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This article is about a witch from Ronin: A Visions Novel.
You may be looking for a Sith witch from Dawn of Rebellion.
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"You talk like it's a story. It isn't. I remember. Every battlefield left bodies—until that Sith witch came through."
―An aunty toting baskets of rice[1]

A female Sith witch participated in the Sith rebellion alongside the Dark Lord. The witch resurrected the dead before they could join the Force, making them fight for the Sith in an army of Sith demons. The Dark Lord betrayed the witch, renounced the Sith, and became known as the Ronin.[1]

At some point, the Sith witch gave birth to a daughter, Mirahi, who was fathered by the Ronin. However, neither parent raised their child; the Ronin was not aware of her existence, and the witch had joined herself with the planet Rei'izu.[1]

The Sith witch was rumored to be active in the time after the Sith rebellion. According to the tales, battlefields would no longer leave bodies due to the witch's sorcery.[1]

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Behind the scenes

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre triptych, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre triptych, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Sith witch appeared in Ronin: A Visions Novel,[1] a tie-in to the 2021 Star Wars: Visions short film "The Duel," which was written by Emma Mieko Candon and published in the same year.[2] According to Candon, the character was based on Princess Takiyasha,[3] daughter of Taira no Masakado (10th century) who, according to the fictionalized account in Santō Kyōden's 1807 novel The Story of Utō Yasutaka, summons a giant skeleton against her father's killer after gaining magical powers from a mountain hermit.[4] An earlier version of the story had the witch based on Yama-uba, a figure in Japanese folklore.[5]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Ronin: A Visions Novel
  2. ↑ StarWars.com A Mysterious Former Sith Wanders the Galaxy in Ronin, the Upcoming Star Wars: Visions Novel - Exclusive Reveal on StarWars.com (backup link)
  3. ↑ TwitterLogo Emma Mieko Candon (@EmmaCandon) on Twitter (post on April 26, 2022): "Fun trivia for the Star Wars folks: Princess Takiyasha was v much an inspiration for the witch in Ronin. (Some gov't officials asked her to please stop rebelling so she sicced a giant ghost skeleton on them.)" (backup link)
  4. ↑ Premium-Era-real Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter from the Story of Utö Yasutaka on Honolulu Museum of Art (backup link archived on May 5, 2016)
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real The Podralorian: Playing Gay Chicken with Lucasfilm with Emma Mieko Candon on Not Saf For Work (November 13, 2021) (backup link archived on September 29, 2025)