Every Easter Egg in Tales of the Empire

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Tales of the Empire is out! It's short, but there are still some fun connections to be made between it and other Star Wars stories, so here is everything I found!
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@jediguy3706 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

This I wanna know this too

@collecter343 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@seanpatrickcain2 Ай бұрын

I didn't know that

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@Iceskyguy Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

That is a cool detail about grievous' arm

@michaelkaduck1915 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

The commando droids also looked menacing

@sameasiteverwas9742 Ай бұрын

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

@MrTragedious986 Ай бұрын

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

@iroseart3369 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately

@sevyboyyy Ай бұрын

@@iroseart3369real

@michaelramon2411 Ай бұрын

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

@Pacers03343 Ай бұрын

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

@GamePlayer553 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@billswag3870 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@jediknightsamuel Ай бұрын

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

@aprilnewell5434 Ай бұрын

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

@StuartLugsden Ай бұрын

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

@notoriousblt1038 Ай бұрын

He gets mentioned once I think

@PixlPlayer Ай бұрын

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

@apfelkuchen4399 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@apfelkuchen4399 I mean before all that.

@Bobrob1597 Ай бұрын

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.

@UnseenBubby Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

It was also seen in Ahsoka too.

@ScottKorin Ай бұрын

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

@MCLegoboy Ай бұрын

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.

@DanielDaniel-wk1up Ай бұрын

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

@jaygeter8255 Ай бұрын

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

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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

@rattst8759 Ай бұрын

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

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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

@epicphail2926 Ай бұрын

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

@akproductions126 Ай бұрын

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

@Rob_Himself83 Ай бұрын

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

@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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.

@BufftatJunkie 26 күн бұрын

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.

@arrun5125 Ай бұрын

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.

@hjjofficial Ай бұрын

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

@treybone3263 Ай бұрын

I LOVED this! I hope we get a season 2

@Mike-the-Jedi Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@Fishlie12 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@CaptainJ62 Ай бұрын

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

@lightningleopard8877 Ай бұрын

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

@maulgoodman Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@lightningleopard8877 Ай бұрын

@@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

@StuartLugsden Ай бұрын

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."

@Haterade888 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@Haterade888 I'm talking about their Inquisitor numbers. Read my comment again.

@TigerofRobare Ай бұрын

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

@Mr4ndr3yaz9 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@Mr4ndr3yaz9 About 23 if you take in EVERYTHING.

@AStupidID Ай бұрын

Great work as usual :).

@BretMuckdogs Ай бұрын

Thank you for this video.

@HenryLouis21 Ай бұрын

Fun fact, Dante is voiced by Nicholas Cantu who also voiced Rowan Freemaker in the Freemaker Adventures and he plays Leonardo in Mutant Mayhem, is the third voice of Gumball Watterson, and killed James Charles in Minecraft.

@StarWarsNoob123 Ай бұрын

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!

@josephandre2686 Ай бұрын

I wish there was more heat between Vader and Barriss

@icomefromcanadia2783 Ай бұрын

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. :(

@TheLiamster Ай бұрын

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

@infinitesheldon5710 26 күн бұрын

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.

@j-prins61 Ай бұрын

Very happy to see Pellion. Also Rhook looks much better

@josermaiz Ай бұрын

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

@Dachshund-br8pj Ай бұрын

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.

@joeiorio9654 Ай бұрын

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

@Mr4ndr3yaz9 Ай бұрын

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.

@michaelramon2411 Ай бұрын

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.

@saviorselfX29 Ай бұрын

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?

@Mal-sg6zc Ай бұрын

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

@Yunners Ай бұрын

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

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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.

@auntvesuvi3872 Ай бұрын

Thanks, Alex! 🧾

@maxleroux Ай бұрын

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. 👽

@Vanklomp1 Ай бұрын

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

@fraliexb Ай бұрын

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

@paradonas Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@barrivia Ай бұрын

I did not know that was Xander Berkeley!

@capybara2671 Ай бұрын

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

@AllyGirl-hg2sb Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Compucles Ай бұрын

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.

@talktalkagain Ай бұрын

So how many Inquisitors have been redeemed so far. Reva, Offee, Fourth Sister...who else?

@apfelkuchen4399 Ай бұрын

That's it. Nobody else.

@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445 Ай бұрын

It's a new concept actually.

@apfelkuchen4399 Ай бұрын

The concept of redemption for a dark sider is as old as Darth Vader and actually the core message of Star Wars. That there is still hope even in your darkest hours.

@jediknightsamuel Ай бұрын

They were all Jedi, to me it makes sense that this happens relatively frequently. Most of them were lied to as well "(the jedi betrayed the republic" and "they attempted to assasinate the chancellor")

@Compucles Ай бұрын

@@jediknightsamuel Technically, the latter claim is true, or it was for Mace Windu and Yoda once arrest was no longer feasible. But yes, it's not hard to see some of them redeeming themselves, especially an idealist like Barriss.

@RatedRKO269 Ай бұрын

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.

@jediknightsamuel Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Rat-czar Ай бұрын

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

@BlindJedi Ай бұрын

They literally called their son, Micah.

@baki484 Ай бұрын

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

@dangelohill1299 Ай бұрын

Can you do the rattataki species in star wars explained biology

@scortesswbricks Ай бұрын

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

@pnutthescrublord9916 Ай бұрын

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

@Metatronio Ай бұрын

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

@Iwillone Ай бұрын

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

@Ollysstarwarsprops Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@transformersfan500okane3 Ай бұрын

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

@thefragrantwookiee Ай бұрын

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.

@stormerkai5739 Ай бұрын

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

@empireofengland6039 Ай бұрын

All stories leading towards Ahsoka Tano.

@adrianpallis4568 Ай бұрын

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

@MrSCAVENGER1000 Ай бұрын

Be cool if the baby was ezra

@bribriman Ай бұрын

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

@ksm_kyle2231 Ай бұрын

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

@Playhouse76 Ай бұрын

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

@TeLometiTo Ай бұрын

Sooo much potential to do more! :/

@user-xd2rj1tx4y Ай бұрын

Hay marvel why no space force movie,shh secrets

@martenwirthmann880 Ай бұрын

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

@collecter343 Ай бұрын

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

@jomole1430 Ай бұрын

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.