Star Wars lore to remember for Mandalorian season 3

It is now time to close the book. Boba Fett’s Book, The writing appears to be on the wall: It’s a less-than-ideal look at everyone’s favorite Star Wars bounty hunter (original trilogy version).

For all the promise Boba Fett held over the years for Star Wars fans as an alluring antihero, by the time he finally got his own spotlight, he had been eclipsed by several other characters, including a new favorite Star Wars bounty hunter in Mandalorian armor — the Mandalorian, aka Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), aka Baby Yoda’s dad.

This eclipsing took place literally in Boba Fett’s Book, which ceded several episodes to Din Djarin and Grogu, beginning with the aptly titled episode “Return of the Mandalorian.” It was meant as a sort of crossover sequence, but it felt more like a full-scale colonization of the spinoff, as Book of Boba Fettbecame MandalorianSeason 2.5. It teased details it believes will be crucial for season 2.5. Mandalorian Season 3.

[Ed. note: In case it wasn’t clear, this post contains spoilers for Din Djarin’s and Grogu’s fates in The Book of Boba Fett to prepare you for season 3 of The Mandalorian. If you don’t want to know what happens in Boba Fett, don’t scroll further.]

Grogu has returned to The Mandalorian

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Season 2 had Grogu leaving Luke Skywalker to train with the Jedi, but in The Book of Boba FettThe Child misses Din so much that he has to leave. Young, weirdly de-aged Luke can sense that Grogu’s attachment is affecting his training, so he gives him the choice to stay with Luke or go with Din. Lucky news for those of you who love the little green puppet: he chose Din.

Both ends meet at Book of Boba FettSeason flying together and setting up MandalorianThe third season, as they begin over. But odds are that they’re on a collision course with some Mandalorian legends of their own.

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Din is only brief to stop by the Armorer’s in, Book of Boba Fett, their conversations are packed with a lot of teases about Mandalorian lore, including the fated return to the homeworld — Mandalore — that was ravaged by war. As the Armorer idly mentions to Din, “The songs of eons past foretold of the Mythosaur rising up to herald a new age of Mandalore. Sadly, it only exists in legends.”

It might not be as famous as she believes, after season 3. Mandalorian starts. In season 2, Mandalorian loyalist leader Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) promised to reunite the people of Mandalore who are scattered throughout the galaxy and reclaim their planet — while also securing the throne for herself. She’ll need the Darksaber to do that, which means there’s a good chance that she’ll intersect with Din and Grogu, since Din currently has the Darksaber.

What exactly is the Darksaber, and how can it be used?

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In “Return of the Mandalorian,” Din brings his Darksaber to a blaster fight, and walks out alive but injured. He presents the blade to an Armorer who explains that the blade was forged around 1000 years ago by a Mandalorian Jedi. Whoever wields it can rule all of Mandalore — at least if it is won in battle, per the Mandalorian Creed. She does note that if it changes hands any other way, it’s in the hands of the “undeserving,” and will be a “curse on our nation” — suggesting that Din can’t just hand the thing to Bo-Katan to prevent future strife with her.

Since Mandalorian season 3 is meant to shift some of the story’s action to Mandalore, it seems important that Din is now wielding a token of the fate of his people. Particularly since…

Din isn’t technically a Mandalorian right now

The Armorer takes time to train him in using the Darksaber, telling him to fight his opponent and not the saber itself, since she fears it’s too powerful for him. Paz Vizsla (another Mandalorian) challenges the Armorer to a duel for the chance to seize the saber. Din wins, but when the Armorer asks if he’s kept their sect’s Creed, he has to admit that he’s broken it by taking off his helmet in front of other people.

The Armorer tells him he’s “a Mandalorian no more,” at least in the eyes of The Children of the Watch, Din’s separatist sect. But she reminds him: “According to Creed, one may only be redeemed in the living waters beneath the mines of Mandalore.” Though the mines have all been destroyed, this is the way.

Where did the Mandalorian’s spear go?

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When Din meets with the Armorer, she quizzes him about where he got the weapon he’s carrying, a spear made of valuable Mandalorian steel known as beskar. (It’s from Ahsoka Tano, in Mandalorian Season 2, in case anyone forgot. He tells her that beskar was meant to protect armor and not weapons. It could also pierce other Mandalorians’ armor. He asks her for help in melting it and making a small chainmail shirt to wear on Grogu’s behalf. Din is excommunicated by the Children of the Watch and he takes the beskar shirt with him to his newfound friend.

The Mandalorian’s new ship

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Din’s Razor Crest was destroyed during a faceoff with season 1 villain Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). It turns out that Peli, an eccentric mechanic from Amy Sedaris has found him a replacement. An N-1 Starfighter was made for her royal guard by Peli and personally commissioned by Queen of Naboo. It’s got a ton of bells and whistles (Peli fabricated him an induction intake charter that will double his output coefficient! Let’s go, team!) but Din is unimpressed… at least until the end of the episode, when he gets to take it for a joyride and finds out how readily he can make other ships eat his space-dust.