Morgan Elsbeth was the Magistrate of the City Calodan on the charred, forrest world of Corvus,
where she was in a deep conflict with the former Jedi, Ahsoka Tano.
On her way towards the grand gates of Calodan, Ahsoka mentioned that Morgan Elsbeth’s people
had been brutally massacred during the Clone Wars. So could Morgan Elsbeth actually be a nightsister,
whose people were massacred by General Grievous in one of the most horrific attacks in the War?
There is some pretty huge evidence for this theory, which strongly points to it being true.
So, I’m going to breakdown the full Morgan Elsbeth Nightsister Theory
and how it could connect to Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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So the first major piece of evidence for the Morgan Elsbeth Nightsister theory
is the fact that Ahsoka tells Mando that Elsbeth’s people were slaughtered in a tragic attack
during the Clone Wars, which of course angered her deeply and led her to work with the Empire.
This massacre that she Ahsoka speaks of could actually be referring to the infamous Massacre
of the Nightsisters at the hands of General Grievous, during the battle of Dathomir. This
event took place after Sith Lord, Darth Sidious ordered his apprentice, Count Dooku to asassinate
his own Sith Assassin, Asajj Ventress as she was beginning to pose a threat to Sidious’ plans.
Dooku agreed to his master’s command, attempting to assassinate her by having her ship viciously
fired on by her own droids. Unfortunately for Dooku however, she managed to survive this
encounter and fled to her homeworld of Dathomir, to rejoin her family, which were the Nightsisters.
Once Dooku learned that Ventress had returned to the Nightsisters clan on Dathomir, he ordered his
Cyborg General, Grievous, to invade Dathomir and exterminate every single Night Sister that
walked the red planet. Once Grievous arrived on the Red world, his battle droids viciously
killed every Night Sister they came across, with Grievous himself even shredding many of
the witches to pieces, leaving only a very, very small amount of survivors who made it off-world.
It’s possible that Morgan Elsbeth herself was one of the very few survivors of the attack.
This is even further backed up by the fact that the episode of the The Clone Wars
where this battle takes place is actually called “Massacre”,
the exact word Ahsoka uses to describe what happened to Morgan Elsbeth’s people.
Now this leads us on to the next major piece of evidence.
Morgan Elsbeth has the same grey markings that many of the members of the Nightsisters Clan
also have on their faces. These symbols are very common in Nightsister witch culture,
and likely represent their skills, or affinity with the magical ichor, which is how the
Nightsisters summoned the force, through their ancient magicks. On top of this, the symbol on
Elsbeth’s head is the shape of a crescent moon, which is a known symbol in Nightsister Witchcraft,
and knowing Dave Filloni, this is probably his way of subtly telling us that she is a nightsister,
through the symbol of a moon, which is obviously very closely related to the night.
These Dathomiri mystic symbols are a huge part of the witch culture,
and were even engraved on the Talisman of Finding, which Savage Opress used to find
former Sith Lord Darth Maul, after he was thought to have been killed by Obi-Wan kenobi on Naboo.
Following that, Morgan Elsbeth is also wearing the same woven red garment that
most nightsisters of Dathomir Wear. This red garment is almost identical to the ones worn
by the Nightsister witches during the Clone Wars, before their massacre, and also by
Merrin from Jedi Fallen Order, who was another confirmed survivor of the Nightsister Purge.
She even wears a similar undergarment, wrapping high up her neck, similar to the other Nightsters,
and again what surviving Nightsister Merrin wore in Jedi Fallen Order.
In addition to that, her name is Morgan, which is a name that is closely related to sorcery,
witchcraft and magicks. The name Morgan itself comes from the Arthurian Legend, or relating
to the legends of King Arthur, where a woman named Morgan Le Fay is depicted as a powerful sorceress,
or as some would consider a witch. This legend is part of the inspiration for the Dathomir Witches
in Star Wars, so it makes perfect sense for a witch of dathomir to have the name Morgan,
as we know that Dave Filloni loves making real world references with his character names.
Star Wars has also always placed a huge significance on names
and their connection to a character’s story, with the obvious examples being Darth Vader,
meaning father and Darth Sidious, meaning insidious. You also have the really obvious ones,
like Savage Opress which is literally just two english words with different pronunciation,
a character also created by Dave Filloni. Also, if you’ve played League, you will know just
how much of a connection the name Morgan/ or Morgana is to witches and witchcraft.
Further to this, Morgan Elsbeth also has the typical ash-grey hair that most of the
nightsisters of Dathomir also have. Although many nightsisters choose to keep their heads bald,
like Ventress, many more, like Merrin also choose to grow out their hair to various lengths.
Every example of nightsister hair that we’ve seen in Canon, From Talia,
Merrin and Later Ventress herself, when she grew it out,
have shown that the natural Color of hair for dathomir witches is ash-grey.
Although Morgan Elsbeth does have much darker hair,
she very clearly has the ash-grey color spilling out at the top of her hair,
meaning her natural colour may just be ash-grey like the other Dathomir Witches, and that she
simply dyes, but chooses to leave a small amount of grey as reminder of her culture and past.
So now that quite a few things point to Morgan Elsbeth being a nightsister from Dathomir,
there is one big question remaining. If she is a witch of Dathomir, wouldn't’ that mean
she can use the force, through the ancient Nightsisters Magicks through the spirit ichor?
Morgan elsbeth probably did have this power, but chose not to display it in the public eye,
obviously because of her position helping the empire to build their starfleet and the fact
that all force users were hunted down by the inquisitors during the time of the Empire.
If she were to ever reveal her power,
that would put all of her hardwork and connections with the Empire at extreme risk.
Her attunement to the Nightsisters force Magicks is also probably why she was able to put up such
a hard fight against Ahsoka Tano, who is easily one of the most powerful force users alive at
the time, along with Luke Skywalker and very few others. Without the force guiding, Morgan
Elsbeth would most likely have been defeated by Ahsoka in seconds, even with her Beskar spear.
And finally, we got a piece of evidence which pretty much solidifies and confirms the theory
to about 99% certainty, but because this is not a source within a Canon story,
there’s still that 1% of doubt. The hair stylist for Diana Lee Inosanto,
God Daughter of Bruce Lee by the way, who plays Morgan elsbeth, made an instagram post on the day
that the Mandalorian Season 2 episode 5 released, saying “@therealdianaleeinosanto as Morgan
Elsbeth AKA “The Magistrate”, one of the last survivors of Dathomir.” Hair by me.”
When I found this, I was incredibly excited, but I had to make sure that this was the actual person
who does the hair styling for the Mandalorian Season 2. So, I looked in th credits of Chapter:
13 The Jedi and I saw the name of the person on the instagram post, Maria Sandoval lined up
with the person who made the instagram post. You should have seen my face when her name popped up,
because this is an absolutely massive connection and pretty much solidifies my theory.
Following that, there is also a massive question about why she doesn’t have the same,
pale grey skin that the rest of the Nightsisters have.
It’s possible that she is a human/nightsister hybrid, like how Hera and Kana’s child, Jacen,
was a human/twi’lek hybrid. This would explain her skin not being the pale grey,
and would also explain how she was able to work with the Empire without being cast aside,
as we know the Empire really don’t treat visibly alien species too well.
Another possibility is that she is simply from a different Dathomir witch clan,
which don’t carry the same Grey Skin and Grey lip traits that the core Nightsisters group do.
Thanks to a new Clone Wars story called Bug, in the Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark Book,
we not finally know in canon that there are other groups of Force sensitive witches on Dathomir,
which Morgan Elsbeth may come from. These include:
The Blue Coral Divers Clan The Howling Crag Clan
As well as some allusions to the Misty Falls Clan
The Dreaming River clan The Frenzied River Clan
The Great Canyon Clan And The Red Hills Clan.
And this short story just happens to be written
around the same time that Chapter 13 of the Mandalorian would have been written,
by Dave Filloni’s wife. So maybe they are setting up a future story on Dathomir.
But let me know down below which of the Clans, including the Nightsisters
you think Morgan Elsbeth may have come from.
As for why she is now working under Grand Admiral Thrawn, it could because after the massacre from
General Grievous and the Confederacy, Elsbeth embraced the Republic so much that when it
eventually transitioned to the Empire, she stuck with them began producing weapons for them in
order to ensure that another separatist movement like the confederacy would never spring up again.
So that is my full Morgan Elsbeth is a Nightsister theory. Thanks so much for watching,
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