What Ahsoka’s Mortis gods mean for the Star Wars universe

Everyone knew this AhsokaThe plot of the movie would be similar to that in Star Wars: Clone WarsYou can also find out more about the following: Rebels. But I didn’t expect its finale to reprise the most baffling piece of cinematic Star Wars media I’ve ever consumed.

Here we are, however: with an owl, and some statues. Ahsoka said “It’s gods of Mortis time, baby!”

Star Wars’ characters have been re-imagined as the gods of Mortis. Star Wars: Clone Wars writing room by George Lucas, and it’s hard to explain exactly What is the best way to get in touch with you?They are Star Wars canon because they vaguely describe the events. Clone WarsThey are explained. They’re secretive beings of great and largely unknown power, who are shrouded in legend — they can transform their own shapes, grab lightsabers by the blade like it ain’t no thang, manipulate Force visions, and one of them loves murder. Do they have a lot of celestials in them? They are powerful Force-users or are they full on celestial beings? It’s ambiguous.

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They read, outside of fiction as Lucas using fable structure to portray an endless struggle between Jedi Sith. The Mortis “gods” form a pantheon of three: The selfless, life-bringing Daughter; the selfish, violent Son; and the Father who seeks to keep each of them from dominating the other. To this end, the Father sequesters them all in a dreamlike realm called Mortis (which may, or may not, or may only sometimes, have a set location in actual space) where the landscape itself represents the battle of the Son and Daughter’s natures, with seasons changing as quickly as the hour.

Images of Mortis deities appear on the pages of Rebels’ final season, there’s really only one Mortis gods story: A three-part arc in the third season of Clone Wars, including the episodes “Overlords,” “Altar of Mortis,” and “Ghosts of Mortis.” Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka follow an ancient Jedi distress signal to a giant crystal floating in space, which promptly yanks their shuttlecraft inside it, where they meet the Daughter, the Son, and the Father. The Father brought them here because he has heard Anakin might be the Chosen One who could take his place as his children’s jailer/referee.

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The narrative continues in a frenetic manner. It’s not good, but it is a fascinatingly weird experience, like listening to a friend describe a sprawling nightmare. Although I can’t recommend this movie, I wish more of my friends would watch it. I want to be able to discuss it with someone else, just like I do when I wake up from a strange dream.

[Ed. note: The rest of this piece contains spoilers for the Mortis gods episodes, on the off chance I’ve already convinced you to watch them.]

Ahsoka is killed in Mortis gods. It’s like a kid dies straight up on the screen. The Daughter then pours Ahsoka’s dying life energy into her to bring Ahsoka back. Anakin gets a glimpse of Darth Vader in the future from The Son. Anakin is horrified to hear that he’ll eventually join the Dark Side. He responds by ImmediatelyThe Dark Side. The Father then wipes the memory of his vision, so that he can return to normal.

As if in a nightmare, Obi Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka awaken on their space shuttlecraft moments after leaving, at the end of this episode. But it wasn’t. Ahsoka appears to carry some aspect of the Daughter with her — through to the final scenes of Ahsoka Season 1

The following are some of the reasons why you should consider hiring a professional. Rebels, Ahsoka’s presence in a story has often coincided with the appearance of a owl-like bird with plumage the same color as the Daughter’s character design. Ahsoka seems to think that she is the daughter of the bird Morai.

Why is this related to Ahsoka 2 and the Owl?

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The gods of Mortis are very rooted in the kind of general mythopoeic ideas that Lucas has always cited as his inspiration for Star Wars’ metaphysics — but they’re still very weird!

After all, “an indefinable manifestation of life that surrounds and binds all matter in the universe and that some attuned individuals can be trained to harness for good or evil” is a thoroughly different understanding of the Force than “The Dark Side is winning right now because the god of the Dark Side killed his sister, the goddess of the Light Side.”

But it’s exactly this kind of predestined eternal battle — like the Norse Gods and Ragnarok, or the Greek gods and the Titans — that echoes Baylan Skoll’s conviction to end the millennia-long cycle of Sith and Jedi. And last we see him, he’s standing atop a statue of the Father, the Mortis god of balance between Dark and Light. Morai the convor bird also visits Ahsoka in the show’s final moments.

To try and say anything more — about how statues of the Mortis gods came to be in another galaxy, or how the “Force magic” of the Witches of Dathomir fit into all of this — would be pure speculation. This is what I’d wager the Star Wars fans will do until these elements are brought back in a new TV show.