Every Easter Egg in Tales of the Empire

[@jediguy3706]

One thing I'd like to know is why Morgan loses her power once the Nightsisters are wiped out, but Merrin is still rocking some very powerful Nightsister magic. If the answer is as simple as "Morgan was adopted into the tribe while Merrin was born into it," then that's all I need.

[@thedarkknightdetective2559]

This I wanna know this too

[@collecter343]

We did see that Merrin carried around a shard of crystal, maybe she uses that to maintain her connection to the NS magics. Another possibility is that maybe Morgan was just not as force sensitive as the rest of the clan and she needed support to maintain that power.

[@jediguy3706]

@@collecter343 I am thinking it's a Savage Opress kind of thing where Morgan was gifted Magick, and that Magick would leave her either when she or the source of it died.

[@jordanwhite352]

She did talk about how she had a connection to the planet and of course dathomir is still active and alive. Just not with too many night sisters around kind of like how the Jedi don't lose their ability in the force. Just because the Jedi Order is wiped out. H. Ence Luke's line the last Jedi. I also find it interesting that in the second game she starts exhibiting traditional Jedi Force powers in the same way. How calcast this starts demonstrating night sister powers or at least the ability to use them. Possibility of the idea of she might be getting her connection to a force from a different Source thanks to both of them teaching each other. ​@@collecter343

[@beadymore]

I wondered this too. Right now I'm guessing that it has to do with the Force sensitivity of the individual, and if they're capable of performing magick themselves. Like Sisters like Morgan and her mother derive their supernatural abilities from Talzin, and later the Fates on Peridia. Without an enchantment though, they're merely normal humans or humanoid aliens. Merrin or Asajj, as daughters of Dathomir who are capable of practicing its magick independently of the planet or their coven, are still changed by it even when the clan is killed. I think the blanched complexion and facial markings are almost akin to the Dark Side corruption the Sith experience, except obviously not denoting a purely Dark Side outlook as we see with Merrin and Asajj, rather just a different way the Force can change someone's appearance.

[@StuartLugsden]

I like how Barriss vs the 4th sister mirrors her duel with The Grand Inquisitor.

[@seanpatrickcain2]

I didn't know that

[@Compucles]

Yeah, it was a cool callback, but I think it would've been even better had that initial training session been with Lyn in the first place.

[@StuartLugsden]

​@@Compucles I like that idea. Another is having the Grand Inquisitor, the top dog sent after the youngling. Barriss saying "Your anger makes you're predictable" would mean so much more.

[@michaelkaduck1915]

General Grievous's new model is so cool and intimidating. It reminds me more of the 2003 version of him from Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series. And man, hearing him gleefully shout "Run!", mocking Morgan is so dark and demented. I love all the different Easter Eggs throughout Star Wars. I'd love if you guys do one of these for The Phantom Menace for it's 25th Anniversary!

[@TheBigBoss551]

The commando droids also looked menacing

[@Iceskyguy]

I loved hearing Sidious' words echoed by Grievous when he tells his droids to hunt the Nightsisters, "Wipe them out. All of them.", which is also the exact wording used by Count Dooku as well. Also seeing Grievous wearing his cape while fighting is a first ever and just shows how far the animation has come! He only uses three of his four arms against Morgan's mother because Ventress destroyed one of them in their duel in the TCW episode. That was a small detail I really liked. Knowing Grievous hunted the scattered Nightsisters in the forests before returning to Serenno is so haunting and he was having a good time with it too. I also liked how the Mountain Clan Matron's attack on the droids was like a light side version of a move we see Mother Talzin use against the droid army where she shielded herself in a sphere and blasted lightning at Grievous' army. In the first Barriss episode, the Grand Inquisitor's dialogue to Barriss is a direct mirror of what Vader says to him in Charles Soule's Darth Vader comics after a training session with the Inquisitors. Vader criticises the Inquisitors for their technique and the Grand Inquisitor retorts that they are trained fighters but Vader says "They fight like Jedi". It was cool to see that the Grand Inquisitor took Vader's lessons to heart and began implementing it into his training with new additions to the group

[@LairofGri3vous]

That is a cool detail about grievous' arm

[@sameasiteverwas9742]

Barriss becoming a Healer is seemingly taking influence from her Legends characterization in the Medstar books.

[@Pacers03343]

I laughed way too hard at the line "Also, there is this deep cut character named Darth Vader" and the sarcasm. Lol!

[@MrTragedious986]

The Barriss shorts feels more like teaser for her returning to upcoming projects possibly Animated show and Ahsoka season 2.

[@Irose_YTBE]

Unfortunately

[@sevyboyyy]

@@Irose_YTBEreal

[@michaelramon2411]

I'd be up for a Barriss/Ahsoka/Asajj Ventress the Path project.

[@billswag3870]

The whole point of tales of the ___ is to bring short to gather questions etc so they did just that. 8/10 really loved the outcomes and the lessons given to the audience

[@jediknightsamuel]

I also feel like they set up other shows or books. The Ahsoka episodes were referenced/parallelled in the Ahsoka show a lot, and in the Ahsoka show, Morgan Elsbeth was featured a lot, of whom we now habe more backstory. The Inquisitor novel was also recently released.

[@aprilnewell5434]

​@@jediknightsamuel I agree with you. There are witches I believe in the acolyte. Now I am wondering what kind?

[@jediknightsamuel]

@@aprilnewell5434 wait you're onto something... what if they're early mountain clan sisters?

[@aprilnewell5434]

@@jediknightsamuel That is what I am thinking. The show just dropped so many possible story plots in the future.

[@GamePlayer553]

The only thing I wanted to know that I'm surprised wasn't addressed in the show was how Morgan got the Beskar spear. It's probably a simple "she bought it on the black market" but it still would have been nice

[@ziggyspacedust7813]

I would like to know this too! Who else has Beskar stuff, apart from the Mandalorians, of course...

[@arrun5125]

I'm so glad they kept with the rebels style for the Grand Inquisitor instead of retconning to the goofy looking one from the Obi-Wan show.

[@DanielDaniel-wk1up]

Nobody is going to talk about how Lyn's last part in the maze was a direct refference to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining? In both case being that ice cool laberynth a representation of how Jack Torrance and the Fourth Sister were lost in their personal inner hell. Loving also the beauty in how the part with Lyn and Barris was a revert mirror of how the mother couldn't save her daughter/Elsbeth, the series has been a great bridge between The Clone Wars and Ahsoka's series. From Barris being Tano's point of break monster in the first series, to Morgan taking her place in the New Republic series

[@UnseenBubby]

Missed Easter egg: Morgan Elsbeth's gold colored ship in "The Path of Anger" seems to be heavily based on the ornithopter design from David Lynch's Dune adaptation. Given that Morgan is a witch of Dathomir and Dune's Bene Geseritt are frequently called witches by other characters, it feels fitting.

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

It was also seen in Ahsoka too.

[@StuartLugsden]

Fun Fact: Palleon was originally voiced by Hondos actor. Still wondering why we never saw him in Rebels.

[@notoriousblt1038]

He gets mentioned once I think

[@PixlPlayer]

@@notoriousblt1038yea he calls Thrawn during the finale to inform him about the space whales attacking the fleet

[@apfelkuchen4399]

Simply to avoid that he got kidnapped by the purrgil like Thrawn in Rebels and to prepare a plan to build a post empire fleet until Thrawn returns.

[@StuartLugsden]

@@apfelkuchen4399 I mean before all that.

[@Bobrob1597]

In Thrawn: Treason it's stated that the first time he meets Palleon is shortly before he returns to Lothal for the Rebels finale. This helps explain why he was never in Rebels (until the end) BUT Disney seems to keep retconning their lore so it's doubtful the 6 "cannon" Thrawn books are still cannon. Now he was prob just another one of Thrawn's shadow agents that never needed to show up in the show.

[@ScottKorin]

I thought the cave in the last short was a callback to the The Last Jedi with the reflective wall of crystal.

[@Compucles]

I'm glad they brought back the actors of characters that debuted in live action to voice them in this series, effectively making them retconned ink suit actors.

[@akproductions126]

Also, in the third Morgan episode they mention mercenaries coming and going through town, referring to Baylon, Shin, and Marrok

[@MCLegoboy]

Pretty sure Morgan's ship is pretty much the same one from the Ahsoka show. A little gold wedge thingy that will eventually slot into the massive Hyperdrive Booster Ring she builds to reach Peridea.

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

As for the Ambassador herself, I think she might be an Aeosian, as seen in Star Wars: Resistance. She arrives to Corvus and Caledon on what I think is a newer model of the CSS-1 Corellian Star Shuttle, which was first seen in the Phantom Menace.

[@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445]

Maybe that's why the queen of the planet knows how to speak Basic.

[@BufftatJunkie]

Only now saw this, but I have to say your videos are so great, it makes even a relatively fair length video feel real short. Keep it up, amazing stuff.

[@Rob_Himself83]

The mercenaries mentioned in the 3rd episode could be referring to Baylan and Shin.

[@jaygeter8255]

The old friend that Barriss referred to also could be the Jedi she saved when she turned away from the Inquisitors

[@Compucles]

But that Jedi was a man, and Barriss specifically said "she."

[@rattst8759]

​@@Compucles the Jedi that Barriss saves is non-binary

[@Compucles]

@@rattst8759 Still wouldn't be a "she."

[@epicphail2926]

@@rattst8759still wouldn’t be a “she” then.

[@icomefromcanadia2783]

Overall enjoyed the series, but seeing such a good, detailed version of The Grand Inquisitor looking like a proper Nosferatu looking Pau'an just reminded me how bad he looked in live action, (and cartoon translating to live action wasn't the problem considering Pau'an were originally shown live action). Such a squandered opportunity. :(

[@StuartLugsden]

I have 1 nitpick. Why is it so hard to name drop the Inquisitors? 4 are still without name and after Barriss they didn’t think we would want to know. Just have The Grand Inquisitor say “Ah, 3rd brother, 11th brother, welcome. Meet, 14th sister, our newest member. Now Inquisitors it is time for you to meet your new master."

[@ParakeetPotato]

Similar to when Anakin turned to the Darkside and became Darth Vader, the Inquisitors shed their Jedi name and become part of this Darkside cult.

[@StuartLugsden]

@@ParakeetPotato I'm talking about their Inquisitor numbers. Read my comment again.

[@TigerofRobare]

I think it's because they don't want to number them all yet.

[@Mr4ndr3yaz9]

Yes damn. I was waiting for them to reveal it, I saw the Inquisitors in the trailer and at the same moment I thought we were finally going to know their numbers. I really wanted to know their number and how many Inquisitors there are.

[@StuartLugsden]

@@Mr4ndr3yaz9 About 23 if you take in EVERYTHING.

[@hjjofficial]

I think it’s time for an updated list of inquisitors video!!!

[@treybone3263]

I LOVED this! I hope we get a season 2

[@Mike-the-Jedi]

I know we're not supposed to get TOO hung up on the timeline (us? never) but I was thrown off in the second episode with Pellaeon already being with Thrawn. Wasn't he only reassigned to Thrawn's fleet at the end of Treason, long after Thrawn was a Grand Admiral and like 2 days before the purrgil haul him away?

[@maulgoodman]

Maybe not two days before but...yeah. It's such a stupid retcon too, when Eli or someone like Faro could've made an appearance.

[@MajorCarvia]

It appears the books are slowly being ignored, but you are fully correct. It's also noteworthy Thrawn's 96th Task Force was MUCH smaller in the book compared to what we see in the episode.

[@jediknightsamuel]

I saw somebody say that in Treason (haven't read it myself yet) that they knew each other well already so them being together here makes sense?? because

[@Playhouse76]

@@jediknightsamuel Yeah, I believe this doesn't conflict with Treason at all. I don't think Pellaeon is a captain here. He later becomes a captain and gets assigned to the Third Fleet under Savit. And then, as result of Treason, he joins Thrawn under the 7th Fleet to address the rebels on Lothal.

[@Bobrob1597]

@@jediknightsamuel I have read this (all six) and I don't recall there being any mention that they've met before. Secondly I'm thinking all six have been retconned because Thrawn is way too Pro Empire for the Disney cannon where he is more Pro Chiss in the books.

[@josephandre2686]

I wish there was more heat between Vader and Barriss

[@michaelramon2411]

Grievous kills Morgan's mother in the same way he kills Nadar Vebb in the first season TCW episode Lair of Grievous - by fighting with two hands and then activating his third one during a blade lock.

[@Star_Wars_Noob]

You and your channel has inspired me to create my own Star Wars facts channel. I have made five shorts and now have 15 followers in the past five days. I hope one day to create content as good as yours. You set the standard!

[@joeiorio9654]

One thing I love is that Barriss’ friend is voiced by Zeno Robinson from the Owl House!

[@fraliexb]

2:10 how can Morgan get the calls from Peridea before Thron even meets Ezra?

[@paradonas]

Morgan has some sort of vision that manipulates her into her search for Peridea and her beliefs of it being a better future

[@hector_vicen23]

The episode where Morgan talks about her vision is set shortly before the Mandalorian (9 ABY) years after the Liberation of Lothal. Also, the Great Mothers where in Peridea long before Thrawn arrived.

[@CaptainJ62]

I’ll be honest, I was kinda hoping we’d get an Eli Vanto cameo when Thrawn showed up.

[@lightningleopard]

Yeah after this I feel like filoni just erased Eli and Faro 😢

[@maulgoodman]

Exactly! And yet they just butchered the timeline, which is saddening. (Pelleaon first meets Thrawn in the Treason book, way after this short.) Ah well...

[@Bobrob1597]

I can't help but feel that all SIX books are no longer "cannon" and it really bothers me. I invested a lot of time in the new cannon only for it to go poof again.

[@lightningleopard]

@@Bobrob1597 yeah, I’m have a hard time dealing with it. When Ahsoka came out I thought it be a fun and cool idea to read all the books and by the time I got to alliances things in that one and the first Thrawn book of the empire trilogy started to get retconned or ignored. Then after I finished I loved the characters so much that I made custom Lego Star Wars versions and I was working on Faro and now boom, she gone

[@Mal-sg6zc]

Singing Mountain clan are not a nightsister clan... Nightsisters have always been the darkside corrupted version of dathomirian witches.

[@Dachshund-br8pj]

The cave really seemed similar to the Gathering. Similar challenges, icey, similar consequences. Probably not actually Ilum since the empire should be mining it by now but there's a pretty clear statement that Lyn can't even hold up to the most entry level of Jedi tests.

[@BretMuckdogs]

Thank you for this video.

[@AStupidID]

Great work as usual :).

[@j-prins61]

Very happy to see Pellion. Also Rhook looks much better

[@infinitesheldon5710]

You missed Barriss being a healer, like she was in Legends. She also appeared visibly older, despite Mirialans aging slower than humans. This is probably because Force healing requires the user to give up some of their life force. So her spending her life after being an Inquisitor by healing people is prematurely aging her.

[@TheLiamster]

It would have been really cool to see Merrin on Dathomir. They could have at least mentioned her

[@Mr4ndr3yaz9]

The Inquisitor Reaper is not the sixth brother, because in the canonical comics, the sixth brother already met Vader and was totally different, and this comic and episode 4 of Tales take place in the first year of the Empire. And also, in that last scene, it seemed like the Grand Inquisitor was introducing Lord Vader to the other Inquisitors, as if they didn't already know their supreme superior. I think the fourth sister didn't know Vader either, she also seemed like a newcomer, seen by her Jedi clothes still. Only in the last scene, everyone kneels and is dressed as Inquisitors.

[@Vanklomp1]

It's a long shot but I think the magicly infused sickles are also a dead space reference as when the mother is being heated by grevious the runs go red like her health is dropping like the spine health bar in dead space

[@Yunners]

I really hope Palleon gets the same arc that he did in Legends.

[@maxleroux]

I'm still waiting for some videos about the creatures of Koboh and Jedha. Seriously guys, it's been over a year now since Jedi: Survivor was released. 👽

[@saviorselfX29]

Love these shorts. Do not love the Eli Vanto erasure. Thrawn and Pellaeon being in cahoots dating back to when the Chiss was a mere Admiral (and likely much earlier) is a huge retcon, isn’t it?

[@josermaiz]

Are you guys going to a Lego Star Wars rebuilt the galaxy breakdown

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks, Alex! 🧾

[@jediknightsamuel]

Did anyone else think that the white nightsister/mountain clan mother looked very much like one of the great mothers in Ahsoka? The one on the left at 2:19

[@Playhouse76]

Doesn't seem like the Mountain Clan would choose to become Nightsisters.

[@Compucles]

That's not how the Dathomiri classifications worked in Legends. The Witches of Dathomir referred to all the female Force users from Dathomir, but *only* the ones in the exiled Dark Side clan were known as the Nightsisters. It seems to be the same in the current canon now, as well.

[@thefragrantwookiee]

Grievous: Wipe them out. All of them. Me: He said the thing! Also, Barriss' Inquisitor helmet looks just like the orc helmet Frodo wears in Return of the King.

[@AllyGirl-hg2sb]

When I saw Rukh I got excited and yelled its Rukh and then I remembered I didn't like that character in Rebels 😅😂

[@Young_Spyda]

I’m pretty sure the inquisitor that ahsoka kills is the first brother.

[@Compucles]

I think it's becoming more and more likely that the Grand Inquisitor counts as the First Brother, like how the British use the term ground floor in place of the first floor of a building.

[@RatedRKO269]

While I enjoyed the series overall, especially the Barriss episodes, I feel a bit bummed out that we couldn’t see Barriss and Ashoka meet. Would’ve been nice to see them together again after Barriss came back to the light.

[@scortesswbricks]

we just need Jedi Bob and Darth Jar Jar videos!!!

[@Ollysstarwarsprops]

The mountain tribes head wraps are the same as the lumiya from the old EU. The dark side user who yieleded the first light whip

[@jacksteitz2013]

Does anyone know who “the traveler” is who told the family in episode 6 to go to Barris

[@Jaquan567]

Why does grievous have a cape in the short while he does not in the clone wars?

[@Metatronio]

Because Tales of the Empire has a bigger budget than the Clone Wars did

[@capybara2671]

Felt this was a bit lackluster. Maybe if they each had an extra episode.

[@Iwillone]

The ice cave is more reminiscent of the one on Ahch-To.

[@dangelohill1299]

Can you do the rattataki species in star wars explained biology

[@empireofengland6039]

All stories leading towards Ahsoka Tano.

[@barrivia]

I did not know that was Xander Berkeley!

[@transformersfan500okane3]

I wish Barriss Offee's had References or Directly Tutso Mara

[@Rat-czar]

It's unlikely but the family that Barriss helps reminded me of Ezra Bridger's parents

[@BlindJedi]

They literally called their son, Micah.

[@baki484]

Ezra was born and raised on lothal it's all he knew clearly given his reaction to space travel in rebels episode 1.

[@stormerkai5739]

Has Star Wars explained why they do shorter videos than they used to? I have always preferred 15 minute videos. I guess they are closer to being back to Star Wars Minute

[@ksm_kyle2231]

Mmm...i wonder why Pellaeon is working under Thrawn considering he was working under Grand Admiral Savit until Thrawn Treason.

[@Playhouse76]

He might not be a captain yet. When he gets promoted, it could then be assigned to Savit and the Third Fleet.

[@adrianpallis4568]

The Planet in episode 6.....Illum?

[@MrSCAVENGER1000]

Be cool if the baby was ezra

[@bribriman]

The path seems the likeliest next animated show that isn’t “tales” . Unless those stories would be in the Jedi version.

[@JamesLaumand]

Hay marvel why no space force movie,shh secrets

[@martenwirthmann880]

I really liked this show but some things were just done too fast, they should've taken more time

[@collecter343]

Another episode in-btw Bariss joining and leaving Inquisitors would have definitely helped.

[@mr-ad091]

Do you need a video editor plz reply

[@jomole1430]

A few things I caught: Grievous tells the battle droids, "Wipe them out. All of them." Just prior to the attack, Dooku said pretty much the same thing to him. And, of course, Darth Sidious said it to Nute Gunray in The Phantom Menace. The Mountain Clan village looks as though its design was influenced by Jedi: Fallen Order. Dante is voiced by Nicholas Cantu, who voiced Rowan Freemaker in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

[@caseyqueensen2576]

The 4th sister might bee a Togruta.

[@sarpng]

Could the boy be Ezra?

[@ecfeclipse]

This set of 6 episodes was massively disappointing.