In an excerpt from the upcoming book,
“It was in the design of the character, as well as knowing that we were going to introduce Darth Plagueis, who has to end up with Palpatine as his apprentice. Following the Rule of Two – a precept that limited the Sith to just two at any given time, a master and an apprentice – one way to keep it going it is if the Stranger is the first Knight of Ren, part of a Sith-adjacent cult that we know eventually survives.”
This revelation would have connected the High Republic era to the sequels, providing a much needed backstory for the mysterious Knights of Ren.
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