History Characters / StarWarsDathomir

* ChildProdigy: An ImpliedTrope. Despite being very young compared to most Nightsisters, she has access to skills only seen with [[TeleportersAndTransporters Talzin]] or [[{{Necromancer}} Daka]].

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Can use magick to teleport from one area to another.

->'''Voiced by:''' Cara Pifko
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''

* EvilAlbino: The Nightsisters all have pale white skin.

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[[folder:Nightsister Ghosts]]
!!Nightsister ghosts

->'''Voiced by:''' Anna Graves (possessor of Sabine Wren), Meredith Salenger (possessor of Kanan Jarrus)
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''

The spirits of fallen Nightsisters that were summoned by former Darth Maul and Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger to use their magic to see the future.

* BigNo[=/=]RapidFireNo: Sabine's Nightsister ghost, when Ezra pushes a possessed Sabine out of the altar's range.
* DealWithTheDevil: The participants that use their magic in a ritual for their own use must provide the same number of bodies or more for the spirits to use to return to the world of the living. Often it is the participants themselves, but non-participants that are brought in for the trade or just happen to be around work just as well (though don't expect the spirits to not attack the participants after possessing the others, since they still go after Maul and Ezra after getting Sabine and Kanan's bodies).
* DemonicPossession: After they complete their side of the deal, they go after whoever they can possess as your payment.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Per typical of Nightsister magik possessions, the possessed get green eyes with ichor flowing out of them.
* SealedEvilInACan: Maul unleashes them from their altar by using their magic to see the future.

** In "Revival", Adi Gallia was quickly put on the defensive and her kicks didn't even phase him, which resulted in Savage killing her.

* InkSuitActor: He is modeled after her English voice actress.

[[folder:Darth Maul]]

* TokenHeroicOrc: Perhaps due to not growing up alone, without the rest of the power-hungry cult to indoctrinate her, Merrin is the only Nightsister who explicitly takes wholly sympathetic actions while remaining one of the brood (Ventress having changed after leaving), ultimately leading to her [[spoiler: joining forces with a Jedi and setting forth to do good in the galaxy.]] Even before [[spoiler: changing sides]], she only fights to protect her home from a threat she has been led to believe is evil, rather than out of vindictive malice or ambition like the others.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Perhaps due to not growing up alone, without the rest of the power-hungry cult to indoctrinate her, Merrin is the only Nightsister who explicitly takes wholly sympathetic actions while remaining one of the brood (Ventress having changed after leaving), ultimately leading to her [[spoiler: joining forces with a Jedi and setting forth to do good in the galaxy.]] Even before [[spoiler: changing sides]], she only fights to protect her home from a threat she has been lead to believe is evil, rather than out of vindictive malice or ambition like the others.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order''[[note]]mentioned only[[/note]]

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir''

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whether he died in the devastation of the Nightbrother village after the death of Mother Talzin is currently unknown.

* SquishyWizard: As mentioned above, she is really powerful, but prefers to focus on supporting her sisters through her magic rather than getting physical unless absolutely necessary. Most notably, she tortures Dooku with a voodoo doll, threatening to destroy him if he does not withdraw his Separatist forces. But when Grievous interrupts, she turns intangible and escapes. When she's preoccupied protecting Darth Maul while he escapes, Grievous finishes her off for good. That said, this seems to be simply a preference, as shown in "The Disappeared" when she doesn't hesitate to challenge [[MasterSwordsman Mace Windu]] to a sword fight and actually holds her own for the brief period seen, which hints [[CastFromHitPoints that the only thing holding her back was the degradation of her body from the overuse of her magics]] and being so close to her goal of draining Queen Julia made her decide it was worth the risk.

The last surviving Nightsister following Count Dooku's genocide, living quietly on Dathomir and driving off anyone who disturbs her people's isolation. However, her worldview is shook upon her encounter with former Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She mentions being close to another Nightsister named Ilyana as a child, though it isn't clear if her feelings were romantic. She also has a few moments of possible ShipTease between her and Cal.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: She mentions being close to another Nightsister named Ilyana as a child, though it isn't clear if her feelings were romantic. She also has few moments of possible ShipTease between her and Cal.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Perhaps due to not growing up alone, without the rest of the power-hungry cult to indoctrinate her, Merrin is the only Nightsister who explicitly takes wholly sympathetic actions, ultimately leading to her [[spoiler: joining forces with a Jedi and setting forth to do good in the galaxy.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Once she joins the ''Mantis'' crew, she shows some significant shades of this. For example, after explaining to the group the intense training regimen she underwent to properly control her magick:
-->'''Greez:''' Oh, yeah! It's like that time I ate 10 pounds of Umbaran flank steak to get into a high-end cantina.\\

* NotSoAboveItAll: While she is usually no-nonsense and all business, when Greez seems especially nervous and offers to cook the crew of the ''Mantis'' steaks, she notes that she likes them rare, even stopping him from walking away specifically to tell him that. Evidently hanging around the ''Mantis'' has an effect on her, as she later jokes that she needs a sacrifice for a cloaking ritual, and that one of Greez's arms will do nicely.
* NotSoDifferent: To Cal. Both of them survived a Sith purge that annihilated their people, and were left alone to fend for themselves as a result. While she points out that Jedi and Nightsisters don't mix well together, they go along with each other as survivors.
* OddFriendship: As she herself notes, Nightsisters and Jedi do not go well together, yet she travels with two Jedi (one former) by bonding with them as survivors.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: She can pull this off, at least during a scene when she sees Malicos is revealed to have lied to her, seemingly connected to higher levels of her {{necromanc|er}}y.

* GoodCostumeSwitch: She wears a hooded, jewelry-encrusted [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black-on-red]] robe during Cal's first visit to Dathomir, when she attempts to drive him off due to her mistaken belief that the Jedi killed her people. [[spoiler:When he returns to find her questioning her choices and willing to join him, she's switched to a plain-looking red-on-black tunic.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She has had virtually no information about the galaxy beyond Dathomir until Cal came, due to her people's isolationism and Malicos' manipulations. As such, when she is told "the Empire" is after what Cal, she asks ''what'' Empire, not having the slightest idea about the state of the galaxy. She also can't speak Binary (meaning she can't understand [[RobotBuddy BD-1]]), but that isn’t as odd, as other characters in the franchise have the same difficulty.