The exact nature of these rituals was unclear even for Kallig, but he was certain they were meant to harm the apprentice. Ever since the apprentice left from his tomb, Zash had been visiting the Dark Temple regularly, performing strange rituals in Kallig's tomb. While sleeping on his/her ship, the apprentice got a surprise visit from Lord Kallig. With the assistance of two former members of the cult, the apprentice is able to make his own cult and obtain the artifact. On Nar Shaddaa, the apprentice had to claim the artifact from a renegade Sith Lord Paladius, leader of a cult of the impovershed. Eventually, the apprentice managed to obtain the artifact with a serum that made him/her immune to the toxic vault's effects. The Major knew where the artifact was located, but its resting place had become a toxic pit due to the recent war with the Republic. On Balmorra, the apprentice had to work with Imperial Major Bessiker to locate the artifact. Zash gave her apprentice a ship for the search. So far Zash had learned locations of the artifacts on Balmorra and Nar Shaddaa. The other four artifacts had been hidden all over the galaxy. She had learned that the artifact the apprentice found was only one out of five. Zash then contacted him/her and urged him/her to return. The apprentice believed his story and was allowed to take the artifact, but Kallig advised him to be careful, due to Sith's deceptive nature.
Believing the apprentice to be a threat, it attacks, but stopped soon, and then explained that he was the Sith Lord Kallig, Tulak Hord's greatest rival, and theĀ apprentice's ancestor. As the apprentice approached the tomb where the artifact was being kept, the apparition appeared. With that scheme successful, and Skotia's records now hers, Zash sent her apprentice to the Dark TempleĀ to obtain Tulak Hord's artifact from a Sith apparition. Her Apprentice was a little worried, but when s/he met Zash at Skotia's old offices, she had received the title of Darth. However, she had to go to answer Darth Thanaton. Zash had orchestrated Skotia's assassination so that she simply couldn't be the one who killed him, because she was at the cantina when her apprentice struck him down. Zash is ecstatic at her apprentice's victory, but is suspected by a powerful Sith and Zash's superior, Darth Thanaton. Using the tablet to blackmail the guards and the Nullifier to disrupt Skotia's cybernetics, the apprentice and Khem Val are able to mortally wound Skotia, who with his final breaths warns the apprentice that s/he is next. After recovering a tablet of extreme religious importance to the Trandoshans as a race and procuring an experimental device called the Cybernetic Nullifier, which is designed to negate cybernetic enhancements, the apprentice confronts Skotia. Zash is agitated by this and deploys the apprentice across Dromund Kaas on errands that will ultimately cumulate into Skotia's downfall. Skotia is hostile to the apprentice and tells the Inquisitor that he does not know Zash's plans but will attempt stop them, whatever they might be. Upon arriving in Dromund Kaas, the Inquisitor encounters a powerful Sith Lord named Darth Skotia, who boasts Trandoshan bodyguards and a body of expensive cybernetics. Zash instructs her new apprentice to meet her on Dromund Kaas. After discovering a hidden chamber of Tulak Hord and defeating its Dashade inhabitant, Khem Val, into submission, the Sith Inquisitor returns to the Sith Academy and claims the honor of being Lord Zash's apprentice.
The young Sith prevails through the early trials and is sent (along with the final apprentice candidate) to the Tomb of Naga Sadow and tasked to uncover its secrets. It is revealed that the most promising trainee will become the new apprentice to Lord Zash. The Sith Inquisitor, a former slave, starts on Korriban's Sith Academy to undergo training to become Sith.