I’ve seen some people interpret the cycle of Screecher’s Reach as about the Sith Mother finding an apprentice, training and corrupting her, before eventually throwing her aside for someone newer and shinier. And while this is indeed fucked up, the cave carvings paint a different picture… Kudos to @tremendouskoalachild for this image;
We have the Ghost initially standing taller, bigger than the Sith Mother, who is short by comparison; Almost like a child… And the Sith are infamous for the Rule of Two, in which the apprentice overthrows the master before getting their own student, to begin anew; This is how the Sith are portrayed and elaborated upon in the Prequels, by George Lucas. Lucas was also the one who introduced the common Sith trait of blazing golden eyes, which Cartoon Saloon ran with as the universal depiction of the Sith, and thus something to really focus on and highlight.
My point is, I don’t think the tragedy is that the Sith Mother used and disposed of the Ghost; Rather, she was just like Daal… A child, probably lonely and scared and miserable, whom the Ghost took advantage of and trained. The Ghost harnessed the Sith Mother’s rage and fear until she became befitting of that title, and then as the Rule of Two goes, the Sith Mother overthrew her mentor. But instead of killing her, perhaps because she failed and/or didn’t see it worth the effort to finish off an opponent she clearly proved her superiority towards, the Sith Mother let her mentor survive in the cave.
The trajectory for Daal is to be an abandoned, disheveled crone like the Ghost; But not because of the Sith Mother, not directly at least. Rather, I think the story has set things up so the Sith Mother will take that pitiful place next, no thanks to Daal; And then Daal will recruit an apprentice, and they’ll reduce her to nothing. The Sith Mother is arguably a victim like Daal, just as doomed, just as self-destructive as all Sith are; She knows how the Rule of Two works, she did her part to play it, and she’s still going to keep doing it, eyes wide and ablaze and facing forward, without looking back.
There’s something terrifying about that cycle of abuse; The Sith Mother was no more a manipulative mastermind than her mentor the Ghost. And she’ll be just as much of a defeated, pitiful wretch, just as Daal will be just as much of a treacherous apprentice, an indoctrinating abuser; And so forth… Daal IS a victim. But the way things are headed, she’ll be just as much of a manipulative abuser as the Sith Mother, too, enticing another Daal to go through the same dark path while smiling and telling her she passed.
And that’s so much scarier than there just being one corrupting monster who has it all figured out, in my opinion; Even the Sith Mother isn’t safe, despite all she trampled on to get to this point. This whole path truly is for nothing, and when the Sith Mother is killed dying and screaming, it won’t be satisfying.
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