We last see Darth Maul in the fifth Season of The Clone Wars, where he was beaten by
Palpatine in a lightsaber duel, and then he was tortured with Sith Lightning.
So what happened to him afterwards?
His story continues in the comic book titled “Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir”.
After his defeat on Mandalore, Darth Maul was taken to Stygeon Prime as a prisoner.
There he was tortured and interrogated by Count Dooku.
During the interrogation, Maul finds out that while The Black Sun, Death Watch, and the
Pykes still remained loyal to him, the Hutts abandoned him and his crusade.
We later find out the reason why Palpatine kept Maul alive.
He was going to use Maul as a way to lead him to Mother Talzin, who he viewed as a big
threat.
She despised Palpatine for kidnapping her son, Maul, and was seeking to kill him.
The Death Watch eventually tracked Maul to the prison and busted him out.
Unknown to both the Death Watch and Maul, Palpatine intended for them to escape so he
could track them to Mother Talzin.
Maul and the Death Watch regrouped with more of their forces on Zanbar.
There he reclaimed his darksaber and thanked Prime Minister Almec for orchestrating his
escape.
Shortly after, they were attacked by General Grievous and the droid army.
After an intense battle, with both sides suffering heavy losses, Maul was forced to retreat.
Grievous allowed him to escape, predicting he will try to contact Mother Talzin.
Maul did just that, calling Mother Talzin through the force for guidance.
She answered, and told him how she suspected Palpatine was using him to lure himself to
her.
She ordered Maul to Ord Mantell, a planet controlled by his ally the Black Sun, to prepare
for another battle against the Separatists and to capture both Dooku and Grievous.
On Ord Mantell, Maul prepared his forces and was joined by his other allies the Pykes and
a group of Night Brother warriors sent by Mother Talzin.
Eventually Grievous and Dooku arrived and began their attack.
During the battle, Grievous commanded the orbital bombardment from space while Dooku
arrived to the surface with the droid army to find and kill Mother Talzin who he believed
was there.
Unknown to both of them, they entered a trap.
As Grievous was commanding the battle, he was attacked out of nowhere by Maul and the
Death Watch.
They infiltrated Grievous’ ship and forced him to shut down the droids forces on the
surface.
Around the same time, Dooku was ambushed by the Night Brother warriors.
Although he defeated all of them, he was captured after being completely surrounded by all of
Maul’s other soldiers who were able to regroup after the battle droids were shut down.
Maul has succeed in capturing both Grievous and Dooku.
After taunting Palpatine that he had captured his apprentice and general, Maul sent Grievous
away into a cell and started to try to persuade Dooku to join him and Mother Talzin.
Talzin appeared through Nightsister magic and tried to convince Dooku to join them by
telling Dooku that like her and Maul before him, that he too would be replaced by Palpatine
with a new apprentice, and that he ultimately meant nothing to the Sith Lord and was just
a pawn.
As this was going on, the base they were at was attacked by Republic forces, who were
tracking Maul previously.
While Maul was being informed by this attack by his soldiers, Dooku secretly released Grievous
from his cell with the force.
Free, Grievous killed the guards and escaped the base in an escape pod.
As the Jedi and the Republic clones were entering the base, Dooku agreed to help Maul fight
them off.
They confronted the Jedi in battle.
During the battle Dooku killed Jedi Master Tiplee, the sister of Tiplar who died earlier
in the war.
Eventually Dooku and Maul escaped the battle in a Death Watch ship.
After the fighting settled, the remaining mandalorians were taken as prisoners and Mace
Windu contacted Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and told him of his theory of Dooku being
the Sith Lord that they’ve been looking for and that Darth Maul was his apprentice.
Palpatine of course played along with this theory, while secretly he was preparing his
next move.
Maul and Dooku made their way to Dathomir.
During the trip Maul and his men subdued Dooku and let him know that their entire plan was
to use him as a sacrifice for Mother Talzin to come back into the physical realm.
When they arrived, Dooku was taken into a chamber and started to have his life force
drained by Talzin.
However, this ritual was interrupted when both Grievous and Palpatine busted through
the chamber’s walls and confronted Maul and Dooku, whose body was being possessed
by Talzin.
Outside the chamber the droid forces engaged Maul’s men on the surface.
Palpatine was quickly able to force Talzin out of his apprentices’ body, and she manifested
herself back into a physical form once more.
Tazlin and Palpatine then unleashed force lightning at each other.
After gaining consciousness, Dooku joined Palpatine and unleashed his force lightning
onto Talzin as well.
Overwhelmed by her two opponents, she forced Maul to fall back and to retreat with his
surviving men.
She was then killed by Grievous, who penetrated her defenses and stabbed her with his lightsabers.
Her body shriveled up and she finally died once and for all.
Maul escaped with the remaining mandalorians.
Both the Pykes and the Black Sun left his alliance, after they had their own settlements
attacked by the droid army and they decided that it wasn’t profitable to continue being
allies with him.
That’s the end of his story in the comic.
Maul would appear once more, many years later, in the second season of Star Wars Rebels.
We would see him on Malachor with a new lightsaber.
On Malachor, he was trying to active the weapon on the Sith Temple.
While there he was being hunted by the Eighth Brother, an Imperial Inquisitor.
Maul would eventually meet Ezra, whom he would manipulate to help him obtain the Sith holocron
and potentially active the Sith Temple to be used as a weapon.
He formed a brief alliance with Ahsoka Tano and Kanan as they fought the Inquisitors.
During these fights, Maul brutally killed two of the three Inquisitors, with the third
one falling to his death shortly afterwards.
Maul then betrayed his new allies, by blinding Kanan and revealing his true plans to Ahsoka.
However, Maul was eventually defeated by Kanan, who managed to knock him off of the Sith Temple.
Maul survived the fall and was last seen escaping Malachor in a TIE Advanced fighter.
That’s how far his story goes.
He will most definitely make an another appearance in the third season of Star Wars Rebels, and
might possibly become the new main antagonist to the Rebels.