#Nightmothers

[jedimandalorian]

According to the latest Star Wars Chronology, the years 9 ABY to 19 ABY are called the “Peace of the New Republic.”

It is likely that the Ahsoka series and its sequels and crossovers all take place in this time period, which means

1. Lucasfilm will have to retcon this chronology because Thrawn starts another galactic war.

or

2. Thrawn finds out that the Emperor he once served is dead and the Empire has fallen, so he goes home to the Chiss Ascendancy in the Unknown Regions.

and/or

3. The Nightmothers were just using Thrawn to get to Dathomir, just as Thrawn was using them to get back home to the main SW galaxy. Now that the witches have achieved their goal, they will betray Thrawn and/or he will betray them.

and/or

4. There will be an effort by the heroes of The Mandalorian, the Ahsoka show, and other members of the Ghost Crew to stop a war. There will be an armed conflict with little or no help from the New Republic, and the brave unsung heroes save the galaxy from a bigger war that could have happened but didn’t.

Likely character deaths or transformations: Thrawn. Ahsoka.

Possible romance arcs completed: DinBo, Sabezra.

Cultures reborn/transformed: Nightsisters, Mandalorians, Jedi.

New Master and Apprentice pairings: Sabine and Grogu, Ezra and Jacen.

These are the “Jedi Mandalorians.” (Yes, I have been thinking about this for a very long time. Look at my username.)

Mando by birth: Sabine Wren, who restores her Clan.

Mando by adoption: Grogu.

Mando by marriage: Ezra Bridger. 😏

What do you think? What are the other possibilities?

Am I crazy? Here’s my Ahsoka Season 1 Bingo card:

Tolkien references (too many to list here)

Jacen is Force sensitive.

Sabine misses Ezra. 😢

Thrawn does the unexpected.

Kanan reference (more than expected). 😢

Chopper is a menace (not as much as he could have been).

Hera misses Kanan (his photo is on her dashboard). 😢

“Snips” 🙌

Anakin flashback. 🙌

Rex lives. (They didn’t kill him off yet and we did get a cameo so that’s a win.)

Quotable Huyang (Don’t get me started.)

Ezra is still a dork (and we love him for it). 😂

Ezra is a badass. 🙌

Sabezra tease. (Just go look at the rest of my Tumblr.) 😍

Mutual pining idiots. (See above.) 😍

Clan Wren. (We got a mention. R. I. P. 😢)

Sabine painting. (We saw the mural, the loth cat doodles and the graffiti in Ezra’s tower and on Ahsoka’s ship.)

No Fenn Rau. (I still want to see him in live action, maybe in Mando s4.)

Clone Wars Flashback. (More than one!)

No Rebels flashback. (We did get many callbacks though. I’d love to see any of them cameo in Andor s2.)

Loth rat. (Not the animal, but Ezra being his usual chaotic streetwise self, such as impersonating a stormtrooper and stealing his helmet and armor.)

Loth cat. (Sabine’s adorable pet. 😻)

Loth wolf. (They are on the end credits star map and the Lothal Rebels mural. Howlers are also wolf-like.)

Run. (Our heroes did a lot of that.)

*******

So am I good, or what?

The Prophet of the Church of Ezrabine has spoken.

[belabras]

Starfinder - Call Army of the Dead

This week we look at where Sci-Fantasy meets Horror with a ritual to raise an army of the undead!

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

just LOOK at that side eye. dooku is either

a: into it

b: already knows this plan is going to go to shit but he's doing it anyway

.... maybe both

[sleepingwoolf]

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[the-mercurial-star-o-vesper]

What do you know about the Night Mother of the Dark Brotherhood?

In Morrowind, the NIghtmother is just a top-dog position, akin to Arch Mage or head Fighter.

But come both Oblivion and Skyrim, the Nightmother has been elevated to a more mythic status. And in fact, the position is not, in fact obtainable, and to declare yourself Nightmother is basically heresy and sacrilege.

Now this could be inconsistancy in the writing, new writers misreading or forgetting stuff (see any Ariella Septim page).

... But let's take the more interesting approach.

What if, akin to how Talos appeared between Daggerfall and Morrowind as a God, then full on Ninth Divine by Oblivion (which occured only a few years after Morrowind, mind), that something happened that caused the Nightmother position to enter Godhood. Akin to divinity, it became retroactive.

( Example again is Talos. He's made of the Oversoul which combines three entities--Tiber Septim, Zurin Arctus, and Ysmir Wulfharth. This was only possible by the Warp in the West, as the Underking (Arctus or Wulfharth... or probably both) was that missing piece. By the Warp in the West, Talos retroactively became a god upon Tiber Septim's death. )

While I doubt that the Morrowind Nightmother was playing around with Shezarrines, it isn't out of the question to assume that either a mantling occured (Where you take the steps to act as someone so well, that the universe itself cannot distinguish between you) or something else happened (Ala how the King of Worms became a Necromantic god), to retroactively raise the Nightmother from Guild Leader to God.

Not just A God either, but a Wife to Sithis, the closest we've gotten to an outright Elder Scrolls Titan or Primordial, no less.

The thing is, is that we don't, actually know, how.

We could probably assume that the only named Guild-Leader Night-Mother, Severa Magia (of the Morag Tong questline in Morrowind), did something or completed some underlying pattern of reality which raised her to godhood upon her death.

( Which means, congratulations Nerevarine, you made the Nightmother. )

And that the retroactive retcon status, is the result of watching a mantling / goodhood from the Outside perspective. It also means, given evidence provided, that this was a mantling or akin to a mantling, of Mephala (in the similar sense that the Champion of Cyrodiil can mantle Sheogorath ).

In which case, a mantling of Mephala involves the sacrifice of at least 5 people, or possibly children, or possibly metaphorical children. (can't take metaphors for granted in the Elder Scrolls )

But either way, it would explain the severe change of temperments and meaning between games, in regards to the Night Mother.

ADDENDUM:

Personally? I don't think it was Severa Magia. Stopping factional conquest doesn't scream "Hey let's alter reality!". But you know what expansion pack did involve the Dark Brotherhood in a major way? Tribunal. Where we find a mad mortal-god, hellbent on maintaining divinity, no matter who she kills. Who is known as a Mother of a peoples. Who's divinity comes from a divine spark of a Sithic Being. Whom, in a kin to her Anticipation is associated with plots and destruction, but whose acts rather include Murder and Secrecy, akin to the anticipation of one of her mortal-gods of their triad. Whose closest warriors are known as her Hand(s). What I'm saying is... the Goddess Nightmother is actually what's left of Almalexia.

[inafieldofstarflowers]

Wait so like if the nightsister trio could detect Ahsoka coming in from a different galaxy why didn’t they notice Ezra Bridger literally stowing away on their ship

[slyandthefamilybook]

me this whole episode

[followthepurrgil]

That…..is too many corpses to be in the company of a Nightsister/Nightmother….

[darth-maul-of-dathomir]

There is something to be said for the creativity of a determined witch.

I spent the majority of last night in a stuttering vision of being a spider-like version of myself, tucked away in the back of a cargo hold. Again and again a facsimile of the Nightmother would coax me out from a sea of crates, whether I wanted to go or not. My body moves on it's own in these visions, dizzily chasing a ball of green witchlight, until I feel a tap on my forehead and everything goes dark.

This repeated, ad nauseum, until one vision where... it is difficult to describe. Talzin called to me from outside the vessel, but instead of some distant figment again trying to beguile me from my shelter, it was... her. As she is now.

She called me son, and spoke of the singing stone. Surprise, surprise, the Nightmother also wants the beacon of Allya. She claimed the beacon is not for a man to touch. That my ownership was wrong.

I pretended to be insensate, lost to the influence of my vision-self and unable to hear her offers of favors or rewards in exchange for bringing the stone to the nightsister's temple.

Hmph. It is my prize.

[peachiyyy]

I have this problem of hoarding lip products like i need and want every lip liner, lipstick, and lip gloss in the world. Especially if it’s in some shade of brown

[quiverpaw]

for the ship bingo: Mothwing x nightcloud? My fav rarepair ever

very fun ship, and i like both of these characters and the potential dynamic, but it just doesn't have the same flow as mothpool or nightleaf do, yk? side note, i have a oc named nightmoth. will never use them

[riverchetype]

The Nightmother, demon lord of the Abyss and the Void Crows. She’s the patron of the Blackbirds from Crowhollow. I had the pleasure of designing her back in 2021 during inktober. Our DM is making custom Magic the Gathering cards with our art, and this is going to be one of the cards.

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

(now we know where savage got that coffin nail mani from)

[boricuacherry-blog]

[studiohjibble]

Sketch from the week.

[dynamite124]

Cicero deserves better!

i know the common fan interpretation is that cicero has some oedipus-esque relationship with the night mother but tbh if u look at his dialogue and listen to the way he talks and read his journals it rlly just sounds like he hates her. like he deeply wants to be loyal to the brotherhood and do his duties as keeper but he despises it