Boar-wolf

The boar-wolves, or borra, were a predatory animal that lived on the forest moon of Endor.

Characteristics[]

Boar-wolves had been known to be three meters tall.^[3] They had hair, sharp teeth, a humped back,^[4] two tusks^[2] and large, hooked claws^[4] that could tear holes in trees. They had pungent and stringy meat.^[5]

They had a penchant^[5] for howling at the gas giant Endor when it appeared in the night sky.^[4] With a keen sense of smell,^[3] they usually hunted in pairs for prey such as blurrgs and Ewoks, preying anything that came across their path.^[2] These truly impressive predators possessed an incredible patience to hide and wait out of sight once they have cornered their prey, having fed on many Ewoks this way.^[5]

History[]

Tough the boar-wolves are three times as tall as the Ewoks, they had somehow stumbled upon effective methods for fighting the monsters with spears and poison darts. The Ewoks first baited a clever trap with scraps of bloody meat from other kills and carefully hide a vine net on the forest floor. When a boar-wolf attempted to rip into the fresh meat, the net tangles around its huge armored body, enough to slow and confuse it while the Ewok hunting party charges out of the underbrush. One such kill provided enough meat to feed an Ewok tree village for days, if one could stomach the pungent and stringy meat.^[5]

Bear-wolves were sometimes semidomesticated by the primitive Gorax.^[2] A Gorax would find a boar-wolf mother who had gone to ground in a cave to give birth to a litter. The Gorax then smashed open the whelping place, killed the mother, and choosed a boar-wolf to take as a pet.^[3] In keeping with its own fondness for bodily ornamentation, the Gorax would strap leather collars and harnesses on his pup, raising it as a hunting companion.^[5]

In 3 ABY^[6] one deadly^[7] domesticated boar-wolf chased Cindel and Mace Towani through the forest after they left the home of Deej Warrick, trapping them inside the hollow of a tree trunk. In the morning, Deej and his three sons Wicket, Widdle, and Weechee went searching for the children and found the boar-wolf lurking in the vicinity. Deej and his two elder sons fought the creature using spears. The boar-wolf was ultimately killed by Wicket, who shot it with a poisoned dart from a blowgun. Upon emerging from their hiding place (from which they witnessed the battle), Mace and Cindel found their father's life monitor attached to the boar-wolf's collar, put there as an ornament by its owner, a giant Gorax who lived in the Forbidden Fortress.^[4]

After the Battle of Yavin, Doctor Maldien conducted illegal and highly dangerous bioengineering experiments in a laboratory on Corellia to create very aggressive and intelligent creatures. This included at least one engineered boar-wolf.^[8]