| “ | Bring me that CHILD!!!! | „ |
| ~ King Terak to Charal. |
King Terak, is a recurring antagonist in the Star Wars franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the 1985 television fantasy adventure film Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and as a supporting antagonist in several Legends works.
He is the brutal leader of the Sanyassan Marauders, a brutish and thuggish pirate gang who got stranded on the Forest Moon of Endor years prior to the Galactic Civil War. Since then, Terak has terrorized the inhabitants of Endor in his quest to obtain the mythical "Power", hoping it can serve me to use to take take over the galaxy and leave Endor for good.
He was portrayed by Carel Struycken.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Became an influential Sanyassan warlord thanks to his stature and formed a pirate crew known as the Sanyassan Marauders to rob and plunder all of the Moddell sector.
- Hired the Dathomirian Nightsister known as Charal to be his personal psychic but doesn't treat her with respect and often threatens her with death if she disappoints him.
- Angrily executed the navigator of the ship him and his crew stole (but didn't know how to fly) out of rage because the navigator accidentally crashed them on the Forest Moon of Endor. This in turn caused the surviving Sanyassans to stay stranded there for presumably the rest of their lives because no other Marauder knew about ships.
- What's worse is that from that point onwards, Terak would go on to attack anyone present on Endor as his way to lash out for his miserable situation due to longing to leave the moon even though it was his own fault they ended up trapped there.
- Scared the Ewoks and the Yuzzums, Endor's local population none less, as he and his Marauders built their own fortress over the decades living there.
- Had the human scout Salak Weet captured and taken before him due to having a crystal oscillator (a "battery" that allows ships to fly), leading Terak to execute him, throw his chained remains into one of his dungeons and look for ways to make the oscillar, or as he would call it "the Power", allow him to leave Endor and take over the universe.
- Contracts an unnamed spacer to murder an Ewok priest with an apparent magic wand so he can have the magic for himself like his henchman Indar told him (being the sole survivor of an Ewok ambush). When the wand proves to be normal, Terak accuses Indar as having lied to him to save face and asks the spacer to kill him in addition to other Ewoks in the most bloody and violent manners.
- Had an Imperial scouting party exploring the moon to build the Death Star II's shield generator on behalf of Emperor Palpatine captured and tortured out of sadism, killing one of the Imperials and latter getting angry at Charal helping them to escape hoping she could too, jailing her for a while in his cells.
- Attacks the Bright Tree Village and massacres most of the Ewoks there alongside the Towani family, consisting of Jeremitt, Catarine and their son Mace, leaving their daughter Cindel an orphan, because he wished to steal their ship's power cell (which he could have even used to escape from Endor).
- In addition, once Charal captures Cindel, Terak refers to her as a "pretty prize", which may suggest that he would have kept Cindel for grooming.
- Sends two of his men after Cindel and Warrick once they escape from his clutches.
- Threatens Charal to kill her if she doesn't capture Cindel and takes her before him to make "magic" for "the Power" to work because Charal's magic doesn't work with it.
- Demands a captured Cindel to make "the Power" work, but she can't because she doesn't know magic and it's just a crystal oscillator, so Terak resolves to send both Cindel and Charal (taking off her ring known as the Talisman of the Raven to prevent her from escaping) to the dungeons and gives the order for all of Cindel's Ewoks friends to be killed if she doesn't change her mind before dawn.
- Cuts off a rope with his sword out of frustration once Noa Briqualon, Wicket and Teek help Cindel and the Ewoks to escape from his fortress, causing three of his pirates who were holding from the rope to fall off to their deaths (as the rope had been used by the Ewoks and their friends to escape) at the jaws of the beast lurking the river surrounding the fortress.
- Although one can point out that Terak didn't know that three of his men were holding from it, the scene still hows how temperamental Terak is when things don't go the way he wishes and it's unlikely he didn't hear the screams of his men upon falling, so from his perspective, Terak likely cut off the rope out of spite regardless who or what was holding from it.
- Frees Charal from her cell under the condition that she takes him and his forces to the Ewoks but not before giving his men the order to free her in a way it looks like that they are going to execute her just to scare her for their amusement and even so, Terak removes the Talisman of the Raven once Charal transforms to ensure she doesn't betray him.
- Starts a battle between his Marauders and the Ewoks to stop Towani and Briqualon from leaving Endor with Cindel's crystal oscillator aboard Noah's ship, leading to the deaths of several Ewoks and Marauders alike, for which Terak shows no remorse at all, not even when they retreat.
- Takes Cindel hostage and threatens Noah to hand him over the crystal oscillator or he kills Cindel otherwise, engaging Noah in a brief duel that he would have won given Noah's staff being no match for his own sword if not for Wicket shooting his slingshot at the Talisman of the Raven, which kills Terak.
- His death, while agonizing and disturbing due to beign carbonized from the inside out, wasn't played for sympathy as it was well-deserved.
- It should be noted that, by wearing the Talisman of the Raven in the neck, thus allowing Wicket to destroy it, Terak succeeded at impairing Charal even in death, as the Talisman's destruction prevented Charal from transforming back into a human (even if Charal wasn't a saint, she wasn't that bad when compared to Terak), thus condemning her to stay in her raven form for the rest of her days.
- His death ends up leaving a power vaccuum that causes both General Yavid, his general, and his son Zakul to dispute over the authority of the Sanyassan Marauders until Zakul won over only for the Marauders to have mysteriously vanished some years later by the time the New Republic sends agents to the Endorian forest to study it, so whatever happened to the Marauders, it was most certainly Terak's fault due to his awful leadership.
- Though tie-in material mention that he has a son named Zakul, almost nothing is known about their relationship and Zakul was raised to be just as brutal as his own father, with Terak possibly seeing him as an extension of himself.
- Despite the galaxy far, far away's high Heinous Standards, Terak particularly stands out for doing the worst he can with his limited resources (being stranded at Endor well over a century) and low intelligence, as he doesn't even know how to operate average technology.
- Although he follows the philosophy of his species that the strong shall rule over the weak, Terak outweights that with his extreme pettiness, as he kills his own men if they displease or annoy him instead of for valid reasons, whereas his pirates are shown to at least even get along instead of being an awful boss like him.
Trivia[]
- Although Ewoks: The Battle for Endor belongs to the Star Wars Legends continuity, Pablo Hidalgo from the Lucasfilm Story Group has said that Disney didn't descanonize the Ewoks films and that authors are free to reference them in the new Canon continuity. If that happens and the Ewoks duology becomes part of the Canon continuity, it's unknown if King Terak would stand out or not.
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