Character Origins
Before Count Dooku's character was developed, the Art Department for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones developed "a Sith villainess" by Dermot Power.
When the Expanded Universe resurrected this female Sith idea as one of Dooku's underlings who could appear more frequently throughout the Clone Wars, this nameless Separatist Commander was dubbed 'Juno Eclipse' but the name was rejected as "not villainous enough" and she was renamed 'Asajj Ventress' (while 'Juno Eclipse' was later recycled for use in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed).
LucasArts' Leland Chee suggested using "Asajj" as Ventress' first name, naming her after the character Asaji from Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
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