Baylan Skoll Is Completing Anakin Skywalker’s Mission 5 Years After He Died

The Ahsoka series introduced the late Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll with a bang, as he began episode 1 by mimicking Darth Vader’s iconic hallway slaughter. This has even more significance when he reveals that he once knew Anakin Skywalker, and that he knows Anakin transformed into Vader. In the finale, Baylan discovers statues of the ancient Mortis gods from The Clone Wars and Rebels, who are supposedly what he’s been searching for the entire show. In more ways than one, the fact that Baylan knows about Anakin’s failure and the fact he’s searching for the Mortis gods are intrinsically tied together.