Unidentified six-legged creature

"[Latara shrieks] "What is it?" "Someone turned this beast into crystal!"

- Latara and Wicket, upon first seeing the creature

This six-legged creature lived on the Forest Moon of Endor, and at least one member of the species lived on the Floating Mountain with the sentient being Gracca. With the powers of his Crystal Cloak stolen from Bright Tree Village, Gracca&mdash;either accidentally by forgetting his powers, or deliberately because the creature had displeased him&mdash;turned the creature into pure crystal at some point prior to 3 ABY. The creature was later discovered by the Ewoks Wicket Wystri Warrick and Latara when they went to the Floating Mountain to retrieve the cloak. Latara later carried the crystallized creature home with her on her skin glider.

Biology and appearance
Sporting six legs and a long tail, the creature had a multi-spiked frill protruding behind its two eyes. Its large jaw was long and pointed, and contained several sharp teeth.

History
"Hey, Wicket! You didn’t tell me I'd have to carry my crystal back!"

- Latara, carrying the creature on her skin glider

The six-legged creature lived on the Forest Moon of Endor, a moon with a wide variety of terrains and climates. At least one of these creatures made its home on the Floating Mountain with the sentient Gracca, who possessed a magical Crystal Cloak stolen from Bright Tree Village several years earlier and used it to rule the whole of the Floating Mountain. Gracca turned several creatures into crystal with the magic of his cloak, either accidentally by forgetting his powers, or willfully because the creature refused to serve him or displeased him in some other way. Whether by accident or by choice, Gracca turned the six-legged creature to pure crystal at some point during his rule over the mountain. The creature's petrified corpse remained on the mountain with Gracca until 3 ABY, when it was discovered by the Ewoks Wicket Wystri Warrick and Latara, who had come to the mountain to reclaim the stolen cloak. After a skirmish with Gracca, which saw the cloak destroyed and its de facto owner incapacitated, the creature was kept as a trophy by Latara, who brought it home with her on her skin glider.

Behind the scenes
This creature went unnamed in the Star Wars: Ewoks episode "The Crystal Cloak", in which it appeared only in a crystalline form. "The Crystal Cloak" was the first episode of the second season of the Ewoks television series, and originally aired on September 13, 1986.