Morrigan Stone

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 **Gender**
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* Death Watch
* Shadow Collective
* Pyke Syndicate
 **Occupation(s)**
* Mercenary

"*Return? And serve a false Mand'alor alongside the likes of Clan Wren? They trade loyalties the way a blutfish flips on the bank. For now, the only worthy path is exile. Honing our knives for the day a true leader can restore our home.*"
― Morrigan Stone
**Morrigan Stone** was a Human Mandalorian warrior, mercenary, and eventual bounty hunter who claimed descent from Clan Stone. Born to Old Mandalorian exiles on the moon of their ancestral homeworld, Morrigan was raised in accordance with the traditional Mandalorian warrior culture. Taught from an early age that all Mandalorians should return to their warrior past, Morrigan became a faithful adherent of Governor Pre Vizsla's vision of a restored Mandalore. An ambitious young warrior, Morrigan joined Vizsla's followers as a member of the covert Death Watch and eagerly took part in the often-brutal operations necessary to its agenda.

After Death Watch had succeeded in taking Mandalore, however, Vizsla would die in single combat against his accomplice, the rogue Sith warrior Maul. While Vizsla's lieutenant Bo-Katan Kryze rejected the duel's outcome, Morrigan and many other Death Watch members supported the victor as the next rightful ruler of Mandalore, driving Kryze and her followers into exile once again. Morrigan became one of Maul's Mandalorian super commandos, repainting her armor in their new leader's honor. Fighting in the Republic invasion of their homeworld later that year, Morrigan was eventually forced to surrender and imprisoned. Taken to tribunal in turn, Morrigan refused to accept Kryze's regency of the planet and accepted exile, eventually finding employment as a bounty hunter in service to some of the criminal elements who'd formed Maul's Shadow Collective.

## Biography

### Early life

Morrigan was born into the traditionalist Clan Stone on Mandalore in a time of change. For thousands of years, Mandalore's people had been ruled by a feudalist system, in which the warrior clans led by virtue of their strength to protect and enforce their decisions. Familial clans passed down their warrior training and rare beskar armor through generations, while the rest of the planet's population were expected to serve and obey these protectors. Eventually, however, Mandalore's wider population saw dwindling need for warriors in a galaxy kept at peace by the Galactic Republic.

This conflict led to the Mandalorian Civil War, in which Morrigan's father Colm Stone fought to retain his ancestral rights and privileges as a clan leader. When Morrigan was just a few years old, however, the martial traditionalists were defeated by the New Mandalorians led by Duchess Satine Kryze. Faced with exile to Mandalore's moon, Colm took with him what he could only barely carry: his weapons, his beskar armor, and—against his wife's wishes—his young daughter. Ripped from the secure and comfortable life she'd had at the clan's manor at Oldstone, Morrigan would be raised in a more spartan environment on Concordia.

As the surviving traditionalists who hadn't renounced their martial ways resettled, old alliances took new shape under the secret society led by Governor Pre Vizsla which would eventually become Death Watch. Vizsla promised to work toward restoring Mandalore's martial culture, and those who ruled it, to their rightful rulership of their homeworld. Colm was among the first to pledge himself and his clan to Vizsla's cause, the latter meaning his sole relative close at hand. Morrigan would be raised as a warrior-in-training from that day forward.

Morrigan learned from her father to fight with blasters or hand-to-hand, fly with the use of a jetpack, maintain and bear the weight of armor, and combine these skills to face even the most skilled opponents. While the training often left her with many bruises and even broken bones, Morrigan strove to live up to Colm's expectations as her only source of validation since leaving home. She made few friends among the other Mandalorian neophytes, against whom she was constantly tested. Her respect for the young Bo-Katan Kryze for renouncing her sister to maintain Clan Kryze's honor, however, led her to bond with the likewise-awed Ursa Wren. They quarreled briefly after Ursa won their rivalry for the affection of the young artist Alrich, but made up shortly after.

Days after turning fifteen, however, Morrigan would lose her father in an honor duel between Colm and a member of Clan Kast. When the Kast daughter Rook mocked him as "Stone-dead", Morrigan assaulted her, and another honor duel was only averted by Pre Vizsla ruling Morrigan too young to invoke such a right—aside from which, losing Morrigan would mean one less clan name supporting him. Bo-Katan, however, would tacitly make her support for Morrigan's actions known, which alienated Rook from both. Colm's ancient beskar armor then passed to Morrigan, which she repainted in the grey-and-blue color scheme of Death Watch and House Vizsla.

Thereafter, Morrigan's training would be finished by Colm's old friends in Death Watch, and when she turned seventeen was offered a place in Bo-Katan's elite Nite Owls. Elated by the reward for her hard work and the chance to serve alongside Ursa, Morrigan accepted at once and soon took her oaths as a warrior and member of Death Watch.

## Weapons and Equipment

* Mandalorian armor
Morrigan wore traditional Mandalorian armor forged from Beskar steel, an ancestral heirloom of Clan Stone taken when its leaders were exiled to Concordia. Morrigan was immensely proud of the armor, and polished or removed any blaster scoring or dents it received rather than bear the marks of battle scars. Its paint scheme changed multiple times through the course of Morrigan's ownership, from its traditional Clan Stone scheme to Death Watch's blue-and-grey livery in the style of House Vizsla, to the red-and-black of Maul's super commandos. After her exile from Mandalore, however, Morrigan adopted her own aesthetic for the armor, with plates of polished bronze over a wine-red *kute* flight suit. Yellow arm and neck seals were added, matching a flash surrounding her black visor. The one marking she retained on the armor was a black mark of Death Watch over her right breast, signifying her loyalty to the disbanded group's ideals and goal. The armor itself was fitted with a vambrace-mounted Flamethrower, and Morrigan's later additions included a gundark-leather bandoleer and slung holster.