Mirialan

Mirialans are one of Star Wars’ most consistently Force-sensitive species in the franchise’s narrative — a people with a strong tradition of Jedi service, distinctive facial tattoos that record personal achievements and spiritual milestones, and a cultural connection to the Force that predisposes many of their number toward the Jedi Order. The Black Series has given Mirialans four figures covering four very different characters across three eras of Star Wars storytelling: two Jedi from the Clone Wars, an Inquisitor who was once a Jedi, and a High Republic Jedi Master whose era predates the films by generations.

Mirialans in Star Wars

Mirialans are native to Mirial — a cold, dry world whose harsh conditions shaped a species with strong spiritual traditions and a cultural emphasis on discipline and self-improvement. The facial tattoos that distinguish Mirialans are a spiritual practice: geometric patterns applied to commemorate achievements, mark spiritual milestones, and communicate aspects of the individual’s journey. The more accomplished the Mirialan, the more complex the tattoo patterns — making the face a visible record of a life’s progression.

Their connection to the Force is cultural as much as biological — Mirial produces a disproportionate number of Force-sensitive individuals, and the Jedi Order maintained a strong relationship with the Mirialan homeworld for generations. The species’ spiritual tradition and the Order’s practices were mutually reinforcing: Mirialan culture prepared individuals for Force sensitivity’s demands, and Jedi training gave Mirialan practitioners a framework for what their culture had already oriented them toward.

What makes the Mirialan figures in the Black Series collectively interesting is the range of outcomes they represent. The same species, the same cultural background, and four completely different positions in the galaxy’s moral and political landscape — two loyal Jedi who die for the Order, one Jedi who betrayed it and became its hunter, and one Jedi Master from an era when none of those trajectories had yet become relevant.

Luminara Unduli

Luminara Unduli is the Clone Wars Jedi Master — one of the Order’s more experienced members, Barriss Offee’s teacher, and a figure present at Geonosis and through the Clone Wars’ major campaigns. Her characterisation in The Clone Wars animated series is composed and authoritative: she’s the accomplished Jedi Master that the series uses as a reliable indicator of a situation’s seriousness. When Luminara can’t handle something, it’s genuinely dangerous.

Her Order 66 fate — shot down by her clone troops on Kashyyyk along with other Jedi of her generation — is not depicted directly in the films but is established in the expanded material. Her presence in the Order 66 and Geonosis Arena displays reflects her Clone Wars military role. The Galaxy Collection Attack of the Clones figure captures her distinctive head wrapping and facial tattoos accurately at modern production quality.

Barriss Offee

Barriss Offee is Luminara’s Padawan and The Clone Wars’ most significant Mirialan character arc. She begins the series as a capable and principled Padawan and ends it as the bomber of the Jedi Temple — a character whose disillusionment with the Jedi Order’s wartime compromises drives her to terrorism and frames Ahsoka Tano for her crimes. Her arrest and exposure is the catalyst for Ahsoka’s decision to leave the Order, making Barriss one of the most consequential supporting characters in the animated series despite limited screen time.

The Galaxy Collection AotC Barriss Offee figure captures her Padawan configuration — before her arc’s darker turn, in the Clone Wars’ early period. Her presence in the Geonosis Arena and Order 66 displays covers her Clone Wars military role. For collectors who follow the animated series closely, she’s a figure whose display position carries significant narrative weight.

The Seventh Sister

The Seventh Sister Inquisitor is the most dramatically inverted Mirialan figure in the line — a former Jedi who survived Order 66 by turning to the dark side and becoming one of the Emperor’s hunters. Her Rebels appearances place her as one of the Inquisitorius’ more capable and more personally motivated members: she takes visible satisfaction in her work, which the series uses to make her more threatening than an instrument who merely executes orders.

Her species identity is deliberately understated in Rebels — she’s the Seventh Sister before she’s a Mirialan, and the tattoos that would normally mark her Mirialan achievement history are either absent or hidden beneath her Inquisitor aesthetic. The Black Series figure captures her specific armoured appearance, and her presence in the Obi-Wan vs Vader Rematch display connects the Mirialan species entry to the Inquisitorius display context.

Vernestra Rwoh

Vernestra Rwoh is the High Republic Jedi Master from The Acolyte — a Mirialan Jedi operating a century before the prequel trilogy, whose career began in the High Republic era’s earlier publications and reached live-action in the Disney+ series. Her figure connects the Mirialan species entry to the franchise’s most recent historical era, and her presence in the Acolyte Conflict display bridges the species’ prequel-era presence with its High Republic one.

The four Mirialan figures together span approximately a century and a half of in-universe time and cover the full moral range of what a Force-sensitive Mirialan can become: Master, Padawan, fallen Jedi, and the High Republic ideal before the Order’s compromises had fully accumulated. As a species display it tells a complete story about what the Force and the Jedi Order do to a people with a strong tradition of both.

All Mirialan Figures in the Black Series

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Species Index. Related: Geonosis Arena | Order 66 | Acolyte Conflict | Species Index.