Eodon

Biology and appearance
"Oh, they're beautiful! I've got to have one!"

- Latara, on Eodon tusks

Eodons were large, sentient pachydermoids who stood tall enough to see through the window of a two-story dwelling. Their body posture was horizontal, with the body hanging from a raised and ridged backbone. The rest of the body was covered in blue-gray skin that lightened under the trunk and inside the ears. Each member of the species had a large head with two hornlike projections at the top. Below these were two sunken, pink eyes flanked by two wide, flat ears. a long, trunk whose dexterity made it useful for manipulating the environment and whose two narrow, pink nostrils made it functional for respiration. Below the trunk lay a wide mouth from which a loud, booming voice projected. Also projecting from this orifice were two long, hollow, curving tusks. These were colored brown at the base but became ivory white with a few brown spots along the way and one last line of brown a few centimeters from the sharp tip. Ewoks in particular held Eodon tusks to be exotic and beautiful.

Society and culture
"Hey, Eodon tusks have magical powers!"

- Teebo

At least a few Eodons lived on the Forest Moon of Endor, where they had relations with other sentients, such as the trader Mooth. They were known to the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village, among whom their tusks were rumored to have magical powers and great beauty and were thus highly sought-after commodities. This could prove an annoyance, as Eodons had to put up with others desiring their tusks when they themselves might greatly wish to keep them for themselves. Eodons were capable of learning and speaking Ewokese.

History
. In 3 ABY, one of Endor's Eodons lost his or her tusks, which eventually ended up in the possession of a trader named Mooth. The merchant put the tusks up for sale at his trading post, and eventually, a group of young Ewoks&mdash;Wicket W. Warrick, Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka, Latara, and Teebo&mdash;saw them and asked for them. Mooth was ill at the time and, seeing an opportunity to move even more merchandise, offered the Eodon tusks to the Ewok who sold the most of his goods that day. After the Ewoks competed, Mooth still found it difficult to declare a winner. The Eodon to whom the tusks had once belonged arrived during the discussion, however, and reclaimed the tusks for himself.

Behind the scenes
An Eodon appears in "Hard Sell," an episode of the Star Wars: Ewoks animated series written by Michael Reaves that first aired on October 25, 1986, during the show's second season. Although the cartoon suggests several possible uses for Eodon tusks, it reveals very little information on the species itself. The Eodon is played by an uncredited voice actor.

Existing sources fail to mention from where Endor's Eodon&mdash;or Eodons&mdash;ultimately hailed. However, the sourcebook Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds suggests that only Ewoks and Yuzzums evolved on the Forest Moon. Meanwhile, another source, "Castaways of Endor," includes Duloks as a native species and suggests that many of Endor's other sentient denizens arrived there from offworld. These sources and the article "Endor and the Moddell Sector" reveal that shipwrecks were particularly common on the moon due to a cloak of space detritus and a massive gravity shadow cast by the gas giant Endor. Still, a native origin for the Eodons cannot be dismissed entirely.