Daughter

I think everyone, their Nan, and their Nan's cat knows about The Ones—The Father, The Daughter, and The Son—gods of the force from the light, dark, and balance. But, what other gods/deities exist? 🤔

The connection between Ahsoka and Maul is one I wouldn’t expect. Surprisingly, I think a bond between these two characters not only exists but is deeper than initially expected.

Darth Maul vs Ahsoka - Art by Anna Kulisz

In many ways, Ahsoka and Maul are the poster children of TCW. Ahsoka acts as TCW’s protagonist, or at the very least our POV character for the Jedi-led war effort. Maul, while first appearing in TPM, received much of the development that has since come to define his character in TCW. Both characters also go on to play key roles in Rebels.

More than that, Ahsoka and Maul were both abandoned by their respective Orders, something Maul points out in TCW S7’s “The Phantom Apprentice.” Sidious replaced Maul with Dooku and Vader and the Jedi turned on Ahsoka when she was accused of crimes she didn’t commit. They’re outcasts looking to find their way in the galaxy apart from the Jedi and Sith. And they’ve both come back from the clutches of death (even if Maul didn’t actually die).

But there’s something deeper than just shared experience and it goes back to Mortis. I think Ahsoka and Maul may be intricately connected through the Daughter and the Son.

Ahsoka and the Daughter

The Daughter and Ahsoka - Art by Ksenia Zelentsova

The connections between Ahsoka and the Daughter of Mortis are relatively clear. After being enslaved by the Son with dark side energy, Ahsoka is then cast aside by the Son. With a tap of his fingers, Ahsoka collapses dead.

The Daughter, unintentionally impaled by the Son with the Dagger of Mortis, gave the last remnants of her light side energy to cleanse and resurrect Ahsoka using Anakin as a conduit.

After that point, Ahsoka gains a new companion: Morai. As a Convor, Morai has a deep connection to the Force and a personal attachment to Ahsoka. She appears during times of great importance in Ahsoka’s life, including when Vader found her lightsaber at the gravesite in “Victory and Death”, her duel against Vader on Malachor in “Twilight of the Apprentice”, and when she met Grogu in “The Jedi.”

Ahsoka and Morai - Art by RaikohIllust

Morai is thought to be a representation of the Daughter, with speculation that one of the Daughter’s shapeshifting forms included a Convor. In any case, there’s a mystical element to Morai that calls back to the ethereal experiences on Mortis. To reach a little, the owl-like Morai could be seen as an approximate to Bubo, a mechanical owl sent by the gods to assist Perseus on his quest in Clash of the Titans.

Between Morai and Ahsoka now possessing the life force of the light side’s Mortis avatar, Ahsoka clearly has some greater cosmic significance stemming from her death and rebirth through the Daughter on Mortis.

Maul and the Son

Darth Maul, The Shadow of Malachor - Art by Guillem H. Pongiluppi

“The chains are the easy part. It’s what goes on in here that’s hard.”

This is a statement made on two occasions in TCW: The Son tells Ahsoka this in “Altar of Mortis” and a deranged Maul says this to Savage Oppress in “Brothers.”

At first, I took this as simply a nod to the fact that Sam Witwer voiced both the Son and Maul. But in an interview, Dave Filoni seems to imply there’s something larger to this:

“Part of the reason I wanted Sam [Witwer] to play Maul was because he had played the Son. And I wanted this concept, which is a very far-out concept, that there were echoes of everything that happened on Mortis happening throughout the show. And that Maul is an echo of the Son and some of the evil the Son was talking about which echoes in our galaxy.”

In the episode “Ghosts of Mortis,” The Son claims to need the the Jedi starship in order to escape Mortis and enter our galaxy, but the Son was killed on Mortis by Anakin after the Father sacrificed himself to strip the Son of his power.

We know that Mortis is not a physical place in the traditional sense. It’s a realm that is accessed through the Mortis monolith, which mysteriously appeared than disappeared after the affairs on Mortis. Seemingly no time passed in our reality during the time Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka spent on Mortis. Additionally, the Jedi don’t leave Mortis but are mysteriously transported back into their ship after the Father dies, as if the events never happened (leaving some to speculate it was simply a vision of sorts).

What I gather from this is that entering and exiting Mortis does not necessarily require physical entry or, as such, a starship. As a celestial being, perhaps the Son remained tethered to Mortis in a large part due to the Father, not because he needs a ship to escape.

Perhaps here’s more than one way to leave Mortis. And perhaps death is one of them.

Further, something of the Son still exists in the space/time of Star Wars, as Ezra hears the Son’s voice as he seals the entrance to the World Between Worlds.

The Son - Art by Eli Hyder

Bringing this back to Maul, I would suggest that perhaps the Son didn’t completely die on Mortis. Perhaps some remnant of him lives inside Maul, a dark sider surviving purely off of the savagery of the dark side’s raw hatred and anger.

Admittedly, this is a very tenuous leap and has little affirmative evidence, but it’s worth pointing out that something of the Son is reflected in Maul, as Filoni indicates. So much so that Maul has a vision of Anakin Skywalker’s fall to darkness, perhaps not unlike the visions the Son showed Anakin at the Well of the Dark Side.

Larger Connection?

Ahsoka the White - Art by Ksenia Zelentsova

While Maul’s connection to the Son is perhaps not as directly intimate as Ahsoka’s is to the Daughter, the parallels do exist. It can be left up to the imagination how far those parallels go in connecting these characters. While I don’t think Maul and Ahsoka are anything like a Force Dyad, it very much feels like they have a cosmic connection and a rivalry that may go beyond simple circumstance.

Their confrontation on Mandalore is similar to the Daughter and the Son fighting as they did in “Altar of Mortis,” with the new “Father” in Anakin Skywalker being the center of their conflict. With Anakin being Maul’s replacement and Ahsoka’s master, both have a connection to this central figure destined to bring balance. Where Maul wants to remove him (as the Son attempted to usurp the Father on Mortis), Ahsoka remains loyal to Anakin even when he becomes Vader (as the dutiful Daughter did on Mortis).

Darth Maul vs Ahsoka Tano - Art by Saby Menyhei

I’m not saying that they are perfect reflection of each other, but I think Filoni succeeded in demonstrating the echoes of Mortis permeate through the characters. While the dark side consumed Maul and led to his death, Ahsoka still carries on the Daughter and her light side life force, reversing the tragedy of Mortis.

With the World Between Worlds still an active yet largely unused realm of possibility, it could be possible to see such connections strengthened in the future.

Does anyone else think that this would've been an amazing scene in star wars rebels? I think it might've possibly set up the whole Ashoka theory that she's the reincarnated daughter from the Mortis Gods. Just board at home and wanting to know what you all think

First time posting here, so here it goes. What do you guys think about the strength of the ones or Mortis gods. My question to put it simply is, can the son or daughter or father turn tatooine into hoth? Or are they not that powerful? Are they like actual gods or are they simply stronger in the force than jedi and sith, meaning still only able to use telekinesis and lighting? Not able to change reality like say Thanos's power with the infinity gauntlet? In the clone wars episode Overlords the gods were able to hide anakin, ahsoka, and obi wan from rex and his cruiser. They were also able to stop the jedi's shuttle from functioning correctly. Sorry to throw so much out, this has just bothered me a lot recently. If the answers could be more focused on canon rather than legends daughterthat would be very much appreciated. Although opinions are greatly accepted.

So when Ahsoka died on Mortis and The Daughter’s power was basically used to save her, would the last of The Daughter’s light transfer to Ahsoka? With Morai watching over her and since the Daughter was the embodiment of the Light Side, would it even be physically possible for Ahsoka to fall to The Dark Side?

In the series the daughter dies first (the Jedi fall) then the father sacrifices himself (Rey dies while stoping her grandfather, kylo dies after reviving rey) the son dies after losing his powers (palpatine uses his powers only to die by them)

Its a connection of events kylo is the jedi palpatine is the sith and Rey is all of The Jedi and The Sith the chosen one who unites the balance by for once and for all ending both sides that means Rey is the last Jedi and the Last Sith once she dies the legacy lives on in the next person (a future relative to Rey) and so on that means there is no war there is no sides it’s all just balance of good and evil

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So I’ve been rewatching all of Star Wars and currently I’m rewatching the clone wars and I just finished the Mortis arc and it got me thinking. There is a summary posted at the bottom if you don’t want to read it all.

So to start I’m going to bring up Star Wars Rebels and how they introduced time travel. We see Ezra go to the World between Worlds in which he time travels and saves Ashoka from Darth Vader. Now this is important for my theory as it deals heavily on how time works in Star Wars especially in high force areas. So my theory goes as follows.

The events of the Mortis arc are happening at the same exact time as the events of the movies. Now I will go over what each scene represents and how this affects the whole galaxy.

Now when we get to Mortis none of the movies have taken place, the brother is not extremely evil and remains mostly in the background much like the Sith before the prequels.

The Phantom Menace

Now when we see Anakin control both the light and the dark by controlling the Son and the Daughter, the events of TPM are happening as Anakin is showing that he is the one who is believed to be the chosen one much like how Qui Gon is trying to do the same with the council.

Attack of the Clones

Now the events of AOTC is not as major, we see the son becoming darker which coincides with the Palpatine beginning his plan, the Daughter showed Kenobi a weapon that could defeat the Son is the events of Kenobi seeing the Clones and planning to use them to fight their war.

Revenge of the Sith

The fight where Ashoka is evil is the war progressing and evil gaining more and more powerful and leads us into ROTS. Here we see time change more as these events, although seem to take a long time in the show, take place quickly in the real galaxy. The weapon is given to the Son which coincides with Anakin prepared to aid the clones for Order 66 as the clones are the weapon. The Son kills the Daughter which is Order 66 taking place. After this Son, or the dark side as a whole, take a massive root in the whole galaxy, Anakin fully commits to the dark side as seen by him falling to the dark side in the Mortis arc as this is when we see his eyes finally yellow in ROTS which is on Mustafar. Another tell off here is that in both scenes he’s near lava.

A New Hope

Ashoka preventing their escape, prevents the dark side from prevailing at Yavin which coincides with ANH.

Empire Strikes Back

Anakin returning to the light after being tainted with a vision coincides with Darth Vader and Luke’s battle as it is supposed to have the opposite effect of what happened to Anakin on Mortis. Instead of information causing Luke to turn evil, he instead escaped evil which Anakin eventually escapes evil. That one is a bit of a stretch and I had a hard time wording it.

Return of the Jedi

The ending of the Mortis arc coincides with the ROTJ. The Father, like Vader, sacrifices himself to defeat the Son, like Palpatine, in order to save others. After this they are brought back to their own time to live out what they had done at Mortis in the real timeline of the galaxy.

Summary

In summary the events happening on Mortis are directly effecting the galaxy and are happening at the same time at key times during both the prequel and original trilogy.