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The Mortis Gods Are Back, and Dave Filoni Finally Admits It
Dave Filoni has confirmed that the Mortis Gods will factor into Ahsoka Season 2. Here is why the Father, Son, and Daughter matter, and where the story could go next.
For years now, a small but very loud corner of Star Wars fandom has been fixated on three broken statues sitting on a forgotten planet called Peridea. That planet is where the first season of Ahsoka left off, with our heroes stranded far from home and standing in front of towering stone figures that anyone who grew up on The Clone Wars recognized instantly. Those are the Mortis Gods, and their presence at the end of Season 1 was never subtle. It practically screamed, "we're coming back to this."
Now, courtesy of a new exclusive with Empire, showrunner Dave Filoni has confirmed what everyone already suspected. Asked point blank whether the Father, the Son, and the Daughter would play a role in Season 2, Filoni gave one of his classic non-answers that somehow still tells you everything: "It's definitely a thing."
If you're not steeped in Star Wars lore, a quick refresher. The Mortis arc aired across three episodes of The Clone Wars in 2011, and it remains one of the strangest, most divisive stretches the franchise has ever produced. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka find themselves trapped on a mysterious world ruled by three beings who essentially personify the Force itself. The Father keeps the balance. The Son represents the dark side and spends much of the arc trying to tempt Anakin toward it. The Daughter represents the light. She sacrifices herself to save the Father, then uses her final energy to help restore Ahsoka to life. It's dense, mythological, almost fable-like storytelling, wildly different in tone from anything else in the animated shows at the time. Some fans loved it immediately. Others needed a few rewatches to come around. Either way, it has stuck with people for over a decade, which says a lot.
So when the Ahsoka finale ended with statues of all three gods looming over Peridea, and the Daughter's statue conspicuously broken, it was hard not to read it as a promise. Filoni doesn't tend to include that kind of imagery by accident.
The good news for anyone who hasn't sat through those Clone Wars episodes, or hasn't watched them in years, is that Filoni says you won't need to. He told Empire that the show is being built so new viewers can follow along without homework. That said, longtime fans who remember Anakin facing visions of his future, Ahsoka falling under the Son's influence, or the Daughter's final act are almost certainly going to notice extra weight in whatever happens this season. Filoni has a track record of rewarding the people who have been paying attention since the 2010s.
He has also been candid about how difficult this material is to translate. Bringing beings who are less like characters and more like living metaphors for the entire philosophy of the Force into a live-action show is a genuinely hard needle to thread. In the Empire interview, Filoni calls it "a challenge" and says George Lucas's archetypal god characters were surprising even to him. The questions at the center of Mortis, according to Filoni, are about power, what people do with it, and how they wield it. It sounds like that challenge has not gone away just because the story has moved from animation to live action. If anything, the stakes of getting it right are probably higher now.
As for what this actually means for the plot, there are a few threads worth watching. Baylan Skoll spent all of Season 1 chasing something tied to ancient, half-buried knowledge, and his final scene placed him on the Father's outstretched hand. There is a strong chance whatever he is after connects directly back to Mortis. Ahsoka and Sabine's entire arc on Peridea seems built around the same mythology. And given how much of Ahsoka as a show is really about Ahsoka wrestling with her own relationship to the Force, bringing in beings who literally embody it feels less like fan service and more like the natural next step in her story.
We won't have the full picture for a little while longer. Empire's complete interview with Filoni runs in the magazine's November 2026 issue, on sale September 24. That same issue puts Narnia: The Magician's Nephew on the cover, with the Ahsoka material running inside. Ahsoka Season 2 is currently scheduled to premiere on Disney+ on January 20, 2027.
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