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In Star Wars , nothing isever really pop off , especially if you ’re a modern-day streaming show onDisney+and are in need of another callback to the wider saga . This workweek ’s Ahsoka finalegave us one such callback in its final moments , setting the stage for a entrancing arc — one rooted in Star Wars ’ most esoteric Force mythologies .

“ The Jedi , The Witch and The Warlord , ” the last episode — of this season , at least — of Ahsoka , concludes with paladin and villains alikescattered across Galax urceolata . In Star Wars ’ elemental beetleweed , Thrawn and the Great Mothers arrive on Dathomir , quick to enact their plans to repair the Empire , while Ezra reunites with Hera to monish her and the New Republic of the threat to fall . Meanwhile back on Peridea , Sabine and Ahsoka abide their time , while Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll go their separate ways . The former find consolation in strong - arming her way into leading the raider that call Peridea domicile , while it ’s the latter that has the most important discovery of all . chase down the power that has called to him across the show , Baylan ’s discharge of the season concludes with a major reveal as to just what he might be up to , with a crucial connection to the Force mythology explore in The Clone Wars .

What Is Calling to Baylan?

He ’s largely missing from the rest of the episode , but the terminal moment of “ The Jedi , The Witch and The Warlord ” see Baylan traversing the destitute plain of Peridea , before the tv camera turns and reveals that he is in fact brook in the decoration of a giant statue — amid a set of three depicting an older whiskered man , a young bald one with facial marking , and the remnants of a female figure , partially destroyed . The figure depicted are immediately intimate , as so many of this show ’s references to the wider Star Wars canon are , to rooter of The Clone Wars and Star Wars : Rebels : theydepict the Father , the Son , and the Daughter , a trio of extremely powerful , seemingly immortal Force practician from the Mortis realm .

Who Are the Ones of Mortis?

The Father , Son , and Daughter first appeared in triad ofClone Wars season three episodes“Overlords , ” “ Altar of Mortis , ” and “ ghost of Mortis , ” residing in closed book on the planet Mortis , a world locate in the Wild Space of Star Wars ’ primary wandflower — beyond the Outer Rim , in uncharted areas of place on the edges of the universe . Even beyond that Mortis itself ostensibly existed outside of usual spacetime , a extraplanar realm of existence where the power of the Force was heightened and time passed differently than it does in the rest of the extragalactic nebula .

The Ones — the family of the Father , the Son , and the girl — were not native to Mortis , but came there so that the Father could better control the diametrically opposed elements of the Force his children personified . The Daughter represented the Light Side of the Force , personify the totality of its trait , from compassion to ego - sacrifice , while the Son represented the Dark and all its own momentum , from brute strength to paranoia . The Father then , in seek to mete out his children ’s strongest extremes , embodied a sentiency of balance between the two double star . While not altogether explicit , there is at least some grounds that the Ones and Mortis itself diddle a part in the origin item of the Force itself , with the Father ’s symmetry exert itself on the wider flow of the Force , Living and Cosmic alike , across the physical aeroplane .

Anakin , Ahsoka , and Obi - Wan encountered the Ones on Mortis after discovering an active , ancient Jedi distress signal — only to learn that this was the machination of the Father , who , in the twilight of his animation , was trying to learn if Anakin really was the prophesized Chosen One , and could replace him as the guardian of his children after his death . What unfolded on Mortis was rather catastrophe : the Son , plot away to be loose of his Father ’s influence and spread out his own influence across the galaxy , ultimate star to the seeming destruction of the Ones as a unit of measurement . The Daughter perished at the Son ’s hands unintentionally , sacrificing herself to save the Father , and before long thereafter the Father killed himself to allow Anakin the prospect to destroy the otherwise immortal Son , which in twist riposte the triple of Jedi to the forcible land moment after their arrival .

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But the Force works in inscrutable ways , and the impact of the Ones was still feel even beyond their death . There powers were seemingly linked to another extraplanar realm in the Force , the World Between Worlds — which Ahsoka itselfalready chaffer this season — when the gateway to the realm on Lothal was revealed through a wall painting depicting the Ones inStar Wars : Rebels . And one of the tierce in particular has an even more expressed connection to Ahsoka Tano , in fussy …

How Is Ahsoka Linked to Mortis?

During the case of Clone Wars ’ Mortis arc , Ahsokafinds herself corruptedby the influence of the Son in an endeavour to goad Anakin into making an alliance with him . The Son seemingly killed Ahsoka after she had outlast her utility to him , but after unwittingly mortally wounding his sis , the Daughter transferred her own dwindling aliveness effect into Ahsoka , renovate her and cleansing her from the Son ’s pestiferous influence . Since that moment , Ahsoka has found herself on the face of it connected to the flavor of the girl through Morai , a blank and green Convor ( an owl - like bird ) often depicted in nontextual matter pertaining to representations of the Daughter .

Whether simply spiritually connected to the girl in some way of life or some variety of rebirth of the being has never been made expressed before , but Morai has watched over Ahsoka from afar for years since , with Ahsoka exact the Convor saved her animation — and bind her to places of huge strength in the Force , like the World Between Worlds and even its connections on planets like Lothal and the Sith world Malachor . And now , the Convor has now ostensibly foil between galaxy as Ahsoka has , making herself screw to the latter on Peridea after she and Sabine were left run aground on the man at the climax of Ahsoka ’s finale .

What Does This Mean for Ahsoka’s Future?

Well , it ’s operose to clearly say other than there ’s some truly ancient Force bizarreness going on on Peridea — and Baylan Skoll wants in on it . The existence of these statue on the human beings connote that before the Ones fall to Mortis , they might have called Peridea domicile , or at least had an influence on its galaxy respectable enough to be revered by its culture as godlike beings in the past . Given theNightsisters ’ own extragalactic origins , it ’s perhaps even potential that their non-white magicks and manipulations of the Force have an origin in the Son ’s pestiferous power — although we ca n’t declaratively say , the fact that the Daughter ’s statue is the only one that has been seemingly deface ( quite literally , with its oral sex and largely broken off and left unobserved ) seems to paint a picture that part of the reason the Father plan to take his children to a place where their office could be more easily check was that there was an imbalance beforehand , seemingly in favor of the Dark Side .

But while the Ones have a history with Peridea , it ’s hard to say if they ’re actually what ’s calling to Baylan right now — when we see him in Ahsoka ’s finale , he ’s simply navigating across these statue to some distant goal , not these statues in particular . Could the Ones ’ potential link to the very line of the Force be pointing to whatever has called Baylan ? Is there something of the spirit of the Son still out there influencing his desire for mogul , kin to how the Daughter ’s spirit hold up on through Ahsoka and Morai ’s connective ? Could their limning trumpeter , just as it did in Rebels , Peridea having another connection to the World Between Worlds , and a luck for acquaintance and foes a like to traverse across galaxies back to their family ?

We ’re in all likelihood going to have to wait a while to find out — whether or not Ahsoka ’s story will persist in in either a 2nd time of year or across other Star Wars avenue like The Mandalorian and eventually Dave Filoni ’s “ Mandoverse ” movie is currently unnamed , but it ’s clear that this is going to be a major part of its story , even beyond Thrawn ’s intrigue .

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