asajj ventress was a female dathomirian sith shadow hand trained under darth tyranus and an antagonist of the "". she first appeared in the 2003 series "", in which darth sidious assigned her to kill the then-padawan anakin skywalker. after tracking the young war hero to the planet muunilinst, ventress engaged anakin's republic fighter forces fighting above the separatist-occupied world and baited him in a chase to yavin iv, where a fierce battle from the forest to the massassi temple took place. though she initially gained the upper hand in the ensuing lightsaber duel, anakin called upon his immense connection to the force to brutally overpower her, causing the dathomirian to fall over the edge of a cliff. she luckily survived the landing and continued to serve her master throughout the clone wars on several occasions. some of which included helping form an alliance between the toydarians and the separatists until yoda thwarted it, spying on kamino in a separatist plot to destroy the clone production facilities while stealing jango fett's dna template, and freeing trade federation viceroy nute gunray from the custody of luminara unduli and ahsoka tano while fighting the two jedi before ultimately succeeding in her mission. after being replaced with savage opress for her failures, ventress returned to the nightsisters until general grievous led a massacre against them, which only she and mother talzin survived. from there, she helped boba fett's team of bounty hunters on a dangerous mission, which thus marked the start of her own bounty hunting career. ventres later appeared in the novel "", which was intended for a story arc in the tv series. in the novel, she teamed up with jedi quinlan vos to assassinate count dooku, and, along the way, the two fell in love. however, their attempt to kill dooku failed, and dooku captured vos, turning him to the dark side. ventress managed to turn vos back, but died saving him from an angered dooku and was later buried on dathomir, amongst her fallen sisters.