Talzin

Talzin was a Dathomirian female who lived during the final decades of the Galactic Republic and became a formidable figure of power during the Clone Wars. On her homeworld of Dathomir, Talzin lived as a shaman and Clan Mother of the Nightsisters, a coven of Force-sensitive witches who used magicks — taught to them by Savathûn, the Witch-Queen — derived from the Dark Side of the Force to manipulate the wilderness around them and rule their male counterparts, the Nightbrothers. Talzin’s expertise in magicks was significant enough to attract the attention of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who came to Dathomir ostensibly to trade dark side teachings with Talzin and take her as his Sith apprentice. In reality, Sidious abducted Talzin’s son Maul and took him as an apprentice in her place. Years later, he was presumed dead after sustaining mortal injuries, but his strength in the dark side enabled him to remain just barely alive. Though Talzin was aware of Maul’s incredible survival, she was unable to rescue him, and thus remained on Dathomir to plot her vengeance against Sidious.
When the Clone War between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems erupted ten years later, Talzin gained galactic notoriety by selling the Nightsisters as assassins and mercenaries. In the midst of the War, Talzin began targeting her old ally Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy and the newest apprentice of Darth Sidious. Asajj Ventress, a Nightsister-turned-Sith assassin, had been betrayed by Dooku in order to prove his allegiance to Darth Sidious, and returned to Dathomir to seek Talzin’s help in exacting revenge. Although their attempt to assassinate Dooku failed, Talzin had a long-term plan for the Count's demise; she would provide him with a new apprentice in the form of the Nightbrother Savage Opress, who was also one of Talzin’s children. Opress was Maul’s biological brother and, after falling under the influence of her magick, became completely loyal to his mother and was hidden in the ranks of the Sith. Ultimately, both Ventress and Opress proved unable to kill the Count and were forced to take refuge with Talzin once more. While she tasked Opress with locating Maul in the Outer Rim, she welcomed Ventress back to Dathomir as a full member of the Nightsisters. The world was then invaded by Dooku's droid armies shortly thereafter in retaliation against Talzin's assassination attempts, and nearly all of the Nightsisters were wiped out by the Separatist warlord General Grievous and his forces, with the exception of a child called Merrin, Ventress, and Talzin herself. Weakened, the elder Nightsister fled into the spirit world to survive. Shortly after the massacre, Opress returned to Dathomir, having successfully retrieved a crazed and crippled Maul. Using what magicks she had left, Talzin resurrected her son and restored his broken mind. 
The act of restoring Maul forced Talzin to surrender her physical body to the spirit realm, but her son pledged to carry her torch of vengeance in a quest to draw out and kill Dooku and Sidious. Though Maul and Opress succeeded in forming the Shadow Collective as a power base, they were quickly discovered and defeated by Darth Sidious himself. Maul was captured and Opress was killed, effectively halting Talzin’s plans for revenge. In the interim, she undertook a scheme to absorb raw Force energy from the Dagoyan Masters of Bardotta to become more powerful than her enemies. Her manipulations of Bardotta’s Frangawl Cult, who revered her as the Great Mother, resulted in the successful abduction and absorption of nearly all the Masters, but the plan was derailed when Jedi Master Mace Windu and Representative Jar Jar Binks interfered with Talzin’s plans to absorb Bardotta’s Queen Julia on the moon Zardossa Stix. 
Talzin was again forced into the spirit realm, but was presented with a final chance at escape and revenge when Maul was freed from Sidious' grasp and began plotting with his mother to capture and kill Dooku to draw out Sidious. Maul succeeded in abducting Dooku and transported him back to the heart of Talzin’s power on Dathomir, where his mother proceeded to possess the Count’s body and nearly killed him. The torture of Dooku gave the Clan Mother enough strength to return to the physical realm, but her ritual was interrupted, this time by Grievous and Darth Sidious, who had come to decisively end Talzin’s threat. Despite her return to the material world during the skirmish, Talzin was unsuccessful in killing Dooku and was unable to withstand the might of the two Sith Lords and their cyborg General. She sent Maul to safety before being slain by Grievous, a death that marked the end of Talzin’s Nightsister coven.
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