Star Wars' massive new announcement seemingly just confirmed that Obi-Wan Kenobi. Catching essentially everyone by surprise, Star Wars just announced a brand-new show, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, will be coming on May 4, 2025. This new show will focus on two distinct arcs, one involving Cad Bane, and one involving Asajj Ventress.

This story is following on the heels of lightsaber colors and their meanings in Star Wars, heavily hints she has changed sides. Tales of the Underworld is perfectly primed to take this story so much further, by confirming that Ventress became part of the Hidden Path, which shuttled Force-sensitive beings and Jedi survivors of Order 66 to safety during the Dark Times.

We Know Quinlan Vos, Ventress' Lover, Was Part Of The Hidden Path

Obi-Wan Kenobi Dropped This Major Reveal

"Quinlan Was Here" text on the wall in Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Obi-Wan Kenobi show confirmed not only that the Hidden Path was in full operation 10 years after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, but also that Jedi Quinlan Vos was working with these Jedi. Obi-Wan found Vos' name carved into a wall in one of the hiding places for the Hidden Path—a name that Obi-Wan recognized, as the two had gone on missions together in the Jedi Order. What may be lesser known is that Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress actually had a romantic relationship.

Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress actually had a romantic relationship.

The canon Star Wars novel, Star Wars: Dark Disciple, written by Christie Golden, confirmed that Ventress and Vos worked together on a mission to assassinate Count Dooku, commissioned by the Jedi Council themselves. In addition to introducing a whole host of complicated questions about what this means for the Jedi way and the culpability of the Jedi in some events that transpired during this point in the Star Wars timeline, the novel shockingly confirmed that, on their mission, Ventress and Vos fell for one another.

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While it's not clear what Vos and Ventress' relationship may have become since then—especially because Ventress actually died at the end of Dark Disciple—it's certainly possible that Ventress and Vos linked up again following the events of Order 66, perhaps even through work on the Hidden Path. Presumably, Tales of the Underworld will reveal how Ventress essentially came back from the dead. The trailer for Tales of the Underworld gives another major hint that the Hidden Path will be part of this story as well.

Tales Of The Underworld Shows Ventress With A Jedi Youngling

Ventress Seems To Be Protecting This Youngling

Asajj Ventress holds a hand out to protect a young identified Jedi survivor.
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In addition to this Quinlan Vos connection, the Tales of the Underworld trailer shows Ventress protecting what seems to be a Jedi youngling. Specifically, Ventress faces off against one of survivors of Order 66 and Force-sensitive beings, and the Hidden Path was actively protecting people from that, this certainly suggests Ventress has become part of this operation.

Asajj Ventress from The Bad Batch in the foreground and an image of the new Tales of the Underworld poster
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This connects to Ventress' appearance in The Bad Batch season 3 as well, given Ventress appears to test Omega's potential Force-sensitivity. Even the fact that Ventress would have potentially Force-sensitive kids on her radar suggests that she had begun to play this role at some point during the Dark Times. Taken together, I'm fully convinced that Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress are working together on the Hidden Path.

I Totally Think Ventress & Vos Are Part Of The Hidden Path

I Am Begging Disney Star Wars To Tell This Story

Although Dark Disciple is canon, Vos and Ventress' relationship hasn't been shown on screen in Star Wars, and I'm desperate for that to change. I actually believe Ventress and Vos to be among Star Wars' best relationships, in large part because they bridge the light and the dark side in complex and fascinating ways. Getting to see them come back together (and be shown on screen together for the first time), particularly to do something so heroic, would be a dream.

I also simply want this redemption arc for Ventress. I don't think every Star Wars character needs to be redeemed, and the franchise has arguably focused a bit too much on villains getting a complicated backstory or ultimately returning to the light of late. However, Ventress' story has been complicated from the very beginning, with her moving between the light and the dark side more than once. After all, she was first sold into slavery by her own people, the Nightsisters of Dathomir, and she went on to be trained by a Jedi before he died.

I also simply want this redemption arc for Ventress.

Although she then worked for Count Dooku as his assassin, and was clearly on the dark side of the Force, even by the end of The Clone Wars, Ventress had seemingly drawn closer to the light. Not only was she no longer working with Count Dooku, but also, she helped Ahsoka Tano when she was on the run after being falsely accused of murder. With Obi-Wan Kenobi confirming that the Hidden Path was underway and involved Ventress' lover Quinlan Vos, this possible story update in Tales of the Underworld would be a brilliant next step for Asajj Ventress.

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2022 - 2022-00-00
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Deborah Chow
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Stuart Beattie
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