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"Great Mothers, I shall once again require the aid of your dark magick."
"The thread of destiny demands it, Grand Admiral."
―Grand Admiral Thrawn and Klothow[2]

The Great Mothers were three Dathomirian Nightsisters who allied themselves with Grand Admiral Thrawn. Their names were Klothow, Aktropaw, and Lakesis, and they were practitioners of dark magick, claiming to be able to read the threads of fate and destiny.[2]

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"I see what once was the great Witch Kingdom of the Dathmiri. The existence of the Great Mothers confirms this."
―Baylan Skoll[2]

Operating from a fortress on the extragalactic planet Peridea, the Great Mothers[4] were three Nightsister[1] witches who were descended from the fallen Witch Kingdom of the Dathmiri.[2] The Witches predated the Jedi Order,[6] but were at some point aware of them and hostile to it.[2] Eventually the Witches entered a type of hibernation sleep, during this time the far galaxy entered a war, which rendered the galaxy and Peridea largely dead and barren.[6] Later they were found and awakened from by the exiled Grand Admiral Thrawn,[4] where the witches discovered their entire way of life had been destroyed.[6] Thrawn allied with the Witches in the hope of escaping exile back to his galaxy.[2] They helped Thrawn's forces survive on Peridea.[7] In return for reaching out to Thrawn's former accomplice Morgan Elsbeth, the Witches, along with a gathering of cargo from their catacombs, were promised passage to the galaxy along with Thrawn's forces.[2]

Baylan Skoll and his apprentice, Shin Hati, also suspected that the three wanted to leave Peridea to flee a power greater than their own.[2] Following their escape from Peridea, the Witches and the rest of the Chimaera's personnel made their way to the planet Dathomir with the collected cargo.[4]

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Behind the scenes[]

The Great Mothers first appeared in "Part Six: Far, Far Away," the sixth episode of the Ahsoka television series.[2] In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who read and determined destiny by spinning, measuring, and cutting the threads of fate. Their names were Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis,[8] names similar to those of the Great Mothers.[2]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aktropaw (Nightsister) Life-Size Cardboard Cutout on Advanced Graphics (backup link archived on October 5, 2023)
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Six: Far, Far Away"
  3. ↑ Great Mothers' Fortress in the Databank (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord"
  5. ↑ "Darkness Rising" establishes that the Great Mothers were around before the Jedi Order, which was founded around 25,025 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ahsoka: The Complete First Season — "Darkness Rising" Featurette
  7. ↑ The Great Mothers in the Databank (backup link)
  8. ↑ Fate on www.britannica.com: "Fate, […] in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering. […] From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century BC) on, however, the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the "thread" of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death)." (backup link archived on June 9, 2023)

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