- «We are attacked my Duloks! Just a shame that this snivelling blum-maggot is the best they can manage! Still, he'll make a fine offering to the Night Spirit! It's sacrifice time, boys!»
- ―Gorneesh prepares to strike Warrick with a club
The Night Spirit was an deity that the Dulok group known as the Children of Vulgarr praised and made sacrifices to. During the reign of the New Republic[1] at some point between 4 ABY and 28 ABY,[2] the Children had an effigy of the spirit in their camp on the moon of Endor, depicting it as a robed being with two eyes and two bent appendages on its head.[1]
The Duloks were dancing around the effigy and beating drums when the Ewok Wicket Wystri Warrick attacked them. The Dulok's leader, King Gorneesh knocked down the Ewok and declared that the attacker would be sacrificed to the Night Spirit as an offering, but was then knocked out by the Lepi pilot, Jaxxon T. Tumperakki. The other Duloks were impressed with how Tumperakki had defeated their greatest warrior and so replaced their effigy of the Night Spirit with one of the Lepi, revering him as the new spirit of the swamp.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
In the current Star Wars canon, the Night Spirit appeared as an effigy in Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023, a comic book written by Cavan Scott, illustrated by Nick Brokenshire,[1] and first released on April 7, 2023.[3] The spirit originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in "The Cries of the Trees," the first episode of the Ewoks television series[4] which aired on September 7, 1985.[5]
Appearances[]
- Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023 (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023
- ↑ Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023 states that it takes place during the reign of the New Republic, which Star Wars: Timelines states begins in 4 ABY. Leia Organa is also still a senator during the events of the story, a role she lost in 28 ABY according to Timelines.
- ↑ Check Out Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 Exclusives from Hasbro, the LEGO Group, and More on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ Ewoks — "The Cries of the Trees"
- ↑ "A Star Wars CELibration" — Star Wars Insider 27
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