Krepauk

"Greetings and welcome to the Rryatt Trail. As an important part of Kashyyyk tradition, Wookiees come to the trail to prove themselves as warriors. Would you like to undertake some of the trail of the Rryatt Trail?"

- Krepauk to a spacer

Krepauk was a male Wookiee who was the Huntmaster of the Rryatt Trail on the planet Kashyyyk during the Galactic Civil War. As Huntmaster, Krepauk tested the hunting prowess of the travelers of the trail by giving them a variety of different hunts to undertake. In 1.5 ABY, Krepauk encountered a spacer who wished to take on the trails' trials. In response, Krepauk tasked the spacer with several different hunt of increasing difficult, including killing sixteen wallugas, the Dark Jedi Urootar, twenty-four feral Wookiees, twenty-four minstyngar, and a katarn. The spacer managed to complete all of Krepauk's hunts, and the Wookiee Huntmaster awarded the traveler with a large amount of credits, a pair of hunting mounts, and the knuckles of the katarn fashioned into a deadly blade.

Biography
"Honored hunter, you have bested the worst that the Rryatt Trail can send against you. You are a true warrior and an unparalled hunter. All of Kashyyyk honors your accomplishments."

- Krepauk to a spacer

A male Wookiee, Krepauk was the Huntmaster of the Rryatt Trail&mdash;a large hunting trail located near the city of Rwookrrorro on the planet Kashyyyk&mdash;during the Galactic Civil War. As Huntmater, it was Krepauk's job to test the hunting skills and honor of any traveler that approached him by providing them with a variety of hunts. Many of Krepauk's hunts of Kashyyk's native fauna were quite dangerous; not everyone that participated in the Huntmasters' quests survived, and many more would be overwhelmed by the hunts, becoming insane and feral.

In 1.5 ABY, shorty after the Battle of Yavin, Krepauk encountered a spacer journeying through the Rryatt Trail. Krepauk greeted the spacer, and upon informing the traveler about his profession and the many hunts available on the Rryatt Trail, and asked the sentient if they were interested in participating in one of his trials. The spacer readily accepted Krepauk's challenge, and was soon tasked with hunting down sixteen walluga skullsmashers&mdash;large, powerful creatures native to Kashyyyk&mdash;located nearby the start of trail, in its first level.

The spacer departed and soon returned, having completed the errand. Krepauk congratulated the spacer on completing his first hunt and gave the spacer 5,000 credits as a reward and also another quest, to find and kill the Dark Jedi Urootar, living on the trail's second level, deeper in the forests. Urootar, a former Jedi that had managed to survive the Great Jedi Purge, had become mad over the years and was now a danger to the trails' travelers. Before the spacer left Krepauk, the Huntmaster warned the sentient that Urootar still knew some tricks with The Force and would be a more difficult task than the last.

The spacer again revisited to Krepauk, having fought and killed Urootar. Impressed by the spacers' skills, Krepauk rewarded the being another 7,500 credits and gave the traveler an ever more dangerous task of hunting down and killing twenty-four feral Wookiees located on the trail's fourth level, deep within the shadowlands. Krepauk, saddened by the Wookiees' suffering, wanted the spacer to kill them to alleviate their pain and insanity.

Once again, the spacer returned to Krepauk, having completed the hunt. Krepauk thanked the space for his assistance in killing the feral Wookiees, believing it be a painful but necessary task, and gave the sentient another 10,000 credits. Krepauk then proposed another hunt, more hazardous than the previous three. Krepauk wanted the spacer to slay twenty-four minstyngar&mdash;deadly simian predators&mdash;wondering deep within the trail's fourth level. The spacer accepted the hunt and departed.

As before, the spacer completed the hunt and approached the Huntmaster. Krepauk now realized that the spacer truly was a masterful hunter, and rewarded the being 15,000 credits and a hunting mount of a minstnygar's head, and gave the spacer one last hunt, which was by far the most perilous of them all. Krepauk tasked the spacer with killing a katarn&mdash;one of the most savage and lethal predators on Kashyyk&mdash;located on the trail's fourth level. Krepauk warned the being that it would take the spacer's utmost skill and ability to defeat a katarn, and the spacer would likely need a few companions to help kill the beast.

After a difficult fight, the spacer managed to slay the katarn and returned to Krepauk. Krepauk congratulated the spacer, say the being was now one of the greatest hunters on all of Kashyyk, and gave the sentient 25,000 credits, a hunting mount of the katarn's head, and the knuckles of the katarn fashioned into a powerful blade.

Personality and traits
"Thank you. Bringing peace to those feral Wookiees was a painful, but necessary task."

- Krepauk thanking the spacer

Krepauk took a great deal of pride in the Rryatt trail hunts, believing that they were an important part of Wookiee culture. Also offered advice to the spacer that accepted his different challenges, warning of their danger and informing the spacer where the prey would likely be found. Krepauk also deeply saddened when he asked the spacer to kill the twenty-four feral Wookiees, but knew that they had become a danger to the trail and that the crazed Wookiees need to be slain to end their suffering. Krepauk was covered in brown hair and had black eyes.

Behind the scenes
Krepauk made his first and only appearance in canon in the 2005 Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack Rage of the Wookiees, wherein the Huntmaster has a series of quests, known as the "Rryatt Trail Trials," that the player can participate in. Although the player can choose not to do the "Rryatt Trail Trial" quests, this article assumes 100% game completion.