The Jedi are speaking to Mom Aniseya, performed by Jodie Turner-Smith, described because the chief of an impartial “coven of witches” that locations excessive worth on the preservation of their practices and beliefs. Whereas she’s a wholly new character, all her face markings, her gesturing, and her “Mom” title could have some Excessive Republic followers’ minds afire: it actually sounds loads just like the Path of the Open Hand.
Launched as a significant faction within the second part of Excessive Republic tales—themselves set an extra 150 years previous to the primary interval, so 250 years earlier than The Acolyte—the Path of the Open Hand was a Pressure faith that vehemently disavowed towards truly utilizing the Pressure, contemplating any manipulation of it to be tantamount to abuse. The Path had been the first antagonists of the Excessive Republic’s second part, manipulating the Jedi Order and numerous different Pressure religions into battle whereas additionally discovering the mysterious creatures often called the Anonymous—monsters that would prey on Pressure-sensitive beings and switch them into ash and stone, sucking their life power out.
Over the course of the second part, the Path splintered into numerous factions earlier than virtually dissolving totally after a battle with the Jedi often called the Night time of Sorrow—with one faction of survivors forming a brand new group, the Elders of the Path, whereas one other laid the inspiration for what would finally turn out to be the piratical group known as the Nihil, the primary antagonists of the Excessive Republic’s first and third phases. So even when this coven has connections to the Path, they’re most likely not truly the Path itself at this level. However they might be an offshoot of its teachings.
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