skekSa The Mariner Biography (Dark Crystal Explained) 

I feel like her actions were born more from grief and a sense of betrayal, rather than petty sadism like the other Skeksis.

I feel like everyone took one look at this skeksis and just were like "Yep, that's my girl."

I really hope she’s featured in AoR season 2, she’s one of the only active skeksis (along with SkekGra and SkekMal) who doesn’t simply hang around the castle doing essentially nothing.

SkekSa didn't deserve her fate because she was not truly evil. she did what she did because she felt betrayed and hurt by those she trusted. which is relatable. which in turn means that SkekSa would be an ideal character for a redemption arc.

So as far as we can tell: skekSa is "plausibly" alive in the present (in Jen's and Kira's time) trap in a tree, and so urSan. Considering they are not stated to had died in the books.

Poor dear SkekSa, she had a good heart but felt betrayed. They could do more with her since she isn’t officially dead as far as we know.

would be interesting if she had found some redemption other then just the Heretic as it shows not all Skeksis were driven by hate that they were created from.

I feel bad for skeksa. She was actually trying to be a good person not for selfish reasons,but out of the goodness of her heart.

I feel so bad for her...

Fingers crossed for her to be in season two.

Ooo I hope we see skekSa's character arch in AoR season 2. Watching characters who are sane and good spiral into madness and anger is always fun!

It says something very interesting about the nature of conditional friendship, and the nature of those that benefit from power, that SkekSa wanted to be so separate from the skeksis and the castle life; but then as soon as the Sifa showed they were willing to upend the status quo she was like, 'well I don't want to be that separate, actually'. That's an excellent and chillingly real narrative, and I love that about the skeksis--each one embodies a very *specific* type of evil.

*EDIT: I wasn't aware, but in the new book 'Heroes of the Resistance' skekLach/Ekt are listed as female characters. So skekSa is not the only one. Apparently the websites are not fully up to date!* We did it my friends, just recently we finally hit 7K! Its all thanks to you. Your support over these past months has been absolutely unbelievable and i can't thank you enough. Okay, one more time: THANK YOU!! As promised, i will be starting on my 7 Gelfling clan bios next. Next week i will be doing my Scroll Keeper video, then the week after i will begin with the Vapra! Also, if you liked the new track i created for this video, you can find that, along with tracks from my new album on my Soundcloud page: soundcloud.com/gallowsound

Lets all agree on one thing: Skeksa is best girl

Jim would have LOVED to have brought this character and her dragon to life on the screen.

Oddly enough The idea or her red tinted eyes interest me the most, there just so much about skeksas design that I would really enjoy seeing a puppet of her in real life! I wonder how good her sword skills were.

I hope we see SkekSa in the next season! She looks so awesome! We still haven't seen the other Skeksis characters, some who were mentioned by name in the show, which I'm guessing will appear in season two or more. 1. SkekNa - Slave Master 2. SkekUng - Garthim Master 3. SkekShod - Treasurer 4. SkekLi - Storyteller

I think we're getting skekSa with the next season.

One of the main defects of the Young Adult Novels was the total lack of Skeksis POV scenes. That was one of the beauties of the original movie novelization.

Although Skeksis are seen as grotesque beings, SkekSa is rather quite beautiful. So is her counterpart, UrSan, the swimmer.

Damn! The second Skeksis I felt genuine sadness for; after the scientist. I wonder if the Skeksis are able to reproduce or clone/repopulate; I know its a weird question; but the skeksis were already started with a fragile; dreaded population; with only barely a few doing actual work/maintenance

I love her and her backstory! She's so beautiful!!😍😍😍😍

I hope we see her in season 2 and I hope they somehow make her a good person because I don't see her as a villain just someone that feels hurt and alone with no one else to turn to you can't help but feel sorry for her.

It sounds like the nicest of the Skeksis.

I think she might be a villain and hero of the second season of age of resistance

80's synth with some 80's IP is always a great mix :) Note that skekSa identified with a female, now, along with skekLach the Collector & skekEkt the Ornamentalist. skekSa is one of my favs! She is complex... when reading the books there were times I wondered if she was helping the Gelfling, or doing it just to betray them.

I find her fascinating thanks for covering the little we know of her.

1:22 , 2:35 , 3:39 and 5:00 Aside from SkekMal the Hunter, SkekSa was the most unique and independent of all Skeksis. She followed her own path and was actually not so evil for most of her life. It’s so sad that she eventually went mad with grief and got herself trapped. She was probably the only Skeksis that wasn’t naturally and cold blooded evil. I’m still not sure if the tree-growing process trapped SkekSa inside, or if it just turned her into a tree, killing her and her counterpart UrSan. 5:17 to 5:35 As this video shows, UrSan and SkekSa were probably the most similar pair, aside from UrAmaj the Cook with SkekAyuk the Gourmand. I hope that we can eventually see more Dark Crystal on screen, animated or live action. It’s been 5 years since the one and only season of AOR aired and we all want more.

I believe she will be season 2 because of her relationship with the Sifa. She rejoins the council when she felt betrayed by the Sifa for joining the renaissance.

I love the music in the beginning. I’m shocked it took me this long to find this channel to help feed my love for dark fantasy and synthwave. Thanks so much, dear friend.

PLEASE PLEASE LET US SEE HER IN THE SHOW!!! T^T

Thank you for the information on SkekSa, I think she may be one of my favorites.

Most of that fanart of her made her look majestic and beautiful 💖💖💖

It seems whenever a Skeksis finds true, soul healing happiness, it gets yanked away. I really felt sorry for SkekSa

If only Season 2 hadn’t been cancelled, I really would have loved to seen this character come into the show, it would have been really interesting to watch.

Her story is just so tragic. Some of it is her fault but I would just give her a big hug.

I hope we see the mariner in the next season of dark crystal age of resistance

A beautiful song at the beginning. Wish it was on iTunes. Lol And a very fascinating character as well. Would have loved to see her come to Age of Resistance.

I was waiting for this.

skekSa viewed the Sefa the way a farmer views his garden. To help this clan prosper, to flourish, to grow in power was to elevate herself, at least in her own mind.

Very interesting facts about the Mariner and her UrRu counterpart. What a unique coincidence that the pirate Skeksis has feathers just like a parrot. It’s also unique that she’s the only Skeksis who chooses to identify as female. How ironic that of all of the Skeksis, I thought it would be SkekEkt who would have that gender identity. After all, there are so many people who view this character to be a female. I really hope SkekSa and UrSan will make an appearance in Season 2 of Age of Resistance. I think it would be very interesting if the Season is about Rian, Deet and Brea exploring the seas of Thra.

Skeksa is my favorite skeksis

Thank you!!!! You are AMAZING!!!!!!

Skekna next pwease

Can you do skekshod next?

What are you doing Skekbro?

Naia, Gurjin: * crying *

I genuinely hope they make a puppet of her for season two of AOR! Exploring the light and dark side of this split urskek is something i hope can be highlighted in the future. Perhaps one is for power reasons and one is for freedom. Or we could compare one to the crashing waves and one to the steady stream.

The new comics somewhat altered her character. In them, she's much more manipulative and power-hungry, with the cruelty of a true Skeksis. Presumably, the difference in her and the Swimmer is that she seeks rulership of the Sea, dominance and power, while the Swimmer is content with freedom.

I hope she's in season 2 of age of resistance

Omg I hope they incorporate her storyline in season 2!

A character I am not as familiar with so thank you! Interesting creature but never trust a Skeksis! I hope to see her realized in season two... hopefully!

Hope we get to see her in the second season along with the other Skesis who were absent in the first season.

Damn it I need all the dark crystal books

Another good skeksis *nice*

Can you please do skekayuk next? :D

Yes!!!! You did it! Thank you so much!!!!!!! ^~^

Skeksa was possibly the best character introduced in the novels

This is one of the most bizarre skeksis along with skekgra she spent most of her time from the castle I hope she’s gonna appear in age of resistance season 2

Wow her life truly was tragic. It's a Shame that her friend betrayed her out of the hate of the skeksis and none of the assured that she be safe or help her in her hard times. If they were to comfort or have helped her she would have a better life.

I Really, really wish she had been one of the good Skeksis to rise above the urge to kill like Heretic. But i love her story and cannot wait for her appearance to be made in the show. There's so many to be brought in. I really had hoped she would've joined the gelflings

Dope video

Hey dude. I noticed there wasn’t a SkekEer on your Skekeis Bio. Are you planning to do one soon?

I love how as said in this video, SkekSa and her counterpart UrSan the Swimmer were not so opposite because of the ways they both lived, unlike the others. In almost every other case, the pairs are very and yet fittingly opposites.

With SkekSa, I’m hoping they don’t do a major design overhaul to make her less appealing- much how SkekLach went from a craftier SkekUng type character that could hit in the prequel graphic novel series by TokyoPop as well as think into a gross looking Eeyore like character.

I hope that in AoR season 2 (or before they end the series) they show a flashback of what physically happened when the Division of the UrSkeks took place. I know it was in the graphic novels, but I want to see the Division on screen!

Yep, I'm very sure that we're getting her in Season two, but I'm also very curious on what this creature-like ship would look like!

She could've been empress if she really wanted to probably.

Yessss

This was alot more interesting than I originaly thought! But. What happened during the conjunction? Did the skeksis kill her Mystic? Did they merge away from the crystal? Or are they still alone and divided?

My best guess as to how the mariner is the dark side is that maybe she’s more prone to trouble & fixes them with violent solutions, that & maybe she might enjoy fighting a bit Basically I’m saying she’s like a nicer jack sparrow without the rum Plus she seems easy to upset

The fact that our "heroes" tried to murder her in cold blood with a stab in the back while she was helping them save another Gelfling put me on skekSa's side and made me despise the protagonists for the rest of the books.

What’s the name of the song featured at the beginning of the video? Meaning the one that was playing when you announced your Cura album.

Now this!👆 would've been an amazing arc to explore in another season

She's pretty!!!!

Man. It feels like things could have been so much different for SkekSa. Do you think if she knew what the Skeksis in the castle were doing at the time, her disposition would have been different?

Wait, if she got turned into a tree, did the counterpart got turned into a tree aswell?

Cami-Cat should play SkekSa as once a charismatic captain turn bitter hermit due to being all alone. Only making her desperate of stealing some essences from the Emperor to restoring her strength and forming a alliance with SkekShod due hating the Emperor. Kinda like a charming captain turned crazy voodoo sea witch.

The Good Skeksis that falls into Evil.

I like it when Skeksa The Mariner looks more like a pirate.

Since the uru part comes before the skeksis part in urskek, wouldn't it be Titek instead of tekti?

Skeksa is probably the only Skeksis I feel more sorry for than Skektek

Sifa is "As If". And Thra is short for enthralled.

Can you do one for all the mystics

Can you make one about skekna the slave master?

trapping her on land within a tree just sounds cruel ... I need some headcanon where she and her Mystics counterpart eventually cross paths and work together like the Heretic and his counterpart. They get along - dare I saw it - swimmingly and now roam the seas and explore them together

I cant wait to see him in season 2 😍💀🏊🚢⛵🚤🚣

Are they opposites or are they expressing their nature differently? Wanderer/conquerer, etc.

So what happened when the Crystal was healed? Did she unite with her other half and become an Urskek again? And would that Urskek have left Thra with the others, or remain behind?

Perhaps by leaving the other Skekise and the broken heart she was less afflicted by the madness Thra cursed the Skekise

You should do a biography on skekmal like of you guys agree ↓

Somebody needs to pick up season 2. We were robbed of this character, robbed I say!

Wait so is she still alive?

Color patterns are designed to transform your productiveness

Would she be good or bad? Let's find out.

SkekSa and SkekMal

I like to go on a date with SkeSa if she was real 😢I will never abandon her time of need no matter what

So basically she was Captain of a Godzilla Ship

thats me

Ik you said skekSa and urSan aren’t so opposite. But doesn’t the light and dark balance come from skekSa’s desire to conquer the sea and urSan’s desire to become one with it? I could be wrong. I’m just assuming since those are the kind of vibes I get from both characters.