Daughter

"My nature is to do what is selfless."

―The Daughter^[6]

The Daughter also known as the Winged Goddess was a female Force wielder native to the ethereal world of Mortis. Like her family, the Father and the Son, the Daughter were of a species called Force wielders, who possessed a unique connection to the Force. As the counterpart of her brother, who was aligned with the dark side of the Force, the Daughter was a paradigm of the light side while their patriarch maintained and channeled the balance between them. In 20 BBY, as the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems wore on and the Father's days grew numbered, the Force wielders lured the Chosen One, the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, to Mortis in order to test his potential. It was the Father's hope that Skywalker would take his place on Mortis; although the Daughter remained obedient to the will of her Father, the Son plotted to escape into the galaxy with Skywalker's help.

The siblings confronted each other in the Son's cathedral until the Father intervened, only to be overpowered by his Son, who grew stronger with the dark side as a result of the galactic war. Ultimately, the Daughter sacrificed her life in order to protect their Father from the Son, who tried to kill him using the Dagger of Mortis. Though mortally wounded, the Daughter used the last of her powers to help Skywalker save his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Afterward, she was buried with the Dagger that ended her life. Prior to his own death, the Son visited his late sister's tomb to retrieve the weapon.

Although the Daughter perished, her bond with Tano continued on. Through the convor Morai, a creature with a spiritual bond with the Daughter, the Force wielder's presence followed Tano throughout her life, including in adventures on the planet Malachor. It was there that Tano faced death yet again, but was saved by the Padawan Ezra Bridger, who used the power of the mystical World Between Worlds to save Tano from being slain by Skywalker, her former master who had fallen to the dark side of the force and was then known as Darth Vader. Bridger's presence in the World Between Worlds was thanks to his discernment of the Painting of the Mortis gods, which acted as a gateway to the realm when activated, which the Jedi had done by interacting with the illustration of the Daughter's hand. From there, Morai guided him to the portal that allowed him to rescue Tano.

Biography

Origins

Daughter-WotG — The Daughter and the Son represented the light and dark sides of the Force respectively.

The Daughter was a female individual of the enigmatic Force wielder species, and a member of the family known as the Ones.^[7] She was the daughter of the patriarch of the family, the Father, and the sister of the Son. While her brother was aligned with the dark side of the Force, the Daughter was was attuned to the light side of the Force and embodied compassion, serenity, love, and selflessness. Meanwhile, the Father acted as a balancing force between the two siblings and sought to keep the galaxy safe from their unpredictable consequences, as they would naturally clash.^[1]

Due to their Force powers, the Father brought both the Daughter and her brother to the ethereal realm known as Mortis. There, by abandoning the material world, the Father was able to control both the Daughter and the Son and keep them both in balance. After the Daughter and her family adopted the Mortis realm as their new home, few eventually remained with knowledge of their existence.^[1]

While Mortis acted as both a sanctuary and a prison for the family,^[1] the realm was believed to be have been origin point of the Force itself,^[7] acting as a conduit for all things connected through it, which allowed the Father to keep watch over the balance in the Force throughout the galaxy.^[1] Throughout this time, the Daughter remained loyal to the father and the light side while her brother struggled with the dark side and his desire to usurp the Father's authority.^[6]

The Clone Wars

The Chosen One

KneelBeforeZod-Overlords — The Daughter and the Son are both tamed by the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker.

During the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, news reached the Ones that the Chosen One, a prophesied Jedi legend, had been found. With the Father growing old and struggling to maintain a balance between his two children, he decided to bring this Chosen One to Mortis so that he could assume that role. This Chosen One turned out to be Anakin Skywalker, a promising Jedi Knight in the Jedi Order and a well-respected Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Both the Daughter and the Son were made aware of this decision. While the Son sought to corrupt the Chosen One, the Daughter dutifully obeyed the Father's instructions to bring him to their monastery.^[1]

In 20 BBY,^[8] their plan went into motion. Using a distress signal embedded with an ancient Jedi code, the Father lured Skywalker and his Jedi companions, Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Skywalker's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, to the Chrelythiumn system in Wild Space, where they could access Mortis. After the Jedi's shuttle landed, the Daughter approached the three visitors. She asked Skywalker if he was the "One" and offered to take the group to see her the Father. Skywalker and his Jedi companions reluctantly accepted the Daughter's offer. However, while they were walking along a rock cliff, a rock collapsed and separated the Daughter and Skywalker from Kenobi and Tano. Realizing that this was the doing of the Son, the Daughter instructed Skywalker to wait. Against the Daughter's advice, Skywalker opted to follow her; leaving Kenobi and Tano behind to return to the ship and call for help.^[1]

Later that night, the Daughter and the Son transformed into a griffin and gargoyle respectively and kidnapped both Kenobi and Tano. The following morning, the Father led Skywalker to an arena where the Daughter and the Son landed with their Jedi captives. In order to test whether Skywalker was the Chosen One, the Father ordered Skywalker to choose which of the captives to save from his children. However, Skywalker used his Force powers to force the Daughter and the Son to release his Jedi comrades and to revert back to their humanoid forms. The Father then realized that Skywalker was indeed the Chosen One and offered him the opportunity to assume his place. However, Skywalker, who did not grasp the full gravity of the situation, declined that offer and chose to return with his fellow Jedi to the wider galaxy.^[1]

Sacrifice

SiblingSmackdown-AOM — The Daughter duels the Son using the light side of the Force.

Before Skywalker and his Jedi companions could depart Mortis on their shuttle, the Son kidnapped Ahsoka and spirited her away to his cathedral. Later, the Daughter and Kenobi were present at her father's monastery when the Son gave in to the dark side and attacked the Father with Force lightning, greatly wounding him. Upon hearing the commotion, the Daughter ran to nurse her wounded Father. While at her Father's sickbed, Kenobi tried to implore her to assist the Jedi in stopping the Son before he could leave Mortis. However, the Daughter said that it was not her brother's nature to be "dark" and refused to lay a hand against the Son.^[6]

When Kenobi suggested that she and Skywalker should combine their Force powers to stop the Son, the Daughter instead led him to a cavern which contained an altar holding the Dagger of Mortis, a powerful weapon capable of killing the Ones. She told Kenobi that this was the only weapon that could stop her brother. The Daughter and Kenobi then traveled together to the Son's cathedral to confront him. They encountered the Son in his inner sanctum but her brother was unfazed and instead pointed his sister and Kenobi to the scene of Skywalker fighting against Tano, who had been corrupted by the Son. While Kenobi and Skywalker tangled with the corrupted Tano, the Daughter and the Son clashed in a mighty duel, with the Daughter employing her mastery of telekinesis against her brother's Force lightning and even briefly clashing in their animal forms.^[6]

TheOnesDaughterDeath-AOM — The Daughter is killed by her brother, sacrificing her life to save their Father.

The Daughter and her brother's fight was interrupted by the arrival of the Father, who used his Force powers to forcibly separate the two belligerents and throw them among the Jedi. However, the Son was still not subdued and attacked the Father. During the fighting, the corrupted Ahsoka managed to obtain the Dagger of Mortis and passed it to the Son, who attempted to kill the Father. Having served her usefulness, the Son then killed Tano by tapping the life force out of her forehead. With the Jedi preoccupied, the Son then attempted to stab his Father with the Dagger. However, the Daughter stepped in between them and took the full force of the blade, mortally wounding herself. Horrified at having killed his own sister, the Son fled the scene. In her final moments, the Daughter gave permission for the Father to drain her remaining powers into Tano, healing and restoring the young Padawan back to life. While the Daughter died content, knowing she had saved an innocent life, Tano was resurrected and brought back to the light side of the Force.^[6]

Legacy

Saving the Jedi

"We are the ones who guard the power. We are the middle, the beginning, and the end."

―The Daughter's voice emanating from a mural^[9]

TransferForce-AOM — The Daughter's remaining life force is drained into the recently deceased Ahsoka Tano.

The Daughter's death had the catastrophic effect of upsetting the balance of the Force on Mortis, along with greatly weakening the light within the wider galaxy. As a result, Mortis began to descend into darkness. In the wake of the Daughter's death, the Father and the Jedi resolved not to let the Son get access to the Jedi's shuttle and return to the galaxy.^[6] The Father also buried the Daughter in a crypt with the Dagger of Mortis, distraught as while he had accepted that he might have to kill his son, he had never intended for her to die.^[10]

Later, the Son managed to win over Skywalker by showing him a Force vision of the future at the Well of the Dark Side. Believing the Jedi to be an obstacle to peace in the galaxy and that the Son could help him undo that vision, Skywalker agreed to help the Son to return to the galaxy. Meanwhile, the Son visited his sister's tomb and took the Dagger of Mortis with the intent of killing the Father once and for all. However, they were stopped by the Father, who erased Anakin's memories of the future. Shortly later, both the Son and the Father were killed in a climatic confrontation at the Mortis monastery by Skywalker. The deaths of the Ones both restored balance to the Force and destroyed the planet Mortis. Meanwhile, the Jedi were returned back to the wider galaxy.^[10]

Mystic bond

Ahsoka Tano: "Morai? You're here?"

Ezra Bridger: "Morai?"

The Daughter: "I am Daughter..."

Ahsoka Tano: "She's an old friend. I owe her my life, and now I owe you that as well."

―Ahsoka Tano explains her connection with Morai to Ezra Bridger^[11]

The convor Morai, whom the Daughter had a spiritual connection to,^[12] would become Tano even after the events of Mortis.^[13] After Tano survived a perilous skirmish that was part of the Great Jedi Purge, Skywalker, who had since devoted himself to the dark side as the Sith Lord Darth Vader, visited the moon where she had left behind her lightsaber. Morai circled the skies above Vader as he grasped his former Padawan's weapon.^[14]

A-World-Between-Worlds — Ezra Bridger encounters Morai, the convor with a spiritual connection to the Daughter.

In 3 BBY,^[15] Morai would observe members of the rebel Phoenix Cell on the planet Atollon, and when Tano traveled to their base to meet with the Jedi Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger, Morai followed them.^[13] On their ensuing Mission to Malachor, Morai departed from the destroyed Malachor Sith Temple, where Tano and Vader had dueled.^[16] Tano had escaped the battle via the World Between Worlds, a mystical plane that existed outside time and space and included gateways to many points in time. Her escape had been made possible by Bridger, who had entered the mystical realm^[11] in the year 1 BBY^[17] on the planet Lothal and saved Tano at the encouragement of Morai.^[11]

Lothal mural

"We are the ones who guard the power. We are the middle, the beginning, and the end."

―The Daughter's voice emanating from a mural^[9]

Force Gods of Mortis — The Daughter alongside the Father and Son in a portrait at Lothal's Jedi Temple.

In 1 BBY,^[18] an excavation of the Jedi temple on Lothal occurred. The excavation was conducted by forces of the Galactic Empire and led by Minister Veris Hydan under the direct orders of the Galactic Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious. Eventually a mural depicting the Daughter, alongside the Father and the Son, was discovered on the wall of the temple. Sometime after the excavation's start, Bridger and the Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren infiltrated the dig site. The two rebels studied the mural that depicted the Mortis gods, hoping to discern a method of opening the temple. Placing his hand onto the Daughter's encircled hand, Bridger used the Force to activate the mural.^[9]

The painting lit up, and the Daughter's head moved to face her Father while the words "We are the ones that guard the power. We are the middle, the beginning, and the end" began to emanate from the painting in the Daughter's voice. Proceeding this, the depiction of the Father moved, opening a gateway for Ezra. As Imperial forces closed in on Bridger, Wren implored him to jump through the portal, allowing him to escape capture. As Wren was taken in by the Imperials, Hydan attempted to understand how the rebels had accessed the portal. Noting the Daughter's head movement, he asked Wren how she had understood the mural. The Mandalorian warrior revealed that the hands of the Daughter, Father, and Son were a language. As Hydan continued to seek understanding, he correctly came to the conclusion that Morai, who was perched on the Daughter's shoulder in the mural, was a servant of the Daughter, or possibly a manifestation of the Daughter herself.^[11]

Meanwhile, as Bridger entered the gateway, he accessed the World Between Worlds. In this realm, Bridger could hear the echoes of many voices reverberating from across time, including the Daughter's. It was there that Bridger met Morai and saved Tano. Eventually, Bridger returned to Lothal and used the Force on the Son's hand to close the gateway, hoping to keep the power of the World Between Worlds out of the Empire's grasp. The portraits of the Son and the Daughter subsequently sank with dejected expressions as the temple was destroyed.^[11]

Scholarly interest

"They're sometimes referred to as the Father, Son, and Daughter."

―Veris Hydan explains the painting of the Mortis gods^[11]

Images of the Daughter were included in the Jedi Temple archive, which kept the Order's recorded history. Following the end of the Galactic Republic and the rise of the new Galactic Empire, Hydan, one of the regime's Mortisologists, discovered the images depicting the Daughter in the archive. His assignment to research the Lothal Jedi Temple led him to study the physical mural depicting the Daughter.^[19]

Information and illustrations pertaining to the Daughter and her family were depicted on a set of maps drawn by Ithorian artist Gammit Chond. The map relating to Mortis featured information about the Mission to Mortis that the Daughter lost her life in, and was stored in the Shadow Stacks in the Graf Archive on the moon Orchis 2 until a lucky student exhumed the set.^[20] A journal which also featured information and illustrations of the Daughter, the Mortis Gods, and the Force-wielders as a whole was also stored in the Graf Archive. The journal, that was speculated to be written by Chond, had faded into obscurity until a team led by archive droid TR-33NA rediscovered it.^[21]

Personality and traits

Daughter-USWNE — The Daughter emanated a glowing aura in both human and griffin forms.

The Daughter was a female^[1] Force wielder^[3] who stood at 2.13 meters (7 feet) in humanoid form,^[4] and 2.58 meters in Griffin form. She had pale skin, as well as green hair and eyes.^[1]

The Daughter was a selfless, compassionate, and humble Force-wielder who aligned herself with the light side of the Force.^[3] She loved both her Father and her brother, the Son. She shared the Father's goals of maintaining the balance of the Force on both Mortis and the wider galaxy. She strongly opposed the dark side of the Force but still loved her brother despite his obsession with the dark side and pleaded for the Father not to hold it against him.^[6] She had her brother were kept in balance by the Father.^[4] The Daughter's selfless devotion to her family and righteousness led her to lay down her own life to save the Father and to use her remaining energy to bring the Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano back to life.^[6]

Powers and abilities

DaughterGriffin TCWs3BR3 — The Daughter in griffin form.

As a member of the Force wielder species, the Daughter inherited a strong connection to the Force and had no fixed physical form, often alternating between a statuesque humanoid woman and a large griffin that was capable of flight.^[1] She could absorb, deflect, and redirect Force lightning using the Force. She was also powerful in the use of telekinesis, as shown when she was able to force the Son up and bring him back down on the ground. She could also use the Force to hold the Son in place. The Daughter was also able to use powerful Force pushes, as show when she caused the Son to go out of his Gargoyle form with one push. The Daughter could also fly, and seemed to have a spiritual connection with the bird, Morai. When sacrificing herself, the Daughter was able to use the Force to enhance her physical speed, reaching the Son before he could strike their father down. At the end of her life, the Daughter transferred her life force into Ahsoka Tano by using Anakin Skywalker as a conduit, resurrecting the Jedi apprentice from the dead. One known weapon capable of harming her was the Dagger of Mortis. When the Son accidentally stabbed her with it, she become mortal and died.^[6]

Behind the scenes

The Daughter and the story of Mortis were created by George Lucas, the original creator of Star Wars.^[22] She debuted in "Overlords," the fifteenth episode of the third season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The episode was directed by Steward Lee, written by Christian Taylor,^[1] and first aired on January 28, 2011. The Daughter was voiced by Adrienne Wilkinson, who had previously provided her voice as Maris Brood in the Star Wars Legends video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed alongside the Son's voice actor Sam Witwer, who had voiced Galen Marek.^[5]