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| - The "Mother" (sometimes clan mother, "Matron" or "Matriarch") honorific was also applied to leaders of Dathomiri witches clans, including certain Nightsister covens. Such leaders included Gethzerion, the founder of the Nightsisters, Mother Talzin, a Nightsister Shaman during the Clone Wars, and Mother Rell, oldest member of the Singing Mountain Clan.
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| - The "Mother" (sometimes clan mother, "Matron" or "Matriarch") honorific was also applied to leaders of Dathomiri witches clans, including certain Nightsister covens. Such leaders included Gethzerion, the founder of the Nightsisters, Mother Talzin, a Nightsister Shaman during the Clone Wars, and Mother Rell, oldest member of the Singing Mountain Clan. The earliest Clan Mother of Dathomir was the banished Jedi Knight Allya, who literally sired the first witches and taught her daughters the ways of the Force through the lens of magicks. A Dathomiri Clan Mother was the heir of Allya's authority over the clan members, known as Sisters. For a mere Sister, a convenient way for the echelons of power was to kill the current Mother(similar to the Sith's typical method of succession). If the assassination attempt was successful, the murderer was considered worthy of taking her victim's place. Around 31 BBY, the young Ros Lai stabbed Queen Zalem with a lightsaber, to which other witches reacted by saying: "The Mother is dead. Long live the Mother."
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