Terak ' s Keep Terak ' s Keep , also known as the Marauders ' Stronghold , was a castle built by King Terak of the Sanyassan Marauders during the first century before the Battle of Yavin . This ancient - style fortress was located on the forest moon of Endor , looming over the Dragon ' s Pelt savana from an outcropping the Dragon ' s Spine moutain range . After the defeat of Terak during the Galactic Civil War , the castle remained in use for his surviving goons . The remnants of the Marauders were quickly torn apart by internecine strife , but the Keep eventually found its new master in the person of Zakul , the late Terak ' s son . History . When the Sanyassan Marauders crash - landed on the moon of Endor 100 BBY , they subdued some areas of the Endorian plains . In order to organize themselves , they built this enormous , gloomy , and untidy castle over the Dragon ' s Pelt savanna , at the base of the moutain chain called the Dragon ' s Spine . It would serve as barracks and home to their chiefs , the self - proclaimed King Terak and the Force - witch Charal . The square - walled castle was built with stone quarried from mines in the Dragon ' s Spine ' s foothills . Several months before the destruction of the second Death Star , the Stronghold was partly damaged during a battle between the Sanyassans and the Ewoks . After King Terak ' s untimely death , the castle was later used as a shelter for remnants of the Sanyassan Marauders . General Yavid later tried to become the king , but the order didn ' t last long . All the Sanyassans turned on each other until Zakul , one of Terak ' s own sons , became the new King of the Marauders . Layout . The fortress was made of quarried stone blocks hauled by blurrgs , the beast of burden of the Marauders . The castle looked squarish and clumsy , with no finesse — but it was a secure and very sturdy place . The front approach of the castle was guarded by carved and horned lava - rock obelisks that to warned off enemies and symbolized the fearlessness of the Marauders . Across the castle entrance way , stones were covered with crude Sanyassan hieroglyphs . The central tower was designed to look one of the obelisks , a stylized square head with a grinning face and a pair of horns . The stronghold was surrounded by a deep moat filled with murky water , which the Human scout Noa Briqualon described as " as black as ink " . During the construction of the castle , one of the pirates suggested installing the still functioning automatic defense mechanism from their wrecked starship for further protection against assault . A selective disintegrator field shaped like a torpedo was installed in the moat . It would target any object that touched the surface of the water . The fortress contained many dungeons , a throneroom , and was poorly equipped with primitive technology such as torch es and candles lightning . The Marauders had canibalized parts of their crashed starcraft as furniture . For his throne , the King Terak had torn the captain ' s chair from the bridge of the ship and placed it in his audience chamber . Behind the scenes . King Terak ' s stronghold was first seen in the 1985 made - for - TV film " " , where it appeared as a primitive fortress made of tan stone . As of 2018 , a matte painting of the structure was on display at Lucasfilm ' s headquarters . In the " Star Wars Galaxies " , the location in which players may do quests for the Sanyassan Marauders is called the Marauder Stronghold . In the game , the Marauder Stronghold looks much different than its depiction in the movie . It is possible that this was simply a limitation in game mechanics , or they are two entirely different locations .