History Characters / StarWarsDathomir

* DumbMuscle: This is his main flaw, since while he's not stupid by any means, his first solution to anything is to hack it in two with his lightsaber, which is a liability chessmasters like Count Dooku and Darth Maul have a hard time controlling.

* TheApprentice: Initially apprenticed under Count Dooku before Maul.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: She's certainly sinister and ruthless, but the only time she has actually opposed the heroes was during the events of "The Disappeared", where she collaborated with a non-Dathomirian Force cult to harvest the Living Force from people for use. By the end of ''Son of Dathomir'', she seems to have settled as an evil manipulator, but one who is largely focused on her own goals, with little interest in the galaxy-spanning events of the Clone Wars. Subverted when she reveals Sidious was supposed to make her his right hand.
* ArcVillain: Of "The Disappeared" two-parter.

* FlamingSword: In an event where she decides to fight physically, as shown in "The Disappeared", she can conjure a sword of green fire capable of matching blows with a lightsaber.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her having parts of her phasing in and out of reality and her goal to harvest the living Force from Queen Julia in "The Disappeared" was a sign that she was losing her physical form.

* 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 with 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. This 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.

* VoodooDoll: She used one to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture Dooku]] during the Battle Of Dathomir.

* WickedWitch: She's a very old, heavily wrinkled, long-nosed, creeply looking (and sounding) woman with a sickly skin tone who can reanimate the fallen Nightsisters.

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:Merrin joins Cal and the crew of the Mantis very late in the game after Malicos is defeated having realized she and Cal aren't so different as survivors of [[ThePurge mass purgings of their kind]] and out of a desire to join him as they both try to move forward for the sake of finding their places in the galaxy]].

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Legends'', even after being decimated by the Empire, the Dathomirian Nightsisters were capable to mobilize impressive forces with minimal coalitions. A single high-rank witch like Silri lent the Zann Consortium many Nightsisters who mastered Force drain and rode rancors, forming a shock troop contingent so powerful that it could go toe to toe with Imperial land forces, and other posterior clans were still powerful enough to be threats to Jedi and Sith alike, including Luke Skywalker of all people. In contrast, current Canon established that the few guerrilleras we saw under Mother Talzin's command in ''The Clone Wars'' were actually all the (wo)manpower the Nightsisters had before being nigh-exterminated.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, the Nightsisters survived past the Galactic Civil War (and ironically, were introduced into ''Star Wars'' lore in that era). Canonically, it would seem the Nightsister culture was killed off before the Clone Wars ended, with there being few survivors after the war.

* BlackKnight: His black armour only makes the already monstrous Savage even ''more'' intimidating.

** In his debut episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E13Monster Monster]]", he took down two Jedi and their Clone Troopers without breaking a sweat.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Her ''Legends'' counterpart stayed as a character who only actually opposed other villains like Dooku and who only acted out to recover her own power after losing it. Meanwhile, the canonical ''Son of Dathomir'' reveals she had a deal with Darth Sidious where he would make her his right hand to rule the galaxy.
* AdaptationalWimp: Her last fighting scene in ''Legends'' has her briefly crossing blades with Windu and making him retreat, implying she could have given him a hell of a fight. However, the canonical ''Son of Dathomir'' reveals she's actually not very good in swordfighting, which now implies she would have been soundly defeated by Windu had the duel dragged out. When she attacks Sidious while possessing Dooku's body, the former says she has nothing of the latter's fencing ability, and then proceeds to show it by defeating her in just a couple moves; this rules out she could be anywhere near the level of Windu, who held his own against Sidious and might have disarmed him legitimately in their own duel.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: She has access to Dathomir magick, including necromancy, but is a good person.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite her AbusiveParents tendencies, Talzin loved Maul enough to use part of herself to reconstruct him and, shortly after regaining her body, she sacrificed herself to allow Maul to escape from Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, and General Grievous.

* HiddenAgendaVillain: She seems to have ''some'' kind of agenda, but exactly what it might be remains unknown until ''Son of Dathomir''. She wants to get back at Darth Sidious for stealing her son Darth Maul.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's biological mother was a Nightsister from Talzin's clan called Kycina, who was explicitly revolting against Talzin by giving Maul away. In Canon, as revealed in ''Son of Dathomir'', Talzin herself is Maul's mother instead. While ''Son of Dathomir'' was actually based on the script of ''The Clone Wars'' episodes cancelled by Disney, this relation seems to have been an addition by the latter, as a short ''Legends'' story by James Luceno established clearly Talzin and Kycina as different people.

** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival Revival]]", Adi Gallia was quickly put on the defensive and her kicks didn't even phase him, which resulted in Savage killing her. In the same episode beforehand however, he was effortlessly trounced by his brother, establishing Maul as the stronger one of the pair.

* CanonImmigrant: The first Nightsister originated in the direct-to-TV movie ''Ewoks: Battle for Endor'' (but wasn't identified as one until later), and the culture (and the planet Dathomir) originated in the ExpandedUniverse novel, ''The Courtship of Princess Leia''. However, after the 2014 reboot, none of those appearances are canon any longer.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, the Nightsisters survived past the Galactic Civil War (and ironically, were introduced into ''Star Wars'' lore in that era). Canonically, as of now (unless there are other Dathomirian cultures out there as was the case in ''Legends''), it would seem the Nightsister culture was killed off before the Clone Wars ended, with there being few survivors after the war.

* DyingRace: As of the end of ''Fallen Order'', Shelish, Merrin and Darth Maul are the only known remaining members of the species, and it would seem the Dathomirian species is now on the verge of extinction. There is still a small but indeterminate number of Nightbrothers on the planet and some continuation of the Dathomirian species in Shelish's daughter, Deathstick, but with her father's species unknown, chances are that any remaining pure-blooded Dathomirians are going to be genetically thinned out over time. [[spoiler:And with Darth Maul dying two years before the Battle of Yavin ''and'' missing everything below his stomach, that's the only option available]].

* CompositeCharacter: In ''Legends'', Darth Maul's mother was a Nightsister named Kycina, who was trying to keep her son away from Talzin and whom Talzin was actively pursuing in turn. In canon, Kycina doesn't exist, and Talzin is Maul's mother herself.

* AbusiveParents: It goes unmentioned at the time, but the reveal that she is Maul's actual mother means that Savage and Feral are her sons as well. The former she brainwashes into a living weapon and the latter she watches get murdered right in front of her without raising a finger to stop it.

* UnskilledButStrong: Savage has little formal training and, as Dooku says, "no technique", but he's so strong that he can destroy a dozen Separatist droids with a single Force wave, send Dooku flying across a room with a single blow, and at one point momentarily overpowering both Dooku ''and'' Ventress with the Force (which Ventress had previously done to Anakin and Obi-Wan of all people). He gradually becomes more skilled with training from Maul.

* FishOutOfWater: 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, including Greez in ''Jedi: Fallen Order'' itself.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dathomirian According to the other wiki]], they're the result of generations of cross-breeding between the original Human Nightsisters and [[RubberForeheadAliens Zabrak]]. Since Zabraks are a HumanSubspecies, this is easily justified.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Bizarrely for his character and allegiances, Savage seems to like money. When he comes across a massive fortune of credits, he is incredibly overjoyed to the completely indifferent Maul.

* AchillesHeel: Force Lightning. He doesn't know how to parry it, as Dooku elected not to teach him during his apprenticeship. As a result, when he and Ventress duel Dooku, he is [[CurbStompBattle completely and utterly unable to even reach a walking distance of Dooku.]]

* AchillesHeel: Force lightning. He doesn't know how to parry it, as even although he smartly asked Dooku to teach him the way, the latter wisely elected not to. As a result, when he and Ventress duel Dooku, the Sith fries him ''five'' consecutive times and makes him lose his head.

* AxCrazy: Not most of the time, but he has a couple notable moments where his temper completely clouds his judgement. He very consciously kills King Katuunko despite Dooku had ordered him to take him alive, only because Obi-Wan and Anakin were frustrating his attempts to kidnap him, and later turns on Ventress after becoming frustrated by Dooku's Force lightning, including her in his Force choke when he tries this against Dooku.

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* DyingRace: As of the end of ''Fallen Order'', Shelish, Merrin and Darth Maul are the only known remaining members of the species, and it would seem the Dathomirian species is now on the verge of extinction. There is still a small but indeterminate number of Nightbrothers on the planet and some continuation of the Dathomirian species in Shelish's daughter, Deathstick, but with her father's species unknown, chances are that any remaining pure-blooded Dathomirians are going to be genetically thinned out over time. [[spoiler:And with Darth Maul dying two years before the Battle of Yavin ''and'' missing everything below his stomach, that's the only option available.]]
* FanDisservice: You know those really revealing outfits the Nightsisters usually wear? Well, the Nightsister zombies in "Massacre" wear them too, showing off even more of their rotting flesh.

* GenderEqualsBreed: Zigzagged. Played straight for the most part, as ''normally'' Nightbrothers resemble Zabrak and Nightsisters resemble humans[[note]]specifically they look like the HumanSubspecies Legends called Rattataki[[/note]], but it's mentioned that there are, at least, Nightsisters who look Zabrak as well.

* KillEmAll: General Grievous' attack on Dathomir in "Massacre" left the Nightsisters with only three survivors (aside from at least one who was offworld at the time). At the end of ''Son of Dathomir'', Mother Talzin is killed and it is implied that all of the Nightbrothers except for Darth Maul were wiped out.

* AttackAttackAttack: When fighting Dooku with Ventress, he repeatedly tries to bumrush him with no deviation in strategy and gets blown the hell back by Force Lightning each time. Eventually, he relents demoralized [[EpicFail and almost]] starts ''sobbing'' he can't do anything to [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Dooku.]]

* ArtificialLimbs: Death Watch's medical droids build him a mechanical replacement for his severed left arm in "Eminence".

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Nightsisters' ritual not only made Savage much larger and more powerful, it enslaved him to Ventress' will to the degree that he murdered his own brother at her command. He broke from the conditioning in "Witches of the Mist" since his sheer rage and hatred for Ventress allowed him to overpower her control.

** In his debut episode "Monster", he took down two Jedi and their Clone Troopers without breaking a sweat.
** In "Witches of The Mist", he tore through King Katuunko's bodyguards, killed Katuunko, and easily shook off Anakin and Obi-Wan during their first attempt to stop him. However, he found himself on the receiving end of one both times he fought against Dooku (the first time was in a training duel).
** In "Brothers", the Junkers learned the hard way how powerful he was.
** In "Revenge", he effortlessly knocked out Obi-Wan with Maul only watching.
** In "Revival", Adi Gallia was quickly put on the defensive and her kicks didn't even phase him, which resulted in Savage killing her. In the same episode beforehand however, he was effortlessly trounced by his brother, establishing Maul as the stronger one of the pair.
** In "The Lawless", however, Savage finds himself on the receiving of one when Darth Sidious effortlessly took him down.

** Another example is presented in "Eminence" through the fact that he dismisses the concept of honor as a "weakness" despite the fact that he himself was once a very honorable person.

* {{Determinator}}: He's half-dead before he finally runs from a losing fight in "Witches of the Mist".

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: His first name is pronounced "Sa-vahj" and his last name is just like "oppress". This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Revenge" when a bounty hunter is looking at Savage's bounty profile and mispronounces his name.

** He tried to strangle a waitress in "Brothers" for what appeared to be no reason. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary materials]] suggest that he did it because she tried to touch the talisman Savage was using to track Maul, but that hardly makes the action any less cruel.
** In "Shades of Reason", he knocks a bystander over a ledge, causing her to nearly fall to her death, just because she was in the way of Savage's getaway.
* KnightOfCerebus: Even more so than Cad Bane. Starting with his debut episode "Monster", ''The Clone Wars'' became a lot DarkerAndEdgier even though it was already rather serious.

** In "Witches of the Mist", after being riddled with blaster bolts, Savage manages to overpower the droids attacking him and opts to quit while he's ahead, fleeing into the galaxy.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He and Maul deliver a brutal one to Obi-Wan in "Revenge".

** In "Monster", he took a ''blaster bolt'' to the chest and [[TheJuggernaut didn't even slow down]].
** Ventress' attempts at striking him physically during their duel in "Revenge" didn't do anything more than mildly annoy Savage.

* OffWithHisHead: How he kills a whole group of Black Sun Vigos in "Eminence".

* ScarsAreForever: One of his horns is cut off and another damaged in "Witches of the Mist". Both remain broken for the remainder of the installment.

* TattooedCrook: Savage has the traditional Nightbrother ritualistic tattoos, and he becomes an outlaw after the events of "Witches of the Mist".

* UnstoppableRage: In "Witches of the Mist", once he had enough of being abused by both Ventress and Dooku, he enters into one of these, starting with simultaneously Force-choking both of them.

* VillainousBreakdown: In "Witches of the Mist", Ventress' endless put-downs and the defenseless beating he was taking from Dooku push Savage over the edge, and he spends the next several minutes as a roaring beast, brutally attacking everyone in sight.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A "force echo" in ''Jedi: Fallen Order'' reveals that [[spoiler:Taron Malicos killed him [[KlingonPromotion to assume leadership of the Nightbrothers]].]]

* KilledOffForReal: She escaped death at General Grievous's hands at the end of "Massacre" by disappearing into thin air. Then she lost her physical body after using her magick one too many times, leaving her as a spirit. After she restored her body, she's impaled by Grievous in ''Son of Dathomir'' while trying to hold off Darth Sidious and her body crumbles like ashes.

* VillainTeleportation: She uses this to escape Grievous in "Massacre" and flee the scene after her plan with the Frangawl cult was foiled.

* EvilVersusEvil: She raised an undead army to help the Nightsisters fight Grievous and his droids.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Her zombies can only stay "alive" for as long as she maintains the spell. The instant she's killed, they drop like flies. [[KillEmAll Then the Separatist droids kill the rest of the clan.]]

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:Merrin joins Cal and the crew of the Mantis very late in the game after Malicos is defeated having realized she and Cal aren't so different as survivors of [[ThePurge mass purgings of their kind]] and out of a desire to join him as they both try to move forward for the sake of finding their places in the galaxy.]]

* 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.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler:While she points out that Jedi and Nightsisters don't mix well together, they go along with each other as survivors.]]
-->'''Merrin:''' [[spoiler:Nightsisters and Jedi do not travel together but... survivors. We adapt.]]

* TokenHeroicOrc: Perhaps due to 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.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She is not seen being killed alongside the rest of her tribe in "Massacre", but since it is stated that all of the tribe was killed, it can be assumed she was KilledOffScreen.

* KukrisAreKool: Some of the Noghtsisters from ''The Clone Wars'' are shown wielding falcatas, probably for extra exotic value.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: She's certainly sinister and ruthless, but the only time she has actually opposed the heroes was during the events of "The Disappeared", where she collaborated with a non-Dathomirian Force cult to harvest the Living Force from people for use. By the end of ''Son of Dathomir'', she seems to have settled as an evil manipulator, but one who is largely focused on her own goals, with little interest in the galaxy-spanning events of the Clone Wars.

* CompositeCharacter: She replaces the ''Legends'' character Kycina by being revealed to be Darth Maul's mother.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's biological mother was a Nightsister from Talzin's clan called Kycina. In Canon, as revealed in ''Son of Dathomir'', Talzin herself is Maul's mother instead. While ''Son of Dathomir'' was actually based on the script of ''The Clone Wars'' episodes cancelled by Disney, this relation seems to have been an addition by the latter, as a short ''Legends'' story by James Luceno established Talzin and Kycina as different people.

* 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 with 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.

* AxCrazy: Not most of the time, but he has a couple moments where his temper clouds his judgement. He very consciously kills King Katuunko despite Dooku had ordered him to take him alive, only because Obi-Wan and Anakin were frustrating his attempts to kidnap him, and later turns on Ventress after becoming frustrated by Dooku's Force lightning, including her in his Force choke when he tries this against Dooku.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'' show that she has a history together with Dooku. Further appearances in Canon, however, revealed she actually had even more history together with ''Sidious'', who promised her to make her a Sith and his right hand, only for him to kidnap Maul and turn his back on her. Canon also has her as Maul's biological mother instead of being his mother's clan leader (see RelatedInTheAdaptation below).

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is by far the most powerful of the Nightsisters, as expected from the Clan Mother and shaman, and held off ''[[WorldsGreatestWarrior Mace Windu]]'' in magic sword-to-lightsaber combat for a short time, only being interrupted when Jar Jar sabotaged the ritual she was going to use to maintain her physical form. She's even powerful enough to take on [[InvincibleVillain Sidious]] (again, briefly).

* CompositeCharacter: She replaces the ''Legends'' character Kycina as Darth Maul's mother.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's biological mother was a Nightsister from Talzin's clan called Kycina. In Canon, as revealed in ''Son of Dathomir'', Talzin herself is Maul's mother instead. Interestingly enough, ''Son of Dathomir'' was actually based on the script of ''The Clone Wars'' episodes cancelled by Disney, which implies she might have been retconned to be Maul's true mother in ''Legends'' too.

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Legends'', even after being decimated by the Empire, the Dathomirian Nightsisters were capable to mobilize impressive forces with minimal coalitions. A single high-rank witch like Silri lent the Zann Consortium many Nightsisters who mastered Force drain and rode rancors, forming a shock troop contingent so powerful that it could go toe to toe with Imperial land forces, and other posterior clans were still powerful enough to be threats to Jedi and Sith alike, including Luke of all people. In contrast, current Canon established that the few guerrilleras we saw under Mother Talzin's command in ''The Clone Wars'' were actually all the (wo)manpower the Nightsisters had before being exterminated.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Thankfully subverted, the way the Nightsisters treat the Nightbrothers is ''horrifying'', and it is treated as such.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Because of the Nightsisters' magick mutating his body and mind, it's unclear as to whether any of the evil acts Savage committed were done of his own volition, or if they were a result of the brainwashing. His final scene only adds to this ambiguity; he seemingly reverts to his former personality as he dies.

* ArmorIsUseless: Downplayed. His ancient-looking armor is no match for a lightsaber, but it works well enough against blaster fire.

* DumbMuscle: This is his main flaw since while he's not stupid by any means, his first solution to anything is to hack it in two with his lightsaber, which is a liability chessmasters like Count Dooku and Darth Maul have a hard time controlling.

* MadeOfIron: Obi-Wan had to kick his leg at least a half-dozen times to injure it, and Obi-Wan can kick people across a room if he needs to. He can even take numerous blaster shots and survive without any serious injuries and Dooku fried him multiple times with Force lightning when he and Ventress attacked him and all it did was knock him down for a few seconds every time.

* UnskilledButStrong: Savage has little formal training and, as Dooku says, "no technique", but he's so strong that he can destroy a dozen Separatist droids with a single Force wave, send Dooku flying across a room with a single blow, and at one point momentarily overpowering both Dooku ''and'' Ventress with the Force. He gradually becomes more skilled with training from Maul.

* VillainousBreakdown: In "Witches of the Mist", Ventress' endless put-downs and the beating he was taking from Dooku push Savage over the edge, and he spends the next several minutes as a roaring beast, brutally attacking everyone in sight.

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Legends'', even after being decimated by the Empire, Dathomirian Nightsisters were capable to mobilize impressive forces with minimal coalitions. A single high-rank witch like Silri lent the Zann Consortium many Nightsisters who mastered Force drain and rode rancors, forming a shock troop contingent so powerful that it could go toe to toe with Imperial land forces, and other posterior clans were still powerful enough to be threats to Jedi and Sith alike. In contrast, current Canon established that the meager guerrillas we saw under Morther Talzin's command in ''The Clone Wars'' were actually all the manpower the Nightsisters had before being exterminated.

* UnskilledButStrong: Savage has little formal training and, as Dooku says, "no technique", but he's so strong that he can destroy a dozen Separatist droids with a single Force wave, a blow from him sent Dooku flying across a room, and at one point he momentarily overpowers both Dooku ''and'' Ventress with the Force. He gradually becomes more skilled with training from Maul.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's biological mother was a Nightsister from Talzin's clan called Kycina. In the Canon, as revealed in ''Son of Dathomir'', Talzin herself is Maul's mother instead. Interestingly enough, ''Son of Dathomir'' was actually based on the script of ''The Clone Wars'' episodes cancelled by Disney, which implies she might have been retconned to be Maul's true mother in ''Legends'' too.

* BiTheWay: In addition to her ShipTease with Cal, one of her in-ship dialogues has her talking about a fellow Nightsister that she was very close to when she was younger, to the point of hoping they would be together when they grew up.

* UnskilledButStrong: Savage has little formal training and, as Dooku says, "no technique", but he's so strong that he can destroy a dozen Separatist droids with a single Force wave, a blow from him sent Dooku flying across a room, and at one point he momentarily overpowers both Dooku ''and'' Ventress with the Forces. He gradually becomes more skilled with training from Maul.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Her appearances in ''Clone Wars'' show that she has a history together with Dooku. Further appearances in Canon, however, revealed she actually had even more history together with ''Sidious'', who promised her to make her a Sith and his right hand, only for him to kidnap Maul and turn his back on her. Canon also has her as Maul's biological mother instead of being his mother's clan leader (see RelatedInTheAdaptation below).

* AmbiguouslyEvil: She's certainly sinister, but the only time she has actually opposed the heroes was during the events of "The Disappeared", where she collaborated with a non-Dathomirian Force cult to harvest the Living Force from people for use. By the end of ''Son of Dathomir'', she seems to have settled as a sinister manipulator, but one who is largely focused on her own goals, with little interest in the galaxy-spanning events of the Clone Wars.

* LargeAndInCharge: She towers over all the other Nightsisters by a head at least. That includes Ventress, who's 5 feet 10 inches tall. In fact, she's barely shorter than Savage after his transformation.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's biological mother was a Nightsister from Talzin's clan called Kycina. In the Canon, as revealed in ''Son of Dathomir'', Talzin herself is Maul's mother instead. Interestingly enough, ''Son of Dathomir'' was actually based in the script of ''Clone Wars'' episodes cancelled by Disney, which implies she might have been retconned to be Maul's mother in ''Legends'' too over time.

* OrcusOnHerThrone: Despite seemingly being more powerful than [[TheChessmaster Mother Talzin]] herself (given Talzin having to rely on her to cast the reanimation spell), she seems content with remaining subordinate to the latter.

* UnskilledButStrong: Savage has little formal training and, as Dooku says, "no technique", but he's so strong that he can destroy a dozen Separatist droids with a single Force wave and a blow from him sent Dooku flying across a room. He gradually becomes more skilled with training from Maul.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Her appearances in ''Clone Wars'' show that she has a history together with Dooku. Further appearances in Canon, however, revealed she actually had even more history together with ''Sidious'', who promised her to make her a Sith and his right hand, only for him to kidnap Maul and turn his back on her. Canon also has her as Maul's biological mother instead of being his mother's clan leader (see RelatedInTheAdaptation below).

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Legends'' continuity, Darth Maul's mother was a Nightsister called Kycina. In the Canon, Talzin is Maul's mother instead.