Ahsoka Hints at Star Wars' Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Returning to the Franchise

The last episode of the Ahsoka TV series left many fans frustrated because instead of wrapping things up nicely, it ended on a huge cliffhanger, leaving several storylines unresolved.

The most frustrating and intriguing one is probably the one involving the Dark Jedi Baylan Skoll. Considering that Ray Stevenson, who played him, passed away in May 2023, he will either be recast, or his story will be scrapped altogether.

Still, hopefully we will see him again, as his final scene suggests that Star Wars ' own version of Lovecraftian cosmic horror may be reintroduced into the franchise's current canon.

At the end of the episode, Baylan stands on the edge of a cliff watching some kind of energy flicker far in the distant mountains, and then it is revealed that he is standing on a huge statue of The Father.

The Father, The Daughter, and The Son are a family of Force beings, each representing the Balance, the Light Side, and the Dark Side, respectively.

They appeared during the Mortis story arc of The Clone Wars, which is now part of the current Star Wars canon, and at the end of that storyline they all met their demise.

However, the Legends canon also featured The Mother, a woman who served The Father and later gave birth to the two aforementioned children.

But she was mortal, unlike her loved ones, and to escape the impending death of old age, she drank from the Font of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge, which transformed her into an eldritch immortal entity known as Abeloth.

When the family discovered what Abeloth had done, they imprisoned her on a distant planet, where she remained for hundreds of thousands of years.

Eventually Abeloth was awakened after the death of her family and, to make a long story short, fought both the Jedi, including Luke Skywalker, and the Sith until she was finally destroyed.

With her shape-shifting abilities (she even possesses tentacles in some of her forms), her ability to influence minds, her power with the Force, and her ancient origins, Abeloth bears a striking resemblance to the Great Old Ones from the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Considering that Baylan Skoll mentions that the Peridean Nightsisters (who are quite formidable themselves, even able to raise the dead) seem to be afraid of something extremely powerful hidden on the planet, this theory makes a lot of sense.

The statues of the family (as there are both a statue of The Son and a half-destroyed statue of The Daughter near the statue of The Father) are there for a reason, and a distant planet in another galaxy seems like a perfect place to imprison an eldritch horror.

So hopefully we will see Abeloth reintroduced into the current Star Wars canon in season 2 of Ahsoka, if the show is renewed for another season, or sometime later, like the upcoming "Mando-verse" movie.