For the Ahsoka live-action series, see here.
- Development Gag: Ahsoka's alias "Ashla" was one of her conceptual names in The Clone Wars.
- Executive Meddling:
- Ahsoka's implied attraction to Kaeden was kept ambiguous because of this. While EK Johnston hasn't come outright and said anything about it, she did say that Ahsoka was not her character so she couldn't decide that, is very supportive of people shipping the two, and said the book had a "corporately truncated romance", giving the impression that she would have gone farther with the relationship if she could have.
- Johnston would later reveal that she was also prevented from putting in action scenes of the Siege of Mandalore due to the seventh season of The Clone Wars, which was secretly in development at the time.
- Meaningful Release Date: Or announcement date, to be exact. The season 2 finale of Rebels, "Twilight of the Apprentice", aired the night of March 30, 2016, where Ahsoka and Vader finally confront, with the former meeting an ambiguous end, unlikely to ever return (later confirmed by Word of God) after that point in the timeline. The morning after on March 31, 2016, this novel was announced, showing that while her story may be over chronologically, there are still untold tales to be told. Of course, her creator turned out to be a Lying Creator and she returned two years later, but otherwise this trope holds.
- Refitted for Sequel: The outfit that Ahsoka wears on the art cover is based on her post-Jedi Order outfit
◊ that she was originally going to wear in Seasons 7 and 8 of The Clone Wars before they were revised for the revival. - Similarly Named Works: Shares its title with the Ahsoka live-action series, which is also part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and set later, some years after the fall of the Empire.
- What Could Have Been:
- According to the author on her Tumblr, she asked if she could use Barriss, but she was off-limits.
- In the original pitch, Ahsoka ran into Sabé and Tonra, which would have been a Sequel Hook for Star Wars: Queen's Shadow.
- Word of Gay: According to E.K. Johnson on her Twitter, Ahsoka does like Kaeden more than in the platonic sense, although due to her emotion suppression issues from her Jedi training as well as her PTSD and being too focused on hiding from the Empire, she's confused on how to act on them. Johnson deliberately refuses to label her sexuality/orientation so that readers could interpret it as they see fit.
