Editor’s Word: The next accommodates spoilers for Ahsoka Episodes 6.
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- Ahsoka Episode 6 reveals that Peridea is the precise homeworld of the Nightsisters, an all-female order of Drive-sensitive individuals with connections to The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
- Peridea is described as a graveyard planet, inhabited by the dominant pressure of the Nightsisters. It has large statues, a stronghold, and a mysterious energy lurking inside it.
- The Nightsisters have a historic animosity in the direction of the Jedi, regardless of not being inherently evil. They view the Drive in another way, which has triggered battle between the 2 factions.
Episode 6 of Ahsoka got here full of long-awaited arrivals, the one everybody was essentially the most longing for being Grand Admiral Thrawn’s (Lars Mikkelsen). However we additionally arrived on the mysterious world of Peridea, the planet in a complete new galaxy the place Thrawn and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) are exiled, and it is filled with mysteries, too. Seems that is the precise homeworld of the Nightsisters of Dathomir, an historic group of Darkish Facet Drive customers of which Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) is an element. She had already revealed that again within the collection premiere, however now we get to see there’s much more about them than we beforehand knew.
The world of Peridea is described by Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) as a graveyard, the place the house whales referred to as the purrgil migrate to when they’re able to die – the ring across the planet is actually fabricated from purrgil bones. The floor appears to be like like a barren wasteland, but it surely hides quite a lot of enjoyable new Star Wars species, just like the Noti and the Howlers, however the Nightsisters are the dominant pressure. They’ve large statues scattered throughout the planet, and their stronghold is carved onto a mountain with an altar identical to the one on Seatos on high. It appears to be like like they’ve been there for a very long time, so let’s have a look into who they are surely – and what they need.
The Nightsisters Had a Huge Affect in ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ and ‘Star Wars Rebels’
For many who have watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels earlier than Ahsoka, the Nightsisters and the planet of Dathomir are acquainted, and so they have been additionally talked about in The E book of Boba Fett and play an enormous position within the online game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. They’re an all-female order of Drive-sensitive individuals (principally Dathomiri Zabraks) who faucet into the Drive. Though highly effective, they’ve at all times been slightly closed-off, remaining totally on Dathomir due to the planet’s magical ichor, a everlasting inexperienced mist that was the supply of their energy. In the course of the Clone Wars, although, they did have a short expansionist interval, even establishing a stronghold on the planet Arcana, as seen within the Ahsoka collection premiere.
Other than Morgan Elsbeth, essentially the most well-known Nightsister is Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), a Dathomiri Zabrak who briefly apprenticed within the methods of the Darkish Facet of the Drive below Depend Dooku (Corey Burton), however finally returned to her homeworld to rejoin her sisters after being betrayed by him. Throughout her apprenticeship, she wreaked havoc on the Republic Military, however Dooku’s wrath led to the Separatists turning on the Nightsisters and sending Normal Grievous (Matthew Wooden) to Dathomir to wage warfare on them. Their downfall is likely one of the saddest arcs of The Clone Wars, as they’re the victims of genocide. After this, Ventress additionally briefly labored with Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) herself after she left the Jedi Order, however would finally perish within the waning years of the Clone Wars, as seen within the novel Darkish Disciple.
Though the Nightsisters themselves are all girls, Dathomir additionally had male inhabitants, essentially the most well-known being Maul (Ray Park/Sam Witwer). Within the comics Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, it is revealed that he was, in truth, the son of Mom Talzin (Barbara Goodson), the chief of the Nightsisters on Dathomir, which explains how he and his brother Savage Opress (Clancy Brown) have been so highly effective within the Drive. There have been clans of male Zabrak on Dathomir who served the Nightsisters, however, so far as energy and Drive-sensitivity go, they have been unique to Maul and the Nightsisters.
‘Ahsoka’ Builds on the Nightsister Lore Revealing Their True Origins
Now, Episode 6 of Ahsoka revealed that Peridea is the precise homeworld of the Nightsisters, in a distant galaxy that is so far-off, most individuals solely consider as folklore. The time period “Dathomiri” remains to be mentioned lots, although, which in all probability means the planet Dathomir was named after the Nightsisters, and never the opposite means round. Peridea has many similarities with Dathomir, together with the eerie ambiance and the facet of being a principally barren wasteland, despite the fact that it does not have the purple sky and the inexperienced ichor floating round. It additionally offers us extra perception into the Nightsisters themselves.
The one members of the group that we see are the Nice Moms Klothow (Claudia Black), Aktropaw (Jeryl Prescott Gallien), and Lakesis (Jane Edwina Seymour), who seem like the chiefs of the Peridea coven. They bear quite a lot of resemblance to the three witches in William Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, and the very body that introduces them may have been pulled from Joel Coen‘s The Tragedy of Macbeth. They always point out “the threads of destiny”, which is a recurring matter within the Shakespearean play, too. As witches, they’ve a connection to the occult and the unseen due to their tapping into the Darkish Facet. Baylan mentions that he feels an amazing energy in Peridea, one thing that “stirs” on the planet, which can both be the supply of the Nightsisters’ energy or a menace to them, therefore their alliance with Thrawn.
As a part of this treaty, Thrawn begins loading some mysterious crates onto his Star Destroyer Chimera, which Morgan Elsbeth mentions as having come from the catacombs. It hasn’t been confirmed what’s actually inside these crates, however they’ve common human dimensions. This and the truth that Thrawn’s military appears nearly macabre is probably going a tie to the Nightsisters’ skills to reanimate lifeless corpses. That occurs lots in The Clone Wars and Jedi: Fallen Order, and in addition in Ahsoka: Marrok, the final Inquisitor, was truly an undead being reanimated by Nightsister magick (with a Okay, as it is the title they offer their very own energy).
One other facet of the Nightsisters that is current each on Peridea and on Dathomir is their connection to nature. As they observe arcane methods and philosophies, they’re in fixed contact with their planets, usually drawing on their arcane power for energy. Additionally, each development and stronghold of the Nightsisters appears carved into the planet’s mountains and rocks, which we are able to see of their earlier appearances in Star Wars in addition to now in Ahsoka. Their stronghold in Peridea has a placing resemblance to The Lord of the Rings’ Minas Tirith, being a citadel and fortress carved right into a mountain, too.
The Nightsisters and the Jedi Have an Historical Animosity In direction of One One other
Additionally, the Nightsisters have historic dangerous blood with the Jedi, which is why the Nice Moms say that it “reeks of Jedi” when Morgan Elsbeth and her get together arrive at Peridea. The planet is a part of Jedi folklore and was taught in nursery rhymes on the Jedi Temple due to the purrgil, which in all probability means Jedi have already traveled to the planet in historic occasions. However the Nightsisters have been by no means inherently evil, regardless of tapping into the Darkish Facet of the Drive for energy. They simply view the Drive in another way, which is greater than sufficient for the Jedi to see them as evil.
Baylan Skoll himself could also be respectful when he is round Nightsisters however shows quite a lot of contempt about their methods when speaking along with his apprentice Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno) in non-public. Actually, when the Nice Moms say “It reeks of Jedi”, they’re in all probability speaking about Baylan and Shin, not about Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), because the latter cannot use the Drive.
There’s, although, a Nightsister that has good relations with the Jedi. Within the video games Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Jedi protagonist Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan) meets Nightsisters Merrin (Tina Ivlev), and the 2 grow to be associates and assist one another incessantly. They received off on the improper foot upon assembly for the primary time on Dathomir exactly due to the dangerous blood there may be between the 2 factions, however, because the video games go on, they see there’s far more to 1 one other and that they’re extra highly effective as allies than aside.