Maul

## Personal information

### Personality:

Deadly, evil, dark, mysterious, sadistic, manipulative, murderous, broken, cruel, hateful, vengeful, dangerous, wise, power-hungry, cold-hearted, deranged, ruthless, resourceful, cunning, intelligent

### Siblings:

Savage Oppress
Feral

### Allies:

Darth Sidious (formerly), Cad Bane, Nute Gunray (formerly), Pre Vizsla (formerly), Bo-Katan Kryze (formerly), Jabba the Hutt (briefly), Gar Saxon, Rook Kast, Almec, Dryden Vos, Qi'ra, Ezra Bridger (briefly)

### Enemies:

Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Fifth Brother, Seventh Sister, Eighth Brother, Hera Syndulla, Chopper, Sabine Wren, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Garazeb Orrelios, Darth Vader, Sheev Palpatine

### Apprentice(s):

Savage Oppres (Sith Apprentice)
Ezra Bridger (informal Dark side student; briefly)

### **Affiliations**:

* Nightbrothers (Formerly)
* Sith (Formerly)
* Death Watch (Formerly)
* Shadow Collective (Formerly)
* Crimson Dawn (Formerly)

## Gallery

*The image gallery for **Maul** may be viewed here.*

## Quotes

“*The Sith. The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother's arms. Murdered my brother. Used me as a weapon and then cast me aside. Abandoned me! Once I had power, now I have nothing. Nothing.*”
―Darth Maul to Ezra Bridger

**Maul** (formerly known as **Darth Maul**) was a Dathomirian Zabrak, a former Sith Lord, powerful dark-side user and the secondary antagonist of Season Three of *Star Wars Rebels*.

 Biography

### Before the Series

As a child, the boy who would become Darth Maul was born on the planet Dathomir to Mother Talzin, the leader of the Nightsisters and he had two brothers, Feral and Savage Oppress. Due to him being excepionally powerful in the Force, the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, whom Talzin had been allied with, kidnapped Maul and hoped to make him a powerful Sith Apprentice. This caused Talzin to develop a hatred for Sith Lords.

From childhood, Maul was trained and abused by Palpatine and develop a hatred for the Jedi, an ancient enemy of the Sith after breathing in the old dust on the battlefield on Malachor.

During the invasion of Naboo, Maul killed Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, but was soon bested in combat by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had cut his opponent in half and sent him down an air shaft. Due to this, Maul was presumed killed in action, however, he ultimately survived due to his hatred for Obi-Wan.

### Clone Wars

Eventually found by his brother, Maul took Savage at an apprentice and they began to grow into power while building his pen criminal Empire. Among them was the rule of Mandalore and the recreation of the Shadow Collective.

During the final days of the Clone Wars, he encountered Ahsoka Tano during the Siege of Mandalore. However, she ended up besting him in battle and eventually captured him. During the transport from Mandalore to Coruscant, Maul was freed by Ahsoka as Order 66 was issued. He snuck into a transport, killing several clones in the process. The young Jedi woman tried stopping him but when Rex's life was in danger, Ahsoka choose to save her friend, allowing maul to escape.

### Attempted Coup

In an attempt to a rise in power, Maul continued to lead the Crimson Dawn from behind the scenes. However, after losing his position, Maul left for Malachor to find the Sith Holocron but ended up stranded there for decades. Years after the collapse of Crimson Dawn, Maul was stranded on the ancient planet Malachor. By then, he had given up the title of "Darth"; however, he continued to draw from the dark side of the Force. Since then, the Eighth Brother began hunting Maul, who suspected Vader sent to kill him.

### Meeting Ezra Bridger

He met the Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger shortly after the boy was separated from his master, Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano. Maul offered to help Ezra get out of the lower levels of Malachor if he shows the location of the prize that will know how to defeat the Sith. Maul introduced himself as "Old Master" while Ezra insisted on being called "Jabba." During their conversation and way to the Sith Holocron, Ezra learns that Maul was once a force-wielder and accuses him of being a Sith. However, Maul reveals it was the Sith who took his mother and brother, which caused Ezra to find common ground, revealing that he lost his family to the Empire.

Maul and Ezra then came across a stone-closed door and opened them with the Force due to the Rule of Two established by the Sith Order. It was there that Ezra revealed what his real name was and that he is in fact called Maul. They find the Sith Holocron, but at a further distance; Ezra has Maul throw him with the Force to get the holocron. He rloletrieves it but Maul orders for Ezra to jump nonetheless even though the temple was collapsing. Ezra nearly falls to his death but Maul uses the Force to grab Ezra and the Holocron, helping him back up on the platform. The two managed to get out of the chasm, coming to the aid of Ahsoka and Kanan and they fend off the Seventh Sister, the Fifth Brother and the Eighth Brother, causing them to retreat. However, Kanan and Ahsoka were reluctant to trust Maul due to his past actions against the Jedi, but Ezra convinced them they all had to work together in order to succeed in defeating the Inquisitors and learning more about destroying the Sith. Maul and Ezra separated from Ahsoka and Kanan while taking the Sith holocron. Maul attempted to sow the heated and strained relationship between master and apprentice by seeing Ezra's potential Force abilities. They are suddenly attacked by the Seventh Sister, who engages in a duel with the Jedi Padawan and the former Sith lord.

As Ezra fought the Inquisitor, Maul told the teenager to let his emotions fuel his duel with the Sister. In her moment of weakness, Maul grabbed the Seventh Sister in a force choke hold and goaded Ezra to strike her down. However, the boy hesitated, unable to kill a defenseless opponent. Maul shared no such qualms and took his Lightsaber and decapitated the Seventh Sister. He scolded Ezra, telling the teen Jedi that if hesitated like that again, it would cost him the lives of himself and his friends. Maul sent Ezra the rest of the way to use the holocron to activate the temple while he went and helped Kanan and Ahsoka kill the Fifth and Eighth brother. However, Maul betrayed his Jedi Allies, immediately blinding Kanan and revealed Ezra was going to activate the Sith weapon and revealed that he intended take Ezra on as an apprentice and to use the weapon to crush his enemies. During the duel, he taunted both Ahsoka and Kanan, who ultimately bested Maul in combat and set him falling off the cliff. Maul miraculously survived the fall and was finally able to escape the planet Malachor using one of the fallen inquisitors' TIE fighter.

### Quest for Kenobi

#### Tricking Ezra

Six months later, Maul resurfaced. but this time, decided to torment Ezra and his friends. He tortured one of the rebel commanders into coercing him to reveal where Ezra's home, the Ghost, was located, where Maul captured Ezra's and Kanan Jarrus's crew and held them hostage. Maul contacted the two Jedi. Infuriated, Ezra demanded to know what Maul wanted after betraying him on Malachor. Maul offered to spare them in exchange for the Sith holocron he and Ezra retrieved on Malachor. Ezra and Kanan agreed, promising to deliver it in exchange for their friends' safety. Maula greed to their terms but also asked for Kanan's Jedi holocron. During his time on the *Ghost*, Maul saw it was more than just Ezra's ship, but also his and the crew's home. He tricked Hera into showing him around the ship in order to find Kanan's holocron. Shown all the crew's room, when he appeared at Kanan's cabin, he successfully identified it as a Jedi's headquarters and attempted to get Hera to show him where the holocron was, but the Twi'lek woman lied and pretended not to know anything about him until Maul learned through probing through Hera's mind that she knew Kanan's real name was Caleb Dume and therefore, knew more about him what she let on. Probing through her mind, Maul learned how the Ghost crew met Ezra, how it was Hera's idea to recruit him and that where Ezra found the Holocron when he stole it. Maul later attempted to open the Holocron, however, he was unable to open it because he was too imbedded within the dark side. He later found the Ghost crew escaped and attempted to take the Ghost crew back from Maul. However, the former Sith Lord overpowered the crew and threatened to kill them when their usefulness was over.

Shortly after Kanan and Ezra's arrival, Maul saw Ezra had found the Sith Holocron and told Mandalorian guide droids he re-programmed to lead him to the command center and pretended to lead the Jedi Knight to where their friends were supposedly taken until he shoved the Jedi out of airlock in another attempt to make Ezra his apprentice and ordered the droids guarding Ezra to kill Hera, Sabine and Zeb. They combined Kanan's Jedi and the Malachor Holocron together to find the answers they sought. However, Ezra broke their connection when Kanan called for Ezra to look away before it was too late. The boy looked away, ultimately cutting off his and Maul's connection to the Sith holocron. However, the brief connection caused Maul to realize that Kenobi was still alive and left in a hurry, leaving the *Ghost* crew behind.

Several weeks later, Maul began using his bond with Ezra to his advantage by projecting his image into Ezra's mind and making him have visions of the former Sith. The first caused Ezra to faint out of exhaustion and the second time, caused Ezra to nearly kill another fellow rebel officer. Maul later cornered Ezra and Kanan in the desert of Atollon and revealed that Ezra formed a bond between the two of them and that Maul had obtained several of Ezra's secrets, including the location of their base. Maul threatened to reveal their location to the Empire by activating a beacon nearby, and not even his death would stop it. Ezra, wanting to protect the rebellion, agreed; the two went to Dathomir, preforming a ritual that combined their minds once again, where their vision of Kenobi was completed. However, the price of using the Nightsisters magic caused their spirits to awaken. As the Nightsisters tried possessing Maul and Ezra, Kanan and Sabine had appeared but were easily possessed. As the Nightsisters in Kanan and Sabine's bodies fought the two, Maul and Ezra escaped the alter, which the witches were trapped in. He attempted to recruit Ezra one more time, who rejected Maul's proposal. Seeing that Ezra would not come with him and willingly leave his friends, Maul left Ezra and began his quest to hunt Obi-Wan down.

#### Duel and Death

Maul wandered in search of Obi-Wan on Tatooine, intent on seeking his revenge. He soon became lost in the desert and screamed Obi-Wan's name in vain, wondering if it was his destiny to die in the wastes of the planet. Regaining his determination, he continued in his search. Maul then set a trap for Ezra Bridger, luring him to a canyon with a piece of the Sith Holocron. After Ezra’s ship was taken out by Tusken Raiders, Maul intervened, slaying the Sand People before seemingly leaving Ezra alone and unharmed. As Ezra sought a way off-world and was caught in a sandstorm, Maul followed out of sight, knowing Obi-Wan would rescue him. As Ezra recovered and Obi-Wan explained to Ezra, Maul manipulated Ezra into seeking out Obi-Wan, trying to manipulate and accelerate events that were already in motion. He also further stated that Maul was an "old wound" that Obi-Wan himself must deal with, and not Ezra's responsibility.

As Maul arrived, Obi-Wan faced down his old foe, whereupon Maul remarked and pondered as to why Obi-Wan would hide on such a planet. He then correctly deduced that Obi-Wan was protecting someone. Obi-Wan, realizing Maul had to die to protect Luke, ignited his lightsaber then readied himself for one last confrontation. After a tense stare down, Maul then attacked, but Obi-Wan defeated the former Sith Lord in a few quick blows, severing his lightsaber and simultaneously slashing Maul across the chest. Shocked at being mortally wounded so quickly, Maul fell, only to be caught by Obi-Wan. He then asked if the person Obi-Wan was guarding was indeed the one who would destroy the Sith, to which Obi-Wan replied yes. Satisfied by this and finally having come to terms with his fate, with his last breath Maul stated that this "chosen one" would avenge him and Obi-Wan both. With this, Maul died, with Obi-Wan closing the fallen dark warrior's eyes out of respect for his old nemesis.

## Behind the Scenes

* Maul was originally going to die at the hands of Darth Vader in the second season finale, Twilight of the Apprentice.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* "Twilight of the Apprentice" (First Appearance)

### Season Three

* “The Holocrons of Fate”
* “Visions and Voices”
* “Trials of the Darksaber" (mentioned only)
* “Twin Suns” (Last Appearance)

## Site Navigation

1. ↑ *Ahsoka*
2. ↑ star Wars: The Clone Wars - Liberty and Death
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Twilight of the Apprentice
4. ↑ The Holocrons of Fate
5. ↑ Visions and Voices
6. ↑ Twin Suns