A noble of the House of Qel-Tythas, Nero struggled from dividing his duties between fulfilling his role as a Jedi Knight and his responsibilities as the heir to New Alderaan's royal family. Indirectly emulating his father's choice of attire, Nero typically garbed himself in lightweight Echani-forged Jedi armor and dual silver lightsabers. Like many Jedi, Nero held a strong distrust—and unwillingness to trust—of the Sith Lords. While based partially on principal, much of his animosity grew from resentment of the Sith Hegemony's Kingdom of Tyûk, due to the death of his cousin, Keson Qel-Tythas, and Sith King Raedon III permanently blinding Nero's father during the final battle of the Hundred-Day War.