"Star Wars Rebels" recently introduced us to the World Between Worlds.
It was a place that existed outside of space and time.
In fact, Minister Hyden describes it as a pathway between all space and time,
and claims whoever controls it controls the universe.
So today, I want to explore the World Between Worlds,
and see if we can't find out more about it, and how it works.
Keep in mind, this will be almost entirely conjecture on my part.
First, where did it come from?
Ahsoka describes it as ancient and Morai, A.K.A the Daughter's spirit guide form,
seems to have been able to enter this world on her own.
I have to imagine she and her Father and Brother had something to do with its origin.
After all they are referred to as "gods" in the actual episode.
We saw them do insane things with the Force in their "Clone Wars" episodes,
so I don't see any other option besides their involvement.
The World Between Worlds seems to be simply made up of pathways that lead to various portals.
If I had to guess, I think each portal connects with a specific place,
and there are clues about that connection on the portals themselves.
For example, the portal Ezra passes through is surrounded by Loth-wolves,
the portal to Malachor has a triangular shape resembling the Sith temple on Malachor,
or the Holocron, or both, and it has the same runes running along its border.
This portal has more creatures on it and I feel like I've seen those
symbols on its top somewhere before, but I can't place 'em.
The creatures might be fathiers or maybe they're the tall camel-like creatures from Jedha,
which would make sense as another world important to the Jedi and the Force in general.
The portal the Emperor reveals himself in has Sith iconography or at least something similar above it.
I think it likely connects to the Sith shrine located below the former Jedi Temple, and current Imperial Palace.
The rest of the portals we see are either too far away to make out, or look like they're just generic placeholders.
My current theory is that these portals connect various nexuses in the Force.
Every location we've seen so far matches that description.
Lothal, Malachor, the Sith shrine on Coruscant, and Jedha, if I'm right about those two, and Dagobah.
In Rebels Recon, Dave Filoni confirmed that we've seen the World Between Worlds twice before.
Ezra got his kyber crystal and spoke with Yoda there.
So Yoda knows about it and can probably access it because of Dagobah's strength in the Force.
Sabine also referred to the Mortis mural as a "star map", and this image provided by Minister Hyden is intriguing.
It looks like it could be a map of known access points.
There seems to be a building in the very middle of that diagram that looks a lot like the Jedi Temple,
which could be more evidence pointing towards the Sith Shrine as a portal location.
What's totally unclear right now is how do the portals work.
Why is Ezra able to enter the World Between Worlds on Lothal, but the Emperor can't on Coruscant?
We do see him start to succeed when he gets his Force rope, or whatever you want to call that, around Ezra's leg.
So, I guess each portal can work as an entrance and an exit if you understand how they work.
But there has to be more to it than that.
Maybe the light side is required to interact with the image of the Daughter on the portal.
I have to assume there is something keeping the Emperor from getting in.
It's possible the Lothal Temple was the only real way in, we just don't know right now.
And that temple is seemingly gone anyway.
We also don't know how anyone effects the portals to bring up the time that they want.
We see Morai the owl do it, but she's the Daughter and could conceivably do that with ease.
We also see Ezra find the time of Kanan's death,
but I'm convinced that was an illusion from the Emperor,
and I have to admit my nexus theory might not hold up at all.
Hyden calls the World between Worlds a pathway between all space and time,
not just a pathway between places strong in the Force.
The pathways do seem to go on forever, which could provide infinite portals to infinite specific locations.
I'm just using the nexus idea to comprehend it all for now.
But that's just about everything we know or can easily guess at regarding the World Between Worlds.
What do you guys think about all this? Am I missing something obvious? Do you have your own theories?
Let me know in the comments.
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