Nightsisters

The Nightsisters was both a clan and an order of Force-wielding females who lived on Dathomir, a planet bathed in dark energies. By tapping into the magical ichor of that flowed from Dathomir's depths, they could use their arcane magicks.

History
The Nightsisters' clan developed on the mysterious planet of Dathomir. Since they were most powerful on their home planet, they rarely ventured off-world during the height of the Galactic Republic. However, that situation changed when a sister named Talzin became the clan's Mother. At the time of the Clone Wars, Talzin started to sell her sisters' services as mercenaries to the galaxy's wealthy citizens.

At some point prior to the Clone Wars, the clan was forced to give up the young Asajj Ventress to the Siniteen criminal Hal'Sted as protection. Ventress would later return to her people after being betrayed by Count Dooku and sought their help for revenge against her former master. Their scheme would earn them the ire of Dooku, who would later dispatch General Grievous to Dathomir in retaliation. The Nightsisters were massacred during the battle, with Ventress and Talzin being the sole survivors.

While Ventress pursued a path as a bounty hunter, Mother Talzin continued to live in seclusion in the Nightsisters' ruined fortress, where she helped heal the broken Darth Maul's body and mind.

Religion and philosophy
By tapping into the magical ichor of that flowed from Dathomir's depths, the witches could harness a power they referred to as "magicks." The most powerful of them could use that ichor to summon objects out of the thin air, transform people into ghostly versions of their true forms , or even reanimate the dead.

Society and culture
The Nighsisters lived in the seclusion of a stone fortress that bordered dense swamplands. A matriarchal society, the coven of sisters had the men of Dathomir, the Nightbrothers, living apart from them. Those males were only kept as servants and breeders. They used to mummify their dead before placing them in pods of animal skin decorated with tassels. Those pods were hung to structures made of branches, bones, animal skins and shells. Their graveyards mimicked the configuration of the plant life seen on Dathomir, with its crooked trees burdened by large, cocoon-like fruits.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 1
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 2
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 3
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 4
 * Untitled Asajj Ventress novel
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 1
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 2
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 3
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 4
 * Untitled Asajj Ventress novel
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 1
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 2
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 3
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 4
 * Untitled Asajj Ventress novel
 * Untitled Asajj Ventress novel