- "Marrok will complete his task."
- ―Baylan Skoll, to Morgan Elsbeth
Marrok, known at one time as the First Brother, was a mysterious Force-sensitive humanoid warrior who once served in the Inquisitorius of the Galactic Empire, and the Jedi Order before that. After the Imperial Era, the former Inquisitor was hired by the Nightsister Morgan Elsbeth as a mercenary. During his time in Morgan Elsbeth's forces, Marrok worked with other Force-sensitive mercenaries—former General Baylan Skoll of the Jedi Order, and his apprentice Shin Hati.
Around the year 9 ABY of the New Republic Era, Marrok aided Elsbeth in her quest to find Grand Admiral Thrawn. The former Inquisitor engaged Ahsoka Tano, a former Jedi Padawan, in a lightsaber duel during a mission on the planet Corellia. They confronted each other once more on Seatos, where the former Jedi hunter was struck down by Tano's blade. Despite Marrok's fall, Tano and her Padawan Sabine Wren failed to prevent Elsbeth's journey to the distant galaxy where Thrawn was exiled.
Biography
Imperial Inquisitor
- "Brothers, sisters. Enter."
[Marrok and the others enter, all kneel]
"Now it is time you meet your new master." - ―The Grand Inquisitor introduces Marrok and his fellow Inquisitors to Darth Vader
Marrok was once an Inquisitor who served the Galactic Empire during the Imperial Era.
Marrok was a male[7] humanoid who was raised as a member of the Jedi Order.[5] With a few exceptions,[8] Sith Lord Darth Sidious had ordered the death of all Jedi at the end of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems[9] in 19 BBY,[10] paving the way for his Empire.[9] Whilst highly effective, Order 66 did not eliminate every member of the Jedi Order outright, forcing Sidious to deploy[11] his long planned Inquisitorius program to continue the Great Jedi Purge.[12] Marrok was one individual selected to join the Galactic Empire as an Inquisitor, where he was given the designation of First Brother, tasked with hunting down surviving Jedi during the Imperial Era.[4]
Shortly into the Imperial Era in 19 BBY,[13] Marrok was present on[7] the Outer Rim ocean moon[14] Nur within the under-construction Fortress Inquisitorius, where[7] he[3] was joined by the Grand Inquisitor[7]—the highest ranking member of the Inquisitorius itself[12]—and several other Inquisitors, including the former Jedi Barriss Offee, the Fourth Sister, and the Eleventh Brother. One stormy day, after Offee's training was complete, Marrok and his fellow Inquisitors were invited by the Grand Inquisitor[7] to enter the audience chamber,[15] passing several[7] Purge Troopers[15]—clone troopers[7] who served the Inquisitorius as expendable death squads[16]—as they entered.[7] With all three joining Offee and forming a line before the Grand Inquisitor, who gave a nod to those gathered,[15] Marrok was the second to kneel after the Eleventh Brother.[7]
Marrok and Eleventh Brother were the first to kneel in preparation for the arrival of Darth Vader, leader of the Inquisitorius.
Once all four kneeled, the Grand Inquisitor decreed it was time for the four to meet their new master: the Sith Lord Darth Vader,[7] the Sith apprentice to Sidious, a teacher to the Inquisitors,[12] and the leader of the Inquisitorius as per the power granted to him by Sidious.[17] Once Vader sat atop a throne on the room's dais with even the Grand Inquisitor kneeling,[15] the Grand Inquisitor stood and invited his comrades to do the same, recognizing them as Inquisitors. Marrok was the second to finishing rising after the Eleventh Brother and stood silently as the Grand Inquisitor and Offee engaged in the chant "Long live the Empire."[7] As an Inquisitor, Marrok carried out his[4] organization's directive to hunt and destroy the Jedi[11] for the Empire[4] and the Sith.[7] Through the Inquisitorius' efforts, the number of Jedi survivors decreased over the course of Sidious' reign as Galactic Emperor. However, as a result of their own success, the Inquisitors were deemed obsolete by Sidious who viewed them as an expendable force. The Empire ultimately fell to the New Republic after the deaths of Sidious and Vader during the Galactic Civil War.[11]
Morgan Elsbeth's mercenary
Searching for the map to Peridea
- "Either the Jedi has the map or it was vaporized."
"She has it." - ―Baylan Skoll and Morgan Elsbeth, after Skoll and Marrok had searched the ruins
By the time of the New Republic, Marrok had become a mercenary in the employ of Morgan Elsbeth (pictured).
Marrok was active during the New Republic Era.[6] By 9 ABY,[1] the Inquisitor had been hired as a mercenary by[4] Imperial collaborator[14] Morgan Elsbeth and worked as a member of her forces.[18] As part of her hopes to restore her culture[19] and hoping to rebuild the Empire, Elsbeth, a surviving Nightsister from the Outer Rim planet Dathomir who had become a vital part of the Imperial war machine through her work in manufacturing, plotted to return Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo "Thrawn"—who was trapped in exile on the extragalactic planet Peridea in a far away galaxy—back to the galaxy itself to restore the Imperial regime[14] and wage war with the New Republic.[20] Along with Thrawn, she hoped to bring the Nightsister Great Mothers, who had allied with Thrawn and called out to Elsbeth in the first place, back from Peridea and into the galaxy proper. Marrok helped in Elsbeth's quest to locate Thrawn, whose exact location she did not yet know. After Elsbeth was captured by the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano and handed over to the New Republic, she would be rescued by two other Force-sensitive mercenaries in her employ,[14] former Jedi General[20] Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati. Following her rescue, Elsbeth, Hati, and Skoll ventured to the planet Arcana[6] in the Outer Rim.[14] Elsbeth had learned Arcana was the hiding place of a star map that contained the path to Peridea.[6]
Marrok accompanied Skoll, Hati, and Elsbeth to Arcana, where Elsbeth's HK-87 assassin droids had tried to claim the map but had been defeated by Tano. Tano herself had escaped with the map despite those assassin droids activating a self-destruct mechanism in a last ditch effort to stop Tano, destroying the Nightsister stronghold that had once contained the star map. Marrok and Skoll searched over the ruins but found no trace of the map. Upon returning to Elsbeth, Skoll suggested that it was either been taken already by Tano or vaporised in the explosion that occurred. Elsbeth responded that Tano's apprentice Sabine Wren was in possession of it, before ordering Skoll to send Hati to Lothal to retrieve it. Marrok watched as Elsbeth walked away. Skoll explained the situation and mission to Hati, who questioned Elsbeths intentions, before the latter walked off to journey to Lothal. Marrok then approached Skoll, before the two followed Elsbeth.[6]
Duel on Corellia
- "Go to Corellia. Assist Marrok with the final transport."
"Yes, Master." - ―Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati
Marrok challenged Ahsoka Tano to a duel while his allies secured a hyperdrive core for the Eye of Sion.
Whilst Hati retrieved the star map,[6] Marrok was sent on a mission to Corellia to steal a Super Star Destroyer's hyperdrive core[3] for Elsbeth's hyperspace transport ring, the Eye of Sion.[18] Tano and General Hera Syndulla tried to prevent the hyperdrive core's theft, forcing Marrok to confront Tano directly while Elsbeth's forces absconded with the hyperdrive unit on Transport CT-O5.[3] In what was to be their first encounter,[21] Marrok fought against the former Jedi in[3] a breathtaking[21] lightsaber duel, in which he used his red double-bladed spinning lightsaber against Tano's white lightsabers. An HK-87 assassin droid fought alongside Marrok until the droid was destroyed by Tano. Marrok continued the duel despite the loss of his assassin droid, activating the second plasma blade of his lightsaber.[3]
The confrontation was captured by the shipyards' security cameras.[22] Marrok disengaged from their duel after his allies succeeded in leaving the facility at the Corellian shipyard with the hyperdrive core. By then, Hati arrived with her master's Eta-class shuttle to retrieve Marrok. She used the shuttle's weapons to slow Tano down, allowing Marrok to reach the vessel before the Jedi could catch up to him.[3]
Pursuit above Seatos
- "She's on the wing."
"I see her." - ―Marrok and Shin Hati, on Ahsoka Tano
Marrok and Shin Hati led the starfighter attack on Tano near Seatos .
With Syndulla's help, Tano and Wren tracked the transport to the Denab system. Elsbeth dispatched a starfighter squadron led by Hati and Marrok to destroy Tano's T-6 shuttle. Although a few of their scout guards were killed during the dogfight in space, Tano's starship was damaged and forced to land on the planet Seatos.[18]
Like dust in the wind
- "The guards will not delay them long."
"But you will." - ―Morgan Elsbeth, to Baylan Skoll, and Baylan Skoll, to Shin Hati and Marrok
Marrok and Tano battled each other a final time in the forests of Seatos.
With the Eye of Sion in the process of downloading the star map's coordinates to Peridea, Elsbeth and Skoll dispatched their scout guards into a forest on Seatos where Tano and Wren had landed their shuttle. Knowing that the guards would not survive for long against a Jedi, Skoll ordered Hati to confront Tano and her Mandalorian apprentice. Marrok accompanied Hati into the forest where they obstructed Tano and Wren's path to the star map. While Wren and Hati fought, Tano and Marrok ignited their lightsabers and paced in a circle before engaging. Following an exchange of strikes, Marrok spun his blades across the circular hilt, preparing for an attack. As the two stepped forward, Tano slashed a large cut through Marrok's armor. A cloud of dark green mist erupted from the wound followed by a piercing shriek as Marrok's armor fell to the ground while he joined his fallen brothers and sisters.[2]
Sands of history
- "Given that the exact number of Inquisitors is still undetermined, we cannot be sure if any survived the fall of the Empire. However, security recordings of an encounter at the Santhe Shipyards on Corellia attended by General Hera Syndulla of the New Republic and Ahsoka Tano—previously a Jedi herself—show an individual who appeared to be an Inquisitor, despite it taking place some years after the end of the Galactic Civil War."
- ―Beaumont Kin, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
The historian Beaumont Kin (pictured) was unable to confirm Marrok's identity in the decades after the Thrawn stratagem.
The security recordings of Marrok's encounter with Ahsoka Tano on Corellia[22] in 9 ABY[23] were categorized into the Corellia-specific section of the New Republic Archives, where the recordings were filed into the "Morgan Elsbeth Conspiracy" file. Those recordings in the New Republic Archives were later reviewed by the historian Beaumont Kin, a scholar of the Sith Order who took time to study the rise and fall of the Empire in the aftermath of the Battle of Exegol[22] of 35 ABY.[23]
Kin's research included a study into the Inquisitorius, yet[22] he[24] did not know of Marrok by name; after studying Marrok's duel in the Corellian recordings, Kin remained unsure if the figure was a real Inquisitor or simply someone in Inquisitor-derived gear. Kin reflected Marrok's duel against Tano and his uncertainly as to Marrok's identity in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire[22] published in 35 ABY.[25] Kin confessed it was possible Marrok was a surviving Inquisitor, as there was no known record as to how many individuals had served in the group's ranks, but also made mention of how many years had passed between the end of the Galactic Civil War and Marrok's appearance on Corellia, which he felt cast doubt on the veracity of Marrok's station.[22]
Marrok's duel against Ahsoka Tano in 9 ABY was depicted in the art of Gammit Chond, whose work was later published to the wider galaxy by the Graf Archive.
However, Marrok was known by name to the famous Ithorian artist Gammit Chond, who was also aware of Marrok's duel against Ahsoka Tano on Corellia. For his maps of Corellia, Chond used his knowledge of the event to compose a piece depicting the duel on Corellia featuring Marrok, Tano, and Marrok's HK-87 assassin droid companion. Chond's notes and artwork would later find their way into the Shadow Stacks of the Graf Archive on the moon Orchis 2. After the Archive's discovery and publication of many of Chond's pieces[23] as the Galactic Atlas[26] at some point during or after the year 34 ABY,[27] more of the artist's notes and artwork, including those related to Marrok and the greater Thrawn stratagem of 9 ABY, were discovered deep in the Shadow Stacks by archivist Tollan Magzax. Those newly discovered works were processed and released to the galaxy in an updated version of Galactic Atlas, which was published during or after 35 ABY.[26]
Personality and traits
- "Marrok, form up on my wing and wait for my signal."
"As you wish." - ―Shin Hati and Marrok
Marrok was a mysterious warrior who once hunted Jedi in service to the Galactic Empire. After the Empire's fall, the ex-Inquisitor became a hired mercenary who carried out "dark deeds" for Morgan Elsbeth.[4] Marrok followed his orders and traveled to where he was sent; Baylan Skoll was confident in Marrok's ability to complete his task, having vouched for him to Elsbeth.[3] Marrok also complied with Shin Hati's orders while serving under her command in the Denab system.[18] As a warrior, Marrok challenged Ahsoka Tano to a duel on two occasions,[3][2] first with the help of an assassin droid on Corellia,[3] and then alone on Seatos, where he ultimately lost to the former Jedi.[2] Marrok's body was completely encased by his armor,[4] with a green mist exploding out of the slice in the armor caused by Tano's lightsaber.[2]
Powers and abilities
Marrok was Force-sensitive and skilled in lightsaber combat, able to fight Ahsoka Tano on even footing. The former Inquisitor possessed Force powers such as telekinesis, which Marrok used when he pulled his lightsaber back to his hand after throwing it at Tano.[3] He also was an adept pilot, capable of navigating through a swarm of purrgil.[18] As an Inquisitor, Marrok was experienced in hunting Jedi.[4]
Equipment
- "An emitter ring surrounded the hilt, allowing the opposing blades to rotate at high speeds, greatly increasing their ability to deal death and destruction."
- ―Darth Sidious, on the typical Inquisitor lightsaber
Marrok was an armored warrior who wielded a double-bladed spinning lightsaber.
Marrok's lightsaber was a double-bladed spinning lightsaber,[3] also known as an Inquisitor lightsaber,[28] that featured red[4] plasma blades on either end of its[3] circular hilt.[4] The Inquisitor lightsaber[28] was specifically designed to increase the wielder's lethality in combat. While similar in design to Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber, the lightsaber[11] used by Marrok[4] and other Inquisitors featured an emitter ring that could rotate the blades around the hilt at a high speed.[11]
The former Inquisitor still wielded his red-bladed lightsaber after becoming a mercenary.[4] While dueling with Tano, Marrok switched between the use of his lightsaber's single-blade and the double-blade, and adjusted his fighting style accordingly. He also made use of its design by rotating the blades of his lightsaber during his first[3] and second duel with Tano.[2] In addition, Marrok wore full-body battle armor that completely encased his body, complete with a face-concealing[4] black[15] helmet and a black cape, which he discarded in battle. By the time of the New Republic Era,[3] the armor had become battered[4] and rusted.[3]
Marrok's Fiend fighter[4] was a starfighter[18] that the former Inquisitor used as his vehicle[4] during his time as a mercenary in Elsbeth's forces. It was the same model as Shin Hati's Fiend. During their attack on Tano's T-6 shuttle in the Denab system, Marrok piloted his starfighter as a member of Hati's squadron.[18]
Behind the scenes
Milestones
Marrok first appeared in "Part One: Master and Apprentice," the premiere episode of the television series Star Wars: Ahsoka. Written and directed by Dave Filoni, the episode was released on Disney+[6] on August 22, 2023.[29] The character was portrayed by Paul Darnell.[6] The character's alternate name of "First Brother" was given to an update of Marrok's Databank page in November, 2024.[30] The "First Brother" designation was previously given to[14] the Eleventh Brother Inquisitor[31] on November 19 of that year[32] via the reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy.[14] However, Lucasfilm Story Group member[12] Leland Chee affirmed on November 21 that it had been a mistake in the encyclopedia to call that Inquisitor the First Brother, stating it had come down to a miscommunication.[33] The Eleventh Brother's proper designation would be given in the Star Wars Insider article "Inquisitor Countdown" by Amy Richau[31] on December 10, 2024[34] as part of issue 229.[31]
In Arthurian legend, Marrok is the name of a knight who was turned into a werewolf by his wife, who had learned these skills from the witch Morgan Le Fay. In Ahsoka, "Morgan" is the name of Marrok's employer, one of the witches of Dathomir. The wolf motif also ties in with Marrok's fellow dark-side users Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll, who share their last names with two wolves from Norse mythology.[35] At Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 18, 2025, Marrok was confirmed to be appearing in the 2026 animated series Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord through a trailer exclusively shown at the Lucasfilm Animation panel.[36]
Concept art gallery
Appearances
Star Wars: Tales of the Empire — "Devoted"- Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part One: Master and Apprentice" (First appearance)- Ahsoka 1
Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Two: Toil and Trouble"- Ahsoka 2
Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Three: Time to Fly"- Ahsoka 3
Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Four: Fallen Jedi"- Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Sources
Non-canon sources
Notes and references
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External links
Ahsoka: Who Is This Mysterious Inquisitor? – Exclusive Image by Ben Travis on Empire (May 6, 2023) (backup link archived on July 15, 2023)The Walt Disney Studios All Access - STC-trailer2 uhd r709f stills 230711.089317 on Getty Images (July 11, 2023) (backup link) (First identified as Marrok)

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