The best way the Jedi deal with Aniseya’s sect and the way they reference the legal guidelines of the Republic makes one assume that issues have modified drastically within the 100 years between the books of “The Excessive Republic,” set a century prior, and the present time this present is about. Since we do not know what occurred to the Nihil definitively, it could possibly be straightforward to imagine that they’re partly answerable for these new legal guidelines that will stop the witches from coaching new youngsters. There’s an opportunity these witches might even be related to the Nihil someway, or any of the opposite sects that have been a part of the Convocation of the Power.
As I noticed their similarities, I remembered the mountain clans of Dathomir launched in “Tales of the Empire” earlier this yr, and I additionally puzzled if this could possibly be some distant splinter group of the Nightsisters, although not the Nightsisters themselves.
No matter Aniseya’s sect finally ends up being, nevertheless, there’s a agency precedent within the current historical past of “Star Wars” for his or her existence, and so they really feel not simply impressed by the Nightsisters, as Headland says, however intimately associated to them. We’ll simply must tune in to additional episodes to study extra.
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