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The Mandalorian's latest episode, "The Mines of Mandalore," takes Din Djarin and Grogu deep beneath the surface of their ancestral home where the former can finally bathe in the Living Waters and regain his Mandalorian status.
Thanks to a helping hand from Bo-Katan Kryze, Din makes it there and submerges himself in those waters. However, he's then pulled beneath the surface, prompting Bo-Katan to dive in and save him. As she swims into the murky depths, the warrior comes face to, well, eye with a massive creature.
Yes, the legendary Mythosaur is real and in the Living Waters beneath Mandalore!
That's where the episode ends, but this is a significant development. The Mythosaur skull is used as the symbol of the Mandalorian people, meaning it's a piece of imagery we know you'll be familiar with.
As Bo-Katan explains, the mines were once a Mythosaur lair, with Mandalore the Great believed to have tamed one of the beasts. She seems to dismiss all of that as folklore, but it lines up with what little we know about them. The Expanded Universe "Legends" canon might also offer a few more clues as to where this is heading.
In that, Mandalorians hunted the planet's once dominant species into extinction, but they became an important part of Mandalorian lore, with their bones used to create weapons. Legends canon also explained that these creatures were massive and the size of small cities, dwarfing even the Krayt Dragon.
Given the mythosaur's importance to Mandalorian culture, the fact one is still alive might be what unites them, with the Darksaber no longer as vital to that as we once thought. It also suggests that their planet can be saved, and we'd put money on either Din or Bo-Katan taming and riding this colossal beast at some point in season 3.
However, as this season has yet to establish a villain, we have no idea what might prompt them to do so...yet! However, the creature would once again make them a force to be reckoned with.