#nightsister daka

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

reference photos for old/alte/elder/nightsister daka.

(and her nightsister drip)

[redbean-nom]

the contrast between elsbeth's tribe (nightsister... commoners? peasants? villagers?) fighting grievous vs talzin's clan (nightsister royalty) is so funny like.

elsbeth's clan: probably-Mother Selena dueling grievous with two fire sickles that melt/short out when hit by lightsabers (grievous didn't even split his arms! it's literally a leisurely spar for him). approximately three archers in the background. one single unit of B1s and B2s plus possibly a handful of commando droids. elsbeth hiding in a tree and falling out.

talzin's clan: Mother Talzin voodooing Dooku from the castle basement and then levitating in a giant electric sphere and zapping the entire droid army for like five minutes straight. Ventress dueling four-arms grievous for equally long. An entire army of archers casually force-speed/force-jumping over entire trees. Grievous' full fleet, a bomber squad, a unit of commando droids, magnaguards, state of the art experimental tanks, more regular tanks, and a full army of B1s/B2s. Daka long-distance-necromancing the entire clan and resurrecting every single dead nightsister in the entire region. Talzin finally not-surrending by turning herself into a force ghost and then promptly going to start a cult to revive herself/the dead nightsisters.

[chipthekeeper]

730 then??

Also I'll try to get cassian - 145?

730 is some guy named Arvel Skeen 🤔

Skeen was a rebel with the Aldhani heist crew who had a strong bond with his teammate Karis Nemik

145 is Daka (or Old Daka)

Daka was a Nightsister who I really only know for being an annoying presence in Galaxy of Heroes because she was always resurrecting people I already beat

[starwarsfangirl]

Star Wars: Destiny – Spark of Hope (Card: Ancient Magicks) "Rise, sisters. Undead sisters, rise from your sleep. The time has come. Awaken. You have been called upon." ―Old Daka's resurrection spell

[fromdathomirwithlove]

In the aftermath of the Battle of Dathomir, in the old Nightbrother village before the survivors relocated, those living there experienced the aftershocks of the curse used by Old Daka:

It was not uncommon for a Nightbrother to wake to odd sounds in the darkest hours, a pale face in their window, or sometimes hovering above their cot in slumber — no purpose nor direction now that the magic persisted, but the one that controlled them did not.

The reanimated Nightsisters that haunted the village after the war were often dispatched unceremoniously by fire or with weights to the bottom of the nearest swamp, and those unfortunate enough to encounter the walking corpses were the fodder for many campfire stories in the years that followed.

Few Nightbrothers hesitated to defend themselves.

Some were the mothers that abandoned them, after all.

[aftergloom]

Hii! Okay, I was hoping to get your opinions on male dathomirian culture on new dathomir? How do you think the overall relationship between the males and females shifted and changed?

Hi!! So, the setup first and foremost, just for clarity's sake:

There are three overarching New Dathomir concepts, and they all have similar results inasmuch as the social structure is concerned (as well as having an impact on trade, Dathomir's resources, the day to day lives of the People, etc.) but different origins/catalysts for what initiated that process of large-scale societal change.

The first incarnation originates in a now-deleted multi-chap where Maul was never taken by Sidious as a child and he grew up under Talzin's rule on Dathomir as her prodigal son. (I want to say that it was a better experience for him growing up, but in that story, he was shown a vision of who he might've been had he not returned to Dathomir by Old Daka after completing his Gora. He became obsessed with the idea that his destiny had been stolen from him, and the what-might-have-been consumes him.)

The world itself was interesting, however, and the idea that such a remote location, so far off the hyperlanes, mythic and strange and exotic, with its customs and curious adaptation of turning the Force into magic wielded by its inhabitants is a really rich setting. Because there's so much monumental architecture already sitting there (from what we've seen in TCW and JFO) the question for me at least was a matter of what might be possible if the Nightspeople could at least acknowledge that the way they've been doing things wasn't working -- that they'd be stronger together without the power disparity between Nightbrothers and Nightsisters, and that one needn't be subservient to the other despite their troubled origins (i.e. the diaspora and enslavement of Iridonian zabrak.)

The second iteration builds off the original concept in that Maul's presence on Dathomir catalyzes a paradigm shift in the Nightsisters' worldview, as led by Talzin, and under her rule as accompanied by her sons, and eventually inherited by them, the planet's natural resources are commodified to facilitate and finance its expansion... And that means whoever controls New Dathomir also controls the ichor.

So if the ichor is the designated sacred stuff of the People -- a boundless resource that so far only the Nightsisters could control with unlimited potential -- the first thing Maul could want to exercise dominion over it, and he succeeds.

Here's where I can see the path forking a bit, because in Son of Dathomir and Rebels we have a Maul who speaks of his "family" with longing: is it because of a life he never had, because the Sith stole everything from him? Or is it because of some genuine desire for connection or a longing for something distant and imagined, a halcyon "what if" that answered an abstract of what might have been?

I see two roads: He keeps the ichor for himself (and subsequently falls back onto old mores and doesn't change as a character) or, he gives it to the Nightbrothers so they might stand on equal footing with the Nightsisters and level the playing field.

For New Dathomir, I prefer the second option. (For angsty degenerative character arc Maul, the former.) 😂

Effectively, when Maul takes his mother's throne, he sees where the People are weak and initiates a restructure: all must bear arms for Dathomir. All must work towards a common goal. To do otherwise assures their destruction. The Nightbrothers, having power for the first time, need help in controlling it. The Nightsisters realize they are matched.

The duality of the Force on Dathomir is equalized for the first time, binary energies achieving a rare and precious balance, and whatever old prophecies exist of the Fanged God and Winged Goddess finding harmony between themselves in their ongoing cosmic struggle discover a moment of peace and prosperity, and it is good.

Take away the in-fighting and political agendas of its previous clan leaders, and the society turn inwards and begins to grow: art and culture flourishes, and the galaxy begins to take note. Others begin to visit. Trade grows because the ichor is a resource unlike none other, and only the Nightspeople can wield it. Dathomir flourishes as others settle there, because hey, what a gem of a world. What a nice place to visit. How rich the culture. How interesting and unique, because no one has seen anything like this place -- an old world untouched by the Empire made new again; a little wild, a little uncontrolled, but powerful.

(Pardon me, I'm packing my bags now.)

In the third instance of this worldbuild, control of the ichor becomes one of the drivers behind Maul's ambitions in Crown of Horns, and while the focus of that story is on Feral, Feral's character journey is absolutely the result of Maul pursuing it to serve his own agenda. Regrettably, in that story, the Nightsister genocide of the clone wars did happen and Marin isn't even a blip on the radar.

CoH has Maul trying to make New Dathomir happen, and while it diverts from canon, those first fledgling attempts birth the Crimson Dawn in this universe, and also serve to establish a foothold in his control over his adoptive homeworld in the early Empire years.

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This was a lot.

I hope that it gives you something to chew on. (I am definitely guilty of doing too much pre-writing re: world building and magical systems, and this is absolutely that.)

[agoddamn]

Kenobi countdown hour, so it's TCW catchup time!

I know the real reason is retcons, but is there any in-universe reason why Asajj has a round head and Talzin/generic nightsisters have pointy heads? On that note, is there a reason they're not Zabraks even though the nightbrothers are Zabraks?

why does Talzin have that fucking demonic voice echo that not even Sidious gets?

oh wow, they actually rendered wa-PFFAHAHAHAHA

oh, I feel a little bad. Water is one of the hardest things to render! But still. lmao

oh wow, a generic nightsister got a face. She about to die?

Yeah

we should call "hearing a character's name for the first time when they're dying dramatically" clone wars syndrome

reminds me of my old D&D games..."no, not my old friend, Gin Erick!"

nightsister powers are so...lol I don't mean to devolve into weird CinemaSins nitpicking, but I wish I had just a rough approximation of what they can do/the rules for it, you know? They just do random shit as the plot requires and then they can't do that shit any more when it would be inconvenient for the plot

oh, those tree bulbs are funeral pods for sky burials? Cool actually

Hold on, am I really here for 30 minutes of Asajj and a bunch of generics? Fuck, I'm gonna need another drink

I was bitching about random nightsister powers but I really like the speed ghoul beast look for them, it works

Sure, voodoo, why not

Hey, remember when you were trying to, like, assassinate him last season? Why didn't you pull this out th--*brick'd*

FaceTiming him via his chest is a great visual

Old Daka didn't really look the same species as either Asajj or Talzin with that huge nose--more classic witch, bubbling cauldron and all. But I guess your cartilage does keep growing, so if she's that old...

>fucking Boba Fett AGAIN

yeah, another drink

Asajj is dressing more like a Jedi than ever, though I'm sure that's not by accident. Those tabards have her looking more Jedi than some of Ahsoka's outfits

She orders "prow, straight up"...whatever that is. Looks like shots

Look, we're doing the Mos Eisley cantina scene! Remember the Mos Eisley cantina scene?! I've seen Star Wars!

Embo cameo

idle GFFA note: dude here crows "boss, who's your girlfriend?", indicating casual sexism holding strong. Kind of a weird comment since Bossk's female partner is the one looking super femme, though? I dunno, maybe it's ironic and I'm just not smart enough for it

who's this white g--

...

...on a completely different subject, this Highsinger guy, cool robot! V much channeling the Metropolis vibes of the original C3PO design, I super dig it

good god Boba looks like a really short 35-year-old, what the fuck

He's got wrinkles!

cool quad-mouth alien design

so is the human in a scarf also somebody we know? Statistically...

Boba's accent is wandering..."why HIYAH six expensive bounty hunters to move caRGO?" Admittedly I'm no expert in kiwi, but I thought it was usually a bit more consistent on the Rs

So now we got Asajj, Boba, and generics. I'm gonna finish this bottle by the time Kenobi comes out

You know, it's good business to know what you're transporting. You're the one that's gonna blow up if it turns out to be volatile

Ain't this the set from the Black Panther climax?

This feels a bit like that one R2/C3PO/Wolfpack episode, where someone clearly had a lot of fairly developed alien ideas and built an episode around it

--that subtitle didn't say "Digger", did it? Captain Boomerang moonlighting?

Why's Bossk taking orders from the ten-year-old, again?

Who am I supposed to be rooting for, again? The alien ninjas look cooler and I dearly want to see Boba get his ass kicked

Not Boba trying to whiteknight immediately after "doesn't matter what the cargo is"--oh nevermind he's IMMEDIATELY back to "we'll deliver that brat," I guess human trafficking is nurture rather than nature

these ARE extremely Asian-looking aliens (again)--from the ninja outfits to the wakizashi to the kimono-looking dress the girl has

I call Asajj dumb a lot, but I gotta give her more points than Boba for being able to make the "actually human trafficking is bad" call

[gffa]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark, coming August 25, promises to be a beautiful tribute to the just-completed animated series. The anthology will collect 11 stories by 11 authors — Lou Anders, Preeti Chhibber, Zoraida Córdova, Jason Fry, Rebecca Roanhorse, Greg Van Eekhout, Tom Angleberger, E. Anne Convery, Sarah Beth Durst, Yoon Ha Lee, and Anne Ursu — including 10 retellings of memorable episodes and arcs and one original Nightsisters-based story.  So if you loved the tales of Ahsoka, Maul, and clanker-busting clones, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark will give you the chance to experience them again in a whole new way. Like Captain Rex on a recon mission, StarWars.com reached out to each author to learn why they love The Clone Wars, and which stories they’re telling. Lou Anders (“Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General,” based on the episodes of the same name): I love The Clone Wars for expanding the story of Anakin’s fall from grace. Skywalker really shines in the series, and we see what he truly was, and what he could have been, and by giving him so many opportunities to excel in the early season, his ultimate fate is that much more tragic. I also love the series for gifting us my all-time favorite Star Wars character, and one of my favorite characters from any universe — Hondo Ohnaka!      My chapter is a retelling of the first season story arc that plays out across the episodes “Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General.” I wanted to explore this storyline because I find Count Dooku a fascinating character. Sometimes pure, mustache-twirling, mwa-ha-ha evil can actually be boring to write, but a villain who feels they are justified, either because of perceived slights or intellectual superiority or the failure of their rivals or birthright are much more interesting, and Dooku is a bit of all of this. For research, I obviously watched tons of Clone Wars. But I also read up on everything about Dooku I could find, and I listened to Christopher Lee and Corey Burton’s interpretation of the character over and over, trying to internalize their speech patterns. Dooku is so gorgeously supercilious. It was just a blast to get in his head and see the world from his perspective. (And the fact that the storyline gave me another chance to write for my beloved Hondo Ohnaka was an added bonus!) Tom Angleberger (“Bane’s Story,” based on the episodes “Deception,” “Friends and Enemies,” “The Box,” and “Crisis on Naboo”): There’s a lot to love in The Clone Wars, but I think it’s Ahsoka’s arc that really stands out the most. Ventress’s arc does, too, and the way that these arcs cross at the just the right moment is really great Star Wars!      My chapter is based on the “Crisis on Naboo” story arc. It’s basically a Space Western. The baddest bounty hunter of them all, Cad Bane, is hired to kidnap the Chancellor. What he doesn’t know is that almost everyone is lying to him, especially a fellow bounty hunter who is really Obi-Wan in disguise. In the TV version, we see it all from Obi-Wan’s point of view, so we know that Bane is getting played. In this retelling, we see it all from Bane’s point of view and, boy, is he going to be mad! To prepare I watched both The Clone Wars AND old spaghetti Westerns starring Bane’s inspiration: Lee Van Cleef. Preeti Chhibber (“Hostage Crisis,” based on the episode of the same name): I love the story that the prequels tell, but because of the nature of what they were trying to do — tell a decade and a half worth of story in three films — we’re missing major moments in what the war really means to the galaxy at large, and in the Skywalker saga itself. The Clone Wars tells us that part of the narrative, it gives us the shape of what entire populations of people had to go through because of this war manufactured by the ultimate evil. And within that scope gives us the hope and love and beautiful tragedy we associate with Star Wars on a larger scale. (Also, Ahsoka Tano — The Clone Wars gave us Ahsoka Tano and for that I will be ever grateful.)      I’m writing Anakin’s story during “Hostage Crisis” — an episode in the first season of The Clone Wars. I decided to write the story entirely from Anakin’s perspective, which meant being inside his head before the fall, but where we are starting to see more of the warning signs. And then there’s also the romance of this episode! Anakin’s love for Padmé is real and all-consuming and, as we eventually find out, unhealthy. So, this is a romantic episode, but one that shows us Anakin is ruled by his heart. And that that’s a dangerous thing for a Jedi. In order to best wrap my own head around what was going on, I watched the episode itself several times, and read the script, and then I watched the chronological episodes of Anakin’s run-ins with Cad Bane, so I could get a real feel for where he was with his understanding of Bane’s character. E. Anne Convery (“Bug,” based on the episode “Massacre”): I love it because I think it’s a story that manages, while still being a satisfying adventure, to not glorify war. It does this mainly by following through on the arcs of wonderful, terrifying, funny, fallible, and diverse characters. From the personal to the political, The Clone Warsredefines the ways, big and small, that we can be heroes.      My chapter is the “original” tale, though it still touches on The Clone Wars Season Four episode “Massacre,” with brief appearances by Mother Talzin and Old Daka. If I had to boil it down, I’d say that it’s a story about mothers and daughters. Honestly, it felt a little like cheating, because writing new characters meant I got to be creative in the Star Wars universe somewhat unencumbered by what’s come before. I did, however, have several long text chats with Sam Witwer because I was interested in Talzin’s motivations. We talked about stuff like her capacity (or lack thereof) for love. I think I came away thinking she was more a creature driven by issues of power, control, and the desire for revenge, whereas Sam was a little kinder to her. I mean, he is her “son,” so you can’t really blame him for wanting to think better of her! I always love a story within a story, and I was interested in the space where the high mythology of Star Wars and the home-spun mythology of fairy tales could intersect. I drew on my own background in mythology, psychology, and the language of fairy tales, plus I did my Star Wars research. Re-watching the Nightsisters episodes was just plain fun. Zoraida Córdova (“The Lost Nightsister,” based on the episode “Bounty”): The Clone Wars deepens the characters we already love. It gives us the opportunity to explore the galaxy over a longer period of time and see the fight between the light and the dark side. Star Wars is about family, love, and hope. It’s also incredibly funny and that’s something that The Clone Wars does spectacularly. We also get to spend more time with characters we only see for a little bit in the movies like Boba Fett, Bossk, Darth Maul!      My chapter follows Ventress after she’s experienced a brutal defeat. Spoiler alert: she’s witnessed the death of her sisters. Now she’s on Tatooine and in a rut. She gets mixed up with a bounty hunter crew led by Boba Fett. Ventress’s story is about how she goes from being lost to remembering how badass she is. I watched several episodes with her in it, but I watched “Bounty” about 50 times. Sarah Beth Durst (“Almost a Jedi,” based on the episode “A Necessary Bond”): I spent a large chunk of my childhood pretending I was training to become a Jedi Knight, even though I’d never seen a girl with a lightsaber before. And then The Clone Wars came along and gave me Ahsoka with not one but TWO lightsabers, as well as a role in the story that broadened and deepened the tale of Anakin’s fall and the fall of the Jedi. So I jumped at the chance to write about her for this anthology.      In my story, I wrote about Ahsoka Tano from the point of view of Katooni, one of the Jedi younglings who Ahsoka escorts on a quest to assemble their first lightsabers, and it was one of the most fun writing experiences I’ve ever had! I watched the episode, “A Necessary Bond,” over and over, frame by frame, studying the characters and trying to imagine the world, the events, and Ahsoka herself through Katooni’s eyes. The episode shows you the story; I wanted to show you what it feels like to be inside the story. Greg van Eekhout (“Kenobi’s Shadow,” based on the episode “The Lawless”): What I most love about Clone Wars is how we really get to know the characters deeply and see them grow and change.      I enjoyed writing a couple of short scenes between Obi-Wan and Anakin that weren’t in the episode. I wanted to highlight their closeness as friends and show that Anakin’s not the only Jedi who struggles with the dark side. There’s a crucial moment in my story when Obi-Wan is close to giving into his anger and has to make a choice: Strike out in violence or rise above it. It’s always fun to push characters to extremes and see how they react. Jason Fry (“Sharing the Same Face,” based on the episode “Ambush”): I love The Clone Wars because it made already beloved characters even richer and deepened the fascinating lore around the Jedi and the Force.      I chose Yoda and the clones because the moment where Yoda rejects the idea that they’re all identical was one of the first moments in the show where I sat upright and said to myself, “Something amazing is happening here.” You get the entire tragedy of the Clone Wars right in that one quick exchange — the unwise bargain the Jedi have struck, Yoda’s compassion for the soldiers and insistence that they have worth, the clones’ gratitude for that, and how that gratitude is undercut by their powerlessness to avoid the fate that’s been literally hard-wired into them. Plus, though I’ve written a lot of Star Wars tales, I’d never had the chance to get inside Yoda’s head. That had been on my bucket list! Yoon Ha Lee (“The Shadow of Umbara,” based on the episodes “Darkness on Umbara,” “The General,” “Plan of Dissent,” and “Carnage of Krell”): I remember the first time I watched the “Umbara arc” — I was shocked that a war story this emotionally devastating was aired on a kids’ show. But then, kids deserve heartfelt, emotionally devastating stories, too. It was a pleasure to revisit the episodes and figure out how to retell them from Rex’s viewpoint in a compact way. I have so much respect for the original episodes’ writer, Matt Michnovetz — I felt like a butcher myself taking apart the work like this! Rebecca Roanhorse (“Dark Vengeance,” based on the episode “Brothers”): I always love a backstory and Clone Wars was the backstory that then became a rich and exciting story all its own. The writing and character development is outstanding and really sucks you into the world.      I chose to write the two chapters that reintroduce Darth Maul to the world. We find him broken and mentally unstable, not knowing his own name but obsessed with revenge against Obi-Wan and we get to see him rebuild himself into a cruel, calculating, and brilliant villain. It was so much fun to write and I hope readers enjoy it. Anne Ursu (“Pursuit of Peace,” based on the episode “Heroes on Both Sides”): The Clone Wars creates a space for terrific character development. The attention paid to the relationships between Anakin and Obi-Wan, and Anakin and Ahsoka make for really wonderful and resonant stories, and give so much depth to the whole universe.      I was at first a little scared to write Padmé, as her character felt pretty two dimensional to me. But the more I watched her episodes in Clone Wars, the more dimension she took on. She’s such an interesting character — she’s both idealistic and realistic, so when corruption runs rampant in the Senate she doesn’t get disillusioned, she just fights harder. She has an ability to deal with nuance in a way that is rare in the Republic — and it means she’s not afraid to bend a few laws to make things right. In this chapter, the Senate is about to deregulate the banks in order to fund more troops, and Padmé decides to take matters into her own hand and sneak into Separatist territory in order to start peace negotiations. Of course, neither Dooku nor the corrupt clans of the Republic are going to allow for this to happen, so the threats to the peace process, the Republic, and Padmé’s life only grow. This arc is the perfect distillation of Padmé’s character, and it made getting into her head for it fairly simple. But I did watch all the Padmé Clone Wars episodes and read E.K. Johnston’s book about her, as well as Thrawn: Alliances, in which she has a major storyline. I really loved writing her. Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark arrives August 25 and is available for pre-order now.

[space-hecate]

Wookiepedia on Nightsister Magick

(mixing canon and legends) Magick, also known as Shadow Magic, was a supernatural technique that allowed a practitioner to wield great powers connected to the dark side of the Force. The Nightsister witches of Dathomir were wielders of magick, of which Daka was the most powerful.

Originally, the rogue Jedi Allya, who was exiled to Dathomir, taught the powers of the Force to her children there, giving them an evolutionary advantage over the planet's other inhabitants. After Gethzerion founded the Nightsisters, she developed her own brand of magic that her coven coined Shadow Magic, or more colloquially as magicks. As a result, the other witch clans took to calling their own practices Allyan Magic, believing that the Nightsisters had corrupted the beauty of Allya's original magic.

The supernatural technique known as magick, which offered great powers from the dark side of the Force, was known for being used by the Nightsisters of Dathomir. Unlike the Jedi, who used the Force to serve the galaxy, the powers of the Nightsisters' magick focused on deception, illusion, and manipulation, serving only themselves. They regarded magick as a living thing which arose from blood, trees, and mist and flowed through their veins as well.

There were two schools of Dathomir Magic. The first, traditional Allyan Magic, followed rules put forth in the Book of Law, a tome of moral and ethical teachings kept and modified by each clan based on an original created by Allya for her daughters. The other, called "Shadow Magic" by its originator, Gethzerion, was the provenance of the Nightsisters that did not require chanting or other primitive rituals. The Nightsisters' book, the Book of Shadows, told of future glories that they would gather in the heavens.

The practitioners of Dathomir Magic believed themselves to be casting spells rather than making use of the Force, and often were unable to make use of a "spell" without speaking its assigned name or performing the ritualized singing, dancing, chanting, and/or writing associated with it. The Nightsisters often attributed the work of the Force to the Spirits instead.

The skills in the Force that the Witches of Dathomir possessed changed the many generations since Allya's arrival on Dathomir, as knowledge was shaped by traditions and time from what Allya originally taught. It seemed that the Witches were only gifted in certain aspects of Force use, some in healing, others in Force Whirlwind, and so forth.

According to the Nightsisters, a shaman could channel the Spirits to create green spirit ichor, which—by the time of the Clone Wars—served as the primary basis of their magicks. The Water of Life was one such use of spirit ichor.

"Magick is a living thing. It arises from blood and trees and mist. It flows through your veins already, but we will reshape you to channel it." ―Shelish, to the Smuggler

[stopthatmyhandsaredirty]

The Clone Wars Bechdel Test Rewatch- 4x19 “Massacre”

Plot

Count Dooku is determined to have revenge against the Nightsisters of Dathomir after their betrayal. General Grievous launches an all-out droid attack against the magic-wielding witches, and Mother Talzin and Asajj Ventress lead the defense with all the dark powers at their command.

Female Identifying Characters: 4

Asajj Ventress, Mother Talzin, Old Daka, Karis

Male Identifying Characters: 2

Count Dooku, General Grievous 

Does it pass?

Yes, it does! Asajj, Talzin, and the other Nightsisters talk throughout the episode. Of course, they are all defeated by Grievous and his droids so...there is that. I do live Talzin using her voodoo on Dooku. He deserved to die that way tbh. I also forgot they straight up execute Old Daka. Brutal. 

[mayxthexforce]

Merrin nodded when he asked if by 'friend' she meant 'the Jedi'.

"He's not bad once you get to know him," Merrin said. "Although he has a tendency to trespass into people's homes. He did it to me back in Dathomir, and I guess he also did it to you in Nur- I'd say his boldness is admirable, but unwise."

A rule of two. That kind of reminded Merrin of how the Nightsisters only allowed a small number of elders in power at a time. There'd been Mother Talzin and Old Daka, but they didn't have the same title. Mother Talzin was their leader, Old Daka —as her name signaled— was the oldest member of the clan and as such, had been seen as the wisest. She was the one Merrin tended to go to when her visions became too much to bear on her own, because Old Daka didn't try to turn her precognition abilities into a weapon at every turn the way mother Talzin had in her desperate attempts to feel in control of more than just the clan.

"The one I killed was a Jedi that fell to the dark side. Taron Malicos, he crashed in Dathomir around the same time all Jedi were apparently being killed around the galaxy. Even before the shadows got to him he was already not sound of mind," Merrin explained, she pointed towards Vader's hip. "He had two lightsabers, red like yours. I was there when he bled them. Fine weapons, but they didn't help him much in the end. He was hungry for more power than he was entitled to, like a parasite. So I rid Dathomir of him."

mayxthexforce​:

Now, this conversation had taken a surprisingly philosophical turn, for a moment. Merrin hadn’t had that kind of talk since before the fall of the Nightsisters, the Nightbrothers weren’t the most introspective thinkers out there- which she appreciated most of the time, but she also missed the talks with her sisters.

“I guess so,” Merrin said, with a slight shrug to her shoulders. “Though many people take their life for granted, until they run into someone who makes them remember how fragile and brief their stay in this realm truly is.”

That’s why she was using telling people the exact way they would die as her go-to scare tactic as of late, that and because befriending Jedi meant having to respect their… less extreme ways.

What he said last made her remember something Cal had mentioned. “They’re clones?” she asked. “I’ve heard them be mentioned. Never encountered one- then again, I’d also never encountered a Jedi, until recently.” Malicos didn’t count, he’d cracked under the unyielding pressure of Dathomir in just a couple weeks. If Malicos counted as a Jedi, then he was the worst Jedi Merrin had ever heard of.

That brought another question to mind.

“How many like you are there?” Merrin asked. “I killed a Sith, back in Dathomir, and I’ve seen the inquisitors. But your aura feels different from theirs.”

“I suppose so, but I haven’t met anyone who captivates my interest, in a very long time. When you’re me, you just get used to a life of loneliness. I have. That’s just how things are, for me.”  He shrugged. “I know my life is fragile. I am barely alive, as it is.” 

Vader never told anyone they were going to die. He just killed them. He liked the element of surprise. He always had.  He tended to kill first and think later. He wasn’t big of thinking. He was reckless. He was reckless, even when he was a Jedi.

“Yeah, they were clones from the Clone Wars, who were transferred to the empire. Some were decommissioned and left with no purpose, but there still are some in existence, today.  You’re talking about your friend, the Jedi? There are not many Jedi in existence. Order 66 took most of them out, along with me and my Inquisitors.”  

He sighed. “There are only 2 actual Sith at a time. There is a rule of two.”

– moved from @crowsandmurder​ 

[utterimmolation]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cal Kestis & Merrin Characters: Merrin (Star Wars), Cal Kestis, Talzin (Star Wars), Old Daka (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Planet Dathomir (Star Wars), Nightsisters (Star Wars), Minor Cal Kestis/Merrin, Aged-Up Character(s), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Merrin is Space Ariel, When she's not traumatized, Nightsister Magic | Dathomir Magic (Star Wars), Cal does not understand anything about witches, he's also only really been around Ahsoka and Padmé, therefore if a poweful lady is not a Commander, SHE IS A QUEEN Series: Part 16 of Jedi on Kamino Summary:

She would never leave her home, so there was no reason to dwell on the unreachable. The stars would remain untouched.

  And then one day, the stars came to her.

[lieutenantseivarden-tomove]

if you think you can take on a squad consisting entirely of nightsisters (including old daka and mother talzin) just because they seem low level, you are weak and you will not survive the winter

[arena-fighter-asajj-ventress]

No one I spoke to has any idea if part of this is her hair or if all of it is a headdress.

reference photos for old/alte/elder/nightsister daka.

(and her nightsister drip)

[kimageddon]

A Prince of Dathomir - Intent Part 2

In the days that followed, it became common for Zaiya’s song to be heard through the Nightsister’s village, and she found that when she sang, her powers seemed to be more concentrated. Using this knowledge, she trained her voice, discovering more of her powers as she grew. Each night she visited with Old Daka and Mother Talzin, the powers becoming stronger every time they called upon the ichor. She gained a little strength with each session, though her small body was weakened after each session and had to begin taking a potion every morning to improve her strength. Her training with Sheena was intense, the Nightsister preparing her for the viciousness beyond their home planet. She sparred with sisters, with Nightbrothers, and as she got more skilled, she was sent out on hunts. Some of the older member of the clan guided the child, practicing her skills on larger creatures, even rancors when they could.

Every night she felt the cries and pain of her friend, she did not know how, but she could feel his fear, hear his voice.

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Read the rest here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29729091/chapters/74589846

[gffa]

loverofcake asked:

Have you been on goh today and seen the prestige titles thing? Are you also working on becoming a Jedi Knight now? :D

I AM ON MY WAY.  It’s difficult because you can’t just sim your way through it, so 200 battles is A LOT to open up and wait the few seconds for it to load, then tap auto battle, but I AM GOING TO GET IT. And I’m not upset about the quest structure because I was listening to a podcast where one of the devs or producers or something was on and talked about how the daily activities were way too quick to finish, but the achievements took way too long, and they wanted something that was more in between, something that took awhile, but you wouldn’t be stuck on it forever.  I think they achieved a pretty good balance! I’m actually really enjoying a lot of the new features--that Raids one, where you can join ahead of time, before it starts, is AMAZING--and I’m having a good time with the game.  I’m thiiiiiiis close to GK, probably only 2-3 more Raids for him and I have 250+ Carbantis I AM GOING TO GEAR MY JEDI HUSBAND UP AND THEN WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE. I’m kind of not doing much on gear right now because I want to wait for GK, so I don’t accidentally use up what I need for him, but instead I’m working on getting my Nightsisters team in shape.  My First Order team is decent (just needs gear) and it was either Nightsisters or Troopers and I WANT THOSE OBNOXIOUS NIGHTSISTERS WHO ARE A HELL OF A TEAM.  Old Daka I had at 7* for awhile now, but I’m trying to get Mother Talzin up and OH MY GOD HER NODE IS SUCH A LONG, GRINDING HAUL, sobs. But at least I can sim the GW now!!!!  :D :D  :D Also, THIS IS IS R U D E:

AND AS ALWAYS:  HOW ARE OTHERS’ GAMES GOING?