Wenny Boggs

Wenny Boggs, a young male, was one of Tatooine's moisture farmers. One day before 0 ABY, Boggs discovered that he had traveled too far into the Tatooine desert while hunting a herd of womp rats to return home under the safety of daylight. Fearing an overnight encounter with a Tusken Raider hunting party, Boggs set up camp to await morning. During the night, Boggs was awoken by hauntingly sad singing, which he soon found to be coming from a Tusken mourning over a dying elder. As he witnessed the singing Tusken's anguish over the death of his comrade, Boggs began tearing up, never imagining Tuskens as emotional beings.

Biography
Wenny Boggs was a young male moisture farmer who resided on the backwater Outer Rim desert planet Tatooine. Sometime prior to the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, Boggs had gone out into the Tatooine wastes on landspeeder, hunting an elusive herd of womp rats, when he eventually realized he had journeyed farther out into the desert than planned. Noticing Tatooine's twin suns rapidly setting in the sky, and wary of the nomadic Tusken Raider hunting parties that owned Tatooine's night, Boggs reasoned that it would be safer for him to camp out for the night than risk traveling kilometers of barren sand in the dark. He soon settled into a cranny in a rise of rocky hills, which he found neither roomy nor comfortable, but it provided him a defensible position from which to wait out the night.

Armed with a blaster rifle at his side and stocked with a hunk of SoroSuub Insta-Meal to sustain himself, Boggs, soothed by the desert darkness and soft sounds of the night, eventually drifted off to sleep, despite his best efforts to stay awake. After a time he awoke with a start, having heard singing off in the distance, though when the desert night went quiet again, he wasn't sure if he had simply dreamed the sound. When the singing, a somber chant, started again, echoing over the rocky peaks from behind him, Boggs found himself captivated. Curiosity piqued, he grabbed his rifle and climbed over the rocks to see the singer.

At first Boggs found only a single bantha waiting at the mouth of a narrow canyon, riderless, though strapped with packs and pouches that clearly belonged to a Tusken Raider. Although no one was in sight, the singing continued, luring Boggs into a series of tall crags at the end of the canyon. He eventually came upon a hollow circle surrounded by high walls of stone, at the center of which lay a flat stone platform, ringed with painted, rocky totems honoring some ancient gods. There Boggs found his singer, a Tusken Raider bending over an aged, feeble-looking figure resting on the stone platform. The singing Tusken had removed his breathing filter, and though Boggs could not see his face, he found the Tusken's unencumbered song surprisingly melancholy and dreamy, not frightening, as he would have imagined.

As Boggs watched on, the aged figure grasped the hand of the singing Tusken and whispered a short series of words into his ear, before his own hand fell away and he died. The Tusken's song stopped just as quickly, and the creature began wailing in anguished torment over his dead comrade, which echoed through the canyon. Boggs bowed his head as tears came to his eyes, never imagining the hostile Tuskens could feel emotion as he did. Giving a final nod to the expired elder, Boggs quietly returned to his cranny to await the dawn.

Personality and traits
As one of Tatooine's moisture farmers, Wenny Boggs paid due diligence to the savage Tusken Raiders, who were notoriously known for regularly attacking Tatooine's Human settlers, isolated moisture farmers included. After Boggs found himself trapped out in the desert with not enough daylight to safely return home, he opted to seek shelter, not wanting to confront a hunting band of the fearsome creatures at night.

Boggs later began reevaluating some of the surface impressions he held of the creatures when discovering the singing Tusken in mourning over his aged, dying comrade. Boggs was transfixed by the Tusken's song, unable to offer resistance as it pulled him to its source in the Tusken ceremonial rock circle. The Tusken's singing, sad and lilting, belied the creatures' typical growling vocals, which surprised Boggs, who found the singing strangely wistful, rather than harsh and frightening, as expected&mdash;of course, he never imagined that Tuskens could sing in the first place. Boggs's most profound revelation came as he witnessed the singing Tusken agonizing over the death of the elder, discovering for himself that Tuskens were not mindless monsters, but instead beings of feeling and emotion.

Behind the scenes
Wenny Boggs first appeared in the short in-universe narrative Song for a Fallen Nomad from the 1987 West End Games The Star Wars Sourcebook, written by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith, which was later reprinted in the sourcebook's 1994 second edition. The story provides a rare insight into the intimate social rituals of the Tusken Raiders, who have earned a common reputation as savage brutes among Tatooine's other inhabitants.