Lauli Wahlo/Legends

"Can I help you?"

- Lauli Wahlo, to Ahsoka Tano

Lauli Wahlo was a male Quarren who lived in the underworld of the planet Coruscant during the Clone Wars. During the war, he and his Twi'lek associate Jan Dez were approached by Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Master Tera Sinube, who were looking for Tano's lightsaber. Wahlo answered them that he knew where to buy one, but once the Togruta revealed herself to be a Jedi, explained that her weapon had been pilfered by Bannamu, who could be found at the Spider Arms Hostel.

Biography
"We are looking to buy a lightsaber. Any ideas where we can do that?''" "'' Come with me."

- Tano, talking to Wahlo

During the first year of the Clone Wars, the elderly Jedi Master Tera Sinube and the young Ahsoka Tano were looking for the latter her lightsaber, which had been stolen from her by a pickpocket during the arrest of the Weequay arms dealer Car Affa. The Jedi went to Wahlo's noodle shop to get information on the whereabouts of the weapon, where the Quarren was serving a hungry Ithorian. Wahlo admitted that he knew where to get a lightsaber for a price of 20,000 credits. Tano, anxious to get her weapon back, revealed that she was a Jedi and the rightfull owner of the weapon. The nervous Wahlo and his Twi'lek counterpart Jan Dez told her that her lightsaber was in the property of a Patrolian criminal named Bannamu, who stayed at the Spider Arms Hostel.

Personality and traits
Lauli Wahlo was a blue-eyed and orange-skinned Quarren, who owned a small noodle shop which was located in the lower part of Coruscant. At some point before 22 BBY, he had lost his right eye and it was replaced with a cybernetic one. Although a criminal, he did not like betraying one of his old friends, Bannamu, but because the Patrolian had stolen Tano's lightsaber he made an exception.

Behind the scenes
Lauli Wahlo made his only appearance so far as a minor character in the eleventh episode of Season Two of the The Clone Wars television series, "Lightsaber Lost". James Arnold Taylor voiced Wahlo, who also spoke the voices of Bannamu and the Spider Arms Hostel attendant in the same episode.

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