Murgoob Murgoob , also known as the Great Murgoob and Murgoob the Cranky , was the oracle for King Gorneesh ' s tribe of Duloks on the Forest Moon of Endor . By 3 ABY , Murgoob had lived for more than 600 seasons . He looked the part , walking with a noticeable stoop and leaning heavily on a twisted , wooden staff . He had an unkempt , gray beard that hung down to his belly and long , gray head - hair that he bound with a cord . The oracle lived as a hermit in his lair , a rotted - out tree stump far from his tribe ' s village in the Dulok Swamp . Decades before the Battle of Yavin , Murgoob participated in the Ewok – Dulok War , a conflict between his tribe and the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village over control of the forest . In a battle that would still haunt him decades later , Murgoob saw the Duloks driven back to their swamps by a formidable Ewok battle wagon . When Murgoob ' s nephew , the shaman Umwak , approached him in 3 ABY with news that the wagon had been rebuilt , the two hatched a scheme to steal it and use it against the Ewoks ' Soul Tree s . Murgoob joined the attack , but an Ewok saboteur destroyed the war machine before it could do any real damage . Murgoob and his tribemates fled once again to their marshland home . Biography . Early life . Murgoob was born into a tribe of Duloks on the Forest Moon of Endor decades before the Battle of Yavin . By the time his band had come under the rule of King Gorneesh , Murgoob was rumored to have seen hundreds of seasons . About 600 seasons before 0 BBY , Murgoob took up residence in a large tree stump on the periphery of the Dulok Swamp . There , he resided as a hermit , avoiding contact with his kin . At some point , he was named his tribe ' s oracle . Hundreds of seasons before 3 ABY , Murgoob ' s tribe fought the Ewok – Dulok War with the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village . In a bid to conquer the enemy once and for all and to take over their territory , axe - wielding Dulok warriors marched on the Ewoks ' Soul Tree s to cut them down and break the enemy ' s spirit . However , an Ewok battle wagon , built by Erpham Warrick , stymied the attack . With the advantage theirs , the Ewoks pushed the Duloks back to their swampland home . This defeat plagued Murgoob for decades afterward . Return of the battle wagon . Over the years , Murgoob cloistered himself in his tree stump hermitage . In 3 ABY , however , he was disturbed . His tribe ' s queen , Urgah , and Murgoob ' s nephew , Umwak — never a favorite of Murgoob ' s , and now making the unbelievable claim that he had been named the tribe ' s shaman — brought ill tidings : a Dulok scout had reported that the Ewok battle wagon had been restored . The oracle panicked ; his immediate instinct was to hide , but Umwak pressed him for information . Murgoob related the story of the battle he had witnessed so long ago . His nephew then made an interesting proposition , suggesting that perhaps the Duloks could steal the battle wagon and use it against the Ewoks . Murgoob was intrigued and declared that with such a weapon , the Duloks could take over the Ewoks ' forests once and for all . The queen and the shaman departed , leaving Murgoob to his solitude . A short time later , Murgoob ' s nephew returned with news that the Duloks had managed to steal Erpham Warrick ' s war machine , but needed advice on how to best employ it . Murgoob knew just the trick : if they could destroy the Ewoks ' Soul Trees , it would be a tremendous psychological blow against the enemy to which Umwak agreed . He asked his uncle to join the campaign , but the oracle opted instead to get some shuteye . A loud splash woke Murgoob from his nap and prodded him to investigate . To his irritation , the oracle found that someone had actually had the audacity to impersonate him and had even ordered the tribe to make an " attack " — landing the battle wagon in a river . Murgoob unmasked the impostor with his clawed hands . His worst fears were confirmed : it was an Ewok , Wicket W . Warrick . The tribe placed the interloper in a cage aboard the battle wagon and prepared for the real assault . Murgoob took up position at the contraption ' s fore , alongside the battering ram . Assault on the Soul Trees . Now pointing in the right direction , the battle wagon rolled out with Murgoob aboard . King Gorneesh ordered a stop near Bright Tree Village , where he taunted his Ewok rivals and threatened to destroy the Soul Trees . The Ewok leader , Chief Chirpa , vowed that the Ewoks would defend the trees at all costs . The assault began in earnest . The battle wagon barreled through the Ewok defenses , shrugging off arrows as Dulok warriors hurled spears . As the Soul Trees grew nearer , that of Erpham Warrick stood front and center . Suddenly , Duloks began falling from the wagon left and right . Murgoob turned toward the source of the commotion and saw that the young Ewok had escaped from his cage along with a wokling companion named Malani . Murgoob barely had time to mutter a curse before the Ewoks pulled back the battering ram and sent his slight frame flying . A bush broke his fall , but Murgoob ' s role in the battle was at an end . The rest of the attack went no better . Somehow , the Ewoks managed to repel Gorneesh himself and to destroy the battle wagon before it could reach its target . Defeated once more , Murgoob and the Duloks slumped back to their swamp . Personality and traits . By 3 ABY , Murgoob was a truly venerable specimen of his species . Like most Duloks , he had green body fur and pink eyes , but his age was evident in his facial wrinkles , missing bottom tooth , and long , gray beard and head hair . His eyebrows and mustache were light green , and his nose was gray . Murgoob bound his head hair into a tuft and wore no clothing except a cord about his waist . He walked hunched over and supported himself on a gnarled wooden staff . Other Duloks in his tribe regarded Murgoob with mixed emotions . On the one hand , he was regarded as a wise sage ; he did go by the name " Murgoob the Great , " after all . When he did show his face , the Duloks followed his commands readily , as the Ewok Wicket W . Warrick discovered when he impersonated the oracle . Murgoob was also thought to be a bearer of good fortune , and Umwak was eager to have his uncle join the assault on the Ewoks ' Soul Trees to bring it good luck . In 3 ABY , Murgoob was rumored to have kept himself stolen away for 600 seasons . Not even the Dulok king , queen , or shaman knew what Murgoob looked like , which allowed the Ewok Wicket W . Warrick to impersonate the oracle without anyone being the wiser . The fact that he had gone unseen for generations shrouded Murgoob in a veil of mystery ; Urgah decided to accompany Umwak to visit him out of sheer curiosity . Still , the shaman Umwak dreaded visits with his uncle . Murgoob ' s tribe held him in such regard that when Gorneesh encountered the Ewok - in - disguise , the king felt compelled to flaunt his leadership skills in front of what he took to be the shriveled oracle himself . Murgoob lived in an old , decrepit , hollow tree stump somewhere on the outskirts of the Dulok Swamp . The oracle rarely ventured from his home , and he did not make it easy for others to find him : those who came for advice could only reach his hovel via a treacherous pathway of mossy stones that crossed a pond to his short front door . The Dulok oracle addressed pilgrims from within the structure in an echoing , ominous voice . Only a few fire - lit windows that belched puffs of smoke as he talked betrayed the presence of Murgoob inside . Pilgrims seldom found a friendly reception . Murgoob was known for his love of solitude and unfriendly temperament , which had earned him the dubious sobriquet , " Murgoob the Cranky . " Some visitors were greeted only with the oracle ' s admonition to turn around and go away . Murgoob disliked his nephew , Umwak . Even after the younger Dulok had reached adulthood , his uncle regarded him as little more than a pup . Murgoob greeted the news that Umwak had made it to the post of shaman of the tribe with derisive disbelief . Murgoob also reserved a special hatred for Ewoks . He nursed a grudge decades after Erpham Warrick ' s battle wagon had prevented the Dulok conquest of Bright Tree Village . Furthermore , he remembered the war machine with fear . The ancient Dulok eagerly took part in the renewed campaign to accomplish the task that had gone unfinished years ago . Behind the scenes . Murgoob appears in " Wicket ' s Wagon , " an episode of the " " animated series that first aired in 1985 , wherein his voice is provided by voice actor Eric Peterson . Later writers have singled the episode out as a highlight of the series ; Jon Bradley Snyder has praised the episode ' s " great animated sequences , " and Amy Pronovost and Daniel Wallace have listed the episode among those that best exemplify the villainous nature of the Duloks . " Wicket ' s Wagon " was later adapted by Dragon Picture Books into a storybook that was published in 1987 in the UK . The episode was also included in " Tales from the Endor Woods " DVD compilation of " Ewoks " stories . Murgoob has appeared in " Star Wars " reference works , such as " A Guide to the Star Wars Universe " and " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia . "