INFO: The Duloks were a sentient species native to the the Forest Moon of Endor. Unlike their distant relatives, the Ewoks, they were tall and lanky with long ears, sharp teeth, and eyes that ranged in color from white to red. Duloks were covered in fur that came in dull shades of brown, gray, and green. They typically wore little more than bone and feather decorations and burnt, carved, or painted symbols on their fur. Members of the species were often unkempt and infested with insects. The Duloks' language was intelligible with Ewokese.
Duloks tended to live in swampy regions. Their villages were made up of rotting logs and dark caverns, which they furnished with structures of bone, mud, skin, and wood. The species was divided into clans and tribes headed by a chief or king. The strongest Dulok present usually assumed this role and ruled by cowing the others into doing his bidding. Duloks were religious, so some power fell to shamans and other mystics.
In contrast to the Ewoks, Duloks had a reputation as greedy, foul-tempered barbarians. Their culture was aggressive and warlike, and they made frequent raids on nearby settlements. Dulok bands were particularly keen to conquer Ewok villages and thus posed a major threat to some Ewok tribes. A gang of Duloks under King Vulgarr menaced the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village in the years of the Ewok Teebo's youth, and another tribe led by King Gorneesh came into frequent conflict with those same Ewoks. Some Duloks had an uneasy alliance with Morag, the Tulgah witch, to further their designs on Ewok holdings.
RACE: Dulok
HEIGHT: 1.3 Meters Tall
SKIN (FUR): Green, blue-gray, brown, gray
DISTINCTION: Bipedal, hairy, unkempt
LANGUAGE: Ewokese
HOMEWORLD:Endor (also known as the Forest Moon of Endor and the Sanctuary Moon) was a small forested moon orbiting the gas giant planet of Endor. An enchanted world, Endor was notable for being the native home of the Ewoks, and being the location of the Battle of Endor, which would result in the downfall of the Empire and the first death of the Emperor Palpatine. Due to its proximity to the inhospitable Unknown Regions, Endor was a relatively quiet planetoid both prior to and after the battle.
Endor was also known for the vast amount of sentient species it supported, from baseline to exotic. This was largely due to the extremely large number of shipwrecks Endor experienced; it has been compared to a "desert island" in space. For further info on Endor see the Ewoks file.
BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:Duloks were sentient bipedal mammals adapted to the swamps of Endor's forest moon. Gangly beings, they stood from 1.2 to 1.5 meters tall. Sharp claws poked from their four-fingered hands and three-toed feet. Some groups had thin, expressive, tufted tails. They were excellent climbers.
Members of the species were covered in dull-looking fur. Most commonly, this was green, but shades of blue-gray, gray, and brown were not unheard of, and many individuals displayed markings of a different color from the main coat. For example, most members of Gorneesh's tribe had green body fur with gray lips, brown eyebrows, and a gray mask around the eyes, while another band had brown ears and brows, and gray mustaches instead. Dulok fur was relatively uniform in length except for a longer shock atop the head. Facial and head hair lengthened and grayed with age; the ancient Dulok Murgoob was marked by his bushy gray beard and long coiffure. The tip of the nose and soles of the feet were the only naturally hairless portions of the Dulok anatomy; skin color varied from gray to light to dark pink and was often blotched by another tone.
The features of a Dulok's broad face were screwed up into a constant scowl. Two sharp canine teeth jutted from the prognathic lower jaw, and small, round eyes squinted from below downcast brows. These orbs, in shades of pink, red, yellow, and white, were sensitive to bright light. The hairless Dulok nose was either black or green. Two long, floppy ears protrude or drooped from the sides of the head and tapered to either tufts of hair or pointy tips.
While they groomed themselves using the materials available to them—such as a multi-legged creature used as a sponge and stolen Ewok soap— Duloks had a hard time keeping clean. As a result, their fur often became mangy, unkempt, foul smelling, and infested with parasitic insects. Despite this paucity of hygiene, some Dulok ancients lived to a prodigious age: the shaman Umwak claimed that his uncle Murgoob had seen more than 600 seasons in 3 ABY.
With the exception of utilitarian items such as cloth diapers for the young and eye patches for the maimed, Duloks wore clothing to denote status rather than hide nudity or provide warmth. Common adornments included earrings, hair ornaments, and necklaces of bone, feather, and horn; and pieces of cloth wrapped about the body. Duloks often bound their ears and head-hair with cord. Fur modifications—branding, painting, and shaving—signified status and tribal affiliation. Pigments for fur coloring included blue, yellow, and red. Similarly, a few Duloks carved tribal markings into their lower canines. Some members of the species wore leather pouches in which to carry their belongings.
CULTURE AND HISTORY:Although Ewoks and Duloks spoke mutually intelligible dialects and acknowledged a common heritage, their interactions were seldom cordial. The Duloks hated and envied the Ewoks for enjoying what the Duloks saw as the better lifestyle in the bountiful forests. They reserved a litany of insults for their cousins: furball, fuzzy imp, puffball, runt, tree rat, and—for the woklings—brat and bratling. Duloks typically had short, one-word names; examples included Boogutt, Gorneesh, Murgoob, Ulgo, Umwak, Urgah, and Vulgarr.
Meanwhile, most Ewoks saw Duloks as fierce, rival warriors at best; stupid, ill-mannered barbarians at worst. Dulok brain was an Ewok insult. Although Ewoks respected their cousins as fellow children of the Forest Moon, a host of Ewok taboos and folk beliefs surrounded the marsh-dwelling species. Ewoks agreed on one point: Duloks were creatures best avoided.
Duloks were rare: fewer than one percent of the Forest Moon's sentient inhabitants belonged to the species. These were divided into scattered clans and tribes with names such as Donkuwah, Korga, and Pubam. Most groups eked out a living in Endor's marshlands, based in villages of caves, logs, and stumps, although some bands settled in dry areas, rocky terrain and subterranean complexes. Families lived in caverns and mud huts surrounding the throne of the village ruler or an altar to the Dulok gods. Gorneesh's throne was made from a tree stump under piles of animal skins and bones.
The Duloks evolved on the Forest Moon of Endor from a common ancestor with the Ewoks. Following their evolutionary split, the Ewoks took to Endor's vast woodlands, while the Duloks were relegated to the moon's sparse bogs and more desolate areas.
From former familiarity emerged fierce rivalry. Dulok groups harassed and bullied their Ewok neighbors, and over years of outright war, Duloks developed into apt raiders. Ewok villages fell, and Ewok tribes were wiped out. Dulok bands developed combative relationships with neighboring groups of Ewoks. For example, the Pubam Duloks opposed the Gondula and Panshee Ewoks.
One band of Duloks, headed by King Ulgo and, after a coup, King Vulgarr, menaced the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village in the years of the Ewok Teebo's youth. In one encounter, Vulgarr and his warriors tricked the Ewoks into believing that a monster had kidnapped the wokling Malani. When Chief Chirpa and a troop of warriors set off to find the perpetrator, Vulgarr and his soldiers ransacked the undefended village and kidnapped its woklings. Only a combined assault by the returning Ewok warriors and a giant known as the Grudakk routed the invaders and freed the wokling slaves. The Ewok shaman Logray planted Vulgarr in the ground and declared that he would grow into a gnarled tree as a warning to other would-be Dulok brigands.
Another Dulok group snuck into Bright Tree Village while the Ewoks were preoccupied with their annual Hallowe'en party. In an accident, the Ewok Chirpa fell into a sack and was carried away by the Duloks, who thought he was a sack of food. When they realized their mistake back at camp, they decided to hold him for ransom. A group of young Ewoks from the village entered the camp, and Chirpa took advantage of the commotion to escape his bonds and fight his way back to his village.
Gorneesh's tribe was a relatively large band that lived in the Dulok Swamp just beyond the borders of Happy Grove. Under the leadership of the hulking, one-eyed King Gorneesh, they proved a persistent pest to the Ewoks and schemed to steal their harvest, kidnap their woklings, and take over their village. This harassment often manifested as simple raids, as when Gorneesh and his warriors stole Logray's shadowroot soap, became invisible, and invaded Bright Tree Village. Later, they tried to steal the Ewoks' sun crystal but accidentally destroyed it instead. They kidnapped Ewoks to do the tasks they despised, such as caring for their pups and cleaning their village.
The two tribes fought a long war. In a decisive battle, the Duloks advanced on the Ewoks' Soul Trees with axes and tried to cut them down, but the Ewok Erpham Warrick's battlewagon drove the raiders away. Three generations later, the Ewoks' sacred Tree of Light grew weak and needed renewal. Gorneesh and his band rushed to fell it before the Ewoks could perform the necessary ceremony, but in the ensuing battle, the Ewoks Wicket W. Warrick and Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka foiled the plot. The tribe later managed to steal Erpham Warrick's reconstructed battlewagon and aimed it at the Soul Trees, but Wicket W. Warrick destroyed the war machine before it could reach the sacred grove. During another scheme, the Duloks stole a sacred fish carving from the Ewoks and used it for their own battleship, but it was recovered by Wicket W. Warrick and his companions, who had been pressed into service as galley slaves. Gorneesh capitalized on the long war by pretending to proffer a peace treaty. However, during the Chirpa-Gorneesh peace summit, he ordered his troops to cut the ropes holding up a bridge once the Ewok delegation started across.
Members of the tribe, including Gorneesh's wife, Urgah, and son, Boogutt, participated in raids and schemes. The shaman, Umwak, represented the tribe in dealings with the witch Morag and occasionally scouted with his nephew. The tribe often found itself relegated to the role of henchmen by other powerful Ewok enemies. For example, Morag once delivered a baby Phlog named Nahkee to the tribe and ordered them to watch over him; still, a group of young Ewoks freed the infant, and his enraged family terrorized the swamp-dwellers in revenge. Similarly, a being known as the Stranger frightened the Duloks into raiding Bright Tree Village; during the distraction, he stole the Ewoks' Sunstar-Shadowstone.
IN THE GALAXY:Over centuries, Endor's massive gravity shadow and cloak of space-borne detritus crashed hundreds of starships on the Forest Moon. A few of these offworld crew and passengers survived and managed to eke out a living. In this way, the Duloks came into contact with Gupins, Jindas, Phlogs, Sanyassans, Tulgah, and other species. Duloks struck up trade relations with some of these, fealty to others, and covetous designs on still more. Those few ships that managed to return to the stars spread the moon's lifeforms beyond their homeworld, and at least one Dulok was present on Coruscant in 19 BBY.
Still, Endor was far from the galactic core and only accessible through a long and difficult hyperspace journey. Although the Forest Moon (along with the rest of the Inner Zuma region) ostensibly became part of the Galactic Republic in 50 BBY, it remained mostly unknown in the galaxy at large. The Duloks, as a relatively scarce species, were even more obscure. While Corellian Security Force intelligence knew of the species by 2 ABY and included a brief description of them in their classified CorSec Database, a report filed by Imperial scout Pfilbee Jhorn before the Battle of Endor either missed the Duloks completely or deemed them unworthy of mention. This report became the most well-read account of the Forest Moon's inhabitants for the eight years following the fall of the Empire.
After their victory in the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Alliance to Restore the Republic made its base on the Forest Moon, and offworld visits peaked, including the Nagai invasion of 4 ABY, the arrival of post-battle scavengers, the establishment of tourism, and the founding of Salfur's Trading Post. Endor ostensibly became a member of the New Republic, but its representative in the Senate was an Ayrou from the planet Maya Kovel. In 12 ABY, a team of biologists from the University of Sanbra, headed by Professor Mankuskett, investigated the native lifeforms of the Forest Moon. Mankuskett later wrote a report from the expedition, in which he presented the first detailed description of Duloks to the galaxy at large.
