Dathomirian

Dathomirian Zabraks, also known as Dathomiri Zabraks (shortened as Dathomirians and Dathomiri), were a sentient species native to the Outer Rim Territories planet Dathomir. The creation of the Dathomirian species was the result of hybridization between the Human female members of the Witches of Dathomir and their enslaved Zabrak malelings, and thus they were also known as Human-Zabrak hybrids and Zabrak-Humans. This resulted in the species' prominent sexual dimorphism, with males and females exhibiting different physical characteristics. Generally, females more closely resembled Humans, while males mostly resembled Zabraks as they possessed cranial horns and had no hair. Members of the female sex had paler skin of white or gray varieties, while members of the male sex had skin of red, orange, or yellow shades.

The species originated through an unintentional trade cycle, in which pirate raids from the planet Rattatak brought numerous Zabrak pirates to Dathomir. These pirates were captured by the Witches of Dathomir, who bred with them and conceived Dathomirian Zabraks. By the era of the Galactic Republic, the majority of Dathomirian women were members of the Nightsister coven of Dathomir Witches. In Nightsister society, Dathomirian malelings were subservient to the Nightsisters as warriors known as Nightbrothers. Some Dathomirian women, like the witch Magash Drashi, were members of other clans such as the Singing Mountain Clan.

The Sith Lord Darth Maul had been a Nightbrother during his youth, until he was given to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious as an apprentice by his mother Talzin. The Sith assassin Asajj Ventress was given by the Nightsisters to pirates and grew up on Rattatak. During the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Kaleesh General Grievous, the leader of the Separatist Droid Army, attacked the Nightsisters who took refuge in their fortress. Grievous wiped out all the Nightsisters except Talzin and Ventress, the latter of whom had returned to the Nightsisters not long prior, leaving a large portion of the Dathomirian population dead. It was during this period of time when Maul and his brother Savage Opress cut out a path of destruction across the galaxy. By the Galactic Civil War, the Nightsisters had been reformed by the Dathomirian Gethzerion. Years later, the Dathomirian Kaminne Sihn led the Raining Leaves Clan of witches.

Biology and appearance

Dathomirian Zabraks, also known as Dathomiri Zabraks,^[13] were a sentient species of Human and Zabrak hybrids native to the^[2] Outer Rim Territories^[14] planet Dathomir.^[2] They were often simply referred to as Dathomirians^[15] or Dathomiri,^[9] or as Human-Zabrak and Zabrak-Humans^[9] in reference to their genetic makeup.^[2] Exhibiting sexual dimorphism, the male and female sexes had different physical traits.^[2] Females generally had pale-gray or white skin,^[1] while males typically had red,^[3] orange, or yellow skin.^[4] Unlike members of the male sex, members of the female sex were capable of growing hair atop their heads,^[2] in colors such as black,^[5] brown,^[1] silver,^[6] silver-blonde, and white.^[1] In general, females could grow eyelashes, while males could grow neither eyelashes nor facial hair.^[8][16] Typically, while females more closely resembled Humans,^[1] males more closely resembled Zabraks, bearing cranial horns^[2] that grew during the early stages of development in various numbers and patterns.^[8][13] In rarer cases, members of the female sex bore these horns as well.^[9] The horns were capable of penetrating skin, such as that of the Tholothian species.^[17]

Dathomirian eye colors included blue, green,^[5] grey,^[1] red,^[7] silver, violet,^[1] and yellow.^[4] Their eyes were far more sensitive to light than those of a human.^[18] All Dathomirians were Force sensitive^[15] and had a naturally high pain tolerance.^[19] They spoke Galactic Basic Standard and Dathomiri,^[1] a language likely derived from the Paecian language of the ancient Paecian Empire,^[20] which ruled Dathomir during the Old Republic era.^[21]

Society and culture

Main articles: Witches of Dathomir, Nightsisters and Nightbrothers

The majority of Dathomirians were affiliated with the Witches of Dathomir,^[9] a group of Force-wielders who ruled Dathomir and practiced sorcery^[20] in the form of Dathomir Magic.^[23] Specifically, the majority were members of the Nightsister coven,^[2] who practiced solely using the dark side of the Force.^[20] Dathomiri witches kept malelings, a group of males who did not practice magic and were instead used as breeding partners for the witches.^[20] Dathomirian malelings were referred to as Nightbrothers and were also utilized as warriors.^[4] Because of this system, Dathomirian males rarely met their biological mothers.^[24] The Nightsisters were capable of performing a transformation spell on a Nightbrother, which would increase the Dathomirian's height, muscle, and horn length.^[4] Dathomirians wore tribal tattoos in a variety of colors on their faces and bodies^[22] to symbolize family loyalty, place of birth, or individual personality.^[8]

History

Origins

Long before the birth of the Dathomirian species, the terms "Dathomirian" and "Dathomiri" were originally used in reference to the culture of Human Witches of Dathomir descended from the Jedi Allya, who was exiled to Dathomir. However, at some point, a star cruiser from the^[2] Mid Rim^[25] planet Iridonia crashed on the^[2] Outer Rim^[26] planet Rattatak, leaving many Iridonian Zabraks stranded. During Rattataki pirate raids on Dathomir, Zabrak pirates were captured and enslaved by the Nightsisters as malelings. The witches discovered that they were genetically compatible with the Zabraks, and isolated them to a smaller region of the planet. The ensuing interbreeding between the two species created the species of hybrids^[2] that would become known as Dathomirians.^[27]

Dathomirians became integrated into the Dathomirian witch society, with female Dathomirians joining Humans in their witch clans.^[2] In the Nightsister clan ruled by the Dathomirian Mother Talzin, the use of "malelings" would be limited only to Dathomirian Zabrak males, called the Nightbrothers. When Talzin united all the Nightsisters into one singular coven, this rule would carry over to the united Nightsisters as well.^[22] Over time, the Dathomirians would spread out to other clans.^[9][28] At some point between 22 BBY and 20 BBY,^[29] Talzin wrote Wild Power, a historical record and spiritual manifesto containing detailed descriptions of Dathomirian culture.^[22]

Genocide

In 20 BBY,^[30] the Nightsisters were wiped out by General Grievous of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, at the order of Count Dooku. The attack began with a bombing run conducted by Grievous' fleet of the Confederate Navy, drawing out the Nightsisters from their fortress. The following ground assault pitted the Separatist Droid Army against the Nightsisters within the jungles of Dathomir. Even through the resurrection of the witches' zombie Army of the Dead by the elder Old Daka, the Nightsisters were forced to retreat and Grievous' army began marching towards the Nightsister fortress. Upon entering the fortress, Grievous killed Old Daka, with Talzin escaping by transforming into her spiritual form of green mist. Following this, the Nightsisters were destroyed with an infinitesimal amount of survivors.^[5] The destruction of the Nightsisters also caused the loss of a massive portion of the female Dathomirian population.^[2][5]

Sometime around 18 BBY and 17 BBY,^[31] the remaining few Dathomiri Zabrak Nightsisters had lived in conjunction with the mostly Human Nightsisters.^[9] By 8 ABY,^[32] the Nightsisters had become almost entirely composed of Humans,^[20] with the only known Dathomirian member of the clan left being Clan Mother Gethzerion.^[33] At some point during or shortly after 25 ABY,^[34] the Historical Council of the New Republic compiled the historical chronicle The Essential Chronology, which featured the stories of Gethzerion as well as that of the infamous Dathomirian Sith Lord Darth Maul.^[35] In 36 ABY, the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances' archivist emeritus Voren Na'al wrote an updated version, with new additions about the Sith assassin Asajj Ventress and her various conflicts.^[36]

Dathomirians in the galaxy

In the galactic community, Dathomiri were renowned for their impressive pain tolerance, their mental discipline,^[19] and their single-mindedness. Members of the species were often considered proud and confident,^[37] as well as more warlike and dangerous than the other Zabraks of the galaxy.^[38]

Notable Dathomirian Nightsisters included Mother Talzin,^[1] her firstborn daughter,^[22] Mother Gethzerion,^[33] Old Daka, Talia, Naa'leth,^[1] Luce,^[5] and Karis.^[1] Notable Dathomirian Nightbrothers included Feral,^[4] the father of Darth Maul,^[13] and Viscus, the leader of the Nightbrothers during the Clone Wars.^[4] Magash Drashi was a Dathomirian Zabrak of the Singing Mountain Clan under the rule of Mother Augwynne Djo.^[9] Kaminne Sihn was the Dathomirian leader of the Raining Leaves Clan.^[28] In 43 ABY,^[39] Sihn led her clan, most notably during a conclave with the Broken Columns Clan headed by Tasander Dest, which also spelled an interaction with members of the New Jedi Order.^[28]

The misplaced Nightsister

Asajj Ventress was born to her Nightsister mother, but was given to the Siniteen pirate Hal'Sted as a young infant by Mother Talzin, for the protection of the clan. Hal'Sted brought Ventress to Rattatak, where she was raised by him^[1] and the Rattataki Ventress family;^[40] however, Hal'Sted was killed in war. The Weequay who killed him were about to attack Ventress before she was saved by the Jedi Ky Narec.^[1] Narec and Ventress went on to become heroes on Rattatak^[40] until Narec was killed by a Weequay raider. Eventually, Ventress came under the tutelage of Count Dooku,^[1] becoming an assassin of the Sith and taking part in the Clone Wars under the command of the Separatists.^[41] She had numerous encounters with Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker.^[42][43]

During the war, Dooku was ordered by his master Darth Sidious to kill Ventress, fearing her growing power in the Force. However, Dooku's efforts failed and, in search of revenge, Ventress returned to Dathomir to request assistance from the Nightsisters.^[1] After a failed assassination attempt on Dooku,^[11] Grievous was sent to Dathomir to wipe out the Nightsisters in the Battle of Dathomir.^[5] After the battle, Ventress turned to a life of bounty hunting. She joined a group of fellow bounty hunters hired by the Belugan Major Rigosso on the world Quarzite to safely deliver a chest to Lord Otua Blank. Ventress discovered that the chest contained Pluma Sodi of the Kage Warriors, a group who opposed the rule of Lord Blank. Sympathizing with the girl's story and finding it similar to her own, she opted to save the girl and instead place the young hunter Boba Fett in the chest instead. She acquired the credits she was owed and left Quarzite.^[44]

Near the end of her time as a bounty hunter, Ventress hunted down Skywalker's Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano, who recently had been framed for bombing the Jedi Temple. Tano struck a deal with Ventress that if she helped the Padawan clear her name, Tano would help her get a pardon from the Galactic Senate, and the two agreed. However, Skywalker arrived at that moment and, believing it was Ventress who framed Tano, he caused the Dathomirian to run off.^[45] Skywalker returned later, however, and interrogated Ventress, who provided him with information to clear Tano's name.^[46] Sometime later, she returned to the leadership of the Sith and membership of the Separatists under unknown circumstances.^[47] During her lifetime, Ventress had often been incorrectly referred to as a member of the Rattataki species.^[40] Rattataki had pale skin^[48] like female Dathomirians,^[1] and Ventress had been raised on Rattatak.^[40]

The Nightbrothers Two

Apprentices

The famous Sith Lord Darth Maul was believed to be a full-blooded Zabrak, though he was in fact a Dathomirian.^[49] As a boy, he was taken by the Dark Lord of the Sith Sidious from his mother Talzin^[50] due to his powerful connection to the Force.^[13] Over the years, Maul became a weapon of the Sith,^[51] carrying out various missions for his master.^[52][53] In 32 BBY,^[36] with the Sith ready to reveal themselves to the Jedi, Maul engaged Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet Tatooine, as well as during the Battle of Naboo. While inside the Plasma Refinery Complex within the city of Theed on the planet Naboo, Maul stabbed and killed Jinn with his lightsaber. However, Kenobi was able to defeat the Sith by slicing him in half. Maul fell down into a melting pit and was presumed dead.^[3]

However, Maul had survived his supposed death, eventually living in the depths of the junk world Lotho Minor. He fashioned himself a spider-like apparatus in order to allow him to move around, but, over time, his want for vengeance drove him insane.^[54] Thirteen years later,^[55] Asajj Ventress required an assassin for her revenge against Dooku. Talzin and the Nightsisters offered Dooku a Sith apprentice in Savage Opress,^[4] the brother of Maul. Ventress used her control over Opress in order to attack Dooku. However, the Nightbrother snapped and Ventress lost control over him. Escaping, Opress returned to Dathomir, where Mother Talzin revealed to him that he had a brother, Maul, and gave him a talisman to help find him.^[11] Opress tracked Maul to Lotho Minor, finding him with a broken mind.^[56] He brought Maul back to Dathomir, where Mother Talzin restored his mind and replaced his six-legged apparatus with two metal legs fashioned from the droid parts left over from the Battle of Dathomir.^[57]

A new path

Reborn, Maul and Opress led a rampage throughout the galaxy with the goal of exacting revenge against the Jedi. Their excursions led them to various worlds, such as^[54] Orto Norwe,^[58] Pleem's Nexus,^[54] Paklan,^[59] and Moorjhone.^[60] They encountered various Jedi, such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bruu Jun-Fan, and Tatsu,^[54] and additionally fought Asajj Ventress.^[57] Upon taking over the Ohnaka Gang of Weequay pirates, Maul and Opress once again encountered Kenobi, this time alongside Jedi Master Adi Gallia. During their confrontation, Opress killed Gallia and, in retaliation, Kenobi cut off Opress's arm. Maul and Opress escaped in an escape pod, injured and exhausted.^[17] Drifting aimlessly in space, their escape pod was eventually found by the Mandalorian splinter group Death Watch, headed by Pre Vizsla and his second-in-command Bo-Katan Kryze. Taken back to the Death Watch camp on^[61] the swamp moon^[62] Zanbar, Opress was given a new cybernetic arm and Maul new cybernetic legs. Maul and Vizsla discussed their mutual distaste for Kenobi and the Jedi and decided to form an alliance to take over the planet Mandalore and kill Kenobi.^[61]

Realizing that their alliance alone would not be enough, Maul created the Shadow Collective, comprising the Dathomirian brothers and Death Watch, as well as various criminal organizations such as the Pyke Syndicate, the Hutt Cartel, and Black Sun. Ready to take over Mandalore, Kryze and Vizsla secretly plotted to kill Maul after they have conquered the planet.^[61] After gaining control over Mandalore, Vizsla and Maul fought in the Mandalorian throne room, where Maul beheaded Vizsla with his own weapon and caused Death Watch to split into factions, with some staying loyal to Maul and others detesting his rule.^[63] The civil war on Mandalore attracted the attention of the Jedi, who chose not to act until the Senate decided. Kenobi went to Mandalore alone and watched as Maul killed Satine Kryze, Kenobi's lover and the former Duchess of Mandalore, and the Dathomirian had Kenobi locked up.^[64]

Darth Sidious sensed a disturbance in the Force and so travelled to Mandalore, where he fought both Maul and Opress, killing the latter but sparing the former.^[64] Maul was brought to a Separatist prison on the planet Stygeon. After being broken out by the Shadow Collective, a war was launched between the Separatists and the Shadow Collective, leaving Talzin dead and the Collective disbanded.^[65][66] After his eventual death, Maul was revived by the Prophets of the Dark Side Sith cult, who had believed that the Sith Lord and apprentice to Sidious, Darth Vader—formerly Anakin Skywalker—would never be able to reach his full potential. Thus, Vader and Maul met on the moon Kalakar Six, where Vader killed Maul and the cultists.^[67]

Behind the scenes

Appearances, naming, and retcons

Dathomirians first appeared in the 1994 novel The Courtship of Princess Leia, written by Dave Wolverton. Originally, all the Witches of Dathomir in the book were stated to be humans,^[20] until the 2012 reference book The Essential Reader's Companion, written by Pablo Hidalgo, retconned the Nightsister Gethzerion to be of the Dathomirian species.^[33] Several other characters appearing in early sources were later identified as Dathomirians. Featured in the 1999 live-action prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,^[3] Darth Maul was referred to as an Iridonian Zabrak by a variety of sources.^[69] Asajj Ventress was originally stated to be Rattataki^[40] since her debut in the animated television microseries Star Wars: Clone Wars,^[70] and was also occasionally mistaken to be Human.^[71] Both of these characters were retconned as Dathomirians during the airing of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.^[2]

Prior to these retcons, the species first appeared in "Nightsisters," the twelfth episode of the third season of The Clone Wars,^[1] which aired on January 7, 2011.^[72] The release of the subsequent episode to "Nightsisters," "Monster," on January 14, 2011,^[72] introduced the Dathomirian males, which were described as having been the people from which Darth Maul came.^[4] After the episode's release, Maul's StarWars.com Encyclopedia entry established him as a Dathomirian as well.^[49] Having appeared in seasons one and two of The Clone Wars, certain reference books released at the time stated that Ventress was Rattataki.^[73][74] However, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia, a reference book released closer to season three on June 21, 2010,^[75] only lists Ventress' species and homeworld as "Unknown."^[76] "Nightsisters" confirmed Ventress as Dathomiri, not Ratattaki.^[1]

Released prior to "Nightsisters," the article "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Nightsisters but Were Afraid to Ask," published in the 122nd issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine^[2] on December 14, 2010,^[77] goes into specific detail on the retcon that created the Dathomirian species. It also tackles the sexual dimorphism within the species, as well as identifying them with the species name of "Human-Zabrak hybrids."^[2] In his online endnotes for his 2013 reference book, Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, author Daniel Wallace stated that he deliberately chose not to address the sexual dimorphism present in Dathomirians, but was aware of the official retcon as outlined in Insider.^[68]

The species was identified as Dathomirians in the accompanying StarWars.com Clone Cards for Asajj Ventress, Naa'leth, Talia, and Talzin, released in conjunction with "Nightsisters."^{[6][78][79][80]} The term "Dathomiri" was first used in reference to the species in the fifteenth issue of the sixth volume of the Star Wars Comic magazine, published by Titan Magazines^[81] in December 2010.^[82] They were first referred to as Dathomiri Zabraks in "Restraint," a short story^[10] written by James Luceno and published in the second edition of the novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter^[53] on December 27, 2011.^[83] They were identified as Dathomirian Zabraks in the twenty-eighth issue of Star Wars Comic,^[84] published on December 15, 2011.^[85] The 2013 novel The Last Jedi, written by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, identified the species with the term Zabrak-Human.^[9]

Distinction between Humans and Dathomirians

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Nightsisters but Were Afraid to Ask" states that the Nightsisters comprised mainly Dathomirians.^[2] It remains speculation to classify all Witches of Dathomir in the Dathomirian species due to the fact that the planet still remains notably inhabited by pale-skinned female Humans, as shown in The Courtship of Princess Leia and several other sources. Thus, this article only pertains to individuals confirmed as being a member of the species, even though many other Witches have the same physical traits as Dathomirians. Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry's reference book The Essential Atlas states that Humans made up ninety-seven percent of the population of Dathomir and other species made up only three percent of the population.^[86] However, The Essential Atlas was published in 2009,^[87] a year prior to the foundational Dathomirian retcon in 2010.^[2][77] This article ignores this population statistic, assuming it was retconned as well.

Fate of the Jedi: Backlash, a 2010 novel written by Aaron Allston and the fourth installment of the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series, features Kaminne Sihn and several members of her family. The listing of Kaminne Sihn as "Dathomiri" in the book's Dramatis Personae section can be deduced to refer to her species and not her culture, given the precedent established with all other characters in the list. The rest of her family members—her father, mother, sister Olianne Sihn, oldest sister, and niece Sesara Sihn—are not explicitly stated to be Dathomirian. Due to the nature of the Dathomirians as hybrids, it is possible that one of her parents is Human and the other is Zabrak, among many other possible explanations making it possible that neither her father nor mother are Dathomirian. As for her sisters and niece, the book does not state whether Kaminne's sisters are full-blooded siblings or half-blooded siblings, meaning none of them are confirmably members of the Dathomirian species. Thus, Kaminne is the only character in Backlash featured in this article.^[28]

Design and development

Males

The look of the Dathomirian species was first brainstormed in the developmental phase of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. When Star Wars creator and film director George Lucas asked artist Iain McCaig to draft conceptual designs for a Sith Lord, McCaig arrived at several notable designs. After experimenting with Rorschach patterns for facial tattoos and scars in several "evil senator" designs, McCaig finally arrived at his design for the character who would eventually become Darth Maul during the scripting process.^[89] He envisioned that Maul would have a face resembling that of "flayed flesh," noting that the pattern of his visage would resemble that of a human face without the skin. He also took inspiration from aposematism and African tribal paint, specifically finding the use of a shiny, blood-red pigment terrifying. Combining these concepts, Maul's facial features and skin color were crafted.^[90]

In McCaig's original concept, the protrusions atop Maul's head were originally^[90] stiffened^[91] feathers rooted in his flesh with wire.^[90] These black feathers were inspired by Native American prayer totems.^[89] He envisioned that, every morning, Maul would bind the feathers into his head. However, the feathers were misinterpreted by Lucasfilm Creative Effects Supervisor Nick Dudman as biological horns.^[90] Lucas briefly considered making Maul, and thus all his features, female.^[91] During the production portion of filming for The Phantom Menace, the original horns designed by Dudman were intended to grow through Maul's skull, but Lucas instead suggested that the horns were instead protruded from a slightly raised area. Dudman envisioned the Dathomirian horns as weapons similar in appearance to shark teeth.^[88] The makeup designers crafted the horns themselves out of rubber, and used alcohol-based pigments for Maul's Dathomirian skin and tattoos.^[92] The design and likeness of Darth Maul would serve as the template for the other male Dathomirians introduced in The Clone Wars.^[4] Once Feral's model was created for "Monster," his build and likeness were used for the other Nightbrothers.^[93] The male Dathomirian design recalls horned demonic imagery originating from the European witch trials of the seventeenth century.^[94]

Females

The origins of the design for female Dathomirians also trace back to The Phantom Menace. When Lucas asked McCaig for a design for the Sith Lord who would later become Maul, he instructed McCaig to draw his "worst nightmare." From this instruction, he drafted a concept of a white-skinned humanoid with red hair titled "Sith Witch," which was deemed too scary and was thus scrapped.^[89] McCaig described this design as a "lifeless face pressed against the window," and with the appearance of something between dead and alive.^[90]

During the conceptual portion of the succeeding 2002 prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, concept artist Dermot Power crafted several designs for a "Sith Warrior." These drawings depicted a female humanoid with white skin, blue highlights, smaller skin markings, and a samurai build. Some designs kept this character bald, while others opted to place a helmet or cloak upon her head to obscure her features.^[95]

Lucasfilm concept artists noticed the similar appearance of the two concept designs and combined them into the character of Asajj Ventress.^[93] For her debut in 2003's Clone Wars, the design team opted to take these concepts and slim down Ventress's structure, with the goal to make her more skeletal-like.^[96] For Ventress' reintroduction into 2008's The Clone Wars, concept artist Alex Woo made several tweaks to her design to make her appear more seductive. Even prior to the official retcon, Woo decided to change Ventress's facial tattoos^[97] in order to make them look similar to those of Darth Maul.^[98] The show's later introduction of the Nightsisters as Ventress's people thus took the vague features of her appearance and implemented them into the rest of the female Dathomirians.^[93] Mother Talzin in particular was inspired by McCaig's second "Sith Witch" concept for The Phantom Menace,^[99] a design which already shared many biological features with Ventress's designs.^[89]

Non-canon depictions

The non-canon Star Wars: Jedi Academy series, written by Jeffrey Brown,^[101] introduced two new Zabrak characters: Jedi Master Garfield and Jedi Padawan Cyrus. While the skin color of Cyrus and Garfield were indecipherable from the contents of the book itself, the cover depicted the two with red skin and Dathomirian characteristics. In the series, however, Cyrus and Garfield both bear facial hair,^[102] a trait which Dathomirians of the male sex are stated in official Star Wars Legends continuity material to be incapable of growing.^[8] Master Garfield taught at the Jedi academy in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant between the^[102] 196 BBY and 194 BBY school years.^[103] Garfield taught many students, such as Cyrus and Roan Novachez, the latter of whom personally trained under Garfield.^[102] Cyrus personally trained under Jedi Master Yoda,^[104] and was briefly known for bullying other students, alongside the Iridonian Zabrak Cronah.^[102]

A descendant or clone of Maul was proposed as the main character of Red Fly Studio's canceled video game Battle of the Sith Lords.^[105][106] At one point in the script, the developers at Red Fly Studio wanted to make Maul's heir look different than Maul, but Lucasfilm rejected the idea.^[100] Maulkiller was a character avatar in the 2010 video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, a clone created using the genetic material of the Dathomirian Maul and Human Galen Marek. Maulkiller maintained much of the appearance of a Dathomirian Zabrak, albeit with grey skin and gold eyes.^[107]

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

Sources

Non-canon sources

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