Blade of Talzin

"The Blade of Talzin."
"Take it. Sister."

―The Great Mothers, presenting Morgan Elsbeth with the blade^[3]

The Blade of Talzin was a flaming green ichor sword. It was summoned from the ether by the Nightsister matriarch Mother Talzin to duel Jedi Master Mace Windu during the Clone Wars, and later by the Great Mothers as a gift to Morgan Elsbeth.

Description[]

"You shall be rewarded."
"The gift of shadows."

―The Great Mothers, before presenting Morgan Elsbeth with the blade^[3]

MorganElsbethBladeofTalzin-CGSWG — Elsbeth wielding the Blade of Talzin

The Blade of Talzin's^[3] sword hilt closely resembled the face of Malmourral, the demon worshiped by the Frangawl Cult. The blade produced from the "mouth" of the hilt was wreathed in green flames of magical ichor.^[1] When the Great Mothers conjured it, the sword had a different design, made from metal with a curved blade, wreathed in green flames when drawn.^[3]

The sword was also able to resist lightsaber strikes, doing so when Talzin used it in a duel against Jedi Master Mace Windu and his purple-bladed lightsaber^[2] and on another occasion when Morgan Elsbeth used it in a duel against Ahsoka Tano and her two white blades.^[3] At the end of the duel between Elsbeth and Ahsoka the sword seemed to lose its Magick enhancements after it was disarmed from Elsbeth by Tano.^[3]

History[]

Duel in the Temple of Malmourral[]

"Your power is no match for my magics."
"Magic is only an illusion."

―Mother Talzin and Mace Windu, as they duel^[2]

TalzinvsWindu — Talzin dueling Mace Windu with the sword

During the Clone Wars, Mother Talzin gained the allegiance of the Frangawl Clan, who came to worship her as the Great Mother. The cult gathered the Living Force from several Dagoyan Masters and kidnapped Queen Julia of Bardotta and brought her to the Temple of Malmourral on Zardossa Stix to steal her life force. Talzin arrived on the moon as the ritual began, but she was confronted by Jedi Master Mace Windu and Jar Jar Binks. Talzin summoned her sword from the mist and engaged the Jedi, but Jar Jar managed to free Julia and shatter the sphere containing the stolen life force, causing a massive explosion.^[2]

Heir to the Empire[]

BladeOfTalzinSummon-Ahsoka8 — The Blade of Talzin is summoned by the Great Mothers

During 9 ABY, the Great Mothers gave Morgan Elsbeth, Nightsister and former magistrate of Corvus, this blade, albeit in a different appearance.^[3] The Great Mothers bestowed it, along with other powers, upon Elsbeth for her loyalty to the sisterhood and the old ways. The weapon adapted to its wielder and manifested a different hilt for Elsbeth than the one it had for Talzin.^[4] Thanks to Elsbeth, the Nightsister tradition had a chance to start anew should she and the Great Mothers escape back to Dathomir from the far galaxy, where the Great Mothers had been asleep until being discovered by the exiled Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo "Thrawn." In return for their help in returning back to the galaxy, Thrawn promised to bring the Great Mothers and their cargo with him.^[3]

As the battle of Peridea unfolded and the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano, her Padawan Sabine Wren, and fellow Jedi Ezra Bridger fought past a detachment of Night Troopers in order to prevent Thrawn's escape, Elsbeth stayed behind in an effort to delay the Jedi advance. Elsbeth used the blade in a duel against Tano, destroying one of her white lightsabers, but she was ultimately killed by Tano when the latter used the sword and her remaining lightsaber to slice Elsbeth across the abdomen. Afterward, Thrawn had the Great Mothers' Fortress destroyed by his Star Destroyer Chimaera in a failed effort to destroy the Jedi.^[3] The blade's current location was left unknown.^[4] The Great Mothers, for their part, did escape back to the galaxy with Thrawn and traveled to Dathomir with the Grand Admiral.^[3]

Behind the scenes[]

The Blade of Talzin first appeared in "The Disappeared, Part II"^[2] and returned in "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord," in which it was identified.^[3] The sword seen in "The Disappeared" was first confirmed to be the same weapon identified in "Part Eight" by the official Star Wars TikTok page.^[5]