Gyylghrard was a male Wookiee prisoner at the Imperial Correctional Facility on the planet Kessel.

During his incarceration, Gyylghrard kept a record of his entire stay there using several pieces of flimsi he received from a Sullustan prisoner in exchange for him providing protection. On his journal, Gyylghrard recorded all the events that occurred during his incarceration on the prison, including snippets of how the black market trade of glitterstim operated on the prison. When a celebration of Life Day turned into a massacre, Gyylghrard swore that the prison warden, Dewt Kluskine, would pay for ordering the killing of the Wookiee children.

After more than 400 days of the massacre, Gyylghrard was promoted as a prison trustee by Moruth Doole, the most powerful trustee in the prison.

BiographyEdit

When a group of young Wookiees were sent to the facility, he befriended them and was convinced into helping them secretly celebrate Life Day. He obtained Corellian ryshcates, candles and sparksticks from the Jawa overseeing the food storage.

While celebrating the event, the young Wookiees used the occasion to stage a breakout. Overloading their electronic shackles with the sparksticks, they easily overpowered the stormtroopers guarding them. The guards found their blasters drained of any power. The adult slaves joined the insurrection and the fighting reached the launch bays. Here the stormtroopers managed to recharge their weapons and with orders from the warden Dewt Kluskine, they set their weapons to kill and opened fire on the slaves. Gyylghrard was knocked unconscious with a stun baton hit to the head, and later learned the aftermath from Doole.

Choosing to believe that the youngsters managed to escape the prison, this idea gave him hope and enabled him to survive for a few more years. It was also that time when he promised to himself that the warden would pay for the massacre. He began earning Doole's trust and started behaving like a model prisoner. He soon found himself assigned by Doole to the Garrison Moon as a janitorial aide.

Just a few months of serving as a janitor on the Kessel Correctional Facility which was located on the Garrison Moon, Gyylghrard was surprised with another promotion: He was to be included in the honor guard of the warden himself. He was given a used Gamorrean battle armor and Ceremonial poleaxe and made to accompany the warden during a visit from a Twi'lek crime lord. During the negotiations, he realized that someone could kill the warden if that someone was prepared to die as well. With this knowledge, he began formulating a plan.

The notes on his journal ends here and subsequent information now came from the private memoirs of Fossco, a Toydarian who visited the Garrison Moon under the orders of his employer, Jabba the Hutt. According to him, Kluskine was decapitated by Gyylghrard with the poleaxe before being killed by the stormtroopers.

Gyylghrard's journal was later uncovered during General Lando Calrissian's failed attempt to reopen the spice mines.

Personality and traitsEdit

- lame arm and leg. - brave. knew will die once he killed kluskine. - a legend in the spice mines of kessel - honorable, defended his sullustan friend as part of the deal.

Talents and abilitiesEdit

- can fight well. took a lot to bring him down.

StuffEdit

ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: The Wookiee slave Gyylghrard remains something of a legend among those who work the mines of Kessel, an angry Kashyyyk native who stood up to and ultimately destroyed his oppressor. Gyylghrard's journal, kept safe by a fellow prisoner after the Wookiee's death, recently came to light during General Calrissian's failed attempt to reopen the mining operation. The journal offers a rare glimpse inside one of the Empire's most dreaded confinement facilities.

Behind the scenesEdit

Gyylghrard is a character created by author Cory Herndon for the Planet Hoppers article Kessel: Hell in Space. It was published by Wizards of the Coast in May 2003.

SourcesEdit

•  Kessel: Hell in Space on Wizards.com (original article link, backup links on Archive.org)