinn’s Jedi mentor who adopted the Sith persona of Darth Tyranus.