Son

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? 🤔

[LEGENDS] If I remember correctly, the last we see Malgus, he is imprisoned by Jedi. I always thought it would be interesting for him to be forgotten or ignored by other Sith as he was seen as defeated and has a hatred for both the Jedi and the Sith. He would be an independent dark-side practitioner with no political ties, and maybe this would draw the attention of someone like The Son, whom he becomes connected to somehow, maybe in an apprentice-like relationship. Maybe through the son, he becomes one of the few who knows about the existence of Azaloth being imprisoned within Centerpoint station just as he was imprisoned before...

One second after killing the son she gets all of his power and then she look normal and the trio leave Mortis after they she turn obi-wan and her master to the dark side they join in one body Ahsoka they take over and use order 65 then they spit up and Anakin kill Ahsoka and Obi-wan take over Ahsoka Body finish the story down below

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.