Mortisologist

Mortisologist was a title held by a scholar who researched the ethereal place known as Mortis. Minister Veris Hydan, leader of the Galactic Empire's Ministry for Antiquity, was one of the Empire's leading Mortisologists. After the Empire's discovery of the Lothal Jedi Temple on the planet Lothal in 3 BBY, Hydan was assigned to study the temple's ruins. A vergence in the Force was located there.

Hoping to find an entrance to the mysterious Force realm known as the World Between Worlds, which the Mortis gods held the clue to, the Mortisologist had the site of the temple excavated in 1 BBY as part of the research. Although Hydan was unable to decipher the painting of the Mortis gods, the Jedi-in-training Ezra Bridger and fellow rebel Sabine Wren opened the portal to the World Between Worlds. Hydan captured Wren and forced her to explain the painting, but the Mortisologist was later lost in a chasm that consumed the entire temple.

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