Terak

"He will get what he desires."

- Charal

Terak was the king of the Sanyassan Marauders on the forest moon of Endor.

Biography
"How dare you suggest that I am to blame!"

- Terak



Terak was a vicious and bloodthirsty warlord who was obsessed with obtaining what he called "The Power", which he was convinced would allow him to leave Endor and conquer the galaxy. To this end, his army was responsible for the deaths of the Towani family (all save Cindel) in the hopes of stealing their star cruiser's crystal oscillator.

Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy, Terak's strength was not equaled by his intelligence.His way of thinking was more in the superstitious form than the scientific form.Otherwise he could have simply taken the Towanis' ship. Instead, Terak believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the oscillator by itself was the key to letting him and the other Marauders leave Endor, and he spent quite a while trying to get the thing to work by having his mystic, a Dathomirian Nightsister named Charal, chant over it.

Terak was eventually defeated by the Ewoks and their Human allies, Cindel and Noa Briqualon. When he couldn't have "the Power" of the oscillator, he stole Charal's magic ring that allowed her to transform into animals, and wore it around his neck. In a climactic duel, just before he tried to kill Noa, the Ewok Wicket W. Warrick struck and damaged the ring with a stone. This released its powers on him and he was burned to death by them.

Behind the scenes

 * Terak is portrayed by actor Carel Struycken.


 * The death of General Grievous in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith seems to mirror the death of Terak in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor; both are villains with deep stereotypical villain voices who are caught off guard and attacked in the chest region, after which they die by burning up from the inside.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Ewoks: The Battle for Endor