Well, after being teased with bootleg recordings of The Mandalorian season 3 trailer ( from SW Celebration waaay back in September 🤬) we paupers finally got to see it and IMO, it doesn’t disappoint. For me it also raises some questions I’d like to speculate about. Questions like, “Who are the other Mandalorians shown with Din?”, “How does he know them, and how did he gain their support so quickly?”, “How many Mandalorians are actually left in the galaxy?”, “What do those Mando’s think of Bo-Katan?”, and I have more. You all probably have questions of your own too. Obviously we don’t know the answers yet,  but I think we can deduce a few from what we saw in the trailer. 🤔

     Let’s start with the new Mando’s we see that look like they have Din’s back. How does he know them? I think we’ve been shown all the Mando’s that Din knows in the first 2 seasons, (The Armorer, Paz Viszla, Boba, Bo-Katan, Kaska, and Axe) and we know he spent a long time with the Twi’Lek twins and the Devaronian (from the first season), so I don’t think he knows any more than what we’ve been shown. I also don’t think he really knew any of the Mando’s, from the covert on Navarro, because we don’t learn Paz Viszla’s name until the second season. Before that he’s just the “Heavy”. 

My guess is Din doesn’t actually know any of them, that it’s the Armorer that has rallied them to Din. If the Armorer is the only Mandalorian armorer (wouldn’t she kinda have to be if her name is “The Armorer”?) then it would make sense she would be obliged to service ALL  Mando’s that she deems  “Mandalorian” by her standards. That would make her the one Mandalorian that would havecontact with more Mando’s than any other, and the perfect one to spread the word about Din’s quest to reach the Living Water’s in the mines of Mandalore. After all she’s the one that directed him there and she didn’t try to take the Darksaber from him (which she easily could have).     

  This also makes me wonder about Bo-Katan’s (and the Nite Owls’) relationship with the Armorer. Obviously they know of each other, as the Armorer tells Din “Bo-Katan is a cautionary tale” and the Armorer probably doesn’t consider Bo a true Mandalorian either given she removes her helmet. That’s not even taking into consideration what happened when Bo lost the Darksaber, the old wounds from the Deathwatch split, and how the Armorer feels about all that. I bet the Armorer has every desire to make sure Din succeeds and unites the Mando’s, and not Bo-Katan. I would also guess the Mando’s we see backing up Din in the trailer feel the same as the Armorer and have been waiting for someone worthy, and indisputably deserving of leading them. I would bet Din besting Paz Viszla has a greater significance to the other Mando’s than we know right now. 🤔

   All these pics made me notice that there’s a definitive difference between male and female Mandalorian Helmets which I think is unique to Dave, as we didn’t see that in Legends imagery of all female Mando’s. It’s pretty obvious but I wonder how many others noticed. Here’s some pics of other female Mando’s for example. And it looks like there might be a few new lady Mando’s for Din to meet… he doesn’t have to settle for “bitter” Bo. 😉🤣

    What do you all think of the speculation, do you have different thoughts about who those Mando’s are and how Din knows them? Have any other speculation, or questions like mine? Let everybody know in the comments.

   As always, thanks for looking. 🙏