Dave Filoni is doubling down on Clone Wars lore for Ahsoka season two

Ahead of Ahsoka's return, the president of Star Wars has begun teasing the entrance of Clone Wars' Mortis Gods.

By Matt Schimkowitz  |  September 21, 2026 | 8:24pm
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Dave Filoni is doubling down on Clone Wars lore for Ahsoka season two

Now the president and chief creative officer of Lucasfilm, where he can, among other things, secure a cameo as Trapper Wolf in The Mandalorian and Grogu, Dave Filoni returns to his passion project, Ahsoka, which heads back to Disney+ next year. Unsurprisingly, he’s already begun hyping up more Clone Wars stuff for the show. Star Wars has been fractured for more than two decades with divisive entries. However, Disney trusts Filoni’s instincts because he loves this stuff, and he helped develop Baby Yoda, which, despite failing to become a movie star, has been one of the few unanimous wins for Star Wars‘ Disney era. Now it seems he’s not missing his chance to go all in and lean even harder into the lore he devised with George Lucas in the mid ’00s. When Empire magazine asked Filoni if Ahsoka would tango with the Force gods, a.k.a. the Mortis Gods, in season two, he said, “It’s definitely a thing.” 

At the end of Ahsoka‘s first season, Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) landed on Peridea, a planet home to gigantic statues of the Mortis gods. This Holy Trinity of Force deities consists of The Father, The Son, and The Daughter. The family made their TV debut during Clone Wars‘ third season, when Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Anakin followed an old Jedi distress signal to the Chrelythiumn system, where, among other things, Liam Neeson reprised the role of Qui-Gon to warn Obi-Wan that training Anakin wasn’t the smartest move after all. (Now he tells us!) 

However confusing that sounds, Filoni assures fans they don’t need to watch Clone Wars or Rebels to understand what’s happening. (Though that’s been the case since Ahsoka started and the only people who seem excited by the whole prospect are fans of the cartoons, but we digress.) These are “archetype god characters,” according to Filoni, created by George Lucas, and they raise interesting questions for Ahsoka. “What were we examining there in Clone Wars? What was the metaphor? A lot of it is about power, and what you do with power, and how you wield power. For a Jedi, I think it’s a natural story path to get into these questions.” 

When Ahsoka returns to Disney+ in January, it sounds like we’re going to get a lot more questions than answers.

 
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