Nightsisters

The **Nightsisters**, also known as the **Witches of Dathomir** or **Daughters of Dathomir**, were a clan of magick-wielding Dathomiri women who hailed from the Outer Rim world of Dathomir, a planet bathed in dark energies. The Nightsisters gained an infamous reputation across the galaxy through their usage of arcane magicks, powered by the dark side of the Force, by tapping into the magical ichor that flowed from the depths of the planet. According to legend and ancient lore, magick was taught to them by a mysterious entity known only as "the Witch-Queen."

Reclusive and self-serving, the Nightsisters generally excluded themselves from the affairs of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, though under the leadership of Mother Talzin in the final decades of the Republic they became increasingly involved with the Sith Order, especially the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Though Talzin sought to become his Sith apprentice, her ambitions were foiled when Sidious abducted her infant son, Maul, to train instead.

During the Clone Wars, Sidious' succeeding apprentice Count Dooku likewise received an apprentice and assassin in Maul's younger brother, Savage Opress, though the revelation of Opress' eventual betrayal arising from a conspiracy against him by his prior assassin Asajj Ventress, a Nightsister herself, immediately soured relations. Consequently the Nightsisters were decimated in a Separatist attack on the planet in 20 BBY, leaving few survivors, most notably Ventress, a young Merrin, and the lone human member Morgan Elsbeth.

## **Appearances**

* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 58: Remembrances" (first mentioned)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 48: The Hssiss Pack" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 67: Relics of the Old Republic" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 69: Alvin and the Outcasts" (mentioned only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Welcome to Tynoli" (mentioned only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "The Matron" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 19: Judgement of Soul" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 23: The Discovery" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 36: An Inside Man" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 37: Visions and Voices" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 38: The Nightsisters" (first appearance) (ghost or spirit)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 39: His Mandalorian Past" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 47: Vader's Vendetta"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 48: Against All Odds"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 49: Goodbye, For Now"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 50: Through Imperial Eyes"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 52: Old Wounds"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 53: Terror From beyond"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 54: Zero Hour Pt 1"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 55: Zero Hour Pt 2"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 56: Zero Hour Pt 3"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 57: Next Move" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 61: Return to Mandalore"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 62: Night of a Thousand Tears"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 63: Aftermath"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 64: Heroes of Mandalore"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 65: Strife Among the Alliance"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 67: The Deal"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 68: Wolves of Dume Pt 1"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 69: Wolves of Dume Pt 2" (main story and recap)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 70: Wolves of Dume Pt 3"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 73: A Fool's Hope"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 74: Taking a Gamble"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 75: Liberation of Lothal" (main story and recap)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 6: Children of the Force* — "Chapter 7: Hope of Resurgence"
* *The Shan Bloodline - Volume 1: The Taken War* (will appear)

### **Non-canon appearances**

* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 2: Mysteries of Reylea* — "Chapter 4: Dark Knights Attack" (mentioned only)