Maul recognized that he had been kidnapped as a child from the Nightsisters by Palpatine, and tortured and raised to be a disposable tool, while being promised Darth-ness. He was a successful assassin, yet was bisected by Obi-wan. The safety mechanisms in the energy tube saved his life, but he was forgotten. Palpatine never came looking for him, and simply moved on. When his sanity was restored by Mother Talzin, possibly his mother, he realized his loss and a deep desire for revenge against Sidious and Obi-wan. With his Nightsister enhanced brother he tried to set up a competing Sith pair and base of power- combining Mandalorian Deathwatch, Hutt, Pike and Black Sun forces to rule Mandalore and control Hutt Space. In response to this challenge, Sidious appeared and personally smacked them both down in an awesome fight that shows why no one should mess with Sidious (fight occurred in clone wars). His brother was slain, and he was imprisoned. But the usage was not done yet. Sidious allowed him to escape and try to rebuild his scattered power base to lure out Talzin, who tried to possess Dooku to replace her lost corporeal form. This allowed her to be trapped and destroyed by Sidious, and Maul barely escaped the following assault. He disapears in bitterness and anger until he appears in an old Sith Temple (Star wars Rebels)- craving revenge against Vader, Sidious, their Empire, and Obi-wan. His anti-Imperial credentials allowed him to ally with the Rebels to gain his ends, combining Sith and Jedi holocrons to find his answers, reaching out to Ezra Bridger as a apprentice, and discovering Obi-wan was alive, went out after him. Hatred and revenge dominate his life.. When he confronts obi wan
Maul: Look what has become of you. A rat in the desert.
Ben Kenobi: Look at what I've risen above.
Maul: I've come to kill you, but perhaps it's worse to leave you here, festering in your squalor.
Ben Kenobi: If you define yourself by your power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess? Then you have nothing.
Maul: [igniting his lightsaber] And what do you have? Why come to this place, not simply to hide?... Oh, you have a purpose here. Perhaps you are "protecting" something? No... protecting *Someone*.
At that moment obi wan realizes that maul knows about luke, he calmly ignites his saber and takes maul out.. As maul lay there dying he says"
Maul: [Dying] Tell me... is it the chosen one?
Ben Kenobi: He is.
Maul: He will... avenge us. Avenge us means he will kill vader and the emperor... which was always mauls greatest wish even more so then obi wan, but he failed when he tried himself and much like yoda went into hiding
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