History Characters / StarWarsDathomir

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

* DyingRace: Subverted. After General Grievous' attack on the Nightsisters and a later attack on the Nightbrother village, both clans were left with very few survivors. However, the short story "Bug" reveals that there are other separate witch clans on the planet like in ''Legends'', such as the Singing Mountain Clan, which means the species itself is not on the verge of extinction.

* AdaptationalBadass: While she might not be as adapt in Sith magic or piloting as her Legends counterpart, she does manage to nearly kill Luminara, overpower Anakin and Obi-Wan, and fend off Darth Maul briefly. She's also quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat, where she relied on her force abilites and lightsaber skills before.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Downplayed. But Ventress is much less likely to bite off more than she can chew like she did in ''Legends'', and never suffered any kind of WorfBarrage at the hands of Grievous, Anakin, and Dooku. The opponents she fights are ones she comes ''very'' close to killing, and those who are above her skill level she plays out plans to weaken or gain the advantage.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed and later subverted. Her appearances in ''The Clone Wars'' and the canon portray her as a complete AloofAlly within the Separatists, as her onscreen missions are almost always solo, she routinely antagonizes her underlings, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is precisely about becoming more of a team player. In contrast, while her ''Legends'' version was admittedly not a party animal either, she regularly teamed up with Durge and had a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with him, was also surprisingly close to her Rattataki lieuetenant Aidus, and got often sent to missions along with other Dark Acolytes. As none of those characters followed her to the canon, she doesn't have a chance to show her social side until she is betrayed and forced to leave the Separatist Alliance, and it is still mostly limited to tagalongs like Ahsoka and Quinlan Vos.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot. Ventress in ''Legends'' also had the uncanny ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon.

** She's essentially Dooku's surrogate daughter in canon, having found her when she was young and then trained and molded her for quite some years as his personal apprentice, even having grown strong enough attachment to push back against Sidious slightly. In ''Legends'', she was simply his assassin, someone he discarded without blinking when she failed him one too many times.
** In canon, Ventress has no relationship with Durge, who was re-introduced as a Empire-era bounty hunter unrelated to the CIS. In ''Legends'', they were partners in crime during the Clone Wars.

* CoolSword: He has a red double-bladed lightsaber very similar to the one his brother previously used in ‘’Film/ThePhantomMenace''.

* {{Cyborg}}: He gets a cybernetic left arm to replace the arm Obi-Wan chopped off with a lightsaber during the fight he and Maul had with the Jedi at Florrum.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is by far the most powerful of the Nightsisters, as expected from the Clan Mother and shaman. Her sword skills were enough for her to hold off ''[[WorldsBestWarrior Mace Windu]]'' in magic sword-to-lightsaber combat, pushing him back with her first slash, matching him in a short BladeLock and only being forced to flee when Jar Jar sabotaged the ritual she was going to use to maintain her physical form. She's even powerful enough to hold her own against [[InvincibleVillain Sidious]] in a Force lightning duel, in a way that only Windu and Yoda have ever demonstrated in Canon.

* AdaptationalBadass: While she might not be as adapt in Sith magic or piloting as her legends counterpart, she does manage to nearly kill Luminara, overpower Anakin and Obi-Wan, and fend off Darth Maul briefly. She's also quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat, where she relied on her force abilites and lightsaber skills before.

[[folder:Merrin]]
See her entry on [[Characters/StarWarsStingerMantisCrew Stinger Mantis Crew]].
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[[folder:Shelish]]
!!Shelish
-->See her entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsAnoatSector Anoat Sector]] page under '''Jhas Krill'''.

[[folder:Jerserra]]
!!Jerserra
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->'''Appearances:''' ''Ghosts of Dathomir''

A Nightsister warrior who was taken from Dathomir and trained by an unidentified female [[Characters/StarWarsInquisitorius Imperial Inquisitor]].

* BastardUnderstudy: She eventually killed her Inquisitor master and took her lightsaber.
* CoolMask: She is shown wearing a face-concealing mask in a character art for ''Ghosts of Dathomir''.
* DarkActionGirl: As is normal for a Nightsister warrior.
* DoubleWeapon: After killing her Inquisitor master, she took the Inquisitor's red double-bladed spinning [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] for herself.
* PsychoForHire: After killing her master, she became a mercenary in search for more power.

[[folder:Asajj Ventress's mother]]
!!???
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->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''

A Nightsister who was the mother of Asajj Ventress.
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* NoNameGiven: Her name isn't known.
* ParentalAbandonment: She was forced to give her up to the Siniteen criminal Hal'Sted to protect the Nightsisters clan.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her eventual fate is unknown as she's nowhere to be seen even after her daughter returned to Dathomir and became a Nightsister herself.

[[folder:Nightsister Ghosts]]
!!Nightsister ghosts
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->'''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.
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* 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.
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* BigLittleBrother: He's younger than Maul, but is much larger than him thanks to the magical enhancements the Nightsisters gave him.

* 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''. After the 2014 reboot, none of those appearances are canon any longer. It was also established the Nightsisters were a RenegadeSplinterFaction from the other Witches of Dathomir, and while the rest of Dathomir's witch clans would be re-canonized by the short story "Bug", they have yet to be prominently featured in the current canon.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Thankfully subverted, as the way the Nightsisters treat the Nightbrothers is ''horrifying'', but it is treated as such itself rather than being downplayed by the narrative.
* DyingRace: Subverted. After General Grievous's attack on the Nightsisters and a later attack on the Nightbrother village, both clans were left with very few survivors. However, the short story "Bug" reveals that there are other witch clans on the planet like in ''Legends'', such as the Singing Mountain clan, which means the species itself is not on the verge of extinction.

* FantasticSlurs: Calling a Nightsister a "witch" comes across as this, even if they don’t take offense up front.

** In ''Clone Wars'', Mother Talzin claims that, unlike the Baldottans, she is ''not'' naturally Force sensitive and had to use a DangerousForbiddenTechnique to gain her power. By implication, this could include all Nightsisters and their magicks.

Savage Opress was once a common Nightbrother whose fighting prowess impressed Asajj Ventress. Transformed into a monstrous warrior by Mother Talzin, Opress became Count Dooku's new assassin and secret Sith apprentice. His loyalty, however, remained to Talzin. The Nightsisters' leader gave Savage a new quest: to find his brother, Darth Maul, who had somehow survived his apparent death and was living in exile in the Outer Rim.

* AlasPoorVillain: He and his brother were ruthless, but it's hard to not feel sorry for them when Sidious waltzes in and {{Curb Stomp| Battle}}s all their hard work and their lives into oblivion.
* AlienBlood: Whenever he's injured, he "bleeds" the Force magick that the Nightsisters used to enhance him. After he gets killed by Sidious, it bleeds out.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Because of the Nightsisters' magick mutating his body and mind, which included placing a mind-control trigger on him, it's unclear as to whether any of the evil acts Savage committed were done of his own volition or if they were all a side effect of this brainwashing. The ambiguity increases with the fact that the trigger not only leads him to murder his beloved brother, but also gives him a new personality that seemingly reverts back as he dies.

* TheApprentice: He was initially apprenticed under Count Dooku before Maul.

* AuthorAppeal: It's possible that his skin color scheme is a nod to Dave Filoni's favorite football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

* CoolSword: He has a double-edged lightsaber very similar to the one Maul uses in ''The Phantom Menace''.

* BladeOnAStick: The Nightsisters gave him an enchanted spear before presenting him to Count Dooku which he uses to slaughter a bunch of Clone Troopers and two Jedi on Devaron.

* TragicVillain: Savage only wanted to protect his younger brother Feral, and that led to the Nightsisters turning into a monster who murdered him. Then he found his older brother, but what Maul really wanted was an apprentice, not a brother. Every single person - Asajj, Dooku, Mother Talzin and his own brother Maul - ultimately saw him as a tool. Though Maul, to his credit, did eventually rediscover his BigBrotherInstinct.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Ventress's voice is much lower and more gravelly than most of the other female characters in ''The Clone Wars''.

* StrongerSibling: Is this trope to Feral. Maul is this to him. Somewhat of a DownplayedTrope as it's implied by Dooku[[note]](though Dooku being [[ItsAllAboutMe a Sith]], it's highly probable this is his ego talking by some degrees of separation as much as genuine praise, as Maul killed Qui-Gon, Dooku's student and surrogate son, and he still missed him years later. If Maul could beat Qui-Gon, he must've been an excellent fighter in Dooku's eyes, hatred notwithstanding[[/note]] and the general narrative that he could come rival Maul, but never reached his full potential.

!!Merrin
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tina Ivlev
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsJediBattleScars Jedi: Battle Scars]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor Jedi: Survivor]]''
->''"Look into the fire. It will warm you, keep you company. But left unchecked, it will consume everything, until there is only ash."''
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 shaken upon her encounter with former Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis.

* AmbiguouslyBi: In addition to her ShipTease with Cal, one of her in-ship dialogues has her talking about a fellow Nightsister named Ilyana that she was very close to when she was younger, to the point of hoping they would be together when they grew up. ''[[Literature/StarWarsJediBattleScars Jedi: Battle Scars]]'' confirmed she was attracted to basically everyone, with author Sam Maggs confirming she is pansexual.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Like many Nightsisters of Dathomir, it's genuinely unclear and culturally irrelevant how much of her ancestry is human and how much is Zabrak, especially due to their culture's near-omnipresent dark side mutations. Yes, she has greyish skin and hair, but it's anyone's guess why that might be.
* BadassBoast: After discovering Malicos' betrayal, she delivers this gem:
-->'''Merrin:''' When you face one Nightsister of Dathomir, you face us all!
* BadPowersGoodPeople: She has access to Dathomirian magick, including necromancy, but is a good person. She and the crew even chat about how she's able to use the dark side without the usual, awful consequences - the answer is 'very carefully', with the Nightsister rituals themselves serving to abstract its psychological effects and make it more of a mechanical process or a religious ritual than an outpouring of raw, deadly emotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: During Cal and Malicos' duel, she intervenes half-way through on Cal's behalf and helps him defeat the Dark Jedi with her distractions.
* BrutalHonesty: She isn't one to mince words.
-->'''Cal:''' Thank you for [[BigDamnHeroes helping me with Malicos]]. Thought I was a goner for a minute.\\
'''Merrin:''' ''[smiling]'' Yes, you would have died.
* ChildProdigy: An ImpliedTrope. Despite being very young compared to most Nightsisters, she has access to skills only seen with [[{{Teleportation}} Talzin]] or [[{{Necromancer}} Daka]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: She is a Nightsister, wielding all those sinister powers and being very creepy specially when introduced, but is revealed to have been misguided and ultimately is a good person.
* DarkMagicalGirl: She is a textbook model for this trope - a girl who is very powerful in dark magick with a tragic background (as the SoleSurvivor of her people's genocide), she is led on and manipulated by an EvilMentor who is only seeking to exploit her for her talents. After the truth is revealed, she teams up with TheHero and ultimately joins his side.
* DeadpanSnarker: Once [[spoiler: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:
-->'''[[spoiler:Greez]]:''' Oh, yeah! It's like that time I ate 10 pounds of Umbaran flank steak to get into a high-end cantina.\\
'''Merrin:''' Yes. My magick is just like eating steak.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her first introduction to Cal is not just cold, but outright murderous. As she realizes she was just a pawn of [[FallenHero Taron Malicos]], she loses her rage and hate progressively, giving way to sadness [[spoiler:and eventually joy once she is in the ''Mantis'' crew]]. Noticeably, she turns from calling Cal her enemy, to her ally, to implicitly considering him a close friend.
* DishingOutDirt: Capable of manipulating the land of Dathomir to either raise platforms or even bury someone alive. It seems to be limited to Dathomir itself, however, and not present on other worlds. Given Dathomir is officially an EldritchLocation and Dark Side hot spot, this is understandable.
* 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 purging 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.]]
* FacialMarkings: Has a symmetrical tattoo across her brow and cheeks.
* 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.
* 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.]]
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Downplayed. The Nightsisters tend to be AmbiguouslyHuman due to a combination of regular interbreeding between Zabraks and humans and the effects of the dark side of the force making even the most human of them look a little bit less so, but whatever the case, Merrin is an attractive young lady of uncertain but possibly-alien ancestry whose greyish skin and hair are slightly outside the human norm.
* HasAType: In ''Battle Scars'' she thinks to herself about how she is attracted to people with strong and exceptional personalities, which Merrin also notes means she doesn't always have the best track record with her crushes and brief relationships. One she eventually figured out was more interested in her powers, and another was frustrating due to running hot-then-cold that Merrin could never figure him out. During that novel she ends up in a brief romance with Fret, whose charisma and flirtatious personality quickly infatuate Merrin.
* HandBlast: Can throw balls of magical ichor at her foes like hand grenades.
* HeelFaceTurn: She is initially a protégé to a Dark Jedi that crash-landed on her planet who used her to exploit the planet's magick. After meeting Cal, she comes to realize she's been manipulated, helps him defeat her master, and leaves Dathomir to join his journey.
* InkSuitActor: She is modeled after her English voice actress.
* InsistentTerminology: Greez calls her a witch upon meeting her for the first time and she immediately tells him to refer to her as "Nightsister" instead.
* IronicEcho: Spits the PreMortemOneLiner Taron Malicos challenged Cal Kestis with [[spoiler: while using her magic to [[BuriedAlive bury Malicos alive]]]].
-->'''Merrin:''' It's like you said, Malicos. Dathomir ''will'' be your grave.
* LastOfHerKind: At the very least, she is the last surviving Nightsister still living on Dathomir. Seeing that Cal finds a potential means to bring about the next generation of Jedi, as he himself says, just serves to make her sadder, as she knows "nothing will bring back [her] people."
* TheLostLenore: Ilyana, her childhood friend and romance who gave Merrin her FirstKiss. She perished alongside the rest of the clan during Grievous's purge, and Merrin buried Ilyana herself.
* {{Necromancer}}: Shows herself capable of performing the resurrection incantation not unlike Daka, which she uses to turn her fallen sisters against intruders.
* 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.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She clearly never had much experience with just being around and talking to people. Her social skills are heavily improved by ''Battle Scars'', to the point that she has quite easily picked up a number of lovers during the years the crew of the ''Mantis'' has been together.
* OddFriendship: As she herself notes, Nightsisters and Jedi do not go well together, yet [[spoiler:she travels with two Jedi (one former) by bonding with them as survivors]].
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:She and Cal finally act on their mutual attraction in ''Jedi: Survivor'']].
* PatrioticFervor: As the last inheritor of her culture, she loves and respects Dathomir and its civilization deeply. It may be an absolutely hellish place by anyone else's standards, but it's still her home, and still a place with a rich and ancient history and culture (even if most of it was horrible).
* PetTheDog: When the ''Mantis'' first arrived on Dathomir, Malicos told her to kill Cere and Greez. Merrin decided against it, as they posed no threat. This is before her HeelFaceTurn and befriending of Cal.
* ShipTease: Seems to develop an interest in Cal beyond mere friendship. She inquires about Cal's relationship with Cere as without mentioning Greez, and the two later share a hug for which she awkwardly apologizes (on account of his injuries).
* {{Teleportation}}: Can use magick to teleport from one area to another.
* TragicKeepsake: Her golden tooth necklace was made by Ilyana and given to Merrin in thanks as a gift for caring for her after an injury left her weak and bedridden for some time. Merrin has worn it every day since, with it being her only keepsake from Ilyana.
* 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. Even more broadly, her personality and careful, respectful approach to Nightsister magick make her one of the very, very few people in the galaxy who is capable of routinely using the dark side of the Force towards heroic ends without experiencing the usual physical and psychological corruption.
* TookALevelInKindness: Not that she is a bad person by any means, but the longer she spends time around people who aren't [[EvilMentor Taron Malicos]] or from Dathomir, the nicer and more relaxed she becomes. By the end of the game, she outright gives Cal a hug when he recovers from his injuries.
* VampireVords: Despite not actually being a vampire, her pale skin and {{necromanc|er}}y, along with living on Dathomir in a place not too far removed from {{Uberwald}}, helps give her distinctly Slavic accent this feeling.
* 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 the stronger of her rituals, such as mass use of her necromancy or [[spoiler:a ritual to render the ''Mantis'' invisible]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite her gray hair, Merrin is a young teenager like Cal, having been a child when Dooku slaughtered her people roughly five years earlier.

[[folder:Naa'leth]]
!!Naa'leth
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->'''Voiced by:''' Cara Pifko\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''

Another Nightsister warrior in Mother Talzin's coven.

* DarkActionGirl: As is normal for a Nightsister warrior. She is considered one of the best warriors among Mother Talzin's coven, alongside Karis, who she is sent with to help Asajj Ventress kill Count Dooku.
* EnergyBow: One of her weapons is a Nightsister energy bow, which fires arrows made of pure plasma.

* LaserBlade: She uses a green lightsaber during the attempted assassination on Count Dooku.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She believes that Count Dooku will be easier to defeat than he actually is. When she, Asajj, and Karis are defeated, Naa'leth is stunned.
-->'''Naa'leth:''' He is stronger than I imagined!\\
'''Asajj:''' I warned you.

[[folder:Talia]]
!!Talia
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->'''Voiced by:''' Angelique Perrin
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''

A Nightsister warrior who serves Mother Talzin.
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* DarkActionGirl: As is normal for a Nightsister warrior.
* FacialMarkings: Like all Nightsisters, she has tattoos in a unique pattern on her face.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She is not seen being killed alongside the rest of her tribe in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]", but since it is stated that all of the tribe was killed, it can be assumed she was KilledOffScreen.
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* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/ClancyBrown, Savage has a deep voice to go along with his imposing stature.

-->'''Cal:''' Thank you for [[BigDamnHeroes helping me with Malicos]]. Thought I was a goner for a minute.
-->'''Merrin:''' ''*smiling*'' Yes, you would have died.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Downplayed. The Nightsisters tend to be AmbiguouslyHuman due to a combination of regular interbreeding between Zabraks and humans and the effects of the dark side of the force making even the most human of them look a little bit less so, but Merton is an attractive young lady of uncertain but possibly-alien ancestry whose greyish skin and hair are slightly outside the human norm.

* 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.

* {{Hypocrite}} : She refers to Savage as a monster, even though she was responsible for his transformation, and treated him poorly.

* AntiHero: She's evolved into one of these since the annihilation of the Nightsisters.

** Her FoeRomanceSubtext with Obi-Wan from ''Legends'' gets mostly excised in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension the canon. In ''Legends'', the two had multiple suggestive moments, Obi-Wan became downright obsessed with the possibility of redeeming her (and she with that of corrupting him), and Asajj had even an instance of WhatIsThisFeeling after one of their encounters. Her fake death and desertion also felt as a possible SequelHook, implying they might meet again someday (and although they did not, Obi-Wan was mentioned in another ''Legends'' work as having been [[TheMourningAfter reminded of her by some flowers]] he found in Tatooine). In canon, Obi-Wan and Ventress do like to invoke romantic subtext during their fights, but this is clearly treated by both as just a twisted joke without any real attraction; Obi-Wan only has eyes for Satine, and Ventress later has her true LoveInterest in Quinlan Vos.

** In ''The Clone Wars'', Ventress is effectively conflated with Saato, a fellow female Dark Acolyte who was a Dathomirian Nightsister before being recruited by Dooku. Before that, ''Legends'' had established Ventress was a full-blooded Rattataki without any relation to Dathomir.

* AmbiguouslyBi: In addition to her ShipTease with Cal, one of her in-ship dialogues has her talking about a fellow Nightsister named Ilyana that she was very close to when she was younger, to the point of hoping they would be together when they grew up. [[Literature/StarWarsJediBattleScars Jedi: Battle Scars]] proves at the very least she does indeed have a sexual attraction to women.

* NoSocialSkills: She clearly never had much experience with just being around and talking to people.

* TheBerserker: His lightsaber technique and fighting style in general mainly consists of brutish hacking and slashing, claimed at one point by Obi-Wan to be more befitting of a reckless and impulsive animal than either a Sith or a Jedi. Under Maul's tutelage, he starts to learn more finesse, but never really abandons his monstrous fighting style.

* BigLittleBrother: He's younger than Maul but is much larger than him thanks to the magical enhancements the Nightsisters gave him.

* TheBerserker: His lightsaber technique mainly consists of brutish hacking and slashing. Under Maul's tutelage, he starts to learn more finesse, but never really abandons his monstrous fighting style.

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

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsJediBattleScars Jedi: Battle Scars]]''